Contributors

Contributors

G.D. Anderson lives in North Wollongong, Australia. He blogs here.  

Elizabeth Barbee lives in Austin, Texas. She tells us she's a classy broad.

Brian Beatty's jokes, poems and stories have appeared in numerous print and online publications, including Conduit, elimae, The Evergreen Review, Gulf Coast, Hobart, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Monkeybicycle, Opium, Phoebe, The Quarterly, Seventeen, and Yankee Pot Roast. socioseer@aim.com

photo by Pat Glennon

CL Bledsoe is the author of two poetry collections, _____(Want/Need) and Anthem.  He is a frequent contributor to RHP and has a digital chapbook with us, Goodbye to Noise.  A mini-chap, Texas, was recently published by Mud Luscious Press. A short story collection, Naming the Animals, is forthcoming from Mary Celeste 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.

Chris Bullard lives in Collingswood, NJ, and works for the federal government as an Administrative Law Judge. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and is enrolled in the writing program at Wilkes University.  One of his sonnets was featured in the recent "Tribute to the Sonnet" issue of Rattle. In 2009 Plan B Press published his chapbook, You Must Not Know Too Much.  

Jennifer Hollie Bowles lives in Knoxville.  As the editor of The Medulla Review, she has contempt for inane bios.  Her writing has appeared in numerous literary journals, including The Ampersand Review, Echo Ink Review, The New York Quarterly, Thieves Jargon, and Word Riot.  

Ken Chau is a poet living in Melbourne, Australia. His poems have been published in Australia, France, Hong Kong, the UK and the USA. He is currently seeking a publisher for his collection of poems, Strawberries for Mr. Promise. Famous for many quotes himself, which, out of context, don’t seem that quotable: “Yes, I think so”, “I’d rather not”, “Your five minutes are up”, “More friends, more problems”, “Everything is temporary”, “The chatroom is a good option”, “Tom Hanks!” to name a few.

Amanda Deo is a 26-year-old Canadian ex-pat living in New Jersey.  She has a BA in English lit,  and her first true love was Modernist poetry, specifically Irving Layton’s.  She owns a small press called Thunderclap Press and enjoys reading the work of others.

Pat Glennon is a Boston area photographer whose photos have appeared in the Boston Globe. He has also been featured as boston.com’s RAW photographer of the week. Pat posts a new photo every day, taken that day athttp://annoyinglyboring.com. He had photos in Issue 29 of RHP.

Samara Golabuk is a self-employed graphic designer, mother and wife, and BA student of Creative Writing at SNHU Online.

Brad Green's work has appeared in Night Train, The Blue Earth Review, Storyglossia, elimae, and other journals. He's certain his job is more boring than yours and is willing to debate this on his blog with you. .

Alexandra Isacson, a graduate of Arizona State University, lives and works in the Phoenix area. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Emprise Review, Medulla Review, Metazen, PANK, Writers' Bloc (Rutgers), and elsewhere. Visit her website. 

David W. Landrum teaches literature at Grand Valley University in Allendale, Michigan. His poetry has appeared in numerous publications. He edits the online poetry journal, Lucid Rhythms.

John McKernan is a retired comma herder. He lives – mostly – in West Virginia, where he edits ABZ Press.  His most recent poetry book is Resurrection of the Dust.

Katie Manning is poetry editor of Rougarou and a doctoral fellow at UL-Lafayette. Her poems have been published in Bare Root Review, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, PANK*, Poet Lore, So to Speak, and Word Riot, among other journals and anthologies.

William Merricle has published four books of poetry, and his poems have appeared in many magazines, including Pudding, Impetus, and Slipstream. He is also the night-shift quality control supervisor for a factory that produces laundry detergent bottles. He lives in Lima, Ohio. 

M.V. Montgomery is an Atlanta writer and the author of three recent books: Strange Conveyances, Joshu Holds a Press Conference, and Dream Koans.   His fiction will appear soon in Fiction Week Literary Review. 

Joseph A. W. Quintela writes. Poems. Stories. On Post-it notes. Walls. Envelopes. Cocktail napkins. Anything he gets his hands on, really. Did he mention that he likes your eyes? You may lend them to him at his website.  

Brad Rose was raised in Southern California and now lives in Boston. He's been a railway worker, a writer, an emergency room clerk, amanagement consultant, and an applied sociologist. His writing has appeared inThird Wednesday, Off the Coast, Tattoo Highway, Imagination and Place, Boston Literary Magazine, FutureCycle Poetry, and other publications. Links to his poetry and short fiction can be found here.   His tragicomic serial novel about love and irony in contemporary Hollywood, written in six-sentence chapters, "Lola Loves Richard," is in progress.

Rebecca Schumejda lives, writes, teaches, and avoids domestication in New York’s Hudson Valley. She is the author of Falling Forward (sunnyoutside press) and three chapbooks. Visit her her website.  

Scot Siegel is an urban planner and poet from Oregon. His books of poetry include Some Weather . (Plain View Press, 2008), Untitled Country (Pudding House Publications, 2009), and Skeleton Says (forthcoming from Finishing Line Press).

Ben Stainton lives on top of a hill in rural Suffolk, England. His poetry is forthcoming in Horizon Review,Fuselit and the anthology series Stop Sharpening Your Knives. His second collection, provisionally titled The Edible Register, is due in 2011.

Philip Venzke grew up on a dairy farm near Colby, Wisconsin (where Colby Cheese was invented).  A fervent zymurgist since 1982, his fermentations take many forms.  His poems have appeared in the Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar, Echoes, Song, The Gorey Detail,Opaque to Radiant, Madison Review, Abraxas, Sheepshead Review, The English Journal, L’Oeuvre and others.  His translations of Rilke and Trakl have appeared in Alchemy and Gryphon.

Rachel Walker is an emerging poet and short story writer who is excited to begin her Master of Arts (Writing and Literature) program later this year.  She has worked as a glorified secretary, world music festival organizer, manuscript editor, and ghost writer. Her latest short story will appear in the forthcoming collection, The Coffee Shop Chronicles.

Angie Werren writes poetry in a tiny house in Ohio. Her poems are in some lovely places, most recently Contemporary American Voices. She is most often completely unabridged.