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CONTRIBUTORS Kelli Russell Agodon is the author of two books of poems, Small Knots (2004) and Geography, winner of the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. She edited The Making of Peace: A Poetry Broadside Series. Lana Hechtman Ayers, originally from New York, now resides in Washington. She is an editor of nonfiction books and runs Frost Heaves, a small chapbook press. She was a 2005 “Discovery” / The Nation Semi-Finalist. Her first full-length collection of poems is due out in early 2007 from Kissena Park Press. She holds an MFA from New England College. Trina Baker, having graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco, has since relocated to Los Angeles for love, not the air. Her recent publications appear in 26, Absomaly, Poetry East, In the Teeth of the Wind, and Slant. With Marti Stephen and Liz Costello, she worked on the first issue of Absomaly last year. Jeanne Marie Beaumont has written Curious Conduct (BOA Editions, 2004) and Placebo Effects (Norton, 1997) and co-edited The Poets’ Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. New work appears or is forthcoming in Columbia Poetry Review, Pool, Fairy Tale Review, and Court Green. She lives in Manhattan and teaches at The Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y. J. G. Brister teaches English courses at the University of Kansas where he is completing a Ph.D. His work has appeared in New York Quarterly, Chelsea, Nimrod, Backwards City Review, and Mudfish. He lives in Lawrence with his wife, Emily. Lisa K. Buchanan’s stories have appeared in Quick Fiction, Descant, Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle and on public radio. Honors include awards from Glimmer Train, Carve, and Moment magazines, plus a Pushcart Prize nomination. She holds an MFA from Mills College and lives in San Francisco. Barbara Crooker has published in journals such as Yankee, The Christian Science Monitor, Smartish Pace, and Denver Quarterly, and anthologies including Worlds in their Words: An Anthology of Contemporary American Women Writers. Radiance, her first full-length book, won the 2005 Word Press First Book Award and was a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize. She is also an avid knitter. Mary Ruth Donnelly’s chapbook, Tomb Figure, has been published by Snark Publishing. Her poetry has appeared in the Loosely Identified’s anthology, Breathing Out and in little magazines, including Cottonwood Review and River King. She teaches literature and composition at Southwestern Illinois College. A Kansas City native, she now lives in St. Louis. Rebecca Dunham won the 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize and her book, The Miniature Room, will be published by Truman State University Press. Poems are forthcoming in Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, AGNI, and Cimarron Review, among others. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Northern Iowa. Jesse Dwyer is a graduate student at Dartmouth College. He farms and writes in Thetford, Vermont. Helen Eisen, a member of the women’s workshop Loosely Identified, has poems in The Original Coming Out Stories and Breathing Out. At Hedgebrook Writer’s Retreat, she developed a manuscript on her legacy as a Jewish lesbian daughter of holocaust survivors. Tentatively titled The Permeability of Memory, it will be published by Cherry Pie Press. Rebecca Ellis publishes the Midwest Women Poets Series chapbooks from Cherry Pie Press. She co-edited and published Breathing Out, a poetry collection by Loosely Identified. She is a former board member and active supporter of the St. Louis Poetry Center. Her poems have been published in Hanging Loose and Sinister Wisdom. Tess Farnham teaches English and Creative Writing at Southwestern Illinois College. She earned her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. Her poetry has appeared most recently in Midwest Quarterly. Shawn Fawson lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she works for a local hospice. Her poems have appeared in the following journals: Bitter Oleander, MidWest Quarterly, Spoon River Poetry Review, Elixir, Briar Cliff Review, and Comstock Review, among others. She is the 2005 Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Prize winner and the 2005 James Wright Poetry Award winner. Annie Finch has four books of poetry, including Calendars, short-listed as Foreword Poetry Book of the Year. The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self appeared 2005 