C.B.
Anderson
Poems:
1) Always
Seven
2) Revisitation
3) Diminishing
Returns
4) Party
Animal 5)
Amanda
C.B.
Anderson
was the longtime gardener
for the PBS television series,
The Victory Garden. Nearly
two hundred of his poems have
been published online and
in print over the past four
years. Recently, one of them
appearing in The Raintown
Review was nominated for a
Pushcart Prize.
Barry
Baldwin
Short
Stories: 1) The
Tenth Circle 2) Telling
Them Apart
3) Foxed
Nonfiction: 1) Ancient
Science Fiction 2) Jane's
World: A Literary Panorama
3) 1984:
Minitruths and Maxiluv
4) Classical
Swearing: A Vade-Mecum
5) Marxist
Classical Classics
6) Sexperts:
Amorous Antics of Dubious
Docs Throughout the Centuries
7) Classic
Amis
8) Autem
Bawlers
Interview:
Barry
Baldwin
Barry
Baldwin was born in
1937 and educated in England.
He emigrated to Australia
in 1962, re-moving to Canada
in 1965, where he is Emeritus
Professor of Classics, University
of Calgary, and a Fellow of
the Royal Society of Canada.
He has published around 30
short stories in print (magazines
and book anthologies), and
has a novella, "Not Cricket",
imminent in Chapbook form
(Rembrandt & Company Press,
USA), also in e-zines. He
has been a Finalist in the
Arthur Ellis Awards (Canada
1999) and the Anthony Awards
(Bouchercon, 2000, USA) in
the mystery short story category.
Judith
Barrington
Poems:
1) Born
In War, Number 1
2) Born
In War,
Number 2
3)
Born
In War, Number 3
4) Born
In War, Number 4 5)
Born
In War, Number 5
Judith
Barrington
grew up in Brighton, England,
and has lived in Oregon, U.S.
since 1976. Her poetry collections
are: Horses and the Human
Soul, History and
Geography, and Trying
to be an Honest Woman.
Lifesaving: A Memoir
won the 2001 Lambda Book Award
and was a finalist for the
PEN/Martha Albrand Award for
the Art of the Memoir. Writing
the Memoir: From Truth
to Art, an ongoing best
seller, is used in M.F.A.
programs across the US and
in Australia. Her work appears
in numerous journals. and
she has taught at conferences
including Split Rock, Haystack,
Port Townsend Writers' Conference,
Katchemak Bay Writers' Conference,
The Arvon Foundation, and
The London Poetry School.
She co-founded The Flight
of the Mind Writing Workshops
in Oregon, where she taught
from 1983 to 2000.
http://www.judithbarrington.com
http://www.soapstone.org
Michael
Battram
Poems:
1) In
a City Park 2)
Small
Scene in a Rainy City
3) Third
World
Michael
Battram has published
over 100 poems over the years,
in various small magazines
and in many different forms
and styles, from academic
to alternative to "ashcan."
Upcoming publications include
Abbey, Blue Unicorn, The New
Formalist, and Open 24 Hours.
He lives in Southern Indiana.
Gary
Beck
Short
Stories: 1)
If
He Hollers, Let Him Go
2) An
Adventurous Summer
Gary
Beck
has spent most of his adult
life as a theater director
and worked as an art dealer
when he couldn't earn a living
in the theater. He has also
been a tennis pro, a ditch
digger and a salvage diver.
His original plays and translations
of Moliere, Aristophanes and
Sophocles have been produced
Off Broadway and toured colleges
and outdoor performance venues.
He currently lives in New
York City, where he's busy
writing fiction and his short
stories have recently appeared
in numerous literary magazines.
