CONTRIBUTOR NOTES - ISSUE #13
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Jeffrey Alfier received an honorable mention for the Rachel
Sherwood Poetry Prize. His recent credits include
The Cape Rock, Crab Orchard Review,
Georgetown Review, and
Pacific Review. He is author of a chapbook,
Strangers
within the Gate (The Moon Publishing, 2005). Normally a sprinkles supervisor
in a cake factory, he was last seen between Sasabe, Arizona, and Agua Prieta, Mexico,
out where jaguars blur the border.
Recommended poet:
Ron Rash.
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:
Tricia Asklar received her MFA from the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She lives in
Rochester, NY, and teaches at Nazareth College. Her
poems have appeared in
Redactions: Poetry and Poetics
and on
Verse Daily, and are forthcoming in
Blue Earth
Review and
Neon Literary Journal. She recently
collaborated with five other poets on a piece for PUSH
Physical Theatre (performed at Rochester’s Geva
Theatre in February).
(
tasklar@yahoo.com)
Recommended poets: G.C. Waldrep,
Lynn Aarti Chandhok,
Michael Earl Craig.
J. Mae Barizo was born in Toronto. Her work has appeared or
is forthcoming in
Bellingham Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Baltimore Review,
Nimrod, BigCityLit and the
Sink Review. In 2007 she received an
International Publication Award from
Atlanta Review, and was a finalist of
Spoon River Poetry Review's Editor's Prize. In 2006 she was a finalist
for the Joy Harjo Award. As a prize-winner in the William Stafford Award, she was
published in
Rosebud. She likes rivers. She lives in New York City.
She can be found online at
jmaebarizo.blogspot.com
Recommended poets:
Sina Queyras,
Lisa Robertson.
Margaret Bashaar has been previously published in
Caketrain,
Brink Magazine, and
The Susquehanna Review, and has a forthcoming
publication in
Taiga. She runs the poetry calendar for her home town of
Pittsburgh over at
poetz.com and is
one of the co-founders and hosts of a series of readings in the city of Pittsburgh
called The Typewriter Girls.
(
myhyacinthgirl@gmail.com)
Recommended poets:
Rebecca Seiferle,
Daniel Pinkerton.
Steven Brown is currently finishing his MFA at McNeese State University
in Lake Charles, Louisiana. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in
The
Christian Science Monitor, Rattle, Albatross, and others.
(
slowmotionkate@yahoo.com)
Recommended poet:
Michael Donaghy.
Kit Frick was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work
has been previously published in
Sarah Lawrence Review and
The Looking Glass.
She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and is currently Editor in Chief of
the
Journal of Student Affairs at New York University, where she is an administrator
and MA candidate. She was the 2004 recipient of the Lori Hertzberg Prize for Creativity
and was one of four student organizers for the first annual
Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival.
(
kit.frick@gmail.com)
Recommended poet:
Matthew Rohrer.
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:
Christina Kallery has been previously published in
Failbetter,
Rattle, The Hiram Poetry Review, The MacGuffin, Poetry Motel and other publications.
She holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Michigan and
recently moved to New York from the Detroit area.
(
ckallery@yahoo.com)
Recommended poet:
Dana Guthrie Martin lives and writes in the Seattle area. Her work has
appeared in
Fence and
Canopic Jar.
Recommended poets:
Linda Gregg,
Richard Siken,
Nick Flynn.
Gary L. McDowell's poems have appeared recently or are
forthcoming in
Colorado Review, The Pinch, Ninth Letter, The
Southeast Review, DIAGRAM, Bat City Review, RHINO, Copper Nickel,
Memorious, Bateau, and many others. He also has work in the
recently released
The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, 2nd Floor
(No Tell Books, 2007). His chapbook,
The Blueprint, appeared
in 2005 from Pudding House. His book reviews have appeared in
Mid-American Review, Third Coast, Rattle, and
Luna.
He has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is pursuing his Ph.D.
in Literature and Creative Writing at Western Michigan University.
He is an Assistant Poetry Editor at
Third Coast and is an
editor at
New Issues Poetry & Prose.
Recommended poet:
Matthew Olzmann was a 2006 and 2007 Kundiman Fellow. His work
has recently appeared in
The Cortland Review, Pebble Lake Review, American Poetry
Journal, Cranky, 88 and elsewhere. Currently, he is a student in the MFA Program
for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
(
olzmann47@hotmail.com)
Recommended poet:
Joseph O. Legaspi.
C St 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:
F. Daniel Rzicznek was born in Indiana and grew up
in northeastern Ohio. His first collection of poems,
Neck of the World,
won the 2007 May Swenson Award and appeared last year from Utah State
University Press. He is also the author of the chapbook
Cloud Tablets,
winner of the Wick Poetry Center Chapbook Competition and published by Kent
State University Press. His poems have appeared in
The New Republic,
Boston Review, The Iowa Review, AGNI, and
Gulf Coast, with
newer work forthcoming in
Bateau, Barn Owl Review, Subtropics,
and
Cave Wall. He teaches English Composition at Bowling Green
State University and lives with his wife in Bowling Green, Ohio.
Recommended poet:
Julie Marie Wade is a three-time Pushcart-Prize nominee and has
received the Chicago Literary Award in Poetry, the
Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize,
the Oscar Wilde Poetry Prize, and the
Literal Latte Nonfiction Award. She
completed a Master of Arts in English at Western Washington University in 2003 and
a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry at the University of Pittsburgh in 2006. She lives
with Angie and their two cats in rural Ohio, where she teaches humanities at a
college preparatory boarding school.
(
woollysheep2@hotmail.com)
Recommended poet:
James Allen Hall.
Joe Wilkins, though born and raised in eastern Montana,
on a stretch of high prairie everyone calls the Big Dry, now teaches writing
at Waldorf College in Forest City, Iowa. His poems, stories, and essays have
been recently published in the
Georgia Review, the Missouri Review, Northwest Review,
Orion, Pleiades, and
Tar River Poetry, among other magazines and
literary journals.
Recommended poet:
Robert Wrigley,
D. S. Butterworth.
An Xiao is of mixed Filipino and Chinese descent and
grounds her urban photography in the aesthetics of haiku and Henri Cartier-Bresson,
as she seeks the Zen of the present moment in the hustle and bustle of
busy city streets. Her award-winning work has appeared in publications and galleries
internationally and throughout the New York City area, including Hun
Gallery International 2006,
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review,
the dual-continent Circular Exhibition with Hun Gallery and Gallery Ho
in Seoul, the Asian Contemporary Art Fair with Tenri Gallery, and in an
exhibition juried by MoMA P.S.1's Antoine Guerrero. She is currently
developing a series of artistic responses to Coney Island. Please visit her
web site:
anxiaophotography.com
Recommended poets:
Sam Hamill,
Naomi Shihab Nye,
Louise Glück.