Contributors

Martin Arnold teaches in the English Department at Guilford College. He earned an MFA from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he was the poetry editor of The Greensboro Review. He is currently an Associate Poetry Editor of storySouth. His poems have been published in Crazyhorse, Poetry East, Denver Quarterly, Mississippi Review, and elsewhere.

Carl Auerbach is a Professor of Psychology at Yeshiva University, specializing in the psychology of trauma. His poetry has been published in many literary journals and he has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes, two for poetry and one for short fiction. He lives in Manhattan.

Stephen Behrendt is George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. An authority on British Romanticism, he has also published three collections of poetry: Instruments of the Bones (1991), A Step in the Dark (1996) and History (2005), all published by Mid-List Press (Minneapolis).

Paul Bone has poems published or forthcoming in The Evansville Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, The Cream City Review, Black Dirt, and Quarterly West. His manuscript Momentary Vision of the Assistant Meteorologist won the 2004 Uccelli Chapbook Contest. He is the founding co-editor of Measure: A Review of Formal Poetry, and he teaches at the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana.

James Byrne was born in Buckinghamshire, 1977. He is the editor and co-founder of The Wolf poetry magazine. His debut poetry collection, Passages of Time, was published by Flipped Eye in 2003. Blood/Sugar, a second, is imminent from Arc Publications. He has translated the Yemeni national anthem and is currently working on versions of contemporary Burmese poets in exile and in prison. In 2008, he won the Treci Trg poetry festival prize in Serbia. His New and Selected Poems: The Vanishing House was published by Treci Trg (in a bilingual edition) in Belgrade. He is the co-editor of Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century, published by Bloodaxe, and is co-editing the Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees (Carcanet 2011).

Paul Carroll, an attorney, brings environmental lawsuits in northern California on behalf of public interest groups and handles criminal appeals for the indigent. His poems appear or are forthcoming in a number of journals including The Florida Review, The MacGuffin, and Crab Creek Review.

Peter Covino is the winner of the 2007 PEN America/Osterweil Award for emerging poets, and the author of the collection, Cut Off the Ears of Winter, New Issues (2005), and the chapbook, Straight Boyfriend (2001), winner of the Frank O’Hara Poetry Prize. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Colorado Review, The Paris Review, Verse, and The Penguin Anthology of Italian-American Writing.

Jim Daniels’ recent books include Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies, winner of the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize, Eastern Washington University Press; Mr.Pleasant, (fiction) Michigan State University Press; and In Line for the Exterminator, Wayne State University Press, all published in 2007. He teaches creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University.

Melina Draper’s Place of Origin~Lugar de Origen, co-authored with Argentine
writer Elena Lafert, was published in a bilingual edition (Oyster River Press, 2008). Her poems have appeared in Borderlands, PALABRA, Salamander, and other journals, and in the chapbook What Better Place than This? (Pudding House, 2003). She lives in Fairbanks, Alaska.

George Eklund teaches in the creative writing program at Morehead State University. Most recently his poems have appeared in ABZ, Bayou, Connecticut Review, Crazyhorse, and The Iowa Review. His chapbook, Assemblage Without Technique, was published by One-legged Cow Press in 2006. He shares studio space with his spouse, the painter and poet Laura Eklund.

Piotr Florczyk is the editor and translator of Been and Gone: Poems of Julian Kornhauser (foreword by Adam Zagajewski; Marick Press, 2009).

David Galef is a professor of English at Montclair State University, and the author of the novels Flesh, Turning Japanese, and How to Cope with Suburban Stress, among other books. His most recent is the collection A Man of Ideas and Other Stories.

Frank Giampietro’s first book of poems Begin Anywhere was published by Alice James Books (2008). He is the editor and designer of the online poetry journal, La Fovea. His creative writing appears in journals such as American Book Review, Rain Taxi, Barrow Street, Black Warrior Review, CutBank, Georgetown Review, Hayden’s Ferry, Poetry Daily, Subtropics, FENCE, Poetry International, and 32 Poems.

