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CONTRIBUTORS (ISSUE NO. 01, SPRING 1999) Sallie McCormick Adams has appeared in Shenandoah, The DeKalb Literary Arts Journal, and elsewhere. Jennifer Atkinson is the author of The Dogwood Tree (University of Alabama Press). Her poems have appeared recently in Poetry, The Iowa Review, Field, and The Yale Review. She teaches creative writing and literature at George Mason University. Angela Ball’s poems and translations have appeared in Grand Street, The New Yorker, Poetry East, and Ploughshares. Her most recent book of poems is The Museum of the Revolution: 58 Exhibits (Carnegie Mellon, 1999). Zsofia Balla (b. 1944, Kolozsvar, Rumania) graduated from the Academy of Music. She is the winner of the Jozsef Attila Prize, 1996. Barry Ballard writes contemporary sonnets and has published poems in Concho River Review, Confrontation, and Whiskey Island Magazine. He has an M.A. from Texas Christian University. Tim Bellows is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teaches writing at Sierra College in Northern Calif. He is widely published and is working on a collection of poems and a book of essays. Michael Castro, the founding editor of River Styx, is the author of five volumes of poetry, most recently US, and Interpreting the Indian: 20th Century Poets and the Native American. Cara Chamberlain has received two Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in numerous journals. Timothy Cheeseman’s poems received first place and honorable mention in the 1998 Sacramento Poetry Prize. His work recently appeared in Buffalo Bones, Great Midwestern Quarterly, Poetry Now, and Riverwind. Brad Clompus, a doctoral candidate in English at Tufts University, teaches poetry at the Arlington Center for the Arts in Mass. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cape Rock, Passages North, Poet Lore, and West Branch. Julie Cooper-Fratrik’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Art Times, Hayden’s Ferry Review, the mississippi review, and Traveling Out: Transitions in the Lives of Women. She lives in Bucks County, Penn., with her partner who is a sculptor and conceptual artist. Robert Cooperman’s trilogy about the Colorado Territory--In the Gold Fever Mountains, A Coffin and a Carved Stone, and the Badman and the Lady--is forthcoming from Western Reflections. His work has appeared in Hawaii Pacific Review, Mangrove, and Poetry East. Elsa Cross resides in Mexico City, where she was born. She is the author of more than ten books and her poems have been translated into six languages. Her latest books of poems are Casuarinas, 1992, and Poemas Desda La India, 1993. She is a professor of philosophy and the author of La Realidad Transfigurada on the aesthetics of Nietzsche. Irene Culver has had poems published in Bellowing Ark, Black Buzzard Review, Howling Dog, Poetry Motel, The Plastic Tower, and elsewhere. She lives near Sacramento, Calif. Jim Daniels’ most recent book of poems, Bless the House, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1997. He was editor of the 1995 anthology, Letters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on Race. Laszlo Darvasi (b. 1944, Torokszentmiklos, Hungary) is a poet, writer and journalist. He was awarded the Moricz Zsigmond Fellowship, 1989-90. Helen Degen-Cohen (Halina Degenfisz), co-editor and co-founder of RHINO, is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship. She currently is writing an autobiographical novel. Katie Degentesh’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Hawaii Review, Many Mountains Moving, Plum Review, and Washington Post. In 1998, she won the Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Contest and received an honorable mention for the Academy of American Poets’ Celeste Turner Wright Prize. Patricia Dubrava teaches at Denver School of the Arts in Colorado. Her second book of poems, Holding the Light, was a finalist for the Colorado Book Awards in 1995. Her translations of Mexican poet, Elsa Cross, were included in These Are Not Sweet Girls: Poetry by Latin American Women. Kinga Fabo (b. 1953, Budapest) is a poet and essayist, whose background in criticism and philosophy influences her poetic approach. Maureen Tolman Flannery is the author of Secret of the Rising Up: Poems of Mexico. Her poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Blue Mesa Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago with her husband and their four children. Akos Fodor (b. 1945, Budapest), a graduate of the Liszt Ferencz Academy of