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CONTRIBUTORS (ISSUE NO. 09, SPRING 2003) Dan Albergotti lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. His poems have appeared in Ascent, The Laurel Review, New Orleans Review, and other journals. A graduate of the MFA program at UNC Greensboro and former poetry editor of The Greensboro Review, he currently teaches in the UNCG English Department. Priscilla Atkins’s work is forthcoming in the Southern Humanities Review, The North American Review, River City, RATTLE, and Bellevue Literary Review. She serves as the arts librarian at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. Walter Bargen’s ninth book, The Body of Water, will be published in spring 2003 by Timberline Press. He was the recipient of a NEA grant in 1991 and was the 1997 winner of the Chester H. Jones Foundation prize. Jim Barnes is the founding editor of the Chariton Review Press and editor of Chariton Review. He has published over 500 poems in more than 100 journals, including Chicago Review, The American Scholar, Prairie Schooner and The Georgia Review. His translations have also been published in journals such as Sycamore Review and Black Moon. Jota Boombaba is a Bay Area writer and community college English instructor. Born in New York and raised in Los Angeles, his work has recently appeared in The Peralta Press. When not writing, he is always itching to uncap his pen and scribble something new. Linda Bosson is an editor at the wire service of The New York Times. Her poetry has appeared in Green Mountains Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Yankee, Soundings East, and other publications. John Brandi began publishing his poetry in the mid 1960s, via the freshly-blooming mimeo revolution, predecessor to the small press movement. In his world travels, he has sought source and renewal, dialogue and exchange, with the peoples of Cuba, Mexico, India, the Himalayas, Southeast Asia and Indonesia. Author of forty books of poetry, essays and modern American haiku, his most recent book is In What Disappears (White Pine Press). Painter as well as poet, his work has been exhibited worldwide. Jess Burnquist resides in Tempe, Arizona. She is a candidate for the Master’s of Fine Arts degree in creative writing at Arizona State University. She is a recent recipient of the Joan Frazier Memorial Award in the Arts, with projects forthcoming. Her poetry has appeared in Persona, The Miranda Station Review, and Clackamas Literary Review. Michael Castro has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Human Rites (2002), a collection of his own poems, and Swimming in the Ground: Contemporary Hungarian Poetry (2002), co-translated with Gabor G. Gyukics. He hosts the Poetry Beat radio program and teaches at Lindenwood University. Ann Cefola’s poetry has appeared in California Quarterly, Confrontation, and The Louisville Review; her essays in Ape Culture and translations in Rhino. In 2001, she won the Robert Penn Warren Award. She holds an MFA in Poetry Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Richard Chess has published two books of poetry, Tekiah (University of Georgia Press 1994; University of Tampa Press 2002); and Chair in the Desert (University of Tampa Press 2000). He directs the Center for Jewish Studies at UNCA and UNCA’s Creative Writing Program. He is also on the MFA faculty of the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. DeWitt Clinton teaches writing, literature, and philosophy/religion courses at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. In January, he presented a paper on Holocaust poetry at an international arts and humanities conference in Honolulu. Recent poems have appeared in Louisiana Literature, on a C-D collection of poets from Wisconsin, in www.madpoetry.org, and on the Wisconsin Public Radio show, “Hotel Milwaukee.” Ira Cohen was born in 1935 to deaf parents. He learned to spell on his fingers when he was only one. In 1961, he took a freighter to Tangier where he published a magazine devoted to exorcism. His most recent book is Poems from the Akashic Record. 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. Chauna Craig’s recent work appears in CALYX, Descant, Prairie Schooner, and Green Mountains Review. She teaches creative writing at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and is at work on a novel. Berenice D’Vorzon has had over 25 solo shows. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in the U.S. and abroad including The Whitney in New York and The Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Her work can be found in numerous public and private collections including the Library of Congress. Brian Doyle is the editor of Portland Magazine at the University of Portland, and the author of three collections of essays: Credo, Saints Passionate & Peculiar, and (with his dad Jim Doyle) Two Voices. His essays are included in Best American Essays 1998 and 1999. Tessa Dratt’s fiction, essays, and memoir have been published in over forty literary journals, anthologies and magazines. She has received four Pushcart Prize nominations, and in 1999, she won an honorable mention for a Pushcart for her essay, “After the War.” She lives and writes in Chicago. Margarita Engle is the author of two novels, Singing to Cuba and Skywriting. Her poetry, haiku, short fiction and essays have been widely anthologized and have appeared in literary journals in many countries. Her literary awards include a San Diego Book Award and a Cintas Fellowship. Rachel Eshed’s second book of poems, Havtachot