Contributors

Henry Alley (1.1)
Henry Alley is a Professor Emeritus of Literature in the Honors College at the University of Oregon. He has three novels, Through Glass (1979) The Lattice (1986), and Umbrella of Glass (1988). Recently his Leonardo and I appeared, winner of the Gertrude Press 2006 Fiction Chapbook Award. His stories have been published over the past thirty-seven years in such journals as Seattle Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Clackamas Literary Review and Harrington Gay Men's Quarterly Fiction. His articles have been published in The Journal of Narrative Technique, Studies in the Novel, Twentieth Century Literature, and Kenyon Review. His essay on versions of Mrs. Dalloway, including the film The Hours, is forthcoming from Paper on Language and Literature, and his article on the film and story Brokeback Mountain is due out in an anthology from McFarland Press. The University of Delaware Press published his book-length study, The Quest for Anonymity: The Novels of George Eliot, in 1997. Visit Henry's Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Alley.

Diane Averill (1.2)
Diane Averill's books, Branches Doubled Over With Fruit, and Beautiful Obstacles, were both finalists for the Oregon Book Award in Poetry. Her new book, entitled For All That Remains, is due out from Fir Tree Press in November, 2007.

Jon Ballard (2.1)
Jon Ballard's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Blue Earth Review, The Valparaiso Poetry Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, Words-Myth, The MacGuffin, Wheelhouse, Barnwood Magazine and other print and on-line journals. He has two chapbooks forthcoming in 2007: Lonesome (Pudding House) and Sad Town (Maverick Duck Press). A Michigan native, he currently lives in Mexico City, Mexico.

Gary Beck (1.2)
Gary Beck's recent fiction has appeared in 3AM Magazine, EWG Presents, Nuvein Magazine, Babel, Vincent Brothers Review, L'Intrigue Magazine, The Journal, Short Stories Bimonthly and Bibliophilos. His poetry has appeared in dozens of literary magazines. His plays and translations of Molière, Aristophanes, and Sophocles have been produced Off-Broadway. He is a writer/director of award-winning social issue video documentaries.

Kimberly L. Becker (1.1)
Kimberly L. Becker's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Baltimore Review, Georgetown Review, South Carolina Review, storySouth, Westview, Words-Myth and elsewhere. She has also held a state grant (NJ) in fiction and her short fiction has appeared in Parting Gifts. A native Southerner, she has lived for the last several years in the Washington, D.C. region.

F. J. Bergmann (1.2)
F. J. Bergmann claims to have a MFA from the School of the Americas. Blame her for madpoetry.org and her own site, fibitz.com. Publications include the Beloit Poetry Journal, Cannibal, Margie, Pavement Saw, and last, but not least, asininepoetry.com (as Easter Cathay). Her hairstyle is deceptive. One of her pseudopodia can reach all the way from the bedroom to the refrigerator.

Elizabeth Bernays (2.1)
Elizabeth Bernays is an entomologist-turned writer. She grew up in Australia, worked in England, Africa and England, before becoming a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. She has published twelve essays, most recently in Driftwood, Rosebud, and Antipodes. She won the 2007 XJ Kennedy nonfiction award.

Michelle Bitting (1.1)
Michelle Bitting has work forthcoming or published in Glimmer Train, Swink, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Daily, Small Spiral Notebook, Nimrod, The Southeast Review, Many Mountains Moving, Poetry Southeast, Slipstream, Dogwood, Gargoyle, Rattle, and others. She has won the Glimmer Train, Rock & Sling—Virginia Brendemeuhl Award and Poets On Parnassus Poetry Competitions. Visit Michelle's site at http://home.earthlink.net/~verarose/michellebitting/.

Sheila Black (1.1)
Sheila Black's poems have been published in many print and on-line journals including Blackbird, Poet Lore, Willow Springs and Copper Nickel among others. Her first book House of Bone, is forthcoming from CustomWords Press in March 2007. A chapbook of her poems, How to be a Maquilladora, will also appear in 2007 from Main Street Rag Books. Recently a poem of hers, "This Dance," won the Inglis House Poetry Workshop Contest for poems about disability. She received her M.F.A from the University of Montana in 1998 and now lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Jenn Blair (2.1)
Jenn Blair is from Yakima, WA. She is a teaching assistant and
Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia in Athens. Her work has
appeared or is forthcoming in the Penwood Review, Fairfield Review,
Copper Nickel, Sow's Ear, and Melus.

