Editors and Writers

Matt Louis, Out of the Gutter Online's chief editor, makes it all happen. He has had short fiction published in numerous print and online venues, is responsible for editing and producing the material at Gutter Books, has put out seven issues of the groundbreaking crime fiction punk zine, Out of the Gutter Magazine, and has a novella being adapted for the silver screen.

Court Merrigan, editor of the Bareknuckles Pulp Short Fiction Dept., lives in the Wyoming wilds with his family. His short story collection, Moondog Over The Mekong, is out soon from Snubnose Press. He's a Spinetingler Award nominee with various writings appearing or on the way all over. Links at http://courtmerrigan.wordpress.com.

Joe Clifford is editor of TFFO and producer of Lip Service West, a “gritty, real, raw” reading series in Oakland, CA. His short story collection, Choice Cuts, and noir novel, Wake the Undertaker, will be published by Snubnose Press, 2012. Joe has been to jail but never prison.

Tom Pitts, assistant editor with TFFO, received his education firsthand on the streets of San Francisco. His work has appeared in Shotgun Honey, A Twist of Noir, Punk Globe, Darkest Before the Dawn and others, and Tom is also a popular contributor at SF’s reading series, Lip Service West. Learn more at: http://tom-pitts.blogspot.com/

HJ Hampson offers reviews on movies with the self-righteous conviction of someone who owns Jean-Luc Goddard boxset. She is a novelist and screenwriter who was born near Liverpool and lives in London, England. Her debut novel, The Vanity Game was released in early 2012 by e-publishers Blasted Heath.

Girl in the Gutter offers views and reveiws at OOTG Online. She was born on the East Coast and now lives in California. Not everyone born on the East Coast is a New Yorker; not everyone who lives in California is a blonde. Click here for Girl in the Gutter's Review Policy.

Chris Leek lives mostly in Cambridge, England, and when he can in Henderson, Nevada. Recent examples of his work can be found at sites such as: The Molotov Cocktail, Near to the Knuckle, and In Between Altered States. Honky-tonk bars with nine ball and a killer jukebox are hard to come by in Cambridge, so he hangs out here instead: http://nevadaroadkill.blogspot.com/

Tina Hall, who offers interviews with some of the biggest names on the cutting edge of crime and culture, from Joe R. Lansdale to John Gilmore, lives to write, and writes to live.

Andrew Hilbert, who writes the "Cheesin'" column, lives and works in Austin, TX. He runs the Cheesepaper (http://cheesepaper.blogspot.com/)

Brian Murphy, author of the "Murphy's Law" column, is an artist, a musician, a writer, an international adventurer, and a five-year POW in the fascist War on Drugs.

Dave C., author of the "Creative Destruction" column, works in the corporate world and studies political science and economics in his free time.

Paul D. Brazill, author of the weekly "Brit Grit Alley" feature, was born in England and currently lives in Poland. He's a Spinetingler Award nominee who has had short fiction published in numerous magazines and anthologies, and has edited the anthology Brit Grit, and will have his novella Guns of Brixton published by Pulp Press this year.