Poetry Competition Winners
Scott Withiam has taught Writing and Literature at Vermont College's Adult Degree Program and The Massachussetts Maritime Academy. His poems have appeared in The Beloit Poetry Journal, Massachusetts Review, The Notre Dame Review, Harvard Review, Green Mountains Review, The Sun and elsewhere. Poems are forthcoming in Field, Marlboro Review, Ploughshares, Puerto Del Sol, Tar River Poetry, and The Laurel Review.
Robert Fanning was awarded a Creative Artist Grant from ArtServe Michigan in 2001. He is currently poet-in-residence at Chadsey High School and Hutchins Middle School in Detroit. His poems have appeared in several journals, including Ploughshares, The Hawaii Review, America, The Ledge and ArtWord Quarterly. A finalist for the 2001 Paumanok Poetry Award as well as the 2000 and 2001 "Discovery/The Nation Award, he was the winner of the Foley Poetry Award in 1998. His manuscript, "Failed Existentialist in a Field of Fireflies" is currently being considered by publishers.
Jeff Walt’s first collection of poems, The Danger in Everything, was recently published by Mad River Books of Vermont. His poems have appeared recently in The Sun and in the anthologies, Intimate Kisses: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure (New World Library, 2001) and Touched by Eros (The Live Poets Society, 2002).
Jamie M. Beckett is a former San Francisco Chronicle reporter whose interest in Vietnamese refugees springs from her reporting on Vietnamese immigrants in Northern California. “Words” is one of a series of short stories about a Vietnamese family struggling to adapt to life in California. Another story in this series is forthcoming in Red Wheelbarrow.
Philip Byrne is a transplanted Dubliner, a graduate of University College Dublin and Lehman College. He lives in the Bronx with his wife and three sons and teaches middle school in Chappaqua. He was a 1999 Bronx Writers’ First Chapter competition winner. His poetry has been published in Soundings and is on display in a multi-media exhibition at CIAO Gallery in City Island. He is currently working on his MAW at Manhattanville College.
Phyllis Carito is Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at SUNY Columbia-Greene Community College, and teaches creative writing courses. She recently completed the MAW program at Manhattanville College. Phyllis has previously published articles and interviews in the newspaper, The Independent, (Columbia County, NY) and has poetry in The Returning Women, Hunter College, NY.
Victoria May Collett, cover artist, attended the Paddington School of Art in Sydney, Australia; the School of Visual Arts (NYC); the Brooklyn Museum Art School; and the NYU printmaking school (NYC) where she studied with master printmaker Krishna Reddy. Ms. Collett had had numerous collective and one-man exhibits, and maintains works in many private collection. A graduate of Manhattanville’s MAW Program, she has published short stories in Lumina and Inkwell, and is currently working on a novel.
Susan Kelly-DeWitt’s third chapbook, To A Small Moth, was published in 2001 by Poet’s Corner Press. She has work forthcoming in Poetry, Prairie Schooner and North American Review, among several others. She is currently the Associate Editor of Swan Scythe Press.
Robert Earle writes fiction in Virginia, where he has settled after spending much of the last twenty years in Europe and Latin America. His work has appeared in literary magazines across the US. He studied literature and writing at Princeton and Johns Hopkins.
Sarah Foster, born in London, England, and educated in New York City, is currently working on her Masters in Writing at Manhattanville College and her private pilot license at Danbury Airport. Already a published author of non-fiction, she works tirelessly on her first love: poetry, and is honored to be selected for publication in Inkwell Magazine.
Ercole Gaudioso has retired into a life of full-time writing after thirty-four years in law enforcement. His short stories have appeared in Italiana Americana, Next Phase, Inkwell, The American Catholic Magazine, Distillery and Left Curve. His photos have been published in The Bronx Home News and True Detective Magazine.
M. S. Greenberg is a poet and painter who lives in Manhattan. Her paintings have been shown and collected internationally. She has poems published or forthcoming in the following journals: Nimrod, Raritan Quarterly Review, Red Wheelbarrow, Oregon East, Mudfish, The South Carolina Review, and California Quarterly, and won both third place and honorable mention in the Ernestine Hoff Emerick Awards this year.
Christina Jacovides lives near Detroit, Michigan. She enjoys reading anything she can get her hands on, playing the piano and the cello, and running on her high school’s track and cross country teams. She is greatly honored that Inkwell has chosen her poem for publication.
Lysa James spent her childhood in Nigeria and South America. Her poems have appeared in Under the Legislature of the Stars, as well as in Cimarron Review, Granite Review, Black River Review, Negative Capability, Many Mountains Moving, and Red Brick Review. James’s manuscript If You Sing to the River was one of three finalists for the Kent State University–Wick Poetry Prize for 1999, judged by Lucille Clifton. Her chapbook Concerning Persephone was awarded an honorable mention in the Sarasota Poetry Theatre Chapbook for Women contest in 1999.
Steven Kerneklian’s short story, We All Sing the Blues, recently appeared in Ararat Magazine. Clean Getaway is his second published story. This luck follows his MAW and a short but prosperous career as editor of Inkwell Magazine—publishing other authors’ short stories. Adhering to the “do unto others” thing, he is now giving book publishing a try—publishing other authors’ novels at Sheridan House Publishers in Dobbs Ferry, NY.
Chris Kingsley lives in New Hamburg, NY, with his wife and 2 children. He is currently working on a novel based on the journals of his dog, Milo.
Donna J. Gelagotis Lee has poetry published or forthcoming in The Bitter Oleander; Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women; The Cortland Review; Feminist Studies; Hurricane Alice; The Midwest Quarterly; Phoebe: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Scholarship; Wisconsin Review; and other journals. Donna is a freelance editor in New Jersey.