Ace Boggess (1.2)
Ace Boggess is the author of two novels, Displaced Hours and Beautiful Ambivalence, both available from Gatto Publishing; and two books of poetry, The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled (Highwire Press) and, as editor, Wild Sweet Notes II: More Great Poetry From West Virginia (Publishers Place). His writing has appeared in Harvard Review, Notre Dame Review, Atlanta Review, Florida Review, and many similar journals.

Louis E. Bourgeois (2.1)
Louis E. Bourgeois is an instructor of English at the University of
Mississippi in Oxford. His most recent collection of poems is
entitled OLGA published by WordTech. His memoir, The Gar Diaries, is forthcoming this fall by Community Press.

Graham Burchell (1.2)
Graham Burchell, born in 1950 in Canterbury, England is the winner of the 2005 Chapter One Promotions Poetry Competition, runner up in the 2005 'Into Africa' Competition and 2006 Ware Open Poetry Competition. His poetry has appeared in many literary magazines. He is editor of the online poetry journal, Words-Myth.

Edward Byrne (2.1)
Edward Byrne has had five collections of poetry published: Along the Dark Shore (BOA Editions), chosen a finalist for the Elliston Book Award; The Return to Black and White (Tidy-Up Press), selected by Library Journal as among "The Best of the Small Press Publications"; poetry in Words Spoken,Words Unspoken (Chimney Hill Press), which won the Cape Rock Prize in 1995; East of Omaha (Pecan Grove Press), nominated in 1999 for the Midland Authors Award; and Tidal Air, published by Pecan Grove Press in 2002. A sixth collection, Seeded Light is forthcoming.

Michael Scott Cain (2.1)
Michael Scott Cain teaches literature and creative writing at Frederick Community College in Frederick, Maryland, where he lives with Helene and a houseful of kids. His most recent novel is Midnight Train (Publishamerica) and his most recent book of poetry is What the Night Will Bring (Gypsy Witch).

Don Kingfisher Campbell (1.1)
Don Kingfisher Campbell has spent the last twenty years as a visiting poet in Los Angeles area classrooms, the last ten as a poetry reading host, the last eight as editor of the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly. He has been recently published in the University of LaVerne's Prism Review, and online at www.turbula.net.

Patrick Carrington (1.1)
A Pushcart-nominated poet, Patrick Carrington is the poetry editor for the art & literary journal Mannequin Envy. His poetry can be found (or is forthcoming) in numerous print journals, including Rattle, The New York Quarterly, Concho River Review and The Louisville Review, and on-line at Poetry Southeast, The Kennesaw Review, The DMQ Review, Blue Fifth Review, Frigg Magazine and elsewhere. His new book-length collection, Rise, Fall, and Acceptance, is available at Main Street Rag Publishing.

Lynne Yu-ling Chien (1.1)
Lynne Yu-Ling Chien was born in Taipei, Taiwan and currently lives in Sacramento. She is currently completing her MFA degree in creative writing at the University of Notre Dame. Her poems have appeared in The Flint Hills Review and The New Delta Review.

James Cihlar (1.1)
James Cihlar's poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Bloom, Minnesota Monthly, Northeast, The James White Review, Wisconsin River Valley Journal, Water~Stone Review, Mankato Poetry Review, Briar Cliff Review, Plain Songs, and in the anthologies Aunties (Ballantine 2004), edited by Ingrid Sturgis, and Regrets Only (Little Pear Press), edited by Martha Manno. His poems have also appeared online at Lunarosity, The Big Ugly Review, Cerebral Catalyst, Muse Apprentice Guild, kaleidowhirl, and Sunspinner. In 2000 he won a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship for Poetry. Cihlar's book, Undoing, is forthcoming from Little Pear Press in 2008. His website can be found at the Nebraska Center for Writers site.

