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SPRING 2012 CONTRIBUTORS
Carolyn Adams has been active in the art and literary communities of Houston, Austin, and other parts of Texas since the 1980’s. Her poetry, collage art and photography have appeared in Caveat Lector, The Alembic, Panhandler Quarterly, purefrancis, and Common Ground Review, among others. She has authored a poetry e-chapbook, Beautiful Strangers (Lily Press, 2006) and an art e-chapbook, What Do You See? (Right Hand Pointing, 2007).
Suzanne Allen is a rogue poetry videographer (You Tube, Vlogosophy) with poems appearing in anthologies and journals in five countries: Not a Muse—Haven Books, 2009; Strangers in Paris—Tightrope Books, 2011; Villanelles—Random House, 2012; and literary journals such as Tears in the Fence, Nerve Cowboy, Upstairs at Duroc, Spot Lit Mag, Pearl, California Quarterly, and Cider Press Review—who nominated her for a Pushcart Prize. Other poems are published and archived on-line at Carnival and Crack the Spine. She is a co-editor of the Paris based issue.ZERO, and her first press-published chapbook, Verisimilitude, is available at Corrupt Press dot net.
Doug Anderson’s most recent book is Keep Your Head Down, a memoir about Vietnam and the sixties published by W.W. Norton. He is Assistant Visiting Professor of English at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Anna Badua has recently published or forthcoming work in Pearl Magazine, Chiron Review, Beggars & Cheeseburgers, and Spot Literary Magazine. She is also a contributing writer for an online LA Lifestyle Magazine, Traffik. She currently resides in Long Beach, California.
A lifelong New Englander, Jeff Bernstein divides his time between Boston and Central Vermont. Poetry is his favorite and earliest art form (he can’t draw a whit or hold a tune). Recent poems appear (or will appear shortly) in Ballard Street Poetry Journal, Birchsong – A Poetry Anthology (Blueline Press), Hobble Creek Review, Loch Raven Review and Main Street Rag. His chapbook, "Interior Music" was published in 2010 by Foothills Publishing. Jeff’s writer’s blog is www.hurricanelodge.com.
Reginald Dwayne Betts is a husband and father of two sons. The author of the memoir, A Question of Freedom (Avery/Penguin 2009) and the collection of poetry, Shahid Reads His Own Palm (Alice James Books, 2010), Betts has been awarded fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, the Open Society Institute, Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop and Warren Wilson College. As a poet, essayist and national spokesperson for the Campaign for Youth Justice, Betts writes and lectures about the impact of mass incarceration on American society.
Earl Sherman Braggs is a Battle/UC Foundation Professor of English at the University of TN at Chattanooga. He is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Hat Dancer Blue (winner of the Anhinga Poetry Prize) and In Which Language Do I Keep Silent: New and Selected. In 1995 he won the Jack Kerouac Literary Prize for a chapter in his yet-to-be published novel, Looking for Jack Kerouac. Younger Than Neil is his latest collection of poetry. The Syntactical Arrangements of a Twisted Wind is forthcoming from Anhinga Press.
Rick Campbell is the director of Anhinga Press and teaches English at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. His newest book of poems is Dixmont, from Autumn House Press. His other books are The Traveler’s Companion (Black Bay Books, 2004); and Setting The World In Order (Texas Tech 2001) which won the Walt McDonald Prize and A Day’s Work (State Street Press 2000);. He’s won a Pushcart Prize, an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and two poetry fellowships from the Florida Arts Council. He’s published poems and essays in many journals including The Georgia Review, The Florida Review, Prairie Schooner and many others.. He was born on the Ohio River twenty miles downriver from Pittsburgh and now lives with his wife and daughter in Gadsden County, Florida.
Susana H. Case, professor at the New York Institute of Technology, has recent work in many journals, including Hawai’i Pacific Review, Portland Review and Potomac Review. She is the author of The Scottish Café (Slapering Hol Press), Anthropologist In Ohio (Main Street Rag Publishing Company) and The Cost Of Heat (Pecan Grove Press). An English-Polish reprint of The Scottish Café, Kawiarnia Szkocka, was published by Opole University Press in Poland. Forthcoming is her Manual of Practical Sexual Advice from Kattywompus Press.
Sean Clifford was born in New Orleans, raised in Rhode Island and currently lives in Los Angeles. Since graduating from Yale University in 2006, he has worked in New York and Los Angeles in the television business, and currently works on the FX show, "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia." Sean is recently engaged and enjoys collecting records and hanging out with his German Shepherd, Cleo.
