Originally from Western PA, Anthony Botti lives in Boston, MA where he works in healthcare management at Harvard University. His poetry has appeared recently in The Comstock Review, The Chaffin Journal, Sierra Nevada Review, Common Ground Review, Willard and Maple, and is forthcoming in Pennsylvania English.
Michelle Cabral is a writer living in Chicago, IL. She is currently enrolled at Northwestern University pursuing an MFA in Creative Nonfiction. Her work has been previously published in Paradigm Journal.
Raquel Chalfi was born in Tel-Aviv where she lives and works. She studied at Hebrew University, at Berkeley University, and at the American Film Institute. She worked for Israeli radio and television as writer-director-producer, and has taught film at Tel Aviv University. She has published eleven volumes of poetry, and her work has been translated into English, Arabic, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish; a selection of her poems, Cameleon, was published in France by L'Arbre à Paroles in 2008. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her poetry, as well as for her work in theater, radio and film. Her collected poems, Solar Plexus, Poems 1975-1999, appeared in 2002, and in 2006 she received the prestigious Bialik Award for poetry. Most recently, her work has appeared in Poets on the Edge: An Anthology of Contemporary Hebrew Poetry (SUNY Press); American Poetry Review; Zoland Annual; Metamorphoses; World Literature Today; and is forthcoming in The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization.
Niamh Corcoran studied at Yale University and American University, where she received her MFA in poetry. She is the recipient of an individual artist grant in poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council. Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Third Coast, Magma, Limestone, Ekphrasis, Cider Press Review, and elsewhere.
Meredith Danton-Camel is editorial director in the Office of Communications and Marketing at the University of Miami, where she dots the i's and crosses the t's of magazines, brochures, and other publications. She also is pursuing her MFA in poetry at the University of Miami, which has her crossing her eyes while doting on the tease of words in their evocative meanings and sounds. She is a recipient of the Alfred Boas Prize of the American Academy of Poets, and her work has appeared in the journals Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, Floorboard Review, and CaKe: The Literary Journal of Florida A&M University.
Kate Carroll de Gutes started her career as a journalist, which means that her writing is almost always sparked by some event or thing outside herself. Her writing has been featured in the Seattle Review, New Plains Review, Raven Chronicles, Gertrude, and other journals, as well as in various anthologies, newspapers, and on the web. Kate holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Rainier Writing Workshop, and has been the recipient of writing fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Anderson Center, Centrum, and the Pride Foundation. She recently completed her third book, Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear.
Andrea Dulanto is a Latina lesbian writer from Miami, Florida. She received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Florida International University, and her B.A. in Literature & Women's Studies from Antioch College in Ohio. Currently, she works as a freelance writer and editor, and teaches writing at Florida International University. She has also taughtcreative writing workshops at the Stonewall National Museum and Archives in Fort Lauderdale as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. Publications include BlazeVOX, PopMatters, Elevate Difference, Sinister Wisdom, and Court Green. Her writing can be found at andreadulanto.wordpress.com
Mary Bess Dunn is a resident of Nashville Tennessee. As an education professor at Tennessee State University, she worked with teachers at all levels to promote writing in the classroom. Recently she has scaled back her teaching to write full-time. Her work has been featured in Quiddity International Literary Journal, The Best of Pif Magazine: Off-Line, Sanskrit Literary Journal, and online in The Smoking Poet, Folly, Stone's Throw Magazine and Verdad. She enjoys traveling, biking, paddling and hugging the grandkids.
Paul Alan Fahey, Ed.D, created and edited Mindprints, an international literary journal for writers and artists with disabilities. During his tenure, Mindprints made Writers Digest's "Top 30 Short Story Markets" list for two consecutive years. His writing has appeared in Byline, Palo Alto Review, Long Story Short, African American Review, The MacGuffin, Thema, Kaleidoscope, among others. His monthly online column at Coffeehouse For Writers focused on writing advice. Paul is a six-time winner of the "Lillian Dean Writing Award" for short stories and nonfiction at the California Central Coast Writer's Conference. He is currently editing an anthology, The Other Man, a book of personal essays by and about gay men and their relationships. He lives with Bob, his partner of 34 years, and three unruly shelties on the Nipomo mesa.
Jim Farfaglia worked for over thirty years in the human services field. He began writing poetry in 1994 and slowly the time spent on career versus the time spent writing sweetly shifted. He is the co-author of a pictorial essay entitled Camp Hollis: The Origins of Oswego County's Children's Camp and the upcoming memoir, Country Boy, a collection of poems capturing his growing up on the mucklands of upstate New York.
Ezra Feldman is a poet and cook living in Ithaca, New York. Recently his poems have won third place in Narrative's 2010 poetry contest and an honorable mention for the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award. His work has also appeared in the Harvard Review, Prick of the Spindle, and DIAGRAM, and is forthcoming in Precipitate and elsewhere.
Caroline Harvey's writing has been featured in print, film and television, including the anthology High Desert Voices, Numinous Magazine, The Legendary, Lowestoft Chronicle, The Charles River Review, and on Season 5 of HBO's Def Poetry. Caroline is an Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music and has performed and taught at schools and organizations nationwide such as YouthSpeaks, The Esalen Institute, Lesley University, UC Berkeley and UCLA. She's honored to have shared stages and classrooms with such artists as Alicia Keys, Melissa Ferrick, Susie Bright, Dave Chapelle, Donna De Lory and many others. A past member and coach of winning poetry slam teams, Caroline also works to facilitate writing projects for at-risk youth and survivors of trauma.
David Hopes is a poet, writer, playwright and actor living in Asheville, North Carolina, where he is Professor of Literature at UNCA.
