Short Fiction Competition Grand Prize Winner and Published Finalists:
Grand Prize Winner: Elizabeth England lives and writes in New York City. She received her MA in creative writing from City College of New York, where she won the Geraldine Griffith Moore Short Story Award. Her stories have appeared in The Nebraska Review, Global City Review and Promethean. Most recently, she won a 1998 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction. Elizabeth teaches fiction writing at The Writers Studio.
Finalist: Jen Hirt holds a B.A. in English from Hiram College in Ohio, and an M.A. in English from Iowa State University. She has been accepted into the University of Idaho's MFA program. She lives in Ames, Iowa with her lions and her kleptomania.
Finalist: James Kuzner graduated from the University of Maryland College Park in May 2000. After a brief and disastrous stint in the graduate program in English at Johns Hopkins University, he is now working in Washington, DC. This fall he will return to UMCP to pursue an M.F.A. in creative writing.
Cynthia Anderson’s work has appeared most recently in The North American Review, Literal Latte and Hayden’s Ferry Review. She was winner of the 2000 AWP/Prague Summer Seminars fiction fellowship and the 2000 River City short story contest. She lives outside Boston with her son and daughter and their four corgis.
Joanne Argento holds degrees from Boston University and The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. Her work has appeared in Sojourner and is forthcoming in others. She lives and works with her husband, the painter Slobodan Trajkovic, in New York City.
Raymond Barto has most recently been published in Trestle Creek Review, ELF Magazine, River King Poetry Supplement, Twilight Ending and, of course, Inkwell. Raymond has poems forthcoming in Clark Street Review and Raintown Review. He lives and writes in HoHoKus, New Jersey, the only double-hyphenated place name in North America. He publishes his own work with encouraging regularity.
Jeanne Marie Beaumont is the author of Placebo Effects (W.W. Norton). New poems appear in recent issues of Seneca Review, New American Writing, Rattapallax, and Manhattan Review as well as on-line in Jacket. She teaches writing at Rutgers University and lives in Manhattan.
Janet Bohac lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She teaches English at Western Michigan University.
Brad Buchanon is studying for his Ph.D. in English (specializing in 20th century British poetry and fiction) at Stanford University. He received his BA at McGill University in Montreal, and has published poetry in Canada, Britain and a number of American journals, among them The South Dakota Review, yefief, The Comstock Review, riverrun, The Portland Review, Illuminations, The Notre Dame Review and Lucid Stone.
R.T. Castleberry—writer, wit and social critic—is co-editor/co-publisher of the poetry monthly Curbside Review. His work has appeared in Travois: An Anthology of Texas Poetry, Poetry Motel, Stone Drum, Visions International and ByLine. While trying to avoid the consequences of a bad reputation, Mr. Castleberry lives and works in Houston, Texas.
Janet Chalmers is a writer, photographer, and birdwatcher. She has an MFA from Columbia University and is presently working on a poetry cycle called Stories, Myths, Lies, Deceptions. She works in New York as a freelance graphic designer and lives in Connecticut.
V. M. Collett, graduate of the Manhattanville Masters in Writing program, writes short stories and is currently working on a novel. She has been published in Inkwell and Lumina.
Alice Dark is the author of two widely acclaimed collections of short stories, In the Gloaming and Naked to the Waist. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and Harper’s and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and The Best American Short Stories of the Century.
Orman Day, who works as a public relations consultant in Orange County, CA, has backpacked through 90 countries and all 50 states. He bungee jumped off a bridge in New Zealand, fed the dying destitutes at Mother Teresa’s hospice in Calcutta, was jailed at Mardi Gras, and rode freight trains from California to Louisiana. His short stories and essays have appeared in such journals as Zyzzyva, Creative Nonfictiion, Bitter Oleander, Portland Review and Spectacle.
Thomas Dorsett is the author of one collection of original poetry and two collections of poetry in translation. His essays, poems, and translations have appeared in over 300 literary journals during the past 30 years. A pediatrician at a Johns Hopkins outpatient site, he is actively seeking opportunities to translate more poetry or prose from the German.
