CONTRIBUTOR NOTES - ISSUE #29

Millicent Borges Accardi, a Portuguese-American poet, is the author of three books: Injuring Eternity (World Nouveau), Woman on a Shaky Bridge (Finishing Line Press chapbook), and Only More So (forthcoming Salmon Press, Ireland 2012). She has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts (NEA), the California Arts Council, Barbara Deming Foundation, Canto Mundo, and Formby at the Special Collections Library at Texas Tech. Past artist residencies include Yaddo, Jentel, Vermont Studio, Fundación Valparaíso in Mojacar, Spain; Milkwood in Cesky Krumlov, CV and Disquiet in Lisbon, Portugal. She can be found online at www.millicentborgesaccardi.com. For more, visit her blog: www.millb.wordpress.com. (MillB@aol.com)
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Stephanie Cawley is from a small town at the very bottom of New Jersey, but she recently escaped to Philadelphia. After years working as a bookstore cashier and a waitress at a diner, she is now happy to make a living tutoring high schoolers. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Used Furniture Review and The Allegheny Review. (stephaniemcawley@gmail.com)
        Recommended poet: C.A. Conrad

Hannah Craig lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work has recently appeared in Fence, 32 Poems, Post Road, the Norton Anthology of Hint Fiction, and elsewhere. She is an assistant editor for Anti- poetry magazine. (hrcraig@gmail.com)
        Recommended poet: Alice Notley

Elizabeth Garcia's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Blue Lake Review, Segullah Literary Journal, Borderline, Eudaimonia Poetry Review, Irreantum, and Poets and Artists, as well as in a recent anthology, Fire in the Pasture: 21st Century Mormon Poets. She was awarded the Segullah Poetry Prize in 2007 and nominated by Irreantum for a Pushcart Prize in 2010. She serves as an Associate Editor for FutureCycle Press, the Editor-elect of the Georgia Poetry Society anthology, The Reach of Song, and assists the poetry board for the Segullah Literary Journal. In a past life, she taught English Literature and Composition full time at the college level for seven years. Now she devotes her time to raising a family and working on her first poetry collection.
        Recommended poet: R.T. Smith

Marylen Grigas currently works at Lawrence Ribbecke Architectural Stained Glass Studios in Burlington, Vermont. Her glass art and clay sculpture have most recently been exhibited there and at The Flynndog Gallery in Burlington. Marylen is a poet, with poems most recently appearing in Nimrod International Journal.
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Katherine Hoerth is the author of three books of poetry: a collection titled The Garden Uprooted, which is forthcoming from Slough Press in 2012, and two chapbooks titled The Garden of Dresses (Mouthfeel Press, 2012) and Among the Mariposas (Mouthfeel Press, 2010). She teaches writing at South Texas College, and edits poetry for Fifth Wednesday Journal.
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Yuzun Kang currently lives in Baltimore where he works as narrative designer at Pure Bang Games. He holds a M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Virginia where he was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. His first manuscript, Konglish, received the 2005 Vincent Chin Memorial Chapbook Prize from Kundiman. His poems and writings have been published in Phoebe, Racialicious, and No More Lives. (kangcakes@gmail.com)
        Recommended poet: Kim Philley

Iris A. Law is a Kundiman Fellow and a graduate of the M.F.A. program at the University of Notre Dame. She edits the online literary magazine and blog Lantern Review. Visit her online at www.irisalaw.com
        Recommended poets: Sarah Gambito, Tarfia Faizullah

Al Maginnes' most recent books are Ghost Alphabet, winner of the 2007 White Pine Press competition, and two chapbooks published in 2010, Between States (Main Street Rag Press) and Greatest Hits 1987-2010 (Pudding House Publications). He has recent or forthcoming poems in Terminus, Tar River Poetry, Brilliant Corners, Platte Valley Review, Baltimore Review, Verdad, Asheville Poetry Review and many others. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina and teaches at Wake Technical Community College. (almaginnes@aol.com)
        Recommended poet: Suzanne Cleary

Marie-Elizabeth Mali is the author of Steady, My Gaze (Tebot Bach, 2011) and co-editor with Annie Finch of the forthcoming anthology, Villanelles (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, 2012). She serves as co-curator for the Page Meets Stage reading series in New York City and her work has appeared in Calyx, Poet Lore, and RATTLE, among others. For more information, please visit her website at www.memali.com, and her blog at www.memali.posterous.com.
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Katie Manning is Editor-in-Chief of Rougarou and a doctoral fellow in English at UL-Lafayette. Her poems have been published in New Letters, PANK, Poet Lore, So to Speak, and The Sow's Ear Poetry Journal, among other journals and anthologies, and she is the 2011 winner of The Nassau Review's Author Award for Poetry.
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Leah Mooney writes poems and fiction in the small-town wilds of western Wisconsin, where she lives with her family and holds down a day job. Her work has most recently appeared at Literary Mama, Tilt-a-Whirl, Atticus Review, and is forthcoming at Fiction365. (www.anvilsandedelweiss.blogspot.com)
        Recommended poet: J.E. Glaze

