Contributors [A-G]
Robyn Art's recent poems have appeared in Slope, The Hat, Conduit, Slipstream, Gulf Coast, The New Delta Review, Rhino, The Cream City Review, and canwehaveourballback?. She’s the author of the poetry manuscript, The Stunt Double In Winter, which was selected as a Finalist for the 2004 Kore Press First Book Award and the 2005 Sawtooth Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, Degrees of Being There, was released by Boneworld Press in May 2003. A second chapbook, No Longer A Blonde, is forthcoming from Boneworld Press in 2005.
Born in Yerevan, Armenia, Shushan Avagyan graduated from Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 2001 with a degree in bookart and printmaking. Translated many texts, including Vazken Azatian’s third edition of Armenia: A Guidebook, published in 1999. Participated in Dr. Carolyn Segal’s Workshop in Creative Writing at Cedar Crest, where many original poems were developed. Was awarded second place in poetry at the Hildegard Festival of Women in the Arts CSU Stanislaus, Turlock, California. Received the First Prize at the 2002 Armenian Allied Arts Association’s Literature Contest. Interned at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York, 2001. Have been publishing poetry in the online Literary Groong of Armenian News Network since 1999. Poems have appeared in the Mochila Review and the California Quarterly.
Scott Bailey lives in New York where he’s pursuing his MFA in Creative Writing at New York University and working at Curtis Brown Ltd. His poetry has been published in journals and anthologies throughout the U.S., most recently including the Adirondack Review, the Cortland Review, the Journal, Verse Daily, 42 opus, 2 River Review, Bend, Don’t Shatter (soft skull press), Poetic Voices Without Borders (Gival Press) and In Our Own Words—a generation defining itself (MWE Enterprises). He has forthcoming work in the New York Quarterly. Visit his website: www.cscottbailey.com.
Danny P. Barbare's poetry has appeared in Santa Barbara Review, Writing Ulster, Art Times, and many other magazines and journals. He lives in Greenville, SC with his wife and two small pets. He loves to travel in the mountains near Carl Sandburg's house. He has a deep Southern accent.
Jay Baruch lives and works just outside Providence, RI, where he practices emergency medicine and teaches medical ethics at Brown Medical School. His fiction has appeared in Another Toronto Quarterly, Inkwell, Fetishes, and Issues Magazine. He has stories forthcoming in Other Voices, Ars Medica and Journal of General Internal Medicine. His stories have been selected finalists for writing contests sponsored by Glimmertrain (Short Story Award for New Writers) and Inkwell.
Sheila Black lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico where she works for the Colonias Development Council, an organization that does community organizing in border colonia communities. She has had poems published in many journals, including Poet Lore, Willow Springs, Blackbird, and Pedestal. In 2000 she was the U.S. co-winner of the Frost-Pellicer Frontera Prize given annually to one U.S. and one Mexican Poet living along the U.S.-Mexico border. Her first book, House of Bone, is forthcoming from Custom Words Press. Influences include Ann Carson, Tony Hoagland, Charles Simic, Philip Levine and Connie Voisine.
Ronda Broatch lives near Puget Sound, teaches Pilates, and has been known to dance in church. Her poems have, or will soon appear, in Atlanta Review, Calyx, Poetry Midwest, Literary Salt, Valparaiso, and Tiferet. Ronda was a 2003 Pushcart nominee, and was awarded a residency to Soapstone—A Writer’s Retreat for Women, in 2004. Her chapbook, Some Other Eden, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press, August 2005.
Suzanne Burns' first full-length collection, Blight, debuted from Archer Books in 2001. In 2003 Diversity Incorporated will release The Flesh Procession, her second collection. She is currently working on a third collection, Vacancy, which details infamous events at famous hotels. She was recently nominated for a Pushcart and won this year's Judson Jerome Fellowship.
Martin Camps is an Assistant Professor at the University of the Pacific. He has published the book of poetry Desierto Sol (Ichicult, 2003). He has published poems in the Bitter Oleander and Hunger Magazine.
Gerry Canavan, who currently teaches writing and literature in Greensboro, North Carolina, is the co-founder and fiction editor of Backwards City Review. His fiction has appeared in Comfusion Review and is forthcoming in Hunger Mountain and Talking River.