David Mantilla is a graduate of Harvard University and a proud, native New Yorker. He has traveled throughout Europe and Latin America as well as the coastal United States. He is an amateur photographer interested in portraying the emotional and social undercurrents that flow in our daily lives.
Rea Nolan Martin has taught as an adjunct professor at Manhattanville College, where she also received her BA and MAW degrees. She is a former editor of Inkwell, and has published short stories and poems in such publications as Nimrod, Pangolin Papers, The Distillery, Blue Unicorn, and others. In her former life, she was the creative director of a Chicago-based advertising agency.
Cynthia McDonald taught English at Fox Lane High School in Bedford, New York, for twenty-seven years. Recently retired, she enrolled in the Master of Arts in Writing Program in Manhattanville and will graduate in June. A past member of the Down River Poetry Group in Hastings-on-Hudson for thirteen years, she is currently teaching part time in Manhattanville’s undergraduate writing program. Cynthia lives in Bedford, New York.
Rita McGregor is currently a 51 year old college junior in Moorhead, Minnesota. A late bloomer, she started writing stories in freshman English. This is her first publication. Dagan will be 28 years old in November of 2002.
Judith Moderacki is an Art Director and Graphic Designer. She has a B.A. in Fine Arts from Hofstra University studied for some time in Vienna. She is an Intaglio Printmaker and Fine Artist and, as Art Director for Inkwell, has enjoyed the challenge of creating each new cover and the magazine’s new interior.
J. Morris has published fiction and poetry in many literary magazines in the U.S. and Great Britain, including Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Five Points, and Poetry International. A critical essay, “The Gliding Eye: Nabokov’s Marvelous Terror,” first published in The Southern Review, has been reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
Dorene O’Brien’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the Red Rock Review, the MacGuffin, Peregrine, the Princeton Arts Review, Alkali Flats, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism and others. She teaches writing at Wayne State University and at College for Creative Studies in Detroit. She is the 2000 winner of Red Rock Review’s Mark Twain Award for Short Fiction.
Midge Raymond is a writer, editor, and teacher. Her work has appeared and/or is forthcoming in various national and international publications, including Bostonia magazine, Other Voices, River Oak Review, Red Rock Review, Pearl magazine, The Charter Oak Review, and others. She teaches communication writing at Boston University and creative writing workshops at Grub Street Writers.
Elisavietta Ritchie's new manuscript Awaiting Permission to Land won Anamnesis Poetry Award. In Haste I Write You This Note: Stories & Half-Stories won Washington Writers’ Publishing House’s fiction competition. Flying Time: Stories & Half-Stories includes four PEN Syndicated Fiction winners. Poetry books include: The Arc of the Storm; Elegy for the Other Woman; Tightening The Circle Over Eel Country (won Great Lakes Colleges Association's 1975-76 "New Writer's Award").
P. Culkin Ruddy is a writer and documentary film-maker whose previous stories have appeared in Details, Detour and Lynx Eye. He publishes the underground literary ‘zine LIVE/nude words and is currently completing a collection of short stories about working behind the scenes in film production. He lives in Los Angeles.
Anthony Seidman is from Los Angeles, where he now lives with his family, teaches, and writes. Some of his poetry has recently appeared in a special feature on the Mexican photographer, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, published in the newspaper La Reforma (Mexico City). His first book, On Carbon-Dating Hunger is still available from The Bitter Oleander Press.
Denise Shekerjian is an award-winning author of two works of nonfiction, including recently re-issued Uncommon Genius, a narrative look at creativity. Recent work appears in the Crab Orchard Review and The Charlton Review. At present, she is finishing a novel and is working on a volume of essays. Prior to turning to writing full time, she was a practicing trial attorney in New York City.
Stephanie Taline Sirabian is a student at Rye High School, where she was introduced to black and white photography. When not in school or taking and developing photographs, she dances with the Steffi Nossen Dance Company, which performs in Westchester County and New York City.
Rob Smith graduated from Pitzer College in 1991 with a degree in philosophy and psychology. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California. This is his first short story to appear in a magazine.
Matthew J. Spireng’s chapbook, Inspiration Point, which won the 2000 Bright Hill Press Poetry Chapbook Competition, will be published in 2002. Since 1990, his poetry has received many awards and appeared in numerous publications including The American Scholar, Southern Humanities Review, Tampa Review, Yankee, Poet Lore, Southern Poetry Review, High Plains Literary Review and College English.
Mario Susko, a witness and survivor of the war in Bosnia, received his M.A. and Ph.D. from SUNY at Stony Brook and has lived on and off in this country half of his past thirty years. His poetry has been published by Nassau Review, Seneca Review, Verse, Fence, Borderlands, Ellipsis, Poetry International, The Progressive, Glass Tesseract, and Wavelength, among others, and is forthcoming in Red Wheelbarrow, Mochila Review, Poetry Motel, Concrete Wolf, and Wind Magazine. He is the author of 21 books of poems, the most recent, The Life After, released in October 2001.
Dianalee Velie is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and has a Master of Arts in Writing from Manhattanville College. Her award-winning poetry and short stories have been published in hundreds of literary journals throughout the USA and Canada, including Kalliope, The Potomac Review, The Atlanta Review, Grit, and The North Dakota Review. She conducts poetry workshops throughout the country and currently teaches in the ILEAD program at Dartmouth and at Colby Sawyer College.
Joyce Yarrow's poems have appeared in Niobe and Ghost Dance magazines. She has written scripts for CD-ROM titles as well as stories for multimedia performance pieces. Ms. Yarrow is also a singer/songwriter -- her CD, Total Reflex, was recently released by the Soundbridge label. She lives in Seattle, WA.
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