Volume 48, Issue 3

Contributors

Ralph Black‘s poems have appeared in the Carolina Quarterly and the Georgia and Gettysburg Reviews, among other journals. His first book, Turning Over the Earth, was published by Milkweed Editions. He teaches at SUNY Brockport, where he is Co-Director of the Brockport Writers Forum.

Christina Clark teaches yoga in New York City and goes to school in Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Diner, 6×6, and The Pool.

Ashley Clifton has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Arizona. This is his second published story.

Billy Collins is recipient of many awards and author of many books, most recently The Trouble with Poetry: and Other Poems. He served for two years as U.S. Poet Laureate. Collins is a distinguished professor of English at Lehman College in the Bronx, where he has taught for over thirty years.

David Curzon is the author of books of poetry (Dovchik, Penguin, Australia) and midrash (The View from Jacob’s Ladder, the Jewish Publication Society of America), the editor of two anthologies, Modern Poems on the Bible (JPS) and The Gospels in Our Image (Harcourt, Brace), and a literary translator. He is a contributing editor of the Forward newspaper and the Jerusalem Review.

Hanlyn Davies, painter and printmaker, lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut. Born in Wales, he studied at Swansea College of Art and received his MFA from the Yale University School of Art. He has exhibited extensively in the USA, Europe and Asia, and his work is represented in numerous public and private collections. He is the recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he was Chair of the Department of Art for ten years. A retrospective exhibition of his work is scheduled for October 2007 at UMass.

William Delman‘s poetry has appeared in The Literary Review, Salamander, Chelsea, DMQ, Sqftblow, Shampoo, and other journals. He received an Academy of American Poets Prize in 2006 and an International Merit Award from the Atlanta Review in 2003. He is the founding director of the Bay State Underground reading series at Boston University, and a fiction editor for AGNI.

Grażyna Drabik is a translator of Polish poetry into English and Portuguese, published in the United States and Brazil in literary journals and anthologies, including Quarterly Review of Literature, Modern Poetry in Translation, Alguma Poesia, and A Fierce Brightness (Calyx Books). She is a lecturer in the English Department at City College, CUNY, and a contributing writer for Nowy Dziennik (the Polish Daily News) in New York.

Elyse Fenton is currently finishing her MFA in poetry at the University of Oregon in Eugene. She has poems published or forthcoming in Salamander, Hubbub, and Natural Bridge, and an essay in The Northwest Review.

Rena Fraden is Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at Trinity College. She has written Blueprints for a Black Federal Theater and Imagining Medea: Rhodessa Jones and Theater for Incarcerated Women, and is at work on a manuscript about Suzan-Lori Parks.

Mike Freeman grew up in New England and has lived in Alaska for ten years working in fisheries management. He received his Masters in Creative Writing from San Francisco State and has published a story in Transfer Magazine and an essay in The Snowy Egret.

Richard Harvell, a native of New Hampshire, lives in Switzerland. His short fiction has appeared in the USA and in Switzerland. He is working on a novel about an eighteenth-century castrato.

Stephanie N. Johnson‘s poetry and nonfiction have appeared in BPJ, Borderlands, AGNI, Dislocate, Common Ground Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Duluth, Minnesota, and is working on a memoir about hunting, archery, and aviation.

Anna Kamieńska (1920-1986) is a major Polish writer, a peer of Nobel Prize winners Wislawa Szymborska and Czeslaw Milosz, of Zbigniew Herbert and Tadeusz Rozewicz. She left a legacy of fifteen books of poetry; Notebooks that provide a shorthand record of her readings and self-question ing; commentaries on the Bible; novels for young adults; and translations from Slavic languages as well as from Hebrew, Latin, and French.

Ann Killough‘s work has appeared in Fence, Field, Mudfish, Poetry Ireland, Salamander, Sentence, and elsewhere. Her chapbook Sinners in the Hands received the 2003 Robert Phillips Prize, and her collection, Beloved Idea, is forthcoming from Alice James.

