CONTRIBUTOR NOTES - ISSUE #8
Jeffrey Alfier currently lives in Germany. He recently
received an honorable mention for the Rachel Sherwood Poetry Prize. His
publication credits include
Crab Orchard Review, Georgetown Review, Iron
Horse Literary Review, Santa Clara Review and
Xavier Review. He is author of
a chapbook,
Strangers within the Gate (The Moon Publishing, 2005). (
exile3@hotmail.com)
Recommended poet: Larry D. Thomas.
Jon Ballard's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in
Blue Earth Review, Tipton Poetry Journal,
Words-Myth, The Valparaiso Poetry Review, Barnwood Magazine, Stone Table Review, Wheelhouse and others.
He has two chapbooks due in 2007:
Lonesome (Pudding House Publications) and
Sad Town (Maverick Duck Press).
A Michigan native, he currently lives in Mexico City, Mexico. (
jon_betsy@yahoo.com)
Recommended poet: Tryfon Tolides.
Pris Campbell's poetry has been published in
Poems Niederngasse, MiPo Publications
(print/digital/radio),
The Cliffs: Soundings, The Dead Mule: An Anthology of Southern Literature, Peshekee River
Poetry, MindFire, Dakota House, Verse Libre, MEAT (a broadside published by S.A. Griffin),
Remark Journal,
and numerous anthologies. Her chapbook,
Abrasions, was published by Rank Stranger Press and
Interchangeable Goddesses with Tammy Trendle by Rose of Sharon Press. She lives in the greater West Palm Beach,
Florida, with her husband, one crazy dog and, now, one stray, fixed cat who rode out Hurricane Wilma in her house with
four newborn kittens. Formerly a Clinical Psychologist, she is sidelined by CFIDS. (
campris@bellsouth.net )
Recommended poet: Mark Hartenbach
Oliver de la Paz currently teaches creative writing at Western Washington University.
A recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, his work has appeared in journals such as
Quarterly West,
The Asian Pacific American Journal, North American Review, and elsewhere. His book of prose and verse,
Names Above Houses, was a winner of the Crab Orchard Award Series and published by Southern Illinois
University Press. His second book,
Furious Lullaby, will be published in 2007 by Southern Illinois University Press.
Recommended poets: ?
Heather Green has work forthcoming in
Pilot Poetry, and has published several pieces in
The Cupboard Pamphlet. She recently completed her MA in English at University of Nebraska. Some of her poems
are being set to music by composer Mark Popeney at UCLA to be performed by a chorus and by her sister, guitarist
Chelsea Green.
Recommended poets: Jon Woodward, Sandy Florian
Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a Cave Canem Fellow and received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.
She was a 2006 finalist for the Naomi Madgett Long Poetry Award. Her poetry, fiction, and photography has appeared
or is forthcoming in
Callaloo, Puerto Del Sol, Gathering of the Tribes, Inkwell, Harpur Palate, PMS: poem memoir story,
Saranac Review, and many others.
Recommended poet: Henri Cole
Jee Leong Koh, born in Singapore, read English at Oxford University and studied Creative Writing
at Sarah Lawrence College. His poems have appeared in Singaporean anthologies and in journals such as
Crab Orchard
Review, Gay and Lesbian Review, Shit Creek Review and
Mimesis. His chapbook,
Payday Loans,
has just been published, and is available on his blog:
http://jeeleong.blogspot.com. He lives in New York City. (
jeeleong.koh@gmail.com)
Recommended poet: Rob MacKenzie
Ted McCarthy was born in Clones, Ireland, where he currently lives and works as a teacher.
His first collection was published here by the Lilliput Press and won the Brendan Behan Award for best first collection.
Since then, he has had work published in Ireland, Europe and the U.S. He also translates poetry from Irish, including
Sean O Riordain, the foremost poet in Irish of the 20th century. (
edmundmcc@hotmail.com)
Recommended poet: Vona Groarke
Rhonda Mino-Melanson specialized in creative writing in the Artist In The Community Education program
at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She has been published in various print and online publications such
as
Dance For Death, Regina Weese, The Droplet Journal (US) and
First Time (UK). She has also entered
playwriting competitions such as the Ottawa Little Theatre One Act Playwriting Competition. After a long drought of not
writing or hating what she wrote, she has returned with a focused voice. (
rmelanson32@cogeco.ca)
Recommended poet: Lorna Crozier
Tolu Ogunlesi was born in 1982. He is the author of a collection of poetry
Listen to the
Geckos Singing From A Balcony, (Bewrite Books, UK, 2004). His fiction and poetry have appeared in
Wasafiri,
Sable, The Vocabula Review, Orbis, Eclectica, Stickman Review, VLQ, Inkpot, Mississippi Review, Times Arts Review,
Smoke: A London Peculiar, Sentinel Poetry Quarterly, Camouflage, Pindeldyboz, Dance the Guns to Silence and
Subtle Tea among others, and are forthcoming in
Jelly Paint and
The Weaverbird Anthology of
New Nigerian Fiction. He currently works with a management consulting firm in Lagos, Nigeria. (
tolu.ogunlesi@gmail.com)
Recommended poet: Niyi Osundare
Diana Park is a recent MFA graduate from Arizona State University, where she co-edited the
international section of
Hayden's Ferry Review. Her work has appeared in a few journals, including
Poet Lore
and
Tin House. This fall, she is headed to South Korea on two Fulbright grants.
Recommended poets: Sarah Vap, Christopher Burawa
Tatiana Forero Puerta is an M.A. Candidate at New York University where she studies the
intersection between Continental Philosophy and Poetry. She has performed her work in both the San Francisco
Bay Area as well as New York City and is currently working on her first manuscript. She is from Bogotá, Colombia
and resides in Brooklyn with her husband.
Recommended poet: ?
Doug Ramspeck directs the Writing Center and teachers creative writing and composition
at the Ohio State University at Lima. More than 200 of his poems have been published at journals that include
West Branch, Rattle, Confrontation Magazine, Connecticut Review, Rosebud, Nimrod, Roanoke Review, RHINO,
The Cream City Review, and
Seneca Review. (
sutton-ramspeck.2@osu.edu)
Recommended poet: Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Sam Rasnake's poetry, widely published, has appeared in journals such as
MiPOesias, Pebble Lake
Review, Literal Latté, Snow Monkey, Siren, The Dead Mule, nycBigCityLit, and
Three Candles. The author of
Religions of the Blood (Pudding House) and
Necessary Motions (Sow’s Ear Press), he also edits
Blue Fifth Review, an online poetry journal (
website)
Recommended poet: Lynda Hull
Yun Wang is an associate professor in cosmology at the University of Oklahoma. She has published
poems in numerous literary journals (including the
Kenyon Review, Green Mountains Review, and many others),
a poetry chap book titled
The Carp (Bull Thistle Press, 1994), and a poetry book titled
The Book of Jade
(Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, Story Line Press, 2002). For more information, visit her website at
www.nhn.ou.edu/~wang (
wang@nhn.ou.edu)
Recommended poets: Li-Young Lee, Alicia Ostriker, Ai
Arthur Westover is a physician in Dallas, Texas. More of his work can be found on his
photoblog at
www.arthurwestover.com.
Recommended poet: Charles Bukowski
Joe Wilkins will be joining the creative writing faculty of Waldorf College next August. His work
has been previously published, or is forthcoming, in
The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, Northwest Review,
Tar River Poetry, Boulevard, and
Best New Poets 2006, among other literary journals. (
jwilkins40@hotmail.com)
Recommended poets: Wayne Miller, Kevin Young