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Contributors Kim Chinquee teaches creative writing at Mark DeCarteret's work has appeared in AGNI, Randall DeVallance is a 2002 graduate of David Harris Ebenbach's first book of short stories, Between Camelots,
was selected as the winner of the 2005 Drue Heinz
Literature Prize, and will be published in October 2005 (University of
Pittsburgh Press). His poetry has appeared in, among other places, Phoebe, the Stickman Review, and Arbutus, his short fiction has been
published in the Denver Quarterly, the
Beloit Fiction Journal, and Crazyhorse, among other places, and he wrote the chapter,
"Plot: A Question of Focus," for Gotham
Writers Workshops' book Writing Fiction (Bloomsbury, USA). He has a PhD
in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MFA in Writing
from Kathy Fish lives in
Cathy James is a former winner of the Mona
Schreiber Award for Humorous Fiction and Non-Fiction. God’s Little Joke won Best Novel in
the Virginia-Highlands Creative Writing Festival and third place in the
National League of Pen Women’s Soul-Making Literary Competition. Her
short stories and essays have been published in Utne, The Harrington Gay Men’s Quarterly, Heliotrope, Maelstrom, WNCwriters, and The
Philosophical Mother. She is a regular commentator on regional
public radio, and a winner of a Public Radio News Directors, Inc. award.
Currently she teaches at the If Elise Janiszewski were 50 lbs lighter she would be a model.
To the relief of everyone who loves her, she prefers to spew out words
instead of half-digested food, so in her infrequent spare time she puts a
pencil (never a pen) to paper and writes. This is Elise's first time being
published. Michael Paul Ladanyi is a two-time 2004 Pushcart Prize
Nominee. His poetry has appeared widely and worldwide. He is the author of
eight poetry chapbooks and two full collections of poetry. He is the Editor
and Publisher of Adagio Verse Quarterly,
and his personal website may be found at: http://www.geocities.com/michael_paul_ladanyi/ Darby
Larson lives in Timber
Masterson is a writer/actor/TV-type-fellow who resides, at present,
in Stephen F. McCann is beginning work on an MFA in
creative writing at Cheryl
Merrill lives and works in Port Townsend, Washington. Her
publications include poems in Paintbrush, Northwest Review, Willow Springs
and others; poems anthologized in A Gift of Tongues: 25 Years of
Poetry from Copper Canyon Press; a chapbook of poems, Cheat Grass
from Copper Canyon Press in 1975; and more recent publications of a
photo-essay series about elephants in Iron Horse Literary Review and
in The Drexel Online Journal as well as excerpts from her book
in Fourth Genre, Pilgrimage, Brevity and Isotope.
Her essay, “Singing Like Yma Sumac,” has been
selected for the Best of Brevity 2005 print issue. She is currently
working on a book about elephants: Shades of Gray. Rich Murphy’s
poems
have appeared in numerous national periodicals such as Poetry,
Grand Street, and Rolling Stone and in recent issues of
Entelechy: Mind and Culture, Inertia Magazine, Red China, Talking River
Review, New Delta Review, West 47 (Ireland) and Aesthetica
Review (England), Confrontation Magazine, and Barrelhouse Review.
He is director of writing programs at Thomas Reynolds received an MFA in creative writing from
Wichita State University, currently teaches composition at Johnson County
Community College in Overland Park, Kansas, and has published poems in
various print and online journals, including New Delta Review, Alabama Literary Review, Aethlon-The
Journal of Sport Literature, The MacGuffin,
The Cape Rock, Midwest Poetry Review, Poetry Midwest, American Western
Magazine, Combat, Prairie Poetry, Strange Horizons, Bewildering Stories,
The Green Tricycle, Ariga, 3rd Muse Poetry Journal,
Eclectica, and Aphelion. Daniel M.
Shapiro lives in Claudia Smith was educated at Cheryl Snell, a two- time Pushcart Prize nominee,
is the author of two chapbooks of poetry, Flower
Half Blown (Finishing Line Press, 2002) and Epithalamion (Little Poem Press, 2004). Some of her new work may
be seen at Astropoetica, Snow Monkey and other journals. Alphonzo Stein hails
from Oak Park,IL. He
attended Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania
and currently works as a film projectionist on the southside of Chicago. Donna Karen Weaver is the editor-in-chief of the independent literary
journal and press Caketrain. Donna is a graduate of The University of Pittsburgh
with a BA in English Writing. She was awarded the Scott Turow Prize for fiction in 2003. Her poem "Freckles"
won an honorable mention from the University of Northern Colorado’s The
Crucible. Donna was accepted to the Catskills Writing Workshop in
2002 with a scholarship. Her work has recently appeared from Kota
Press, Loop, Whimperbang, and Poetry Motel, and is forthcoming from
Controlled Burn and drunkenboat.com. Donna plans on attending
graduate school in the future. |