CONTRIBUTORS (ISSUE NO. 03, SPRING 2000)

Olga Abella has had poetry published in CALYX, Urban Spaghetti, The M.U.S.E, and Poetpourri. Her chapbook of poetry, Grasping to What Is (Short Book Press Publication), was published in 1993. She teaches English at Eastern Illinois University.

Jennifer Atkinson’s recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Field, Delmar, New England Review, and Pleiades. She is the author of The Dogwood Tree (University of Alabama Press) and the forthcoming The Drowned City and Other Poems, which won the Morse Poetry Prize. She teaches at George Mason University.

Michele Battiste has performed spoken word with movement throughout New York and in Prague. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in So to Speak, Poetry Motel, and ante up. She is currently at work on a new collection of poems, Machines are for Leaving.

Kevin Boyle's poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Michigan Quarterly, Northwest Review, and other journals. He received the 1999 Literary Award for Poetry from Greensboro Review. He teaches at Elon College in North Carolina.

Sarah Browning has published poems in The Seattle Review, Mudfish, Sycamore Review, and other journals. She was founding director of Amherst Writers & Artists Institute, providing creative writing workshops for low-income women.

David Cooper won the Academy of American Poets Prize at CCNY in 1992. His poems are anthologized in XY Files: Poems On The Male Experience (Santa Fe: Sherman Asher Publishing, 1997) and have appeared in numerous periodicals. 

Stephanie Dickinson has published her work in New York Quarterly, Seattle Review, Chelsea, and Sonora Review. Currently, she is working on a novel entitled Shot.

James Doyle has work forthcoming from The Ohio Review, The Literary Review, and Passages North. He is the author of The Silk at Her Throat. He is retired and lives in Colorado.

Robert Earleywine received an MFA from Washington University. He has been teaching writing and literature since 1981, and has published fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.  Several of his pieces have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. 

Rachel Eshed’s “Portrait of a Lolita” is from her second book of poems, Havtachot Katanot  (Little Promises) (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House ,1996), winner of the AKUM Prize for 1992-93. 

Donald Finkel is the author of 15 volumes of poetry, the latest being A Question of Seeing (University of Arkansas Press, 1998). He has been published widely in literary magazines, and is represented in over 60 anthologies. Until 1991, he was the Poet in Residence at Washington University.

Deborah Fleming teaches English at Ashland University and lives on a farm in Ohio where she raises Connemara-Thoroughbred horses. She has published poems in Hiram Poetry Review, The Journal, Green River Review, and other magazines.

Melissa Fondakowski received an MFA from Mills College and is the founder, editor, and publisher of the poetry journal, ante up. Her work has appeared online, as well as in journals such as Convulvulus and So to Speak. 

Jeff Friedman is the author of two collections of poetry, Scattering the Ashes (Carnegie Mellon University Press) and The Record-Breaking Heat Wave (BkMk Press). His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including American Poetry Review, Poetry, and Antioch Review. 

Charles Guenther’s poems, translations, and criticism have appeared in more than 350 publications worldwide, including American Poetry Review, Edge (Melbourne), Kenyon Review, and Partisan Review. He is the author or translator of 10 books, including The Hippopotamus: Selected Translations, and Moving the Seasons: Selected Poems. 

Jane Hammons teaches writing at the University of California-San Francisco. She has published work in such journals as Berkeley Fiction Review, Nimrod, and Frontier, and has fiction forthcoming in Concho River Review.

Robert Haynes has published poems in Poetry Northwest, Kentucky Poetry Review, New Letters, and elsewhere. Learning to speak Russian to read its great writers, Haynes will visit Russia for the first time this summer.

Laura Jensen is the author most recently of essays in Field Guide, Field Symposia, and The Seattle Review, and of a limited edition broadside compilation, The Distinguished Poet Series. 

José Jiménez Lozano was born in Langa, Avila, Spain in 1930. He is the author of nine novels and numerous critical essays and short stories. He has published three collections of poetry: Tantas devastaciones (Valladolid, 1992), Un fulgor tan breve (Madrid, 1995), and El tiempo de Eurídice (Valladolid, 1996) and is the recipent of three significant awards: Premio Castilla y León de las Letras (1988), Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa (1988), and Premio Nacional de las Lestras Españolas (1992).