Donald Gibson was born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He settled in England, studied physics to the PhD level, and went on to a career in the software industry lasting nearly thirty years. He is now studying for an MA in Creative Writing Poetry at Bath Spa University.

Sarah Estes Graham works at the Miller Center of Public Affairs and is a contributing writer for Virginia Magazine. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Agni, Innisfree, New Orleans Review, Virginia Quarterly Review and others. Her poetry manuscript was short-listed for the Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press. She holds an MFA from the University of Virginia and has a Master’s in theology from Harvard. Her work blends the geographic and spiritual resonances of her native Midwest with cultural practices encountered abroad. Sarah is also of Blackfoot descent. This mixed lineage further blends and informs her explorations of meetings between East and West.

Marcus Jackson’s poetry has appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Cave Canem Anthology 2007, and Evansville Review. He has received degrees from the University of Toledo and NYU. He lives in New York City, where he has worked as a mover, a mailroom clerk, and an adjunct instructor.

Genevieve Kaplan’s poems have recently been published in Gulf Coast, Jubilat, and Mrs. Maybe.

Marsha Kroll holds an MFA from Vermont College and is a contributing editor to Hunger Mountain. Her poems have or will appear in Hayden’s Ferry Review, 5 A.M., Paterson Literary Review, U.S. 1 Worksheets, and The Schuylkill Valley Journal. Marsha’s chapbook, Modeling With Miss America, was published in 2005.

Elizabeth Langemak lives in Columbia, Missouri.

Lei Liang, a Chinese Localizationist artist, is a renovative artist with his own individuality and artistic character, a painter with great sensitivity and awareness for color and its energy vibration. His exhibitions include Internal Injury in China, Liverpool Biennial in UK, Worldly Influences in USA, and International Art Competition in Taiwan. Enrolled in “Chinese Contemporary Art Annual,” he lives in Beijing. See www.LeiLiang.com for samples of his work.

Alexis Levitin’s translations have appeared in over 200 literary magazines, including APR, New Letters, and Kenyon Review. His twenty-five books include Clarice Lispector’s Soulstorm and Eugenio de Andrade’s Forbidden Words (both from New Directions.). His co-translation of Ecuadorian poetry, Tapestry of the Sun, is coming out this summer from Coimbra Editions.

Jami Macarty lives on the coast of British Columbia and in the desert of Arizona.When a desert dweller, she teaches therapeutic movement and skeletal alignment; when in the rain forest, she teaches poetry at Simon Fraser University. Poems from her first manuscript, which is under construction, are forthcoming in CutThroat, Drunken Boat, Interim, Skidrow Penthouse, and Volt. She is grateful to the editors of Cimarron Review for their confidence in her work.

Sonia Manzano, born in Guayaquil in 1947, is one of the strongest female voices in Ecuadorian literature. She examines with an aggressive irony the limits of machismo, and elaborates on the condition of women, with forceful self-affirmation and feminist solidarity. Her work has appeared in the USA in Per Contra (online), Evansville Review and World Literature Today.

Jason Mccall is from the great state of Alabama. He struggles to keep the phrases “reckon so,” “fixin’ to,” and “over yonder” out of his poetry. It is a lost cause. He holds an MFA from the University of Miami.

Mark McKain’s poetry appears in The New Republic, Subtropics, Atlanta Review, Blue Mesa Review, Isotope, Green Mountains Review, and elsewhere. His chapbook, Ranging the Moon, is available through Pudding House Publications. A recipient of a Writing Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center in 2006, he teaches at the University of Central Florida.

Sarah McKinstry-Brown studied poetry at the University of New Mexico and the University of Sheffield, England. She’s been published everywhere from standardized tests, to Omaha, Nebraska bus benches. Her poems are forthcoming in the Chicago Quarterly Review and Sow’s Ear.

Judith H. Montgomery’s poems appear in Bellingham Review, Dogwood, Northwest Review, Cider Press Review, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Passion, received the Oregon Book Award in Poetry. Pulse & Constellation was a finalist for the Finishing Line Press Chapbook Competition, and she is the author of Red Jess, a full-length collection of poems.