Rumjhum Biswas
Short
Story: A
Room Full of Presents
Poems:
1) Ragpickers
2)
Ballad
of Blue Sky and Yellow Bower
Rumjhum
Biswas's
prose and poetry have appeared
in Muse India, The Bare Root
Review, Etchings (Australia)
The Little Magazine India
(India), Eclectica, Nth Position
(UK), The King's English,
Halfway down the Stairs, Arabesques
Review, Crannog, Clockwise
Cat, Chanterelle's Notebook,
Everyday Fiction, A Hudson
View (South Africa), Lily
Literary Review, The Paumanok
Review, Poems Niederngasse
(Switzerland), Unlikely Stories,
Cerebration (UK), Amarillo
Bay, Gowanus, Loch Raven Review
and Southern Ocean Review
(New Zealand). Three of her
poems have been published
by Unisun Publishers (India)
in their 2007 anthology "The
Silken Web". Two more
poems are forthcoming in two
separate anthologies by Forward
Press of UK. At present, this
erstwhile copywriter lives
and writes in Chennai. She
can be contacted at: rumjhumkbiswas@gmail.com
Jared
Carter
Short
Stories:
1)
Beekeeper
2)
Barbershop
Poems:
1)
Rich
Girl
2) The
Black Dahlia 3)
Webworms
4)
Sexing
Chicks
Interview:
Jared
Carter
Jared
Carter is
a Midwesterner from Indiana.
His poems and stories appear
online at Archipelago, Centrifugal
Eye, The New Formalist, Poetry
X, and Valparaiso Poetry Review.
His fourth book of poems,
Cross
this Bridge at a Walk,
was published in 2006 by Wind
Publications in Kentucky.
Laura
A. Ciraolo
Poems:
1)
Epithalamion
2)
Fall
Back
3)
Ghazal
Laura
A. Ciraolo
has poems forthcoming in the
New York Quarterly #63, the
Long Island Quarterly, and
iota in the UK. Her poems
have recently appeared in
Orbis Quarterly International
Literary Journal in the UK
and on the web in MiPOesias.
She currently has three poems
in the Spring 2007 Boston
Literary Magazine. Laura
lives and works in New York
City.
Maryann
Corbett
Poem:
Security
Maryann
Corbett grew
up in northern Virginia. She
holds a doctorate in English
from the University of Minnesota
and has worked for 25 years
as an editor, indexer, and
in-house writing teacher for
the Minnesota Legislature.
Her poems have appeared or
are forthcoming in Measure,
Alabama Literary Review, First
Things, The Lyric, The Raintown
Review, The Barefoot Muse,
and other journals. She serves
as a moderator on Eratosphere,
an online forum for metrical
poetry. She and her husband
live in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Matthew
Dexter
Short
Story:
The
Pirate Suitor
Matthew
Dexter
is an American freelance writer
living in majestic Cabo San
Lucas, Mexico, where he writes
memoirs, novels, poetry, press
releases, journalism articles,
short stories of literary
fiction, and everything else
in between. His work has been
published in numerous magazines
and newspapers in the United
States and abroad. He can
be contacted at MatthewBDexter@aol.com.
Anna
Evans
Poems:
1)
Flames
2)
Dreaming
of the Master Builder
3)
Return
To Narragansett
Anna
Evans
is a British citizen but permanent
resident of NJ, where she
is raising two daughters.
She has had over 100 poems
published in journals including
The Formalist, The Evansville
Review, Measure and e-zines
such as Verse Libre Quarterly.
She has been nominated twice
for a Pushcart Prize and was
a finalist in the 2005 Howard
Nemerov sonnet award. She
is editor of the formal poetry
e-zine The
Barefoot Muse and is currently
enrolled in the Bennington
College MFA Program. Her first
chapbook Swimming was published
in March 2006 by Powerscore
Press.
William Falo
Short
Story: Cold
Reception
William
Falo lives in Southern
New Jersey with his wife and
two daughters. His fiction
has appeared in the Northwoods
Journal, 55 words, Zapata,
Pens on Fire, Brilliant, Bewildering
Stories, Long Story Short,
The Greensilk Journal, Skive
Magazine, and Shine and is
forthcoming in Mississippi
Crow, Yellow Mama, and Conceit
Magazine.
D.E.
Fredd
Short
Stories: 1) A
Wedding and the Funeral
2) Mousey
Lutz Passes Through Orono,
Maine
3)
Compton
Associates
D.
E. Fredd lives in Townsend,
Massachusetts. He has had
fiction and poetry appear
in several literary journals
and reviews. He teaches Writing
and Literature at New Hampshire
Community Technical College.