In 2004, Tupelo Press published Mary Koncel‘s collection of prose poems, You Can Tell the Horse Anything, a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award.

Jessica Lang is Assistant Professor of English at Baruch C.U.N.Y. She is currently working on a book on contemporary Holocaust fiction writers and memoirists.

Dawn Lonsinger grew up a small town in Pennsylvania not far from other small towns with names too lascivious to mention. She graduated from Cornell University’s MFA program, and her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including American Letters & Commentary, Beloit Poetry Journal, DIAGRAM, and Smartish Pace. Her chapbook, the linoleum crop, was recently chosen by Thomas Lux as the recipient of the Jeanne Duval Editions & Terminus Magazine Chapbook Contest. This fall she will happily shimmy up to brine shrimp and aspen colonies as she enters the PhD program in Creative Writing at the University of Utah.

A VCCA Fellow, Margaret Macinnis is a Massachusetts native who resides in Iowa City, where she is in the Nonfiction Writing Program. Her work is forthcoming in the Mid-American Review, and has appeared in Brevity, Crab Orchard Review, Gettysburg Review, and others.

Daniel Menasche was born in Portland, Oregon. His fiction has appeared in Tin House. He received his MFA from the New School in 2007, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Ian Miller is from the Pacific Northwest. Currently, he is reading Immortality by Milan Kundera, the collected poems of Dick Barnes, A Word Like Fire, and the Garbageman and the Prostitute by Zack Wentz. He lives in Prague.

Jennifer D. Munro is a fourth-generation Hawaiian islander who now lives in Seattle. She has peddled macrobiotics, anthuriums, guava syrup, shopping malls, and National Public Radio. Her credits include ZYZZYVA, Calyx, Room of One’s Own, Best of Literary Mama, Best American Erotica, and many other journals.

Robert J. Nelson is a retired journalist, having written and edited for newspapers in Boston, the Midwest, and the West. His stories have appeared in Palo Alto Review, New Renaissance, South Dakota Review, Big Muddy, Virginia Adversaria, Liguorian, The Acorn, Mobious (online edition), and Futures. His nonfiction book, If We Could Only Come to America, dealing with nineteenth-century Swedish immigrants in the Midwest, was published in 2004 by Sunflower University Press. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Kate Northrop‘s work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, AGNI, Raritan, and other journals. Her first collection, Back Through Interruption, won the Stan and Tim Wick Poetry Award, and her new collection of poems, Things Are Disappearing Here, is due out from Persea Books. She is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at West Chester University.

Shaun O’Connell‘s essays on American and Irish writers have been published in many journals, including the Atlantic Monthly and Massachusetts Review. “A Memory of Two Fathers,” published in MR, was included in The Best Essays of 1993. He is the author of Imagining Boston: A Literary Landscape and Remarkable, Unspeakable New York: A Literary Landscape. For more than forty years he has taught American and Irish literature at the University Massachusetts, Boston.

Brian Baldi Skiffington‘s work has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Watchword, Fourteen Hills, Den
Quarterly, and the Fairy Tale Review. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Anca L. Szilágyi was born in Brooklyn, where she lives today. Her work has appeared in the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, and Turkey. Recent publications include Pindeldyboz.com, Cafe Irreal, Collectanea, and the Antigonish Review. Anca has a BA in English literature and archaeology from McGill University and is pursuing an MA at Columbia University. She is the editor of Bird and Moon’s 55 Words story project.

Lisa Vogel teaches college-level English at a medium-security prison for men, teaches yoga at a health club, and works as an Associate Trial Consultant for civil cases. She lives in Corn Creek, a tiny town in rural Nevada off the electrical, water, and telephone grids. Her short stories have appeared in Cimarron Review, Textstop, and Threshold’s Quarterly.

andrea werblin is the author of a collection of poetry, Lullaby for One Fist (Wesleyan University Press). Poems have appeared or will appear in Smartish Pace and Arts & Letters. She works as a copywriter in the Boston area.