Leslie Lytle’s work has appeared in Georgia Review, Literary Review, New England Review, and other literary journals, as well as in commercial publications, including Thoroughbred Times. Her first novel is currently in the hands of an agent.

Jon Marshall’s work has appeared in Natural Bridge (no. 1), Wisconsin Review, and Oxford Magazine, and is forthcoming in Spoon River Poetry Review and Main Street Rag. He teaches writing and literature at St. Louis Community College-Meramec.

Jane McClellan is a retired teacher/professor. Her work has recently appeared in journals such as Green Hills Literary Lantern, Re: Arts & Letters, Grasslands, and Poet Lore.

Phyllis H. Meshulam works with elementary school students as a Spanish as a second language teacher. She has published a chapbook, has had work appear in Lucid Stone, First Leaves, and Westwood, and has work forthcoming in Princeton Arts Review.

Michael Gregg Michaud has had work appear in many journals, including Amelia, Frogmore Papers, Windsor Review, and Mudfish. His latest book is Bedtime Stories (Fortunate Rhythm Press, 1999).

Penelope Moffet’s poems and stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, The Sun, Columbia, and other publications. She has published one book of poems, Keeping Still (Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, 1995).

Rich Murphy teaches poetry at Bradford College. He has poems forthcoming in Americas Review and Icarus.

Eric Pankey is the author of five collections of poems, the most recent of which is Cenotaph (Alfred A. Knopf, 2000).

Theresa Pappas 's collection of poems, Flash Paper, was published by New Rivers Press. Her work has appeared in Lullwater Review, Sou'wester, Black Warrior Review, and other journals. 

Cesare Pavese (1908-1950), the modern Italian master, is the widely translated author of Hard Labor, The Storm, and Among Women Only.

Carlos Pellicer (d. 1977) was a museum director, social activist, and one of the important Mexican poets of the twentieth century.

Dan Pope is the recipient of the 1999 grant in fiction from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. He has published short stories in Gettysburg Review, and has stories forthcoming in Iowa Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. 

Marilynn Rashid currently teaches Spanish at Wayne State University. Her work has appeared in such publications as Cranbrook Review, International Poetry Review, and Short Story International.

John R. Reed is Distinguished Professor of English at Wayne State University. He is the author of five books of poetry and several books of literary scholarship.

Linda Roth earned an MFA from Vermont College. Her poems and prose have appeared in numerous journals. Her book manuscript, Slow Moving Chamois In Bedlam, is ready for publication.

Boyer Rickel’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Harvard Review, The Ohio Review, and The Kenyon Review. He is Assistant Director of the University of Arizona Creative Writing Program.

Wade Savitt lives in New York and works as an art researcher and art handler. His poems have appeared in Berkeley Poetry Review, Mudfish, and other magazines.

T. Maurice Savoie has published poems in more than 85 literary journals, anthologies, and small press publications, including Poetry, Chelsea, and Iowa Review. He has work forthcoming in Evansville Review and Urban Spaghetti.

Kent Shaw served six years in the Navy.  He has appeared in the online journal www.wordvirtual.com and on the spoken word CD Distilled Muse.  He lives in St. Louis.

Donny Smith works at Swarthmore College and edits the poetry magazine, Dwan.

D.H. Tracy's work recently appeared in Intense, where it won that magazine's 1999 Poetry Competition. His work is forthcoming in Lucid Stone. 

Anca Vlasopolos' memoir, No Return Address, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. She has published widely in literary magazines and has published two poetry chapbooks and a detective novel.

Derek Webster received an MFA in Poetry from Washington University. He helped write Literary St. Louis, a guidebook forthcoming from the Missouri Historical Society. He is presently senior editor at Boulevard magazine.

Tyrone Williams has published articles, reviews, and poetry in such journals as Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, and Obsidian. He has published a chapbook of poetry, Convalescence, and co-edited a collection of writing by the homeless.