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Issue No. 2

Contributors

 

Arlene Ang

lives in Venice, Italy where she edits the Italian pages of Niederngasse (http://www.niederngasse.com). Her poetry has recently been published in Mississippi Review Online, The Pedestal Magazine, Cordite, Poetry Midwest and Offcourse Literary Journal. Three of her poems have been nominated for the 2006 Pushcart Prize anthology.

 

Barry Ballard's

poetry has most recently appeared in The Connecticut Review, The Apalachee Review, Puerto del Sol, and Phoebe.  His most recent collection is Plowing To The End of the Road (Finishing Line Press, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize).  He writes from Burleson, Texas.  (abballard@hotmail.com)

 

Ace Boggess

of Huntington, WV, is author of Displaced Hours, a novel (www.gattopublishing.com) The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled, a book of poems (www.circlemagazine.com/beautiful girl) and Two Weeks Notice, a self-produced CD of 13 original songs, many of which may be freely downloaded and shared (http://music.download.com/aceboggess)His writing has appeared in Harvard Review, Rattle, Notre Dame Review, Poetry East, Atlanta Review, Florida Review, and similar journals. 

 

Susan Culver

lives in Colorado and is the editor of Lily (http://lilylitreview.com).  Her poetry and short fiction have been published in various online journals including The Paumanok Review, Pedestal Magazine and Word Riot.

 

Zachary Greenwald

The youngest of six children from Northeastern Pennsylvania, he now lives in New York City.  An undergraduate at New York University, he is studying English and comparative literature, with a particular interest in trauma and testimonial writing.  This is among his first published poems.

 

Hank Hudepohl

is a native of Kentucky and a veteran of summer jobs. He is currently completing his MFA degree at Hollins University where he is an assistant editor for the Hollins Critic. He has published in various and sundry places before, and hopes to again.

 

Steve Klepetar

teaches literature and writing at Saint Cloud State University in Minnesota.  His work currently appears in Lily, Thunder Sandwich, Tamafhyr Mountain Poetry, Poetry Niederngasse, among others.

 

Nathan Leslie

has published two collections of short fiction, most recently A Cold Glass of Milk (Uccelli Press, 2003).  Aside from being nominated for the 2002 Pushcart Prize, his fiction, essays, and poetry have been published in North American Review, Wascana Review, Chattahoochee Review, Sou’wester, Southern Indiana Review, Fiction International, Gulf Stream, Tulane Review, Santa Clara Review, StorySouth, Amherst Review, X-Connect, Adirondack Review, The Crab Creek Review, and Orchid.  Nathan is currently the fiction editor for The Pedestal Magazine.

 

Bob Marcacci

lives and writes in Beijing, China. A San Francisco Bay Area native, his poetry has appeared in many print and electronic publications around the world.

 

Douglas W. Milliken

is a Maine native currently working in the Southern Tier of New York State as an AmeriCorps VISTA for the American Red Cross. He is also the prose editor for the Silk Creek Review, hosts an online contemplative writing group, and dreams of canoeing the Penobscot in September. He lives in Alfed, NY with a traveling Chinese doctor.  mr.milliken@alfredalum.com

 

Jayne Pupek

Jayne Pupek holds an MA in Psychology and lives near Richmond, VA. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in several online and print publications. "Primitive," her chapbook of poetry, is available from Pudding House Press. Her first novel is scheduled for release Spring, 2006 by Algonquin at Chapel Hill. She can be contacted at JaynePupek@aol.com

 

Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino

has a degree in philosophy from Fordham University.  His writings have appeared in a variety of print and online publications including Oyster Boy Review, The Café Review, Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics, Barrow Street, jubilat, Spinning Jenny, The Germ, Typo, Poet's Canvas, nthposition, Softblow and Samsära.  He lives
in
New York City where he edits the online journal eratio postmodern poetry.

 

Scott Loring Sanders

received his BA from Virginia Tech and his MFA from Hollins University (as of May, 2005).  He won an honorable mention award for The Atlantic Monthly's 2004 Student Writer's Competition in Fiction (May, 2005 issue).  He's also had a story nominated for Harcourt's Best New American Voices.  His first novel, The Troll Under The Trestle, is currently under review with several literary agents in New York City.  An excerpt from the novel, entitled The Chicken Shack, was first published in the July, 2004 issue of The Dead Mule.

 

Adam Jeffries Schwartz

has stories in: Descant and Grimm Magazines (both in Canada), Petit Journal (Mexico) and in the anthology, Walking Higher (USA) Online he has stories in: Kaleidowhirl, Magazine Shiver,  Mosaic Minds and in The Big Ugly Review. He wants too much but is otherwise fine.

 

Jake Swearingen

likes to lie wildly to strangers on airplanes.  He has been published in Exposure, Black Table, and Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's, Humor Category.  If you get the airplane seat next to him, he is also a contributing editor to Harper's.

 

Susan White

holds a BA in English from Brown University and will complete an MFA in creative writing at Hollins University this May.  At Hollins she is a teaching fellow and a recipient of the 2004 James Purdy Prize for short fiction.