Inkwell Journal

Contributors

Alethea Black was born in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard College in 1991. Her father was a mathematician, and for a long time she believed her name, the Greek word for truth, was his way of tipping his cap to the idea of absolutes. Then one day her mother overheard her offer this explanation and said, ³No, we got your name from a TV show.² (Witness for the Defense.) She currently lives with her miniature dachshund Zoë in Pawling, NY, where she is completing a book of short stories. She can be reached at aletheablack.com. This is her first published story.

Brad Buchanan is Assistant Professor of English at Sacramento State University. His poetry has been published in more than 100 journals worldwide, and his first book, "The Miracle Shirker" is available through his poetry blog at: www.miracleshirker.blogspot.com

Claudia Burbank is the recipient of a 2003 Fellowship from the New Jersey state Council on the Arts as well as a Pushcart Prize nomination. Her recent poems appear in Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, New York Quarterly, and 42opus. She is a resident of Bernardsville, NJ.

Pamela Burger was born, raised, and still lives in New York City. She received her MFA in creative writing from NYU in 2005. She is currently working towards her doctorate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. She teaches writing and literature at Hunter College and NYU.

Heather Candels is a student in the MAW program at Manhattanville. Her poems have been published in Roux Magazine, Red Hawk Review, and she has been a featured poet on Hotmetalpress.com. She teaches middle school English in Wilton, Connecticut.

Joshua Conklin, a teacher by trade, is currently devoting a year to exclusive work on writing projects including poetry, short fiction, and a family memoir. His poetry has been featured at Wild Child Publishing, SNR Review, and Ocean Magazine.

Phyllis Carito is VP & Dean of Academic Affairs, and teaches Creative Writing at SUNY Columbia-Greene Community College. She is a graduate of the MAW at Manhattanville College. Her previous publications include articles and interviews in The Independent, poetry in Returning Women, and prose in Inkwell.

Mary Anna Dunn is the program director of The Enrichment Alliance of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. She lives with her family on the Moormans River in Sugar Hollow. Her previous publications have been academic and include articles in Educational Leadership and The Social Studies.

Ira Joe Fisher is a 40-year veteran of radio and television broadcasting, currently with CBS. He has received two Emmys for television writing. His poetry books include Remembering Rew and Some Holy Weight in the Village Air. His poetry has appeared in Poetry New York, Confrontation and other journals. He conducts workshops and gives readings in New York and throughout New England. Ira Joe Fisher is a 40-year veteran of radio and television broadcasting, currently with CBS. He has received two Emmy's for television writing. His poetry books include Remembering Rew and Some Holy Weight in the Village Air. His poetry has appeared in Poetry New York, Confrontation and other journals. He conducts workshops and gives readings in New York and throughout New England.

Kathryn Henion is currently working toward a Ph.D. in English at Binghamton University where she is editor of Harpur Palate, an international literary journal. She lives and writes in Ithaca, New York.

John Hoppenthaler’s poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s, Barrow Street, Tar River Poetry, Alehouse, ABZ, Chautauqua Literary Journal, the anthologies Chance of a Ghost, Poetry Calendar, and Blooming through the Ashes, and elsewhere. His two books of poetry are Lives Of Water (2003) and Anticipate the Coming Reservoir (2008), both titles from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Poetry Editor of Kestrel, he teaches at West Virginia University at Parkersburg.

Suzan Jantz is a freelance writer and editor living in the mountains of northern California with her partner, four dogs, four cats, and two horses. Her poetry has been published in Calyx, Sinister Wisdom, The Rectangle, The Studium, The Suisun Valley Review, and Watershed. She was awarded a CSU, Chico Research and Creativity Grant in 2005 for work on a poetry chapbook, The Heartache Season: Traveling the Lassen-Applegate Trail, and in 2006 for a poetry anthology, Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses, publication forthcoming in 2007 by Yarroway Mountain Press.

Susi Klare is the recipient of a 2001 Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship and numerous literary awards. Her stories have been published in Peregrine, Other Voices, Carve Magazine, River City, Dogwood, Mississippi Review, and twice in Fish Anthology. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her as yet unpublished book is entitled “Stories from the Middle of Nowhere.” She lives with her husband and son on the family homestead in the Coast Range of Oregon.

