Louis Gallo was born and raised in New Orleans and now teaches at Radford University in Virginia. His work has appeared or will soon appear in Glimmer Train, American Literary Review, Texas REview, Rosebud, storySouth, Sojourn, Amazon Shorts, The Southern Quarterly, Rattle, New Orleans Review, Missouri Review and many others. He has two poetry chapbooks forthcoming in January 2010.

España Sheriff is a returning contributor to Imitation Fruit. She writes and illustrates for Science Fiction/San Francisco, www.efanzines.com/SFSF/index.htm