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Contributors Gale Acuff has had poetry published in Ascent, Adirondack Review, South Carolina Review, Ohio Journal, Santa Barbara Review, Florida Review, and many other journals. Has has authored three books of poetry: Buffalo Nickel (BrickHouse, 2004), The Weight of the World (BrickHouse, 2006), and The Story of My Lives (BrickHouse, 2009). Christopher Barnes has his poem "The Holiday I Never Had" recorded at London's Southbank Centre. You can hear it online at http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk /magazine/record.asp? id=18456. Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is a native Angelino poet with an MFA from Antioch University, Los Angeles. Recently, she volunteered to teach a creative writing class to women in the Los Angeles Detention Center, and continues to research and writed on U.S. immigration and detention. She is poetry editor for The Splinter Generation, and has been published in Prism Review, The Umbrella Journal, and forthcoming in Los Angeles Review and PALABRA. Sheila Black is the author of a chapbook (How to be a Maquiladora, Main Street Rag, 2007) and a full-length collection (House of Bone, CustomWords, 2007). A second full-length collection (Love/Iraq) is forthcoming from CustomWords in late 2009. She was most recently the Visiting Professor of Creative Writing (Poetry) at New Mexico State University. Tetman Callis received a Presidential nomination for an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point before embarking on a career as a drug addict and small-time embezzler, while fathering a half-dozen illegitimate children. He worked his way through college, graduating summa cum laude with a BA in Philosophy from the University of Texas at El Paso, and now works as a secretary. His writings have been published in a variety of venues, including New York Tyrant, Denver Quarterly, and Gloom Cupboard. Michael Cherry is a graduate of the creative writing programs at The University of Toledo and Bowling Green State University. His poems have also been published in RHINO, Lake Effect, and Connecticut River Review. Louie Crew has edited special issues of College English and Margins. He has written four poetry volumes: Sunspots (Lotus Press, Detroit, 1976), Midnight Lessons (Samisdat, 1987), Lutibelle's Pew (Dragon Disks, 1990), and Queers! for Christ's Sake! (Dragon Disks, 2003). The University of Michigan collects his papers. As of today, editors have already published 1,927 of his poems and essays. Peggy Douglas has been published in various non-fiction scholarly journals; the 2007 and 2009 Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets: the Knoxville Writer's Guild Poetry Anthology (2009); Maypop: the Tennessee Writers Alliance Journal (2009); and The Light of Ordinary Things Poetry Anthology (2009) by Fearless Books. She was also the recipient of the 2004 Antioch Writers Conference Short Fiction Award. James H Duncan is a New York native, part-time Taoist, and editor of Hobo Camp Review. Although a graduate of Southern Vermont College, he considers himself a lifelong student of the road, picking up non-credit courses in local dive bars, all-night cafes, and used book stores. Plainsongs, Red Fez, The Homestead Review, Reed Magazine, and The Battered Suitcase, among others, have welcomed his poetry. His fourth collection Maybe a Bird Will Sing (Bird War Press) is due in 2009. More at www.jhdwriting.com. Julie R. Enszer has her MFA from the University of Maryland and is enrolled currently in the PhD in Women's Studies at the University of Maryland. Her poetry has previously been published in Iris: A Journal About Women, Room of One's Own, Long Shot, the Web Del Sol Review, and The Jewish Women's Literary Annual. She has poems forthcoming in the Women's Review of Books and Feminist Studies. She is a regular book reviewer for the Lambda Book Report and Calyx. You can read more of her work at http://www.JulieREnszer.com. Gail Rudd Entrekin taught poetry and English literature at California colleges for 25 years. Her collections of poems are Change (Will Do You Good) (Poetic Matrix Press, 2005), which was nominated for a Northern California Book Award, You Notice the Body (Hip Pocket Press, 1998), and John Danced (Berkeley Poets Workshop & Press, 1983). Poetry Editor of Hip Pocket Press since 2000, she edits the press' online environmental literary magazine, Canary (www.hippocketpress.com/canary.cfm). She is editor of the poetry & short fiction anthology Sierra Songs & Descants: Poetry & Prose of the Sierra (2002) and the poetry anthology Yuba Flows (2007). Her poems have been widely published in literary magazines and anthologies and she and her husband, writer Charles Entrekin, live in San Francisco's East Bay. Stephen Garbarini is currently at work on a book of poetry inspired by the horse, entitled equipoesy. A former immigration attorney, Chris Girman is the