Contributors

Jo Cannon is a doctor in Sheffield. Her stories have appeared in The Reader, Myslexia, Cadenza, Brand and New Writer among others, and in anthologies including Route and Leaf Books.

Daniel Coshnear  (dan at coshnear.org) lives in Guerneville, California, He is author of Jobs & Other Preoccupations (Helicon Nine 2001) and recently the editor of and a contributor to 95% Naked: Fictions and Nonfictions. 

Amar Dravid is a physician living in Basel, Switzerland. He has been working as a psychiatrist for the last 4 years. He was born in Göteborg, Sweden, lived in Southern California until he was 8, then moved to Switzerland with his family. He is currently single, but wouldn't mind not to be. The photos herein document his love of lamb.

Mike Finley lives in St. Paul. His most recent project is ZOMBIE GIRL, a graphic novel. Proceeds from ZOMBIE GIRL go to anti-suicide work in the Twin Cities. There is more info about this at http://mfinley.com/daniele

Ricky Garni works as a graphics designer by day.  In college, he used to wear a leotard underneath a pinstripe jacket. His friends recall those days fondly, and enjoy reminding him of the memories that they share, and in particular, of that leotard atop the pinstripe jacket. 

Zac Hill was a 208-2009 Luce Scholar in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  His work has appeared in The Southwestern Review, the Blue Collar Review, Flashquake, inAsia, The Live Oak Review, and other publications.  For three and a half years he was a Featured Columnist for the internet's premier collectible card gaming website, StarCityGames.com.  Most recently, his poetry was featured as a part of 350.org's International Day of Climate Action.  He lives in Kent, WA.

Heather Napualani Hodges is overturning chairs, cups, and the elderly, in search of enough spare change to get an MFA in poetry and launch herself further into debt. She once had an encounter with a hundred baby squid. She screamed underwater, which is embarrassing, because babies are not supposed to make one scream--squid or not. The trauma was small, but lasting.

Steve Kissing used to be possessed by the devil. At least that’s what he believed as a child, and he wrote about it in his memoir, Running from the Devil (Crossroad Books). His stories and poems have appeared (or soon will) in such print and online journals as Thick with  Conviction, Best Poem, Poetry Friends, Boston Literary Magazine, Bull, Bolts of Silk, and Paterson Literary Review.   Kissing’s' first print-based chapbook, Survival of the Fittest  (Big Table Publishing), was published in the fall of 2009. Steve is no longer possessed by the devil. Or so he believes. He can be reached at www.stevekissing.com.

Amanda Laughtland lives very near Seattle, Washington. She teaches at Edmonds Community College, where she is also faculty adviser to the literary/arts magazine, Between the Lines.  Her chapbook, Kitchen Tidbits, was recently published by Sacrifice Press, and her book, Postcards to Box 464, will be available any moment now from Boostrap Productions.

Richard Lighthouse is a writer and artist. His work has been published in numerous journals and magazines worldwide.  He is training to become a superhero, but is easily confused by the whole good or evil thing. He can be reached:  RL1-at-ausi-point-com

Janis Lull lives in Oregon.  She began writing poems again after more than twenty years of teaching, editing, and writing about Shakespeare. She will probably be exploring variations on the sonnet form for the rest of her life.

Sherry O’Keefe, a descendent of Montana pioneers, a mother of two, sister to four, cousin to dozens, credits/blames her Irish upbringing for her story-telling ways. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Switched-on Gutenberg, Barnwood Poetry Review, Avatar Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Two Review, Babel Fruit, Soundzine, The High Desert Journal and Main Street Rag. Her chapbook, Making Good Use of August was released in 2009 from Finishing Line Press. She is permanently left-handed.

Sergio A. Ortiz has a B.A. in English literature from Inter-American University, and a M.A. in philosophy from World University.  Spanish is his mother tongue, but he was an ESL teacher most of his life and prefers to write in English.  His poems have been published, or are forthcoming in: Midwest Literary Magazine, Apparatus Magazine, The Salt River Review, Front Range, Bicycle Review, The Taj Mahal Review, and over one hundred and fifty journals and anthologies.  A chapbook, At the Tail End of Dusk (2009), was published by Flutter Press.  He is getting ready to publish a first complete poetry collection, Topography of a Desire, by 2010.

Steve Roggenbuck has recently published poems in Cricket Online Review, elimae, and nthposition. His blog is "I DON'T CARE ABOUT DAVID HUME." He lives in Michigan.  

Sonia Sarkar works as Chief of Staff to the CEO of Project HEALTH, a health care non-profit in Boston, MA. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2008 and her work has been published in Frontage Roads as well as a few public health-related academic journals. After the readers of those journals expressed confusion at the peculiar ‘creative’ wordplay in their midst, she switched over to poetry.

George Shaw is a sometime scrubber, builder, potter and teacher. He lives in Warwickshire, England and writes poems and novels in his kitchen.

Robin Storey is a visual artist whose work appeared in Issue 26 of Right Hand Pointing. He is best known as a prolific recording artist who has recorded dozens of CDs under the name Rapoon. He was a founding member of the group :zoviet*france:. The poem that appears in this issue is the track listing of Robin's recent CD, Wasteland Raga.  Thanks to Robin for permission to present it here.

John Swain lives in Louisville, Kentucky. His chapbook, Prominences, recently appeared from Flutter Press.

Parker Tettleton is an English major at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. He enjoys playing scrabble when he isn't writing or fulfilling other higher priorities. His favorite month is October and he is a Leo. His poetry is featured in or forthcoming from Moonshot, GRASP and The Chimaera, among others. He resides in a suburb of Atlanta with his girlfriend and their goldfish.

Josh Thompson has had his work appear in The Coe Review, The Ugly Tree, Ballard Street Poetry Journal, Thick With Conviciton and Right Hand Pointing, among others. His first collection of poetry, When All Else Fails, Try Dreaming was published by Literary Road in 2006. He lives in New York City where the sounds of depravity and madness have been infecting his ears for way too long. He's looking for a ride out of this flawed metropolis and is willing to pay for gas.

Michelle Ramsden Zbylut has a PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and works for the Department of the Army as a research psychologist in the area of leadership development.