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Vidhu Aggarwal’s poems have recently appeared in Pedestal, Nimrod,
Juked, Harpur Palate, Pistola and Norton’s Contemporary Voices from the East.
Her work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2009 and 2010.
Jeffrey C. Alfier is a two-time nominee for the Pushcart prize, and a 2010 nominee for the UK’s Forward Prize in poetry. His work has appeared recently in Connecticut River Review and Crannog (Ireland), with work forthcoming in New York Quarterly. His latest chapbook is The Torch Singer (2011). In 2012, The Wolf Yearling, his first full-length book of poems, will be published by Pecan Grove Press. He serves as co-editor of San Pedro River Review.
Arlene Ang is the author of The Desecration of Doves (2005), Secret Love
Poems (Rubicon Press, 2007), Bundles of Letters Including A, V and Epsilon (Tex-
ture Press, 2008), co-written with Valerie Fox, and Seeing Birds in Church is a
Kind of Adieu (Cinnamon Press, 2010). Her poems have appeared in Ambit,
Caketrain, Diagram, Poetry Ireland, Poet Lore, Rattle, Salt Hill, as well as the Best
of the Web anthologies 2008 and 2009 (Dzanc Books). She lives in Spinea, Italy
where she serves as staff editor for The Pedestal Magazine and Press 1. Website:
www.leafscape.org
Shanan Ballam’s poetry has appeared in several journals, including Indiana Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Cream City Review. Her chapbook, The Red Riding Hood Papers, was released by Finishing Line Press in 2010. She teaches poetry writing and academic writing at Utah State University.
Oliver Bendorf, a native Iowan and graduate of the University of Iowa, was a 2010 Lambda Literary Fellow in poetry and recently had poems in Drunken Boat.
B.J. Best is the author of Birds of Wisconsin (New Rivers Press) and State
Sonnets (sunnyoutside), as well as three chapbooks from Centennial Press,
most recently Drag: Twenty Short Poems about Smoking. He lives in Wisconsin
with his wife, son, and their cats Simon (not a boy), Monkey (not a monkey),
and Xylophone (not an entertaining percussion instrument).
Richard Blanco’s acclaimed first book, City of a Hundred Fires, received the prestigious Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press (1998). His second book, Directions to The Beach of the Dead, won the 2006 PEN/American Beyond Margins Award. His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2000, Great American Prose Poems, and have been featured on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. The poems in this issue are from Looking for The Gulf Motel, his forthcoming collection from the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Traci Brimhall is the author of Our Lady of the Ruins (forthcoming from W.W. Norton), selected by Carolyn Forché for the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press), winner of the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Slate, Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, The Missouri Review and elsewhere. She was the 2008–09 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and currently teaches at Western Michigan University, where she is a doctoral associate and King/Chávez/Parks Fellow.
Nikia Chaney is a native of the Inland Empire, with an MFA in Poetry from Antioch University. She is currently at California State University studying for an MA in Linguistics. When she is not in school or teaching children’s poetry for an after school program, she can be found mothering four little ones. Most recently, she has been published in Pacific Review and Badlands as well as the Inlandia sponsored Slouching Towards Mt. Rubidoux.
Kristen Clanton lives in Tampa, FL. She graduated from the University of Nebraska’s MFA program. She makes clothes, studies French and works as an assistant to an editor, who is pushing her to send out work. She is not terribly funny when it counts and the only joke she knows is about a pirate in argyle socks. Don’t hold it against her.
Katharine Coles’ fifth collection of poems, Flight, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press, which also published her fourth collection, Fault, in 2008. She is a professor in the English Department at the University of Utah, where she teaches creative writing and literature and co-directs the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature. In 2010, she spent a month writing in Antarctica under the auspices of the National Science Foundation’s Artists and Writers Program. In 2009 and 2010, she served as the Inaugural Director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute at the Poetry Foundation. She is currently Poet Laureate of Utah.
Star Coulbrooke directs the Utah State University Writing Center and is responsible for Helicon West, a bi-monthly open readings/featured readers series. Her poems are published in journals and anthologies such as Redactions: Poetry and Poetics and A Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses. Her poem, “How I Stopped Selling Life Insurance,” was named Editor’s Choice in the anthology, New Poets of the American West. Star lives in Smithfield, Utah, with her partner, Mitch, and their three labby-heelerish dogs.
Kevin Cutrer was raised in the American South and has lived in South
America. His work has appeared everywhere from The Flea to The Dark Horse.
Nick DePascal currently lives in Albuquerque, NM with his wife and son, where he’s working toward his MFA at the University of New Mexico. His poetry and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, Sugar House Review, Rattle, Rain Taxi, Tucson Weekly, Adobe Walls and more.
