FALL 2011 CONTRIBUTORS
Gale Acuff has had poetry published in Ascent, Ohio Journal, Descant, Adirondack Review, Worcester Review, Verse Wisconsin, Maryland Poetry Review, Florida Review, South Carolina Review, Carolina Quarterly, Poem, Amarillo Bay, South Dakota Review, Santa Barbara Review, Sequential Art Narrative in Education, and many other journals. He has authored three books of poetry: Buffalo Nickel (BrickHouse Press, 2004), The Weight of the World (BrickHouse, 2006), and The Story of My Lives (BrickHouse, 2008).
R. A. Allen's poetry has appeared in the New York Quarterly, Underground Voices, The Recusant (UK), Pear Noir!, Word Riot, Mooon Milk, and elsewhere. He lives in Memphis. More at http://www.nyqpoets.net/poet/raallen.
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 Trinity College and Pacific University of Oregon MFA programs.
Sara Backer, author of the novel American Fuji, was awarded a Norton Island Artist Residency in 2011. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Southern Poetry Review, Slant, and others. She teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, facilitates reading groups at the Concord Men's Prison, and always struggles to claim more time to write.
Wendy Barker’s fifth book of poetry is Nothing Between Us, a novel in prose poems that was runner-up for the Del Sol Prize and was published by Del Sol Press in 2009. Her third chapbook, Things of the Weather, was also published in 2009, by Pudding House Press. Her poems and translations have appeared in many magazines, including Poetry, Georgia Review, Southern Review, and Gettysburg Review. She has received NEA and Rockefeller fellowships, and is Poet-in-Residence at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Joe Benevento has had seven books of poetry and fiction published so far, with a chapbook, “Tough Guys Don’t Write,” forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. His poems, stories and essays have appeared in a few hundred different places, including: Poets & Writers, Bilingual Review, South Dakota Review, The MacGuffin, The Chattahoochee Review and Slipstream. He teaches creative writing and literature, including Latino, at Truman State U. and serves as poetry editor for the Green Hills Literary Lantern.
Nina Bennett is the author of Forgotten Tears A Grandmother’s Journey Through Grief. Her poetry has appeared in journals including Drash: Northwest Mosaic, Pulse, Alehouse, Panache, Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, The Broadkill Review, and anthologies such as Spaces Between Us: Poetry, Prose and Art on HIV/AIDS. Nina is a contributing author to the Open to Hope Foundation.
Matthew Brennan has contributed to such journals as Sewanee Review, South Dakota Review, Concho River Review, Poem, and Poetry Ireland Review. His most recent book of poems is The House with the Mansard Roof (Backwaters Press, 2009), and this October his chapbook ‘The Light of Common Day’ will appear from Finishing Line Press.
Joey Brown is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist. Her work has appeared in EDGE, The Dos Passos Review, The Florida Review, Pinyon, and other journals. Her poetry collection Oklahomaography was published in 2010 by Mongrel Empire Press.
Roger Camp has published poems in the The North American Review, Hiram Poetry Review, The Evansville Review and Pacific Review (The Hopkins Review and South Carolina Review forthcoming). He has taught both English and/or photography at Eastern Illinois University, Columbus College of Art & Design, University of Iowa, Golden West College and the Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris.
R.T. Castleberry has been published in Comstock Review, The Alembic, Green Mountains Review, Rockhurst Review, Caveat Lector, Poet Lore and many other magazines, both nationally and internationally. His chapbook “Arriving at the Riverside” was published by Finishing Line Press in January, 2010. An e-book, “Dialogue and Appetite,” was published in April, 2011 by Right Hand Pointing.
Christine Catalano is an English major who worked happily in publishing for many years as a graphic artist. She designed newspaper and magazine pages, including creating and directing art for them. Now liberated from daily deadlines, she keeps her muse satisfied with camera and Photoshop. In the past year she has had artwork published in the East Hampton Star, Fiction at Work, and the Winter Solstice issue of Mused.
David Chorlton has lived in Phoenix since 1978 when he moved from Vienna, Austria, with his wife. Born in Austria, he grew up in Manchester, close to rain and the northern English industrial zone. His newest book is The Taste of Fog, from Rain Mountain Press, his first work of fiction, and the result of a long-standing interest in Vienna’s shadow side.
