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Contributors

Sandy Anderson’s Jeanne was Once a Player of Pianos was published by Limberlost Press in 1998, and she has a chapbook forthcoming from Outlaw Press. The 1997 recipient of the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Award in Literature, and the 1995 Writers at Work Writing Advocate Award, she has been artist at residence at local schools, and has given workshops to groups of disabled, veterans and prisoners. She is currently editing her 4th anthology of disabled writers. She teaches piano for a living. Her poems in this issue are from a manuscript titled Cleopatra’s Coins.

Lisa Bickmore teaches writing in Salt Lake City.

Wendy Blankenship completed her MFA in Creative Writing through Naropa University. She is the co-author of Along the Black. Her work has appeared in Not Enough Night, The Myriad, Bed and Transmission. She writes and teaches in Salt Lake City.

Simmons B. Buntin is the founding editor of Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments (www.terrain.org). His first book of poetry, Riverfall, was published in 2005 by Ireland’s Salmon Poetry and his second book, Bloom, is due from Salmon in late 2010. A recipient of a Colorado Artists Fellowship for Poetry, his poems have recently appeared in Whiskey Island Magazine, The LBJ: Avian Life, Literary Arts, South Dakota Review, Verse Daily, Isotope, Orion, Corridors and Southwestern American Literature.

Weston Cutter’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets 2008, Willow Springs, The Gettysburg Review, Seneca Review and Third Coast. He runs the book review site Corduroy Books (corduroybooks.com) and is a creative writing professor at a tiny school in far northwest Iowa (called, appropriately, Northwestern).

Jim Daniels won the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize for his book, Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies (2007). Two other books were published in 2007, his third collection of short fiction, Mr. Pleasant, and his eleventh book of poems, In Line for the Exterminator. In 2005, Jim Daniels wrote and produced the independent film “Dumpster,” and Street, a book of his poems accompanying the photographs of Charlee Brodsky, won the Tillie Olsen Prize from the Working-Class Studies Association. His poems have appeared in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. He directs the Creative Writing Program at Carnegie Mellon.

Nick DePascal graduated with his BA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona, where he received the 2004 Fred N. Scott Prize for Poetry. Currently he can be found in Albuquerque, NM with his wife and son, enjoying coffee and sopaipillas. His poems have been published in The Houston Literary Review, The Monongahela Review and Breadcrumb Scabs.

Carrie Farmer talks serious trash to the few Scrabble opponents she has left. Her home, NY Giants-blue, houses two cats (Franklin and Fern), three rats (Fink, Flora and Fiona), her Ol’ Lady, and three (or more) unseen (and non-paying!) roommates. She hasn’t bought eggs for a year, as her two hens (Patty and Nuggette) kindly provide chicken-fruit daily.

Charles Fort’s forthcoming books include: We Did Not Fear The Father: New and Selected Poems (Red Hen Press 2010) and Mrs. Belladonna’s Supper Club Waltz: New and Selected Prose Poems, Volumes 1 and 2 (Backwaters Press 2010 and 2011). Carnegie Mellon University Press reprinted Fort’s first book, The Town Clock Burning, under its Classic Contemporary Series. Fort’s poems appear in The Best American Poetry 2000 and 2003.

Yolanda Franklin knows chocolate is an aphrodisiac, appetizer, and dessert; Baileys should be served over ice in any weather; parenting is for the gods and teaching is God’s work. Friends, family and stories inspire her to get out of bed. Yolanda’s dream for retirement involves lattes, umbrellas, poets and writers, pen and paper, and bookshelves filled in rooms with her favorite people.

Randall R. Freisinger lives and writes in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where spring and summer are like pleasant dreams you can’t quite remember, and where fall and winter are extravagant waking realities. When he isn’t shoveling out or snowshoeing with his wife, Jill, and his two dogs, Zeke and Cocker, he continues to work on a writing career that includes many magazine and anthology publications, four Pushcart Prize nominations and four books of poems, including Plato’s Breath, winner of the 1997 May Swenson Poetry Prize from Utah State University Press, and the recently released Nostalgia’s Thread (Hol Art Books, 2009).

Cecilia Galarraga is a recent graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio. She lacks credentials but not enthusiasm. She works as a health educator in New York City.

Richard Garcia lives on James Island, SC, with his wife, poet Katherine Williams, and their dogs Louie and Sully. He is the author of Rancho Notorious and The Persistence of Objects, both from BOA Editions. His most recent publication is a chapbook of prose poems, Chickenhead, available from FootHills Publishing (http://foothillspublishing.com/2009/id56.htm). His poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, Crazyhorse, Ploughshares, Pushcart Prize XXI and Best American Poetry. His website is www.richardgarcia.info.

