Contributors

C o n t r i b u t o r s

Alexandra C. Fox is a girl, trying to be an actress, writer, or both. She currently lives in California, but still dreams of Colorado.

Amy Fitzsimons is a freelance artist working in St. Paul, MN. She uses many forms of media to create artwork, enacting many styles of illustration. More examples are found at mydisgustingart.com.

Bill Christophersen has poems due out shortly in Hanging Loose, Comstock Review, and Main Street Rag.

Catherine Zickgraf is a poet first, a performer of her poetry second. See her perform at youtube.com/czickgraf The written word is her first love. Her writing has appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Pank, Bartleby-Snopes, and GUD Magazine.

Charles Darnell writes his poetry upon eureka moments or whenever his dominatrix muse cracks her whip. 

Francesco Grisanzio's manuscript,  Stories and Centauries, received runner-up in  the  2012 Strange Machine Chapbook Contest and will be published in early 2013. Francesco's work has also appeared in NY Press, Word Riot, Fawlt, Interrobang!? and elsewhere.

Geordie de Boer rattles around rural Washington these days wrangling rhyme and wrestling rhythm. He’s been published most recently by elimae, New Mexico Poetry Magazine, and Offcourse. Visit him at Cockeyed Fits. 

Helen Losse is the author of two full-length poetry books, Seriously Dangerous (Main Street Rag, 2011) and Better With Friends (Rank Stranger Press, 2009) and three chapbooks. Her poems have been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize and three times for a Best of the Net award, one of which was a finalist. Seriously Dangerous was on the long list for a 2012 SIBA Book Award. She is the Poetry Editor for online literary magazine The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. She has published poems in Right Hand Pointing many times and thinks Dale should ask her for a chapbook not make her go through the competition. Dale, in turn, allows her to publicly air her grievance in her bio.

Helen Vitoria is a photographer and a poet living in Pennsylvania. Her photographs appear in journals such as: Guernica, LITnIMAGE, *ken again, kitchen and many others. She edits Thrush Poetry Journal & Thrush Press. Find her here.

I Roy-Faderman got her creative writing training while acquiring an M.D. from Stanford University, a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, and a serious sleep debt. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she teaches for the philosophy department of Oregon State University, writes, and occasionally reins in her unruly family.

Ian C Smith’s work has appeared in Axon: Creative Explorations, The Best Australian Poetry, Chiron Review, Island, Southerly, & Westerly. His fifth book is Contains Language, Ginninderra Press (Adelaide). He lives in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria, Australia. 

John Grey is an Australian-born poet, works as financial systems analyst. Recently published in Bryant Poetry Review, Tribeca Poetry Review, and the horror anthology, What Fears Become,with work upcoming in Potomac Review, Hurricane Review and Osiris. John's first publication in RHP appeared in issue #2.

Karen Greenbaum-Maya, retired clinical psychologist, former German Lit. major, and Pushcart nominee, no longer lives for Art, but still. No one believes she is a California native. She started writing when she was nine. The Centrifugal Eye is currently featuring a mini-chap, Floating Route. Her second chapbook, Burrowing Song, is in press with Kattywompus, to appear in 2013. Visit www.cloudslikemountains.blogspot.com/ for links to other poems and photos.

Kim Suttell, after years of being woken by verse only to scribble lines down to stash in drawers, began taking writing courses. By day she is an employee of the City of New York. At night she is a secret poet. She was an English Literature major at UCLA, a teacher, and a Peace Corps volunteer. This is her first publication.

Melaney Poli is a life-professed nun in the Order of Julian of Norwich. She lives and works in Wisconsin, not far from Wales.

Rich Murphy’s credits include books, The Apple in the Monkey Tree (Codhill Press) and Voyeur (Gival Press); and chapbooks, Great Grandfather (Pudding House Press), Family Secret (Finishing Line Press), Hunting and Pecking (Ahadada Books), Rescue Lines (Right Hand Pointing), and Phoems for Mobile Vices (BlazeVox). Recent poetry may be found inPennsylvania Review, Fjord Review, Poydras Review, Reconfigurations: Poetry and Poetics / Literature and Culture, The Bijou Poetry Review, The View From Here, Otoliths, Epiphany, Poetica, Euphony, James Dickey Review, and Trespass. Rich lives in Marblehead, MA.

Simon Perchik's poetry has been published in Partisan Review, The Nation, The New Yorker and elsewhere. 

Steve Tomasko has run out of things to say about himself. If you really want to know more about him, buy him a root beer sometime and ask him what kind of tree he’d like to be in a future life.

Timothy Gager is the author of eight books of short fiction and poetry. His latest is Treating a Sick Animal: Flash and Micro Fictions (Cervena Barva Press). He has hosted the Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, MA for ten years and is the co-founder of Somerville News Writers Festival. His work has appeared in Night Train, McSweeney's, Hobart, Twelve Stories, Dogzplot, Six Sentences, 55 Words, Monkeybicycle, The Binnacle, Thieves Jargon, Long Story Short, Fried Chicken and Coffee, Slurve, Poor Mojo's Almanac, Tuesday Shorts, The Legendary, VerbSap, The Smoking Poet, Write This Magazine, Further Fenway Fiction, The Blood Orange Review, Poems for All, Right Hand Pointing, GUD, Boston Poetry Journal, Edifice Wrecked, Blue Print Review, Barnstorm, Lit Up Magazine, Spare Change, Delmarva Review, Third Lung Review, Poesy and Ibbetson Street. He has had nine works nominated for the Pushcart Prize. 

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