Shavahn Dorris-Jefferson has a master’s in writing from DePaul University. She has published work in The Rio Grande Review, The Centrifugal Eye and The Orange Room Review. She juggles four jobs during the day, which forces her to do most of her daydreaming at night. She lives in Joliet with her husband, Alvin.
Iris Jamahl Dunkle teaches writing and literature at Clarion University. Her chapbook, Inheritance, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2010. Her poetry, creative nonfiction and scholarly articles have appeared in numerous publications, including: Fence, LinQ, Boxcar Poetry Review, Cleveland in Prose and Poetry, Eaden Water’s Press Home Anthology and The Squaw Valley Writers Review.
Athena N. Edmonds graduated with an MFA from Lesley University in 2009. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as The Massachusetts Review, Connotation Press and Feminist Studies. In her previous life, she founded and managed a series of early stage software venture funds. She holds engineering degrees from MIT and Cambridge University. Originally from Thessaloniki, Greece, Athena lives with her husband and four children in Belmont, MA. Her youngest child is an nine-year old girl who identifies as a boy.
Nava Fader has been happily stealing from Rilke and her poet/neighbor/friend, Marten Clibbens, lately. She likes the process—no blank page when she starts with their words—and she likes the politics: shared creativity and the squishing of a potentially large poet-ego in favor of community and tradition. Her book, All the Jawing Jackdaw (BlazeVOX [books], 2010), has each poem’s title taken from a line by somebody else. She just finished a manuscript of fake translations from Dante’s Inferno. Her work has been in Sawbuck, No Tell Motel, Coconut, Dear Sir and others.
Washington D.C.’s Brian Gilmore is a poet, public interest attorney and columnist with the Progressive Media Project. He has two collections, elvis presley is alive and well and living in harlem (Third World Press 1993) and Jungle Nights and Soda Fountain Rags: Poem for Duke Ellington (Karibu Books 2001). He is currently on the clinical faculty at the Michigan State University College of Law.
Heather Griffiths currently lives in Central California and spends her time outlining the Sierra Nevada mountains in the fog and searching the local farmers markets for the perfect strawberry. She recently graduated from Utah State University with a BS in American Studies and is taking a year to work on poetry. When not at the farmers market, Heather can be found hiking in Yosemite National Park or on her couch eating a large bowl of near-perfect strawberries.
Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick graduated with her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2010. She recently completed her first full-length manuscript of essays and poetry and has a chapbook in print. Some of her work has been featured, or is upcoming, in magazines in the US and UK, including: 3:AM Magazine, Night Train, Phantom Kangaroo, chum, Sein und Werden, among others. She writes in New York and Texas.
Ryan Harper is a graduate student in the department of religion at Princeton University, where he is writing an ethnography on contemporary southern gospel music. His poems have appeared in Big Muddy, The Litchfield Review, Red Clay Review, Ruminate and The Potomac Review. Ryan is also a jazz drummer and an overzealous, underperforming runner of marathons.
J.D. Hibbitts is a graduate student in McNeese State University’s fiction program, and received his B.A. from Emory & Henry College after completing his service commitment in the United States Air Force. He has had poems published in Bluestone Review, Blue Collar Review and The Clinch Mountain Review, as well as a non-fiction article published in Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s Journeys Magazine. In his free time, he kayaks and SCUBA dives.
Lauren Hilger is an MFA candidate at Sarah Lawrence College where she serves as Managing Editor of LUMINA. Recent poems can be found or are forthcoming in Sonora Review, Gulf Stream, Sierra Nevada Review, Caper, Moon Milk Review, The Scrambler, ASKEW, Schuylkill Valley Journal, The Westchester Review, among others. She lives in Manhattan.
Erin Coughlin Hollowell has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Crab Creek Review, Weber Studies, Blue Earth Review and Terrain.org. A 2010 Rona Jaffe Poetry Scholar at Bread Loaf Writers Conference, she received her MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. She lives in a small town off the road-system in Alaska. They have no stoplights, no theater and no place to buy socks or underwear. They do have a bookstore, a zendo and three places to get a diesel boat motor fixed. Go figure.
Jennifer Jabaily-Blackburn lives in Fayetteville, AR with her husband and their genius beagle. She’s into reading, rediscovering Twitter, and getting away from Twitter because it’s eating her life. She’s more into hyperbole than anyone. Ever.
Russell Jaffe lives in Iowa City, IA and teaches at Kirkwood Community College. His poems have appeared in elimae, Shampoo, La Petite Zine, Alice Blue and others. His chapbook G(* )D is forthcoming from Pudding House Press and he is the editor of the online journal O Sweet Flowery Roses.