Christopher Citro (1.2)
Christopher Citro's chapbook, Orbiting the Sundress, was published in 2004 by Unholy Day Press. Recent poems appear in The Burnside Review, Spout Magazine, The Coal City Review, Whistling Shade, Monday Night, NOO Journal, The I-70 Review, and Redactions. Christopher won the Langston Hughes Creative Writing Award for Poetry in 2006.

Kurtis Davidson (1.1)
Kurtis Davidson is the pen name of Kurt Jose Ayau and David Rachels, both associate professors of English at the Virginia Military Institute. They are co-author of the award-winning comic novel What the Shadow Told Me. Download the first chapter for free at www.KurtisDavidson.com.

Eileen Donovan-Kranz (1.2)
Eileen Donovan-Kranz has published in Storyglossia.com, The South Dakota Review, and Pikeville Review, among others. Short essays can be found at the Boston College Magazine website. She teaches writing at Boston College.

Allison Eastley (2.1)
Allison Eastley lives in Tasmania, Australia with two teenage sons, a gorgeous staffy pup, an elitist cat and credit card debt. Previous work has been published in Double Dare Press, Mannequin Envy, Wicked Alice, Mastodon Dentist, Words On Walls and many other fine literary journals.

Bart Edelman (1.1, 1.2)
Bart Edelman is a professor of English at Glendale College where he edits Eclipse, a literary journal. His work has appeared in anthologies and textbooks published by City Lights Books, Etruscan Press, Harcourt Brace, Heinle, McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, Simon & Schuster, Thomson, Wadsworth, and the University of Iowa Press. He teaches workshops across the United States and was Poet-in-Residence at Monroe College of the State University of New York. His poetry collections include Crossing the Hackensack (1993), Under Damaris' Dress (1996), The Alphabet of Love (1999), The Gentle Man (2001) and The Last Mojito (2005). See more about Bart at http://bartedelman.com.

S. P. Flannery (1.2)
S. P. Flannery was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and now resides in Madison, writing poetry and maintaining a website about primates called "The Primata" at http://members.tripod.com/cacajao/. Flannery's poetry has most recently appeared in Poetry Salzburg Review, Free Verse, Merge, Mannequin Envy, Tipton Poetry Journal, Words-Myth, and The Onion Union.

Kathleen Flenniken (1.1)
Kathleen Flenniken's first collection, Famous, won the 2005 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and was released in September 2006. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, Poetry Daily, and The Iowa Review, and she is an editor with Floating Bridge Press, dedicated to publishing Washington State poets. Visit Kathleen's site at http://www.KathleenFlenniken.com.

Charles Freeland (1.2)
Charles Freeland teaches at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. Recent work appears in Cream City Review, The Hollins Critic, Arabesques, 42opus, and The Pedestal Magazine. A chapbook, Where We Saw Them Last, is available from Lily Press. His website is charlesfreelandpoetry.net.

James Andrew Freeman (1.2, 2.1)
Veteran author James Andrew Freeman is a transplanted northern Californian who has enjoyed teaching at Bucks County Community College for 25 years and who will likely teach for a few more years before returning to the promised land. His biography is available in Contemporary Authors.

Michaela A. Gabriel (2.1)
Michaela A. Gabriel lives in Vienna, where she helps adults acquire computer and English skills, and gets together with the muse as often as possible. Recent publications include Poetry Salzburg Review, Pebble Lake Review, Envoi, and kaleidowhirl. Visit her website at www.michaela-gabriel.com and blogspace at moonie71.blogspot.com.

Gregory Gerard (2.1)
Gregory Gerard's writing has been recognized by Rochester's Geva Theater, Writers & Books, and KCRB radio's Word by Word. His piece, "A Gay Man's Guide to Dating (For Prom-Bound Girls)" earned Third Prize in the 2007 Tiny Lights Essay Contest. He's a guest non-fiction speaker at the U of R's Scholars Creative Writing Program. Visit his website at www.JupitersShadow.com.

Howie Good (2.1)
Howie Good (goodh@newpaltz.edu), a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Death of the Frog Prince (2004) and Heartland (2007), both from FootHills Publishing. His poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including Right Hand Pointing, Stirring, Flutter, The Rose & Thorn, 2River View, Prairie Poetry, Ottawa Arts Review, Misunderstandings Magazine, Juked, poormojo's almanack, and Lily. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2006.