author of two books: Mucho Macho, Haworth Press; The Chili Papers, Velluminous Press. He currently teaches middle school along the Rio Grande River in Southern Texas. He is a MFA candidate of Creative Writing at the University of Texas Pan-American in Edinburg, Texas. Tom Gribble has been awarded an Artist Thrust Fellowship, the Associated Writing Programs Intro to Journals for poetry, and the Kansas State University Touchstone Award. His work has appeared in numerous journals including Puerto Del Sol, Chattahoocee Review, and Hawaii Review. He's the managing editor of Gribble Press and runs the website http://www.greymaredit.com. Iris Gribble-Neal is an editor and publisher of Gribble Press, a small press printing chapbooks and full-length poetry books, www.greymaredit.com. She is former editor of the journal Heliotrope published from 1996 to 2004. She has been published by such journals as Washington Square and Talking River Review, as well as several issues of Pontoon, An Anthology of Washington Poets, and has been a finalist in several chapbook contests. Kirsten Hemmy's work appears or is forthcoming in Sonora Review, Green Mountain Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Smartish Pace, Antioch Review, Bellingham Review, and elsewhere. Paul Howarth is an engineer, working part of the year now in Oz, but still based at his sister's house in Stamford, Lincs. He has not been writing long, and has had poems published in Poetry Nottingham and Aireings. Tim Hunt's "Car Radio When It Seemed Late at Night (Gunsmoke)" is part of the manuscript for Fault Lines, which is to be published in the fall by The Backwaters Press. He grew up in small towns in California north of San Francisco and currently lives in Normal. His wife, Susan, and he have two children. Their son, John, is a visual artist working in the web world, and their daughter, Jessica, is a composer and music director. Clyde Kessler lives in Radford, VA with his wife Kendall, an artist, and their son, Alan. "Parole" is part of a manuscript that for now is called Silver Bridge. Several poems of this manuscript have been published online in magazines such as Barnwood, Boxcar Poetry Review, Cortland Review, Contemporary Haibun Online, Front Porch, Sugar Mule, Wazee, and Xelas Magazine. Three more poems from this manuscript will be published soon in Coal Hill Review. A lifetime San Diego resident, Fred Longworth restores vintage audio components for a living. His poems have appeared in numerous print journals, including Caesura, California Quarterly, The Pacific Review, Pearl, Pudding Magazine, Rattapallax and Spillway. Online publications include kaleidowhirl, Melic Review, miller's pond, Stirring and Strong Verse. Clare L. Martin is a poet/mother/wife and graduate of the University of Southwestern Louisiana. Clare's creative writing has appeared in several literary magazines including Inch, Eclectica Magazine, The Dead Mule, Wheelhouse Magazine, Blue Fifth Review, Press 1 and Clean Sheets: an Online Journal of Literary Erotica. Her poem "4-Way Stop at Dusk" appears in the anthology Best of Farmhouse Magazine Vol. 1. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and Best New Poets. Ansley Moon was born in India and has since lived on three continents. She received an M.A. in Creative Writing from Trinity College, Carmarthen and a B.A. in English from Georgia State University. Her work has been featured in Southern Women's Review, Six Sentences and various anthologies. She was recently chosen as a Fiction Semi-Finalist in the SLS Unified Contest, and she is a Poetry Editor for The Furnace Review. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. Jennifer Mooney is a 26 year old Irish woman, living in Dublin. To date she has had a radio play produced; Losing Grace RTE Radio 1 (Ireland's national Radio Station) in 2005 and a stage play called Displacement produced by Tall Tales Theatre Co. in June 2008. Cameron Mount is a poet and fiction author and a member of the Davis Square Bagel Bards. He served as an officer in the US Navy from 2001 to 2007, rising to the rank of Lieutenant before leaving to pursue a career in writing. In 2008 Cameron earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. His poems have been published in or are forthcoming from The Somerville News, Wilderness House Literary Review, Phoenix Lore, and Sketchbook. His chapbook, Evening Watch, is forthcoming from Ibbetson Street Press. Brent Newsom is a doctoral student in English at Texas Tech University. His work appears in the Spring 2008 issue of The Southern Review and is forthcoming in New Texas, New Delta Review, and America. He won the 2009 Foley Prize from America Magazine, and he recently received a Fulbright award to work on a novel in China. Ashok Niyogi was born in Calcutta in 1955. He was schooled all over India in Irish Christian Brothers' Schools and graduated with Honors in Economics from Presidency College, Calcutta. Ashok