CONTRIBUTORS

David Axe is a freelance war correspondent based in Washington, DC. Editorial cartoonist Matt Bors lives and works in Oregon. Their comic appears biweekly at warisboring.com.
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Jill Beauchesne graduated in 2006 from the M.F.A. and M.A. programs at the University of Montana. Her poetry has been published in Octopus, Pebble Lake Review, Fourteen Hills, and elsewhere.

Susan H. Case has recent work in many journals, including Cider Press Review, Coe Review, Diner, Gulf Stream, and Slant. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, she is the author of The Scottish Café, Hiking The Desert In High Heels, and Anthropologist In Ohio.
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Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman lives in New York City and teaches creative writing at Manhattan Country School. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Guernica and DIAGRAM.

Charlie Clark lives and works in Washington, D.C.
"Thinking of Extinction"

Ashley Davidson is from Flagstaff, Arizona. Her writing has appeared in Quarter After Eight and is forthcoming in Quarterly West.

Tina Egnoski has published fiction and poetry in a number of literary journals, including Cimarron Review, Folio, Hawaii Pacific Review, and Louisville Review. She grew up in Florida and currently lives in Barrington, Rhode Island.

Juliana Gray teaches English and poetry at Alfred University in western New York. During the summers she teaches a poetry workshop at the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference and regularly works on the staff of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She is the author of The Man Under My Skin.
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Eric Greinke has a Master’s degree in Social Work from Grand Valley State University. He is the author of 20 books, most recently The Drunken Boat & Other Poems From The French Of Arthur Rimbaud (Presa Press, 2007). Recent work has been published in Free Verse, Ibbetson St., Iconoclast, The New York Quarterly, The Pedestal Magazine, Wilderness House Literary Review, and Wild Goose Poetry Review.
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Mary Grimm’s work has appeared in the New Yorker and Redbook; her novel, Left to Themselves, and a story collection, Stealing Time, were published by Random House. She currently teaches creative writing at Case Western Reserve University, and is working on a novel about ghost hunters.
"What I Learned in Catholic School"

B.J. Hollars has been published in The Summerset Review, The Evansville Review, Ballyhoo, and The Lily Literary Review, among others. His fiction can be found at www.bjhollars.com, and his podcast at how-to-be-a-man.com. Currently, he is pursuing his M.F.A. at the University of Alabama.
webpage | podcast | "Conservation Status of Least Concern"

Nita Karpf is an award-winning poet living in Oberlin, Ohio, with her husband, composer Lewis Nielson, and three rescued greyhounds. In her other life, Nita is on the faculty of the Music Department at Case Western Reserve University, where she teaches music history.

Andrew Kozma’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Puerto del Sol, Spoon River Poetry Review, American Letters & Commentary, and Lilies and Cannonballs Review, and a nonfiction piece will soon be published by the Iowa Review. His first book of poems, City of Regret, won the Zone 3 First Book Award and was released in the summer of 2007.

Chip Livingston’s poetry and fiction have appeared most recently in Apalachee Review, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, McSweeney’s, Mississippi Review, and Ploughshares. He lives in New York City.

Duane Locke lives in rural Lakeland, spends his spare time communing with and photographing insects, and has had 5,905 poems published in print and e-zines.

After a decade of middle management in Midwest movie theaters, Tim Lockridge is now an M.F.A. candidate at Virginia Tech. His work recently appeared in The Eleventh Muse.
"On Realizing That I Tend to End with Nature Imagery"

dawn lonsinger grew up in the woods of a small town in Pennsylvania not far from other small towns with names too lascivious to mention. She holds an M.F.A. from Cornell University, and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals, including American Letters & Commentary, DIAGRAM, Beloit Poetry Journal, and New Orleans Review.

Woody Loverude earned degrees from Augustana College and New York University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, Ninth Letter, and others. His chapbook, Flood, was published by Shadowbox Press. He lives in New York.

Cynthia Luhrs has always been passionate about art. She enjoys using material such as vintage maps, sewing patterns, postcards, antique family photographs, and other vintage ephemera in her work.
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Maggie McKnight lives in Iowa City and is working on a book-length graphic memoir.