Jane Hoppen was born and raised in Wisconsin and has lived in the New York City area for more than a decade. She has worked as both a technical and creative writer, and her stories and essays have been published in various magazines, including Platte Valley Review (to be published), Story Quarterly, The Dirty Goat, PANK, Superstition Review, Forge Journal, Western Humanities Review, Feminist Studies and Room of One's Own. The author of eight books,
Tsipi Keller was born in Prague, raised in Israel, and has been living in the U.S. since 1974. She holds a graduate degree in English from New York University, and is the recipient of several literary awards, including two National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowships, CAPS and NYFA awards in fiction, and an Armand G. Erpf Translation Award from Columbia University. Her translation of Dan Pagis's posthumous collection, Last Poems, was published by The Quarterly Review of Literature (1993), and her translation of Irit Katzir's posthumous collection, And I Wrote Poems, was published by Carmel (2000). Her recent translation collections are: Poets on the Edge: An Anthology of Contemporary Hebrew Poetry (SUNY Press, 2008); and The Hymns of Job & Other Poems (A Lannan Translation Selection, BOA Editions, 2008). Her novel, The Prophet of Tenth Street, will be published by SUNY Press in 2012.
Jackson Lassiter lives in Washington DC with his ex, his current, a grouchy old dog, and a very mean little cat. His work has most recently appeared in Shenendoah Review, OVS Magazine, and DuPage Valley Review. It has also appeared in Gay City Volume I, II, and III as well as Best Gay Love Stories and Harrington Gay Men's Literary Quarterly. He just might be gay.
Sara Lier's poetry has appeared in The Pedestal, OVS Magazine, Switched-on Gutenberg, Sunsets & Silencers, Thoughtsmith, Inkwell Journal, The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Conte, The Writer's Block, So to Speak, and Cloudbank. She received Brooklyn College's Academy of American Poets prize in 2007, and one of her poems was chosen by the academy for an anthology of prize winners from the last decade. She ditched school soon after, but has recently returned to complete her BFA degree.
Peter Lucas is the editor of Prime Mincer Literary Journal and an MFA candidate at Southern Illinois University. His work has appeared in the Owen Wister Review, The Montreal Review and others. He lives in Carbondale, IL.
Miha Mazzini is the author of 23 published books, translated into eight languages, a screenwriter of two award winning feature films and a director of five short films. His novel The Cartier Project was a Top 10 pick for 2004 by the Detroit Free Press, and another novel, Guarding Hanna, was recently re-released by North Atlantic Books. His first short story was published in USA last year and won a Pushcart prize. "Ghost" was translated from Slovenian to English by Urška Zupanec.
Margarita Meklina is a bilingual essayist and fiction writer born in Leningrad and currently residing in San Francisco. In 2003, she was awarded the Andrei Bely prize for her collection of short stories, Battle at St. Petersburg. In 2009, she was awarded the Russian Prize, established by the Fund of the First President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, for her manuscript My Criminal Connection to Art. Her English-language articles have appeared in The Contemporary Pacific, The Context (by Dalkey Archive), The Gay and Lesbian Review (under the name of Margaret Meklin), Words Without Borders, Fiction Fix, and many other publications. She co-authored the epistolary novel God na pravo perepiski with poet and essayist Arkadii Dragomoschenko (published in the U.S. under the title POP3) and is at work on a young adult novel in English.
Verónica Reyes, MFA, is a Chicana jota from East LA. She scripts poetry to give voice to her Mexican-American communities. She has been a poet resident at Ragdale Foundation and at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Lastly, she is a proud member of MALCS and Macondo Writers' Workshop.
S.A Sabo was born in Nigeria in 1984. He has been living in London since 2005 and has had a series of stories published in The Trumpet newspaper in 2008. In 2009 he was one of ten writers who won a place on the Arts Council of England/The Literature Consultancy mentoring scheme. He ha written two plays This Earth We Seek and Everybody Knows. His short stories have been published Glasschord and The Write Room. Another story, "Quandary," will be featured in the 12th edition of the African Writing Online. He is currently working on his first novel, Herenowhere.
Andrea Scarpino is the author of the chapbook The Grove Behind (Finishing Line Press). She received an MFA in Creative Writing from The Ohio State University, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and teaches with Union Institute and University's Cohort Ph.D. program in Interdisciplinary Studies. She is a weekly contributor for the blog Planet of the Blind.
Nagisa Shimabukuro came to the USA in 2009 to pursue a MA in English at Southeast Missouri State University. She wrote poetry in English for the first time in a writing class there, and now enjoys writing thanks to Dr. Swartwout's encouragement at the time. Amazed to see horses and cows along the highway in the American countryside, Shimabukuro had a great experience of cultural diversity with American and international friends from all over the world during her two-year stay. She graduated with her degree in May 2011 and currently lives in Okinawa, Japan.
Katie Jean Shinkle is the Assistant Poetry Editor for DIAGRAM. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Another Chicago Magazine, South Loop Review, Sugar House Review and >killauthor, among others.
Joshua Michael Stewart has had poems published in Massachusetts Review, Rattle, Cold Mountain Review, Georgetown Review, William and Mary Review, Flint Hills Review, Pedestal Magazine, Evansville Review and Worcester Review. Pudding House Publications published his Chapbook Vintage Gray in 2007. Finishing Line Press will publish his next chapbook Sink Your Teeth into the Light. He lives in Ware, Massachusetts. Visit him at www.joshuamichaelstewart.yolasite.com.
K.M.A Sullivan's poetry has been published or is forthcoming in PANK, Potomac Review, Cream City Review, Gertrude, Pearl, and Gargoyle. She has been awarded residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in creative non-fiction and from Vermont Studio Center in poetry. She is the editor of Vinyl Poetry and the owner/publisher of YesYes Books.