spent 30 years in the world of International Commerce, and has lived and worked in East Europe, Russia, the CIS and South East Asia. His work has taken him all over the world and he now divides his time between California, where his two daughters live, and India. Ashok has two books of poetry in India — Crossroads and Reflections in the Dark (both from A-4 Publications) and one book of poems from the USA — Tentatively (iUniverse). He has been published extensively on line and in print in India, the USA, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Holland etc. "Jim Corbett Periphery" refers to Jim Corbett National Park, a famous tiger and animal park in the Himalayan Terrai. Doug Ramspeck's poetry collection, Black Tupelo Country, was selected for the 2007 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry and is published by BkMk Press (University of Missouri-Kansas City). His chapbook, Where We Come From, is published by March Street Press. Several hundred poems of his have appeared in journals that include West Branch, Rattle, and Hayden's Ferry. In 2009 he received an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. He directs the Writing Center and teaches creative writing at The Ohio State University at Lima. He lives in Lima with his wife, Beth, and their daughter, Lee. Stephen A. Rozwenc lives in Haydenville , MA . He has published a collection of poems, The Fourth Turning, and a chapbook, Grass Hill. The chapbook's costs were funded by a Massachusetts Arts Council Grant. A third collection will be published in the fall of 2009 by Powahe Press. His new poems have recently appeared in Philadelphia Poets, Equinox, AdagioVerse Quarterly, RoadKillZen, Fractals, www.poetswest.com, www.Words-myth.com, Spoken War, and Daily Hampshire Gazette (circulation 13,000). He has recorded a poetry CD, Improvisations, with Thomas Erwin, jazz keyboardist, which improvises poetry to spontaneous music. Lauren Scharhag is a writer of poetry and fiction. Her work has appeared most recently in Compass Rose, cold-drill, A Tender Touch and a Shade of Blue, and In the Mist. She is currently trying to publish a novel. She lives in Kansas City, MO and is a student at Rockhurst University. Linda Leedy Schneider is a poetry and writing mentor and psychotherapist in private practice. She has been a faculty member at Aquinas College, Ferris State University and Kendall College of Art and Design. Linda received a Readers' Choice Award from The Pedestal Magazine, was honored by the Dyer-Ives Poetry Competition and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She leads many workshops nationally including a week-long session annually at Skidmore College for The International Women's Writing Guild. Linda's volunteer work in orphanages in Albania served as a catalyst for seeking publication, and her work has since been published in hundreds of literary magazines and anthologies including The Pedestal Magazine, Rattle Magazine, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Pudding Magazine, Midwest Poetry Review, Miranda Literary Magazine, ONTHEBUS, Jerseyworks, and The Sow's Ear. She has written five collections of poetry including Through the Lattice: Poetry of a Psychotherapist, Argonne House Press, 2002, and Through My Window: Poetry of a Psychotherapist, Pudding House Publications, 2007. Her poetry was published in the international women's anthology, Not A Muse, Haven Books, 2009. All of the writers Linda has mentored who sought publication have achieved that goal. She believes that a regular writing ritual leads to discovery, authenticity, personal growth and even JOY. Charlotte Seley holds a BA from Eugene Lang College of the New School in New York, New York. She has been published in Chronogram, The Hudson Valley, New York Arts and Culture Magazine. She currently lives in the Hudson Valley. Judith Skillman's Heat Lightning: New and Selected Poems 1986-2006 was published by Silverfish Review Press, Eugene, Oregon, 2006. A new collection, Prisoner of the Swifts is just out from Ahadada Books (ahadadabooks.com). The recipient of an award from the Academy of American Poets for her book Storm (Blue Begonia Press, 1998), Skillman's poems have appeared in Poetry, FIELD, The Southern Review, The Iowa Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Seneca Review, and numerous other journals and anthologies. Please see www.judithskillman.com for more information. Jeff Streeby grew up in Sioux City, Iowa, where he attended Morningside College. He holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Poetry from Gerald Stern's program at New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire. He is a horseman, cowboy poet and performer whose work has been published in Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion; Lynx; Rattle; Simply Haiku; Flashquake and others. He teaches AP Composition at Perris High School in Perris, California. Shannon Walsh has published or