Joanne M. Clarkson is the author of two chapbooks of poems: Pacing the Moon (Chantry Press) and Crossing Without Daughters (March Street Press). Her work has appeared in journals including Alaska Quarterly Review, Cimarron Review and Calyx. She has a Master’s Degree in English and has taught but currently works as a Registered Nurse specializing in Hospice and Community Nursing.
Lisa Coffman is the author ‘Likely,’ a book of poems published by Kent State University Press. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant for her work.
Michael Crane organises Poetry Idol for the Melbourne Writers Festival, publish an annual magazine called the Paradise Anthology (www.paradiseanthology.com) and perform musical poems and songs with singer songwriter Trish Anderson. To listen to Michael and Trish go to http://www.myspace.com/michaelcranetrishanderson.
Barbara Daniels’ Rose Fever was published by WordTech Press. She received two Individual Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey Council on the Arts and earned an MFA in poetry at Vermont College.
Ab Davis has written and lived in the remote West For most of her adult life: first in the Flathead Valley in Montana, then Wyoming - at the Flying H Ranch on the Crow Indian Reservation/ Montana border, and then a decade on Bangs Mtn. in the middle of the Colville National Forest in Washington. She has studied and practiced writing at Flathead Community College, Washington State University and Tufts University, as well as participating in small communal writing groups. She currently lives in California and writes with a small group of practicing Buddhist women. Her work is forthcoming in Decanto (UK).
W. D. Ehrhart teaches at the Haverford School in suburban Philadelphia. He and his wife Anne recently celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary in Hoi An, Vietnam. His most recent book is The Bodies Beneath the Table (Adastra Press, 2010).
Carol Ellis was born in Detroit. She’s been around the academic block with her Ph.D in English from the University of Iowa, her latest Zyzzyva poem, and her finished new book manuscript of poems. She lives under protest in the Central Valley of California.
Brian Fanelli is the author of the chapbook Front Man. His poetry has also been published by Young American Poets, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Word Riot, Chiron Review, Blood Lotus, WritingRaw, and other journals and websites. He has an M.F.A. in creative writing from Wilkes University and teaches writing and literature at Keystone College in Pennsylvania.
Margot Farrington's second collection is Flares and Fathoms (Bright Hill Press). Forthcoming poems will appear in the Innisfree Poetry Journal and The Cimarron Review. Farrington was a poetry fellow at Norton Island and the I-Park Foundation in 2009 and 2010, respectively. Recent readings and interviews may be accessed via Art On Air International Radio and WGXC.
Ruth Foley lives in Massachusetts, where she teaches English for Wheaton College. Her recent work is appearing or forthcoming in Adanna, qarrtsiluni, Redheaded Stepchild, and Umbrella, which nominated one of her poems for a Pushcart Prize this year. She also serves as Associate Poetry Editor for Cider Press Review.
CJ Giroux is a lifelong resident of Michigan who continues to be inspired by the peninsulas that surround him. Born and raised in the metropolitan Detroit area, he is an assistant professor of English at Saginaw Valley State University. He has been published in The Ambassador Poetry Project, Bear River Review, The Prose-Poem Project, Relief, Ruminate, San Pedro River Review, and Thema, among other publications.
John Grey is an Australian born poet, and has been a US resident since late seventies. He works as financial systems analyst. He has recently published in Xavier Review, White Wall Review and Writer’s Bloc, with work upcoming in Poem, Prism International and the Cider Press Review.
Since his work last appeared in SPRR, Colin D. Halloran has relocated to New York’s capital region with a talented fiction writer and her shitzu-poodle who likes to bite him, but he continues to write furiously and teach war through poetry. He has also branched out into the realm of photography, having work published in Germany, where he remembers it raining. He is now editor in chief of the online literary journal Mason’s Road.
Marianna Hofer inhabits Studio 13 in the gloriously haunted Jones Building in downtown Findlay, OH. She has published poems and stories in a variety of small magazines, and her b&w photography has hung in various local exhibitions and eateries. Her first book, A Memento Sent by the World, was published by Word Press in 2008.
