Contributors

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Andrew Stancek's recent writing has been published in Thunderclap Magazine, Pure Slush, The Linnet's Wings, THIS Literary Magazine, A Twist of Noir, Istanbul Literary Review, Left Hand Waving, Prime Number Magazine, Negative Suck and Bartleby Snopes.

Angie Werren writes poetry in a little house in Ohio. She never gets all the leaves raked before it rains.

Carol Deminski lives in a Jersey City, NJ neighborhood one would not describe as charming. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in PANK, Spilling Ink, Bartleby Snopes, The Aroostook Review and elsewhere. Her blog is here.  

Dave Fraundorfer is a New Zealander living in London. His previous publications include Blackmail Press, Takahe, Bravado and Word Riot.

Dennis Mahagin's poems and stories appear in Juked, 42opus, Exquisite Corpse, Stirring, Absinthe Literary Review, 3 A.M., Night Train, PANK, Storyglossia, and Smokelong Quarterly, among other publications. He is also an editor of fiction and poetry at FRiGG magazine. Dennis lives in Washington state.  

Doug Draime's work  has appeared many times on the pages of Right Hand Pointing. His most recent books in print are: Rock 'n Roll Jizz (Propaganda Press)and Los Angeles Terminal: Poems 1971-1980 (Covert Press)  Also two online chaps: Speed of Light (Right Hand Pointing) and Stoned On A Pogo Stick. Awarded PEN grants in 1987 and 1991. Nominated for several Pushcart Prizes in last few years. He lives with his wife and family in Oregon. Also, listen in to Doug's latest poetry reading (and interview) at the New American Dream Radio Show.  

Doug Mathewson writes true stories from imaginary lives. His work is mostly true, except for the pretend parts. His work appears now and then, here and there. He is part of Full of Crow Press and Distribution and is Editor of Blink-Ink.

F.J. Bergmann frequents Wisconsin. She wishes that there were more agreeable reasons for the international reputation the state currently enjoys.  

Fabio Sassi  lives in Bologna, Italy. Formerly he played harp in a blues band and is a photographer and writer. He has been a visual artist since 1990.  Much of his work is inspired by paradox, either real or imagined, and by current events. His website is at http://www.coroflot.com/fabiosassi

Francisco Delgado lives with his wife in Queens, where he teaches at St. John's University and CUNY York College. He is from Canandaigua, New York—forty minutes southeast from Rochester.  

Geordie de Boer, a wrangler and wrestler of rhythm lives in rural Washington. He’s been published most recently by The Camel Saloon, Right Hand Pointing, Eunoia Review, and Offcourse. Visit him at Cockeyed Fits.

Gillian Nevers' poems appear in Silk Road, Miller’s Pond, Wisconsin People and Ideas, Pearl, Pirene's Fountain, Verse Wisconsin, Architrave Press, Right Hand Pointing and several other print and online literary magazines.  She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and the second prize winner of the 2008 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters statewide poetry contest.  Gillian lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Helen R. Peterson has been published in over 100 online and print journals, both nationally and internationally. Most recently she’s had work accepted at Word Riot, Juked, Existere, and Strong Verse. She was also featured in The Lunch Break Book published by Poet Plant Press, was the editor of the small print journal Chopper, and read at the Bowery Poetry Club in November. A mother of three living in Connecticut, you can find her blog here.  

J. Patrick Lewis's first book of poems, Gulls Hold Up the Sky, was published in October 2010 by Laughing Fire Press. His poems have appeared in Gettysburg Review, New England Review, New Letters, Southern Humanities Review, new renaissance, Kansas Quarterly, Fine Madness, Light Quarterly, and many others. 

Jacob Kreutze is the world's greatest poet in the eyes of his mother. To everyone else he's probably a couple notches lower. His work has been featured in some awesome publications like CC&D, The Cynic, and Heavy Hands Ink.

Jeff Streeby holds an MFA in Poetry from Gerald Stern’s program at New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire.  He is a horseman, cowboy poet and performer whose recent work has appeared in Verdad, Southwest American Literature, Los Angeles Review, Right Hand Pointing and others.  His website is at http://www.jeffstreeby.com .

Other than her recent foray into sestinas, Judy Kamilhor primarily writes micropoetry. Her influences are the Japanese haiku masters and the comedian Steven Wright. She is a member of brevitas and a frequent contributor to CLWN WR. She has been published in Simply Haiku, Haiku Harvest, Amaze: the Cinquain Journal, and other publications. One of her poems was chosen for the Haiku Showcase by the World Haiku Club. 

