Contributors

E. Kristin Anderson grew up in Westbrook, Maine, moved to the Big Apple in 2006, and in 2008 is starting a new adventure in Texas. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Mimesis, iota, Etchings, RE:AL, and Fourteen Hills, among others. She holds a BA in Classical Studies from Connecticut College and really likes the smell of old Latin texts. She shares a house with her boyfriend, Mark, and a few cats in Austin.

Amy Ash is a graduate of the MFA program at New Mexico State University. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Stolen Island Review, Desert Voices, Lake Effect, and Inkwell. She lives and teaches in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Adam Berlin is the author of the novels Belmondo Style (St. Martin’s Press, 2004) and Headlock (Algonquin Books, 2000). His stories and poetry have appeared in numerous journals. He is an Assistant Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, and co-editor of J Journal.

Reginald Dwayne Betts writes poems and teaches poetry in public schools throughout the DC metropolitan area. He attends the University of Maryland and recently received the Holden Fellowship to attend Warren Wilson College’s MFA program. His work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Crab Orchard Review, and Ploughshares. He’s currently at work on a memoir, A Question of Freedom.

Emma Bolden is a poet, playwright, and fiction writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as VERSE, Margie, POOL, Spoon River Poetry Review, Poet Lore, Salamander, 32Poems, and the Green Mountains Review. Her first chapbook, How to Recognize a Lady, was published by Toadlily Press as part of Edge by Edge. Her second chapbook, The Mariner’s Wife, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and teaches English at Auburn University.

Lynne Yu-Ling Chien was born in Taiwan and did most of her growing up in beautiful British Columbia. She received her MFA from the University of Notre Dame and currently lives and works in sunny California. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Flint Hills Review, New Delta Review, Stone Table Review, RHINO and Spoon River Poetry Review.

Yi-Fen Chou is a freelance writer and graphic artist living in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Her poems have recently appeared in The Spoon River Poetry Review and Shenandoah. Other poems are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner.

Matthew F. Cooper is a recovering industrial and systems engineer, a former high school math teacher, and an everyday runner. He is a very recent graduate of Florida State University and currently lives and works in Tallahassee.

Laura Donnelly received her MFA from Purdue University in 2007 and is now pursuing a PhD in creative writing at Western Michigan University. She has recently been named co-editor of poetry for Third Coast. Her work currently appears in Portland Review.

Molly Giles is the author of two prize-winning collections of short stories, Rough Translations and Creek Walk, and a novel, Iron Shoes. She teaches at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.

Gail Gilliland’s poems and stories have appeared in a number of journals. She’s the author of a short-fiction collection, The Demon of Longing (Carnegie Mellon, 2002) and of a poetics, Being A Minor Writer (University of Iowa Press, 1994). She currently lives in Fallbrook, California.

Sonia Greenfield lives in Seattle where she bartends as a way of paying for all the reading fees required to try to publish her first book, Bodies of Water. She is a graduate of the MFA program in poetry at the University of Washington, and her work has appeared in several journals, including Meridian, Cream City Review, and The Sycamore Review. Poetry helps her justify the drunks, lechers, and drunken lechers. Every day she’s keeping the dream alive.

Jenn Habel’s poems have appeared in The Believer, The Southeast Review, Gulf Coast, and other journals. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Marilyn Hacker is the author of twelve books of poetry and seven collections of translations.

Barbara Hamby’s third book, Babel, won the 2003 AWP Donald Hall Prize and was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. She has stories and poems forthcoming in TriQuarterly, The Iowa Review, Shenandoah, and Five Points. She teaches at Florida State University.

Sam Hamill’s recent books include new poems (Measured by Stone, Curbstone Press) and a collection of essays and introductions (Avocations, Red Hen Press). He has translated most of the classical poets of China and Japan, was Founding Editor of Copper Canyon Press, and is Director of Poets Against War. He lives in Port Townsend, WA. and Buenos Aires.

Judith Harris is the author of Atonement and The Bad Secret from LSU Press and a critical book, Signifying Pain (SUNY Press). Her poems have appeared in Slate, The Southern Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The American Scholar, Cincinnati Review and Ted Kooser’s syndicated newspaper column, “American Life in Poetry.”

David Kirby is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. His latest book is The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems. For more information, see www.davidkirby.com.

Heather Kirn’s nonfiction has been lauded by The Atlantic Monthly, and her essays and poems have appeared (or are forthcoming) most recently in Alaska Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Florida Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Third Coast. She teaches writing at the University of California, Berkeley.

Tim Lockridge’s poetry has recently appeared in Redivider, The Pinch, and Backwards City Review. He received his MFA from Virginia Tech, where he is now a PhD student in Rhetoric and Writing.

Jen McClanaghan received her MFA from Columbia University and is currently a doctoral candidate at Florida State University.

Frances Ruhlen McConnel’s second poetry collection, The Direction of Longing, was just published by Bellowing Ark Press. A chapbook of mostly haiku, white birches, black water, 2006, was published by the Alaska fine letter press, Bucket of Type Printery. McConnel recently retired from the Creative Writing Department at the University of California, Riverside.