Ann Howells serves on the board of Dallas Poets Community—a 501 (c ) (3) literary non-profit. She has edited their journal, Illya’s Honey for thirteen years. She was a finalist in 2008 NavWorks Poetry Competition and 2007 Southern Hum’s Women of Words. Her chapbook, Black Crow in Flight, was published by Main Street Rag. Her work appears in Borderlands, Concho River Review, Magma Poetry (UK), RiverSedge, San Pedro River Review, Sentence, Spillway and Third Wednesday among others.
Susan Johnson holds an MFA and PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she teaches writing. Her first book "Impossible Is Nothing" was published by Finishing Line Press this Spring. She lives in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
While Peter Kopher's vocation has been in TV production for over 30 years, as a Lighting Director and stagehand, his passion has always been still photography. His work has been exhibited recently in galleries from NY to Minneapolis to Fairfield, Iowa. Peter currently lives in a large housebarge, on the Great South Bay in Seaford, New York – "afloat amidst a large, ever-changing, de facto wildlife preserve" - and posts much of his work to a blog entitled "The Next Step - Picture of the Day".
John Krumberger has had poems published recently in Rhino, Great River Review, Poetry East, Dos Passos Review, South Dakota Review and Water- Stone. In 2008 Backwaters Press published his first full-length volume of poetry entitled ‘The Language of Rain and Wind.’ He lives with his wife in Minneapolis and work as a psychologist in private practice in St. Paul.
Sean Lause teaches courses in Shakespeare, Literature and the Holocaust and Medical Ethics at Rhodes State College in Lima, Ohio. His work has appeared in The Minnesota Review, Another Chicago Magazine, The Xavier Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Alaska Quarterly, Upstart Crow and Epicenter.
Dave Malone is the author of several books of poetry and a new ebook series, Seasons in Love (Trask Road Press), available at Smashwords and Kindle. His poems have appeared in various online and print journals as well. His interests include Ozark culture and crime fiction, and he can be found online at davemalone.net.
Ricki Mandeville has edited more than 15 volumes of poetry and is co-founder and consulting editor of Moon Tide Press. Her most recent work has appeared in Spot Lit, A Prairie Journal, and The Smoking Poet. She is the author of A Thin Strand of Lights (Moon Tide Press) and a chapbook, Beneath My Bed. She lives near the ocean in Huntington Beach, California.
Twister Marquiss grew up in Wyoming on a buffalo ranch first homesteaded by his great-grandfather. He holds a BA in English from St. Mary’s University and an MFA in creative writing from Texas State University-San Marcos, where he was a Mitte Foundation Scholar. His fiction and photography have been featured in Narrative Magazine, and his stories have also appeared in Callaloo, Carve Magazine, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere. He is currently working on a novel.
John McKernan is now a retired comma herder. He lives – mostly – in West Virginia where he edits ABZ Press. His most recent book is a selected poems Resurrection of the Dust. He has published poems in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review and many other magazines.
Thomas Jennings McLaughlin lives in Hendersonville, TN, just outside of Nashville. He is currently an English and Philosophy student at Vanderbilt University, where he serves as poetry editor for the annual student literary magazine, The Vanderbilt Review, and as an editor for the philosophy journal, Geist.
Joseph Millar’s third full-length collection, Blue Rust, will be published by Carnegie-Mellon in the fall of 2011. His poems have won an NEA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize, and have appeared in American Poetry Review, DoubleTake, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, New Letters, and The Southern Review. Millar is core faculty at Pacific University’s MFA Program and lives in Raleigh, North, with his wife, the poet Dorianne Laux.
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker , San Pedro River Review, and elsewhere. For more information, including his essay ‘Magic, Illusion and Other Realities’, and a complete bibliography, please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com.
Susan Rooke lives in Austin, Texas. Her poetry has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Halfway Down the Stairs, The Orange Room Review, and Wild Goose Poetry Review, among other publications. She edits the Austin Poetry Society’s monthly MuseLetter, and has just completed her first novel, a fantasy.
