Contributors

C o n t r i b u t o r s

Elliot Andreopoulos is in a Buddy Holly cover band. He plays both the stand up bass and drums.

Amye Barrese Archer has an MFA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University. She has written poetry, short stories, and many truths on bathroom walls. Her work has appeared in PANK Magazine, Twins Magazine, The Ampersand Review, Boston Literary Magazine, The Battered Suitcase, and Oak Bend Review. Her blog is First Person.

John M. Bellinger is a  poet and lifetime resident of Central New York. He is the former managing editor of The Comstock Review (2006-2009). He has been married for 27 years and has two awesome sons, 24 and 17.

Geordie de Boer, a rambler and wrangler of rhythm lives in rural Washington. He’s been published most recently by Hobo Camp Review, Hobble Creek Review, the beatnik, Offcourse, and Cirque. Visit him at Cockeyed Fits.

Mark DeMoss writes from the windswept and burning prairies of North Texas. His stories have recently appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Bartleby Snopes and Liquid Imagination.

Howie Good is a regular contributor to RHP and co-founded White Knuckle Press.  His latest full-length book is Everything Reminds Me of Me (Desperanto, 2011).

Brett Elizabeth Jenkins currently lives and writes in Albert Lea, MN with her husband and no children. You can google her if you wish, as she's the only Brett Elizabeth Jenkins you are bound to find. She blogs at http://brettejenkins.blogspot.com 

Thomas Hawk maintains an amazing photography blog at Thomas Hawk Digital Collection.  This is the second time we've presented one of his photos and we're hopeful it won't be the last. 

Kathleen Kirk has appeared previously in Right Hand Pointing and in various other print and online magazines, including Leveler, Apparatus, Blue Fifth Review, Blue Five Notebook, and blossombones.

Tom Lavelle grew up in Pittsburgh, but lives far away from there now, in Stockholm. He writes when he can, works when he must, but not always hard.

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Corey Mesler  has published four novels, most recently Following Richard Brautigan (2010), 2 full length poetry collections, most recently, Notes toward the Story and Other Stories (2010) . He has also published a dozen chapbooks of both poetry and prose. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize numerous times, and two of his poems have been chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He also claims to have written, “The Martian Hop.” With his wife, he runs Burke’s Book Store, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He can be found at www.coreymesler.com. Corey's chapbook, The Heart is Open, is available from Right Hand Pointing, electronically here and in print here.

Kay Middleton writes poetry, short stuff and novels. This is accomplished with inspiration found in mornings doused in copious amounts of coffee, afternoons with the Albright poets drinking champagne and candlelight evenings with the house merlot and her paramour. You can read more of her work and see publishing credits at her website. www.Kaymiddleton.net 

Jay Passer has possessed a driver's license in 4 different states. Passer wears thick lenses and has bad allergies. Passer composes his work with a stick in the dirt.

Brad Rose was raised in southern California, and lives in Boston. His work has appeared in Right Hand Pointing, Third Wednesday, Off the Coast, Boston Literary Magazine, Tattoo Highway, Imagination and Place, SleetMagagazine.com, Six Sentences, Staccato, Fiction at Work, Monkeybicycle, Six Little Things, Short, Fast and Deadly, and other publications. Links to his poetry and fiction can be found at: http://bradrosepoetry.blogspot.com/ Brad’s novelette, Lola Loves Richard, a tragicomedy set in contemporary Hollywood, told in 6-sentence chapters, is in progress at http://lola-loves-richard.blogspot.com/

Emily Severance's brushes with fame include the artist Orlan proclaiming her as “perfect”, porn star Jack Hammer taking her to dinner, and Sir Angus Wilson putting money in her Unicef donation box.

Ian C Smith’s work has appeared in The Best Australian Poetry, Descant, Island, Magma, The Malahat Review, Southerly,& Westerly His latest book is Lost Language of the Heart, Ginninderra (Adelaide). He lives in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria, Australia. 

Scott Stoller's work has appeared in  many print and online literary journals  including decomP, Ophelia Street, Ribbons, Right Hand Pointing, and  tinfoildresses. He was recently anthologized in Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka. More poems are forthcoming in Weave, Prick of the Spindle and Rose and Thorn. Scott is  a practicing physician in the west suburbs of Chicago. 

James Valvis lives in Washington State. His work has recently appeared in Arts & Letters, Atlanta Review, Blip, Dark Sky, Hanging Loose, LA Review, Left Hand Waving, Pank, Rattle, Right Hand Pointing, River Styx, and is forthcoming in H_NGM_N, Kill Author, Night Train, Sierra Nevada Review, Rougarou, Verdad, and others. His poetry collection, How to Say Goodbye, is forthcoming. 

Donna Vorreyer lives in the Chicago area where she always roots for the White Sox and never for the Cubs. She has taught middle school for over twenty years and has not yet been declared clinically insane. If she is cranky, give her a Diet Coke or a piece of dark chocolate. Or a poem. A really good poem. http://www.donnavorreyer.com

S. W. Whelan's interest is creating five-dimensional mandalas in poetry form. The holotropic paradoxes of Being that stem from the unconscious mind are treated as a playground in his book Holy Hell: Psychoactive Poetry.

The cover art for this issue,

"The Habiliments of Angels,"

and the image on this page,

"Muscle and Nerve" 

are digital collages

by Dale Wisely, 2011