Douglas Cole had work in The Connecticut River Review, Louisiana Literature, Cumberland Poetry Review, and Midwest Quarterly. He has work online as well in The Adirondack Review, Salt River Review, Avatar Review, and a podcast on Bound Off, while work is forthcoming in the Red Rock Review. He won the Leslie Hunt Memorial Prize in Poetry for a selection of work called, “The Open Ward." Residing in Seattle, Washington, he teaches writing and literature at Seattle Central College, where he is also the advisor for the literary journal, Corridors.
Jim Davis is a graduate of Knox College and now lives, writes, and paints in Chicago. His work has appeared in After Hours, Blue Mesa Review, Poetry Quarterly, Whitefish Review, Chiron Review, Cafe Review, and Contemporary American Voices, among others. In 2011, Jim saw two of his poems receive Editor’s Choice Awards, and he will see two of his collections go to print in 2012: Work (unbound content) and Translations (Mi-te Press) www.jimdavispoetry.com
Matt Dennison finished his undergraduate degree at Mississippi State University where he won the National Sigma Tau Delta essay competition (judged by X.J. Kennedy) and placed third in the Southern Literary Festival for fiction. His work has appeared in Rattle, Natural Bridge, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Cider Press Review, A Cappella Zoo and Night Train, among others. He currently lives in a 106-year-old house with "lots of potential" and can be reached at
columbusmatt@cableone.net.
Meredith Devney received her MFA from Emerson College in 2006. She is currently a full time high school English teacher and adjuncts at Marshall University. Originally from upstate New York, she now lives in Kentucky with her husband and child-like cat. Her poetry has been previously published or is forthcoming in Tar River Poetry, Evening Street Review, Coe Review, Et Cetera, Pirene's Fountain, Front Range Review, among others.
James H Duncan is a New York native and the editor of Hobo Camp Review. Being a lifelong student of the road, you’ll find him picking up non-credit courses in all-night diners, dive bars, used book shops, and on train station platforms minding his own damn business. Apt, Plainsongs, Red Fez, Poetry Salzburg Review, and The Battered Suitcase, among others, have welcomed his poetry and short stories. More at http://jameshduncan.blogspot.com
Keith Ekiss is a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow. He is the author of Pima Road Notebook (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2010) and the translator of The Fire’s Journey by the Costa Rican poet Eunice Odio (Tavern Books, 2012).
Raina Lauren Fields is currently enrolled in the MFA program in Creative Writing at Virginia Tech. She has published poetry in Callaloo, Gargoyle, Sweet, PANK, Diverse Voices Quarterly, 5x5, Breadcrumb Scabs, and other literary journals. She has published poetry reviews in Rattle and Tarpaulin Sky and is a previous General Editor of Creative Writing for The Minnesota Review.
Thomas Fitzgerald is the author of "Morning," a poetry chapbook available through Finishing Line Press. His work has appeared in The Worcester Review and The Grolier Poetry Prize Annual. He was recently nominated for a Massachusetts Book Award. He lives with with his wife Virginia in Watertown, MA.
D. Dina Friedman has published widely in literary journals (including Calyx, Pacific Poetry and Fiction Review, Tsunami, The Sun, Anderbo, Inkwell, Hurricane Alice) and received two Pushcart Prize nominations for poetry and fiction. She has also published two award-winning young adult novels: Escaping Into the Night and Playing Dad’s Song. She lives in Hadley, Massachusetts and teaches at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. Visit her website at www.ddinafriedman.com.
Alan Gann’s friends are amazed to find he is let loose in the Dallas area to teach 8th-grade sex-ed, facilitate creative writing workshops, and wander in the woods. He is a long time member of the Dallas Poets Community and an editor for their literary journal, Illya’s Honey. His poetry has been published Sentence, Main Street Rag, Borderlands, and North Texas Review. In 2011, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Red River Review and a Best of the Net award by Red Fez.