Tom Holmes is the editor of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics. He is also author of After Malagueña (FootHills Publishing, 2005), Negative Time (Pudding House, 2007), Pre-Dew Poems (FootHills Publishing, 2008), Henri, Sophie, & The Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound: Poems Blasted from the Vortex (BlazeVOX [books], 2009), Poetry Assignments: The Book (Sage Hill Press, 2009) and The Oldest Stone in the World (Amsterdam Press, 2010). Just recently, he was nominated thrice for the Pushcart Prize. His work has also appeared on Verse Daily.

Major Jackson is the author of two collections of poetry: Hoops (Norton: 2006) and Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia: 2002), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Hoops was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literature—Poetry. His third volume of poetry, Holding Company, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. Major Jackson is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold Professor at University of Vermont and a core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars. He serves as the Poetry Editor of the Harvard Review.

Colin James is a member of The Brothers Of The Endemic. Discussions regarding the denial of self are held regularly with Bonita Bob and Brother Badger. Comments or queries should be mailed in a large wardrobe to 3 Denial Close, Blacon, Cheshire, UK.

Liz Kay holds an MFA from the University of Nebraska, where she was the recipient of both an Academy of American Poets’ Prize, and the Wendy Fort Memorial Prize. In 2008, she was awarded a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize for excellence in lyric poetry. Her work has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, such journals as: Margie, Red Wheelbarrow, Whiskey Island Magazine and The New York Quarterly.

Claudia Keelan’s collections of poetry include: Refinery (CSU Poetry Prize 1994), The Secularist (University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series, 1997), Utopic (Beatrice Hawley Award, Alice James Books, 2000) and The Devotion Field (2004), also from Alice James Books. Her sixth book, Missing Her, was published this year in the Green Rose Series from New Issues Press. She is a professor of English and Creative Writing at UNLV and the editor of Interim.

Elizabeth Klise von Zerneck’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in Cincinnati Review, Crab Orchard Review, Measure, Ninth Letter, Notre Dame Review, The Pinch, Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Rattle, Spoon River Poetry Review and Water-Stone Review. Her recent work was honored with the 2008 Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award, a 2008 International Publication Prize from Atlanta Review, and a 2009 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award in Poetry.

William Kloefkorn’s most recent books are Out of Attica (poetry) and Breathing in the Fullness of Time (memoir). His new and selected poems will appear in the fall of 2010 from the University of Nebraska Press.

David Lee has been a soldier, a boxer, a university professor, a pig farmer, the only white athlete to play for the Negro League Post Texas Blue Stars and was the first Poet Laureate of Utah. His book So Quietly the Earth was selected by librarians at the New York Public Library for its “Books to Remember” list. He is the recipient of the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts and has received grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. “Matins in the Cathedral of Wind” is in Lee’s new book, Stone Wind Water, which will be out in April from Black Rock Press, University of Nevada/Reno. Lee lives in Texas, with his wife, Jan.

Dennis Loney’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in 32 Poems, Able Muse, Sewanee Theological Review, Shit Creek Review, unsplendid and Measure. His manuscript, Casualties of Conveyance, was a finalist in the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. In 2006, Dennis was awarded a fellowship from the DC Commission on Arts and the Humanities.

Joel Long’s first book Winged Insects was the winner of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize and was published in 1999. His chapbook, Chopin’s Preludes was published by Elik Press in 2005. His chapbook Saffron Beneath Every Frost was published by Elik in 2007. Long’s poems have appeared in Isotope, New Orleans Review, Interim, Rhino, Gulf Coast, Bitter Oleander, Crab Orchard Review, Bellingham Review, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, Sonora Review, Spoon River Poetry Review and Coal City Review, among others.

Dominic Mattos recently graduated from Lesley University, where he received his MFA in Creative Writing and Poetry. Currently he works as a carpenter and bartender in Newburyport, Massachusetts. He is working on starting a local poets reading and workshop series, and completing work on his first collection.

Campbell McGrath’s books of poetry include: Shannon, Seven Notebooks, Capitalism, American Noise, Spring Comes to Chicago, Road Atlas, Florida Poems and Pax Atomica. His awards include the Kingsley Tufts Prize and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations. He teaches in the creative writing program at Florida International University in Miami.

Michael McLane completed an MFA in Creative Writing at Colorado State University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, The Laurel Review, Interim, Colorado Review, Salt Flats Journal, among others. He currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Kevin McLellan has recent or forthcoming poems in journals including: Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Drunken Boat, Exquisite Corpse, Hunger Mountain, Interim, Southern Humanities Review and many others. His chapbook, Round Trip, a collaborative series with numerous poets, is forthcoming from Seven Kitchens (Spring, 2010). Kevin lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Lance Newman teaches American Literature and Creative Writing at Westminster College. His poems have appeared in 1913, Beloit Poetry Journal, Dusie, Fringe, New CollAge, No Tell Motel, nthposition, otoliths, Pemmican, Perigee, Streetnotes, Stride, Zyzzyva and other magazines. His poems included in thiems issue were made at 3by3by3, an online mixing table located at http://3by3by3.blogspot.com.

