Doug Anderson's most recent book is Keep Your Head Down, a memoir about Vietnam and the sixties published by W.W. Norton. He teaches in the Pacific University of Oregon MFA program.
John M. Anderson grew up a block away from the Kwik Shake in Security, Colorado and has enjoyed bars, diners, and dives across the American Southwest. He recommends the green chili at Mama Lou's in Blanca, Colorado.
When not writing, Sharon Auberle may be found hanging pictures and poems at her website, Mimi's Golightly Café. She has a recent Pushcart Prize nomination, and her work has appeared in numerous publications, on-line magazines, and a variety of anthologies. She is the author of two recently published books: Saturday Nights at the Crystal Ball--2008 Cross+Roads Press and Crow Ink, 2009 Little Eagle Press.
Mary Jo Balistreri spent much of her life as a concert pianist and harpsichordist. She began writing poetry with the death of her grandsons to not only transcend grief but also as a way of giving witness to their lives. Poetry has now become her way of life. She has received many awards, including a Pushcart nomination in 2006. She has published in journals such as Passager, Spindrift, The Healing Muse, Windhover and others. Her book, Joy in the Morning was published by Bellowing Ark in 2008.
Jenn Blair is from Yakima, WA. She has published in Copper Nickel, Innisfree Journal, MELUS, The Tusculum Review, Fairfield Review, Stone Table Review, and SNR Review. Her chapbook of poetry "All Things are Ordered" is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.
Allen Braden has poems forthcoming in Orion, Subtropics, Poetry International, Water-Stone Review and three textbooks. His book A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood is forthcoming in the VQR Poetry Series from University of Georgia Press. Winner of the 2008 Dana Award in Poetry, he lives in Lakewood, Washington, near the historic site of Byrd Dam, Sawmill and Gristmill.
Megan Buchanan Cherry's poems have appeared recently in The Sun, lines+stars, make/shift and Eating Her Wedding Dress, an anthology from Ragged Sky Press (Princeton) as well as other publications. Born in Laguna Beach in 1973, Megan has lived mostly in the mountains of the Southwest and in Ireland. She currently lives in Western Massachusetts with her family. She may be reached at mbuchanan@hotmail.com
David Chorlton is a 30-year resident of Phoenix, having moved from Europe in 1978 with a background in Austria and England. The desert changed his way of looking at and thinking about nature, especially in these environmentally sensitive times and his poems have come to reflect this. He recently won both the Ronald Wardall Chapbook competition from Rain Mountain Press for The Lost River and the Slipstream Chapbook competition for From the Age of Miracles.
In her work as a professional singer and teacher, Diana Cole has translated many poems for concerts which led her to write her own poetry. Magazines that have published her include Sahara, Blueline, Ibbetson Sreet Press, The Aurorean, The Christian Century, The Chaffin Journal, and others. Her poem “Though I Walk,” set for double chorus by Thomas Stumpf, was selected by the Pharos Music Project and performed in New York City.
Nicelle Davis lives in Southern California with her husband James and their son J.J. Her poems are forthcoming in FuseLit, Illya’s Honey, Moulin, The New York Quarterly, Transcurrent and Two Review. She’d like to acknowledge her poetry family at the University of California, Riverside and Antelope Valley Community College. She runs a free online poetry workshop at: http://nicelledavis.wordpress.com/.
E. Michael Desilets lives in Los Angeles. His poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including Blue Collar Review, Diner, and Exit 1, In lieu of hymns, his e-chapbook, is available at the Origami Condom website (origamicondom.org).
Liz Dolan, a five time Pushcart nominee, has won a 2009 fellowship as an established professional from the Delaware Division of the Arts. In addition, her first poetry manuscript was nominated for the Robert Mc Govern Prize, Ashland University. Her first collection, They Abide, has recently been published by March Street Press.
Richard Donnelly publishes poetry and short stories in a variety of venues including Apalachee Review, Big Muddy, The Dos Passos Review, and others. He works in an office in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
W. D. Ehrhart teaches English and history at the Haverford School. The author or editor of 18 books, his latest being Sleeping with The Dead, published by Adastra Press (2006). He lives in Philadelphia with his wife Anne; their daughter is a senior at Drexel University.
