C.B.
Anderson
Poems:
1) Always
Seven
2) Revisitation
3) Diminishing
Returns
4) Party
Animal 5)
Amanda
6) Pain,
Its Sting So Early Fading
7) Throes
8)
Up
South 9)
Same
Difference 10)
Dry
Rub
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
4) The
Good Woman
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.
Radha
Bharadwaj
Short
Story: The
Rains of Ramghat
Radha
Bharadwaj
is an Indian-born feature
screenwriter-director with
two acclaimed features to
her credit: CLOSET LAND (Bharadwaj's
screenplay won the prestigious
Nicholl Screenwriting award;
the film stars Alan Rickman
and Madeleine Stowe, and was
produced by Ron Howard's Imagine
Entertainment), and the Victorian
mystery BASIL (with Sir Derek
Jacobi, Christian Slater,
Jared Leto).
CLOSET LAND has been adapted
for stage, and has been performed
all over the world by various
theatre groups. Bharadwaj
has finished two novels--both
literary mysteries.
Her short stories are being
published by Scissors and
Spackle and Independent Ink.
Rumjhum
Biswas
Short
Story: A
Room Full of Presents
Poems:
1) Ragpickers
2)
Ballad
of Blue Sky and Yellow Bower
3) THE
PRODIGAL LOVER
4) WEDNESDAY
5) BEHIND
THE MIRROR
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
Fletcher
N. Brown
Poem:
The
Slave Girl
Fletcher
N. Brown is an American/British
dual citizen, born and raised
in Fort Worth, Texas; educated
and abiding in London, England.
He studied psychology at the
University of Bath, yet his
pervading interest in philosophy
led him to found and chair
the University of Bath Philosophical
Society. After completing
his BSc. he turned to the
theories of Jung and Freud
in order to further his understanding
of dreams, myths and the unconscious,
gaining his M.A. in Jungian
and post-Jungian Studies at
the University of Essex. Here,
he became an integral member
of the University of Essex
Writers' Guild.
Jared
Carter
Short
Stories:
1)
Beekeeper
2)
Barbershop
Poems:
1)
Rich
Girl
2) The
Black Dahlia 3)
Webworms
4)
Sexing
Chicks 5)
Five
Poems
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.
Jessica
Cripps
Short
Story: Tremendously
Classy
Poem:
The
Rain
Jessica
Cripps
is a college student working
toward a degree in English
Literature. Most of the time
she doesn't spend at work
or at school is occupied by
reading and scavenging thrift
stores. Her work appears in
The Legendary and is forthcoming
in The Hedge Apple. She can
be contacted at cripps[dot]js[at]gmail[dot]com
and welcomes any and all comments,
questions, or general salutations.
Adelaide
Cummings
Poems:
1)
Tables
Turned (8/09) 2)
Sonnet
(8/09) 3)
Romeo
and Juliet (8/09) 4)
Domicile
(8/09) 5)
Departure
(8/09)
Interview:
Adelaide
Cummings (7/09)
Adelaide
Cummings,
age 95, is a renowned and
award winning poet who lives
in West Falmouth, Massachusetts.
She recently won a national
Barnes & Noble prize for
her poetry. In her more than
9 decades, she has lived a
varied and accomplished life
as a magazine writer, author,
poet, editor, world traveler,
sailor, and winner of 4 Olympic
gold medals in tennis.
Adelaide
Cummings, a Radcliff graduate,
worked for Life Magazine when
it started (in the mid 1930’s).
Later, she was Editor in Chief
of Child Life Magazine (breaking
the mold when it was still
unusual to be a career women).
She is an author of 2 juvenile
age-group books and 1 adult
biography (with Putnam and
Houghton-Mifflin) and was
a regular columnist at the
National Observer writing
a weekly political satire
column called “Zoos
Who.” Adelaide Cummings
has also written many travel
articles during her extensive
world travels (which she still
does today), some of which
she did with her husband on
their boat. She also won 4
Senior Olympic gold medals
in Women’s Singles,
Women’s Doubles, Mixed
Doubles and 1 U.S. T.A. National
title.
