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CONTRIBUTOR NOTES - ISSUE #9

Mary Alexandra Agner writes of dead women, telescopes, and secrets. She can be found online at www.pantoum.org.
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Cynthia Arrieu-King is a doctoral student at the University of Cincinnati and an echocardiographer. Her chapbook The Small Anything City won the Dream Horse Press National Chapbook Contest in 2006. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Hotel Amerika and Diagram and is forthcoming in Copper Nickel.
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Michelle Bitting has work forthcoming or published in Glimmer Train, Swink, Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Poetry Daily, Small Spiral Notebook, Nimrod, The Southeast Review, Passages North, VOX, The Comstock Review, Valparaiso Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Many Mountains Moving, Poetry Southeast, Slipstream, Dogwood, Gargoyle, Salt Hill, Pearl, Rattle, and others. She has won the Glimmer Train, Rock & Sling—Virginia Brendemeuhl Award and Poets On Parnassus Poetry Competitions. Visit her at: http://home.earthlink.net/~verarose/michellebitting/
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Marco A. Domínguez is originally from California and is currently studying at Texas Tech University. His poetry has recently appeared in DIAGRAM, Indiana Review, Rattle, and elsewhere. For more information, visit his website:
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Camille Dungy is the author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006), and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, Cave Canem, and the American Antiquarian Society. She is assistant editor of Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade (University of Michigan Press, 2006). Dungy is currently Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University.
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Theresa Edwards is an adjunct instructor and tutor at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York. Her poetry has appeared in Clean Sheets Magazine, Flutter Poetry Journal, SOFTBLOW, SNReview, Pitkin Review, Chronogram, and is forthcoming in Autumn Sky Poetry, Blackmail Press, and Pitkin Review’s spring 2007 issue. She has written musical compositions, including work for mixed media; a novella, The Ride; and a poetry manuscript entitled Voices Through Skin. Theresa has an M.A. in English; and will soon complete an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (poetry), Goddard College. She is the recipient of a fall 2006 Research Faculty Development Grant for Part-Time Faculty from Marist College, and is poetry editor for Quay, www.quayjournal.org (tedwards1@hvc.rr.com)
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Jeremy Heartberg is entering his second year in the MFA program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared in the September 2006 Autumn Sky Poetry. (jjh3984@yahoo.com).
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Lilah Hegnauer's Dark Under Kiganda Stars was published by Ausable Press in 2005 and was an honorable mention for the 2007 Library of Virginia Literary Award. She has an MFA from the University of Virginia and her poems have been published in Kenyon Review, St. Ann’s Review, Orion, The Drunken Boat, and So to Speak. She was runner up for the 2007 Astraea Lesbian Writers Award and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia where she is the poetry editor of Meridian. (lilah.hegnauer@gmail.com).
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Sean Hill's poems have appeared in literary journals including Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Indiana Review, Ploughshares, and Pleiades, as well as in the anthology Blues Poems. His first book, Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, is forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press in 2008. He was recently awarded a grant from the Jerome Foundation and a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford. He has also received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, and the University of Wisconsin, and scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
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Jerry D. Mathes II is a recipient of a Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship, named the Outstanding Humanities Graduate at Lewis-Clark State College and the Outstanding Graduate Writer at East Carolina University. He fights wildfire on a helitack crew in the summer and is in the MFA program at the University of Idaho, Moscow. He loves his wife and two daughters very much. (math6837@uidaho.edu).
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Kristine Ong Muslim's poems and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in many places. These include Bellevue Literary Review, Chronogram, Cordite, Lily, elimae, The Pedestal Magazine, Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine, T-Zero, and Turnrow. Her publication history can be found at: www.freewebs.com/blackroom8. (blackroom8@yahoo.com)
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William Neumire's work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Los Angeles Review, Stone Canoe, Main Street Rag, and Rattle. His chapbooks include Resonance of Kin (Pudding House, 2003) and Between Worlds (Foothills Publishing, 2003). He teaches in Syracuse, NY. (wjneumire@msn.com).
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Tree Riesener has published poetry and short fiction in such magazines as The Evergreen Review, Identity Theory, Pindeldyboz, Loch Raven Review, The Belletrist Review, Diner, and Fine Print. She has also been a semi-finalist in the Pablo Neruda Poetry Competition and received a Hawthornden International Writing Fellowship, a Pushcart nomination, and the William Van Wert Fiction Award. She presently serves as Managing Editor of the Schuylkill Valley Journal and is the author of Liminalog, a chapbook of ghazals and sijo. Visit her website at www.treeriesener.com
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Sarah J. Sloat grew up in New Jersey, and after university lived in China, Kansas and Italy. For the last 15 years, she’s lived in Germany, where she works for a news agency. Sarah’s poetry has appeared in Third Coast, Rhino and Juked, among other publications. (sjanesloat@yahoo.com).
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John Vandercamp (1884-1939) was an internationally renowned pictorialist photographer who was included in the 1930 book The Principles of Photographic Pictorialism, along with notable photographers Alfred Steiglitz and Edward Steichen, and was featured in the seminal American Photography series The World’s Greatest Photographers. He has been widely published, with solo exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada and the Vancouver Art Gallery, the latter of which holds an extensive collection of his photographs. These photographs (now in public domain) are featured courtesy of the National Archives of Canada.
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Karen Weyant's poems have appeared in Slipstream, Phoebe, Nerve Cowboy, Paper Street, Labor and The Comstock Review and are forthcoming in Pennsylvania English and the minnesota review. She is a 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellow. (KarenWeyant@mail.sunyjcc.edu)
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