Benjamin Evans is the executive editor of the arts review Fogged Clarity. His poetry, music reviews and editorials have appeared in various web and print publications. He is a graduate of Colgate University.
Richard Fein was a finalist in The 2004 Center for Book Arts Chapbook Competition. He will soon have a chapbook published by Parallel Press, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Publication credits include Southern Review, Morpo Review, Oregon East Southern Humanities Review, Parnassus Literary Review, Small Pond, Kansas Quarterly, Blue Unicorn, and Aroostook Review. He also has an interest in digital photography and have published many of my photos. Samples may be found on http://www.pbase.com/bardofbyte.
Charles Haddox’s work has previously appeared in a variety of journals including Commonweal, The Sierra Nevada Review, Concho River Review, Paradigm and Temenos.
Michelle Hartman has been published in Illya’s Honey, Red River Review, Concho River Review, Main Street Rag Journal, Texas Poetry Project Calendar, Eclectica, Sojourn, Aries, decant, RiversEdge, Mirror Dance and the anthologies, The Weight of Addition (Mutabilis Press), Above Us Only Sky, Incarnate Muse Press and Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair, ( Texas Poetry Calendar Press). Overseas in The SHOp, Ireland and was a juried poet in the 2009 Houston Poetry Festival. She holds a BS in Political Science-Pre Law from Texas Wesleyan University and a Certificate in Paralegal Post Grad studies. She is on the Board of Directors for the Dallas Poets Community as well as having been guest editor for Red River Review.
Will Hochman teaches writing at Southern Connecticut State University. His previous poetry has been collected in two chapbooks (Just Around the Corner, and Greatest Hits) and in his first book (Stranger Within) in l993. His poems have appeared in more than 50 small magazines and journals, he has been the poetry editor of War, Literature & the Arts since l994. He co-edited Letters to J.D. Salinger for the University of Wisconsin Press in 2002 and is writing A Critical Companion to J.D. Salinger with Bruce Mueller. His newest collection of poems is Freer from Pecan Grove Press (2006).
Erin Coughlin Hollowell has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Weber Studies, and Blue Earth Review, and upcoming in The Crab Creek Review. In 2006, she was commissioned by the University of Alaska to write poems for the play Bed Sheets for the Alaska Humanities Forum. She received her MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University in 2009. She lives in a small town off the road system in Alaska on Prince William Sound.
Alysse Hotz is a second-year M.F.A. student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she holds the Stanley H. Durwood Fellowship for creative writing. Her poems have appeared in Shadows, Origami Condom, and are forthcoming in Rougarou.
Ann Howells is the current president of Dallas Poets Community. She also edits their biannual literary journal, Illya’s Honey. In 2009, she took 1st in The Legendary’s Bukowski Contest. She was a finalist in 2008 NavWorks Poetry Competition and in Southern Hum’s 2007 Women of Words. Also, in 2007, her chapbook, Black Crow in Flight, was published by Main Street Rag. In 2006, she took 1st in Southwest Writers’ Club Poetry Competition. She has had work read on NPR (Atlanta) and has been nominated for a Pushcart.
Mark Jackley is the author of three chapbooks and a full-length collection, There Will Be Silence While You Wait (Plain View Press 2009). Another chapbook, Lank, Beak and Bumpy, is forthcoming from Iota Press. He lives in Sterling, VA.
David Jordan is a former newspaperman and college teacher turned poet/fiction writer. He grew up in an Air Force family, and his wandering as military brat and working man took him everywhere from Kansas to California to Georgia. He and his wife reside in Bend, OR. Publication credits include Rattle, Pearl, Thin Air, Quercus Review, California Quarterly and Comstock Review. His fiction credits include Natural Bridge, Thema, moonShine Review, The Chaffin Journal and Mannequin Envy.
LaToya Jordan is a poet who daylights as a publicist/writer for a higher education institution in New York City. Her byline is most often recognized by alumni and faculty of the aforementioned anonymous school. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, where she currently resides with her English-teacher-husband (read: editor) and two cats.