Music, is a poet and translator. Gabor G. Gyukics, a poet and translator, has been living in the United States since 1988. His work has appeared in magazines and anthologies in the U.S. and Europe. He was born in Budapest and now lives in Brooklyn. František Halas (1901-1949) was one of the central poets to shape Czech surrealism in the 1930s. In 1947 he edited the anthology A co basník (And What Poets) which defined the canon of Czech modern poetry, republishing many writers who had been suppressed after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia. Between 1927 and 1947 he published over 15 volumes of original poems. Halas committed suicide. Robert E. Haynes’ poems have appeared in Atom Mind, Cimarron Review, Poetry Review, Poet Lore, Zone 3, and others, as well as in the anthologies Kansas City Out Loud and Approaching Critical Mass. Michael Hettich’s "Breathing Underwater" is part of a collection of prose poems, Sleeping with the Lights On. He is an English and creative writing instructor at Miami-Dade Community College and has published two books and three chapbooks, most recently Many Simple Things. Bob Hicok’s most recent book, Plus Shipping, appeared from BOA Editions in 1998. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Mimmo Iasiello received his M.F.A. from George Mason University and currently works at the State Department in Washington, D.C. Michael L. Johnson is professor of English at the University of Kansas. His most recent poetry book is Violence and Grace: Poems about the American West. Kasey Jueds, a poet and teacher, has had work published in The Dickinson Review, Faultline, The Kerf, and The Harrisburg Review, and has work forthcoming in an anthology, What Have You Lost? Peter Kantor (b. 1949, Budapest), a poet and translator with degrees in Russian and English, has been awarded the Fulbright Fellowship and the Wessely Prize, the Dery Prize, and the Fust Milan Prize. Sandra Kohler’s poems have appeared in 5 AM, Countermeasures, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, The Women’s Review of Books, and other journals. Her book of poems, The Country of Women, was published in 1995 by Calyx Books. Josh Kryah lives in St. Louis and has appeared on the spoken word CD., Distilled Muse. Janos Lackfi (b. 1971, Budapest), a poet and translator, is the author of two volumes of poetry and won the Hungarian Art Foundation Prize, the Gerecz Attila Prize, and the Hidas Antal Prize. Mary Elizabeth Ladd is co-editor of the award-winning, on-line, pop-culture magazine, Ape Culture at www.apeculture.com. She lives in the suburbs of New York City and is writing a book of science fiction poems about Mars. Katalin Ladik (b. 1942, Ujvidek, Yugoslavia), a poet, playwright, and actor, won the Kassak Prize, 1991. Kathleen Large’s poems have appeared in Bombay Gin, HyENA, Spoon River Poetry Review, and The World. She lives in San Francisco, where she teaches high school English. Mercedes Lawry has publsihed poems in Seattle Review, Madison Review, Bloomsbury Review, and Fine Madness. She also published stories for children. Don Mager, is the author of three chapbooks and has had poems published in Chicago Review, Kenyon, Mid-American Review, Northwest Review, and elsewhere. His poems and translations from Czech and German have appeared in the anthologies East European Poets and Gay & Lesbian Poetry in Our Time. Jon Marshall’s work has appeared in Delmar, The Green Hills Literary Lantern, Oxford Magazine, River Styx, Sou’wester, and elsewhere. He teaches writing and literature at St. Louis Community College-Meramec. Michael B. McMahon’s work has appeared in many places, including Hiram Poetry Review, Kansas Quarterly, Poet Lore, and Seneca Review. His translation of Jesus Serra’s book of poems, Paramos en la Memoria, was published in 1994. William Meyer, a writer and artist living in Beaumont, Texas, has published poems and graphics in magazines and journals in the U.S., Australia, Canada, and England. His essays on American culture have been published worldwide. Meg Moceri is working on her first collection of stories, You Are Here. Her work has appeared in Crab Creek Review, Dickinson Review, Storyquarterly, and other journals. She teaches English at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Xi Murong is a Taiwanese poet and painter and the author of several books of poetry. Richard Newman’s poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Black Dirt, Boulevard, Crab Orchard Review, South Carolina Review, Southern Humanities Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review. He