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CONTRIBUTORS (ISSUE NO. 11, SPRING 2004) C. D. Albin has contributed fiction to Red Rock Review. His poems and reviews have appeared in Arkansas Review, The Georgia Review, Mid-America Poetry Review, and The Pikeville Review. He teaches English at Southwest Missouri State University – West Plains. Jacob M. Appel has published short fiction in The Florida Review, Green Mountains Review, Literal Latte, The Nebraska Review, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere. He holds an M.F.A. from New York University. He currently lives in New York City and teaches at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Michael Atkinson’s first book of poetry, One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (Word Works, 2002), won the 2001 Washington Prize. He is a fellowship winner from the New York Foundation for the Arts, teaches at C.W. Post/Long Island University, and has had poems appear in The Best American Poetry 1993, Michigan Quarterly Review, Ontario Review, New Letters, Epoch Magazine, Prairie Schooner, The Threepenny Review, Carolina Quarterly, Passages North, the late, lamented Poetry Northwest, and September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond (Etruscan Press, 2002). Alice Ayers was raised in the South, which is something you seem to take with you wherever you go. She lives now in Phoenix, Arizona with her husband and two daughters. Her work has appeared in Other Voices, The Literary Journal and CrossConnect. Richard Benjamin is a recent graduate of the M.F.A. program at Washington University. This is his first published story. Thomas Boulan won the 2002 LAND contest for short story in the state of Michigan. His poetry and prose have appeared in The Lucid Stone, Quoth the Raven, Wordwrights, and Carriage House Review. A short story will also be published in the upcoming issue of The MacGuffin. He is a social worker in Ypsilanti, Michigan and proud father of a wise and passionate daughter. James Brasfield received a Fellowship in Poetry from the NEA, The American Association for Ukrainian Studies Prize for Translation, and the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, for The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha (Harvard University Press), translated with the author. Victoria Brockmeier has worked a waitress, a web designer, a drive-thru girl, an artists’ model, an Air Force marketing specialist, and a palmist. Her poetry has appeared in LIT, New Letters, The Texas Review, and Arkansas Review, as well as a previous issue of Natural Bridge (“coonass maenad,” no. 8), and is forthcoming in Chautauqua Literary Journal. She currently lives and teaches in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mark Peebles Brown lives in Richmond, Virginia and London, England. He won the New Writer 2001 Short Story Award (UK) and has work forthcoming from Potomac Review and Pindeldyboz. Gayla Chaney’s work has appeared in numerous journals, including The Mochila Review, Potomac Review, Concho River Review, RE:AL, Sojourner, Women’s Words, The Rectangle, Phantasmagoria, Fish Stories, Hyphen, U.S. Catholic, and is forthcoming in Louisiana Literature, Revolve, and The Hurricane Review. Jaimee Wriston-Colbert is the author of two books, a novel, Climbing the God Tree, 1998, winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Prize, and a short fiction collection, Sex, Salvation and the Automobile (1994) winner of the Zephyr Publishing Prize. Her short stories have appeared in many literary journals, including TriQuarterly, New Letters, Tampa Review, Natural Bridge (vol. 8, “A Song for the Prairie”), and forthcoming in Prairie Schooner and Connecticut Review, and broadcast over NPR’s Selected Shorts. Originally from Hawaii, she is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University, State University of New York. Terri Brown-Davidson is on the fiction faculty for Gotham Writers’ Workshop and has received seven nominations for the Pushcart Prize. Her first book of poetry was The Carrington Monologues (2002); her first novel, Marie, Marie: Hold Tight, is forthcoming in 2004. She holds a Ph.D., M.F.A., and M.A. in English. Kathleen Flenniken is the recipient of a 2003 Artist Trust/WSAC Fellowship and a 2002 Artist Trust GAP award. Her poems are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She is an editor with Floating Bridge Press and teaches poetry in the schools. Jeff Friedman is the author of three collections of poetry: Taking Down the Angel (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2003), Scattering the Ashes (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998) and The Record-Breaking Heat Wave (BkMk Press, University of Missouri – Kansas City, 1986) His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Antioch Review, The Missouri Review, Manoa, New England Review, The Forward. 5AM, Natural Bridge (vol. 2, “Burp Water”; vol. 9, “Cain and Able”), and New Virginia Review. He is a core faculty member in the M.F.A. program in Poetry Writing at New England College. Christine Hale’s creative work has appeared in Apalachee Review, Blue Mesa Review #12, Natural Bridge (vol. 2, “Redbird”), The Sun, The Chaffin Review, the New York Times, Mothering, Parents and the anthology The Leap Years (Beacon Press, 1999). She was the Susannah McCorkle Scholar at the 2001 Sewanee Writers’ Conference. A MacDowell and Ucross fellow, Ms. Hale teaches in the writing program at the University of Tampa and has recently completed a novel, Basil’s Dream. Angela Hamilton received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Missouri – St. Louis where she won the Graduate Prose Award. Her publications include Passionfruit, a woman’s travel journal, and opiummagazine. Currently, she is teaching creative writing and composition for St. Louis Community College at Meramec. Amy Hassinger, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, has published a novel, Nina: Adolescence. Her work has appeared in Blithe House Quarterly and MsFit Magazine, and will be anthologized in 2004. She has also written a Maine history textbook (Finding Katahdin). She lives in Michigan and is at work on her second novel. Daniel Hoyt is a Self Graduate Fellow pursuing a Ph.D. in English at the University of Kansas. His story, “Vincent,” was published in the spring 2003 issue of Arts & Letters, and his story, “Amar,” will appear in the Fall/Winter edition of The Kenyon Review. Laurie Klein’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in New Letters, Potomac Review, Many Mountains Moving, Iris, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, and others. She works in