With
her varied, interesting and
busy life, Adelaide Cummings
did not take up poetry full
time until she was in her
eighties. She has written
and self published 6 books
in the last 6 years. She credits
her love of and prodigious
production of poetry as a
key to staying so sharp and
active. Her “youthful
spirit” is epitomized
by the following story: Already
fluent in French, she took
up Italian at age 89. Her
Italian teacher asked her
why she was taking up a new
language at such a late age.
She replied, “because,
I want to find an Italian
lover!” Her latest poetry
book, Curtain Call,
will soon be available on
Amazon.com.
Matthew
Dexter
Short
Stories:
1)
The
Pirate Suitor
2)
The
Time Capsule
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.
Susan
DiPlacido
Interview:
Susan
DiPlacido
(6/09)
Susan
DiPlacido
is the author of four novels
and one collection of short
stories: 24/7, Trattoria,
Mutual Holdings,
House Money (forthcoming),
and American Cool.
Trattoria was nominated
for the Romantic Times Reviewers’
Choice Award for Best Small
Press Romance 2005, and her
short story, “I, Candy,”
won the Spirit Award at the
2005 Moondance International
Film Festival. American
Cool won the bronze medal
in the 2008 IPPY awards (short
story collection category)
and was a finalist in the
2008 Indie Book Awards. Her
fiction has appeared in Susie
Bright’s Best American
Erotica 2007, Maxim Jakubowski’s
Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica
vol. 6 and 7, Zane’s
Caramel Flava, and Rebellion:
New Voices of Fiction.
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.
George
Fosty
Poems:
1)
January
or February--Can't Remember
2)
Code
of the Railroad
Interview:
George
Fosty
George
Fosty is a Canadian-born
historian and writer living
in New York City. He is the
co-author/author of six books:
"Sustaining The Wings"
(1991) , "The Desperate
Glory: The Battle Of Dieppe,
1942" (1991), "Splendid
Is The Sun: The 5,000 Year
History of Hockey "(2003),
"Black Ice: The Lost
History of the Colored Hockey
League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925"
(2004), "Footie's Black
Book: A Guide To International
Association Football"
(2010), and "Short Lines:
The Poems Of A Railroad Trackman
1979-1987" (2010). In
addition, he is also a featured
writer in the book, "Multiple
Lenses: Voices From The Diaspora
In Canada" (2007).
He and his brother, Darril,
are two of Canada's best known
historians and are considered
the leading experts on the
Colored Hockey League of the
Maritimes, an all-black hockey
league that existed in Eastern
Canada from 1895 to 1931.
In 2007, the Fosty brothers
gained international recognition
and acclaim for their historical
work in the sport of ice hockey
after being featured in the
ESPN documentary "Frozen
Out."
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.
Phyllis
Green
Short
Story: Krutzinger
A
Pushcart prize nominee, Phyllis
Green’s stories
have been published in Epiphany,
Parting Gifts, Prick of the
Spindle, The Blue Lake Review,
Bluestem, The Sheepshead Review,
Paper Darts, The Examined
Life, Hospital Drive, The
Greensilk Journal, a drama
in Mason’s Road, and
an upcoming story in The Cossack
Review.
Dina
Greenberg
Short
Story: Stray
Dina
Greenberg
lives in Haddonfield, NJ (USA).
Her poetry, essays, short
stories, and reviews have
appeared in publications such
as Bellevue Literary Review,
Schuylkill, Chronogram, and
in the anthology, Lalitamba.
As a professional writer and
researcher, she focuses on
issues of spirituality and
medicine; health care access
for vulnerable populations;
and chaplaincy. Ms. Greenberg
leads a narrative workshop
for military families that
provides a safe space to share
experiences of trauma related
to combat, deployment, homecoming
transition, and relationships.
She earned an undergraduate
degree in English and a Master
of Liberal Arts (MLA) degree
from the University of Pennsylvania
with concentrations in bioethics
and creative non-fiction writing.
dinagreenberg.blogspot.com
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)
Nonfiction:
The
Real War Heroes, from
the Book, RADICAL PEACE: People
Refusing War
Nonfiction:
Escaping
the Military: Healing
the Virus of Violence,
from the Book, RADICAL PEACE:
People Refusing War
(10/10)
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.
