Spring 2009
Originally from Pakistan, Rizwan Akhtar is currently a PhD fellow at the University of Essex. His poems have appeared in Poetry Salzburg Review, Austria, Poetry NZ, Auckland, Poesia, San franciso, and a few poems have been anthologised in Poetry Forward Press,UK.
Eric Burke lives in Columbus, Ohio. More of his work can be found in elimae, Right Hand Pointing, Alba, Spillway Review, JMWW, Word Riot, Tipton Poetry Journal,Roadrunner, Otoliths, Haibun Today, and nibble.
Christie Casher is a writer and teacher from Long Beach, NY. Her work has appeared in Ozone Park, Fair Use, The Graduate Literary Forum, and the Pipe Dream and she edited an anthology of poetry, Ugly Poets, Beautiful Poems (Lagoon Drive Press, 2004). She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College in 2006. She is currently working on a new book of poetry and teaching English Language Arts and Writing in Brooklyn.
Jane Choi is a sophomore at Oakland University in Rochester Michigan.
Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of six poetry chapbooks, most recently Tomorrowland (2008) from Achilles Chapbooks. He has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and twice for the Best of the Net anthology.
Christine Hamm is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Drew University. She won the MiPoesias First Annual Chapbook Competition with her manuscript, Children Having Trouble with Meat. Her poetry has been published in The Adirondack Review, Pebble Lake Review, Lodestar Quarterly, Poetry Midwest, Rattle, and many others. She has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, and she teaches English at CUNY. The Transparent Dinner, her book of poems, was published by Mayapple Press in 2006. Christine was recently named a runner-up to the Poet Laureate of Queens and is a poetry editor for Ping Pong, a literary journal. For more about her, go to http:// chamm.blogspot.com.
Colin James lived in England for many years were he met and was befriended by the Scottish Landscape painter John Mackenzie. He now lives in Massachusetts were he works in Energy Conservation. He has had poems recently in Trespass and Sage Trail and forthcoming in Motel 58.
Jason Jones is a writer from Philadelphia who is currently working on Barcelona, a novel about the demise of a failed opera singer after his diagnosis with a terminal illness. His work has recently appeared in Philadelphia Stories, Flutter Poetry Journal, Cause & Effect, and Mississippi Crow, and is forthcoming in LiteraryMary, Ascent Aspirations, The Northville Review and Gargoyle.
Karen Kelsay grew up near the Pacific, and loves writing poetry about the sea. Her poetry has been published in many online and print magazines. She is the author of Collected Poems by Karen Kelsay, and a chapbook, A Fist of Roots, published by Puddinghouse Press. She lives with her husband and cat, just a short distance from the beach, where she looks for writing subjects and inspirations.
Alan King's fiction and poems have appeared in the Arabesques Review, Warpland, The Amistad, and Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS, among others. A Cave Canem fellow and Vona Alum, his work was also part of Anacostia Exposed, a collaborative exhibit with Irish photographer Mervyn Smyth that showcases the life and energy of Anacostia.
Jennifer LeBlanc is an English major at Regis College , concentrating in secondary education. Her chapbook, unrestrained, is forthcoming from Cervena Barva Press. She is the editor of The Cherry Blossom Review and Ocean Diamond.
David McLean is Welsh but has lived in Sweden since 1987. He lives there in a cottage on a hill with a woman, five selfish cats, and a stupid puppy. Details of his three available full length books, various chapbooks, and over 700 poems in or forthcoming at more than 300 places online or in print over the last couple of years, are at his blog at htpp:// mourningabortion.blogspot.com. He has recently been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, whatever that is. He would very much like you to buy his books so he can drink more.
Steve Meador's book Throwing Percy from the Cherry Tree, released by D-N Publishing in 2008, has been nominated for several awards, including a National Book Award and a Pulitzer. His poetry has appeared Umbrella, MIPOesias, Birmingham Arts Journal, Word Riot, Foliate Oak, Avatar Review & many others. He has two chapbooks by Pudding House. Steve can be found at hangingmossjournal.com
James Meetze is the author of the book, I Have Designed This For You, as well as three chapbooks. He is currently editing Other Flowers: The Uncollected Poems of James Schuyler, which is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He teaches creative writing at the University of California, San Diego and fronts the shoegaze band Dreamtiger, whose Glisten EP was released on Purr Factory Records in 2008.
Edwina Petterson attends Oakland Community College.
Fariel Shafee is trained as a physicist, but enjoys writing and art. Her writing has been accepted by Foliate Oak, BluePrintReview, Skive, Illumn, Ygdrasil etc. Her art has appeared in Mary, Flashquake etc.
