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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.
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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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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)
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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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Dana Guthrie Martin lives and writes in the Seattle area. Her work has appeared in Fence and Canopic Jar.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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
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