In Ireland, a writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist. -- Anonymous
is the author of two poetry collections, _____(Want/Need) and Anthem. A third collection, Riceland, is forthcoming. A chapbook, Goodbye To Noise, is available online here on Right Hand Pointing. A minichap, Texas, is forthcoming from Mud Luscious Press. His story, "Leaving the Garden," was selected as a Notable Story of 2008 for Story South's Million Writer's Award. He is an editor for Ghoti Magazine. He blogs at Murder Your Darlings.
is an Architect living in Atlanta with his wife, daughter and Snickers the Wonder Dog. His work has been published in numerous journals and includes poems recently published at The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Southern Fried Weirdness, Tales From the Moonlit Path, Poe Little Thing and Pocket Change (of which he has received little for his work). Being a Gemini he must occasionally channel the dark side. He can be reached at jcarson@ncgarch.com.
is a poet living in Melbourne, Australia. His poems have been published in Australia, France, the UK and the USA. He is currently seeking a publisher for his collection of poems, Strawberries for Mr. Promise. His radio station, 3KC, has been off the airwaves for more than thirty years.
has been swept from a yacht in the Irish Sea at night in a December storm. A Nigerian soldier has held a machine-gun to his head. He has fallen from a sea cliff at age 7 and been caught by the wrist a hundred feet from the rocks below. He has run over the electric cord of his father’s lawn-mower, electrocuting himself into a state of writhing unconsciousness. He has hidden from the bullets in a gunfight with police in Venice Beach. He has ridden a snowmobile into a hole in the arctic pack-ice and only just pulled himself free before it slipped into the sea. And--most amazing of all--he's had two stories published or pending on our sister site, Left Hand Waving.
has no work in this issue and, as far as I know, is not a writer. However, if you've somehow missed the movie Michael Clayton, you need to see it because Clooney is fabulous in it.
lives in Raleigh NC and so does his wife which is convenient (for him) as he still hasn’t learned how to cook. Or write poems. Edmund’s modesty never fails to annoy since he has over 500 poems published. Think POETRY and The New Yorker. Unless you want to read his poems, then think Light Quarterly, SoundZine, The Barefoot Muse.
has tickets to the Second Coming if anyone is interested. But be forewarned, they are nosebleeds.
has had fiction and poetry published in a number of online and print journals, and one collection of short fiction.
lives and works in the Phoenix area. Her work recently appears or will appear in decomP, DOGZPLOT, Emprise Review, >kill author, PANK, Writers' Bloc(Rutgers), and elsewhere. Her website is: alexandraisacson.com
Kwoya Fagin Maples
is a poet from Charleston, S.C. She received her M.F.A. in poetry from the Univeristy of Alabama and then moved to Birmingham, Alabama, where she teaches writing.
Barry Marks
has published poetry and short fiction in over 50 journals and magazines. He is a founding member of the Big Table Poets and is featured in that group's two anthologies (www.churndashpress.com). His first collection will be published by Brick Road Press in early 2010.
lives and writes in a 100 year-old house along the Ohio River. Her work has been published or will appear in A cappella Zoo, Counterexample Poetics, Blue Fifth Review, Modern Short Stories, Greensboro Review, and Descant, among others, and has received an Editor’s Choice Award and "Special Mention" for a Pushcart Prize.
is a 25 year old native of Ithaca, New York, currently residing in Taipei, Taiwan. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 2007 with a degree in Political Science and a minor in Moral and Political Philosophy. His turn-ons include, but are not limited to, having his writing published. His turn-offs include, but are not limited to, third person bios. He thanks you for reading. Or skimming. Or whatever it is that you do.
writes. Poems. Stories. On Post-it-notes. Walls. Envelopes. Cocktail napkins. Anything he gets his hands on, really. He writes poetry on Twitter. Some people think that’s cool. But, whatever. His work will (has) appear(ed) in ABJECTIVE, Neon, Writers’ Bloc (Rutgers), Niteblade, Breadcrumb Scabs, Rose & Thorn, and lines written with a razor. Actually, he wrote those lines with a battle axe. But, whatever. He got bored. So he started editing Short, Fast, and Deadly. Which is funny. Because he’s none of these things.
was last seen leading a horde of flying monkeys to Wally World. In spite of this bio, her art appears in this issue of RHP and in Issue 28.
is an urban planner, poet, and occasional photographer from Lake Oswego, Oregon. His photographs have appeared in Left Hand Waving and Right Hand Pointing. Finishing Line Press recently selected one of his photographs for the cover of a poetry chapbook by Philip W. Comfort, due out in 2010. Siegel edits the online poetry journal Untitled Country Review (www.untitledcountry.blogspot.com)
is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently For Appearances from the University of Tampa Press and three chapbooks, one of which, The Flute is Zero, is a right hand pointing publication. He teaches at Union College in Schenectady, New York.
writes a weekly Neighborhoods column for The Charlotte Observer and is a contributor to Charlotte ViewPoint. His micro-fiction and poetry have been featured online at Calliope Nerve, Danse Macabre, Dogzplot, The Legendary, Full of Crow, Shoots & Vines, Outsider Writers Collective, Six Sentences and over one dozen other venues. His short fiction piece,Inseparable Bond, will be featured in the upcoming print anthology, Harbinger*33. He is the Associate Editor for On The Wing, the non-fiction arm of Full of Crow, an online magazine. He blogs here.
grew up wandering the hills and salt marshes of Truro, Cape Cod and currently sits in a brine of her own making in Blacksburg, Virginia where she is writing toward an MFA at Virginia Tech. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in PANK, Night Train, Controlled Burn, NOÖ Journal, Potomac Review, and elsewhere. She can be reached at kmasullivan@yahoo.com.
is a previously unpublished writer based in New York.
was born in Hong Kong, but has lived in England, the US, Spain, Switzerland, and worked for ten years in Shanghai, China. His first novel, Animal Soul, is forthcoming by Shanghai Wen Hui in Mandarin. Currently based out of Iceland, he writes a bi-weekly column on the occult for the Reykjavik Grapevine, Iceland’s only English-language newspaper. His recent work has appeared, or is forthcoming in various journals and magazines including APT, Poetry Scotland, Sein und Werden, Poor Mojo’s Almanac(k), Prick of the Spindle, Rumble and Literary Bohemian.
lives in Texas and has had recent writing in PANK, Dogzplot, SUB-LIT, elimae and others. He edits Nanoism, a publication for even shorter fiction. He owns his url.