Craig Moreau received his MFA from New York University and is currently teaching at the College of New Rochelle and Columbia University and writes for The Outlet: The Blog of Electric Literature. His work most recently appeared in Lambda Literary and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His first collection of poetry, Chelsea Boy, was released in June 2011 by Chelsea Station Editions. (craig@chelseaboynyc.com)
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Hannah Oberman-Breindel has been published in Prick of the Spindle, Stirring, the Comstock Review, Crab Creek Review and elsewhere. She was born in New York City, and currently lives in Madison where she is an MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin. She also serves as the poetry editor of Devil's Lake. (ObermanBrein@wisc.edu)
        Recommended poet: Richard Siken.

Joanna Pearson's poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2010, Blackbird, Gulf Coast, Literary Imagination, The New Criterion, River Styx, Subtropics, and elsewhere. Her first novel for young adults, The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills, was published in 2011. She lives in Baltimore. (www.joannapearson.com)
        Recommended poet: A.E. Stallings.

Nancy Reddy's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Anti-, Best New Poets 2011, Crab Orchard Review, Memorious, The Journal, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is currently a doctoral student in composition and rhetoric.
        Recommended poet: Lauren Berry.

ire'ne lara silva lives in Austin, TX. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, most recently in Acentos Review, Pilgrimage, and Yellow Medicine Review. She is the 2008 recipient of the Gloria Anzaldua Milagro Award, a Macondista, and a 2010 CantoMundo Inaugural Fellow. ire'ne is the author of two chapbooks: ani'mal and INDíGENA. Her first collection of poetry, fur ia, was published in October 2010 by Mouthfeel Press. fur ia received an Honorable Mention for the 2011 International Latino Book Award in Poetry. She recently revised a collection of short stories, The Ocean's Tongue, is writing a second collection of poetry, blood/sugar /canto and a novel, Naci, and is co-coordinating the Flor de Nopal Liter ar y Festival (Dec 1-3, 2011, Austin, TX). Visit her at www.irenelarasilva.webs.com and read more at www.irenelarasilva.wordpress.com. (irenelarasilva@yahoo.com)
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Kevin Simmonds, is a writer, musician, filmmaker and performance artist in San Francisco. His books include Mad for Meat (Salmon Poetry, 2011), Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2011) and Ota Benga Under My Mother's Roof (University of South Carolina, 2012). His short films have screened at Provincetown International Film Festival, San Francisco Frameline, Hong Kong's InDBlue and Barcelona's MiMi LGBT Short Film Festival among others. He wrote the music for the 2009 Emmy Award-winning documentary Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica and Voices of Haiti: A Post-Quake Odyssey in Verse, both commissioned by the Pulitzer Center and debuted at the National Black Theatre Festival. In 2011, he received a Creative Work Fund grant to compose the music and poetry for The Noh Oratorio of Emmett Till in collaboration with San Francisco's renowned Theatre of Yugen. (simmondskevin@gmail.com)
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Melissa Stein's poetry collection Rough Honey won the 2010 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, selected by Mark Doty, and was published by American Poetry Review in association with Copper Canyon Press. Her poems have appeared in The Southern Review, New England Review, Best New Poets 2009, Harvard Review, North American Review, and many other journals and anthologies. She has received residency fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Djerassi Foundation, and her work has won awards from Spoon River Poetry Review, Literal Latte, and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation, among others. She holds an MA in creative writing from the University of California at Davis, and is a freelance editor and writer in San Francisco. (www.melissastein.com)
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Anna Lowe Weber, originally from Louisiana, currently lives in Alabama where she teaches creative writing at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Her work has previously appeared in such magazines as the Iowa Review, the Colorado Review, and Rattle, where a recent poem was chosen as a Rattle Poetry Prize finalist. (alw0034@uah.edu)
        Recommended poet: Aimee Nezhukumatathil.

Maria Williams-Russell earned her MFA at Goddard College and her poems have appeared in Bateau, Bellevue Literary Review, Sous Rature, and numerous other journals and sidewalks. She is the author of the chapbook A Love Letter to Say There Is No Love (FutureCycle Press 2010) and teaches writing and literature at Greenfield Community College. (mariawilliams@gmail.com)
        Recommended poet: Juliana Spahr.