Formal education for Gwendolyn began as a child in Philadelphia where she attended workshops at The Manayunk Art Center and Woodmere Art Museum. During adolescence she participated in various art programs sponsored by the City of Philadelphia, and later studied at Moore College of Art and University of the Arts. Moving to New York in 1987 she attended The School of Visual Arts and received a Bachelor’s degree in Illustration. Since that time Gwendolyn’s work has been shown in various group and solo shows in New York and Philadelphia. www.sliderarts.com
Ken Hada is a professor in the Department of English and Languages at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma where he directs the annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival (held each April) and teaches courses in literature and humanities. In addition to his scholarly work in ethnic literature, western regionalism and ecocriticism, Ken has three books of poetry in circulation: The Way of the Wind (Village Books Press, 2008) and Spare Parts (Mongrel Empire Press, 2010). Spare Parts was recently awarded the National Western Heritage Award from the Western Heritage Museum and Cowboy Hall of Fame. The book was also a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award, and four poems from that collection were featured on Garrison Keillor’s nationally syndicated radio program, The Writer’s Almanac. Ken’s third poetry collection, The River White: A Confluence of Brush and Quill (Mongrel Empire Press, 2011) is a collaboration with his brother Duane’s water colors tracing the White River from its source in northwest Arkansas, 700 miles downstream to its confluence with the Mississippi River.
Colin D. Halloran recently earned his MFA from Fairfield University. He now has more time to read, which he often does with a cup of tea and the company of his lovely fiction writer and (now) their shitzu-poodle. He is still giving workshops on using poetry to teach about war, and is now advocating for the creation of veterans-only writing courses at universities around the country, a subject he spoke on at last year's AWP conference. He is a contributing editor for Copaiba Press, and Editor-in-Chief of Mason’s Road, the literary arts journal of Fairfield University, Connecticut.
Michelle Hartman has been published in Raleigh Review, San Pedro River Review, Pacific Review, Concho River Review, Main Street Rag Journal, Texas Poetry Calendar, Eclectica, Sojourn, Aries, descant, RiverSedge, Mirror Dance, Illya’s Honey and the anthologies, The Weight of Addition (Mutabilis Press), Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair, (Dos Gatos Press) and Above Us Only Sky and Venom Kiss, both from Incarnate Muse Press. Overseas, she’s appeared in The SHOp, Ireland, Blue Print Review, Germany, 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 the editor for Red River Review.
Pushcart Prize nominee Kevin Heaton lives and writes in South Carolina. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in many publications, including: Raleigh Review, Foundling Review, The Honey Land Review, and Mason's Road. His fourth chapbook, Chronicles, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in early 2012. He is a Best of the Net 2011 nominee.
Marianna Hofer has Studio 13 in the gloriously haunted Jones Building in Findlay, OH. Her poems and stories appear in small magazines, and her b&w photography hangs in local exhibitions and eateries. Her first book, A Memento Sent by the World, was published by Word Press.
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. Her chapbook, Black Crow in Flight, was published by Main Street Rag. She was a finalist in 2008 NavWorks Poetry Competition and 2007 Southern Hum’s Women of Words. She has two Pushcart nominations and one Best of the Web nomination. Her work most recently appeared in Borderlands , Calyx, Magma Poetry (UK), RiverSedge, San Pedro River Review, and Spillway.
Elijah Imlay is from Ventura, California. His book, Monsoon Blues, a collection of poems based on his experience in Vietnam as an Army bandsman, was published in 2011. He has conducted writing workshops for veterans of war through Poets & Writers, Inc. and PEN USA and through Tebot Bach. He works full-time at the Transitions Program of Ventura County Behavioral Health, providing mental health services for young adults, and is on the faculty for the Institute for Applied Meditation, teaching web courses, guiding retreats, and mentoring in meditation.
James A. Jordan, from just north of Nashville, Tennessee, is currently an undergraduate at Centre College in Danville, KY. He was the recipient of the 2010 Cantrell Prize and was a first runner-up for the 2009 Flo-Gault Poetry Prize. Previous work has also appeared in The Broad River Review. He has spent time studying in London.
Myra King is an Australian writer living on the coast of South Australia. She has written a number of prize winning poems including a first prize in the UK based 2011 Global Poetry Competition. And in 2008 she was a winner in Ballarat’s Pure Poetry Masterclass and Recital. Among other publications her poetry has appeared (or is upcoming) in The Pages and Orbis (UK) Melbourne Poets Union anthology, Meuse Press, A Hundred Gourds and Notes From the Gean (AUS) and the Heron’s Nest, Illya’s Honey Journal, Every Day Poets, Psychic Meatloaf and Red River Review (US).
Alex Lemon is the author of Happy: A Memoir, and three collections of poetry: Mosquito, Hallelujah Blackout, and Fancy Beasts. He lives in Ft. Worth, Texas, and teaches at TCU.