Jason Joyce graduated from the University of Wyoming with a bachelors in Business Administration and a minor in Creative Writing. He is pursuing a career in event promotion and entertainment management. He plays bass for the Cheyenne, WY based band "Save My Hero". Jason is currently working on his first full-length collection of poems.
A once and future Arizonan, Richard Kempa currently live in Rock Springs, Wyoming, where he directs the Honors Program at Western Wyoming College. His work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including Alligator Juniper, Confrontation, Cream City Review, Puerto del Sol, Redivider, South Loop Review, and Two Review. A book of his poems, Keeping the Quiet, was published in 2008 by Bellowing Ark Press.
Born in Vietnam, Samantha Lê is currently working on her MFA at San Jose State University. Lê’s publications include: My Solitude, a collection of spoken poetry and original music on CD; Corridors, a collection of poetry and short stories; and Little Sister Left Behind, a fictional memoir.
Ellaraine Lockie has received eleven Pushcart Prize nominations and numerous awards, including the Lois Beebe Hayna Award, the Writecorner Press Poetry Award, the Skysaje Poetry Prize, the Dean Wagner Poetry Prize and the Elizabeth R. Curry Prize. Her sixth and seventh chapbooks have recently been released by FootHills Publishing and Pudding House. She also teaches writing workshops and serves as Poetry Editor for the lifestyles magazine, Lilipoh.
John McKernan is a West Virginia poet and retired comma rustler. His most recent book of poetry is Resurrection of the Dust. He edits ABZ, a small press, which does an issue a year and publishes books of poetry.
Errol Miller, "The Woolworth Poet of America," is from Monroe, Louisiana. He was a featured artist in the 2000 Poet's Market and has published in a lot of literary magazines since 1972 including Caliban, Fence, Poetry International, Montserrat Review, Santa Clara Review, Puerto del Sol, Western Humanities Review, American Poetry Review, New Orleans Review, etc. Three larger collections are "Downward Glide," "Forever Beyond Us," & "Magnolia Hall."
Jack Miller writes in Arlington, Massachusetts, where he’s too close to Boston to see many stars at night, but there’s a forest across the street with bright red mushrooms which may even be poisonous. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in several journals, most recently RHINO, Harpur Palate, Packingtown Review, Conclave, and Etchings.
karla k. morton, the 2010 Texas Poet Laureate, is a board member of the Greater Denton Arts Council. morton has been widely published in journals such as descant, Borderlands, Concho River Review, REAL, and Southwestern American Literature, and her works include Refining Beauty (Dos Gatos Press); Wee Cowrin' Timorous Beastie (book/CD Lagniappe Publishing), and Becoming Superman, (Rogers Publishing/Wheeler Press). Her upcoming books include Stirring Goldfish (a Sufi poetry book, Finishing Line Press, May 2010); Names We've Never Known (Texas Review Press -Spring, 2010); and the TCU Poet Laureate Series, (TCU Press -- Spring, 2010).
Ralph Murre is either a poet who draws a little or an artist who writes a lot. About a hundred pieces of his writing have been published here & there, as have a couple dozen of his drawings. He lives in Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin, where he occasionally visits some of the local watering holes, purely in the interest of research and material-gathering, of course.
Lynn Patmalnee has a Tilt-A-Whirl in her backyard in Keansburg, NJ. She studied at the Writer's Institute at Sarah Lawrence College and received her B.A. in English from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her work is forthcoming in The Berkeley Poetry Review and has appeared in BigCityLit, Blood Orange Review, The Dirty Napkin, The Same and Spindle, among others. As Lynn Crystal, she hosts the long-running Carnival of Song radio show on WFDU FM in Teaneck, NJ.
Noel Sloboda lives in Pennsylvania, where he teaches at Penn State York and serves as dramaturge for the Harrisburg Shakespeare Festival. His writing has appeared in a variety of places, including Another Chicago Magazine, RE:AL, Aesthetica (UK), Chronogram, Bravado (NZ), and Free Verse. Last year, his first collection, Shell Games, was published by Sunnyoutside.
