Contributors

Brian Adler teaches courses at the University of California, Irvine and National University. He is currently working on a study of American modernist poetry. His poetry has appeared in South Ash Press, Tantra Press, Rock Falls Review, Suburban Wilderness Press, Bricolage, and The Seattle Review among other publications. Originally from Seattle, Washington, he lives in Los Angeles, California. 

Stevan Allred lives in a house in the woods in rural Oregon, halfway between Fisher’s Mill and Viola. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Clackamas Literary Review, The Iconoclast, and I Wanna Be Sedated: 30 Writers On Parenting Teenagers. His fiction can be found online at Mississippi Review, The Paumanok Review, and Pindeldyboz. He was awarded an Oregon Literary Fellowship in 2004. 

Maureen Alsop’s poems have appeared or are pending in various publications including Margie, 88, Paterson Literary Review (Honarable Mention, Alan Ginsberg Award), Adirondack Review among other publications. She was twice nominated for the 2005 Pushcart Prize and hosts a poetry reading series at the Palm Springs Art Museum.  

Jacob M. Appel’s short fiction has appeared in Agni, Bellevue Literary Review, Colorado Review, Florida Review, Raritan, Southwest Review, StoryQuarterly, West Branch and elsewhere. He holds an M.F.A. from New York University and teaches at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and the Gotham Writers’ Workshop in New York City. Jacob can be found on the Internet at www.jacobmappel.com and he welcomes email at jma38@columbia.edu. 

Tony Barnstone is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and English at Whittier College, and has published his poetry, fiction, essays and translations in dozens of major American journals. His books of poems include Sad Jazz: Sonnets (Sheep Meadow Press, 2005) and Impure: Poems by Tony Barnstone (University Press of Florida, 1998) in addition to the chapbook Naked Magic. His other books include The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry; Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry; Laughing Lost in the Mountains: Poems of Wang Wei; The Art of Writing: Teachings of the Chinese Masters; and the textbooks Literatures of Asia, Africa and Latin America, Literatures of Asia, and Literatures of the Middle East. His forthcoming books are a translation of the selected poems of Han Shan, Chinese Poems of Erotic Love (Anchor Books), and number of textbooks for Prentice Hall Publishers, including The Pleasures of Poetry: An Introduction, World Literature (two volumes), and Modern Poetry: An Anthology with Contexts, among others. Born in Middletown, Connecticut, and raised in Bloomington, Indiana, Barnstone lived for years in Greece, Spain, Kenya and China before taking his Masters in English and Creative Writing and Ph.D. in English Literature at UC Berkeley. 

Michele Battiste earned her MFA from Wichita State University where she was the 2004 Poetry Fellow and received a 2005 AWP Intros Award. Her poems have appeared in The Laurel Review, CALYX, Rattle, 5 AM, Willow Springs and DIAGRAM, among others. Nomadic by default, she is the author of the chapbook Mapping the Spaces Between (Snark Publishing). She lives and works in New York City, but not for long. 

Monty Blight doesn’t hunt but has friends who do. Raised in a military family, he has lived and traveled all over the world. A technology professional and amateur storyteller, Monty says he “can’t not write” anymore. He has finished his first novel, The Fix, and has written a weekly sports column for an online football website. Monty lives in North Carolina with his wife and two children.    

Andrew Boobier was born in Haworth, West Yorkshire in the UK and is a
prize-winning poet, translator and editor of the Alsop Review’s online
quarterly Octavo. His work has appeared in many magazines in the UK and
USA. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2004. 

M. Doretta Cornell, RDC, is Associate Professor of English at Pace University, Pleasantville, and a Sister of the Divine Compassion. Recent poems appeared in Connecticut River Review, Red River Review, Commonweal, Review for Religious, and the Poetry Caravan anthology (en)compass. 

Peter Covino’s new book Cut Off the Ears of Winter (2005) was recently published by Western Michigan University/New Issues Press. He is also the winner of the 2001 Frank O’Hara Chapbook Prize in Poetry. Additionally, he has twice been the recipient of the prestigious Steffensen Cannon Fellowship from the Dean of Graduate Programs at the University of Utah, where he is finishing his Ph.D. in English; and he also received a scholarship to study at the Provincetown Work Center. His poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Columbia , The Journal, The Paris Review, Verse, and The Penguin Anthology of Italian-American Writing among other publications. He is one of the founding editors of Barrow Street and Barrow Street Press; and currently teaches Italian Studies at Rutgers University and English at Pratt Institute. 

Debra Daniel has twice been named the SC Arts Commission Poetry Fellow (2006, 1994) and was awarded the 2002 Guy Owen Prize. She has won numerous awards from the Poetry Society of SC including the Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Society Prize, received fellowships in fiction and poetry from the SC Academy of Authors, as well as a fiction scholarship to Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Her work has appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry, Gargoyle, Twenty SC Poetry Fellows, Inheritance, The State Newspaper, and The Charleston Post and Courier. 

Jean Esteve lives with two spaniel-types on the Oregon coast. They all like to walk and swim. New poems coming out in Oregon’s Fireweed and Hubbub; also Madison Review, Mudfish. 

