JEANNINE PITAS (Cool)
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Jeannine M. Pitas is 30% hippie, 30% yuppie, 40% confused twenty-something twixter and 100% nerd. Her insatiable wanderlust has led her to live in England, Poland, Uruguay, Nicaragua, and most recently Canada, where she is drinking lots of ice wine and pursuing a PhD in comparative literature at the University of Toronto. However, Buffalo, NY will always be home. Her writing has appeared online in Ghoti, Flashquake, Boxcar Poetry Review and Hackwriters, and her translation of Uruguayan poet Marosa Di Giorgio's The History of Violets will be forthcoming later this year from Ugly Duckling Presse. She thanks you for reading her piece, and she hopes that publication on Fresh Yarn will finally admit her to the ranks of the cool.

SCOTT SALTZBURG (Witness Protection)
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Scott Saltzburg is a comedy writer whose work has been featured on NBC, CBS, TLC, GSN, Planet Green and the Premiere Radio Networks. Scott is best known for his work on the long-running favorite Hollywood Squares, for which he contributed such chestnuts as "circle gets the square," "I'll take Carrot Top for the block," and "For chrissake, somebody wake up Carol Channing!" He and his wife reside at their dog's home in Los Angeles.

SARAH KHAN (Santa Claus is Coming to Town...NOT)
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Sarah Khan is an editor at Travel + Leisure magazine, and her writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Press, Gotham, Hamptons, Los Angeles Confidential, Metro, and DailyCandy, among other publications. In her free time she enjoys collecting disco balls, typing with two fingers, beef in all its many-splendored forms, fighting for curly-haired rights, hyperbole, and writing about herself in the third person. You can read more of her essays at http://www.bysarahkhan.com.

MATT SULLIVAN (How to be a Third Wheel)
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Matt Sullivan's writing has appeared in Black Book, Salon, the book Six Word Memoirs On Love And Heartbreak (Harper Perennial, 2009) and on his parents' fridge.

ALEX MOODY (Shiny Happy Pirate)
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Alex Moody is a writer living in Nashville, Tennessee. He toiled in a cubicle for eleven years, escaped, and doesn't want to go back. He is currently working on a collection of short stories, as well as a series of essays based on a childhood spent traveling the world and quietly judging people.

Alex writes for the fine folks at Jake Leg Films when the screenwriting bug hits. He is pursuing an MFA in fiction at Vanderbilt University, and posts his random musings on a blog called MoodyTunes.

CAROLINE BICKS (Means of Support)
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Caroline's essays have been seen and heard on babble.com, in the book and show Afterbirth: Stories You Won't Read in a Parenting Magazine (St. Martin's Press), and on NPR's "All Things Considered."

She is an English Professor at Boston College, where she teaches Shakespeare and Women's Studies. For fun, she blogs about how the Bard meets suburban mommy life at http://www.everydayshakespeare.com.

LAUREN MARKS (Why Not(e))
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Lauren Marks is currently working on a memoir entitled A Stitch of Time: Diary of an Aphasiac. A Tisch School of the Arts (NYU) graduate, she has worked in professional theater as a performer, dramaturg, director, reviewer, and freelance in the literary departments of the Tectonic Theater Project, Summer Play Festival (SPF) in NYC, Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, and Eugene O’Neill Play Festival in Connecticut. She is a PhD student in Theatre Studies at The Graduate Center at the City University of New York, though currently on leave. Her writings have been featured in Thinking Ahead, a quarterly publication for The Brain Aneurysm Foundation, and The Mad As Hell Club. She is a recent recipient of the Frances Heiner Award from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), the Carole Weinstein Award from VCCA France, and a fellowship at Yaddo.

JEREMY DEUTCHMAN (Cheese Mover)
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Writer/performer Jeremy Deutchman is a frequent contributor on the L.A. story salon scene. He has appeared at venues including Show and Tell at Hollywood's UCB Theatre, Tongue & Groove at the Hotel Café, WordPlay at the Fake Gallery and Piñata at Bang.

Jeremy has published a broad range of stories, poems, essays and opinion pieces, most recently in Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped, and Canceled (Villard, 2009). He lives with his wife and Wheaten by the beach, where he runs his own freelance copywriting business (www.jdcopy.com).