Grand Prize & Second Honorable Mention Winner: Christian Nagle is finishing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston. He has previously published in Paris Review, the Antioch Review, New England Review, Connecticut Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and other periodicals. Other poems are forthcoming in Partisan Review and Southwest Review. He has been poetry editor for Gulf Coast for the last two years, and was a semi-finalist in the Discovery/The Nation poetry contest for three of the last four years. His play PAWNS was selected by Edward Albee for his New Play Series in 1998.
First Honorable Mention: Barbara Goldberg is the author of five books of poetry, the latest being the Violet Reed Haas Award-winning Marvelous Pursuits. She is also co-editor of After the First Rain: Israeli Poems on War and Peace. The recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, three grants from the Maryland State Arts Council as well as translation and fiction awards, her work appears in the Paris Review, Poetry, and the Harvard Review. She is an executive speechwriter for AARP.
Barbara Allende lives on Long Island and writes poetry to the swell of the Atlantic Ocean. As she jogs, swims, or bikes she uses poetry as her meditation to succeed. She is currently working on a collection.
Jennifer Banach, a writer and artist originally from Connecticut, now resides in New York and is completing her undergraduate studies at Manhattanville College.
Raffi Bandazian lives with his wife in New Jersey. He will finish his MAW in the Spring of 2000. "Your Mother Called" is his first piece published in the second person. He still hates Kenny G.
Jay Baruch is originally from New York, but has spent the last year living in Portland, Oregon where he is writing and practicing emergency medicine. His fiction has appeared in Fetishes.
Paula Belnap is a poet and fiction writer work has recently appeared in The Briar Cliff Review, Explorations and Sheila-Na-Gig. Belnap graduated from Northwestern University in 1987 and lives in Chicago with her husband and young daughter and son.
Ace Boggess (aceboggess@aol.com) of Huntington, WV, has had poetry appear or forthcoming in Notre Dame Review, Concho River Review, The Baltimore Review, as well as many others. His specialty is the existential novel of which he has completed seven manuscripts, all represented by Anne Hawkins with John Hawkins & Associates.
Paula C. Brancato, poet, playwright and screenwriter, has been a student of Lamont Prize poet Philip Schultz at The Writer’s Studio, NY since 1989. Paula has also studied with Philip Levine and Mary Stewart Hammond at The Writer’s Voice, NY. Paula’s writing has won several awards including 1998 Chester H. Jones Foundation for poetry.
Barbara Brooks, who lives in Armonk, New York, has worked in marketing and communications for 15 years. Although one might say she’s not new to “fiction,” The Sweet Spot is her first published story. Ms. Brooks was born and raised in Miami Beach Florida.
Ingrid Cabral was born in Brazil in 1963 and moved to New York in 1992. She has exhibited at the SoHo New World Art Center in New York and at the Southern New Jersey Art Center. Cabral has a BA in Advertising from the Catholic University and a graduate degree in Fine Arts form Panamericana School of Art in Sao Paulo.
Lynne R. Cashman, photographer, resides in New York City. Water as a sclptor, water in motion, and reflective water are some of the ways she shows how one of nature’s elements can be looked upon differently than we had imagined. She has had several exhibits and group shows, and has published her work in several periodicals.
Gretchen Fletcher’s personal essays and travel articles appear frequently in national magazines and newspapers, and her poems have recently been accepted by Northeast Corridor, Amelia, Pudding Magazine and several anthologies. She leads workshops in poetry and the personal essay for Florida Center for the Book.
Margaret Hoehn’s poetry has appeared in many publications including Lullwater Review, Patterson Literary Review, Workwrights!, and Glimmertrain’s Poetry Presentation. Her poetry chapbook, Vanishings will be published as the 1999 winner of the Hibiscus Award.
Lisa Katz received an MA in Creative Writing from CCNY before moving to Jerusalem in 1983. Her work has appeared in Shenandoah and Fiction; her translations from the Hebrew currently appear in Modern Poetry in Translation (London). She teaches at Hebrew University.