Katanot (Little Promises) (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House,1996), was the winner of the AKUM Prize for 1992-93. Her poems have been widely translated into English. Donald Finkel is the author of 14 volumes of poetry, the most recent of which are Beyond Despair (Garlic Press) and A Question of Seeing (University of Arkansas Press). He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, as well as numerous awards for his poetry. In 1974, he received the Theodore Roethke Memorial Award for his book-length poem, Adequate Earth. In 1980 he received the Morton Dauwent Zabel Award from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for Endurance and Going Under. Until he retired in 1991, he served 25 years as Poet-in-Residence at Washington University in St. Louis. Shelly R. Fredman teaches at the Honors College at University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her work has been published in Best Jewish Writing 2002, the anthology First Harvest, the Chicago Tribune Magazine, Lilith, and Hadassah, among others. Jeff Friedman’s third collection of poetry, Taking Down the Angel, has recently been published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Antioch Review, The Missouri Review, Manoa, New England Review, 5 AM, and New Virginia Review. Jeb Gleason-Allured of Chicagoland is an assistant editor on The2ndHand.com. The less said about him the better. Isaac Goldemberg is the author of Tiempo Al Tiempo (Ediciones Del Norte, July 1984), Just Passing Through (Persea Books, November 1986), The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner (University of New Mexico Press, 1999), and The Name of the Father (Alfaguara, 2002). He is a Peruvian author who lives in New York. Veronica Golos is the poet-in-residence and the Artistic Director for Literary Programs at the Sol Goldman 14th St Y and the curator of the WhYwomen/WhYwords Poetry Series. For the series she is a recipient of the Axe Houghton Foundation Grant and a Joelson Grant. She is the 2003 co-winner of the Roerich Poetry Prize, and her manuscript, A Bell Buried Deep, will be published by Story Line Press. Ms. Golos has been published in many journals including Rattapallax, Bridges, Poetry London, and other venues. She is a teaching artist for Poets House, Poets & Writers, and the 92nd St Y. She has been awarded a three-month writing fellowship in Taos, New Mexico by the Werlitzer Foundation. Freema Gottlieb is the author of Jewish Folk Art, Lamp of God: a Jewish Book of Light, Mystical Stonescapes: Symbols of Czech Jewish Gravestones, and articles in Times Literary Supplement, The New York Times Book Review, New Republic, Partisan Review. She is the Visiting Professor of Midrash at Prague’s Charles University; lecturer Jung Institute, Zurich, summer 2003. Garth Greenwell is an MFA candidate at Washington University in St. Louis. He has poems in Beloit Poetry Journal, Good Foot, MARGIE, and online at In Posse Review and Verse Daily. He was awarded the Grolier Prize in 2000 and the Rella Lossy Award in 2001. Rabbi Jill Hammer, Ph.D., is a senior associate at Mayan: The Jewish Women¹s Project of the JCC in Manhattan. Her first book (JPS 2001) is entitled Sisters at Sinai: New Tales of Biblical Women. Her poems, stories, and essays have been published in many anthologies and journals. She is the former editor of Living Text: The Journal of Contemporary Midrash. Jeffrey Hantover is a writer and poet living in New York. His poetry has appeared in Bamboo Ridge, Illya’s Honey and Poetry Motel (forthcoming). He has written the text for A World of Decent Dreams: Vietnam, contemporary photographs of Vietnam to be published by Weatherhill in 2003. Constance Hardesty’s first publication was a joke that appeared in My Weekly Reader when she was 12. Her nonfiction has been widely published and her book, Grow Your Own Pizza! was an American Booksellers Association “Pick of the List.” She has edited several collections of folk tales. She is child-free. Beth Helms is a graduate of Vermont College’s MFA in Writing Program. Her recently completed collection of short stories, American Wives, won the 2003 Iowa Short Fiction Award. She lives in Pound Ridge, New York. Christopher Hennessy’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming from Crab Orchard Review, James White Review, and elsewhere. Other poems will appear in an anthology of new gay male poets. His author interviews and profiles have appeared or are forthcoming from Ploughshares, The AWP Writer’s Chronicle, and the Lambda Book Report. Gretel Young Hickman teaches creative writing and composition at Kaskaskia College in Centralia, IL where she co-directs the Kaskaskia College Writers’ Series. Her poems have appeared in Asylum, Permafrost, West Wind Review, The River King Poetry Supplement, and other literary magazines. She lives and writes in Belleville, IL. Rachelle Hosty has an MFA in Creative Writing from UM-St. Louis. She has published poetry in Aura Literary Arts Review and in the upcoming spring issue of RE:AL – The Journal of Liberal Arts. She also writes fiction and draws cartoons. Jane Ellen Ibur has published in many literary journals and anthologies. She teaches creative writing in homeless shelters, low-income housing projects, residential schools for abused children, and men in jail. She has lead faculty for the Community Arts Training Institute, and won A World Of Difference Award from the Anti-Defamation League, 1993. She co-hosts a literary show on community radio. Rodger Kamenetz was born in Baltimore, lives in New