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.
Kathryn
Jacobs
Poems:
1) Last
Twin Standing 2)
So
Just Try Harder
Kathryn
Jacobs
a poet and a medievalist from
Harvard with two volumes coming
out in 2011; her book In Transit
(David Roberts Press) and
her chapbook, Signs and Portents
(Finishing Line Press). She
also has two prior chapbooks,
a book of medieval marriage
contracts, fourteen articles,
and well over a hundred poems
in a wide variety of journals.
In 2005 she lost her son (Raymond)
at eighteen, of sleep apnea;
two years later his twin sister
was diagnosed with melanoma
(fine so far). She teaches
at Texas A & M - C; and
has one elder daughter far
away in Chicago.
Leland
Jamieson
Poems:
1) By
Floundering? 2)
Dance
of the Quivering Digits
3) A
Cairn for our Brindled One
4) THE
HOSTESS
5)
Grit
6) THREE
VOICES OF EASTER
7) THE
ABC’S OF READING ‘MAN’
8) Pilgrim's
Progress
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
Story: 1) Why
Waste English Setters on Dog
Shows?
Robert
Scott Leyse
was born in San Francisco,
grew up in various locales
about America, lived in Paris
for a spell, and now resides
on Manhattan's Upper East
Side. Upon arrival in Manhattan
he worked as a New York cab
driver on the night shift,
with the aim of atoning for
a sheltered upbringing and
having adventures the likes
of which he'd never had before
and he wasn't disappointed;
subsequently he acquired over
a dozen years of experience
in the legal field, where
he was pleasantly surprised
to find that additional adventures,
of the office politics and
shenanigans variety, were
to be had; presently he works
in the advertising field,
where he's not looking for
any special adventures, having
decided to explore the option
of separating work from fun
and games and having secrets
that are easier to keep. He
skis in Sun Valley, Idaho,
surfs with board and body
in southern California and
Puerto Rico, once took a belly
dance class in Green Bay,
Wisconsin, and probably shouldn't
mention his lousy attendance
record at the yoga studio
down the street. He eats fish
heads and insects and drinks
blood, but can’t be
paid to eat potato chips or
cake.
He
is a co-founder and the editor
of the erotic literary fiction
and poetry webzine, Sliptongue
(launched May Day, 2001);
and the founder and editor
of the ShatterColors
Literary Review (launched
May Day, 2006). His three
novels are: Liaisons for
Laughs: Angie & Ella’s
Summer of Delirium (July,
2009), Self-Murder
(April, 2010), and Attraction
and Repulsion (June,
2011).
More
information may be found at
his 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.
Suvi
Mahonen
Short
Story: Bobby
Suvi
Mahonen
is a freelance writer living
in Airlie Beach in Australia’s
tropical Whitsundays. Recent
publications include fiction
in GringoLandiaSantiago (Chile)
and MetroMoms (USA). More
of her work can be found on
her website at www.redbubble.com/people/suvimahonen
Eric
Martin
Poems:
1)
Sardanapalus
2)
Morning
in Spring
3) Wasting
4) A
Run through the Woods
5) Faust,
alone in his workshop
6) There
is a Glory
7) Vega
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.
James W. Nelson
Nonfiction:
Tornado
James
W. Nelson
was born in a farmhouse a
short distance from Walcott,
North Dakota in 1944. Some
doctors made house calls back
in those days. He was living
in that same house on the
land originally homesteaded
by his great grandfather,
when that savage tornado hit
in 1955. But they rebuilt
and his family remained on
that land until the early
seventies when diversified
farming began changing to
industrial agribusiness. James
spent four years in the US
Navy, worked many jobs and
finally has settled on a few
acres of land exactly two
and one half miles straight
west of the original farmstead,
ironically likely the very
spot where the 1955 tornado
first struck, which sometimes
gives him a spooky feeling.
His memoirs, DYING TO LIVE,
can be read at http://free-ebooks.net,
under biographies and his
real name. The tornado story
was originally published in
1990, by The Forum, Fargo,
ND, then again in North Dakota
Horizons Magazine in 1994.