Kenneth Carroll is executive director of DC WritersCorps, an arts and social service project, his poetry and plays have appeared in Konch Magazine, Hungry As We Are, Fast Talk Full Volume, In Search Of Color Everywhere, Catch a Fire, Spirit & Flame, Worcester Review, Words & Images, and The Next Frontier. His short stories have appeared in Children of the Dream (1998 Pocketbooks), Shooting Star, and Gargoyle. His book of poetry is entitled So What: For The White Dude Who Said This Ain't Poetry (Bunny & The Crocodile Press, 1997). He is a 2004 Pushcart Prize nominee.
Ann Cefola's poetry (anncefola.com) has been published in California Quarterly, Confrontation and The Louisville Review; her essays in Ape Culture, and translations in Circumference, Paintbrush and Rhino. In 2001, she won the Robert Penn Warren Award judged by John Ashbery. Ann also holds an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and works as a creative strategist with her own company, Jumpstart (jumpstartnow.net). She and her husband, Michael, live in the New York suburbs.
Ruth Daigon was founder and editor of POETS ON: for twenty years until it ceased publication. Her poems have been widely published in E mags, print mags, anthologies and collections. Daigon's poetry awards include The Ann Stanford Poetry Prize, (University of Southern California Anthology, 1997) and the Greensboro Poetry Award (Greensboro Arts Council, 2000). The latest of seven books include Handfuls of Time (Small Poetry Press, Select Poets Series 2002) and Payday At The Triangle (Small Poetry Press, Select Poets Series 2001), which is based on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York City in 1911. One of her many readings was performed in The Lower East Side Tenement Museum in Manhattan, the area where the fire occurred. Daigon's poetry was published by the U. S. State department in its literary exchange with Thailand, and the department's translation program has just issued the first book of Modern American poets in English and Thai in which she appears. Garrison Keillor featured her poetry on his morning poetry show. She has just cut a poetry CD, The Slow Caress of Years, for Jaimes Alsop Productions, and will appear in Alsop's hardcover anthology. Daigon appeared in The Mississippi's Review's issue on War and its Aftermath. A chapbook has just been published in India, and another of her poetry books is in the process of translation into Spanish in Argentina.
Born in Lowell, MA in 1960, Mark Decarteret's work has appeared in over a hundred different reviews including AGNI, Chicago Review, Conduit, Cream City Review, Poetry East, and Salt Hill, as well as such anthologies as American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon Press, 2000) and Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998 (Black Sparrow Press, 2000). Recently his work has been featured online at Maverick Magazine and Mudlark. His books of poems are Over Easy (Minotaur Press, 1991), Review: A Book of Poems (Kettle of Fish Press, 1995) and The Great Apology, published three years ago by Oyster River Press for which he also co-edited the anthology Under the Legislature of Stars: 62 New Hampshire Poets. He currently teaches at the New Hampshire Institute of Art.
Tony Demarest recently published poetry in The New York Quarterly (#60) and in Polyphony (Summer 2004). Presently, he is professor of medieval literature at Felician College in New Jersey.
Becky De Oliveiri is a native of Seattle who has lived in the UK for the past eight years. She is a graphic designer, mother and graduate student, pursuing her MA in Creative Writing through Lancaster University. This is her first published story.
Stephanie Dickinson was raised in rural Iowa and has lived in Wyoming, Oregon, Minnesota, Texas, and Louisiana. She's now in New York City. Her poetry and fiction appear in Mudfish, Cream City Review, Chelsea, Fourteen Hills, Terminus, Nimrod, Puerto del Sol, Descant, Tiferet, among others. Along with Rob Cook she co-edits the new print literary journal Skidrow Penthouse. Her first novel Half Girl recently won the Hackney Award (Birmingham-Southern) for best unpublished novel of 2002.
Denise Duhamel's most recent book of poetry is Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001). Her other titles include The Star-Spangled Banner (winner of Crab Orchard Award in Poetry, Southern Illinois University Press, 1999), Kinky (Orchises Press, 1997) and Oyl (a collaborative chapbook with Maureen Seaton, Pearl Editions, 2000). An assistant professor at Florida International University in Miami, she co-edited, with Nick Carbo, Sweet Jesus: Poems about the Ultimate Icon (The Anthology Press, 2002). Her poems appear on webzines such as Double Room, Big Bridge, Shampoo, Ducky, Slope, Caffeine Destiny, X-Stream, Muse Apprentice Guild, and Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts.