Liston Grant
Novel
Excerpt: Resting
Under a Blue Yellow Moon
Liston
Grant
was born in New York in 1971
and raised in Geneva, Switzerland.
After studying in North Carolina,
he worked at various jobs
in Berlin, the French West
Indies and Los Angeles, where
he discovered an interest
in film-making. He returned
to Geneva in 2000, where he
now works part-time as managing
editor for an English-language
quarterly magazine. He has
published several short stories,
written and directed two short
films, and is currently working
on a novel that takes place
in Slovakia and Berlin in
the mid-1990s, against the
backdrop of the highly publicized
kidnapping of the Slovakian
President's son by political
rival Prime Minister Vladimir
Meciar.
William
T. Hathaway
Short
Story: Ban
Me Thuot
Novel Excerpts: 1)
Summer Snow, Chapter One
2)
Summer
Snow, Chapter Two
3)
Summer
Snow, Chapter Three
4)
Big
Torch (The
Opening of a Novel)
Poem:
Our
Groundling Gap: The Sonnet
Mock'd
William
T. Hathaway's
first novel, A WORLD OF HURT,
won a Rinehart Foundation
Award, and the second, SUMMER
SNOW, has just been published.
It is set amidst the war on
terrorism as an American warrior
falls in love with a Sufi
Muslim and learns from her
an alternative to the military
mentality. A selection of
his writing is available at
http://www.peacewriter.org.
T.R.
Healy
Short
Story: Ground
Strokes
T.R.
Healy
was born and raised in the
Pacific Northwest. His stories
have appeared in such online
publications as The Circle,
Ken Again, Skive, and Verbsap.
A.W.
Hill
Short
Story: Death
and the Plumber
Novel
Excerpt: Finding
Ruthie
A.W.
Hill
is the
author of ENOCH'S PORTAL (Champion
Press 2002), a spiritual thriller
optioned by Paramount for
film development, as well
as two screenplays (Tesla,
Little Red Book) and numerous
short stories. He has written
feature stories on esoteric
religion and physics for the
L.A. Weekly. His erotica for
sliptongue.com and absinthe-literary-review.com
has been widely reprinted
in the U.K., and was featured
in The Best American Erotica
2004. He currently makes his
home in Hollywood, and is
represented by the Reece Halsey
Agency.
Jean Hillabold
Short
Story: Lending
Light
Poems: 1) Two
Sonnets 2) Villanelle
for My Daughter (Three Days
After the Birth)
Jean
Hillabold
was born long ago and far
away, and has been trying
to launch a literary career
almost since then. She immigrated
to mid-Canada from the U.S.
as a teenager with her family,
and won a major award in a
national student writing contest
in her last year of high school.
In her twenties and thirties,
she wrote doggedly for small,
leftist and feminist publications
before writing a volume of
lesbian fiction which was
published by a one-woman press
in 1988. In the late 1990s,
she responded to requests
from friends that she "come
to the point" (write
explicitly about the sex which
is hinted at in her lesbian
fiction), and thus was born
the porn writer who has had
stories of all sexual flavors
in over forty anthologies
under her thin-disguise pen
name.
Melanie
Houle
Poems:
1) Thermodynamics
2)
The
Natural Parameters of Patience
3)
Glimmerings
4) The
Enabler
5) Coda
Melanie
Houle is a physician
and former jeweler. She is
a Pushcart Prize nominee and
The Raintown Review's first
featured poet . Her poetry
also appears in The Lyric,
California Quarterly, The
Aurorean, Neovictorian/ Cochlea,
Tigerâ's Eye, Mobius,
Pearl, Barefoot Muse, The
HyperTexts, Journal of the
American Medical Association
and others.
Juleigh
Howard-Hobson
Poems:
1) Late
April Storm
2) Apostasy
Born
in England, and raised in
Australia and the US, Juleigh
Howard-Hobson won the
prestigious Australian Returned
Serviceman's League's ANZAC
DAY Award for poetry (1980),
and also holds a gold medal
for poetry from the MacArthur
Arts Festival (Australia).