James Grabill (1.1)
James Grabill's poems have appeared in numerous journals across the country, including Willow Springs, Poetry Northwest, Poetry East, The Prose Poem, Field, The Common Review, and others. Various poems are available online at Pemmican, Mirror Northwest, Porcupine, and Rock and Sling. His recent books of poems include An Indigo Scent after the Rain (Lynx House Press, 2003) and October Wind (Sage Hill Press, 2006). He also has two creative nonfiction books: Through the Green Fire (Holy Cow! Press, 1995) and Finding the Top of the Sky (Lost Horse Press, 2005). He lives in Portland, Oregon, and teaches at Clackamas Community College.

Thomas C. Graham (1942-2006) (1.1, 1.2)
Thomas C. Graham was a poet, singer, satirist, and grocery store manager. His work, though never intended for public consumption, shows the complexity and depth of his private personality. He was a profound thinker who lived life with intensity and clarity. He will be missed.

Ona Gritz (2.1)
Ona Gritz's second book for children, Tangerines and Tea: My Grandparents and Me, was named Best Alphabet Book of 2005 by Nick Jr. Family Magazine and one of six best children's books of the year by Scholastic Parent & Child Magazine. Her prize winning poetry has been published in numerous online and print literary journals. She is a columnist on the website, Literary Mama and has had essays and poems published in several anthologies including It's A Boy, Women Writers on Raising Sons.

Andrew Grossman (1.2)
Andrew Grossman's poem, "The Efficient Nurses of Florida" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work has been widely published and anthologized. Grossman's new book is 100 Poems of the Iraqi Wars. He resides with his wife, Nancy Terrell, in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

Allen Hoey (1.1, 1.2)
Allen Hoey has published four full-length collections of poetry, most recently The Precincts of Paradise (2005), and one novel, Chasing the Dragon (2006). Poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Hudson Review, Poetry, and The Southern Review, among others. He has also had poems in Essential Zen and The Best American Spiritual Writing 2004. He served as 2001 Bucks County Poet Laureate and received a 2002 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship.

Donald Illich (1.2)
Donald Illich has published poetry in The Iowa Review, Fourteen Hills, Roanoke Review, and New Zoo Poetry Review. His work will be included in future issues of Passages North, Nimrod, LIT, and The Sulphur River Literary Review. He received a Prairie Schooner scholarship to the 2006 Nebraska Summer Writer's Conference.

Michael Lee Johnson (2.1)
Michael Lee Johnson lives in Chicago after spending 10 years in Edmonton, Alberta Canada during the Viet Nam era. He is a freelance writer and poet. He has several poems pending publication March through November, 2007, and a huge box of "unfinished" poems, dating back to 1965-67 to the present, which are getting published faster than he can revive or revise them.

Anne Liu Kellor (2.1)
Anne Liu Kellor was born in Seattle. She earned her MFA in creative nonfiction from Antioch University, Los Angeles and her BA from The Evergreen State College. Her essays have appeared in several anthologies including, Waking Up American-Coming of Age Biculturally. In 2006, Anne was selected as a writer-in-residence with the Jack Straw Writer's Program, a non-profit recording studio in Seattle. Currently, she is completing a collection of personal essays, Searching for the Heart Radical: A Journey Between East and West, which traces her inner and outer migrations between America and China, the birthplace of her mother. She teaches writing workshops in Olympia, WA and can be reached at anneliukellor@earthlink.net.

RaeAnn Kime (1.2)
RaeAnn Kime's work has appeared in or is forthcoming from the on-line literary journals: The Sidewalk's End, JMWW, HalfDrunkMuse, SoftBlow, TPQ, The Dead Mule, Zygote In My Coffee, Snow Monkey, DogEar, The Aurora Review, Thieves Jargon, Lit Vision, and Poems Niederngasse. She lives in Southern California with her husband and children. Contact her: postdated@sbcglobal.net

Lindsey Klingele (1.2)
Lindsey Klingele is a recent graduate of Central Michigan University and transplant to the Chicago area. Klingele's fiction has been previously published online in edificeWRECKED, JMWW and Sunset Morning.