Daniel Romo is an MFA candidate at Queens University of Charlotte. His poems can be found in Fogged Clarity, MiPoesias, Scythe, Connotation Press, and other journals. His first book of poetry, Romancing Gravity, is forthcoming from Pecan Grove Press. He teaches high school creative writing, and lives in Long Beach, CA. More of his writing can be found at danielromo.wordpress.com
Susan Rooke lives in Austin, Texas. Her poetry has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Halfway Down the Stairs, The Orange Room Review, and Wild Goose Poetry Review, among other publications. She edits the Austin Poetry Society’s monthly MuseLetter, and has just completed her first novel, a fantasy
William Pitt Root’s numerous collections include the forthcoming WELCOME, TRAVELER: Selected Early Odes of Pablo Neruda, Wings Press, 2012, and, most recently, White Boots: New and Selected Poems of the West, Carolina Wren, 2006. In 2005, Carnegie Mellon re-issued The Storm and Other Poems (originally Atheneum, 1969) in their Contemporary Classics series. Trace Elements From a Recurring Kingdom (a Notable Book for 1994, The Nation) recollected Root's first five books. He's been a US/UK Exchange Artist and Fellow of the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, Stanford University, and National Endowment for the Arts. Translated into 20 languages, his poems, repeatedly nominated for the Pulitzer, have won three Pushcart Prizes, Editor's Choice in the 2008 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Competition, the Stanley Kunitz Poetry Award, the Guy Owen Poetry Prize and a $500 award from Winning Poets Best War Poem contest 2006. Besides being broadcast over Voice of America and Liberation Radio, he has read his work worldwide and is often a featured writer at the Prague Summer Program and the Meacham Writers Conference in Chattanooga. He's just accepted the John C. Hodges Distinguished Visiting Writer chair at UT-- Knoxville for Fall 2011.
Brad Rose was born in Los Angeles, raised in Bellflower, California, and lives in Boston. His poetry and fiction have appeared in: The Potomac, San Pedro River Review, Third Wednesday, Off the Coast, Barely South Review, Boston Literary Magazine, Tattoo Highway, Imagination and Place, Right Hand Pointing, SleetMagagazine.com, Six Sentences, Staccato Microfiction, Fiction at Work, Monkeybicycle, Six Little Things, Short, Fast and Deadly, and other publications. Links to his poetry and fiction can be found at: http://bradrosepoetry.blogspot.com/ Brad’s novelette, Lola Loves Richard, a tragicomedy set in contemporary Hollywood, told in 6-sentence chapters, is in progress at http://lola-loves-richard.blogspot.com/
Lisa L. Siedlarz is Editor of Connecticut River Review, the national poetry journal supported by the CT Poetry Society, and Managing Editor for Connecticut Review. Her work has appeared in The MacGuffin, Calyx, Rattle, War, Literature & the Arts, Louisiana Literature, Main Street Rag, the Patterson Review, Big Bridge, Kritya, Poems & Plays, and others. Her work was nominated for the 2009 & 2010 Best New Poets Anthology, and is included in the anthologies, Warsaw Tales, and Battle Runes: Writings on War. Ms. Siedlarz facilitated a 16 week writing workshop with Vietnam veterans and edited a collection of their work called A Season of Now. She runs a bi-monthly creative writing workshop with veterans at the New Haven Vet Center. She is the author of, I Dream My Brother Plays Baseball (Clemson University Digital Press 2009) and What We Sign Up For (forthcoming from Pecan Grove Press 2011).
Scot Siegel has recent work in San Pedro River Review, American Poetry Journal, MiPoesias and OCHO. His second full-length book of poems, Thousands Flee California Wildflowers, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in early 2012. Siegel’s poems are also anthologized in the Aesthetica Creative Works Annual (UK), Open Spaces: Views from the Northwest (University of Washington Press 2011), Dogs Singing (Salmon Poetry 2010), and Before We Have Nowhere to Stand (Lost Horse Press 2011). He edits the online poetry journal Untitled Country Review.
Ian C Smith’s work has appeared in The Best Australian Poetry, Descant, Island, Magma, The Malahat Review, Southerly,& Westerly His latest book is Lost Language of the Heart, Ginninderra (Adelaide). He lives in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria, Australia.
Joris Soeding is the author of the poetry chapbooks Surfaces Diminished and Trees. Otherness. Instance. Recently, writing of his appeared in The Poetry Ark Anthology and The Prose-Poem Project. He is a Senior Editor of Another Chicago Magazine and the Grade 5/6 Writing Teacher at Philip Rogers Elementary School in Chicago, where he resides with his wife, son, and cat.
