CONTRIBUTOR NOTES - ISSUE #9
Mary Alexandra Agner writes of dead women, telescopes, and secrets.
She can be found online at
www.pantoum.org.
Recommended poets: Mohja Kahf,
Nathalie Anderson
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.
Recommended poets: Alice Notley, Ben Lerner, Dorothea Lasky.
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/
Recommended poets: Kathleen Flenniken, Rynn Williams
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:
Recommended poets: Jack Gilbert, Austin Hummell, Gary Soto
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.
Recommended poet: ?
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)
Recommended poets: Kim Addonizio, Frank Bidart, Mark Doty
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).
Recommended poet: Ben Doyle
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).
Recommended poets: C.K. Williams, Sam Taylor
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.
Recommended poet: ?
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).
Recommended poet: Lucas Howell
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)
Recommended poet: Rebecca Loudon
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).
Recommended poet: Jesse Ball
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
Recommended poets: Emily Dickinson,
Rebecca Seiferle, Marie Ponsot
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).
Recommended poet: Jay Hopler
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.
Recommended poet: ?
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)
Recommended poet: Sherry Fairchok