Grand Prize Winner: Barbara Louise Brooks began writing fiction last year, after working for more than 15 years in journalism and marketing communications. She was born and raised in Miami Beach and graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Ms. Brooks now lives in Armonk, NY and works as a communications consultant. She was first published in Inkwell (Winter 1999).
Finalist: Sarah Flygare lives in Seattle and Olympia Washington, depending on the day. In 1999 she was the recipient of the Artist Trust Grant and the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction. She is currently working on a novel set in Bozeman, Montana.
Finalist: Flaminia Ocampo is working on her MFA in Creative Writing at The New School, and lives in New York City.
Finalist: Ann Marie Samson has been living in the woods of northern California with her husband and family for some time now--so long, she feels it is her true birthplace. Samson is a teacher by trade and has taught every age group from K to 90. At the present time she is teaching memoir writing workshops to seniors. her fiction has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Quixote Quarterly, Anathema Review, and New Settler Interview.
Raymond Barto, who has read his poetry in the house where William Carlos Williams was born, still believes that there are no ideas but in things. He writes and publishes with encouraging regularity from his home in northern New Jersey.
Sylvia Rosa-Casanova is currently enrolled in the MAW Program at Manhattanville College. She is the author of Mama Provi and the Pot of Rice, a picture book published by Atheneum in 1997. This is her first poem to appear in print.
Victoria May Collett, a graduate of the M’ville MAW program, writes short stories, creative non-fiction pieces and sometimes children’s stories. She is published in numerous magazines. Currently concentrating on a series of inter-related short stories. She lives and writes on Long Island or whatever island she happens to be on.
Gina Forberg is a poet and elementary physical education teacher in Westport, Connecticut. She is currently involved in an ongoing project entitled, “Poetry in Motion,” which enables young people to creatively express themselves through movement and writing. Gina is midway through the MAW program at Manhattanville College. The Bicycle is her first published piece.
Joan Frank's recent short fiction appears in The Antioch Review and the Kennesaw Review; her recent essays in The American Literary Review and the AWP Writer's Chronicle. She teaches at San Francisco State University.
Ercole Gaudioso is an Investigator with the New York State Organized Crime Task Force. He is retired from the New York City Police Department. His Works have appeared in Next Phase, Italian Americana, and Inside Detective.
Inez D. Geller lives in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. She received her B.A. from the College of New Rochelle. Geller has completed her first novel, House Wine and Bronx Poets, and is working on her second novel, Masquerade. Ms. Geller is essentially a poet of the human condition.
Sid Gustafson is a writer and veterinarian. He lives in Bozeman, MT with his children Connor and Nina. His last published piece, Prisoners of Flight, has been nominated for the upcoming Pushcart Prize. His novels are floating around New York City looking for a publisher.
Lou Hicks began painting in her late thirties. He works have appeared in numerous exhibitions and group shows worldwide. She currently resides in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Deborah Maier is an artist, animator and teacher who dreams of the perfect marriage of the mindsets involved in those pursuits. Much influenced by travels and particularly by time spent living in the Middle East. At work on an animated graphic novel, of which the present story is a byproduct.
J. D. Mason is studying for his Master of Arts in Writing at Manhattanville College. He lives in Brewster, New York with his cat, Tinkerbell, who at times tries to edit his work. Mason is an adjunct professor of reading and a senior tutor at Westchester Community College.
Ted Millar holds a degree in English literature from Marist College and is presently enrolled in the MAT program at Manhattanville College. He is also an adjunct professor of English at Westchester Community College. His work has also appeared in the Hudson Valley Literary Magazine and The Nimham Times.
A graduate of Cooper Union, Albin Moderacki, retired as a Creative Director from a New York based advertising firm to pursue a lifetime love of travel, using pen and sketchbook to capture "the moment" in the off-the-beaten-path places visited.
Deidre Moderacki, a freelance artist associated with various New York design firms, has been a frequent illustration contributor to literary magazines and other publications.
Judith Moderacki is an Art Director and Graphic Designer. She has a B.A. in Fine Arts from Hofstra University and studied for some time in Vienna. She is an Intaglio Printmaker and Fine Artist and, as Art Director for Inkwell, is enjoying the challenge of “working with the black and white medium where composition is dominant.”
Katherin Nolte will graduate with a BA in English from Wright State University in June. She has had fiction published in The Vincent Brothers Review, Happy, the Dayton Daily News, and the undergraduate anthology Let Go of My Ear! I Know What I’m Doing. She lives in Ohio.
Alison Pierce is a graduate of Sleepy Hollow High School, in Sleepy Hollow, NY. In 1993, her favorite English teacher suggested she attend the Summer Writer’s Camp at Manhattanville. This decision greatly influenced her writing, as well as her decision to attend Manhattanville in 1997, where she currently studies psychology and German.
Kevin Pilkington is part of the full-time writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. His work has appeared in numerous magazines including the Iowa Review, Ploughshares, and the New England Poetry Anthology. He is the author of four books of poetry, and his latest book, Spare Change, was a National Poetry Book Series winner.
Heather Pope is just over halfway through the MAW program at Manhattanville College. She currently teaches freshman composition classes and tutors adults in writing.
Irene Steinmann lives in Stamford, Connecticut. She is enrolled in the Master of Arts in Writing program at Manhattanville College and is currently working on a young adult novel. She wishes to thank Dan Masterson, whose poetry workshop provided a “safe place” to write. Her poetry has appeared in Rosebud.
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