the Pacific Northwest and occasionally abroad as a writer, artist, and teacher. She’s currently mulling over the next draft of her first novel. Michael Levine teaches English and Creative Writing at Gann Academy in Waltham, MA. He has received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Washington University and an M.A. in Creative Writing from Boston University, where he won an Academy of American Poets Prize. This is his first publication. Tara L. Masih has published fiction, poetry, and essays in literary magazines such as Confrontation, Hayden’s Ferry Review, New Millennium Writings, in anthologies, and on audiocassette. She has received awards for her work, along with a finalist grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a Pushcart Prize nomination. Bruce McCandless is a freelance writer and editor who lives in Austin, Texas. He has published poems in Pleiades, The New Delta Review, Spitball, and Cold Mountain Review. Natalka Mezenyeva is widely published in the Ukraine, where she works as a journalist in Kyiv. “Someday He Will Come” is from her first book of poems, Beyond Autumn’s Horizon (1993). Elizabeth Murawski is the author of Moon and Mercury and a chapbook, Troubled By An Angel. Publications include: The Yale Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Chelsea, Grand Street, Doubletake, Field, The Literary Review, Crazyhorse, The American Voice, The American Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, The Ohio Review, Shenandoah, among others. Jill Osier lives in northern Vermont. Her work has recently appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Iowa Review, Pleiades, and Poetry. Michael Pritchett is the author of the story collection, The Venus Tree, winner of an Iowa Short Fiction Award (John Simmons Short Fiction Award) in 1988. His novel, The Final Effort of the Archer, won the 2000 Dana Award for the Novel. His stories have appeared in Passages North, New Letters, and Other Voices. He teaches fiction writing at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. Jack Ridl grew up with his Uncle Albert, a circus man. Ridl is in his 33rd year of teaching at Hope College. His chapbook, Against Elegies, was chosen by Sharon Dolin and Billy Collins for the award from The Center for Book Arts in NYC. He was named Michigan Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation. Ridl lives with his wife Julie, the writer of Skinny Daily, and their Clumber spaniels along Lake Michigan. Michael Scott lives in Laingsburg, Michigan. He is a graduate of the M.F.A. program at Western Michigan University. His stories and poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including The MacGuffin, Lynx Eye, Cross Roads, Small Pond, and others. Shane Seely is a native of rural northern Pennsylvania. He has an M.F.A. from Syracuse University, and his poems have appeared in CutBank, Seneca Review, 5AM, and other journals. He lives in St. Louis with his future wife, the poet Sonia Moreno, and teaches poetry and writing at Washington University in St. Louis. Askold Skalsky teaches at a community college in western Maryland and has had poems in numerous small press magazines and journals including Southern Poetry Review, Oregon East, Northeast Corridor, and Chiron Review. He was prizewinner in the New Millennium contest for his poem “The 30’s in the Kingdom of Necessity.” Has also been published in Canada, Ireland, and Great Britain. Kirsten Smith’s poems have appeared in magazines such as The Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, The Massachusetts Review and Witness. In addition to co-writing the feature films 10 Things I Hate About You and Legally Blonde, she has written a novel in verse, The Geography of Girlhood, which will be published by Little, Brown in 2005. Mithran Somasundrum was born in Sri Lanka but grew up in London. He currently lives in Bangkok, where he works in a university research lab. His recent stories appear in Inkwell and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Michael Sweeney teaches at Fairfield and Sacred Heart Universities. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, his manuscript In Memory of the Fast Break was a finalist for the 2002 Backwaters Prize. Recent poems have appeared in The Ledge, Phantasmagoria, Larcom Review, and Common Ground. Oksana Tatsyak is from Lviv, Ukraine and earned an M.A. in English from Ivan Franko National University (Lviv), an M.A. in Russian and Comparative Literature from Pennsylvania State University, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Literature at the University of Toronto. David Thornbrugh is currently working his way through Emily Dickinson’s collected poems in hopes that some of her concision and intensity will rub off. He writes most of his poetry these days on the bus. John A. Vanek is a physician and poet whose poetry has appeared in Heartlands, The Vincent Brothers Review, and The Journal of the American Medical Association. Adam Vines teaches at the University of Alabama – Birmingham where he also serves as co-editor of Birmingham Poetry Review. He has published recently or has work forthcoming in Meridian, Tulane Review, Santa Clara Review, Louisiana Literature, and others. He won the Hackney Award for short fiction in 2001 and the Hackney Award for poetry in 2002. Fritz Ward has published poems in more than twenty journals, including Washington Square Review, Southern Poetry Review, Columbia, Wisconsin Review, The Portland Review, Clackamas Review, and Tampa Review. He holds a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina – Greensboro. He currently coordinates special events for United Way in Sarasota, Florida. Jane O. Wayne’s poems have appeared in Poetry, The Iowa Review, The American Scholar, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry Northwest, Ploughshares, The Michigan Quarterly Review, and others. Looking Both Ways (MO Press) received the Devins Award for Poetry, and A Strange Heart (Helicon Editions) received the Marianne Moore Prize, and the Society of Midland Authors Award. Lex Williford, a Texas native, holds an MFA from the University of Arkansas. He is the 1994 Shane Stevens Fellow in Fiction at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and a recipient of a 1993 National Endowment of the Arts fellowship and was also co-winner of the 1993 Iowa School of Letters Award for short Fiction for his book, Macauley’s Thumb. His stories have appeared in many journals. He is the co-editor of The Scribner Anthology Of Contemporary Short Fiction, and teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Texas – El Paso. |
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