After leaving a thirty-four year career in law enforcement, Ercole Gaudioso has dedicated his days to singing, photography and writing. His essays, articles and photos have appeared in detective magazines as well as in this year’s spring issue of OSIA, the publication of the”Sons of Italy in America.” His short stories have appeared in various literary magazines and have done well in competitions. He has recently rewritten one of four novels, an assignment in his pursuit of an MFA in Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University. 

Carla Gericke lives with her husband in Chinatown, NYC. She is enrolled in the MFA Creative Writing Program at City College. Before turning to writing full time, she practiced law in South Africa and California. Her short stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in collections, literary journals and online. “The Mighty Zuluman” was awarded first place in AIM 92s 2004 short story contest. Carla is currently working on her first novel. 

Ann Goethe’s first novel, Midnight Lemonade, was published by Delacorte Press and also published in Germany, Sweden, Korea and Israel; the novel was a finalist for the Barnes and Noble “Discovery Prize.” Two of her plays have been published and her poetry, stories and essays have appeared in journals such as The Southern Review, Outer Bridge and Crescent Review. She lives in Virginia on a small peninsula, Belle Bend, in the ancient and beautiful New River. 

Maile Holck lives in Berkeley, California with her husband, Justin. She has had one poem published in the SOMA literary review. “The paper cut” is her second published poem. 

Nancy Krim currently teaches in the MAW program at Manhattanville College and at the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center. She holds an MFA from the Warren Wilson MFA Program. Her work has been published in Prairie Schooner, The Los Angeles Review, Kansas Quarterly, Calliope, The New York Times, The English Journal and other publications. 

Kristen-Paige Madonia was born and raised in southern Virginia; she received her MFA in Creative Writing from California State University, Long Beach, where her collection of short stories was awarded the Best Thesis Award for the College of Liberal Arts. Her fiction has previously been published or is forthcoming in Pearl, Beginnings Magazine, and Barbaric Yawp. She lives and teaches in San Francisco and is currently at work on her first novel. 

Jennifer Perrine was the recipient of the 2005 Bellingham Review 49^th Parallel Poetry Award, the 2004 The Ledge Poetry Award, and the 2004 Writers at Work Poetry Fellowship.  Her poems have appeared recently in such journals as The Cream City Review, Nimrod, Quarterly West, RHINO, and River Styx. She lives in Tallahassee, Florida, where she teaches writing at Florida State University and serves as poetry editor of The Southeast Review. 

JoAnne Preiser’s poems are forthcoming in Penwood Review, IRIS and Pyramid Magazine. She received an Honorable Mention in The Friends of Arcadia Poetry Competition. 

Robert L. Shearer was born in Kentucky and lives in Florida, where for the past 25 years he has taught philosophy, logic, cultural history, and music in the Humanities Department of Florida Tech.  He holds a Master’s in music, and a Ph.D. in philosophy, both from Florida State University.  He is attempting to publish his first novel, about a homeless schizophrenic who thinks he is Beethoven. 

Mya Spalter is a freelance book writer and bookkeeper. Raised in New Rochelle, New York, Mya is a graduate of Eugene Lang College and co-founder of Drunk N Sailor Press. She lives in Brooklyn with two cats and two boys and is nearsighted from reading in the dark. 

Jessica Treglia lives in Southern California with her husband and son and teaches at the University of California, Irvine. Currently, she is working on a story collection. 

Angela Wade is a freelance writer. Her articles and reviews can be found in both national and international publications. She currently lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee where she continues to pursue creative writing.

Timothy Walsh’s poems have appeared in The North American Review, Soundings East, The Midwest Quarterly, Rivendell, Chiron Review, The Comstock Review and others. He won the Grand Prize in the 2004 Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition and has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac. He has also won several awards for his short stories, and two of them have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His book of literary criticism, The Dark Matter of Words: Absence, Unknowing, and Emptiness in Literature, was published in 1998 by Southern Illinois University Press. His poetry collection, Wild Apples, was published by Parallel Press in 2004. For his day job, he serves as Director of undergraduate advising at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

Gabriel Welsch is the author of Dirt and All Its Dense Labor (Word Tech Editions, 2006), a collection of poems, as well as stories that have appeared in Georgia Review, Mid-American Review, New Letters, Ascent, MacGuffin, Cream City Review, and elsewhere. He works at Penn State in fundraising. 

Abbey Winant is a first-year student at Harvard Medical School. Her poetry was a winner of the 2005 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Competition and has been published in The Harvard Advocate and The Bennington Review. She is a graduate of Harvard College (2003) and recently completed her MFA in Writing and Literature at Bennington College (2005). 

Lauren Workman is a senior at Saratoga High School and has been studying poetry under the tutelage of Ms. Judith Sutton for nearly three years. Last year she received third place in the Montalvo Arts Center Annual Young Writer’s Competition for “Cider Press,” an honorable mention in the California State Poetry Society contest for “Incredible” and an honorable mention in West Valley/Mission College Olympiad of the Arts contest for “Adrift,” a Shakespearean sonnet.