Contributors

Contributors

photo by Jim McCormac

I do not like to write - I like to have written.  

Gloria Steinem

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal works in the mental health field in Los Angeles County.  His chapbook, Digging A Grave, will be published by Kendra Steiner Editions in autumn 2010.  His other chapbooks from Kendra Steiner Editions are Without Peace, Keepers Of Silence, Garden Of Rocks, Next Exit 7 (collaboration with poet Ronald Baatz), Still Human, and Overcome (collaboration with photographer Cynthia Etheridge).  

CL Bledsoe is the author of two poetry collections, _____(Want/Need) and Anthem. A chapbook, Goodbye to Noise, is available online A minichap, Texas, was recently published by Mud Luscious Press. A short story collection, Naming the Animals, was just published by 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’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize 3 times. He blogs at Murder Your Darlings.

Travis Cebula resides, writes, teaches, and edits in Colorado.  He holds an MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University.  Travis’ poems, photographs, essays, and stories have appeared internationally in various print and on-line journals. Monkey Puzzle Press released his first solo collection of poetry and photography, Some Exits, in 2009; a new collection of poetry, Under the Sky They Lit Cities, is forthcoming from BlazeVOX Books in 2010.

Tyler Conaty is a senior at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, where he studies Creative Writing. He finished writing his college essay this morning, so he's in a pretty good mood and thinks he can be productive for the rest of his day off. He probably can't.

Sarah Joy Freese is a 2008 MA (emphasis in creative writing) and MLIS graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  She has had work in elimae, Monkeybicycle, Prick of the Spindle, Word Catalyst Magazine, The Salt River Review and Ditch.

Alexandra Isacson lives and works in the Phoenix area.  Her chapbook, Poetic Anthropologies,is forthcoming from Medulla Publishing.  One poem in the collection has been nominated for Best of the Net, and most recently, another has been nominated for a Pushcart!  Please visit her at alexandraisacson.com.

A. J. Jackson is a graduate of Simon's Rock College and Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Los Angeles where she teaches English as a Second Language and writes poetry and short fiction.

Benjamin C. Krause is a poet and programmer from Youngstown, OH. He spent most of 2009 in Bangalore, India, where he was almost beaten up by the entire population of a nearby village on the 4th of July.

Jim McCormac  (photo) is author of Birds of Ohio; the Great Lakes Nature Guide; and Wild Ohio: The Best of Our Natural Heritage. He blogs at: http://jimmccormac.blogspot.com

John McKernan  is now a retired comma herder. He lives - mostly - in West Virginia where he edits ABZ Press.  His most recent book is a selected poems Resurrection of the Dust.

Steve Mangan is an ex-care worker from the UK living as an ex-pat in Turkey. He is an avid reader - of playing cards.

Doug Mathewson writes true stories from imaginary lives. His work is mostly true,  except for the pretend parts. He hangs around www.fullofcrow.com and edits www.Blink-Ink.com.

Mangesh Naik lives and works in Pune, India.  He has had work in Barnwood Magazine, Thieves Jargon, Autumn Sky Poetry, Tipton Poetry Journal and a few more.

Kristy Peloquin lives in Round Rock, Texas and teaches writing at Austin Community College.  Her work has appeared in The Rio Review, Persona, Palimpsest, Sphere Magazine, and Midway Journal.  Sometimes she's clever, but not today.

Robert Scotellaro's work appears in numerous publications.  He's the author of three chapbooks and winner of Zone 3's Rainmaker Award.  His collection of prose poems is forthcoming from Flutter Press.

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).

Cassandra Troyan is an artist and writer born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. She wants to receive a bunch of kale like fresh flowers. She is an MFA candidate at the University of Chicago. She has a chapbook written with her brother Cody Troyan, entitled, Big Bill and the Lonely Nation. They both grew up in a single-income middle-class home. She curates the reading series EAR EATER in Chicago, IL and her work is currently or forthcoming in amphibi.us, Double Shiny, My Name Is Mud, Negative Suck, New Wave Vomit, Pop Serial, and The Scrambler. 

Helen Vitoria  lives and writes in Effort, PA. Her work can be found in: PANK, wicked alice, the Orange Room Review, the Dirty Napkin, Gigantic Sequins, the Scrambler, the Cartier Street Review, Sunfish Poetry Magazine, Monkeybicycle, Tiger's Eye: A Journal of Poetry, Spooky Boyfriend, and other journals. She is working on her first full length collection: Corn Exchange.