Elidor Mëhilli was raised in Albania, and holds degrees from Cornell and Princeton. He is now a PhD candidate at Princeton University, where he is writing a dissertation on the urban visions and material culture of socialism.

Anna Mills has written essays for Salmagundi, The Writer’s Chronicle, Isotope, North Dakota Quarterly, and the anthology Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes. She earned her MFA from Bennington College and teaches English at City College of San Francisco. She reviews nature writing on her blog, http://onnaturewriting.blogspot.com.

Julie L. Moore is the author of Slipping Out of Bloom, forthcoming from WordTech Editions, and Election Day (Finishing Line Press). Recent work will appear in Alaska Quarterly Review, Chautauqua Literary Journal, Flint Hills Review, The Fourth River, Free Lunch, Sou’Wester, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. Her website is www.julielmoore.com.

Joan Murray is a National Poetry Series winner, whose collections include Looking for the Parade (W. W. Norton) and Dancing on the Edge (Beacon Press). She is also editor of the Beacon Poems to Live By anthologies and The Pushcart Book of Poetry: the Best Poems from 30 Years of the Pushcart Prize.

Patricia O’Hara’s creative writings have appeared in The Southwest Review, The Cortland Review, Brevity, The Bellevue Literary Review, Harpur Palate, The Sycamore Review, Barrelhouse Magazine, Sports Literate, and ducts.org. She is a Professor of English at Franklin & Marshall College, where she teaches creative writing and Victorian literature.

Amina Saïd was born in Tunisia in 1952, and now lives in Paris. She is the author of nine collections of poetry, all published by Les Editions de la Différence, including La douleur des seuils (2002) and Au présent du monde ( 2005). She has also published two books of tales and fables from Tunisia, as well as several translations of novels by the Filipino writer F. Sionil José. Poems of hers, in Marilyn Hacker’s translation, have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, Prairie Schooner, The Manhattan Review, Rattapallax, and the Yale Anthology of 20th Century French Poetry.

Tony Sanders has published three volumes of poetry, Partial Eclipse (University of North Texas Press), Transit Authority (Grove Press), and Warning Track (Turtle Point Press). His poems have appeared in such magazines as The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Poetry, and Gettysburg Review.

William Snyder Jr. has poems published in The Southern Review, The Sun, Willow Review, Louisiana Literature, Puerto Del Sol, Apalachee Quarterly, and Southern Humanities Review, among others. He was the co-winner of the 2001 Grolier Poetry Prize and winner of the 2002 Kinloch Rivers Chapbook competition. He teaches writing and literature at Concordia College, Moorhead, MN.

George Staehle has been writing poetry for fifteen years after a career in physics research. He was born in Ohio, lived and studied in Columbus, and moved to the San Francico/Oakland California area in the mid-sixties. He paints watercolors, invents board games, and hikes.

Maggie Taylor received her BA degree in philosophy from Yale University and her MFA degree in photography from the University of Florida. After more than ten years as a still-life photographer, she began to use the computer to create her images in 1996. Her work is featured in Adobe Photoshop Master Class: Maggie Taylor’s Landscape of Dreams, published by Adobe Press in 2005; Solutions Beginning with A, Modernbook Editions, Palo Alto, 2007; and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Moderbook Editions, Palo Alto, 2008. Her website with further information is www.maggietaylor.com.

Myrna Stone is the author of two full-length poetry collections, How Else to Love the World and The Art of Loss. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, Massachusetts Review, and River Styx, among others. New work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in New Delta Review and Nimrod.

William S. Trout (1909 – 1980) lived most of his life on the edge of Gap, a village of about a thousand souls in the rolling farmland of eastern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. After receiving his two-year rural school teaching certificate, Trout began his career in a one-room country school, and later taught junior high students at Gap. During World War II, he did manual labor in the mill at Lukens Steel in Coatesville. After the war, he returned to teaching in the public schools before joining the English faculty at Millersville State College in 1958, where he remained until retiring in 1968. A shy and private person who cared for his mother until her death at age 91, he traveled little beyond Lancaster County. Throughout his life, he never sought to publish any of the more than seven hundred fifty poems he produced over more than thirty years.

Will Wells’ first book, Conversing with the Light, won the Anhinga Award. His second book, Unsettled Accounts, is in circulation. Both poems in this issue were inspired by his participation in the NEH Summer Institute: Venice, The Jews and Italian Culture during the summer of 2006. He has poems or translations in current or recent issues of Natural Bridge, Hudson Review, Prairie Schooner, Field, and Permafrost among others. He is an English professor at Rhodes State.

Laura Esther Wolfson lives in New York City. Her work has been published in The Alembic, The Rambler, Columbia, a Journal of Literature and Art, Grand Street, The Red Coast Review and elsewhere.

Ellen Wright’s chapbook, In Transit, was published in December, 2007, by Main Street Rag. Her poetry has recently appeared in Margie, Water-Stone Review, The Paterson Literary Review, and online with Cadillac Cicatrix. The recipient of a Master’s Degree in Comparative Literature from New York University, she makes her home in Brooklyn and her living as a musician.

Ryo Yamaguchi’s poems have appeared most recently in journals such as Tin House, Notre Dame Review, 42opus, The Ninth Letter, and Word for/Word. He works and lives in Chicago.