Contributors

Rebecca Aronson teaches writing at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri, where she also co-edits The Laurel Review. Her first book, Creature, Creature, was released in June, 2007 (Main-Traveled Roads Press). Poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, Quarterly West, Tin House, Ecotone, and others.

Aaron Belz writes poetry in his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri. His work has appeared in Boston Review, Fence, Painted Bride Quarterly, Black Clock, and other places, and his first full-length book, The Bird Hoverer, was published by BlazeVOX in 2007. Another of his manuscripts,Clementines, was a runner-up in the 2006 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize.

Laurie Wagner Buyer has an MFA in Writing from Goddard College and is the award-winning author of three collections of poetry: Glass-eyed Paint in the Rain, Red Colt Canyon and Across the High Divide as well as several poetry chapbooks. Her first novel, Side Canyons, is now out in soft cover from Five Star Publishing. Laurie won the Beryl Markham Prize for Creative Non-fiction from Story Line Press for Spring’s Edge, a memoir now scheduled for release in 2008 from the University of New Mexico Press.

Carol Carter received her MFA from Washington University, St. Louis. She was voted Best St. Louis Artist by The Riverfront Times in 2000. In 2002, her work was chosen for the cover of New American Painting magazine and in 2003, the US Embassy sponsored a solo exhibition of her work at the Teatro del Centro de Arte, in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Ms. Carter has been visiting artist in Oslo and Stavanger, Norway, in 1999, 2001, and 2003 and was featured in an exhibition at the George Meany Center for Labor Relations in Washington, DC. The Schmidt Art Center in Belleville, IL held a solo exhibition in 2006. She has been invited to exhibit in the Watercolor Biennial at Parkland College and has a retrospective of her work at the Turner Art Center in Valdosta, GA in 2007. Ms. Carter’s work is represented in many public and private art collections, including those of Citicorp, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Arjomani Paper, Leonard Slatkin, Price University, and Utah State University. Her work can be viewed at http://www.carol-carter.com.

Melanie Challenger won the Society of Author’s Eric Gregory Award for her first collection, Galatea, which was published in 2006 (Salt Publishing:UK). She lives between New York and Cornwall, England. She has been appointed Artist in Residence for the British Antarctic Survey for International Polar Year 2007-8.

Patrick Crerand is a graduate student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His work is forthcoming in Ninth Letter. Another story, “Kidnapping the Amish,” appeared in issue #139 of Cimarron Review.

Philip Dacey’s latest book is The Mystery of Max Schmitt: Poems on the Life and Work of Thomas Eakins (Turning Point, 2004). His ninth is forthcoming: The New York Postcard Sonnets: A Midwesterner Moves to Manhattan (Rain Mountain Press, 2007). His work appears in The Book of Irish-American Poetry: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present (U. of Notre Dame Press, 2007).

Andrey Gritsman is a poet and essayist, originally from Russia, living in New York. His works have appeared in many magazines including Denver Quarterly, Manhattan Review, and New Orleans Review, and have been anthologized and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He runs poetry reading series in New York and edits the poetry magazine INTERPOEZIA.

Kevin Jackson grew up in South London, and so, strictly speaking, is not a true Cockney but a Transpontine Geezer. He is the author of some twenty books, including the recently published The Book of Hours (Duckworth Press), The Pataphysical Flook (Atlas) and Lawrence of Arabia (BFI). He won Cambridge University’s Seatonian Prize for poetry in 2002, and is also a Regent of the Colle de Pataphysique, holding the chair of Morphologie Secrete.

Laura Judge has an MFA in Creative Writing from The American University and writes both fiction and poetry. She lives in New York City and teaches English at a Long Island high school.

Meghan Kenny’s stories have appeared in Sonora Review, The Gettysburg Review and The Iowa Review for which her story won the 2005 Iowa Review Award for fiction. She received her MFA from Boise State University.

Laura Koritz’s poems recently have been published or are forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Third Coast, and Crazyhorse. She lives in Champaign, Illinois.

