C4 antho - Chamber Four

Manchester, England. Her short fiction has been published
in print and online; she won the 2010 Bristol Short Story
Prize and in 2009 she was a finalist in Flatmancrooked’s inaugural
Fiction Prize. She’s working on her first novel and
she blogs at www.not-exactly-true.blogspot.com.
David Peak (“Helping Hands”) is the author of a novel, The
Rocket’s Red Glare (Leucrota Press), a book of poems, Surface
Tension (BlazeVOX Books), and two chapbooks. Other
writing has appeared in elimae, Annalemma, and Monkeybicycle.
He lives in New York City.
Alanna Peterson (“How to Assemble a Portal to Another
World”) lives in Seattle and attends the University of Washington
law school. She wrote this story during an NYU summer
writing program in Paris, although she completed her
undergraduate education at USC, and it was first published
on failbetter.com.
William Pierce (“American Subsidiary”). William Pierce’s
fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Granta, The Cincinnati
Review, The Writer’s Chronicle, and elsewhere. He is
senior editor of AGNI, where he contributes a series of essays
called “Crucibles.”
Emily Ruskovich (“The Eskimo Keeps Her Promise”) grew
up on a little farm in the mountains of the Idaho Panhandle.
She graduated from the University of Montana and then
from the University of New Brunswick, Canada, where she
earned her MA in English. She is currently a Teaching-Writing
Fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop. “The Eskimo
Keeps Her Promise” was her first published story. She is
twenty-four years old.
Sarah Salway (“For the Sake of the Children”) is the author
of three novels and two books of short stories. Her latest
novel, Getting the Picture (Ballantine, 2010) is about love in