Peter Moore studied in the Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Écoles Vétérinaires in Paris. His manuscript, The Metaphysical Slot Machine, was a finalist for the 2007 Del Sol Press Poetry Prize. His work is currently appearing or forthcoming in Raritan, Barrow Street, Poetry East, Hotel Amerika, Double Room and The Hawai’i Review.

Lauren J. Moseley received her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is a recipient of the Robert B. House Memorial Prize in Poetry and was a finalist in The Southeast Review’s 2008 poetry contest. Her poem appears in their Spring 2009 issue.

Liz Robbins’ poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Harpur Palate, MARGIE, and Puerto del Sol. Poems from Hope, As the World Is a Scorpion Fish (Backwaters Press), have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac and Verse Daily. She’s an assistant professor of English at Flagler College.

David Romtvedt served in the Peace Corps in the Congo and Rwanda. He is the current poet laureate of Wyoming and a member of The Fireants whose 2009 cd is It’s Hot (About Three Weeks a Year). His books include: A Flower Whose Name I Do Not Know, Some Church (poetry); and Windmill: Essays from Four Mile Ranch.

Kent Shaw’s work has appeared in AGNI, Colorado Review, The Journal, and elsewhere. His first book Calenture was published in 2008 by University of Tampa Press. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston.

Judith Sornberger has four published collections of poems—one full-length collection (Open Heart, Calyx Books) and three chapbooks: Judith Beheading Holofernes (which won the Talent House Press chapbook contest), Bifocals Barbie: A Midlife Pantheon (Talent House Press), and Bones of Light (The Parallel Press). Her poems have appeared in magazines such as Prairie Schooner, Puerto del Sol, Calyx, Gulf Stream, Poems & Plays, Feminist Studies, Tiferet and The Comstock Review.

Steve Street taught in the writing program at the American University in Cairo from 1990-1994. His short fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The Quarterly, The Missouri Review, Exquisite Corpse, Palabra, In Posse Review, on the webdelsol.com, and elsewhere. He lives in Buffalo, NY.

Rachel Swearingen’s most recent stories have appeared in The Missouri Review and Global City Review. She is a PhD candidate in English at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.

Daniel Tobin’s most recent book of poems is Second Things (Four Way Books, 2008). Among his awards are “The Discovery/The Nation Award,” The Robert Penn Warren Award, The Robert Frost Fellowship, the Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize, and a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is Chair of the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College.

Suellen Wedmore, Poet Laureate emerita for the small seaside town of Rockport, Massachusetts, has been awarded first place in the Writer’s Digest poem contest and her chapbook Deployed is the winner of the Grayson Press annual contest. Devil’s Tower, Wyoming recently selected her for a writing residency.

Julia Wendell’s most recent full-length collection, a memoir, Finding My Distance: A Year in the Life of a Three-day Event Rider, was published in 2009 by Galileo Books. Her poetry collection, Dark Track, was published by Word Tech Editions in 2007. Her newest collection of poems, The Sorry Flowers, will appear this year from Word Tech Editions. Julia lives and works on a horse farm in Upperco, Maryland, and is an avid three-day event rider.

Allyn West is a doctoral candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston. He received his MFA in poetry from New Mexico State University, where he taught creative writing and media literacy in the Upward Bound and Writers in the Schools programs.

Scott Withiam’s poems are recently out in Agni, Beloit Poetry Journal, Margie, and Southeastern Review and due out in Ploughshares. He is a housing counselor for a non-profit agency in the Boston area.

Lon Young recently hung up his conductor’s baton after 10 cacophonous years facing the wrong end of beginning band members’ instruments. He currently teaches English and Creative Writing, and has led workshops for the Utah Writing Project. His poems have appeared in Dialogue, Notre Dame Review, and Irreantum; His collection, muck on our backs, awaits a publisher.

Maya Jewell Zeller’s work recently appears or is forthcoming in Bellingham Review, Poet Lore, Mississippi Review, and New South. Maya has taught English and Creative Writing to high school students, senior citizens, and fourth graders, and is currently an instructor at Spokane Community College.