Jeff Knorr (1.1)
Jeff Knorr is the author of the three books of poetry, Standing Up to the Day (Pecan Grove Press), Keeper (Mammoth Books), and The Third Body (forthcoming from Cherry Grove Collections, 2007). His other works include the co-authored Mooring Against the Tide: Writing Poetry and Fiction (Prentice Hall); the anthology, A Writer's Country (Prentice Hall); and The River Sings: An Introduction to Poetry (Prentice Hall). His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies including Chelsea, Connecticut Review, Red Rock Review, Oxford Magazine, and Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America (University of Iowa, 2002).

Elizabeth Langemak (2.1)
Elizabeth Langemak's poems are published or are forthcoming in journals such as Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, Meridian, Poet Lore and The Cincinnati Review. Currently, she lives in Columbia, Missouri.

Mercedes Lawry (2.1)
Mercedes Lawry has been publishing poetry for over thirty years in such journals as Poetry, Rhino, Fine Madness, Nimrod, and Crab Creek Review. She has published fiction, and stories and poems for children. Among the honors she has received are those from the Seattle Arts Commission, Artist Trust, and Jack Straw & Hugo House. She has held residency at Hedgebrook and she currently works at MOHAI.

Lyn LeJeune (1.2)
Lyn LeJeune's short stories have been published in literary journals such as Big Muddy: A Journal of The Mississippi River Valley (East Missouri University), The Bishop's House Review (Duke), The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Nantahala, Milestone, and Identity Theory. She is recipient of the Paris Writers' Institute Scholarship for study in Paris, France and a Fellowship for study with the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia. Lyn is completing The New Orleans Trilogy based on Dante's Divine Comedy, which was a finalist in the William Faulkner Novel-In-Progress prize. She studied writing at Skidmore (where she worked with Mary Gordon and Marilynne Robinson, the 2005 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature), Duke, and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.

Diane Lockward (1.1)
Diane Lockward is the author of Eve's Red Dress and What Feeds Us (Wind Publications, 2003, 2006). Her work has recently appeared in The Seattle Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Poet Lore, and Prairie Schooner, as well as in the anthologies Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World's Most Popular Poetry Website and Garrison Keillor's Good Poems for Hard Times. Visit Diane's site at www.dianelockward.com.

Greg McBride (1.2)
Greg McBride's work appears in Chautauqua Literary Journal, Connecticut Review, Folio, The Gettysburg Review, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. He has been a lawyer, an Army photographer in the Vietnam War, and a wrestler. A 2005 Pushcart Prize nominee, he edits The Innisfree Poetry Journal.

Corey Mesler (1.2)
Corey Mesler has published prose and/or poetry in Turnrow, Adirondack Review, American Poetry Journal, Paumanok Review, Yankee Pot Roast, Monday Night, Rattle, Dicey Brown, Cordite, Cellar Door, and others. His novel-in-dialogue, Talk, was published by Livingston Press in 2002. His new novel, We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon, is also from Livingston Press. He also published 5 chapbooks in 2006. His poem, "Sweet Annie Divine," was chosen for Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac. He has been nominated for the Pushcart numerous times.

Rochelle Moore (1.2)
Rochelle Moore is an Irish metaphysical (self-help) author with three published books to date: Karma, Aromatherapy & Herbalism, and When the Levee Breaks. She is also a poet who has been published in various magazines, books and won competitions in the UK and USA. Her main loves in her life, when she has the time, are horses, natural cures and nature. Her books can be purchased at amazon.com or directly from her publishers in the USA at http://www.mandala-press.com

Martin Ott (1.1)
Martin Ott's poetry appears in over 50 magazines and anthologies, including The Adirondack Review, The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets, forpoetry.com, The Greensboro Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Hotel Amerika, Natural Bridge, New Letters, Nimrod, Poetry East, Puerto Del Sol, Seattle Review, Segue, The Southern California Anthology, Tampa Review, Third Coast, The Valparaiso Poetry Review and Xconnect. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and his manuscript "Magician's Heaven" has been a finalist or semi-finalist for a half dozen different poetry prizes. His chapbook Misery Loves was published by Red Dancefloor Press.