He has published two short
stories in small press magazines
and won three short story
contests (Falls Writers Workshop,
Ohio). Here will be his first
publishing in a national online
literary magazine. Reach James
at:
jennycabin [AT] live.com
Hal
O'Leary
Poetry:
Six
Poems
Hal
O'Leary is
an eighty-five year old veteran
of WWII. He is the retired
founder and artistic director
of Oglebay Instituite's Towngate
Theatre in Wheeling, WV. He
was most recently inducted
into the Wheeling Hall of
Fame and is the recipient
of an Honorary of Doctor of
Humane Letters degree from
West Liberty University.
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/
Miriam
Moreno Perez
Short
Story: Down
in Dunny Cove
Miriam
Moreno Perez
is an author, as well as a
journalism, photography and
modern languages teacher.
She also writes for Suite101
online and for theWest Briton,
the newspaper of South West
Cornwall, England. She has
produced & presented a
radio programme also in Cornwall
, The Literary Show, exclusively
dedicated to the fiction short
story. She has written several
collections of contemporary,
experimental and historical
fiction short stories and
a non-fiction collection of
essays, "El Mundo del
Subconsciente". Miriam's
literary work has recently
been published by Danse Macabre,
Breadcrumb Sins, The Scrambler,
Shalla Magazine, Cránnog
Magazine, Ygdrasil, A Journal
of the Poetic Arts, Is Greater
Than and soon by Static Movement,
Caveat Lector and Sage of
Consciousness.
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
Short
Story: Sand
Interview:
Gary
Earl Ross
Gary
Earl Ross
is a professor at the University
at Buffalo, a fiction writer,
and a playwright. His books
include The Wheel of Desire
and Shimmerville.
His plays include the Edgar
Award-winning Matter of
Intent and the political
drama The Best Woman.
Visit him at The Writer's
Den (www.angelfire.com
/journal/garyearlross).
Kris
Saknussemm
Interview:
Kris
Saknussemm
Kris
Saknussemm's first
novel Zanesville was published
by Villard Books in late 2005.
The Austin Chronicle called
it "The most original
novel of the year" and
it received a Starred Review
in Booklist, which praised
it as "brilliantly inventive
black comedy."
Kris
is a native of the San Francisco
Bay Area but for many years
has lived in Australia and
the Pacific Islands. A painter
as well as writer, his work
has appeared in such publications
as The Boston Review, The
Hudson Review, The Antioch
Review, River Styx, ZYZZYVA,
New Letters, Prairie Schooner
and The Hawaii Review amongst
many others. For more information
see www.saknussemm.com
or www.zanesvillethenovel.com.
Joseph
S. Salemi
Nonfiction:
1) Bottom’s
Dream
2) Bad
Language Again: The Unexamined
Assumptions of Formalist Decorum
Joseph
S. Salemi
teaches in the Department
of Classical Languages at
Hunter College, CUNY. His
books of poetry are Formal
Complaints, Nonsense Couplets,
Masquerade, and The Lilacs
on Good Friday. His poems,
articles, essays, reviews,
and translations have appeared
in over one hundred journals
world-wide. Two of his most
recent essays appear on-line
at Barefoot Muse and The Chimaera.
His article on Whittaker Chambers
has just appeared in The University
Bookman, and his “Memoir
of Figurative Language”
is in the latest number of
Italian-Americana. He is an
NEH Fellow, a winner of The
Classical and Modern Literature
Award, and a four-time finalist
for The Howard Nemerov Prize.
His latest book can be seen
at www.thenewformalist.com.
K.
R. Sands
Short
Story: The
Pump Twin
K.
R. Sands
is creating a collection of
short fiction inspired by
the displays of pathological
human anatomy and other medical
exhibits at the famous Mütter
Museum in Philadelphia. Her
fiction has appeared/will
appear in Joyland; The Tangled
Bank: Love, Wonder, and Evolution;
Inkspill Magazine; Writer’s
Wastebasket; Camera Obscura
Journal of Literature and
Photography; and Wanderings.