Aimee LaBrie earned her MFA in fiction from Penn State University. Previous short stories of hers have appeared in The Minnesota Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Exquisite Corpse, among others. One of her stories published in Plaeides was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her short story collection, Wonderful Girl, won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize from the University of North Texas Press.

Lynn Levin’s poetry collection, Imaginarium (Loonfeather Press), was a finalist for ForeWord Magazine’s 2005 Book of the Year Award. Her poems have appeared in Boulevard, Hunger Mountain, Margie, 5 AM, and on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac. Lynn Levin teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and at Drexel University.

John McAuliffe’s first book, A Better Life (Gallery 2002), was shortlisted for a Forward Prize and received a major Irish Arts Council Bursary. His second collection, Next Door, is forthcoming from Gallery and he has published poems in Poetry London, The Irish Times, TLS, Metre, Poetry Daily, Poetry Ireland Review and PN Review: He’s the programme director of Dublin’s Poetry Now Festival and he co-directs the creative writing programme at the University of Manchester.

Todd McKinney teaches at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. His work has appeared in Smartish Pace, The Greensboro Review, Puerto del Sol, and BorderSenses. He is a father, too.

Judith Moffett has published ten books in five genres, including two original poetry collections and two volumes of poetry translated from the Swedish. She taught in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and for many years afterwards at the University of Pennsylvania. Nowadays she divides her time between Swarthmore Pennsylvania and her farm near Lawrenceburg, Kentucky.

Christian Nagle has previously published in Cimarron Review (130), The Paris Review, Southwest Review, Partisan Review, New England Review, Quick Fiction and other journals. He lives in Tokyo, where he is translating the works of the early modernist, Chuya Nakahara.

Timothy O’Keefe is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Utah. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Pleiades, Barrow Street, Denver Quarterly, Mid-American Review, 32 Poems, and elsewhere.

Roger Pinnell’s fiction has appeared in Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly, Holy Titclamps and Bananafish. His music features appeared in The Y-Files. In the late 1980s, he sang in Piglatin, a band whose sound Melody Maker called, “A walk down a dark, seedy alley lit in glorious monochrome.” Born in San Diego, he lives in San Francisco.

Natania Rosenfeld is Associate Professor of English at Knox College and the author of a critical book, Outsiders Together: Virginia and Leonard Woolf. Her poetry and fiction are published or forthcoming in numerous journals, including The American Poetry Review, Seneca Review, The Fairy Tale Review, RHINO and The Antioch Review. She is a Contributing Editor at The American Poetry Review. Her personal essays have appeared in Hotel Amerika, Ninth Letter, Another Chicago Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Lake Effect, and Post Road. She is currently at work on a novel, The Flat Land.

Ravi Shankar, founding editor of the international journal of the arts, Drunken Boat, and poet-in-residence at Central Connecticut State University, is the author of Instrumentality (Cherry Grove) named a finalist for the 2005 Connecticut Book Awards. Along with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, he is currently editing an anthology of contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry, due out with W.W. Norton & Co. in 2008.

Christine Stewart-Nuñez’s poems and reviews have appeared in Calyx, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, and Arts and Letters among other magazines. Her chapbooks, The Love of Unreal Things (2005) and Unbound & Branded (2006), were published by Finishing Line Press. She teaches in the English Department at South Dakota State University.

Jeffrey Thomson’s third book of poems, Renovation, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press, and his second, The Country of Lost Sons, inaugurated a new poetry series from Parlor Press.

Laura Van Prooyen’s first book of poetry, Inkblot and Altar, was published by Pecan Grove Press in 2006. Recent work has appeared in Slate, The Greensboro Review, Blackbird, Sycamore Review and storySouth. She has been a recipient of fellowships at The Virginia Center for Creative Arts and The Ragdale Foundation and lives in Illinois.

Amanda Rachelle Warren is a displaced Appalachian. She has most recently been published in Diner, Crazyhorse and the Greensboro Review. She is a recent graduate of Western Michigan University’s Doctoral program in English, a former poetry editor for Third Coast, and is currently working as Assistant to the Dean of the Graduate College at Western Michigan University.