Michelle Panik (1.2)
Michelle Panik has an MFA from the University of Maryland, and an undergraduate degree in Writing and Art History/Criticism from UC San Diego. Her fiction is forthcoming in Summerset Review, but "The Hartstone Diversionary Dam" is her first time in print. She is currently at work on a novel.

Jala Pfaff (1.2)
Jala Pfaff's work has been published in The Rose & Thorn and in Slow Trains. Pfaff's first novel, Seducing the Rabbi, is currently with an agent and available at bookstores. Pfaff holds an M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics. Contact Jala at writer@jalapfaff.com or visit her website at http://jalapfaff.com.

Maureen Pilkington (2.1)
Maureen Pilkington's fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Puerto del Sol, Confrontation, Orchid Literary Review, Santa Barbara Review, Red Rock Review, Bridge and online at Pedestal and Miranda among others. She is completing her collection of stories, "All The Living And All The Dead." A graduate of the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College, she has worked in book publishing and with literacy programs in New York City. She lives in Rye, New York.

Jacqueline Powers (1.1)
Jacqueline Powers' work has been published in canwehaveourballback, [plug].poetry, Delirium Journal, kaleidowhirl, Poesia, Chronogram, California Quarterly, Blood Orange Review, Dalhousie Review, and Storyglossia. Her play, Swimming Upstream, was produced in Ithaca, N.Y.

Charles Rammelkamp (1.2)
Charles Rammelkamp's novel, The Secretkeepers, was published in Fall 2004 by Red Hen Press. He has published a collection of short fiction, A Better Tomorrow, (PublishAmerica); he has also edited a collection of essays on American cultural issues entitled Fake-City Syndrome (Red Hen Press).

Dan Raphael (1.2)
Dan Raphael's sixteenth book, Breath Test, appeared in March, 2007. Dan performs energetically throughout the Pacific Northwest. Recent poems appear in M Journal, Wandering Hermit, Spout, Siren and Pemmican.

Jordan Sanderson (1.2)
Jordan Sanderson is a Ph.D. student at The University of Southern Mississippi. Sanderson's poems have appeared in, or are forthcoming from, several journals, including Valparaiso Poetry Review, Red Rock Review, Parthenon West, The Strange Fruit, MAG, Disquieting Muses Quarterly, Georgetown Review, Red River Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Ash Canyon Review, Jabberwock Review, and Poetry Salzburg Review. In 2006, Pudding House Press published Sanderson's chapbook, The Last Hedonist.

Wayne Scheer (1.1)
After teaching writing and literature in college for twenty-five years, Wayne Scheer retired to follow his own advice and write. He's been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Best of the Net. His stories have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, The Pedestal, Flashquake and Triplopia. Wayne can be contacted at wvscheer@aol.com.

Vicky M. Semones (2.1)
Vicky Semones is a poet and photographer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her poems have appeared in anthologies of the American Poetry Association, New Life Publisher and World of Poetry Press, as well as the Haworth Press Journal and Little Pegasus Press. Her stories have been published in the Montclarion and the North Kitsap Herald. Her photography has appeared in Bay Nature, Quantum Leap, Surviving Magazine, Money Quotient, Close to Home and Photographer's Forum.

Karel Sloane-Boekbinder (2.1)
Karel Sloane-Boekbinder has been a Faulkner-Wisdom Essay Semi-Finalist for the past two years. Karel is one of fifteen local performers collaborating with internationally known author and playwright Eve Ensler on "Katrina Monologues: Swimming Up Stream," premiering during V-Day's "V to the10th" celebration in New Orleans, April, 2008.

Jared Smith (1.2)
Jared Smith's sixth volume of poetry, Where Images Become Imbued With Time, will be released by Puddin'head Press this spring. His poetry, essays, and literary reviews have appeared regularly in The New York Quarterly, The Pedestal, Small Press Review, Afterhours, Home Planet News, Confrontation, The Iconoclast, and others here and abroad. Some of his poetry has been adapted to stage in both New York and Chicago.

