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CONTRIBUTORSDan Albergotti’s poems have appeared in Ascent, Meridian, Mid-American Review, New Orleans Review, and other journals. He has held scholarships at the Sewanee and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences and a fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His chapbook, Charon’s Manifest, won the 2005 Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Chapbook Competition. A graduate of the MFA program at University of North Carolina at Greensboro and former poetry editor of The Greensboro Review, he currently serves as associate poetry editor of storySouth. Eric Amling is currently at work on Twin Vapor, a new collection of poems, and is the editor of the sporadically published magazine Optical Oak. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. Chris Bachelder is the author of Bear v. Shark: The Novel and Lessons in Virtual Tour Photography, an e-book available free at www.mcsweeneys.net. U.S.!, his novel about muckraker Upton Sinclair, will be published in 2006. Bachelder teaches writing and literature at Colorado College. Jeremy Broomfield is the earthly personification of Attention Deficit Disorder. He is also the apotheosis of the idea of the “jack of all trades,” having worked as an undertaker, a security coordinator for rock concerts, a highly paid corporate efficiency expert, a gypsy cab driver, a restaurant critic, and a rodeo clown. He can fix anything and loves reference books, in case you’re shopping for him. His alter egos include John Barleycorn, Tex, and Universal Donor, plus several others that can’t be revealed here because they are primarily used to commit crimes. Occasionally he makes comics. Traci Burns is a recent graduate of Georgia College & State University’s MFA program. She lives in middle Georgia with her husband Vince and daughter Bela. Her work has appeared in Gumball Poetry Nick Carbo is the author of three books of poetry, the latest being Andalusian Dawn (Cherry Grove, 2004). He has also edited three anthologies of Filipino and Filipino-American writing, most recently Pinoy Poetics (Meritage Press, 2004). He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He currently teaches in the MFA program at the University of Miami. Jon Clark recently received a BA with a concentration in printmaking from Guilford College. He won the Guilford College Art Gallery 2005 Purchase Award for his print “The Watcher.” Currently Jon Clark resides in Greensboro, North Carolina, working under Roy Nydorf as a printing assistant, and teaches at the Center for Visual Artists. He can be contacted at jclark3 -AT- guilford.edu. Adam Claylives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and co-edits Typo Magazine. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, CutBank, The Iowa Review, Cimarron Review, Octopus, Good Foot, Insurance, Butcher Shop, and elsewhere. Becky Cooper lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with her husband, Tom Deater, and four cats. She received an MFA from Western Michigan University and has been published in Third Coast, 13th Moon, and The Light Stone, a chapbook. She teaches Creative Writing and English at an alternative high school. She is also a writing instructor for the academically talented youth program at WMU. She is presently seeking publication for her manuscript, How the Body Learns to Float. Chad Davidson is the author of Consolation
Miracle (Southern Illinois University Press, 2003), winner
of the Crab Orchard Prize in poetry. He has work recently
appearing or forthcoming in AGNI, DoubleTake, Hotel Amerika,
Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Writer’s Chronicle.
He teaches at the University of West Georgia. “Individually,” says Kurtis Davidson, the writing pseudonym of literary duo Kurt Ayau and David Rachels, “we each have 3/4 of the talent that a great writer needs. Put us together, and, well, you do the math.” Davidson’s debut novel, What the Shadow Told Me, won the 2003 Faulkner Society of New Orleans Award, and his work has appeared in The Portland Review, The North American Review, Ink Pot, The Southeast Review, and The Yalobusha Review. Linh Dinh is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House (Seven Stories Press, 2000) and Blood and Soap (Seven Stories Press, 2004), and three books of poems, All Around What Empties Out (Tinfish, 2003), American Tatts (Chax, 2005), and Borderless Bodies (Factory School, 2005). He is also the editor of the anthologies Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam (Seven Stories Press, 1996) and Three Vietnamese Poets (Tinfish, 2001). Denise Duhamel’s most recent poetry titles are Two and Two (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), Mille et un Sentiments (Firewheel, 2005), and Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001). Her other titles include three collaborations with Maureen Seaton: Exquisite Politics, Oyl, and Little Novels. Duhamel teaches poetry at Florida International University.
Anna Fulfordis an MFA student at the University of Arizona, where she works at an entomology lab and co-edits Sonora Review. Tom Greenwood, like many ambitious New Yorkers, tackles two careers: vice president of operations for Yankee Crapper International and, more simply and mysteriously, as BaseWORDS. At a very early age BaseWORDS learned how to write, even before learning how to read. In junior high school BaseWORDS was voted Person of the Month, and went on to be recognized by Todd Sudmeyer, an acquaintance, on the street. Every day BaseWORDS writes for BaseDESIGN at http://www.basedesign.com/words. James Grinwis lives in Massachusetts. His
work has appeared in Indiana Review, Mississippi Review, Willow
Springs, and Conjunctions, among others. Dave Housley is a writer and web geek in Washington, D.C. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming in Gargoyle, Dicey Brown, and Hobart. He is a fiction editor and co-founder of Barrelhouse Magazine (available on the Web at www.barrelhousemag.com), and would like you to know that the Clown Code of Ethics is in fact real, taken from Clowns of America International (which is, strangely, real as well). Lisa Jarnot is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, including Black Dog Songs (Flood Editions, 2003). She currently lives in New York City and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Brooklyn College. Kenneth Koch was a professor of English at Columbia University. His numerous honors include the Bollingen Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Poetry Award, the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress, and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and Ingram-Merrill foundations. His posthumous collection of comics, The Art of the Possible: Comics Mainly without Pictures, is available from Soft Skull Press. Koch passed away on July 6, 2002. Claude le Monde is a reluctant optimist who lives in Long Beach, California, where she writes and makes visual art. Jon Leon is an American poet, son of a printer and a social worker, living in Atlanta, Georgia. Other Diphasic Rumors have or will appear in Coconut, Word For/Word, H_NGM_N, and MiPoesias. He is the editor at Wherever We Put Our Hats. Joanne Lowery’s poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Birmingham Poetry Review, 5 AM, Passages North, Atlanta Review, and Poetry East. Her most recent collections are Medusa’s Darling from March Street Press and Seven Misters from Pygmy Forest Press. She lives in Michigan.