in Poets on Poetry. She publishes translations, libretti, and anthologies, including A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women and directs the Stonecoast MFA at the University of Southern Maine. Ann Fisher-Wirth’s two books of poems are Blue Window and Five Terraces. She has also published two chapbooks, The Trinket Poems and Walking Wu Wei’s Scroll. Her poems have appeared widely in journals, online, and in anthologies. She teaches at the University of Mississippi. Joel Friederich’s collection of poems, Without Us, is available from Finishing Line Press, where it received honorable mention in the 2005 Open Chapbook Competition. His poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Witness, River Styx, and others. Allison Funk’s most recent book of poems is The Knot Garden, published in 2002 by The Sheep Meadow Press. She teaches at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where she edits the national literary journal Sou’wester. Sandra M. Gilbert has authored seven books of poetry. Her nonfiction includes Wrongful Death, her criticism The Madwoman in the Attic with Susan Gubar, and The House Is Made of Poetry on Ruth Stone, co-edited with Wendy Barker. Ebony Golden is a community artist and educator in Durham, North Carolina. She earned an MFA in Poetry from American University and has published poems in Warpland, Black Arts Quarterly, and the forthcoming The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South. Her first poetry chapbook, the sweet smell of juju funk, was published by her grassroots press, betty’s daughter, April 2006. Amy Gustine’s fiction has appeared in such journals as the North American Review and Black Warrior Review. “The River Warta” is from her collection about a Polish family’s first hundred years in America; another selection will appear in Ballyhoo Stories. Completing a novel about a tax attorney turned Buddhist, her non-fiction in progress concerns a priest accused of murdering a nun. Rachel Hadas is Board of Governors Professor of English at the Newark campus of Rutgers University and the author of over a dozen books of poetry, essays, and translations. Her new poetry collection, The River of Forgetfulness, is due out in June 2006 from David Robert Books. Paul Hostovsky has new poems appearing or forthcoming in Free Lunch, Poet Lore, Slant, Spoon River Poetry Review, and online at FRiGG Magazine, Switched-on Gutenberg, Entelechy and others. He works in Boston as an interpreter for the deaf. Marcia L. Hurlow’s book of poems, Anomie, was published last year by Customwords. “Foreshadow” is part of a series of contemporary views of Green Man. She, her husband, and their daughter live in Lexington, Kentucky. Robin Leslie Jacobson teaches for Poets & Writers and California Poets in the Schools as well as privately. Published in Atlanta Review, Poetry Flash, Crab Orchard Review, Runes, Poetry East, and many other journals and anthologies, Robin has received an American Pen Women prize, Marin Arts Council grants, Ruah’s chapbook award, and a residency at Headlands Center for the Arts. Deb Jurmu received her MFA from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, in May 2006. She will be reading her story “Explosive Device” as part of the WSIU Radio series “In the Author’s Voice.” Her segment airs in October 2006. Mohja Kahf is the author of Emails from Scheherazad (University of Central Florida Poetry Series, 1999). Her second poetry collection will reinterpret Hagar and other scriptural figures. Kahf’s essays appear in Scheherazad’s Legacy: Arab Women on Writing (Praeger, 2004), Living Islam Out Loud (Beacon, 2005), and Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak (Interlink, 2005). She lives in the Ozarks. Anne Keefe is completing a doctorate in contemporary poetry at Rutgers University. Her MFA is from the University of Maryland. Her poems have recently appeared in The Southeast Review, Crab Orchard Review, Harpur Palate, and Prairie Schooner. A translation and response to Julia de Burgos’ “Poema del minuto blanco,” “Poem of the White Minute” is her first appearance in Natural Bridge. C. P. Mangel is an assistant general counsel for a corporation in North Carolina, where she lives with her husband, four children, two Great Danes, and a Bulldog mix. Marilyn McCabe lives in Saratoga Springs, New York. Her work has appeared in Nimrod, Hunger Mountain, CQ, and BlueLine. She has received a New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant. Ann E. Michael lives in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poem, 