JULIA BORCHERTS (Running on Empty)
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Julia Borcherts is a fiction writing instructor at Columbia College Chicago and frequent contributor to Time Out Chicago magazine and Chicago Tribune's RedEye and Metromix.com publication and website. She is also a co-founder and co-host of both the Reading Under the Influence monthly literary performance series and the Dating for Nerds board game and trivia mixers for hetero and queer nerds at heart. Her fiction has been featured in several books including Sin: A Deadly Anthology and Cubbie Blues: 100 Years of Waiting till Next Year, and performed live at many, many venues in Chicago. Her essay Straddling the Mason-Dixon Line won first place in the Columbia University (New York) CSPA national competition.

ANTHONY DEL BROCCOLO (Vigilanthony)
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(Pap and Circumstance in installment #14)

After graduating from the University of North Carolina, Anthony returned to his native New York to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming a direct marketing copywriter. When writing junk mail proved too stressful, he moved west to write television shows for tweens. His writing credits include Nickelodeon's Drake & Josh and Zoey 101, ESPN Classic's Cheap Seats, and Lil' Bush for Comedy Central. He's also performed at Show and Tell, an essay reading series in Los Angeles.

When not working, Anthony can be found walking the streets of Hollywood, muttering to himself and being mistaken for David Arquette. Next year, he plans to abandon the whole writing thing to become a scrappy utility infielder for the New York Mets. If you'd like to say hello, or you are the Mets and would like to offer Anthony a 3-year, $10 Million contract (terms negotiable), please contact him.

MOLLY EACH (Plan B)
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Molly Each blames her Minnesota roots for her love of snow, ice, and broomball. Despite her current Chicago address, she'll always be -- in Bob Dylan's words -- a Girl from the North Country. By day she covers style and fashion for a slew of Windy City publications including the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune Magazine, CS, Time Out Chicago, and Chicago Collection. By night, she's a fiction/creative non-fiction storyteller, and her work has appeared in Hair Trigger, Annalemma Quarterly and toasted-cheese.com.

Molly's the co-founder and editor of No Touching Magazine (a literary magazine of creative non-fiction) and she's on the Story Development team for the super awesome storytelling series 2nd Story. Right now she is probably listening to The Beatles, baking lots of cookies, spending too much money on clothing, or hanging out with her stellar friends and family-- perhaps all at once. A recent Ragdale resident, she is currently at work on her first book. Read her scribblings at www.mollyeach.com.

MEREDITH HOFFA (Please Form Line Here)
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(Saturday in installment #50)

Meredith Hoffa had her first essay published in The Boston Globe Magazine when she was 18. After college she pursued journalism, working most recently at PBS' The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. She now lives in Los Angeles, where she is a writer and actor. She has performed at such places as the Groundlings, Upright Citizen's Brigade, and at the Elephant Theatre in Martinis for Dinner, the sketch show she co-created.

A finalist last year for the ABC/Disney Writing Fellowship, her first-person stories have appeared in the New York Times and in the upcoming book Rejected (Villard) based on the NYC stage show of the same name. Meredith can be heard regularly on XM radio's "A Complete Waste of Time" and seen regularly at The Coffee Bean, where she listens to other peoples' conversations while pretending to type. She is a Boston native and a graduate of Wesleyan University. For more info go to www.meredithhoffa.com.

TOBLY McSMITH (Isn't it Romantic?)
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After graduating college Tobly moved from Texas to New York City with two suitcases and a completely innocent outlook on life. Along the way she picked up a few tattoos, landed a job at a publishing company, co-created two off-Broadway plays BAYSIDE! and BAYSIDE 2! Electric Screechio, both based on TV's Saved by the Bell, and formed a "healthy" obsession with Hannah Montana.

When Tobly isn't writing for Poise Magazine, reviewing adult toys for Sex Herald, giving sex advice at Cherry TV, co-writing and directing her sitcom, playing in her band The Cotton Ponys, or writing her self-help book, she is thinking about her cats. Their names are Herpes McLovebug and THEGOATEATER.

LESLIE NIPKOW (Mantooth)
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Leslie Nipkow came to NY with dreams of a career on the Broadway musical stage, but her jazz hands quickly atrophied in roles like: Nurse, Cop, CSI, Demolition Worker, Female Officer, and Erica Kane’s prison guard on All My Children. The latter inspired her one-woman show, GUARDING ERICA, published in Talk to Me: Monologue Plays (Vintage Books). Because God has a sense of humor, she found herself doing a stretch in the soapwriting world, for which she brought home a Daytime Emmy. Meanwhile, her screenplay, SARA CHARLOTTE, was a Sundance and Chesterfield finalist, her plays have been performed and read at La MaMa, HERE, the Women’s Project, and the Ohio Theater, and her essay A Long Day’s Journey Into Lip Gloss recently appeared in the New York Times.

ROBIN SHORR (Family F'ing Ties!)
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Robin Shorr grew up in the San Fernando Valley but somehow has a Chicago accent. Her writing credits include Fox's The Loop, NBC's Teachers, and the upcoming Glenn Martin DDS for Nick at Nite, and she very recently started writing on ABC's Samantha Who?.

She lends her voice to cartoons like The Replacements, and Techies, and will be appearing in Dreamworks' She's Out of My League in Spring 2009. She was so troubled by how often she watched a certain MTV reality show that she created The Hills: A Staged Reading at Upright Citizen's Brigade. She is super close with her sister these days.

DEBORAH STOLL (You Think G-D Would Have Given You Hair Like That if He Loved You?)
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Deborah Stoll is a native New Yorker who actually enjoys living in L.A. She writes movies and TV shows and contributes arts pieces to The Economist's on-line literary magazine, More Intelligent Life. More of her short stories and a handful of scripts can be read on the website she built late at night with the help from her trusty friend, Jameson: www.bubbemaisse.com.