Katharyn Howd Machan is the author of 25 published collections, most recently FLAGS (Pudding House Publications, 2007) and REDWING: VOICES FROM 1888 (FootHills Publishing, 2005). She is an associate professor in the Department of Writing at Ithaca College, where she co-directs the summer Ithaca College Writing Institute.

Robert Mezey was educated at Kenyon, Iowa, and Stanford; he has taught at Western Reserve, Fresno State, Univ. of Utah, Franklin & Marshall and elsewhere; he was professor and poet-in-residence at Pomona College, teaching occasionally at the Claremont Graduate School. His poems, prose and translations have been appearing since 1953 in many journals, including New York Review of Books, Hudson Review, New Yorker, New Republic, Raritan, Paris Review, TLS, Partisan Review, Kenyon Review, Yale Review, Poetry, New Criterion, Literary Imagination and others.

Edward Kelsey Moore’s short fiction has appeared in the Berkeley Fiction Review, the Salt River Review and the River Oak Review and been broadcast on Chicago Public Radio. Edward lives in Chicago where he works as a professional cellist.

Paul Muldoon, born in Northern Ireland, wrote his first book of poems at age 21. His collection, Moy Sand and Gravel, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003. Horse Latitudes is his most recent book of poetry and the lectures he gave at Oxford have been published in The End of the Poem. He formed a rock band, Rackett, after the death of friend and song collaborator Warren Zevon. He has been quoted as saying: "I do like to think of the song as a genre that might be considered as part of the general poetry world.” He directs Princeton University's Center for the Creative and Performing Arts and lives in New Jersey.

Melissa Palladino is a private chef working in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. She lives in Rockport with her husband, son and cat in a renovated church.

Anthony Roesch currently lives in downtown Chicago with his wife and enjoys his weekly writing group. Born in Los Angeles , he is an architect and planner for twenty-five years and is working on a collection of short stories.

Amy Ralston Seife received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania , an MA in English Literature from Yale and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College . Her fiction has received First Prize in the 2007 Pen & Brush Prose Contest and honorable mentions in the Zoetrope: All-Story 2004 Fiction Contest and the 2007 Inkwell Competition. Her work has appeared in Lumina, The Westchester Review and The Pennsylvania Gazette. She currently lives in Larchmont, New York .

Peter Selgin’s stories and essays have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including The Sun, Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Glimmer Train, Boulevard and Best American Essays. He has been a finalist for the James Jones First Novel Award, the Iowa Fiction Award, and the Jefferson Press Prize. He is the author of By Cunning & Craft: Sound Advice and Practical Wisdom for Fiction Writers (Writer’s Digest Books). He leads an annual writing workshop in Italy, and edits Alimentum: The Literature of Food.

Jackie Shannon-Hollis grew up in a small town on the east side of Oregon, a town that still has a 4 th of July parade that goes down the street and then comes back up. Jackie now lives on the west side of Oregon , in Portland . She goes home as soon as possible. Her stories have appeared, or are upcoming in MARY, Rosebud, the South Dakota Review, the Oregon Literary Review, and Fiction Attic. She has completed a collection of stories.

Martin Steingesser has a book of poems called Brothers of Morning. He sometimes dances on stilts and teaches poetry to children and teachers through artists in the schools programs in Maine, where he lives in the coastal city of Portland. Several of his poems can be read in recent issues of The Sun, Tiferet Journal and Janus Head. His sweetheart says, “He makes the best damn sliced egg sandwiches in the state.”

Sean Tully lives in Pearl River, NY, and works for a company he'd rather not give publicity to. He is a student in Manhattanville's MAW program. This is his first poetry publication.

William H. Wandless is an Assistant Professor of English at Central Michigan University. His research focuses primarily on the intersection of form and ethics in English prose fiction of the eighteenth century and in productions of contemporary American popular culture. After a long, heartbreaking hiatus he has returned to writing poetry and speculative fiction. His verse has recently appeared in the Boxcar Poetry Review.

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