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CONTRIBUTOR NOTES - ISSUE #15

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Sumita Chakraborty is the Assistant Poetry Editor at AGNI Magazine (www.agnimagazine.org). A resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts and a graduate of Wellesley College, she plans to pursue graduate studies in English literature in the future. She blogs at www.deliberately.wordpress.com.
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Cindy Cunningham graduated from Wake Forest University with a B.A. in Psychology and a Minor in Women's Studies. She also holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Ph.D. in English from Georgia State University. Her poems have been published in several small journals and she has many poems currently floating around in the limbo of submission queues. She currently serves as Director of Literary Arts for the Appomattox Regional Governor's School for the Arts and Technology in Petersburg, Virginia. She is at work on a collection of poems and hopes to send this collection out in the summer of 2008.
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Lori D'Angelo is an MFA candidate in fiction at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia, where she also teaches composition to freshman and sophomores. She has a master’s degree in theology and once worked as a journalist.
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Mark DeCarteret's work has appeared in the anthologies American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon Press), Places of Passage: Contemporary Catholic Poetry (Story Line Press), Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998 (Black Sparrow Press) and Under the Legislature of Stars: 62 New Hampshire Poets (Oyster River Press) which he also co-edited. His fourth book (If This Is the) New World was released last year from March Street Press.
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John W. Evans's appear in Boston Review, Best New Poets 2006, Hayden's Ferry Review, Poetry East, and Verse Daily. He will be a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University this fall. He blogs regularly at www.howtolikeit.blogspot.com and oversees the Katie Memorial Foundation ( www.katiememorialfoundation.org). (wevbo@hotmail.com)
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Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of Sagittarius Agitprop (Black Lawrence Press), Four Hours to Mpumalanga (Pudding House), and Aardvark (West Town Press). Recent work appears in The New Republic, Field, Epoch, Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, North American Review, Pleiades, and others. He currently teaches at Grand Valley State University. Tonight, he will attempt to convert his dream about a rosewater ravioli dessert into reality. (mattfrank76@yahoo.com)
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Rebecca Givens has poems published or upcoming in the Cincinnati Review, Scene 360, and American Letters & Commentary. Her website is at www.rebeccagivens.com.
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Aya Ibrahim's poems have appeared in Bateau, Word Riot, Foliate Oak, Istanbul Literature Review and other journals. She is a native of Cairo, Egypt and will soon start her MFA in poetry at Indiana University, Bloomington. (aya862001@gmail.com)
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Clyde Kessler has had poems published online in 2008 in Barnwood, Sugar Mule & Xelas Magazine. He volunteers with a recovery effort for the Regal Fritillary, a rare butterfly in Virginia which has been nearly extirpated. He lives in Radford VA with his wife Kendall an artist and their son Alan. (ckessler@vt.edu)
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Brian Price is currently assistant provost at the University of Montana Western in Dillon, Montana. Long interested in observation, for more than ten years he has been making photographs as a way of seeing what he observes. More of his photographs can be seen at www.flickr.com/photos/brian_price. (b_price@umwestern.edu).
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William Reichard is the author of three collections of poetry, including This Brightness (Mid-List Press, 2007). His new collection, Sin Eater, is forthcoming. (williamreichard@comcast.net)
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Michael Schmeltzer is a writer living in Seattle, Washington. He earned an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. He writes reviews for A River & Sound Review> and has been published or has work forthcoming in Water~Stone Review, Hawai’i Pacific Review, and pacificREVIEW, among others. (mschmeltzer01@yahoo.com)
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Lafayette Wattles, a former high school teacher and graduate of Spalding University's MFA program, once worked as a P.A. on a low-budget movie with Amanda Plummer and had the good fortune of playing her dead husband in a scene that was eventually scrapped (which pretty much sums up his career as an actor). His car, however, made it into the movie. Lafayette's poems have most recently appeared or are forthcoming in FRIGG, Thick with Conviction, The Centrifugal Eye, Mannequin Envy, Underground Voices, Stirring, and Big Toe Review among others. (lafayette.wattles@gmail.com)
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