has poems forthcoming in Writer's Digest Red Heart :: Black Heart and Soundings East, and has published poetry reviews at zolandpoetry.com. She finished her MFA at Emerson College in December 2009, and is currently a freelance copy editor and proofreader. Lenore Weiss is an award-winning writer who has been published online and off with work in Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, Women in Judaism, and others. Her chapbook, Sh'ma Yis'rael, is available from Pudding House Publications. Forthcoming work will be published in Harvard Divinity School's Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. Weiss also serves as Fiction Editor of The November 3rd Club. Her blog is located at: http://doaen.blogspot.com/. John Sibley Williams has an MA in Writing and resides in Boston, where he frequently performs his poetry, though summer 2009 he is moving to Portland, OR to study Book Publishing at Portland State University. He is presently compiling manuscripts composed from the last two years of traveling and living abroad. Some of his over fifty previous or upcoming publications include: The Evansville Review, Flint Hills Review, Cadillac Cicatrix, Juked, The Journal, Barnwood International Poetry, Paradigm, The Alembic, Phantasmagoria, Clapboard House, River Oak Review, Glass, Southern Ocean Review, Miranda, Language and Culture, and Raving Dove. Alice Wong was born and raised in Singapore, the island refered to in "My Palm Frond." |
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Contributors
Gale Acuff has had poetry published in Ascent, Adirondack Review, South Carolina Review, Ohio Journal, Santa Barbara Review, Florida Review, and many other journals. Has has authored three books of poetry: Buffalo Nickel (BrickHouse, 2004), The Weight of the World (BrickHouse, 2006), and The Story of My Lives (BrickHouse, 2009). Christopher Barnes has his poem "The Holiday I Never Had" recorded at London's Southbank Centre, you can hear it online at http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=18456. Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is a native Angelino poet with an MFA from Antioch University, Los Angeles. Recently, she volunteered to teach a creative writing class to women in the Los Angeles Detention Center, and continues to research and writed on U.S. immigration and detention. She is poetry editor for The Splinter Generation, and has been published in Prism Review, The Umbrella Journal, and forthcoming in Los Angeles Review and PALABRA. Louie Crew has edited special issues of College English and Margins. He has written four poetry volumes: Sunspots (Lotus Press, Detroit, 1976), Midnight Lessons (Samisdat, 1987), Lutibelle's Pew (Dragon Disks, 1990), and Queers! for Christ's Sake! (Dragon Disks, 2003). The University of Michigan collects his papers. As of today, editors have already published 1,927 of his poems and essays. Peggy Douglas has been published in various non-fiction scholarly journals; the 2007 and 2009 Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets: the Knoxville Writer's Guild Poetry Anthology (2009) ; Maypop: the Tennessee Writers Alliance Journal (2009); and The Light of Ordinary Things Poetry Anthology (2009) by Fearless Books. She was also the recipient of the 2004 Antioch Writers Conference Short Fiction Award. Julie R. Enszer has her MFA from the University of Maryland and is enrolled currently in the PhD in Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland. Her poetry has previously been published in Iris: A Journal About Women, Room of One’s Own, Long Shot, the Web Del Sol Review, and the Jewish Women’s Literary Annual. She has poems forthcoming in the Women’s Review of Books and Feminist Studies. She is a regular book reviewer for the Lambda Book Report and Calyx. You can read more of her work at http://www.JulieREnszer.com. Stephen Garbarini is currently at work on a book of poetry inspired by the horse, entitled equipoesy. Iris Gribble-Neal is an editor and publisher of Gribble Press, a small press printing chapbooks and full-length poetry books, www.greymaredit.com. She is former editor of the journal Heliotrope published from 1996 to 2004. She has been published by such journals as Washington Square and Talking River Review, as well as several issues of Pontoon, An Anthology of Washington Poets, and has been a finalist in several chapbook contests. Paul Howarth is an engineer, working part of the year now in Oz, but still based at his sister's house in Stamford, Lincs. He has not been writing long, and has had poems published in Poetry Nottingham and Aireings. Tim Hunt's "Car Radio When It Seemed Late at Night (Gunsmoke)" is part of the manuscript for Fault Lines, which is to be published in the fall by The Backwaters Press. He grew up in small towns in California north of San Francisco and currently lives in Normal. His wife, Susan, and he have two children. Their son, John, is a visual artist