Angela Kelly is the author of three chapbooks of poetry: Weighing the body back down (Middle Tennessee State University), which won the 1996 Tennessee Prize, those banded and coherent (Pudding House Publications, 1994), and Being the Camel (Pearl Editions, 1990). Ms. Kelly has won several awards including the Couth Carolina Literary Fellowship in Poetry for 1998-99.
Bridget Christine Kelley is a poet and history teacher living in Los Angeles. She is currently earning her MFA from the Antioch University writing program.
Stephen Lackaye is a senior at Our Lady of Lourdes High School in Poughkeepsie, New York. He has been a featured performer at the Cubbyhole Coffeehouse in Poughkeepsie twice. "Rock N Roll" is his first published work.
Cynthia Warryn Leffner studied English and Creative Writing at St. Louis University and Southern Illinois University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Literal Latté, Spoon River, Sanskrit, Writer’s Forum, The Hawaii Review, and Whiskey Island, among numerous others. Recently, she founded the literary magazine, the Orange Willow Review.
Catherine Lewis teaches fiction writing at Manhattanville and Purchase College SUNY. Her first novel, Dry Fire (W.W. Norton) was published in 1996. Postcards to Father Abraham, a second novel, will be published by Simon & Schuster in January 2000.
Rea Nolan Martin has published a number of short stories in the genre of mystical fiction. “The Awakening” is the first chapter of The Victory of Alledon, her novel in progress. Her work has appeared in Nimrod, The Distillery, Pangolin Papers and a number of other publications.
Dan Masterson is the author of four collections of poetry—the most recent, his new and selected: All Things, Seen and Unseen, published by the University of Arkansas Press, 1997. He resides in Pearl River, New York.
Lisa Donati Mayer lives in Dobbs Ferry, New York. She grew up in the Berkshires, an dlived for some time in Europe before moving back to New York. "Reading short fiction is one of my great joys. I am, like most people, intrigued by what makes a story and by the impact fictional characters and situations can have on the reader.”
Dianna Vagianos Miller is studying for her Master of Arts in Writing at Manhattanville College and is an alumna of Adelphi University. Her work has appeared in Sensations Magazine, Jacob’s Well, and The Handmaiden. Dianna lives in New Rochelle with her husband, Charlie.
Patricia Miranda, in addition to being a poet, is our featured cover artist. Ms. Miranda currently lives in New York City and has an art and framing gallery in Port Chester, New York. Please read more about Ms. Miranda on the “About the Cover” page.
Alakananda Mukerji, a native of India, received her Master of Fine Arts and her Ph.D. in Art History from Banaras University in India. Currently, Ms. Mukerji is a professor at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in painting and drawing.
Merle Perlmutter’s prints have won more than forty awards including the Boston Printmakers in 1997 and the Hunterdon National Print Competition in 1989 and 1990. Her work is part of numerous collections and museums worldwide, including the Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico, and the Portland Museum of Art to name a few.
Susan Tenaglia is an adjunct professor in the CUNY system and a freelance writer for various arts related magazines. She is presently working toward her MFA in poetry at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville. Tenaglia lives in New York with her husband.
Matthew Thorburn is a native of Michigan and a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he was a Roy W. Cowden Fellow and two-time Hopwood Award winner. He now lives in New York City, where he is a creative writing fellow at The New School and a consultant for Shandwick International. His poems and essays have appeared in magazines around the United States, as well as in Germany and Japan.
Blanche Van Dusen grew up in Rome surrounded by the beautiful ruins of ancient culture and developed a love for classic sculpture. Her sculpture—inspired by dance, ritual and tales from various religions and cultures—is meant to reveal an older spirit that still exists in our modern world. Ms. Van Dusen is exhibiting in the 1999 Annual Show at the National Sculpture Society.
Randy White lives in Rocklin, California and is the author of Motherlode/La Veta Madre (Blue Oak/Capra Press). He is the winner of the 1999 Bazzanella Literary Award for both poetry and short fiction. His work has appeared in the Range of Light Anthology, Sulfur, Sierra Journal, and other magazines. His newest collection is The Blood Transparencies.
Hadara Zemel is finishing up her Master of Arts in Writing at Manhattanville College. Her writing focuses on women’s and Jewish issues. She lives in Westchester with her husband and two young sons. This is her second appearance in INKWELL.
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