Molly Goldman is made out of solid gold. That's how she got the name. That's where the name comes from. She comes from New York. She likes pickles, olives, dioramas, and other forms of preservation. Molly Goldman is enthusiastic about snacks. She's picking the snacks for Creative Writing Club this semester. She's very excited about this. She won't let you down.

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Robin Behn  has been at the University of Alabama for twenty-six years. We hope that, if you come here, it won't take you as long as it is taking her to graduate. "Math for Poets" was created just for her. If you ask her to show you her homework, she'll tell you the dog ate her. Again. And again and again. Something to do with exponents, exposition, explosion...

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Sally Rodgers is a sudden rush (out) from a besieged place upon the enemy; a sortie; esp. in the phrase  to make a sally; Sally Rodgers is the first movement of a bell when ‘set’ for ringing; a ‘handstroke’, as distinguished from the reverse movement of ‘backstroke’; also, the position of a bell when it is rung up to; Sally Rodgers is a corruption of sal enixum; she is one of several eucalyptus or acacias, she resembles willows in habit or appearance; Sally is to leap, bound, dance; she is of a warlike force: to issue suddenly from a place of defense or retreat in order to make an attack; Sally Rodgers is to bring (a bell) to the position of ‘sally.’ Sally Rodgers is both a noun and a verb.

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If you have any inclination to become more familiar with the writer, Christopher O. McCarter, or if you yearn for a better understanding of the circumstances in which he writes, or maybe you hope to know what kind of frenetic genius stirs in his mind, what poetic he waxes from deep within his heart, what bridges he will burn and has burned already, direct your attention to the television commercial for Milton Bradley’s board game, Crossfire, which begins like this: “In some time in the future...the ultimate challenge...Crossfiyaahh!…”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn1NTK-50

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Annie Hartnett has a birdcage instead of a heart. Inside it, she keeps two tiny parakeets. Annie feels happy most of the time, because her blood is made of teeny-little birdsongs. She uses their melodic chirps to go on long runs, to play games of frisbee with her dog, and to metabolize sugar, but you should know that Annie Hartnett hates to sing.  

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Emma Furman was formerly a gnome playing a trumpet in a field of soft serenity, somewhere near Chicago. Now she says of her days in Tuscaloosa, "When I lieth down and when i waketh up, I taketh my golden trumpet around the towns and spreadeth my writerly joy." She likes food that is dinosaur-shaped and most varieties of beans.

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Although ‘ken’ means knowledge, Kenny Kruse does not. In fact, Kenny is practically meaningless, by which I mean he is a diamond in the rough, a diamond in Zeus’s tennis bracelet. His proximity to the Greek god of the sky and thunder probably contributes to his accuracy at predicting the weather. Consequently, Kenny has been voted Salt Lake City’s most accurate weatherman 3 years running. Catch him weeknights at 5, 6 and 10pm on KTVX ABC4, Utah’s first and best television station since 1946. Don't ask him about before, when he was a canis lupus baileyi award-winning howler, a lobo among wolves.

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Ashley Chambers doesn't necessarily like to eat plaster and brick, but she was diagnosed with White Wall Syndrome (WWS) last fall, one of several unfortunate side effects of moving to Tuscaloosa to pursue a life as a writer, rapper and cockroach observer. Ashley's neighbors frequently spot her eating her way through her apartment walls each night after sunset. Surprisingly, Ashley is not suffering from mold poisoning or vitamin deficiency. In 2012, Ashley plans to start a support group for fellow WWS sufferers and to write a collection of WWS related short stories.

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Freya Gibbon was born in Cashtown, Pennsylvania where hundred-dollar bills grow on trees and one-dollar bills grow on bushes. Quarters and pennies pave the streams.  She gathered cash from bushes, trees, and streams of Cashtown and invested heavily in a glass coffin business; now defunct.  Happy in her poverty, she moved to Alabama to take up cotton-spinning and dice-rolling on the ‘Bama Belle where she won and lost and then won a fortune in a night.  Finally, she bought a small island on the Black Warrior River where she currently resides with one feral kitten named Kitten-Caboodle.  KC, in the style of Peter Pan, will never grow up but only grow faster.