Her major nonfiction publications
are Demon Possession in Elizabethan
England and An Elizabethan
Lawyer’s Possession
by the Devil: The Story of
Robert Brigges. She has lived
in Arizona, Scotland, Virginia,
and Pennsylvania. A recovering
academic, she has taught literature
and writing for ten universities,
including Temple University,
the University of Arizona,
and the University of Maryland.
Her non-academic jobs have
included dog groomer, animal
laboratory technician, zoo
keeper, and environmental
regulation writer.
Terry
Sanville
Short
Story: Talking
Back
Terry
Sanville lives
in San Luis Obispo, California
with his artist-poet wife
(his in-house editor) and
one fat cat (his in-house
critic). He writes full time,
producing short stories, essays,
poems, an occasional play,
and novels (that are hiding
in his closet, awaiting editing).
Since 2005, his short stories
have been accepted by more
than 75 literary and commercial
journals, magazines, and anthologies
(both print and online) including
the Houston Literary Review,
Storyteller, Read This, and
the Southern Ocean Review.
Terry is a retired urban planner
and an accomplished jazz and
blues guitarist – who
once played with a symphony
orchestra backing up jazz
legend George Shearing.
Tom
Sheehan
Short
Stories: 1) The
Rescues of Brittan Courvalais
2) The
River Thief
3) Aces
& Eights
4) Milan
Carl Liskart, Coalman
5) Parkie,
Tanker, Tiger of Tobruk
Interview:
Tom
Sheehan
Nonfiction:
The
House No One Lived In
Tom
Sheehan's
Epic Cures, (short stories),
from Press 53 won a 2006 IPPY
Award from Independent Publishers.
A Collection of Friends, (memoirs),
2004 from Pocol Press, was
nominated for PEN America
Albrend Memoir Award). His
fourth poetry book, This Rare
Earth & Other Flights,
issued by Lit Pot Press, 2003.
Print mysteries are Vigilantes
East and Death for the Phantom
Receiver. An Accountable Death
is serialized on 3amMagazine.com.
Three novels seek publication.
His short story collection,
Brief Cases, Short Spans,
will be issued in 2008, and
The Quickening Source has
been completed. He has nominations
for eight Pushcart Prizes
and two Million Writers Awards,
a Silver Rose Award from ART
for short story excellence,
and many Internet appearances.
He is a veteran of the Korean
War (31st Infantry Regiment),
a Boston College grad after
Army service, and has been
retired for 16 years.
Shana Silver
Short
Story: All
the Wrong Notes
Shana
Silver's short
fiction has appeared in The
Hiss Quarterly, The Deepening,
and Shine. Her young adult
novel THE ART OF SELLING MY
SISTER is a finalist in the
RWA Chick Lit chapter's 2007
Get Your Stiletto in the Door
contest. When not writing,
she's a freelance computer
animator with credits ranging
from a CG Barbie movie to
the 2007 Superbowl graphics.
Please visit her on the web
at:
www.prematureevacuation.com
Fred
Skolnik
Nonfiction:
"WAR
IS HELL": THE BATTLE
OF SHILOH FOR BEGINNERS
About
Fred
Skolnik: I am the editor
in chief of the 22-volume
second edition of the Encyclopaedia
Judaica, winner of the 2007
Dartmouth Medal, and have
also completed a Hebrew history
of the Civil War. I am also
the author of the recently
published novel The Other
Shore (Aqueous Books) and
have published dozens of stories
and essays in the past few
years (in TriQuarterly, The
MacGuffin, Minnetonka Review,
Los Angeles Review, Prism
Review, Gargoyle, Literary
House Review, Words &
Images, Third Coast, Polluto,
Underground Voices, etc.).
Noel
Sloboda
Poems:
1) Tanked
2) Hazing
Preps
Noel
Sloboda,
originally from New England,
currently teaches at Penn
State York and serves as dramaturg
for the Harrisburg Shakespeare
Festival. His writing has
appeared or is forthcoming
in a number of places, including
Hazmat Review, Studies in
the Humanities, FRiGG, Triptych
Haiku, The Cape Rock, Academic
Exchange Extra, Waterways,
and Ghoti.