working in the web world, and their daughter, Jessica, is a composer and music director. A lifetime San Diego resident, Fred Longworth restores vintage audio components for a living. His poems have appeared in numerous print journals, including Caesura, California Quarterly, The Pacific Review, Pearl, Pudding Magazine, Rattapallax and Spillway. Online publications include kaleidowhirl, Melic Review, miller’s pond, Stirring and Strong Verse. Clare L. Martin is a poet/mother/wife and graduate of the University of Southwestern Louisiana. Clare’s creative writing has appeared in several literary magazines including Inch, Eclectica Magazine, The Dead Mule, Wheelhouse Magazine, Blue Fifth Review, Press 1 and Clean Sheets: an Online Journal of Literary Erotica. Her poem “4-Way Stop at Dusk” appears in the anthology Best of Farmhouse Magazine Vol. 1. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and Best New Poets. Brent Newsom is a doctoral student in English at Texas Tech University. His work appears in the Spring 2008 issue of The Southern Review and is forthcoming in New Texas, New Delta Review, and America . He won the 2009 Foley Prize from America magazine, and he recently received a Fulbright award to work on a novel in China. Ashok Niyogi was born in Calcutta in 1955. He was schooled all over India in Irish Christian Brothers' Schools and graduated with Honors in Economics from Presidency College, Calcutta. Ashok spent 30 years in the world of International Commerce, and has lived and worked in East Europe, Russia, the CIS and South East Asia. His work has taken him all over the world and he now divides his time between California where his two daughters live, and India. Ashok has two books of poetry in India—Crossroads and Reflections in the Dark (both from A-4 Publications) and one book of poems from the USA—Tentatively (iUniverse). He has been published extensively on line and in print in India, the USA, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Holland etc. “Jim Corbett Periphery” refers to Jim Corbett National Park, a famous tiger and animal park in the Himalayan Terrai.
Tetman Callis received a Presidential nomination for an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point before embarking on a career as a drug addict and small-time embezzler, while fathering a half-dozen illegitimate children. He worked his way through college, graduating summa cum laude with a BA in Philosophy from the University of Texas at El Paso, and now works as a secretary. His writings have been published in a variety of venues, including New York Tyrant, Denver Quarterly, and Gloom Cupboard.
Michael Cherry is a graduate of the creative writing programs at The University of Toledo and Bowling Green State University. His poems have also been published in RHINO, Lake Effect, and Connecticut River Review.
A former immigration attorney, Chris Girman is the author of two books: Mucho Macho, Haworth Press; The Chili Papers, Velluminous Press. He currently teaches middle school along the Rio Grande River in Southern Texas. He is a MFA candidate of Creative Writing at the University of Texas Pan-American in Edinburg, Texas.
Tom Gribble has been awarded an Artist Thrust Fellowship, the Associated Writing Programs Intro to Journals for poetry, and the Kansas State University Touchstone Award. His work has appeared in numerous journals including Puerto Del Sol, Chattahoocee Review, and Hawaii Review. He’s the managing editor of Gribble Press and runs the website http://www.greymaredit.com.
Kirsten Hemmy's work appears or is forthcoming in Sonora Review, Green Mountain Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Smartish Pace, Antioch Review, Bellingham Review, and elsewhere.
Clyde Kessler lives in Radford, VA with his wife Kendall an artist, and their son Alan. "Parole" is part of a manuscript that for now is called Silver Bridge. Several poems of this manuscript have been published online in magazines such as Barnwood, Boxcar Poetry Review, Cortland Review, Contemporary Haibun Online, Front Porch, Sugar Mule, Wazee, and Xelas Magazine. Three more poems from this manuscript will be published soon in Coal Hill Review.
Jennifer Mooney is a 26 year old Irish woman, living in Dublin. To date she has had a radio play produced; Losing Grace RTE Radio 1 (Ireland's national Radio Station) in 2005 and a stage play called Displacement produced by Tall Tales Theatre Co. in June 2008.
Cameron Mount is a poet and fiction author and a member of the Davis Square Bagel Bards. He served as an officer in the US Navy from 2001 to 2007, rising to the rank of Lieutenant before leaving to pursue a career in writing. In 2008 Cameron earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. His poems have been published in or are forthcoming from The Somerville News, Wilderness House Literary Review, Phoenix Lore, and Sketchbook. His chapbook, Evening Watch, is forthcoming from Ibbetson Street Press.
