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Associates

Toni Amato

Amie Evans

Kristie Helms

Audrey Beth Stein

Meg Stone

Toni Amato, editor of Pinned Down By Pronouns, has been a teacher and writing coach for over a decade, offering workshops in creative writing, publication, and performance, as well as facilitated peer critique groups.  Many of his clients have published with major literary houses and magazines, as well as started their own theaters and presses.  Additionally, Amato has worked with social service organizations and community schools to bring writing to marginalized communities.  Amato’s fiction has appeared in several anthologies, including GenderQueer, Food and Other Enemies, and Strange Angels.   He has performed extensively in Boston and New York City, as well as at Temple, Goddard and Brandeis Universities.  He has studied fiction with Dorothy Allison, Mary Gaitskill and Marge Piercy.  He is a recipient of the 2000 LEF Fellowship, and the Diana Korzenik Fellowship, 2001 to the Boston Writer’s Room. 

Amie M. Evans has published over 40 short stories and essays and facilitated nearly as many workshop seminars.  She is on the Board of Directors of the Saints and Sinners GLBT Literary Festival and is currently the author of two online writing advice columns.  She graduated Magna Cum Laude with her BA from the University of Pittsburgh and is currently working on her MLA at Harvard.

 Kristie Helms is a Southerner who keeps moving further north. Her work has appeared in “Utne,” “The New York Press,” and in a string of un-bylined corporate brochures and newsletters that stretch from Nashville to New York City. She holds a BS in journalism from Murray State University in Kentucky and writes pretty much constantly. Her online diary earned a 2001 Best Writing Award from Diarist.net.  Her first novel, Dish It Up, Baby, published by Firebrand Books in October 2003, was “ripped from the headlines” of that journal.  Helms lives in Boston with her partner, two dogs and three cats and works as the publications coordinator for a non-profit health management company.

Audrey Beth Stein holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Emerson College and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. Her fiction and essays have been published in Blithe House Quarterly, GenerationJ.com, Jewish Education News, Kol Keshet, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among others.  She is a two-time national prizewinner in the David Dornstein Memorial Short Story Contest, and her memoir is currently under consideration by a university press.

 Meg Stone is currently writing a book about her experience working in the battered women's movement. Since 1993, she has worked in domestic violence organizations in capacities including court advocacy, organizational development, event planning, hotline work and doing night shifts in a battered women's shelter.  She is currently in the midst of a Master's degree in Public Health with a focus on abuse survivor long-term health and abuse prevention.  Her writing has been published in the anthology Pinned Down by Pronouns, the forthcoming anthology The Healing Art of Craft and on gendercrash.com.