John Drexel’s poems have appeared in many literary magazines on both sides of the Atlantic, including Hudson Review, Paris Review, Salmagundi, Southern Review, and Verse, and his work is included in A Fine Madness: Contemporary Literature at Play (Sarabande Books, 2001). A former editor at Oxford University Press and the past recipient of Amy Lowell and Hawthornden fellowships, he currently works as a freelance writer and editor, and divides his time between England and the United States.
Gina Forberg is a writer and elementary physical education teacher in Westport, Connecticut. Her work has appeared in the literary magazine Under The Sun and in an anthology entitled Mother’s Words. She is currently enrolled in the MAW program at Manhattanville College. This is her second poem to appear in Inkwell Magazine. Gina resides in Fairfield, Connecticut with her husband Jim and her son, Griffin.
Hugh Fox (aka Connie Fox) has just hit 69 and is scared to death. He has 75 published books but his big books on the Mochica Indians as Phoenicians plus 30 novels remain unpublished. He has just finished a play of 30 monologues called Monologues for an Actress Friend (Leonore Reizen) and is writing a memoir about himself and his grandmother...title: Ma.
Ercole Gaudioso has retired into a life of full-time writing after thirty-four years in law enforcement. His short stories have appeared in Italian Americana, Next Phase, Inkwell and The American Catholic Magazine. One of his four novels is with an agent at this time. American Flyer is his first published essay.
Kristine Goad holds a Master of Professional Writing degree from the University of Southern California. While her poetry has appeared in several small journals, “Infinity” is her first piece of fiction to find a home. Currently, she is writing a memoir of a cross-country bicycle journey she completed in 1998.
Roger Hart’s stories have appeared in Other Voices, The Sun, Willow Springs, and other magazines. His story collection, Erratics, won the George Garrett Prize and will be published by The Texas Review Press. He presently lives on the Outer Banks with Gwen, his wife, a poet, and their dog Tango, who has been trained to eat all rejection slips. Roger is presently working on a novel.
Karen Jenkins Holt is managing editor of the trade newsletter Book Publishing Report and a regular contributor to Brill’s Content, for which she writes about the book business. A student at Manhattanville College’s MAW program, she lives in Stamford, Conn. with her husband, Nick.
Yuki Katsumata was born and raised in Japan. She had been teaching Japanese in Japan and America. She received a Master's degree in Japanese Pedagogy from Columbia University in 1999. She will receive her Masters in Writing from Manhattanville College in 2001.
Ted Keating is working on his Masters of Arts in Teaching at Manhattanville College. He is a native of Washington D.C. and currently lives in New Rochelle, NY.
Stephen Lackaye is a student at the University of Southern California. During 2000, he hosted the open poetry nights at the Cubbyhole Coffeehouse in his hometown of Poughkeepsie, New York. Stephen has been published once before in Inkwell. His work will also be included in the forthcoming anthology Voices of the Valley.
Dan Masterson's fourth book, All Things, Seen and Unseen, was published by The University of Arkansas Press in 1997. The complete texts of two of his earlier books appear on The Contemporary American Poetry Archives (http://capa.conncoll.edu). He was voted into membership of PEN in 1986. The recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, his work has appeared in various journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, Esquire, The Gettysburg Review, The Prairie Schooner and The Georgia Review. He is also the founder and director of the successful website for poets, Poetry Master (http://www.poetrymaster.com).
Carole Spearin McCauley studies in Manhattanville's Graduate Writing program. She has written 12 books and a mystery series beginning with Cold Steal (Women's Press, England). Her work has appeared in 150 periodicals, such as Family Circle, Redbook, Omni, Partisan Review, and others.
Paul McGlynn grew up in Detroit and teaches literature at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, though he doesn't consider himself an academic poet. The major influences on his writing have been art, travel, love, and a tenacious memory--not necessarily in that order.