is the editor of River Styx. Steve Orlen’s most recent book of poems, Kisses, was published by Miami UP in 1997. He teaches at the University of Arizona and the M.F.A. program at Warren Wilson College. Eric Pankey is the author of four collections of poetry, the most recent of which is The Late Romances (Knopf). A new collection, Cenotaph, will be published by Knopf in January 2000. Greg Pape is the author of Sunflower Facing the Sun, Storm Pattern, and other books. New work from his recently completed book, Ceremony for the Eclipse, appears or is forthcoming in Doubletake and The Atlantic Monthly. Simon Perchik, an attorney who lives in East Hampton, New York, is the author of 15 collections of poetry. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Harvard Magazine, The New Yorker, Poetry, and elsewhere. Chris Perkowski lives in Fairfax, VA, where he attends George Mason University. Allan Peterson has had poems published in Beloit Poetry Journal, Epoch, The Florida Review, New Letters, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. A recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, he is the author of two chapbooks, Small Charities and Stars on a Wire. Gyorgy Petri (b. 1943, Budapest), a poet, translator, journalist and political activist, won the Jozsef Attila Prize, 1994. Leslie Pietrzyk’s first novel, Pears on a Willow Tree, was published in 1998. Her fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, River Styx, The New England Review, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. She lives in Alexandria, VA. Charles Rafferty is the author of a volume of poetry, The Man on the Tower, and two chapbooks. His poems have appeared in The Laurel Review, The New York Quarterly, Poetry East, and elsewhere. He works as an editor for a computer consulting firm. Ian Sax, a freelance writer living in Brooklyn, NY, has lived in Taipei and Prague. His short stories have appeared in Short Story International and New Works. Andy Shupala, a clinical social worker and a public school teacher, has taught ESL in Jiangxi, China. He attended University of Notre Dame’s creative writing program and has an M.S.W. from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.A. from Texas A&M. Ken Smith teaches expository and creative writing and directs the writing program at the Indiana University campus in South Bend, and he lives nearby with his wife and two daughters. J.R. Solonche has published poems in The New Criterion, Poetry Northwest, The Journal of the American Medical Association, Yankee Magazine and others. Kristine Somerville is senior advisor for The Missouri Review. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in American Literary Review, Calliope, North American Review, and elsewhere. Her short story collection, Women Who, was a finalist in the 1997 AWP Writing Awards. Mark Spencer is director of creative writing at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma. He is the author of two collections, Spying on Lovers and Wedlock; a novel, Love and Reruns in Adams County; and a short novel, Only Missing, which won the Faulkner Society’s 1996 Faulkner Award. Marjorie Stelmach’s recent work has appeared in Chelsea, Kenyon Review, New Letters, and Tampa Review. Her first book of poems, Night Drawings, won the 1994 Marianne Moore Poetry Prize. She lives and teaches in St. Louis, MO. Attila Tasnady (b. 1937, Nyiregyhaza, Hungary), is a critic, art historian and poet. Sandor Tatar (b. 1962, Budapest), graduated in 1988 from Eoteos Lorand University. He is a translator of German poetry and the author of Everything Would Be Infinitely Simple. Krisztina Toth (b. 1967, Budapest), a poet and translator of French poetry, received the Paris Fellowship, Sorros Fellowship and Moricz Zsigmond Fellowship. Wang Wei was a T’ang Dynasty poet. The formal qualities of his "Deer Fence" (five character, four line) and "Autumn Night at the Mountain Retreat" (five character, eight line) are elements of T’ang poetry and have been imitated from the source language by the translator. Ben Wilensky is the author of two collections of poems. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Monthly, Chiron Review, Prairie Schooner, Sou’wester, and Writers Forum, and other magazines. Jianqing Zheng teaches at the English Department, Mississippi Valley State University. His translations have appeared and are forthcoming in New World Poetry, Poet Lore, Crab Creek Review and others magazines. |
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