Contributors

Gina Abraham, a senior at SUNY Fredonia, is excited to have her first publication in Right Hand Pointing. In May she will be graduating with a bachelors degree in English and a minor in Spanish. Outside of school, she lives in both Binghamton, NY and Staten Island, NY. After college, Gina is looking forward to exploring the creative writing community.

Ari Baum-Hommes currently lives in Asheville, NC. She has been writing for years, but only recently got the guts to share her writing with the literary world. She received high honors from the Mount Holyoke College English Department for her thesis collection of short stories, Plums, and one of her stories just won first prize in the Asheville Writer's Workshop Fiction Contest.

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal was born in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. Cuernavaca was nicknamed "The City of the Eternal Spring." Luis lives in Southern Califonia. He works in the mental health field in Los Angeles, CA. His most recent chapbook, Digging A Grave, is available from Kendra Steiner Editions. Luis's work has appeared in a number of issues of RHP.

Matt Cilderman has been blessed with a wonderful wife and daughter; when he is not with them, he teaches Eighth Grade English and is working on his Master’s Degree in the Science of Educational Technology. His writing has appeared in the Orange Room Review, Foliate Oak, Trillium Literary Journal, and the Phantom Tollbooth.

Colin Dardis is a writer and artist based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he edits a small poetry e-zine called Speech Therapy.

Subhakar Das writes from Guwahati, India where the Brahmaputra blesses or corrupts its faithful depending on its many moods. His work, mostly poetry and fiction, has appeared in various e-zines, anthologies, print magazines and newspapers.

Curt Eriksen was born in Kansas, but now lives with his family in the Sierra de Gredos, where he built the house he lives in. In addition to writing, Curt teaches both qigong and taiji to a small group of dedicated students. Curt’s short fiction and poetry have appeared in the U.S., U.K., India and Spain—in Obris, Anemone Sidecar, Blackbird, Rosebud, New Madrid, 34th Parallel, Contrary, 42opus and Alba, among many other print and online journals. More work is forthcoming soon in Criminal Class Press, LiteraryMary and Mad Hatters’ Review. Curt’s work is accessible at www.clerik.weebly.com.

John Floyd and is a poet studying at the University of Iowa. He is an alumnus of McLean Hospital with a doctorate in manic-depression. His writing has previously appeared in Tinfoildresses.

Howie Good is the author of the full-length poetry collections Lovesick (Press Americana, 2009), Heart With a Dirty Windshield (BeWrite Books, 2010), and Everything Reminds Me of Me (Desperanto, 2011). With Dale Wisely, he is the co-founder  and -editor of the digital chapbook publisher White Knuckle Press, http://www.whiteknucklepress.com

Karen Greenbaum-Maya is a clinical psychologist in Claremont, California. For five years, she reviewed restaurants for the Claremont Courier, sometimes in heroic couplets, sometimes in anapest, sometimes imitating Hemingway. She was a German Lit major so that she could read poetry for credit. She earned her B.A. from Reed College in 1973, and her Ph.D. from the California School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles in 1982. Her poems and photographs have appeared in many publications, including: O Tempora! O Mores!; Untamed Ink; The Dirty Napkin; Off the Coast; Umbrella; qarrtsiluni; Poemeleon; Lilliput Review; Abyss & Apex; and elsewhere.  Her first chapbook, Eggs Satori, was selected as a finalist in Pudding House Press’s 2010 competition, and will be published in 2011.  She was nominated for the 2010 Pushcart Prize.

Abdul Ben Hassan makes collages rather than screaming.  He also made the snake.  He would be Dale Wisely, except Dale usually avoids publishing his own work in a journal he edits.

Bob Heman edits CLWN WR. His “Information" pieces have appeared in many publications including Sentence, Otoliths, Caliban online, Fell Swoop, Press 1, Mad Hatters' Review, Ditch, Clockwise Cat, Six Little Things, Six Sentences and Right Hand Pointing. They are also included in the 2009 anthology, An Introduction to the Prose Poem, published by Firewheel Editions.

Art Holcomb is a screenwriter and comic book author. His work has been seen on the SHOWTIME Channel and as published by Marvel Comics and others. He live in the Inland Empire of Southern California.

Susan S. Keiser’s checkered past includes a stint as a high school English teacher, a docent gig in a museum dedicated solely to the poetry of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ongoing commitment to a highly specialized literary marketing outfit and a brief fling as a pastry chef. She also spent many years as a bank executive.  Her poems have appeared in decomP Magazine, Orion headless and Aquillrelle Magazine and she is at work on a book in which both kudzu and ice fishing figure prominently.

David Kinsey is a bartender with an MA in Aural and Visual Cultures that he's still trying to figure out how to use.  (David, this is not complicated.  You use it to write poems and send them to Right Hand Pointing--the Editors.)

Christina M. Rau is a professor of English at Nassau Community College and the founder of Poets In Nassau, a reading circuit on Long Island, NY. Her poetry most recently appeared in Dark Sky Magazine and River Poets Review , and she is the guest co-editor of the forthcoming 2011 Long Island Sounds Anthology. She loves moonbeams, puppies, and of course, sarcasm.

Shriram Sivaramakrishnan lives in Chennai, India and describes himself as a budding poet.

Sheila Squillante is the associate director of the MFA program at Penn State, and her poems and essays have appeared (or will appear) in places like PANK, TYPO, 42Opus, Phoebe, Brevity, and No Tell Motel. She is currently watching Anthony Bourdain shuck oysters on the Travel Channel, and wishing for a bottle of hot sauce.

Kulpreet Yadav is an Indian novelist and poet.