| Deborah DeNicola‘s 5th poetry collection the chapbook, Inside Light, was published by Finishing Line Press in Fall 2007. Her spiritual memoir, The Future That Brought Her Here will be published in 2009 by Nicolas-Hays Press and a full poetry collection, Original Human, is forthcoming from Word Press in 2010. The author of Where Divinity Begins (Alice James Books) and two other prize-winning chapbooks, Psyche Revisited and The Harmony of the Next , Deborah edited the anthology Orpheus & Company; Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology (University Press of New England) and has been an NEA recipient. Her work has appeared in The Antioch Review, North American Review, Hunger Mountain, Green Mountain Review, Prairie Schooner, Salamander & Orion among other journals. Her web site is www.intuitivegateways.com. A 4-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Jéanpaul Ferro’s work has appeared in Contemporary American Voices, Columbia Review, Connecticut Review, Long Island Quarterly, Bryant Literary Review, Portland Monthly, The Providence Journal, Arts & Understanding Magazine, Barrelhouse Magazine, Cortland Review, Hawaii Review, and others. His work has been featured on NPR’s This I Believe series, WBAR radio in NYC, and The Plaza’s Masterpiece series. His book of short fiction, All the Good Promises, was published by Plowman Press and his collection of poetry, Becoming X, is forthcoming from BlazeVOX Press. He is also a 2-time Best of the Net nominee. He currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island. E-mail at: jeanpaulferro@netzero.net Jane Hertenstein’s non-fiction project (Orphan Girl) received a two-page center page spread in the Chicago Tribune Sunday book section. She attended the Wesleyan Writers Conference on the Amanda Davis Scholarship was awarded a waitstaff scholarship at Breadloaf. She works in a homeless shelter in Chicago, where she holds a writing group for homeless women. Bradley Earle Hoge lives in Spring, TX with his wife and three children. He teaches natural science at the University of Houston – Downtown. His most recent poems appear in Tertulia, Chronogram, Elegant Thorn Review, LanguageandCulture, Concho River Review, Aurora Review, and Stickman Review, among others. Mark Jakley is a business writer in Washington, DC, whose work has been published in numerous journals. He is also the author of two chapbooks, the most recent, "Into the River Somewhere," published last year by Finishing Line Press. Laura LeHew’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Alehouse Press, Arabesques Review (Contemporary Women Writers, edition), Ellipsis, Her Mark Calendar ’07/’09, Outrider Press, Pank, and PMS. She coupled with the California College of Arts, incising a MFA in writing in ’03, interned for CALYX Journal in the winter of ‘05 and won a writing residency from Soapstone in ‘06. Barbara March, a third generation Nevadan, is a life-long journalist and publisher. Her roots are in the desert and after a sojourn in Central California she now lives with her husband, author Ray A. March, in Surprise Valley, California where sagebrush grows outside her front door. March is the co-founder of the Surprise Valley Writers' Conference. David Massengill’s short stories have appeared in StringTown, The Raven Chronicles, 3 A.M. Magazine, Rivet Magazine, Eclectica Magazine, Little Engines, and N.O.L.A. Spleen, among other literary magazines. In 2005, he received a GAP (Grant for Artists Projects) award from Seattle’s Artist Trust organization for my fiction. In 2002, Seattle’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs awarded him a Literary Arts Grant. He has also written nonfiction for American Book Review, Honolulu Weekly, and Seattle Weekly, where he served as Books Editor. Laura Miller graduated with a B.A. in creative writing from Western Michigan University, where she studied under Arnie Johnston and Stuart Dybek. While at WMU her short story, The Pursuit of Happiness, was selected as a finalist in the Trial Balloon Fiction Contest. She was also chosen as MomEgg’s Writer of the Week in March of 2008. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in Main Channel Voices, Commonsense2, Poetry Midwest, Origami Condom, SaLit, Steam Ticket, SLAB: Sound and Literary Art Book, and in the documentary, Ice Bridge: Mackinac Island’s Hidden Season. Christopher Mulrooney has written poems in Beeswax, Vanitas, Guernica, echolocation, The Delinquent and fourW. Charles Edgar Parsons is a graduate student at New Mexico Highlands University, concentrating in English Literature. He earned a BA in English with a Writing Minor at Kent State University. At Highlands he teaches English composition and works as a writing tutor. Jared Pearce teaches writing and literature at William Penn University. His poems have recently appeared in, or are forthcomnig from, Creosote, The Louisiana Review, Permafrost, Dos Passos Review, and Terrain. J.R. Pearson played "Jonny B. Goode" in 1st grade with an audience of 15 people. Once, I seen him eat a whole case of Elmer's Glue. He was terrible at finger painting