T. Motley has devoted his life to creating comics and encouraging others to do the same. You can find more of his work on the Internet at tmotley.com
tmotley.com | "A Happy End"

Randall Munroe lives in Massachusetts. Before starting xkcd, he worked on robots at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia. In his spare time he climbs things, opens strange doors, and goes to goth clubs dressed as a frat guy so he can stand around and look terribly uncomfortable.
xkcd | "Barrel"

For twenty years Joe Oestreich has toured the country in a beat-up Ford Econoline as the singer and bass player for Watershed. A graduate of the Ohio State writing program, he currently lives in Tacoma, Washington, where he teaches creative writing at Pacific Lutheran University. His most recent work has appeared in Esquire, Ninth Letter, and Cimarron Review.

Rebecca Porte lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her critical work has appeared in PN Review, The Boston Review, and Rain Taxi Review of Books.

Poems by Lynne Potts have appeared in Paris Review, Southern Humanities Review, Oxford Magazine, Cumberland Review, Art Times, River Oak Review, Green Hills Literary Review, Drumvoices, AGNI, and many other journals.
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Brenna Powers is a recent graduate of Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina. She resides in Washington, DC, where she waitresses and plans imaginary trips.

Kenton Wing Robinson, 55, a reporter for The Day newspaper in New London, Connecticut, has written poetry since he was nine years old. He achieved his first recognition as a writer in the 8th grade when his English teacher intercepted a poem he had written about her having sex with hippopotami.

C.J. Sage edits the National Poetry Review and teaches poetry at De Anza College. Her poems appear in Ploughshares, Shenandoah, The Antioch Review, The Threepenny Review, Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, et cetera. A book-length terza rima, Odyssea, is just out from Turning Point Books. Previous books are Field Notes in Contemporary Literature, And We the Creatures, and Let’s Not Sleep.

Mike Shannon has a B.A. in writing. Previous work has appeared in Enigma, Steam Ticket, Down in the Dirt, The Oak, AntiMuse, Barfing Frog Press, The American Drivel Review, Transcendental Visions, Poetry Motel, The Lampshade, Cherry Bleeds, Zygote in my Coffee, Dispatch, Straylight, and The Foliate Oak.
"Encounter"

Peter Schwartz's artwork can be seen everywhere, but specifically at www.sitrahahra.com. He’s an associate art editor at Mad Hatters’ Review, and has just completed a series of paintings for an exhibit with the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery. He lives in Maine.
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David Shumate’s High Water Mark (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004) was awarded the 2003 Agnes Lynch Starrett prize. His work has been featured in Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems for Hard Times and Best American Poetry 2007. His second book, The Floating Bridge, is forthcoming in spring 2008.
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Growing up in a lush farm community in western Wisconsin, Sarah Solie loved reading fairy tales and making up her own stories. She continues to get inspiration from the natural world around her and the stories she reads or people tell her about themselves. More of her work can be be viewed at www.sarahsolie.com.
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Jennie Thompson is originally from Louisville, Kentucky. She currently works as a music columnist, disc jockey, and writing instructor in Greensboro, North Carolina, where she received her MFA in poetry at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her poetry is forthcoming in Confrontation.
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J.W. Wang collects electronic dictionaries, broken hearts, and free posters. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Pindeldyboz, Hobart, Poet Lore, Wandering Army, and others. Half of his life is spent editing Juked.
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Renee Wells received her M.F.A. at Southern Illinois University. Her work has appeared in Poet Lore, Pearl, Spoon River Poetry Review, MARGIE, and Sou’wester. She teaches at the University of Alabama and is the site editor for the Poetry Resource Page at poetryresourcepage.com.
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Emily Wharton is a poet living and working in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She earned an M.F.A. from Hamline University. Her work has appeared in/on the Minnesota Poetry Calendar, Split-City Review, and New Verse News. She is a recurring participant in the Talking Image Connection reading series.

Mike Young co-edits NOÖ Journal (www.noojournal.com), a free literary and political magazine. His work has appeared in Monday Night, MiPOesias, Juked #4, elimae, and BlazeVOX, among others.
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