Scott Poole is the author of two books of poetry, The Cheap Seats and Hiding from Salesmen. Poole is also the resident poet of Oregon Public Broadcasting’s weekly show, “Live Wire!” and the founding director of both Wordstock, Portland’s Annual Festival of the Book and Get Lit!, Spokane’s Annual Book Festival. Currently, he is a software developer who lives in the town he grew up in, Vancouver, Washington with his wife and two children.

Christine Stewart-Nuñez lives in Brookings, South Dakota where she teaches creative writing at South Dakota State University. Lately she’s been mulling over questions posed by her preschooler (“Mama, does The Hulk have a green penis?”) and contemplating permaculture designs for her backyard. Christine is the author of The Love of Unreal Things, Unbound & Branded (Finishing Line Press 2005 and 2006), Postcard on Parchment (ABZ Press 2008) and Keeping Them Alive (forthcoming from WordTech Editions in 2011).

Laura Stott received an MFA from Eastern Washington University. Her poems have appeared in various publications, most recently, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Weber: The Contemporary West and Redactions: Poetry & Poetics. Laura teaches freshman English, occasionally delivers flowers, and takes tourists for hikes in Skagway, Alaska. She loves the Uinta Mountains, bicycles and staring contests with crows.

Janet Sylvester currently teaches at the University of Tampa and in the low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her recent work has appeared in Pushcart Prize XXVIII, Boulevard, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, Poetry Daily, Virginia Quarterly Review, Memoir (and) and other venues.

Nancy Takacs is an emeritus professor at the College of Eastern Utah in Price, and is currently an artist-in-education for the Utah Arts Council. Her new book, Juniper, will be published by Limberlost Press in spring 2010. She spends summers in northern Wisconsin with her husband, Jan, and their dogs, Emma and Vladimir.

Pat Tompkins is an editor in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her poems have appeared in flashquake, The Aurorean, Astropoetica and other publications. She likes to swim to counteract an overdeveloped sweet tooth.

Natalia Treviño was born in Mexico City, but lives in Texas. She is an Associate Professor of English at Northwest Vista College and has won several awards for her poetry including the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Award and the Alfredo Moral de Cisneros Award for emerging writers. Natalia is working on her MFA, and cannot resist hot sauce or cherry sours. She loves the Texas heat as long as there are sparkling sandals to go with it.

William Trowbridge, a Chicago native, teaches in the University of Nebraska MFA Program in Writing. His poetry collections include Ship of Fool (forthcoming), The Complete Book of Kong (2003), Flickers (2000), O Paradise (1995) and Enter Dark Stranger (1989). His poems have also appeared in over 30 anthologies and textbooks, as well as in such periodicals as Boulevard, The Colorado Review, Columbia, Crazyhorse, The Gettysburg Review, The Georgia Review, New Letters, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review and Tar River Poetry. Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Northwest Missouri State University, he now lives with his wife in the Kansas City area.

Jeffrey Tucker lived in the Salt Lake City area for several years. He is now a student in the creative writing PhD program at The Center for Writers at The University of Southern Mississippi, where he also teaches. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Inscape, Saw Palm, Product, The Swarthmore Literary Review and Sandy River Review, wherein he was awarded the Editors’ Choice Award for the Spring 2008 issue. He was recently a finalist for the Isotope Editors’ Prize, and is co-editor of Squid Quarterly, a journal devoted to prose poetry and flash fiction.

Robin Tung holds an MFA in fiction from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. She is a recipient of the Milton A. Saier Award and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work appears in NANO Fiction, Labletter and The Basilica Review.

Albert Uriah Turner, Jr. is a Boston native, an assistant professor of English at Morehouse College, and a scholar of African American literature and culture. He admittedly spends too much time musing about language, listening to Miles Davis’ Milestones (1958), rooting for Boston professional sports teams, and looking for good Jamaican restaurants. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Nicole Walker is the author of This Noisy Egg (Barrow Street Press, 2010). Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in Ploughshares, North American Review, Bellingham Review, Fence, Iowa Review, Fourth Genre, Ninth Letter, Crazyhorse, among other places. She has been granted an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is currently an assistant professor of poetry and creative nonfiction at Northern Arizona University.

William Kelley Woolfitt is a PhD student at Pennsylvania State University, and works as a backpacking guide at a summer camp in New Hampshire. He’s hiked a thousand miles of the Appalachian Trail. His poems and short stories have appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review, Shenandoah, Poetry International, North Dakota Quarterly, Weber Studies, Sycamore Review, The Cincinnati Review, among others. Poems from his book-length sequence, Words for Flesh: a Spiritual Autobiography of Charles de Foucauld, have appeared or are forthcoming in Salamander, Windhover, Rhino and Nimrod.

Changming Yuan authored several books before emigrating from China and currently teaches writing in Vancouver. Yuan’s poems appear in Barrow Street, Best Canadian Poetry, Exquisite Corpse, London Magazine and over 200 other literary publications worldwide. His collection, Chansons of a Chinaman, and monograph, Politics and Poetics, were both released recently. Yuan has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

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