Ryan
Smithson
Nonfiction:
Silence
and Silhouettes
Ryan
Smithson is a soldier
in the Army Reserves and was
deployed form Iraq from 2004-2005.
While serving out the rest
of his reserve contract, he
currently works with elementary
school-age children and attends
school at Hudson Valley Community
College. He has aspirations
to
transfer to a four-year school
where he plans on double majoring
in Criminal Justice and English.
His hobbies include snow skiing,
jiu jitsu, playing guitar,
spending time with family
and friends, and not being
afraid of the dark.
Ryan would like to thank his
parents, Jeff and Julie, for
their outstanding love and
support; his wife, Heather,
for being there when he returned
(and always); his sister,
Regan, for all the laughs;
his high school wrestling
coach, Jim McHugh, for his
mentorship and unprecidented
character; his best man and
lieutenant, Andy Zeltwanger,
for saving the 'Shroom Platoon;
his English professor, Maria
Pollock for all the corrections;
and his gecko, Leo for showing
him how a real man eats crickets.
Paul
Stevens
Poems:
1) Duck
Lane 2) A
Birth
Paul
Stevens was
born in Yorkshire, but lives
in Australia. He has an Honours
Degree in English from the
University of Sydney, and
teaches Literature, Historiography,
and Ancient History. His recent
poetry is in The Barefoot
Muse, WORM, Lily, The Argotist,
The New Formalist, as well
as the forthcoming Poemeleon,
The Centrifugal Eye and Contemporary
Sonnet. He is the Poetry Editor
(with Nigel Holt) of The Shit
Creek Review
+ II.
Robert
Villanueva
Poems:
1) Uninvited
2) Immortal
Robert
Villanueva
is an award-winning Kentucky
writer whose short stories,
poetry and essays have appeared
in numerous print and online
magazines. Some of those publications
include Trillium Literary
Journal, GlassFire Anthology,
The Sylvan Echo, The Cherry
Blossom Review, Contemporary
Rhyme, The Flask Review, Flutter
Poetry Journal, The Summerset
Review, The Square Table and
The Heartland Review. Forthcoming
publications include The Binnacle
and Cantaraville. In addition
to a novel, Robert is working
on a collection of interrelated
short stories. His website
is kybard660.tripod.com
and includes links to more
of his writing.
Gay
M. Walker
Short
Story: Lady
Luck
When
new author Gay
Walker made a mid-life
career shift from practicing
medicine so she could spend
more time with her teenaged
daughter, she began a roller-coaster
ride filled with the unexpected
that has included time to
fulfill a lifelong dream of
writing.
Her publication credits include
newspaper and magazine articles,
as well as short stories.
She also self-publishes a
serialized romantic farce,
Norbert and Smedley at www.authorgaymwalker.com,
which has developed a following
on the Internet, and recently
completed writing her first
novel, The Learner's Permit.
She lives in San Diego, CA
with her husband and daughter,
dog and two cats.
Siovahn
A. Walker
Poem:
odi
et nunc amo
Siovahn
A. Walker
is a novelist and poet currently
completing her Ph.D in medieval
history at Stanford University.
She teaches composition at
Fordham University in New
York City and most recently
finished a collection of historical
poetry and short fiction entitled
Clio & Erato.
James S. Wilk
Poems:
1) Tonight
2) Let
Me Not Count the Ways
James
Wilk, M.D.
is a physician in Denver,
Colorado specializing in medical
disorders complicating pregnancy.
His poems have appeared in
Measure, The Sow's Ear, The
Salt Flats Annual, Barefoot
Muse and others. His chapbook,
Shoulders, Fibs, and Lies
is available through Pudding
House Press: www.puddinghouse.com
Poem:
Don
Quixote
Leo
Yankevich
lives with his wife and three
sons in Gliwice, Poland. His
poems have appeared in scores
of literary journals of both
sides of the Atlantic, most
recently in Blue Unicorn,
Chronicles, Envoi, Iambs &
Trochees, Staple, and Windsor
Review. Visit him online at:
leoyankevich.com
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