Contributors

Brad Rose, a frequent contributor to RHP, is the only living person in North America who has not earned an MFA. He received a BA in English, however, during the reign of the Tudors. Links to Brad’s poetry and fiction can be found here. His chapbook of miniature fiction from RHP, Coyotes Circle the Party Store, can be read here.

Chris Bullard is a native of Jacksonville, FL. He lives in Collingswood, NJ, and works for the federal government as an Administrative Law Judge. He received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his MFA from Wilkes University. WordTech Communications has accepted his book of poetry, Back, for publication in November of 2013. Kattywompus Press has accepted his chapbook, Dear Leatherface, for publication in 2013 or 2014.

Doug Draime emerged as a presence in the underground literary movement in late 1960s in Los Angeles. Recent publications: Knox County (Kendra Steiner Editions), and Los Angeles Terminal (Covert Press). Forthcoming collections from Coatlism Press (full-length), Propaganda Press, and Tainted Coffee Press. Awarded small PEN grants in 1987 and ’91. Nominated for 3 Pushcart Prizes in 2008. He currently lives and writes in Ashland, Oregon.

Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection The Middle of Nowhere (Olivia Eden Publishing) and the forthcoming poetry chapbooks The Complete Absence of Twilight (Mad Hat Press), Echo's Bones and Danger Falling Debris (Red Bird Chapbooks), and An Armed Man Lurks in Ambush (unbound CONTENT). He co-edits White Knuckle Press with Dale Wisely.

José Angel Araguz runs the poetry blog The Friday Influence.

Karen Stromberg is a minimalist who prefers the short poem and flash fiction. She has been nominated for two Pushcart prizes.

A previous contributor to RHP, Kim Suttell’s work appears in Penny Ante Feud and, upcoming, in The Cortland Review and The Write Place at the Write Time.

Loretta Oleck’s poetry has been published or is forthcoming in High Coupe, Black Lawrence Press, Word Riot, Feminist Studies, among numerous others. More recently her work has been read at The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art. She holds a Masters degree in Creative Writing from New York University.

Marilyn Westfall has published poetry, fiction, and various non-fiction pieces like interviews, essays, and scholarly works over many years. Most recently, her creative works have appeared in The Autumn Sound. RHP, Southwestern American Literature, and Earth’s Daughters. She’s completed a chapbook, Ingots, about a dying steel town, and has flash fiction forthcoming in The Rusty Nail.

After 40 years of working for The Man and sometimes The Woman, Michael Estabrook is finally free. No more useless meetings under fluorescent lights in stuffy windowless rooms. He can concentrate instead on making better poems and on pursuing his other interests, including history, art, music, theater and opera.

Neila Mezynski is the author of Glimpses and A Story, both from Scrambler Books.

Robert Scotellaro has published short fiction and poetry in numerous journals and anthologies. He is the author of six literary chapbooks and three books for children. A collection of his flash fiction, Measuring the Distance, was published by Blue Light Press (2012). A digital chapbook of prose poems is forthcoming from White Knuckle Chaps. Raised in Manhattan, he currently lives in California with his wife and daughter.

Scott Stoller's work has appeared in many electronic and print journals and anthologies including Weave, Blast Furnace, decomP and Prick of the Spindle. He lives in the west suburbs of Chicago. 

Stephen Siperstein lives in Cambridge, MA and teaches writing and environmental studies at Stonehill College. His academic work focuses on the intersections of climate change, literature, and affect, and his poetry has appeared mostly recently in Fogged Clarity, Meetinghouse, and Town Creek Poetry. 

William Marr is a Chinese-American poet who has published 21 books of poetry (two in English, the rest in his native Chinese). His poems appear in over one hundred anthologies, ranging from literary textbooks to special collections, and have been translated into more than ten languages. A former president of the Illinois State Poetry Society, he is a scientist and has lived and worked in the Chicago area since 1970.

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