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky has had poetry published in many literary magazines, including Rattle, Atlanta Review, Edgz, Tiferet, and Patterson Literary Review. Her second poetry collection, crimes of the dreamer, has just been published by Scarlet Tanager Books. She is a Jungian analyst with a practice in Berkeley, California.
Michael Constantine McConnell is currently a writing teacher and a devout student of prose, poetry, palindromes, Scotland, and the concertina. Marc McKee lives in Tucson. His work has appeared in several journals, most recently in Bat City Review, Crazyhorse, DIAGRAM, LIT, and Pleiades. John Norris is originally from Nicholasville, Kentucky. He currently lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he is finishing up an MFA in painting at Louisiana State University. His thesis project combined a series of music-themed still-life paintings with a self-produced pop album entitled The Still Beat. He can be reached at jharlannorris -AT-hotmail.com. Mitchell Ostrover graduated New York University in 1977 and lived in the city for many years. His photos still take in scenes of New York and the surrounding areas. While many of his photos are color, his true love is still the black-and-white image—and using digital photography has made it easy to switch back and forth depending on the scene and mood at the time. He now lives on Long Island. John Poch is the author of Poems (Orchises
Press, 2004). He is the editor of 32 Poems Magazine, and
he teaches at Texas Tech University. Paulette Poullet begins a two-year run of indentured servitude to the Center for Cartoon Studies in the fall. While perma-temping in the corporate world, she has managed to release Life’s a Cakewalk, her sketchbook diary. Be on the lookout for the second issue of Comicore, soon to be at a hep comic book store near you. She can be contacted at blameboo -AT-hotmail.com. Nate Powell is the author of Tiny Giants, It Disappears, and several dozen ’zine- and self-published comics. He plays in the punk band Soophie Nun Squad.
Michael Robins’s poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Spinning Jenny, Black Warrior Review, DIAGRAM, Shampoo, Redactions, and Verse. He is a contributing editor at Born Magazine (www.bornmagazine.org) and lives in Chicago. Matthew Rohrer is the author of A Hummock in the Malookas, Satellite, Nice Hat. Thanks. (with Joshua Beckman), the audio cd Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty (with Joshua Beckman), and A Green Light, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Prize. Maureen Seaton’s most recent collection is Venus Examines Her Breast (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2004), winner of the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award. She has coauthored three collections with Denise Duhamel, including Oyl and Little Novels. She teaches poetry and directs the creative writing program at the University of Miami.
Julia Ridley Smith's fiction has appeared in Chelsea, The Carolina Quarterly, Arts and Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture, American Literary Review, and the anthology A Very Southern Christmas (Algonquin, 2003). She works as a copyeditor for academic presses and lives in Roxobel, North Carolina, with her husband and young son. Mike Stauss lives in a hollow log. Even on Sundays, he does not wear pants. His paintings, primarily black ink on white paper, attempt to capture the fleeting contradiction of visual clarity and ambiguity. Sometimes, it rains. Patricia Storms is a freelance cartoonist and illustrator living in Toronto, Canada. Her cartoons have appeared in publications such as Woman’s World, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Saturday Evening Post, The Funny Times, and Reader’s Digest Canada. A die-hard bibliophile, she gets a real kick out of drawing cartoons with a literary angle. You can see more of her work on her Web site (www.stormsillustration.com) as well as her blog, BookLust (storms.typepad.com). Alika Tanaka is currently working on her MFA at the University of San Francisco (class of 2006). Her most recent work will appear in the online journal Switchback (www.swback.com). C. Derick Varn is pursuing a MFA in Poetry at Georgia College & State University, where he is currently an assistant editor for Arts and Letters: A Journal of Contemporary Arts. He won the Frankeye Davis Mayes/Academy of American Poets Prize in 2003. He has also written articles and essays on modern culture for Unlikely Stories 2.0. He currently lives in Milledgeville, Georgia, with his wife and three cats. Chris Vitiello lives in Durham, North Carolina, and is part of the Lucifer Poetics Group. He has recently completed a manuscript entitled Irresponsibility, and his Nouns Swarm a Verb was published by Xurban in 1999. His blog is located at http://the_delay.blogspot.com. |