Errol Miller, a featured artist in the 2000 Poet’s Market, has published in American Poetry Review, Rattapallax, Fence, First Intensity, Global City, etc. His latest full-length collection is “Magnolia Hall” from Pavement Saw Press, available as well from Small Press Distribution.
Sid Miller, after traveling and bumming around the southwest working odd jobs for a few years, has settled in Portland and is close to receiving his Masters in Writing from Portland State University. In his free time he enjoys sitting under heat lamps and praying to various sun gods. Recently Sid’s had poems published in Fireweed, Barbaric Yawp and Maelstrom, and will soon have others published in Blind Man’s Rainbow and through Gravity Press.
J. Morris has published fiction and poetry in many literary magazines in the U.S. and Great Britain, including The Southern Review, Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, and Five Points. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. His chapbook, Pregnant Blue, was published this spring.
Michael O’Brien has been writing for about thirty years now, trying to produce work that is accessible but also insightful. Publications as diverse as The Cimarron Review, Cotelydon, Rio Grande Review, Rag Mag and Post Card have accepted or published my pieces. He enjoys traveling scenic back roads, of California’s central coast.
Al Pierce resides in HoHoKus, New Jersey. He has had several photographic exhibits and group shows in the New Jersey area.
Larry Pike lives in Glasgow, Kentucky, where he works in human resources for a large manufacturer. His writing has appeared in Wind, Fan: A Baseball Magazine, ProCreation, Storytelling Magazine, Kentucky Monthly, and other publications. His play, Beating the Varsity, was produced during the 2000 season by Horse Cave Theatre, a professional repertory company.
Joseph Powell teaches English at Central Washington University, and his most recent books are Getting Here, published by the Quarterly Review of Literature in 1997 and Aegean Dialogues (a chapbook) published by March Street Press in 1998.
Michael D. Riley is the author of two books of poetry, Scrimshaw: Citizens of Bone, from Lightning Tree Press, and Circling the Stones (poems from Ireland), forthcoming from Creighton University Press. His poems have appeared in many periodicals, including Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Cumberland Poetry Review, The Fiddlehead, Kansas Quarterly, Arizona Quarterly, and Southern Humanities Review. He is an Associate Professor of English at Penn State’s Berks-Lehigh Valley College.
James Ryan’s fiction, poetry and literary criticism appear in Shenandoah, Eureka, Wellspring, Half Tones To Jubilee, The Washington Review and the American Book Review. He teaches in the Creative Writing Center at Columbia University. Now living in Istanbul, Turkey, he is in the final stage of a novel about a prizefighter set in The Bronx, New York: 1915-1922.
Natalie Serber lives with her husband and two children in Santa Cruz, California. Currently she is working on a book of linked stories.
John Eli Shapiro, a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, lives in Long Beach, California, with his wife, the choreographer Sophiline Cheam Shapiro, and their two sons. Jeanette! is his first published story.
Jeremy Edward Shiok was born and raised in New England. He is a native of both the rural Green Mountains of Vermont and the industrial cities of central Connecticut. He is currently an MFA student at the University of Alaska and will also be contributing to an upcoming issue of POETRY MOTEL.
Kathleen Walsh Spencer has published poems in Ekphrasis, 100 Words, The Red Cedar Review, LUNGFULL, American Poetry Monthly, The MacGuffin, and in several other journals. She is a nurse practitioner, edits Plastic Surgical Nursing journal, and reads and writes poetry when there is a free moment. Kathleen lives with her husband, daughter and their 70 pound German Shepherd in metropolitan Detroit.
Dianalee Velie’s poems have been published in journals worldwide, more recently including Kalliope, North Dakota Review, Grit. Her short stories have also appeared in the anthologies A Kiss is Just a Kiss, and Compass Rose. She conducts poetry workshops throughout the country and has taught at SUNY Purchase, Manhattanville and will be teaching in the ILAED program at Dartmouth in the fall.
Kristin Camitta Zimet works as a naturalist in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Her first collection of poems, Take in My Arms the Dark, was published by the Sow’s Ear Press of Abingdon, VA in 1999.
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