Linda Simoni-Wastila crunches numbers by day and churns words at night. Her writing explores health, in particular the societal and personal facets of medication and medicating. You can find her poems and stories in The Sun, Thunderclap!, Monkeybicycle, Eclectic Flash, Tattoo Highway, Camroc Press Review, Right Hand Pointing, BluePrint Review, Istanbul Literary Review, The Shine Journal, and Boston Literary Magazine, among others. She lives and loves and mothers in Baltimore, a town where her Northern birthright and Southern breeding comfortably comingle. You can find her online at http://linda-leftbrainwrite.blogspot.com.

Marc Vincenz is Swiss-British and was born in Hong Kong during the height of the Cultural Revolution. His recent poetry books are Upholding Half the Sky (MiPoesias, 2010) and The Propaganda Factory, or Speaking of Trees (Argotist, 2011).  A collection of translations is forthcoming from Cervena Barva Press. He currently lives in Iceland where he works as a journalist, writer, poet, book designer and artist. Recent and forthcoming publications include The Potomac, Spillway, Asymptote, Poetry Salzburg Review, MiPOesias, elimae and Pirene’s Fountain. Marc is Managing Editor of MadHat Press, Poetry and Non-Fiction Editor at Mad Hatters’ Review and on the editorial board of Open Letters Monthly.

Marc Swan lives on Munjoy Hill in Portland Maine, a working seaport with a vital arts community. His work has been published here and abroad, including Takahe, Westerly, Slipstream, Pearl, and Gargoyle. Simple Distraction, a collection of his poems from 1989 to 2009, was published in fall 2009 by tall-lighthouse in London England.

Mark DeMoss dons a jaunty hat and a fake tattoo, and mans the helm at the flash challenge site ShowMeYourLits.com.

Melanie Browne is a poet and fiction writer living in Texas.

Mike Finley is author of the largest chapbook in history, Yukon Gold: Poemes de terre 1970-2010 (Kraken Press, a free download). In 2011 he was awarded the KPV Jack Kerouac Award for a lifetime of excellence in writing.  He is producer-in-chief for the Luck Parky Productions label. He lives and makes his living writing in St. Paul.

Paul Hostovsky is the author of three books of poetry, Bending the Notes (2008), Dear Truth (2009), and A Little in Love a Lot (2011). His poems have won a Pushcart Prize and been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The Writer's Almanac, and Best of the Net 2008 and 2009. He works in Boston as a sign language interpreter. Visit him at www.paulhostovsky.com

Rose Auslander is poetry editor of Folded Word Press. Her great, great uncle, Joseph Auslander, was the first Poet Laureate of the United States, and she hopes to make him proud, wherever he may be.  She received a Best of the Net nomination for her poem, “Oh My,” in Form Reborn and is a regular contributor to Referential Magazine.  Look for her poems coming out soon in the Dead Mule and Literary Lunchbox.

Stacey Stockton is a recent graduate of CSU, East Bay in Hayward, California, but he has lived in or around Bodega Bay and Los Banos. And, yep, there really is a slaughter house across the street from Walmart. 

Stephani Schaefer is a poet and photographer with work in a variety of journals. She is editor of Fog and Woodsmoke: Behind the Image, an anthology of photos, poems and prose (Lost Hills Books 2011). A digital chapbook of prose poetry is due from White Knuckle Press in 2012.

Susan Steves Keiser is a writer/editor in Key West, Fl.  She has had poems appear in Carcinogenic Poetry, SpokenWar, The Camel Saloon, Haggard and Halloo, Orion Headless, Ramshackle Review and Bolts of Silk.  She has recently launched Blue Sky LLC, a literary marketing firm, and she is the founder of its sister company, GreenHouse Books. 

Tina Barry is an M.F.A. student in creative writing, and has published short stories and poems in elimae, Fractured West, and several other literary magazines. Right now, she'd like to be anywhere but Brooklyn. A beach with a gin and tonic sounds about right. 

Tony Press lives near the Pacific. His poetry appears in 34th Parallel, Contemporary Verse 2, Inkwell, Spitball, The Aurorean, Turning Wheel, and the anthology The Heart as Origami. Non-fiction appears in Quay and Toasted Cheese. Fiction appears in JMWW, Rio Grande Review, BorderSenses, SFWP Journal, Toasted Cheese, Switchback, Boston Literary Magazine, Qarrtsiluni, Foundling Review, Menda City Review, and others.

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by D.Wisely