N. A’Yara Stein, born in Memphis in 1971, is a Romani-American poet and writer living on a chicory farm. She holds an MFA from the University of Arkansas and is a grant recipient of the Michigan Art Council and the Arkansas Arts Council and was the former editor of the arts quarterly Gypsy Blood Review. She’s published in America, The New Orleans Review, The Birmingham Poetry Review, The Oxford American, California Quarterly, Chiron Review, Crossroads: a Journal of Southern Culture, Great Midwestern Quarterly, and Poetry Motel among others. Ms. Stein lives near Chicago with her husband and sons.
J.J. Steinfeld is a Canadian fiction writer, poet, and playwright who lives on Prince Edward Island. He has published two novels, Our Hero in the Cradle of Confederation (Pottersfield Press) and Word Burials (Crossing Chaos Enigmatic Ink), nine short story collections, the previous three by Gaspereau Press — Should the Word Hell Be Capitalized?, Anton Chekhov Was Never in Charlottetown, and Would You Hide Me? — and two poetry collections, An Affection for Precipices (Serengeti Press) and Misshapenness (Ekstasis Editions).
Bradley Strahan taught poetry at Georgetown University for twelve years. He now teaches at the University of Texas. Recently, he was Fulbright Professor of Poetry in the Balkans. He has served as editor of Visions-International for over thirty years. Author of five books of poetry and over five-hundred poems, he has been published in works such as America, Seattle Review, Confrontation, Hollins Critic, Colere, Poet Lore, & anthologies: 2003 Struga Festival anthology, and Blood to Remember.
Brett Taylor is a writer and photographer who lives in Mossy Grove, TN. His photos have appeared in Green Mountains Review, Big Muddy, and Redivider.
Parker Tettleton is an English major at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. He enjoys playing scrabble when he isn’t writing or fulfilling other higher priorities. His favorite month is October and he is a Leo. His poetry is featured in or forthcoming from Moonshot, GRASP and The Chimaera, among others. He resides in a suburb of Atlanta with his girlfriend and their goldfish.
Larry D. Thomas served 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 website address is www.larrydthomas.com.
Steve Tompkins graduated from Colorado State University-Pueblo with degrees in English and Spanish. Recent work has appeared in Big Muddy; Borderlands-The Texas Poetry Review; The Chiron Review; Cutthroat; Fifth Wednesday; Jelly Bucket; Natural Bridge; Nerve Cowboy; New South; and the San Pedro River Review. Steve currently works as the director of the English Language Program at a charter school in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Alison Turner has most recently had poems in Black Clock and Margie, where she was a finalist for an Editor’s Prize. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart.
Philip Wexler lives in Bethesda, Maryland, where he also works for the National Library of Medicine. He has had over 80 poems published and has read his work widely in the Washington, DC area. He coordinated a literary and music series in Rockville, Maryland in 2008. In addition to his interest in poetry, he works in the mosaic arts.
Lise Whidden is a writer from North Carolina. Her work has appeared in Shine!.. A Literary Journal, Lily Literary Review, Hiss Quarterly, The Dead Mule, Crimson Highway, Subtle Tea, Mad Hatter’s Review, Triggerfish, Nothing But Red, Toronto Quarterly, Dogplotz, Joyful!, Lilith, A Collection of Women’s Writes, Holly Rose Review and Gutter Eloquence. Moreover, she’s a writer who is learning to dance in mud puddles after a hard rain.
Laura Madeline Wiseman is the recipient of the 2009 Academy of American Poets Award from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she is a doctoral candidate and teaches English. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Feminist Studies, MARGIE, Arts & Letters, and elsewhere. She is the author of two chapbooks My Imaginary (Dancing Girl Press, forthcoming 2009) and Ghost Girl (Pudding House, forthcoming). Other awards include the Mari Sandoz Award in fiction, the Will Jumper Award in poetry, and four Pushcart Prize nominations. Residences include the Herbert Hoover Artist-in-Residency Program. She holds a BS in English literature and women’s studies from Iowa State University and an MA in women?s studies from the University of Arizona. She reads and writes reviews for Prairie Schooner.
Natalie Young is co-editor and graphic designer of the new poetry magazine Sugar House Review. Recent and forthcoming publications include Redactions, The Aurorean and a Helicon West broadside.
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