Orleans, and teaches in Baton Rouge. His books of prose include The Jew in the Lotus, Stalking Elijah, and Terra Infirma. Poetry: The Missing Jew: New and Selected Poems, Stuck (both from Time Being Press) and forthcoming, The Lowercase Jew from Northwestern/TriQuarterly. Jim Kates is a poet and translator who lives in Fitzwilliam, NH. His works have appeared in more than one hundred literary magazines, including The Massachusetts Review, The Agni Review and The International Poetry Journal. His book In the Grip of Strange Thought’s (Zephyr Press) is an anthology of recent Russian poetry in translation. Shirley Kaufman is an American poet-translator who has lived in Jerusalem since 1973. She will have two new books out in 2003: Threshold, a new collection of her own poems from Copper Canyon Press and The Flower of Anarchy, Selected Poems of Meir Wieseltier from the University of California Press. Christine Boyka Kluge’s first book, Teaching Bones to Fly, will be published by Bitter Oleander Press in 2003. A seven-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she also won the 1999 Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award. Her poems will be anthologized in No Boundaries: Prose Poems from 24 American Poets, from Tupelo Press, and Sudden Stories: A Mammoth Anthology of Miniscule Fiction. Her work has previously appeared in Natural Bridge (“Drowned Castle” no. 6, and “Satin Lining” no. 8). Sandra Kohler’s poems have appeared in magazines including The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, The Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, Elixir, and The Southern Review. Her second collection, The Ceremonies of Longing, is the winner of the 2002 AWP Award Series in Poetry, and will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. She lives and writes in Selinsgrove, PA. Judy Labensohn’s stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Lilith Magazine, Present Tense, and Moment, among others. “Volunteer in the Garden of Eden” is part of a larger work entitled Diving Into Mount Zion. She holds an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction from Goucher College. Barbara Lefcowitz has published six books of poetry, a novel, and individual poems, stories, and essays in over 350 journals including The Chicago Review, New Letters, The Minnesota Review, Kayak, Kansas Quarterly, and Prairie Schooner, among others. Kathryn Locey is an Assistant Professor of English at Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia. Her poems have appeared in Kalliope and Time of Singing. K. Curtis Lyle has taught at Washington University in St. Louis, City College of New York, the College of New Rochelle, Lindenwood University, and for the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts of Miami, Florida. He books of poetry include Drunk on God and Fifteen Predestination Weather Reports. Morton Marcus is the author of seven books of poetry and one novel, including The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems, Pages From a Scrapbook of Immigrants, and When People Could Fly. He has published over four hundred poems in such literary journals as Denver Quarterly, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, and The Prose Poem: An International Journal. Veneta Masson is a nurse, poet, and essayist living in Washington, D.C. Her study of jazz piano has turned into a love affair and opened up a whole new world of experience, creative expression—and metaphor. Philip Memmer lives in upstate New York, where he edits Two Rivers Review. His work has appeared in journals such as Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Connecticut Review and Southern Poetry Review. His most recent chapbook is For Resident (FootHills Publishing, 2002). Rivka Miriam is the author of eight books of poetry, two collections of short stories, and two collections of children’s stories. Her individual poems have been translated into Arabic, English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, and Yiddish. She has received numerous awards including The Shapiro Prize for Religious Literature, the Goldberg Prize, and the Holon Award. Mark Jay Mirsky is the editor of the magazine Fiction. His work includes the novels Thou Worm Jacob, and Blue Hill Avenue, a collection of essays, My Search for the Messiah, and The Absent Shakespeare. Dagmar Nick is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, including Summons and Sign and Numbered Days, both translated from the German into American by Jim Barnes. A long-time resident of Munich, Nick has garnered the most prestigious literary prizes in Germany, including the Eichendorff Prize, the Tukan Prize, and the Andreas-Gryphis Prize. Katherin Nolte is completing her MFA at The University of Iowa, where she was awarded a Truman Capote Fellowship. Her fiction has appeared in a number of literary journals, including Literal Latte, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Salt Hill, Beloit Fiction Journal, and Blue Mesa Review. Martin Ott is a freelance writer living in Los Angeles. His poetry, fiction, and essays have been published in dozens of magazines, including Connecticut Review, The Greensboro Review, New Letters, Phoebe, Quality Paperback Literary Review, Tampa Review and Third Coast. Miriam Raskin, mother of three and grandmother of seven, has long been active in religious and social action pursuits in the St. Louis area, where she lives with husband, Lawrence M. Raskin. She writes for pleasure and occasional publication. Virginia Haynes Redfield’s poems have appeared in Timber