She is the editor of the Arets
Vakreste Boker 2004 award
winning Norwegian-press literary
collection Undertow. Her poetry
has appeared in thehypertexts.com,
The Old Heathen's Almanac
2006, Flipside, On The Wing,
The Australian Women’s
Weekly, Seven Cups of Coffee,
Macquarie University Arena
(Australia), Focus, MotherLoad,
Saczine, 9 to 5, odinsgift.
com, Hipmama Magazine and
Idunna.
K.C.
Hutchinson
Short
Story: The
Seventh Level
K.C.
Hutchinson is a former
television producer, a freelance
writer, an occasional journalist,
and the writer/director of
a new short film, Veritales.
She has previously published
a short story in The Adirondack
Review, and she is currently
working on a non-fiction book
project.
Leland
Jamieson
Poems:
1) By
Floundering? 2)
Dance
of the Quivering Digits
3) A
Cairn for our Brindled One
Leland
Jamieson
lives and writes in East Hampton,
Connecticut, USA. Recent and
forthcoming work appears in
numerous print and Internet
magazines. His first book,
21st Century Bread, can be
previewed and is available
at www.lulu.com/lelandjamieson.
Paul
Jump
Short
Story: Beyond
Wonderland
Poems:
1) The
Naiad
2) An
Abortive Odyssey 3)
Eden
4) Queen
Mab
5)
Lullaby
for a Winter Night
by Paul Jump
Paul
Jump
is a freelance writer and
journalist living in London.
Contact him at jump_paul@hotmail.com.
David
W. Landrum
Short
Story: Into
White
Poems:
1) Akmatóva
2)
Saint
Anthony of Padua
3)
Edmund
4) Gloucester
5)
Petrarchan
Villanelle
David
W. Landrum
is Professor of Humanities
at Cornerstone University
in Western Michigan . His
poetry has appeared in numerous
journals and magazines, including
The Formalist, The New Formalist,
The Barefoot Muse, Web Del
Sol, and many others. His
articles and fiction have
appeared in Twentieth-Century
Literature, Philological Quarterly,
Amarillo Bay, Loch Raven Review.
His chapbook, Identities,
is available at: http://www.formalpoetry.com/
ebooks/landrum.html.
Catherine
J.S. Lee
Short
Story: Borderline
Catherine
J.S. Lee
has lived most of her life
within sight of the ocean
and a couple of miles from
one of Maine's Passamaquoddy
reservations. She has worked
as a journalist, wedding photographer,
seamstress, bartender, chef,
clinical laboratory technologist/
microbiologist, writing teacher,
and librarian, and currently
teaches in the special education
program at her local high
school. Her fiction has appeared
or is forthcoming in The MacGuffin,
juked, Cezanne's Carrot, The
Rose & Thorn, Amarillo
Bay, and The Binnacle, among
others. She recently completed,
and is seeking a publisher
for, her first story collection,
Gone Like Sea Smoke: Stories
From the Gulf of Maine,
which explores the lives of
characters caught between
traditional ways of life and
the gentrification of Maine's
working coast.
Robert Levin
Short
Stories: 1) I
Wanted to be Invisible
2) Arena
Interview:
Robert
Levin
Robert
Levin
is the author of "When
Pacino's Hot, I'm Hot: A Miscellany
of Stories and Commentary,"
The
Drill Press, and the coauthor
and coeditor, respectively,
of two collections of essays
about jazz and rock in the
'60s: "Music & Politics"
(World Publishing) and "Giants
of Black Music." (Da
Capo Press). A former contributor
to the Village Voice and Rolling
Stone, his fiction and more
recent essays have appeared
in, or on the web sites of,
Absinthe Literary Review,
Best of Nuvein Fiction, Cosmoetica,
Eyeshot, New York Review,
Sweet Fancy Moses, Underground
Voices and the Word Riot 2003
Anthology.
Robert Scott Leyse
Short
Stories: 1) The
Rooms I Will Not Enter
2)
Why
Waste English Setters on Dog
Shows?