Adrian C. Louis is a Professor of English in the Minnesota State University system. His latest book is Archeology (Tavern Books, 2011). His 2006 book of poems, Logorrhea (Northwestern University Press), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. More info may be found at www.Adrian-C-Louis.com.
Charlotte Lowe lives la vida loca in Patagonia, Arizona where she attends the infamous local bar, The Wagon Wheel, in search of good copy and clarity. Her first book, Stealing The Dog's Prozac is now out as the first in the Silver Concho Series, guest edited by Pamela Uschuk and William Pitt Root of Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, and published by Press 53 in Winston, North Carolina. Her poems have been published in American Poetry Review, Pebble Lake Review, Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, Hobo Camp Review and Ragazine.
Angie Macri’s recent work has been published in Adanna, Ecotone, and Salamander, among other journals, and is included in Best New Poets 2010. She was born and raised in southern Illinois. The recipient of an individual artist fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council, she teaches in Little Rock.
Ricki Mandeville was born in Germany, grew up in Oklahoma and now lives not far from the ocean in Huntington Beach, California. Her poems have appeared in various journals and anthologies including, most recently, Comstock Review. She has edited 18 volumes of poetry and is consulting editor and co-founder of Moon Tide Press. A speaker for various literary events, she is also the author of A Thin Strand of Lights (Moon Tide Press).
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.
Ramsey Matthews graduated in May 2011 with my M.A. in English from Cal State University Northridge. He teaches Composition, Grammar, and Reading classes at Santa Barbara Business College in Ventura, California. When not teaching or rock climbing, he’s reading and writing. ‘What else is there to do,’ he asks?
Matt McGee is the editor/publisher of Falling Star Magazine. His short fiction collections can be found on http://www.facebook.com/l/b51ecCErmJU-rsugIZlEg3Ra88Q;Amazon.com along with his most recent poetry collection, "We Liked You Better When You Was a Whore."
Joseph Millar’s third full-length collection, Blue Rust, was recently published by Carnegie-Mellon. 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.
Benjamin Myers’ poems may be read in The New York Quarterly, Nimrod, The Iron Horse Literary Review, The Chiron Review, The Concho River Review, and other journals. His first book, Elegy for Trains, won the 2011 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry.
David Oestreich lives in Northwestern Ohio with his wife and three children. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ruminate, Hobble Creek Review, Tar River Poetry, and Foundling Review. He also dabbles in musical composition, photography, and herpetology.
George Ovitt lives with his wife and daughters in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he teaches high school history, plays blues guitar in an old guy's band, and hikes the mountain ranges of central New Mexico.
Bryan Owens (b. 1983) teaches senior English at a charter school for international studies where he urges his students to pursue much nobler careers, and for the love of God, never to become writers. Heedlessly, most take up their pens. Kids today. His work has appeared in Nano Fiction, amphibi.us, and The Centrifugal Eye. Rare or forgotten poems of his can be found in the printer tray at his home in Houston, Texas.
Tory V. Pearman is Assistant Professor of English at Miami Hamilton University, where she teaches composition and literature. She has published essays on poetry, medieval literature and culture, and women's and gender studies. She resides with her husband and two children in Ohio.
Darrell Petska is a Madison, Wisconsin freelance editor in adult education who previously worked as a psychiatric technician/caseworker, nursing home evaluator, and university editor. Past or forthcoming publications include Red River Review, The New Verse News, Quantum Poetry Magazine, Verse Wisconsin, and others.
Knopf brought out Marge Piercy’s 18th poetry book The Hunger Moon: New & selected poems 1980-2010 last spring, scheduled for paperback this spring. Knopf has The Crooked Inheritance, The Moon is Always Female, What Are Big Girls Made Of and several others in paperback. Piercy has published 17 novels, recently Sex Wars; 2 early novels Dance the Eagle to Sleep and Vida have just been republished with new introductions by PM Press. Her memoir is Sleeping With Cats, Harper Perennial. Her work has been translated into 19 languages.
Kenneth Pobo won the 2011 Qarrtsiluni chapbook contest for Ice And Gaywings, which they published in November 2011. In addition to SPRR, his work appears in Blue Fifth Review, Nimrod, Hawaii Review, Trajectory, and elsewhere.
Susan Rooke lives in Austin, Texas. Her poetry has appeared recently or is forthcoming in San Pedro River Review, Eye to the Telescope, Texas Poetry Calendar, Wild Goose Poetry Review and Exit 13 Magazine. This is her first published photograph. She edits the Austin Poetry Society’s monthly MuseLetter, is at work on a fantasy series, and spends time in West Texas at every opportunity.
