Volume 49 Issue 3

Contributors

Doug Anderson‘s memoir about Vietnam and the nineteen sixties, as yet untitled, will be published by W.W. Norton in the Spring of 2009.

Mike Antosia lives in Rhode Island. He has worked as a library circulation supervisor, a retail store manager, and an IT recruiter. This is his first publication.

Normand Berlin is the author of five books on drama. He is Theater Editor of the Massachusetts Review.

Alexandria Budny divides her time between New York and New Jersey. She is now writing a novel.

Ellen Prentiss Campbell‘s short fiction has appeared in the Potomac Review, Fourth River, Spindrift, and Paper Street, and is forthcoming in the Bryant Review and Blueline. An MFA candidate in the Bennington College Writing Seminars and a clinical social worker, she lives outside of Washington, D.C.

Michael Carolan is a writer and editor living in Belchertown, MA.

Sean Casey lives in Southampton, MA. He is a recent graduate of the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts. His work has appeared in Fence, McSweeneys, Origin, and Vanitas. He runs The Chuckwagon, a chapbook press.

Elizabeth Collins is a high school English and writing teacher in suburban Philadelphia. She holds her MFA in Writing from the University of Iowa. Collins won the 2001 Nonfiction award from Columbia University. She also won the Best Essay of Literary Nonfiction award in 2001 from the University of Northern Iowa.

Nick Courtright lives in Austin,Texas, where he dabbles in teaching and music journalism. His work has appeared in numerous magazines. Some of his writing can be found at tier3.wordpress.com.

Jeffrey drayer is a physician in Los Angeles and the author of the collection The Cost-Effective Use of Leeches. His work has recently appeared in the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine and the Seattle Review.

kathy dull lives in Hamden, Connecticut. Her work has appeared in the Bitter Oleander and the Chesapeake Reader.

sarah gemmill lives outside of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her writing has appeared most recently in Salamander Magazine and The Hiram Poetry Review. She has received the Elizabeth Babcock Poetry Award.

thomas glave is the author of Whose Song? and Other Stories and The Torturer’s Wife (forthcom ing, 2008), and editor of the anthology Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (2008). His fiction and nonfiction have recently appeared in Callaloo, The Kenyon Review, and African American Review. He teaches in the English department at the State University of New York, Binghamton.

karen Kevorkian teaches at the University of Virginia, and is the author of White Stucco Black Wing. Her work has appeared in journals including Shenandoah, Antioch Review, Mississippi Review, Los Angeles Review, and Volt.

jo neace krause was born in Shoulderblade, KY. She attended Ohio State University and received an artist fellowship from New York State Creative Artists. Her short stories have appeared in Yale Review, Exquisite Corpse, Potomac Review, and Richmond Review.

brandon krieg holds an MFA from the University ofWashington. He lives in Chicago, IL.

katherine longsrteet’s stories have appeared in numerous magazines, including The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Georgia Review, and The New England Review, as well as the anthology New Stories from the South: The Best of 2004. Her collection, Night-Blooming Cereus, was published in 2002.

louise mathias is the author of Lark Apprentice, which was chosen by Brenda Hillman for the New Issues Poetry Prize and published by New Issues Press in 2004. Poems from her new manuscript The Traps appear in Triquarterly, Perihelion, and The Laurel Review. Her website is www. louisemathias.com.

barry moser was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1940. He was educated at Auburn University, the University of Chattanooga, and the University of Massachusetts. His work is represented in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Metropolitan Museum, the British Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Vatican Library, and the Israel Museum, to name a few. In addition to being an illustrator, he is also a printer, painter, printmaker, designer, author, essayist, and teacher. He has served on the faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design; was the 1995 Whitney J. Oates Fellow in Humanities at Princeton University; the artist and writer in residence atVassar College in 1998. He is currently Professor in Residence and Printer to the College at Smith College. Moser has illustrated and/or designed 300 titles, including Moby-Dick, Frankenstein, and The Divine Comedy. Moser’s edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, won a National Book Award in 1983.

Patricia colleen murphy earned Bachelor’s degrees in English and French from Miami University, and an MFA in poetry from Arizona State University, where she has been teaching writing for 14 years. Her poems have appeared in over 20 literary magazines.

julian olf’s screenplay Anthony, inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet, received a Gold Award for Dramatic Adaptation at WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. His screen adaptation of Henry James’s story The Liar was a finalist in WorldFest as well as in America’s Best Screen plays. His stage play 1-900-SEX-DATE won First Prize in the Nantucket Short Play Contest. His short plays have been produced widely, with recent stagings in New York City, Los Angeles and Vancouver. A former editor of Theatre Journal, he teaches and directs theatre at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. For production rights to ” (People Almost Always Smell Good in the Art Museum),” contact the author through the editorial offices of MR.

ingrid satelmajer lives in Silver Spring, MD. She teaches at the University of Maryland, College Park, and has published articles in Book History, American Periodicals, and other journals.

j. d. Schneider is a student of poetry and languages at Sarah Lawrence. His poems have appeared in Hanging Loose and Body Parts. Other translations ofWinkler have been in Bordercrossing Berlin and Lyrikline, and are forthcoming in The Atlanta Review.

melissa shook is a documentary photographer and recently retired associate professor in the Art Department of UMass/Boston. She has been writing poetry seriously for six or seven years.

taije Silverman’s debut collection, Houses Are Fields, will be published by Louisiana State University Press in 2009. Individual poems are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Pleiades, Crab Orchard Review, and elsewhere.

j. weintraub has published fiction, essays, poetry, and translations in many literary reviews and magazines. He has won Illinois Art Council awards in both fiction and nonfiction, is a past Around-The-Coyote poet, and an occasional feature writer/reader in the Twilight Tales series at the Red Lion Pub, one of Chicago’s fewhaunted bars.

ron winkler has published three collections of poetry in German, most recently Fragmented Waters (Berlin Verlag, 2007). He is a recipient of the Leonce-and-Lena Prize, the Erostepost Literature Prize, and the Mondsee Poetry Prize.

francine witte is a poet, playwright, and fiction writer. Her poetry chapbook The Magic in the Streets was published by Owl Creek Press. Her flash fiction chapbook The Wind Twirls Everything is forthcoming from MuscleHead Press. She lives in New York City and is a high school English teacher.

john witte is the author of the collection Second Nature, forthcoming from University of Washington Press (2008).