Interview:
Robert
Scott Leyse
Robert
Scott Leyse
is a co-founder and the editor
of the literary erotica website
Sliptongue.Com and the founder
and editor of the ShatterColors
Literary Review. He has two
novels forthcoming, one in
the winter of 2007 and one
in the summer of 2007. A native
of San Francisco, he resides
in Manhattan. More information
may be found at his still-in-progress
website, Robert
Scott Leyse Online.
Sarah Long
Short
Story: Leave
Off Doves
Sarah
Long recently
completed her BA in Liberal
Studies at Antioch University,
and currently resides in an
over-priced shack in Hollywood
with her boyfriend, their
one small dog, and two large
cats. She is a cofounder of
the online literary journal,
Two Hawks Quarterly, and likes
to spend her free-time wandering
around flea and farmer’s
markets.
Eric
Martin
Poems:
1)
Sardanapalus
2)
Morning
in Spring
3) Wasting
4) A
Run through the Woods
Eric
Martin began writing
poetry in 1994, yet has only
recently returned to it after
a hiatus of seven years. He
has had poems published in
numerous print and online
journals -- recently, in Nomad’s
Choir, Samsara, Suzerain Enterprises,
and The Iconoclast. He is
also the author of five chapbooks,
published (though now out-of-print)
by The Plowman, and a book-length
collection, Broken Reflections,
self-published for private
circulation. His literary
and artistic inspirations
include the poetry of Lord
Byron and Edgar A. Poe, the
classical music of Hector
Berlioz and Franz Liszt, and
the artwork of Eugene Delacroix,
Francisco Goya, and Max Klinger.
He currently resides in Presque
Isle, Maine, and can be contacted
at the following email address:
emart40x
[AT] yahoo.com
John
Milbury-Steen
Poems:
1) Our
Blanket Fog
2)
The
Condom
3) Winter
Nights
John
Milbury-Steen
served in the Peace Corps
in Liberia, West Africa, worked
as an artificial intelligence
programmer in Computer Based
Education, and currently teaches
English as a Second Language
at Temple University. He has
published in The Beloit Poetry
Journal, Hellas, Blue Unicorn,
Kayak, The Listening Eye,
The Neovictorian/ Cochlea,
The Piedmont Literary Review,
Scholia Satyrica and Shenandoah.
His poetry website is:
http://a6.home.att.net.
William
Starr Moake
Short
Story: The
Back of Beyond
Nonfiction:
McMurtry:
Nilhilism and Jack Rabbit
Sex
Interview:
William
Starr Moake
William
Starr Moake
grew up in Michigan and worked
as a journalist for several
years in South Florida. After
majoring in anthropology in
college, he traveled extensively,
freelancing as a travel writer/
photographer. Moake is the
author of three books of fiction,
two novels and a short story
collection all published since
1999. When he is not writing,
Moake works as a freelance
web designer and software
programmer from his home in
Hawaii, where he has lived
since 1972.
Lee
Passarella
Poems:
1) Requiescat
2) The
Quality of Light 3)
Commuter
Hell
Interview:
Lee
Passarella
Lee
Passarella
acts as senior literary editor
for Atlanta
Review magazine and as
associate editor for the new
literary journal FutureCycle
Poetry.
Passarella's
poetry has appeared in many
periodicals and ezines. Swallowed
up in Victory, his long narrative
poem based on the American
Civil War, was published by
White Mane Books in 2002.
It has been praised by poet
Andrew Hudgins as a work that
is "compelling and engrossing
as a novel." Passarella's
poetry collection The Geometry
of Loneliness (David Robert
Books) appeared in 2006. His
poetry chapbook Sight-Reading
Schumann will be published
by Pudding House Publications
later this year.
Lee
Passarella's website: http://www.leepassarella.net/
Matthew
Proujansky
Poem:
Spring
Beauties
Matthew
Proujansky is a husband
and father. He studied electrical
engineering and creative writing
at Cornell in the sixties.
Today he designs hardware
and software for the printing
industry and lives in the
realms of logic and love,
nanoseconds and lifetimes,
and plot lines and lines of
code.
Robin Reinach
Short
Story: Vulnerable
Robin
Reinach is a New Yorker,
with an MFA from Columbia
University. Her work appears
regularly in literary journals,
and she has been nominated
for a Pushcart Prize.
Gary
Earl Ross
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