Hal Stiles (1.2)
Biography not currently available.

Lynn Strongin (1.2)
An American poet, Lynn Strongin has lived in Canada for several decades, and has twelve published books, most recently she compiled the anthology The Sorrow Psalms: A Book of Twentieth Century Elegy (University of Iowa Press.) The book has won "Book of the Month" in England's "Poetry Kit" as well as being among the best-selling books on grief in the U.K. Strongin has work in seventy journals, including The Dublin Quarterly, Shenandoah, Confrontation, Prairie Schooner, and New Works Review. In addition, works appear in forty anthologies, and the poet has been nominated for two Pushcart Poetry Prizes in 2006. She has received two PEN grants, one NEA Creative Writing grant and has two books forthcoming in Spring 2007: The Girl with Copper-Colored Hair (Conflux press) and Rembrandt's Smock (Plain View Press). The cycle in Stone Table Review, "The Muskox Poems," is at the core of The Girl with Copper-Colored Hair.

Jeremy Adam Smith (1.2)
Jeremy Adam Smith's criticism, stories, and poems have also appeared (or are forthcoming) in Fourteen Hills, Instant City, San Francisco Bay Guardian, SF Chronicle, Cineaste, The Nation, Other Magazine, Pindeldyboz, Wired, and Watchword. He works as managing editor of the Greater Good magazine at UC Berkeley.

Michelle Tackla (2.1)
Michelle Tackla is a writer and editor from Cleveland, OH. A daughter of immigrants from Lebanon, she finds herself often negotiating different cultures and values, a struggle that informs her poetry. She has a master's degree in English from John Carroll University in Cleveland and works as managing editor of several publications at the Cleveland Clinic.

Ann Tinkham (1.1)
Ann Tinkham is a writer/instructional designer based in Boulder, Colorado. She has written over 30 online courses in subjects ranging from emergency preparedness to energetic healing. Ann is working on a nonfiction book, Climbing Mountains in Stilettos (Sourcebooks, 2007), and a novel, Analyzing Abbey. Her fiction has appeared in Lily, MotherVerse, Syntax, Thirst for Fire, Toasted Cheese, and Wild Violet.

Steven Trebellas (1.1, 2.1)
Steven Trebellas is a recent MFA from the Southern Illinois University
program. His work has appeared in Boxcar Review, Poemeleon, Hiss Quarterly, and Cezanne's Carrot.

Raymond Wachter (2.1)
Raymond Wachter studied creative writing and received degrees in English from the University of Iowa and the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. His work has appeared in Round Magazine, Apple Valley Review, Dicey Brown, and is forthcoming in Word Riot. He currently teaches in the English Department at the University of Alabama.

Thom Ward (1.2)
Thom Ward is Editor of BOA Editions, Ltd., an independent publishing house of American poetry and poetry in translation. Among his poetry collections are, Small Boat with Oars of Different Size, Tumblekid, and Various Orbits. He lives with his wife and three children in upstate, New York. He remains perplexed by iceberg lettuce.

Carolyn Woods (1.2)
Carolyn Woods has been a librarian for twenty-nine years and a poet for seven. Her foray into writing was by luck and actually turned out to be quite a fulfilling activity for her. She has published over thirty poems. She is a member of several online writer's groups. She also has a fan club at Hampton University due to a very successful reading of her works. She even read a piece at her 34th college reunion.

Christopher Woods & Jeff Crouch (2.1)
Christopher Woods and Jeff Crouch have had other collaborative pieces of theirs appear recently in Istanbul Literature Review, Admit2, Sein Und Werden, The Southern Cross Review, Slow Trains and Houston Literary Review.

Katherine E. Young (1.2)
Katherine E. Young's poetry is currently available and/or forthcoming in the online journals Archipelago and The Innisfree Poetry Journal, and in Poet Lore. Her work has also appeared in The Iowa Review (where she is a three-time finalist for the Iowa Award), Southern Poetry Review, and Shenandoah. She is a three-time semifinalist for the "Discovery/The Nation" reading in New York and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A chapbook, Gentling the Bones, will be published by Finishing Line Press in 2007. She lives in Arlington, VA.