Contributors’ Notes

Victoria Brockmeier has worked as a waitress, a web designer, a drive-thru girl, an artists' model, an Air Force marketing specialist, and a palmist. Her poetry has appeared in journals including LIT, New Letters, The Arkansas Review, Natural Bridge and Chautauqua Literary Journal, and is forthcoming in Chelsea. She lives and teaches in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Barbara Brooks’s fiction and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Glimmer Train, Writer’s Digest, The Writer’s Chronicle, Inkwell, The Ledge, Jabberwock Review and elsewhere. In 2000, she won Inkwell’s national fiction contest for her story, “Lillie in Love.” She lives in Armonk, New York.

Robert Cording has published four books of poetry, including Heavy Grace (Alice James), and Against Consolation (Kevin Kerry Press). A fifth, called Common Life is due in 2006. He teaches at Holy Cross College.

M. Doretta Cornell is Associate Professor of English at Pace University, Pleasantville, and a Sister of the Divine Compassion. She is a member of Poetry Caravan. Recent poems have appeared in Review for Religious, National Catholic Reporter, Red River Review, and Connecticut River Review.

M. Allen Cunningham’s first novel, The Green Age of Asher Witherow, was a #1 Booksense Pick and is available everywhere. His short fiction has appeared or is soon to appear in a number of journals, including Glimmer Train, Epoch, Boulevard, and Redivider. He lives in northern California with his wife, Katie. Visit www.mallencunningham.com.

Nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, Corrine De Winter's poetry, fiction, essays and interviews have appeared worldwide in publications such as the The New York Quarterly, The Writer, The Lyric and over 600 other publications. She has been the recipient of awards from Triton College of Arts & Sciences, Writer's Digest, The Esme Bradberry Award, The Madeline Sadin Award, The Rhysling Award. De Winter is the author of seven collections of poetry & prose including Touching The Wound, which sold over 3000 copies in its first year, and the latest, The Women At The Funeral published by Space & Time Press.

Stephanie Dickinson was raised in rural Iowa and now lives in New York City. Her poetry and fiction appear in Cream City Review, Chelsea, Fourteen Hills, Terminus, Nimrod, Puerto del Sol, Tiferet, among others. Her first novel Half Girl recently won the Hackney Award (Birmingham-Southern) for best unpublished novel of 2002.

Emily Doak lives in Indiana. She recently completed a novel, The Rock Hound's Daughter. "The Silver Men" is her first published story.

Do Gentry lives in Sacramento, California. She has had poems published in Sulphur River Literary Review, Ekphrasis, Fourteen Hills, Rhino, The Ledge, and elsewhere. "The Nightmare Parable" was the winner of the 2004 Permafrost chapbook competition.

George Guida’s poems, short stories, and essays appear in a variety of journals and collections. His first book, The Peasant and the Pen (Lang), a book of essays on Italian American narrative, appeared in 2003. A revised edition of his first book of poems, Low Italian, is forthcoming from Bordighera Press. He was a finalist for the 2004 Bordighera Poetry Prize, a semi-finalist for the 2003 Paumanok Poetry Award, and has just completed two book-length poetry manuscripts, I Laugh at Death and New York and Other Lovers. In addition to teaching at New York City College of Technology, Guida co-founded and co-hosts the Intercollegiate Poetry Slam at the Bowery Poetry Club, and frequently performs his own work. A Long Island native, he lives in Queens.

Clark E. Knowles lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire with his wife Gail and his daughter Grace. He teaches writing at the University of New Hampshire. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Glimmer Train Stories, Black Warrior Review, Scribner’s Best of Fiction Workshops, The Flying Horse Review, and Red Rock Review. He is currently working on his MFA in Writing at Bennington College.

Sandra Kohler's poems have appeared recently in The Colorado Review, Elixir, and Diner. The Country of Women was published by Calyx (1995); her second collection, The Ceremonies of Longing, won the 2002 AWP Award Series in Poetry and was published in November 2003 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. She was the distinguished judge for Inkwell’s 8th Annual Poetry Competition and her poems have appeared in Inkwell No. 15.

Alexandra Lindquist is currently a MAW student at Manhattanville College, NY. She lives in Mahopac, NY with her husband and two daughters. “Consumed” is her first published poem.

Karl Malkoff, author of Theodore Roethke, Crowell’s Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry, and Escape from the Self, is Professor Emeritus at the City College of New York. He still teaches Greek Mythology and Greek Literature in Translation at the College’s Center for Worker Education

Lisa Pierce is a student in the Manhattanville College Master of Arts in Writing Program and Senior Development editor at Praeger, a nonfiction book publisher. Her journalism has appeared in magazines and newspapers including The New York Times. This is her first fiction publication.

A graduate of New York University’s Creative Writing Program, where he was a University Fellow, Otis Rubottom currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works as a freelance food and wine writer. He also drives the forklift, shovels out the fermenting tanks and helps bottle Pinot Noir for a small winery in the Willamette Valley. Poetry of his has appeared in Poetry International, The Bellingham Review, Washington Square, and elsewhere.

Linda Sherwin is a long-time New Yorker who recently moved back to California, her native state. “Thanksgiving” is her first published poem.

Paul Sohar gave up his formal education after a B.A. in philosophy to take a temporary job while pursuing literature. The results have slowly crept into Chelsea, Chiron, Grain, Hunger, Kenyon Review, Partisan Review, Rattle, Seneca Review, and six books of translations from the Hungarian. One of them is Dancing Embers (Twisted Spoon Press, 2002), selected poems by Sándor Kányádi, a Hungarian poet of Transylvania, Romania, where his people maintain a precarious minority existence. That is why Kányádi champions the cause of endangered ethnic groups all over the world.

D.S. Sulaitis’s short stories have appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, The Quarterly, New York Stories and in the Boston Review as winner of their short story contest. She has received two New York Foundation for the Arts Fiction Fellowships, for both 1996 and 2004. She has an essay forthcoming in a collection, which will be published by Norton in 2006. She is currently working on a novel and a collection of short stories.

Bradford Gray Telford grew up in Texas and was educated at Princeton and Columbia. He has published poems in many journals, with new work forthcoming in Birmingham Poetry Review, Diner, and Lyric. A second year Ph.D. student in Literature and Creative Writing at The University of Houston, he is currently he is at work on a book of translations by French poet Geneviève Huttin and is Poetry Editor of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Art.

Lucinda Watson holds a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.A. in Speech/Communication from San Francisco State University. She taught at the Haas School of Business at Berkeley for 10 years before deciding to focus solely on writing. She is the author of How They Achieved: Stories of Personal Achievement and Business Success (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, March 2001). Her work has been published in The Louisville Review, Phantasmagoria, The Griffin, The MacGuffin and Inkwell.

Kellie Wells was awarded the Flannery O'Connor Award and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for her collection of short fiction, Compression Scars. She is also a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award for emerging women writers. Her work has appeared in various journals, including The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Prairie Schooner. "Graft" is an excerpt from her novel Skin, forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press in 2006. She teaches in the creative writing program at Washington University in St. Louis.

Gabriel Welsch has poems appearing in Harvard Review, Missouri Review, Chautauqua Literary Journal, Mid-American Review, and several other journals. He also writes short stories, with work appearing in Georgia Review, New Letters, Ascent, Mid-American Review and Other Voices. In 2003, he received a Pennsylvania Arts Council Individual Artist’s Fellowship for Fiction, and in 2002 was the inaugural Thoreau Poet in Residence at the Toledo Botanical Garden.