Sandy Florian graduated in 2003 with an MFA from Brown University’s Creative Writing Program. For herthesis, shewas awarded Brown University’s Francis Mason Harris Award for best book-length manuscript written by a female student. She was also awarded the New Voices Sudden Fiction Prize for best story under 1500 words. She is a current candidate at the University of Denver for a PhD in English and Creative Writing. Her stories and excerpts of her novels appear or are forthcoming in the following anthologies and journals: Versal, Horse Less Review, Identity Theory, Square Lake, Encyclopedia, Beehive, Elixir, dANDelion, The Brooklyn Rail, Issues, Blastie, and Women’s Work. Also, her work has been reviewed in The Sideshow.
Vernon Frazer's poetry and fiction have appeared in Big Bridge,Café Review, Contemporary Foreign Literature, First Intensity, Jack Magazine, Lost and Found Times, Moria, Muse Apprentice Guild, Poethia, Shampoo, Sidereality and many other literary magazines. He has written six books of poetry. He introduced his continuing longpoem, IMPROVISATIONS (I-XXIV), at The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in Manhattan. Frazer has produced five recordings of poetry with free jazz accompaniment and appeared on several recordings with the late jazz saxophonist Thomas Chapin, including their duo release, Song of Baobab. Frazer’s collection of short fiction, finished as a finalist in the 1996 Black Ice/FC2 Fiction Contest. His most recent novel is Relic’s Reunions. He recently finished editing an anthology of Post-Beat poetry for publication in the People’s Republic of China. IMPROVISATIONS (XXV-L), the second sequence of the Improvisations series, and Commercial Fiction, a novel, are Frazer’s newest publications.
Rich Furman, PhD, is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at Colorado State University, his poetry has been published or is soon to be published in Hawai’i Review, The Journal, Black Bear Review, Red Rock Review, The Evergreen Review, Sierra Nevada Review, Penn Review, Free Lunch, Colere, Pearl, The Journal of Poetry Therapy, Impetus, Poetry Motel, and nearly 200 poems in nearly 100 literary journals. His work has been described as “neither street nor beat nor meat nor academic, but an emotionally evocative mix of styles that can be brutally imagistic or powerfully terse.” His scholarly writing is concerned with social work ethics, international social work, friendship, social work theory, social work practice and the uses of poetry in social work and research. He teaches group and practice courses in the BSW and MSW programs. Mostly, he just likes to live as fully as possibly and mess with the poem. He welcomes feedback, comments and dialogue about his work. His first chapbook of poetry, of only average intent, was printed by Snorting Dog Press in 2002. He also has an e-book on the Internet Poet’s Cooperative website. He is currently seeking a publisher for three full length books. As of July 2003, he will be moving to Omaha to teach at the school of social work at University of Nebraska-Omaha, and can be contacted at Richpoet@aol.com until he gets his new e-mail address.
Diane Glancy teaches Native American Literature and Creative Writing at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her books on native history are Pushing the Bear, a novel of the 1838-39 Cherokee Trail of Tears, and Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea. Glancy won a 2003 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the 2003 Juniper Poetry Prize from the University of Massachusetts Press for Primer of the Obsolete, published in 2004. A collection of essays, In-between Places, is forthcoming from the University of Arizona Press. An interview with her appears in AWP's September 2004 The Writer's Chronicle. The Dance Partner will be published by Michigan State University Press.
Richard Grayson is the author of several books of fiction, including With Hitler in New York (1979), Lincoln's Doctor's Dog (1982), I Survived Caracas Traffic (1996), and The Silicon Valley Diet (2000). He lives in suburban Fort Lauderdale, where he works as an administrator at a law school. His website is www.richardgrayson.com.
Although he was born and raised in Bee Branch, Arkansas, an unbelievably small town, Corey Green now lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he is studying for his M.F.A and teaches Composition and Creative Writing. His most formative experiences are not only living in England and China, but also his three factory jobs and his rather lengthy stint in a feed mill. His poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart prize and has appeared in canwehaveourballback?, Diner, Poetry Motel, RedActions, storySouth, and many others.
Claudia Grinnell was born and raised in Germany. She now makes her home in Louisiana, where she teaches at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Her poems have appeared in various print and ezines, most recently in such places as Exquisite Corpse, Hayden's Ferry Review, New Orleans Review, Mudlark, Janus Head, Minnesota Review, and Blue Moon Review. Her first full-length book of poetry, Conditions Horizontal, was published by Missing Consonant Press in the Fall of 2001. Ms. Grinnell was the recipient of the 2000 Southern Women Writers Emerging Poets Award. In 2003, she was a finalist in the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize Competition.
James Grinwis lives in Amherst, MA, and received an MFA from UMass in '00. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Conduit, Typo, Snow Monkey, and about fifty others.