Tanuj Solankki hails from Ahmedabad, India. He plays the rational management student in the day and the irrational poet in the night and claims to be in love with both the roles. At 22 years of age, he considers himself a beginner in poetry and has found the last year very fulfilling as a poet. His work has been accepted in The Cartier Street Review.
Bobby Tenorio is 26, and goes to Oakland Community College. This is his first publication.He likes to perfect the trade of writing through manipulaiton of words and sound.
Christian Ward is a 28 year old London based poet whose work currently appears in Thieves Jargon and Gutter Eloquence and is forthcoming in Bravado and Big Pulp. His next chapbook, Bone Transmissions, will be released in March courtesy of Maverick Duck Press.
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 chapbook 'Remembrance' was published by Origami Condom Press and 'The Conquest of Somalia' was published by Cervena Barva Press. A collection of his poetry 'Days of Destruction' has been published in 2009 by Skive Press. 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. His poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines.
Greg Billingham is a recent graduate of the University of New Hampshire with a BA in English. He is currently living, working, and writing in New Hampshire. Previous or forthcoming publishing credits include White Whale Review, Tonopah Review, Emprise Review, Sierra Nevada Review, and Flutter.
David Bradsher lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Eric Burke lives in Columbus, Ohio. More of his work can be found in elimae, Right Hand Pointing, Alba, Spillway Review, JMWW, Word Riot, Tipton Poetry Journal, Roadrunner, Otoliths, Haibun Today, and nibble.
Lisa Ciccarello is in Portland, OR, slowly making tiny things.
Chris Deal writes from Huntersville, North Carolina. He is a fiction editor for Red Fez.
Michael G. Donkin is like a pregnant woman, only that the thing inside him is not a baby, but a youth. No, it isn't a youth, it is a woman, young, and wearing a coat of mail like a knight (from the great Sherwood Anderson). His work is in such places as elimae and 6S, and upcoming in decomP and Boston Literary Magazine.
Lauren Eggert-Crowe is a graduate of the University of Arizona and a Bay Area transplant. She has been published in Puerto Del Sol, So to Speak, Water-Stone Review, and Alligator Juniper. Aside from writing poetry, she also writes a 'zine called Galatea's Pants -www.galateaspants.com.Chris Elder lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he works for the NC Department of Agriculture. His years of reading and observing man and nature have recently ripened into a love for expression through poetry.
Christina Farella's mother is a fish. She is extremely interested in squalor. She has upcoming work in Mud Luscious.
John Floyd is 18 and lives outside Chicago. His interests include hermit crabs. This is his first publication.
Amylia Grace is a writer and teacher living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She works as Executive Director of The Diabetes Ray of Hope Foundation and writes for Diabetes Daily. She's currently completing her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at National University. Follow her blogs at diabetesdaily.com/grace and amyliawrites.com.
Fenton Grant writes. Most recently, his work has appeared in Outsider Writers Collective, Zygote in My Coffee, and Ophelia Street Magazine. Fenton Grant can be found on twitter and facebook.
Gabriella Keanaaina's work has been published in various journals, most recently in Inscribed.
Erik Knutsen is a writer who does not enjoy writing about himself in the third person, so he didn't he dictated. In this sense, he is trying to be the new Milton. His life seems to constantly be sucked back to Vancouver, BC.
Yonatan Maisel is a psychologist and writer. His latest work of fiction, "Life After Death in The Bronx" appears in the current issue of Review Americana. His latest work of poetry, "Self-Esteem by-Proxy: on How Your Downfall Quells my Angst" is scheduled to appear in the next issue of The Literary Review: an International Journal of Contemporary Writing. He has just been notified of his first Pushcart Nomination.
Carla Martin-Wood’s newest chapbook, Garden of Regret, is available from Pudding House Publications, and another chapbook, Redheaded Stepchild, is forthcoming from Pudding House. She will have poems included in two anthologies, Love Poems and other Messages for Bruce Springsteen and Casting the Nines, both due for release in September. A recent Pushcart Prize nominee, she has been widely published in print and online in the US and Ireland, including Elk River Review, Rosebud, The Foliate Oak, The Lyric, Oak Bend Review, and other journals. She is Chief Copywriter of a large ad agency and serves as an in-house reader for Soundzine.
Darcy McMurtery is a librarian in Washington state. She has the power to answer life's important questions including "where is the bathroom?" and "can I borrow your stapler?" When she is not slinging information she is hiding from the chaos caused by her two children and rowdy chocolate lab. These are the first published pieces she has dared to sign with her real name.
Ben Nardolilli a twenty three year old writer currently living in New York City. My work has appeared in Houston Literary Review, Perigee Magazine, Canopic Jar, and Lachryma: Modern Songs of Lament, Baker’s Dozen, Thieves Jargon, Farmhouse Magazine, Elimae, Poems Niederngasse, The Delmarva Review, Underground Voices Magazine, Heroin Love Songs, Shakespeare’s Monkey Revue, Literary Fever, and Perspectives Magazine. In addition I was the poetry editor for West 10th Magazine at NYU and maintain a blog at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com.