Charmi Keranen holds a BA in English from Indiana University South Bend. She works in Northern Indiana as a scopist and proofreader of court transcripts. She prefers murder over medical malpractice work any day of the week. Her poetry has recently appeared in The Salt River Review, JMWW, Stirring, blossombones, elimae, The Dirty Napkin, Passages North and Ouroboros Review.
Katie Kingston has taught Spanish, English and poetry throughout the Rocky Mountain West and is now enjoying the nomadic life that writing residencies offer. She’s had the opportunity to write from many landscapes including Spain and Mexico, and most recently from the writing residency at Martha’s Vineyard. She finds that writing in different settings encourages different perspectives. She is the author of three poetry collections.
Sandra Kohler’s third book of poems, Improbable Music, was released by Word Press in April. An earlier book, The Ceremonies of Longing (U. of Pittsburgh Press, 2003) won the AWP Award Series in Poetry for 2002. Her poems have been published over the past thirty-some years in periodicals including The New Republic, The American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner and Beloit Poetry Journal. She remains a passionate fan of the Philadelphia Flyers despite having moved to Boston four years ago, after spending most of her adult life in Pennsylvania.
Matthew Landrum teaches Latin and literature in Ann Arbor. His poems have recently appeared in The Emerson Review and Cold Mountain Review.
Steve Langan is the author of Freezing (New Issues, 2001), Notes on Exile and Other Poems (Backwaters, 2005) and Meet Me at the Happy Bar (BlazeVOX [books], 2009).
Robin Linn facilitates playfulness-themed poetry workshops in the Boston area and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Sugar House Review, Redactions: Poetry & Poetics, Saranac Review, specs and Amethyst Arsenic, where her poem was nominated for Best of the Web. Her chapbook, Fairytale Ending Machine, is forthcoming from FootHills Publishing. Robin volunteers for PEN New England’s Freedom to Write prison writing program, and she is a huge NE Patriots fan.
D.A. Lockhart completed his B.A. in English at Montana State University and is currently wrapping up a short stint in the Midwest at Indiana University. His work has appeared in Front Range, Zaum and Naugatuck River Review. He is currently working on a collection of short stories set around Southeastern Montana.
Angie Macri’s recent work appears or is forthcoming in Redivider, RHINO and Third Coast, among other journals, and is included in Best New Poets 2010. Her manuscript, Queensware, was named as a finalist in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award competition. She has also been awarded an individual artist fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council.
Erin Lynn Marsh lives and writes in Bemidji, MN. She dotes on her cat, Emma, and has finally learned the art of living alone! She graduated in January from the Low Residency MFA program at Lesley University.
Kevin McLellan is the author of the chapbook Round Trip (Seven Kitchens, 2010), a collaborative series with numerous women poets. He has recent or forthcoming poems in journals including: Arch Literary Journal, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Drunken Boat, Exquisite Corpse, Hunger Mountain, Interim, Southern Humanities Review, Versal and others. Kevin teaches creative writing at the University of Rhode Island and lives in Cambridge, MA.
Nancy Carol Moody spent many years working for the postal service and resisting the urge to read the backs of postcards. She invests a good deal of time at her desk, moving things around in search of other things. Her cat, Kobi, assists by chewing large hunks of paper from submission packets. Nevertheless, she has poems published in Poetry Northwest, The New York Quarterly, Bellevue Literary Review and The MacGuffin. Her book, Photograph With Girls, was published in 2007. The cat has not touched it.
Joanna Pearson completed her MFA in poetry in 2009 at the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. Her poems have appeared recently in Best New Poets 2010, Blackbird, Gulf Coast, The New Criterion, River Styx, Tar River Poetry, Valparaiso Poetry Review and elsewhere. Recently, she has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and has had residencies/scholarships to Yaddo and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
Cathy Peppers holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University, a PhD from the University of Oregon and has taught at Idaho State University since 1998. She lives with singer-songwriter Bob Picard on a one-hundred-year-old farmstead with superfluous creatures, including a blackjack of cats, two horses, a motley of chickens and a goat. Her poetry is loosely collected in a few manuscripts; the poems here are from Arts & Sciences (call it love), regressing forward and in loving detail.
Daniel Pinkerton is the recipient of two Academy of American Poets prizes and an AWP Intro Journals award; his fiction manuscript was a finalist in the 2006 Flannery O’Connor Award. His poetry, reviews and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Indiana Review, Subtropics, Willow Springs, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Sonora Review, River Styx, American Literary Review, Shenandoah, Pleiades, Quarterly West, Crazyhorse, Northwest Review, North American Review, Best New American Voices 2008, among others.
