CONTRIBUTOR NOTES - ISSUE #16
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Christopher Ankney's poems have recently appeared or forthcoming
from
Burnside Review, Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review and
DIAGRAM,
among other places. He shapes impressionable minds with his ideas on writing, literature
and cultural studies. He and his wife Lynn make their home in Chicago, where their Italian
greyhound begrudges the cold. (
cankey@colum.edu)
Recommended poets:
Michael Dumanis,
Ian Harris,
Cynthia Lowen.
Aaron Baker is the author of
Mission Work, the winner of the 2007 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for poetry,
selected by Stanley Plumly. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing
at Stanford University, he received an MFA at the University of Virginia.
He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his wife, the poet Jennifer Chang.
He teaches at Hollins University.
Recommended poet:
Elaine Bleakney's poems have appeared most recently in
Hotel Amerika.
She contributes to
The Kenyon Review online
and is editing an anthology of poetry for Harry N. Abrams to be published next spring. She lives in Brooklyn,
New York and Northern Michigan.
Recommended poet:
Laura Jensen.
Weston Cutter is from Minnesota and has had work recently in
Santa Clara
Review and
Hawai'i Pacific Review.
(
wlcutter@vt.edu)
Recommended writer:
Caren Beilin.
Joe Gallagher works for the Massachusetts Cultural Council as the Poetry Outreach
Project Coordinator, helping to bring poetry to more people throughout the Commonwealth.
He is also the poetry editor for
Redivider, a journal of new literature
published by Emerson College, where he is studying towards an MA in Publishing. His poetry
has been previously published in small journals such as
Fusion and
Skylight.
His company, Mushroom Cloud Press, publishes plays written by high school students.
Recommended poet:
francine j. harris is a Cave Canem fellow and has work appearing
or forthcoming in
McSweeney's "Poets Picking Poets",
Ninth Letter, The
Drunken Boat, Ploughshares and in the recent anthology,
To Be Left With the Body.
She is Writer-in-Residence at a local high school in her hometown Detroit. (
francinejharris@gmail.com)
Recommended poets:
Bob Hicok,
Reginald Shepherd.
Katie Manning is a visiting professor of writing at Point Loma Nazarene
University for the 2008-2009 school year. Her poetry and book reviews have been published or
are forthcoming in
Ancient Paths, Driftwood, Downgo Sun, Kansas City Voices, New Letters,
ONTHEBUS, and
Relief. She recently received the Harriette Yeckel in Honor of
Ingrid de Kok Award and the Crystal Field Scholarship for Poetry.
Recommended poet:
Diane Kirsten Martin's work has appeared in
Field, Poetry Daily,
New England Review, Crazyhorse, Zyzzyva , Hayden’s Ferry Review, Bellingham Review, Third Coast,
North American Review, 32 Poems, Tar River Review, CutBank, and Nimrod, among others.
She was awarded second place in the
Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize competition,
judged by B.H. Fairchild, in 2004. She was nominated for and included in
Best New Poets 2005.
In 2006, she was semifinalist in the “Discovery”/ The Nation competition.
She lives in San Francisco and works as a technical writer and editor. Visit her website
here.
(
dianekmartin@sbcglobal.net)
Recommended poet:
Robert Thomas.
Ron Moss lives in Tasmania, an island state of Australia and a
place of stunning wilderness that inspires his art and poetry. He has been deeply
interested in Eastern art and philosophy from an early age. and has pursued this
interest through extensive reading and through the study of Japanese writing forms
including haiku. Ron also studies and practice martial arts, Zen meditation,
sumi-e (ink painting) and haiga (an art form that combines haiku and watercolour
painting) and he has participated in several exhibitions. Ron's poetry has been translated in several languages and is widely published in journals and anthologies. He has won numerous awards both within Australia and overseas (including Japan).
To view more of his work, visit Ron's website:
www.ronmoss.redbubble.com
(
ron.moss@education.tas.gov.au).
Recommended poets:
Beverly George,
Karen Knight,
Max Ryan.
Gregg Mosson is the author of a book of nature poetry,
Season of Flowers and Dust
(Goose River Press, 2007), and editor of
Poems Against War: Music & Heroes
(Wasteland Press). He has an MA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and lives and work
in Baltimore, Maryland. Visit him at
www.greggmosson.com.
Recommended poet:
Cecily Parks' Field Folly Snow was published earlier this year
by the University of Georgia. Her chapbook,
Cold Work, won the 2005 Poetry
Society of America New York Chapbook Fellowship. Her poems have appeared
in a variety of publications, including
Best New Poets 2007 and
Tin House,
and she has an essay in
A Leaky Tent is a Piece of Paradise: Twenty Young
Writers on Finding a Place in the Natural World. She is a PhD candidate
in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Recommended poet:
Sam Rasnake's work has appeared recently in
MiPOesias, Pebble Lake Review,
Poetry Midwest, Siren, Snow Monkey, Ecotone: Reimagining Place, and
From East to West.
He is the author of two collections,
Religions of the Blood (Pudding House) and
Necessary Motions (Sow’s Ear Press), and also edits
Blue Fifth Review,
an online poetry journal. (
bluefifth@lycos.com)
Recommended poets:
Natasha Trethewey,
Adam Zagajewski.
Jeanne Wagner is the recipient of several national awards, including
The Francis Locke Award, The MacGuffin Poet Hunt and the Ann Stanford Prize. Her poems
have recently appeared in the
Southern Poetry Review, Mississippi Review and the
Atlanta Review among others. Her publications include
The Zen Piano-Mover
(NFSPS Press), winner of the 2004 Stevens Manuscript Award,
The Falling Woman
(Pudding House),
The Conjurer (Anabiosis), and forthcoming from Poets Corner Press,
Medusa in Therapy. (
jeannewgnr@sbcglobal.net)
Recommended poet:
Theodore Worozbyt.