9th Letter, The Writer’s Chronicle, Natural Bridge, Runes, and elsewhere. She received a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. Her chapbooks include More than Shelter (Spire Press), Small Things Rise & Go (FootHills Publishing), and The Minor Fauna (Finishing Line Press, 2006). Lenard D. Moore, founder and director of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective, is author of FOREVER HOME. His poems have appeared in Los Angeles Review, Obsidian III, Callaloo, Essence, African American Review, Midwest Quarterly Review, among others. He has received the Sam Ragan Award, Margaret Walker Award, and Haiku Museum of Tokyo Awards and been a Cave Canem graduate fellow. Tamara Pavich, raised in Iowa, is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Hawaii at Manoa where she has won several awards, most recently the Ian Macmillan Fiction Award. This is her second appearance in Natural Bridge. She is at work on a novel and a story collection. Catherine Rankovic has published essays in Missouri Review, Iowa Review, Delmar, The Progressive, and Natural Bridge (Issue #2). She is the author of Fierce Consent and Other Poems (2005) and a co-author of Guilty Pleasures: Indulgences, Addictions and Obsessions (2003). Irene Reti is author of The Keeper of Memory: A Memoir (HerBooks 2001) about growing up the daughter of Holocaust refugees who hid their Jewish identities. She has edited numerous anthologies including Women Runners: Stories of Transformation, and Childless by Choice: A Feminist Anthology. An oral historian, Reti directs the Regional History Project at University of California, Santa Cruz’s library. Liz Robbins’s poems have appeared in National Poetry Review, Iris, South Carolina Review, Rhino, Potomac Review, and William and Mary Review, and are forthcoming in Chattahoochee Review, Feminist Studies, and PMS. She has a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from Georgia State University, and teaches writing at Flagler College and the University of North Florida. Andrew Sage lives in New York City. Recent work has appeared in the tiny and Pindeldyboz. Erin Elizabeth Smith is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Illinois and currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern Mississippi where she is editor-in-chief of Stirring. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Third Coast, Crab Orchard Review, West Branch, Willow Springs, Gulf Stream, Good Foot, Slipstream, Bellingham Review, and Reed Magazine, among others. A. E. Stallings is an American poet residing in Athens, Greece. Her poetry has won the Richard Wilbur Award, Frederick Bock Prize, and Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award, and a Pushcart Prize. Her new collection, Hapax, is available from Triquarterly Press at Northwestern. Andao Tian came to the States in 1994, where she worked as a waitress and beautician. She later became a certified teacher and now works at Norwich Free Academy in Connecticut. “The Death of My Mad Uncle” is a selection from West Plain, a short story collection. Lee Upton’s fifth book of poetry, Undid in the Land of Undone, is forthcoming in 2007 from New Issues Press. Her most recent book of literary criticism is Defensive Measures, a study of how women poets after modernism have discovered ways to make their work distinctive. Jane O. Wayne’s collection Looking Both Ways (University of Missouri Press) received the Devins Award for Poetry, and A Strange Heart (Helicon Editions) received the Marianne Moore Poetry Prize and the Society of Midland Authors Award. From the Night Album is forthcoming from Pecan Grove Press in 2007. Terri Witek is the author of Carnal World (2006) and Fools and Crows (2003) as well as a book about Robert Lowell’s revisions for Life Studies. She holds the Art and Melissa Sullivan Chair in Creative Writing at Stetson University. William Woolfitt works at a summer camp in New Hampshire and at an outdoor school near Spruce Knob in West Virginia. His poems have been in Shenandoah, North Dakota Quarterly, and Poetry International. Marianne Worthington, a native of Knoxville, Tennessee, writes, teaches, and lives in Williamsburg, Kentucky, and is on the faculty at Cumberland College and the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Kalliope, Louisville Review, Kaleidoscope, Wind, and other magazines and anthologies. She is the book reviews editor for Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine. |
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