Natalie Bryant Rizzieri’s poems have most recently appeared in Crab Orchard Review and Connotation Press. She received her MFA in poetry from Lesley University, and is the founder of Friends of Warm Hearth, a group home for Armenian orphans with disabilities.
In addition to Mixed Diction (Mammoth books, 2009), Jeff Schiff is the author of Anywhere in this Country (Mammoth Press), The Homily of Infinitude (Pennsylvania Review Press), The Rats of Patzcuaro (Poetry Link), Resources for Writing About Literature (HarperCollins) and Burro Heart (Mammoth books). His work has appeared internationally in over 80 periodicals, including Grand Street, The Ohio Review, Poet & Critic, The Louisville Review, Carolina Review, Chicago Review, Southern Humanities Review, Indiana Review, Willow Springs and The Southwest Review. He has been a member of the English faculty at Columbia College Chicago since 1987.
Stephanie E. Schlaifer is originally from Atlanta, GA and works as an artist and freelance editor in St. Louis, MO. She received her BFA in sculpture and BA in English literature from Washington University in St. Louis, and an MFA in poetry from the University of lowa. Stephanie is a combative Boggler and a compulsive baker. It is rumored that two men once arm-wrestled each other to death for the last slice of her pecan pie. She is currently working on a series of poems about historical weather events and a collection of children’s books in verse.
Marvin Shackelford holds an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Montana and currently lives in rural Kentucky. His stories and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as Cimarron Review, Confrontation, Southern Poetry Review, Harpur Palate, Quarterly West, Georgetown Review, among others.
After teaching for twenty-two years in Utah State University’s English Department, Anne Shifrer is now an independent scholar, writer, editor and paper doll maker.
Karen Skolfield is a freelance magazine writer and an adjunct professor in the journalism department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is a contributing editor at the literary magazine Bateau and has work published or forthcoming in Another Chicago Magazine, Crab Creek Review, Hollins Critic, The Ledge, PANK, Painted Bride Quarterly, West Branch and others.
Patricia Smith’s eight books include Blood Dazzler, a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, and one of NPR’s top five books of 2008; and Teahouse of the Almighty, a National Poetry Series selection. Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah will be released on spring 2012. Her work has appeared or is upcoming in Poetry, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly and Best American Poetry 2011 and Best American Essays 2011. She is a professor at the College of Staten Island, and teaches for Cave Canem at the MFA program of Sierra Nevada College.
Shannon Azzato Stephens is a recent graduate of the Carnegie Mellon University Creative Writing Program, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of The Oakland Review. Previous publications include Anderbo, Brink Lit, Emprise Review and The Susquehanna Review. She currently lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and a stuffed dog named Spartacus.
An MFA recipient from the University of Southern Maine ’s Stonecoast Writing Program, Christine Tierney is employed as an after-school director. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fourteen Hills, Permafrost, PMS, Poet Lore, Tusculum Review, descant, The Yalobusha Review, The Broome Review and Tattoo Highway. Also, you can listen to her read in the latest issue of Soundzine.
Robert J. Tillett writes and teaches in Rochester, NY. He was a winner of a Bread Loaf scholarship and his work has been nominated twice for Pushcart Prizes. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in such publications as PoetryNorthwest, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Ellipsis, Harpur Palate, Southern Indiana Review and The Worcester Review.
William Trowbridge’s poetry collections are Ship of Fool, The Complete Book of Kong, Flickers, O Paradise and Enter Dark Stranger. His poems have also appeared in over 30 anthologies and textbooks and in such periodicals as The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, The Georgia Review, Poetry, Boulevard and Green Mountains Review. He lives in the Kansas City area and teaches in the University of Nebraska Low-residency MFA Writing Program.
Mike White’s poems have appeared in venues including Poetry, The New Republic, The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, The Threepenny Review, Denver Quarterly, FIELD, Witness, Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize anthology on six occasions, most recently by Sycamore Review. He is a graduate of the doctoral program in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah, and a former editor-in-chief of Quarterly West.
Theodore Worozbyt’s work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, Image, Po&sie, Poetry, Poetry Daily, Quarterly West, Sentence, Shenadoah, The Southern Review, Verse Daily, TriQuarterly Online and The Best American Poetry. His first book, The Dauber Wings (Dream Horse Press, 2006), won the first American Poetry Journal Book Prize, and his second book, Letters of Transit, won the 2007 Juniper Prize. His chapbook, Scar Letters, is online at Beard of Bees Press.
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