Contributors

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

Ben Rasnic is originally from Jonesville, a small rural town in extreme Southwest Virginia. He graduated from Clinch Valley College (now UVA-Wise)where he served as editor of the school’s literary magazine,Jimson Weed.  Currently, Ben resides in Bowie, Maryland, earns a paycheck as an accountant for a paper recycling company in Alexandria, Va. A small portion of his leisure time is spent creating poems that can be found on numerous internet websites and a few “old school” printed publications.

Doug Draime's most recent books in print are: Rock 'n Roll Jizz (Propaganda Press) and Los Angeles Terminal: Poems 1971-1980 (Covert Press)  Also two online chaps: Speed of Light (Right Hand Pointing) and Stoned On A Poco Stick.  Awarded PEN grants in 1987 and 1991. Nominated for several Pushcart Prizes in last few years. He lives with his wife and family in Oregon. Also, listen in to Doug's latest poetry reading (and interview) at the New American Dream Radio Show.

A native of Chicagoland, Elisa Karbin , a poet and freelance writer currently living and studying in Milwaukee, WI, where she is earning her Master of Arts degree in creative writing and comparative literature.  Her scholarly and creative works can be found in or are forthcoming in Anthology, Miranda Literary Magazine, The Lily Lit Review, Breath & Shadow and Barnwood Press, amongst others.  She is very pleased to be  part of Right Hand Pointing.

Garrin Riggin is a former broadcast news director/reporter, and is now an illustrator/painter living in Maryland with his wife Lisa and dog Wally.

H. Edgar Hix is a transplanted Southerner finishing his days in Minneapolis, MN. Just keep your eyes open for Santa Claus. That's who he looks like. Adults and children stop him on the street, on the light rail, etc. and say, "Hi, Santa!" It's great fun. Hix and his wife, Julie, live in a very small home with seven cats and a dog. 

Jack Hodil is an English major and Creative Writing minor at the University of Richmond. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Word Riot, Pure Francis, the Camroc Press Review, Quantum Poetry Magazine, Specter Literary Magazine, and many other lovely places. When not writing, he can usually be found avoiding school work, battling inanimate objects, purchasing cheap packs of cigarettes with loose change, or watching cage fights with his action figures.

Jeanie Tomasko is the author of Sharp as Want, a poetry/artworks collaboration with Sharon Auberle (Little Eagle Press) and the newly released chapbook, Tricks of Light (Parallel Press.)  She has had poems recently accepted by Talkingwriting.com, Qaartsiluni, Phantom Kangaroo and The Midwest Quarterly. This is her first appearance in Right Hand Pointing, but is a long time fan of the short poem with many poems in print in Lilliput Review. She is a home health nurse in Wisconsin. 

Jeff Streeby holds an MFA in Poetry from Gerald Stern’s program at New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire.  He is a horseman, cowboy poet and performer whose recent work has appeared in Verdad, Southwest American Literature, Los Angeles Review and others.

Kathleen Kirk points to the rosy-fingered dawn...with her right hand.

Kevin Vaughn is currently a doctoral student in English and Creative Writing at The University of Georgia. He holds an MFA from the Columbia University and is a graduate fellow of the Cave Canem Foundation. 

Larry D. Thomas, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, was the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate. He has published seventeen collections of poems, most recently A Murder of Crows (Virtual Artists Collective 2011) and The Red, Candle-lit Darkness (El Grito del Lobo Press 2011). His New and Selected Poems (TCU Press 2008) was long-listed for the National Book Award. Larry currently resides in Alpine, TX with his wife, Lisa, and two Long-haired Chihuahuas.  Larry's work has appeared in several issues of RHP and we have presented three digital chapbooks of his poems.

Lee Sittler is originally from Athens and Atlanta, GA, though she escaped in 2009 to become an ESL Assistant in Spain. Madrid is where she currently lives and works. 

Lisa Marie Basile is the author of the forthcoming A Decent Voodoo, (Červená Barva Press, 2012) and a chapbook, Diorama(Wisp Press). Her collection, Triste, will be published on Dancing Girl Press. She recently was published in Pear Noir!, >kill author, Foundling Review and Moon Milk Review. She is the founding editor and publisher of Patasola Press and currently reads poetry for Weave Magazine. She performs with the Poetry Brothel as Luna Liprari and is an M.F.A. candidate at The New School. She is a member of the Poetry Society of New York.

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal's poems have appeared at Calliope Nerve, Clockwise Cat, and Clutching At Straws. Kendra Steiner Editions published his last chapbook, Digging A Grave.

Mark Reep is an artist and writer whose work has appeared or is

forthcoming in American Art Collector, Endicott Journal, Prick of the Spindle, Blue Fifth Review, Metazen, Moon Milk Review, Camel Saloon, A-Minor, Orion headless, Big City Lit, and Word Riot’s 10th Anniversary Anthology. He is the editor of Ramshackle Review and lives and works in New York’s Finger Lakes region. Visit his website and blog.

Robert Scotellaro’s poetry and short fiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Mud Luscious, Right Hand Pointing, Dogzplot, Willows Wept Review, and others. He is the author of five literary chapbooks. His most recent collections are Rhapsody of Fallen Objects (Flutter Press 2010) and The Night Sings A Cappella (Big Table Press 2011). He is the recipient of Zone 3's Rainmaker Award in Poetry. He is also the author of three books for children. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.

Sara Henning is a doctoral student in English at the University of South Dakota, and has poems published or forthcoming in journals such as American Letters and Commentary, Verse, and So to Speak. 

Shelley Ontis is a full-time freelancer who writes sales copy during the day, and even darker, more absurd things at night. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in over 25 publications, most of which her family has never heard of, so they'd like everyone to know they're not that impressed. 

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