J.J. Steinfeld is a Canadian poet, fiction writer, and playwright who lives on Prince Edward Island. He has published fourteen books — ten short story collections, two novels, two poetry collections — along with five chapbooks, the most recent ones being Word Burials (Novel, Crossing Chaos Enigmatic Ink, 2009), Misshapenness (Poetry, Ekstasis Editions, 2009), A Fanciful Geography (Poetry Chapbook, erbacce-press, 2010), and A Glass Shard and Memory (Stories, Recliner Books, 2010). His short stories and poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and periodicals internationally, and over forty of his one-act plays and a handful of full-length plays have been performed in Canada and the United States.
Larry D. Thomas, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate, has published sixteen collections of poetry, the most recent of which is A Murder of Crows (Virtual Artists Collective 2011). His seventeenth collection (The Red, Candle-lit Darkness) is currently in press and will be issued by El Grito del Lobo Press in late summer 2011. Thomas retired in 1998 after a three-decade career in social service and adult criminal justice. His New and Selected Poems (TCU Press 2008) was long-listed for the National Book Award.
Christopher Tozier was recently selected as a 2011 State of Florida Artist Fellowship award recipient. He has been published in over forty print journals including Tampa Review, Post Road , Saw Palm, San Pedro River Review, The Literary Review, Cream City Review, The Florida Review, Maryland Poetry Review, and The Wisconsin Review. His first novel, Olivia Brophie and the Pearl of Tagelus is due out in spring 2012 from Pineapple Press. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Creative Writing program.
Meredith Trede’s new book, Field Theory, will be published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press this fall. She’s a founder of Toadlily Press. Her chapbook, Out of the Book, was in Desire Path, the inaugural volume of The Quartet Series. Journals that have published her work include Barrow Street, Blue Mesa Review, Gargoyle, and The Paris Review. She’s been awarded residency fellowships at Blue Mountain Center, Ragdale, Saltonstall, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Virginia and France.
Isi Unikowski works for the Australian Government and lives in Canberra.
Afaa Michael Weaver (born Michael S. Weaver) did his graduate work in the writing program at Brown in the mid-eighties. A native of Baltimore, he has been a Pew fellow, a Fulbright scholar in Taiwan, and an NEA fellow in poetry. In 2010 he received a Pushcart Prize. He has also received the PDI Award (1993) in playwriting from ETA Theatre in Chicago, and in 2010, the May Sarton Award. His tenth collection of poetry is The Plum Flower Dance (UPitt Press 2007). His eleventh collection of poems is Kama i’reeh (Like the Wind) (The Kalimah Project, 2010) a translation of his work into Arabic by Wissal Al-Allaq. From 1997-2000, he was the Editor of Obsidian III at North Carolina State University. Afaa works on translation projects with poets in China and Taiwan. He teaches at Simmons College. His website is: www.afaamweaver.com
Gwen Wille lives and works in West Chester, PA. She studied writing at the University of New Mexico. Her work has appeared in Crow Toes Quarterly, Writers' Bloc, Philadelphia Stories, and others, and is forthcoming in Astropoetica and Kerouac's Dog.
Nicholas YB Wong is the author of Cities of Sameness (Desperanto, 2012). His works are forthcoming in Drunken Boat, Gargoyle, The Journal, Nano Fiction, Quiddity and REAL: Regarding Arts & Letters. He serves as a poetry reader for Drunken Boat and is currently lecturing film studies and contemporary studies in the Hong Kong Institute of Education.
Kirby Wright was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a graduate of Punahou School in Honolulu and the University of California at San Diego. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Wright has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and is a past recipient of the Ann Fields Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Award, the Browning Society Award for Dramatic Monologue, and Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowships in Poetry and The Novel. BEFORE THE CITY, his first book of poetry, took First Place at the 2003 San Diego Book Awards. Wright is also the author of the companion novels PUNAHOU BLUES and MOLOKA’I NUI AHINA, both set in Hawaii. He was a Visiting Writer at the 2009 International Writers Conference in Hong Kong, where he represented the Pacific Rim region of Hawaii. He was also a Visiting Writer at the 2010 Martha’s Vineyard Writers Residency in Edgartown, Mass.
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