CONTRIBUTOR NOTES - ISSUE #12
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Ivy Alvarez is the author of
Mortal
(Washington, DC: Red Morning Press, 2006). A MacDowell and Hawthornden
Fellow, the Australia Council for the Arts and the Welsh Academi both
awarded her a grant to write poems for her second manuscript.
(
www.ivyalvarez.com)
Recommended poet:
Cristiana Baik currently completing her MFA at the Univ of Alabama
in poetry. Her work has been published in
RealPoetik, Word for Word (upcoming),
>Little Red Leaves (upcoming), and
Jacket. She desperately misses the
city and Pacific, and hopes to find herself in/by one or the other soon. She also runs
a small press with Sara Wintz called
::: the press gang :::.
(
cristiana.baik@gmail.com)
Recommended poets: Lisa Jarnot,
Bhanu Kapil Rider,
Jessica Smith.
Rachel Bunting is a born and bred South Jersey girl currently
living between the Delaware River and the Pine Barrens. Her poems can be found in
Wicked Alice, Apple Valley Review, US1 Worksheets and
Shit Creek Review,
among other places. She can mostly be described in verbs and nouns: eats sushi, gets
acupuncture, likes hibiscus trees, writes poems. Her first collection of poems,
Ripe Again,
is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. In 2007, two of her poems were nominated for
Pushcart Prizes. Visit her online at
rebpoetry.googlepages.com (
rebpoetry@yahoo.com)
Recommended poet: Patrick Rosal.
Clark Chatlain has previously published poetry in
Crab Creek Review,
Small Spiral Notebook and
Stirring: A Literary Collection, among other
journals. He currently lives and works in Missoula, Montana. (
chatlain@bresnan.net)
Recommended poet: Roger Dunsmore.
Frankie Drayus received an MFA from New York University and has poems
and short fiction appearing or forthcoming in
Ninth Letter, diode, Third Coast, poemeleon,
Passages North and
Art/Life Ltd. Editions, which also used some of her
collage art. Her manuscript of poems was a finalist for the 2007 May Swenson Poetry Prize.
Currently she lives in Los Angeles.
(
frankiedrayus@gmail.com)
Recommended poets: Alice Fulton,
Kimiko Hahn.
Kate A. Durbin writes poetry and fiction. In March, she will
graduate from the University of California's MFA program in Riverside. Her work
has been published or is forthcoming in
The Ledge Poetry and Fiction Magazine,
Boxcar Poetry Review, The Elegant Variation, and
Moondance. Kate
lives with her husband in Whittier, California. (
kdurb001@ucr.edu)
Recommended poets:
Brent Fisk has recently won honorable mention in
Boulevard's
Emerging Poets Contest, the Sam Ragan Prize from
Crucible, and he picked up a
fourth Pushcart nomination this fall. His work can be found in upcoming issues of
Prairie
Schooner, Fugue, and
Debris among other places. (
brent.fisk@wku.edu)
Recommended poets:
Alan Shapiro,
C.D. Wright.
Lee Herrick is the author of
This Many Miles from
Desire (WordTech Editions, 2007). He was born in Seoul,
Korea and adopted at eleven months. His poems have been published
in the
Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Berkeley Poetry Review,
Hawaii Pacific Review, The Bloomsbury Review, Many Mountains Moving
and
MiPOesias, among others, and in anthologies such as
Seeds from a Silent Tree: An Anthology of Korean Adoptees,
Hurricane Blues: Poems About Katrina and Rita, and
Highway 99: A Literary Journey through California’s Great Central
Valley, 2nd edition. He is the founding editor of the literary magazine
In the Grove and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
He is a Professor of English at Fresno City College and lives in Fresno, California.
Recommended poet:
Donna Huneke was enamored with at least three but no more than five
of her teachers while growing up. This caused her to write poems and stories that
would hopefully make said teachers take her seriously and fall in love with her.
Those relationships didn't pan out, though they did lead her toward getting a BA
in Creative Writing last month. She has no idea what she's going to do next.
(
DMHuneke@gmail.com)
Recommended poet:
Joel Brouwer.
John Johnson is a physical therapist assistant who leads balance
and mobility classes for older adults. His poem “The Balance” was a finalist in
The Comstock Review’s 2006 Awards Issue. He lives in Petaluma, California, with
his wife and two children. (
jonjonson@comcast.net)
Recommended poet:
William Matthews.
Jon Kersey has been a photographer and worked
in photographic education for over twenty-five years. He recently left his
job as manager of the Social Sciences Media Lab, University of California
Santa Cruz, to concentrate on doing freelance photography and promoting his
work. To see more of Jon’s photographs visit his web site:
jonkerseyphotography.com
Recommended poets:
Wanda Coleman,
Dana Gioia,
Mark Jarman.
Craig Santos Perez's reviews have appeared, or are forthcoming, in
Pleiades, The Denver Quarterly, First Intensity, Rain Taxi, Jacket, and Rattle,
among others. He blogs at blindelephant.blogspot.com.
Recommended poet:
Laura Powers is currently an MFA student at the University of Idaho.
She also holds an M.A in Victorian Literature. Some of her poems have appeared in
Nimrod
and
Cimarron Review. Currently, Laura is also poetry editor for
Fugue,
University of Idaho's literary journal.
Recommended poeta:
Claire Bateman,
Mark Halliday.
Brian Simoneau's poems have appeared in
Blueline, Borderlands: Texas
Poetry Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, The Fourth River, Poet Lore, Red Rock Review, and
Smartish Pace. He and his wife currently live in
Boston. (
brian_simoneau@yahoo.com)
Recommended poet: Ben Lerner
Charles Springer lives in Pennsylvania and writes anywhere.
A painter turned poet turned advertiser, he thinks he’d like to move to Oregon. His poems
have appeared in
Apalachee Review, Bay Windows, The Cincinnati Review, Cold Mountain Review,
Creosote, Great Stream Review, Heliotrope, and
Licking River Review,
among others. Proudly, this marks his first appearance in
Boxcar Poetry Review.
(
chasprgr@uplink.net)
Recommended poet:
Russell Edson