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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.
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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)
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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)
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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
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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.
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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)
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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)
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