Tina Schumann's manuscript "As If" (Parlor City Press) was awarded the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize for 2010. Her work was named a finalist in the 2011 National Poetry Series and was awarded the 2009 American Poet Prize from The American Poetry Journal. She is a Pushcart nominee and holds an MFA from Pacific Lutheran University. Work has appeared in The American Poetry Journal, Ascent, Cimarron Review, Crab Creek Review, Harpur Palate, PALABRA, PARABOLA & Poemeleon.
Connecticut State University Distinguished Professor and Editor of Connecticut Review, Vivian Shipley teaches at Southern Connecticut State University. In 2010, her eighth book of poetry, All of Your Message Have Been Erased, was published by Southeastern Louisiana University and her sixth chapbook, Greatest Hits: 1974-2010, was published by Pudding House Press. Raised in Kentucky, with a PhD from Vanderbilt University, she was inducted into the University of Kentucky Hall of Fame for Distinguished Alumni in April, 2010.
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.
J. J. Steinfeld is a Canadian poet, fiction writer, and playwright who lives on Prince Edward Island, where he is patiently waiting for Godot’s arrival and a phone call from Kafka. While waiting, he has published fourteen books — ten short story collections, two novels, two poetry collections — the most recent ones being Misshapenness (Poetry, Ekstasis Editions, 2009) 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.
Brett Taylor is a writer and photographer who lives in Mossy Grove, Tennessee. His photos have appeared in Green Mountains Review, Big Muddy, and Redivider.
Charles Thomas lives in Tennessee. His poems have appeared in Borderlands, Poem, and previously in San Pedro River Review.
Larry D. Thomas, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate, has published sixteen collections of poetry, most recently A Murder of Crows (Virtual Artists Collective 2011). His New and Selected Poems (TCU Press 2008) was long-listed for the National Book Award.
Rawdon Tomlinson is the author of 4 full-length collections of poems and two chapbooks. His most recent manuscript—Lines from the Surgeon’s Children, 1862-1865 --won the Stevens Award from The National Federation of State Poetry Societies Press, 2010.
Alison Turner lives in Los Angeles. Her poems have appeared in various journals including Black Clock, Poetry East, and San Pedro River Review.
Connie Wanek is the author of three books of poems, Bonfire (1997), Hartley Field (2002), and most recently, On Speaking Terms, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2010, which was a finalist for the MN Book Award and won the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award, and was a Lannan Literary Selection. Wanek was also co-editor of the prize-winning To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Territorial Days to the Present (2006), the first comprehensive, historical anthology of its kind. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Water-Stone, and many other journals. US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser named her a 2006 Witter Bynner Fellow of the Library of Congress. She was also named the 2009 George Morrison Artist of the Year, an award bestowed upon northern Minnesotans for distinguished work over a period of many years. She lives in the country outside Duluth, Minnesota.
Susan C. Waters has an advanced degree from the writing program at George Mason University. Currently, she is professor of English at New Mexico Junior College. She teaches composition and literature survey courses, specializing in world literature. Ms. Waters started out as a journalist covering hard news in upstate New York and for 13 years was a magazine editor and writer at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary. Her publishing credits are extensive, ranging from the Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun, to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and the U.S. House of Representatives.
Donald Mace Williams, a retired newspaper writer and editor with a Ph.D. in English (University of Texas, winter 1975), is the author of the single-poem chapbook "Wolfe" (Rattle Editions, 2009). His poems have run or will run in descant, American Arts Quarterly online, Barrow Street, Measure, Rattle, Iron Horse Literary Review, The Texas Observer, and elsewhere. He has a novel, Black Tuesday's Child, and two nonfiction books. He lives in Canyon, Texas.
Clarence Wolfshohl has published in small press magazines since the 1960s, most recently in Cenizo Journal, Right Hand Pointing, Houston Literary Review, Concho River Review, and San Pedro River Review's special issue In Walt McDonald Country. He ran Timberline Press for thirty-five years. He is professor emeritus of English at William Woods University in Fulton, Missouri.
Christopher Woods has published a prose collection, Under a Riverbed Sky, and a collection of stage monologues, Heart Speak. His photographs appeared recently Narrative Magazine, and he was a contributor to the inaugural issue of San Pedro River Review. He shares an online gallery with his wife, Linda, at http://www.texanareviewgallery.com.
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