but he's proud of these poems. Read his stuff in A Capella Zoo ,Word Riot, Ghoti, Weave & Tipton. What more do you really need? Ken Pobo’s stories, poems, and essays can be read at: Illinois Review, Interim, Dicey Brown, Pudding, Nimrod, and elsewhere. In July, WordTech Press is bringing out a new book of his poems called Glass Garden. Charles Rafferty is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: The Man on the Tower (University of Arkansas Press), Where the Glories of April Lead (Mitki/Mitki Press), During the Beauty Shortage (M2 Press), and most recently A Less Fabulous Infinity (Louisiana Literature Press). He currently teaches at Albertus Magnus College and in the MFA program at Western Connecticut State University. He works as an editor for a technology consulting firm, and lives in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, with his wife and two daughters. John Repp's most recent collections of poetry are FEVER (Mayapple Press, 2007) and NO AWAY (Pudding House, 2007). His book reviews appear regularly in the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the ST. PETERSBURG TIMES. Cassandra Robison’s poems and prose have been published or are forthcoming in various online and traditional print literary magazines, including Imprints, Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poetry, Clapboard House, The Centrifugal Eye, Cortland Review Mannequin Envy, Artistry of Life, Adagio Verse Quarterly, Word Riot, and Sunspinner. Several poems were published in the 2006 anthology, Washing the Color of Water Golden. She teaches creative writing, American Literature, and college composition at Central Florida Community College in Ocala where she is the faculty advisor for the student literary magazine and active in the Florida Community College Press Association. Originally from upstate New York, her work reflects her Yankee and Swedish immigrant heritage as well as the influence of the South gained from living in Florida more than ten years. Peter Schwartz studied Advanced Fiction Writing with Rick Moody at SUNY Purchase. Since that time he has published stories in such journals as Pindeldyboz, Johnny America, and The Dublin Quarterly. His deepest wish is to simply live a life of beginnings. Thea Scott is a writer and resident of North Carolina and Nevada. Primarily, she writes short stories, but also screenplays and poetry. She has a long history of managing, editing and writing for corporate and non-profit agency newsletters, at regional and national levels. She was invited to apply, and attended, the Johns Hopkins Conference on Craft, July, 2007, with Alice McDermott, in Florence, Italy. She is a member of the Fiction Review Board of Trillium Literary Journal Published and Pending Works Include: “Turning Points” - poem - Trillium Literary Journal (Fall, 2007) "Chloe," - short story - (expanded) 3rd place winner for The Writer's Place Anthology Contest (May, 2007) "Chloe," - short story - http://www.cleansheets.com/exotica/scott_11.29.06.shtml (November, 2006) “The Road to Hell” - short story - www.MonkeyBicycle.net (forthcoming) Michael Steffen is a Y2K graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Vermont College. His first book, No Good at Sea, was published by Legible Press in 2002. His poems and critical prose have appeared, or will appear soon, in a wide variety of journals including Poetry, Poet Lore, Two Review and Alehouse, to name a few. J. A. Tyler has recent work in Storyglossia, elimae, No Colony, Night Train, & Prick of the Spindle. His chapbook The Girl in the Black Sweater is available now from Trainwreck Press, his fiction will be a part of Samsara the first multi-author release from Paperhero Press, & his debut novella Someone, Somewhere is forthcoming from Ghost Road Press. He is also founding editor of Mud Luscious, a reviewer for Rural Messengers Press, a member of the Pindeldyboz editorial team, & an editorial intern for Dzanc Books. Read more at www.aboutjatyler.com or www.aboutjatyler.blogspot.com. Helen Tzagoloff has been published in anthologies and literary journals, most recently in Poetry East, Evansville Review, Barrow Street and PMS. One of her poem was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and she was a first place winner of the Icarus International Literary Competition. Larkin Weyand recently won the Reader’s Choice Award on funnydisasterstories.com. His latest publication can be read at http://verdadmagazine.org/vol4/fiction/weyand.html He received an MFA in Creative Writing (2003) from the University of Maryland. He works as a teacher at American Fork High School and as an adjunct at Utah Valley State College. He lives with his wife and four children by the freeway in Utah. Check out his blog at http://www.houseofchuckles.blogspot.com/. Katy Wittingham earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College in Boston. She teaches writing at the University of Massachusetts and Bridgewater State College. She has had poems published in Redivider, known formerly as Beacon Street Review, Ludlow Press, The Pedestal Magazine, and Southern Ocean Review. |