Creek Review, Appalachian Heritage, Headwaters, Wind, and other journals. Susan Rich is the author of The Cartographer’s Tongue / Poems of the World, winner of the PEN West Poetry award and the Peace Corps Writers award. Her poems have appeared in journals including the Christian Science Monitor, DoubleTake, Harvard Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, and Poet Lore. She teaches at Antioch University-LA in the MFA program and at Highline Community College in Seattle, Washington. Susan Robertson grew up outside Washington, D.C. but now lives in Canada. Her poems have appeared in Vallum and Descant. Tania Runyan’s poems have appeared in several publications, such as Poetry Northwest, Southern Poetry Review, Willow Review, and Alabama Literary Review. She teaches 20th Century Literature at Highland Park High School in Highland Park, Illinois. Stephen A. Sadow is professor of modern languages at Northeastern University. His translations include The Algarrobos Quartet, four novellas by Mario Goloboff and Mestizo, a novel by Ricardo Feierstein (both University of New Mexico Press.) In 2000, Sadow won the National Jewish Book Award for Autobiography/Memoir for King David’s Harp: Autobiographical Essays by Jewish Latin American Writers (New Mexico.) Terry Savoie has published poems in more than 85 literary journals, anthologies, and small press publications, including Poetry, Chelsea, The Iowa Review, and Natural Bridge (no. 3, “Amherst, Massachusetts: 1977”). Matthew Schmeer holds an MFA from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and edits Poetry Midwest. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The River Oak Review, The Rio Grande Review, Crab Creek Review, and elsewhere. His chapbook, Twenty-One Cents, is forthcoming from Pudding House Publications. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina. Harvey Shapiro is the former editor of The New York Times Book Review. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including his Selected Poems (Wesleyan, 1997) and A Day’s Portion (Hanging Loose, 1994). His new work, How Charlie Shavers Died and Other Poems, is available from Wesleyan. Joan Siegel’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous periodicals including The Atlantic Monthly, The American Scholar, Prairie Schooner, Commonweal, and The Gettysburg Review. Her work is anthologized in Poetry Comes Up Where It Can, Beyond Lament, American Visions and others. She won the New Letters Poetry Award (1999). Maxine Silverman’s poetry has been published in journals and anthologies Pushcart Prize III: Best of the Small Presses and Voices Within the Ark: the Modern Jewish Poets, her essays in Lilith and The Book of Women’s Sermons. Most recently her poetry was included in Nimrod Awards 24: the Writer in the World. Katherine Smith’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Shenandoah, The Laurel Review, Many Mountains Moving, Smartish Pace, and The Southern Review. An essay, “The Artist as Single Mother,” appeared in Sleeping with One Eye Open: Women Writers on the Art of Survival edited by Marilyn Kallet and Judith Ortiz Cofer (University of Georgia, 1999). Jason Sommer was awarded a Whiting Foundation Fellowship in 2001. He is author of Other People’s Troubles (University of Chicago Press), which won the Society of Midland Author’s Prize, and was a finalist for PEN USA West’s Award in poetry. He teaches literature and writing at Fontbonne University in St. Louis. Marjorie Stelmach’s first book of poems, Night Drawings (Helicon Nine Press), received the 1994 Marianne Moore Prize. Individual poems have appeared in Epoch, New Letters, The Kenyon Review, Chelsea, The Iowa Review, and others. She directs the Nemerov Writing Scholarship Program at Washington University in St. Louis. Steve Stern is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven, which received the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish American Fiction in 1987, and The Wedding Jester, which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1999. He teaches at Skidmore College and in the Prague Summer Seminars. Brian Taylor was born in England and is a graduate of Cambridge University. His poems have appeared London Magazine, Stand, The Listener, Paris Review, Sewanee Review, The Antioch Review, Breadloaf Review, and The Missouri Review. In 1985, the same year that his collection Transit was published, he received the Cholmondeley Award for Poets from the British Society of Authors. Gary J. Whitehead, recipient of a 2001 Individual Artist Grant in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts, has previously published two chapbooks of poems, both winners of national competitions. His first full-length collection is forthcoming from Salmon. Poems have appeared recently in Poetry, Wild Earth, and English Journal. Barbara Yoder is the 2002 PEN North Discovery Writer in fiction. She earned her MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University in 1999. The Recovery Resource Book, her guide to recovery from addictions, was published by Simon and Schuster in 1990. Linda Zisquit has published two full-length collections of poetry, Ritual Bath (Broken Moon Press) and Unopened Letters (Sheep Meadow Press) as well as a number of translations from the Hebrew including Wild Light: Selected Poems of Yona Wallach (Sheep Meadow Press) for which she won an NEA Translation Grant and a PEN Translation Award nomination. She is completing a new manuscript of poems, The Face in the Window.
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