LeeAnn Patrick is the mother of five and the teacher of many. She has an AA in English, an AA in Psychology, an AAS in Biotechnology, a BA in English from Salem College (the oldest school for women in the United States) and is currently working on my MFA in Creative Writing. She teaches 9th and 10th grade English at Mount Airy High School.
Romy Shinn Piccolella lives in rural Pennsylvania, loves to go spotlighting and is currently obsessed with attending mineral and fossil shows. She has published poems in Pennsylvania English, The Fourth River, Miller's Pond, The Cherry Blossom Review, The Externalist and Earth's Daughters, among others. Her chapbook, Tether, was published by Pudding House. She received an MFA in poetry from Goddard College.
Peter G Res is an MFA student in Poetry at New England College. He is a self-proclaimed anti-academic with an unwavering fondness for his dog. He currently resides in his beautiful home state of New Jersey, where he works as a writer. His poetry is forthcoming in CounterExample Poetics and Abjective. He is 23.
Peter Schwartz has more styles than a Natal Midlands Dwarf Chameleon. His work's been featured on such sites as Arsenic Lobster, Diagram, Opium Magazine; and in such journals as The Silt Reader and the Asheville Poetry Review. His third chapbook 'ghost diet' will be published by Altered Crow Press in late 2009. See the extent of his shenanigans at: www.sitrahahra.com.
Felino Soriano (California) is a case manager working with developmentally and physically disabled adults. He is the editor of the online journal, Counterexample Poetics, www.counterexamplepoetics.com, which focuses on International interpretations of experimental, philosophical, post-postmodern, and avant-garde poetry, art, and photography. He is the author of fivechapbooks and e-books, including Among the Interrogated (BlazeVOX books], 2008) Feeling Through Mirages (Shadow Archer Press, 2008) and Calling Toward Clarity (Chippens Press, 2009), and also has a mini-chapbook forthcoming from Wheelhouse Magazine. The internal collocation of philosophical studies with classic and avant-garde jazz explains his poetic stimulation. Website: www.felinosoriano.com
Linda Ann Strang lives in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, where she works as a writing consultant at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. Her poems and stories have been published internationally.
James Wilk was born and raised in Colorado. He received a B.A in Chemistry and in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology from the University of Colorado in Boulder. He then received an M.D. degree from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver and currently works in private practice at Rose Medical Center in Denver, specializing in internal medicine and medical disorders complicating pregnancy. In addition, he is active in teaching medical students and holds an appointment as Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at his alma mater. Dr. Wilk serves as a moderator for The Critical Poet online poetry workshop and his poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Aurorean, The Blue Unicorn, Main Channel Voices, The Barefoot Muse, Measure, The Lyric, The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, The Pharos, Contemporary Sonnet and elsewhere. In 2007, one of his poems was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Fall 2009
Sarah Ahmad lives in Pakistan. She likes to call herself a struggling poet and artist as in her world where life is so fragile,not knowing if you will return alive every time you step out of the house, getting someone to acknowledge your art is a real struggle. She hopes to do some good in the world,just don't know what yet. She despises a typical 9 to 5 job, it gives her migraines.
Bob Baker has been a Cosmetic Surgeon in Lexington KY for many years. He was born in Ontario Canada and the Great Lakes still figure in his poetry along with the unique culture of Eastern Kentucky. He is enrolled in the MFA in Creative Writing program at National University in San Diego majoring in Poetry. He has poetry publications in Poet’s Podium, Jones Av, and GNU Journal, and a large body of published medical science. He lives with his wife Sharon (also a Cosmetic Surgeon) and the comings and goings of five sons.
Harry Calhoun’s articles, literary essays, book reviews and poems have been published in magazines including Writer’s Digest and The National Enquirer. Recently, his online chapbook Dogwalking Poems and his trade paperback, I knew Bukowski like you knew a rare leaf, were published. The latter is now available from Trace Publications and on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other online booksellers. He has had recent publications in Chiron Review, Still Crazy, SNReview, Orange Room Review, Bird’s Eye review, Abbey, Monongahela Review and many others. Recently, he was one of 12 poets invited to LiteraryMary’s anthology, Outstanding Men of the Small Press.
Nicelle Davis lives in Lancaster California with her husband James and their son J.J. She received her MFA from the University of California , Riverside . She teaches at Antelope Valley College . Her poems are forthcoming in FuseLit, Illya’s Honey, Moulin, the New York Quarterly, Redcations, Transcurrent, Verdad and Weave. Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York, is the author of nine poetry chapbooks, most recently Visiting the Dead (2009) from Flutter Press.
