Contributors

Contributors

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Alan Berecka, born in rural New York, moved to Texas in 1977 to attend the University of Dallas.  He currently lives in Sinton, TX and works at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi as a librarian.  His poems have appeared in journals such as The Texas Review, Concho River Review, and Windhover.  The Comic Flaw (NeoNuma Arts), his first book-length poetry collection, was published in 2009.  Remembering the Body was just released by Mongrel Empire Press. 

Jerry Bradley (Beaumont, TX) is Professor of English at Lamar University.  His most recent book is The Importance of Elsewhere.  His poetry has appeared in many literary magazines including New England Review, American Literary Review, Modern Poetry Studies, Poetry Magazine, and Southern Humanities Review.  A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, Bradley was chosen as the 2000 Joe D. Thomas Scholar-Teacher of the Year by the Texas College English Association, and he received the 2005 Frances Hernandez Teacher-Scholar Award by the Conference of College Teachers of English.  He is poetry editor of Concho River Review.

Christine Butterworth-McDermott (Nacogdoches, TX) is an Assistant Professor of English at Stephen F. Austin State University, where she teaches courses in poetry, literature, and fairy tales. She is also the editor-in-chief of SFA’s national literary journal REAL: Regarding Arts & Letters. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Bellowing Ark, Cabinet de Fées, California Quarterly, Fourth River, North Atlantic Review, Portland Review, Rattle, Slipstream, and Tales of the Unanticipated. Her chapbook, Tales on Tales: Sestinas, was published by Finishing Line in 2010.

Marian Haddad (San Antonio), MFA, is a poet, writer, manuscript & publishing consultant, visiting writer & public speaker.  Her chapbook, Saturn Falling Down (2003), was published at the request of Texas Public Radio in correlation with their Hands-on Poetry Workshops.  Her first full-length collection, Somewhere between Mexico and a River Called Home (Pecan Grove Press, 2004) approaches its fifth printing.  Her most recent collection, Wildlfower. Stone. (Pecan Grove Press, 2011) received advance praise from Yusef Komunyakaa.  An NEH endowment recipient, her work has been highlighted by the Hallmark Channel, The Huffington Post, and other media venues.

H. Palmer Hall’s most recent book is Foreign and Domestic (Turning Point, 2009), and he has a collection of stories coming out from Ink Brush Press this year.  His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including North American Review, Ascent, The Texas Observer, Briar Cliff Review, The Connecticut Review and many others.  He is a librarian at St. Mary’s University (San Antonio) where he edits Pecan Grove Press.

Jerry Hamby (Houston), author of the chapbook Letters Drawn in Water (Pecan Grove, 2004), has published in several journals, including Concho River Review, New Texas, Descant, Windhover, and The Texas Poetry Calendar.  He was a Juried Poet for Houston Poetry Fest 2010 and will be a Featured Poet for Houston Poetry Fest 2011.  He has twice won the Conference of College Teachers of English Creative Writing Award.  He teaches English and humanities at Lee College in Baytown, Texas.

The poems and essays of Carol Coffee Reposa (San Antonio) have appeared in The Atlanta Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, The Formalist, The Texas Observer, and many other journals.  Author of three books of poetry, she also has received three Pushcart Prize nominations, along with two nominations for Texas State Poet Laureate.  She delights in running, swimming, gardening, and spending time with her five grandchildren. 

Steven Schroeder is the co-founder, with composer Clarice Assad, of the Virtual Artists Collective (a “virtual” gathering of musicians, poets, and visual artists, vacpoetry.org). His most recent collection (with Debby Sou Vai Keng) is a guest giving way like ice melting: thirteen ways of looking at laozi.

Jan Seale (McAllen, Texas) teaches in community writing programs and does writing workshops locally and nationally. Her published work includes six books of poetry, a book of essays, a short story collection, and a textbook. Her latest book is The Wonder Is: New and Selected Poems, published by Panther Creek Press. She has held an NEA fellowship in poetry.

Larry D. Thomas (Alpine,TX) is a frequent contributor to Right Hand Pointing.  A member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate, Thomas has published sixteen collections of poems, most recently A Murder of Crows (Virtual Artists Collective, 2011).  He enjoys Beethoven and art museums, and spending time with his wife, Lisa, and their two Long-haired Chihuahuas, Pecos and Pinon (pronounced “Pinyon”).

Richard Lance Williams has edited the Litera listings of The Austin Chronicle since 1988.  He edited for Ed Buffalo’s poetry anthologies Aileron and Vowel Movement in the late 80′s and early 90′s and was the associate editor from 1997-1999 for Alchemy on Sunday, the literary journal of Pacifica Graduate Institute.  He has written and/or edited for the Austin Chronicle, Man! Magazine, and the Salt Journal.  His interview with Larry McMurtry is included in Conversations with Texas Writers, published in March 2005 by UT Press.  Ric’s first solo collection of poems, the secret book of god, can be found at www.daltonpublishing.com. 

Clarence Wolfshohl is a native of San Antonio and still considers himself a Texan despite his current Missouri address.  His  poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in Concho River Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Colere, Rattlesnake Review, Cenizo Journal, Houston Literary Review,  Melic Review and Muse2.  Recently, a chapbook of poems about Brazil, Season of Mangos, was published by Adastra Press (2009), and a compilation of three earlier chapbooks, The First Three, was published by El Grito del Lobo Press  (2010).  He operated Timberline Press (Fulton, MO) from 1975 to the first of this year. 

Robert Wynne earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University.  A former co-editor of Cider Press Review, he has published 6 chapbooks and 3 full-length books of poetry, the most recent of which is Self-Portrait as Odysseus (Tebot Bach Press, 2011). He’s won numerous prizes, and his poetry has appeared in magazines and anthologies throughout North America.  He lives in Burleson, TX with his wife and 3 rambunctious dogs.