Contributors

Contributors

Writing is easy. 

All you do is sit down at a typewriter 

and open a vein.

--Red Smith

Allan Peterson has had recent poems accepted by The Paris Review and Shenandoah, both of which only can only hope to one day be as cool as Right Hand Pointing.  He recently guest-edited Crazyhorse. Salmon Press, Ireland, will publish his third full length book, As Much As, in April, 2011.  His 2009 chapbook, Omnivore, is now available from Bateau Press and you will order it immediately. Allan's first work in RHP appeared in Issue 3.  He has two web chapbooks with us, Stars on a Wire, and Any Given Moment.

Eric Burke works as a computer programmer in Columbus, Ohio.  Recent work can be found in elimae, Pank, Right Hand Pointing, A cappella Zoo, decomP, and Otoliths.  Work is forthcoming in qarrtsiluni.  You can read his blog here.  

Mark Bonica is often mistaken about the nature of stars.  He has serious doubts about what makes an ocean wave wave, but he can walk like a penguin.

Geordie de Boer, a rambler and writer of fiction and poetry, lives in Washington State with his wife and two pugs. Look up PANK for some of his prose; Leaf Garden for poetry.  Visit him at Cockeyed Fits.

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.

Len Kuntz lives on a lake in rural Washington State with an eagle and three pesky beavers.  His short fiction appears in various lit journals such as Troubadour 21, Juked, Camroc Press Review and also at his blog. 

Ryan Ridge shares a birthday with Johnny Carson and Weird Al. He has work in or coming from Abjective, DIAGRAM, elimae, Kitty Snacks, Pindeldyboz, The Los Angeles Review, Salt Hill, Upstairs at Duroc, and others. He lives in Southern California and coedits Faultline Journal of Art & Literature.

Matteo Spinetti  was  born in 1979 in Italy.  He is the author of three books of poetry and prose, Echi di pazzia ("Echo of Madness"), I petali del cuore & Voci del silenzio ("The petals of the heart and voices of the silent"), and "Nudità Mentale",("Mental nudity").

Thomas Cochran was raised in Haynesville, Louisiana.  His work includes the novels Roughnecks (Harcourt) and Running the Dogs (FSG).  Poetry under his name has recently begun to show up in various print and online journals.  A schoolteacher by trade, he currently lives in rural northwest Arkansas.

Karla K. Morton's greatest honour of her life was being named the  2010 Texas Poet Laureate. She collects doorknobs and wooden saints, and is currently touring  the state for her Little Town, Texas Tour wearing her hand-tooled, custom cowboy boots  (oh, and some clothes, of course). 

Jim Murdoch is a Scottish writer living just outside Glasgow. His poetry appeared regularly in small press magazines during the seventies and eighties. In the nineties he turned to prose writing and has completed four novels and a collection of short stories. His second novel, Stranger than Fiction, was published in July 2009. You can find out more about him on his blog, The Truth About Lies, which is a lot more interesting than this bio.  He blogs here.  

Alan Birkelbach, was the 2005 Poet Laureate of Texas, appointed by the State Legislature. He’s been writing since he was twelve.  He grew up reading Conan and King Kull which might explain why he has been selected  as the editor for the volume Selected Poetry of Robert E. Howard.   He hates having his work pegged or categorized.  He loves his dog.  He loves living in Texas. 

James Eric Watkins says creative writing and photography is his life’s work. James is drawn to art and the particulars of life the way smoke drawls to a sudden draft. James’ work has appeared in several literary publications such as Pegasus, Word Catalyst Magazine, The Scioto Voice, Off the Lake, Getting Something Read, and others. He is the winner of the 2010 Poet’s Winter Forum Contest sponsored by the Indiana State Federation of Poetry Clubs. James is also the editor of Flowers & Vortexes, Creative Magazine and Promise of Light.

R Jay Slais' first collection of poetry, Mice Verses Man, was released January 2010 from Big Table Publishing. His child is on the cover with a piece of cheese on her outstretched tongue and a little mouse peaking out of her mouth eyeing the cheese. Neither child nor mouse was harmed during the photo shoot because R Jay's other child is a Photoshop wiz. R Jay has been a single father raising two kids for 9 years. He writes from near Romeo, Michigan while making a living as an engineer/inventor for a Metro Detroit automotive industry supplier.

Justin Dodd is originally from central Virginia and has graduated from the University of Virginia and Columbia University. His work has appeared in Western Humanities Review, Fourteen Hills, DIAGRAM, Phoebe, Word for/Word, The Powhatan Review, Bateau, Folly, and Heliotrope. He works as a book designer for HarperCollins Publishers. In his spare time, he roadies for his sister’s band, Screen Vinyl Image, and feeds the strays on his street. He lives in Brooklyn with his four cats.

Jeevan Narney was born in India, but was raised by white parents in the U.S.A. He studied at the University of Arizona and recently returned from China teaching English to amazing students at Dezhou College.

Noel Sloboda currently lives in Pennsylvania, where he serves as dramaturg for the Harrisburg Shakespeare Festival. His poetry has recently appeared in Pear Noir!, Redivider, and Another Chicago Magazine. He is the author of the collection Shell Games (2008).

David M. deLeon has had work in places like Rattle, Fence, The Cortland Review, Adirondack Review, 2River, and Only the Sea Keeps, and stuff forthcoming in Grey Sparrow, Anti-, and Bat City Review.

Kenneth P. Gurney has appeared previously in Right Hand Pointing and had a recent story on our sister website, Left Hand Waving.

John Grey is an Australian born poet, playwright, and musician who has been a U.S. resident since late 70's.   He has published extensively.   His work has appeared in ten issues of Right Hand Pointing.

Molly Guy's fourth book, micro-stories and poetry, has just been accepted for publication.

Howie Good is a regular contributor to RHP and co-edits our sister site, Left Hand Waving.  He has many print and electronic chapbooks, including three right here with us.  He has a full length collection, Lovesick, which we are sure the reader already owns, and another full-length collection coming soon.