Carol Lynn Grellas is a two-time Pushcart nominee and the author of two chapbooks: Litany of Finger Prayers, from Pudding House Press and Object of Desire newly released from Finishing Line Press. She is widely published in magazines and online journals including most recently, The Centrifugal Eye, Oak Bend Review and deComp, with work upcoming in Breadcrumb Scabs, Past Simple and Best of Boston Literary Magazine. She lives with her husband, five children and a blind dog named Ginger.
Ryan William Fox is an aspiring writer from Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . He currently lives in Detroit , Michigan . He presents life and death in his poetry as his writings draw from experience and observing the world around him. Ryan believes that no matter where you live or where you're from, the universe will eventually direct you to where you are supposed to be.
Shawn Sundance Leckey is a Native American from the Rosebud reservation born In San Jose California. His parents returned to Mission South Dakota and separated. His mother and great grandmother helped raised him. He has traveled and lived throughout the Midwest and Southwestern regions of the United States. During that time, he gained an abundance of life experiences through indigenous eyes. Leckey started his career out as a medivac helicopter mechanic, and after 3 years of mech’ing on helicopters, he decided to enter college at Penn State University and go through the Information technology and sciences course. It was during this time that he was deeply inspired by Anthony Vallone, a PSU professor, who encourage him to continue writing and further explorer his voice in short stories and poetry and he has been writing since that time.
A recent Pushcart Prize nominee, Carla Martin-Wood is the author of two recently-released chapbooks, Garden of Regret and Redheaded Stepchild, both of which are part of the Pudding House Chapbook Series. A third chapbook, The Last Magick, is forthcoming from Pudding House, as well as poems appearing two anthologies, Love Poems & Other Messages for Bruce Springsteen, and Casting the Nines. Carla has been widely published in the US, England and Ireland, including tinfoildresses, Rosebud, Oak Bend Review, Flutter, The Lyric, State Street Review, Elk River Review, and many other journals. Further information is available in the directory at Poets & Writers: www.pw.org and on her website at www.thewellreadhead.com
Eric Miller is a retired dentist who has laid down his drill for a quill. His work appears or is forthcoming in Foundling Review, Troubadour 21, Poetry Friends, Writers' Bloc (Rutgers), Calliope Nerve, Flutter Poetry Journal, Clockwise Cat, The Cynic Online Magazine, Stories that Lift, The Storyteller, Bolts of Silk, Bartleby-Snopes, Oak Bend Review, and others.
Marc Pietrzykowski lives in Lockport, NY, with his wife and various furry mendicants. He has had poems and essays in Fine Madness, Versal, Diagram, Pleiades, GoodFoot, The Antioch Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Rhino, Ghoti, Exquisite Corpse, and a few others. His books of poems are: …and the whole time I was quite happy, available from Zeitgeist Press, and The Logic of Clouds, published by BlazeVox books.
Cristina Querrer was born and raised in the Philippines, post Vietnam War, during the Marcos regime, pre-Mount Pinatubo eruption, as a US Air Force brat. Her works have appeared in The Adirondack Review, The Fairfiled Review, Stirring, and in print anthologies such as Pinoy Poetics, Babaylan, Bombshells, The Mom Egg, and Field of Mirrors. She currently lives in a bungalow in the bustling town of Palm Harbor, FL with her children and Australian Shepard mix, Athena.
After performing for years, as both a musician and poet, in and around the Boston area, Derek Richards has recently decided to begin submitting his work for publication. Sofar he has been accepted for publication in Ghoti Magazine, Lung, MediaVirus, Word Riot and Right Hand Pointing. His poetry aims to be direct and honest, brilliant and lucrative. He is currently residing in Gloucester, Mass., happily engaged and cleaning windows for a living.
Andrew Taylor is a Liverpool based poet and co-editor and founder of erbacce magazine and erbacce-press. His latest collection comes from Sunnyoutside Press and poems have recently appeared in Epic Rites, Gutter Eloquence, Side of Grits and Breadcrumb Scabs. He has a PhD in Poetry and Poetics and supports Everton Football Club.
Serena Tome is a poet and humanitarian who enjoys writing about social justice, and personal heritage. In 2009, she launched an international reading series for African children to connect, learn, and participate in literary activity with students from around the world via video conferencing. She is married to a Maasai man from Kenya and they have one child. She has literary work published and/or forthcoming in The Litchfield Review, Foundling Review, The Legendary, Breadcrumb Scabs, Word Riot, Counterexample Poetics, Full of Crow, Boston Literary Magazine, and other publications. You can find out more about Serena at www.serenatome.blogspot.com.