Stephen A. Rozwenc lives in Haydenville , MA . He has published a collection of poems, The Fourth Turning, and a chapbook, Grass Hill. The chapbook’s costs were funded by a Massachusetts Arts Council Grant. A third collection will be published in the fall of 2009 by Powahe Press. His new poems have recently appeared in Philadelphia Poets, Equinox, AdagioVerse Quarterly, RoadKillZen, Fractals, www.poetswest.com, www.Words-myth.com, Spoken War, and Daily Hampshire Gazette (circulation 13,000). He has recorded a poetry CD, Improvisations, with Thomas Erwin, jazz keyboardist, which improvises poetry to spontaneous music.
Lauren Scharhag is a writer of poetry and fiction. Her work has appeared most recently in Compass Rose, cold-drill, A Tender Touch and a Shade of Blue, and In the Mist. She is currently trying to publish a novel. She lives in Kansas City, MO and is a student at Rockhurst University.
Linda Leedy Schneider is a poetry and writing mentor and psychotherapist in private practice. She has been a faculty member at Aquinas College, Ferris State University and Kendall College of Art and Design. Linda received a Readers’ Choice Award from The Pedestal Magazine, was honored by the Dyer-Ives Poetry Competition and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She leads many workshops nationally including a week-long session annually at Skidmore College for The International Women’s Writing Guild. Linda's volunteer work in orphanages in Albania served as a catalyst for seeking publication, and her work has since been published in hundreds of literary magazines and anthologies including The Pedestal Magazine, Rattle Magazine, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Pudding Magazine, Midwest Poetry Review, Miranda Literary Magazine, ONTHEBUS, Jerseyworks, and The Sow’s Ear. She has written five collections of poetry including Through the Lattice: Poetry of a Psychotherapist, Argonne House Press, 2002, and Through My Window: Poetry of a Psychotherapist, Pudding House Publications, 2007. Her poetry was published in the international women’s anthology, Not A Muse, Haven Books, 2009. All of the writers Linda has mentored who sought publication have achieved that goal. She believes that a regular writing ritual leads to discovery, authenticity, personal growth and even JOY.
Charlotte Seley holds a BA from Eugene Lang College of the New School in New York, New York. She has been published in Chronogram, the Hudson Valley, New York arts and culture magazine. She currently lives in the Hudson Valley.
Judith Skillman’s Heat Lightning: New and Selected Poems 1986-2006 was published by Silverfish Review Press, Eugene, Oregon, 2006. A new collection, Prisoner of the Swifts is just out from Ahadada Books (ahadadabooks.com). The recipient of an award from the Academy of American Poets for her book Storm (Blue Begonia Press, 1998), Skillman’s poems have appeared in Poetry, FIELD, The Southern Review, The Iowa Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Seneca Review, and numerous other journals and anthologies. Please see www.judithskillman.com for more information.
Jeff Streeby grew up in Sioux City, Iowa, where he attended Morningside College. He holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Poetry from Gerald Stern’s program at New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire. He is a horseman, cowboy poet and performer whose work has been published in Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion; Lynx; Rattle; Simply Haiku; Flashquake and others. He teaches AP Composition at Perris High School in Perris, California.
Shannon Walsh has published or has poems forthcoming in Writer's Digest Red Heart :: Black Heart and Soundings East, and has published poetry reviews at zolandpoetry.com. She finished her MFA at Emerson College in December 2009, and is currently a freelance copy editor and proofreader.
Lenore Weiss is an award-winning writer who has been published online and off with work in Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, Women in Judaism, and others. Her chapbook, Sh’ma Yis’rael, is available from Pudding House Publications. Forthcoming work will be published in Harvard Divinity School's, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. Weiss also serves as Fiction Editor of the November 3rd Club. Her blog is located at: http://doaen.blogspot.com/.
John Sibley Williams has an MA in Writing and resides in Boston, where he frequently performs his poetry, though summer 2009 he is moving to Portland, OR to study Book Publishing at Portland State University. He is presently compiling manuscripts composed from the last two years of traveling and living abroad. Some of his over fifty previous or upcoming publications include: The Evansville Review, Flint Hills Review, Cadillac Cicatrix, Juked, The Journal, Barnwood International Poetry, Paradigm, The Alembic, Phantasmagoria, Clapboard House, River Oak Review, Glass, Southern Ocean Review, Miranda, Language and Culture, and Raving Dove.
Alice Wong was born and raised in Singapore, the island refered to is "My Palm Frond."