Contributors

James Belflower's collaborative chapbook And Also a Fountain with Anne Heide and J. Michael Martinez, is forthcoming from NeOPepper Press in 2008. His honors and awards include: a Pushcart Prize nomination, the 2007 Juked Magazine Poetry Prize, two Jovanovich Awards for manuscripts, Friend of Mies Van der Rohe and Site, second place in the Banyan Review of Poetry Competition, and recognition in the Milton Dorfman National Poetry Contest . His poems, reviews, and essays appear or are forthcoming in: Jacket, Barrow Street, Denver Quarterly, Octopus, LIT, First Intensity, New Review of Literature, 580 Split, Alice Blue, Glitter Pony and Subito among others. James Belflower runs PotLatchpoetry.org , a website dedicated to the gifting and exchange of poetry resources.

Nickole Brown is the author of Sister, published by Red Hen in September 2007. She graduated from the M.F.A. Program for Creative Writing at Vermont College. She has received grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and the Kentucky Arts Council. She studied English Literature at Oxford University as an English Speaking Union Scholar, and was the editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson. Her work has been featured in The Writer's Chronicle, Poets & Writers, 32 Poems, The Cortland Review, Chautauqua Literary Journal, Diagram Magazine, Another Chicago Magazine, Mammoth Books' Sudden Stories anthology, and Starcherone Press anthology PP / FF. She also co-edited the anthology, Air Fare: Stories, Poems, & Essays on Flight. She has served as the National Publicity Consultant for the Palm Beach Poetry Festival and as the Program Coordinator for the Union Institute & University writing residency in Slovenia. Nickole has worked at Louisville’s nonprofit, independent, literary press, Sarabande Books for eight years.

Mark Cunningham lives in Virginia, and has poems in recent or forthcoming issues of Practice, BlazeVox, and Parcel. Otoliths will be bringing out a book entitled 80 Beetles, which is just what it sounds like; poems based on beetles. It will be available directly from Otolilths or www.lulu.com (Otoliths is based in Australia; Lulu.com is in the US). Tarpaulin Sky Press will be bringing out a book entitled Body Language, which will be a sort of diptych containing two collections, one entitled Body (on parts of the body) and one entitled Primer (on numbers and letters.

Anna Fulford is a recent graduate of the MFA program at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Her work has appeared in the print journals Backwards City Review and Denver Quarterly, it has been featured on Verse Daily and in the online journal mid)rib.

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa's two books of poetry are SKIN MUSEUM (2006) and AQUILINE (2007), both published in Japan. Other poems have been in New American Writing, Tinfish, 580 Split and dozens of other journals. AQUILINE is available via Small Press Distribution. Her (currently untitled) 3rd poetry book is scheduled for 2008 publication. Jane works as an associate professor at a national university in central Japan.

Mary Kasimor has been published in many online and print journals, including moria, How2, Ensemble Jourine, GutCult, BlazeVox2k3, