San Pedro River Review

SPRING 2009 CONTRIBUTORS

John Bennett was born in England and came to America to work as an ambulance EMT. He was introduced to poetry by his mother's sister. He studies Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at New York University.

Alan Birkelbach’s work has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Grasslands Review, Borderlands, The Langdon Review, and Concho River Review. He has four collections of poetry with a fifth due out in September 2009. the Texas Legislature named him as the 2005 Poet Laureate of Texas.

Joseph Cox is Headmaster of The Haverford School in Haverford, PA. He is the author of a collection of poetry Garden's Close and The Written Wars, and anthology of early American war narratives.

Lionel Digal has traveled extensively for business and pleasure for the last forty years. he is a practicing CPA living in Northern California who enjoys adventure and educational travel, and has skied almost all the major ski resorts in the world.

Liz Dolan is a Pushcart nominee in both poetry and fiction. She has published in New Delta Review, Rattle, Harp Weaver, The Cortland Review, Illuminations, and Natural Bridge, among others. She has received a fellowship and grants from the Delaware Division of the Arts. Her work in Mudlark was chosen for The Best of the Web by Web Del Sol. Liz was recently accepted as an associate artist in residence with Sharon Olds at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

W. D. Ehrhart teaches English and history at the Haverford School.  The author or editor of 18 books, he lives in Philadelphia with his wife Anne; their daughter is a junior at Drexel University.

Morgan Harlow’s poems and other writing can be found in War, Literature & the Arts,
Tusculum Review, Washington Square, Descant, Wisconsin Poets' Calendar 2009, and elsewhere. Her writing won the Cover Prize in The Dirty Napkin, and was nominated for a Pushcart and Best of the Net
2008. She lives in rural southwest Wisconsin with her husband and children.

Tom Holmes is the editor of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics. He is also author of After Malagueña (FootHills Publishing, 2005), Negative Time (Pudding House, 2007), Pre-Dew Poems (FootHills Publishing, 2008), and Poetry Assignments: The Book (Sage Hill Press, 2009). His work has also appeared on Verse Daily.

Michael Lee Johnson is a poet and freelance writer from Itasca, Illinois.  His poetry chapbook with pictures, From Which Place the Morning Rises and his photo version of The Lost American: From Exile to Freedom is now available at:  http://stores.lulu.com/promomanusa.  He also has 2 previously published chapbooks available at:  http://stores.lulu.com/poetryboy.   He has been published in more than 280 different publications worldwide.

Alan King's fiction and poems have appeared in the Arabesques Review, Warpland,
The Amistad, and Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS,
among others. A Cave Canem fellow and Vona Alum, his work was also part of
Anacostia Exposed, a collaborative exhibit with Irish photographer Mervyn Smyth
that showcases the life and energy of Anacostia.

Laird Kopp’s poems have appeared in, among other publications, Pennine Ink (Burnley, England UK), PKA’s Advocate (Prattsville, NY), The Poet’s Art (Islandia, NY), Cymbals: The National Student Literary Magazine (Los Angeles, CA), and Echoes Magazine (Allentown, PA). In 2008 he was awarded First Prize in Bread Loaf's 2008 Robert Haiduke Poetry Contest. He teaches English at The Haverford School in Pennsylvania.

Daniel Lockhart is an Associate Instructor in Creative Writing at Indiana University. His work has appeared in The MacGuffin, Rambler, and will appear in an upcoming issue of Zaum.

Dan Moreau's work has appeared in Farfelu, Word Riot, Segue, Twelve Stories, In Posse Review and Clapboard House.

Kim Noriega is the Family Literacy Coordinator of the San Diego Public Library.  By night she writes poetry, reads voraciously, and puts her poetry books in order by Dewey Decimal Number.  She teaches poetry workshops at Crossroads, a recovery home for alcoholic women, and for all ages through public libraries. Her poem "Heaven, 1963" was featured by former U.S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser in his nationally syndicated column, "American Life in Poetry."

Shawnte Orion attended Paradise Valley Community College for one day, but his poetry has been accepted for publication by Georgetown Review, New York Quarterly and other literary journals. His first chapbook was published by Red Booth Review and he is often invited as a featured reader at coffeehouses, art galleries, bars, and laundromats.

Matthew Roberts is from England, was born in 1977 to a wonderful homemaker and a Royal Naval Officer.  Brought up in the north Yorkshire Dales and went on to gain a degree from Cumbria University.  He has traveled extensively, and at the moment works as an English teacher in Seoul, Korea.

Steven Schroeder was the co-founder, with composer Clarice Assad, of the Virtual Artists Collective. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in After Hours, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Concho River Review, Georgetown Review, Mid-America Poetry Review, Rhino, Texas Review, TriQuarterly and other literary journals. His work includes two full-length collections, Fallen Prose and The Imperfection of the Eye. He teaches at the University of Chicago in Asian Classics and the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults and at Shenzhen University in China.

Wanda VanHoy Smith spends most of her life in Hermosa Beach, California. Two of her books for children were published. She is a member of the Redondo poets who read each week at Coffee Cartel. Her work has been published in Northridge Review, Main Channel Voices, Poetic Diversity, The Valley Contemporary Poets, The Kerf, and The Blue Mouse. She was awarded first place in the Whittier writers contest and Southwest Manuscripters poetry contest.

Luke Salazar was birthed over a third of a century ago, and has learned little since.  He's in the M.F.A. program for Poetry at CSULB, but he also has a real job. Hobbies include music, vegetarianism, cycling, karaoke, alchemy, food eating.  He resides in Whittier with his wife Carrie and 1,432 pet animals.  E-mail him money at beachpoetry@gmail.com.

Barry Spacks is known mainly as a poet/teacher. He has brought out various novels, 

stories, three poetry-reading CDs and ten poetry collections while teaching 

literature and writing for years at M.I.T. & U C Santa  Barbara. His most recent 

book of poems, Food for the Journey, appeared from Cherry Grove in August, 2008.

Scott T. Starbuck lives near the Clackamas River outside Portland, Oregon, and in San Diego where he is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at San Diego Mesa College. His newest poems are forthcoming at poetryfish.com, Talking River, The Trumpeter, Hubbub, Blueline (at SUNY Potsdam) and MO: Writings from the River.  His clay work is online at www.columbiarivergallery.com and www.critfc.org/Gala.

J. J. Steinfeld is a fiction writer, playwright, and poet who lives in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. He has published a novel, Our Hero in the Cradle of Confederation (Pottersfield Press), nine short story collections, and a poetry collection, An Affection for Precipices (Serengeti Press). His short stories and poems have appeared in numerous publications, and his plays have been performed in Canada and the US. A novel, Word Burials, is forthcoming from Crossing Chaos Enigmatic Ink.

Larry D. Thomas serves as the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate.  He retired in 1998 after a three-decade career in social service and adult criminal justice. He has published nine collections of poems, most recently The Fraternity of Oblivion and New and Selected Poems. Larry’s Web site address is www.larrydthomas.com.  

Davide Trame lives in Venice, Italy. He is an Italian teacher of English and has been writing exclusively in English since 1993. His poems have appeared in magazines since 1999, and his collection, Re-emerging, was published by www.gattopublishing.com in 2006.

Ernest Williamson III is a 31 year old polymath who has published poetry and visual art in over 180 online and print journals. His poetry has been nominated twice for the Best of the Net Anthology.  He holds a B.A. and M.A. in English/Creative Writing/Literature from the University of Memphis. Ernest is an Adjunct Professor at New Jersey City University and an English Professor at Essex County College. Professor Williamson is also a Ph.D. Candidate at Seton Hall University.

Christian Ward is a 28 year old London-based poet whose work currently appears in Thieves Jargon and Gutter Eloquence, and is forthcoming in Bravado and Big Pulp. His next chapbook, Bone Transmissions, will be released in March courtesy of Maverick Duck Press.

Cecilia Woloch’s books of poems are Sacrifice (Cahuenga Press, 1997), Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem (Cahuenga Press, 2002); and Late (BOA Editions, 2003) for which she was named Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry in 2004. She is currently a lecturer in the creative writing program at the University of Southern California as well as a member of the core faculty of the low-residency MFA Program in Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University.

Christopher Woods has published a prose collection, Under a Riverbed Sky, and a collection of stage monologues for actors, Heart Speak. Other photographs of his can be seen in his online gallery at The Texana Review - http://www.texanareviewgallery.com/photos/chris_and_linda_woods/ which he shares with his wife, Linda. He lives in Houston and in Chappell Hill, Texas.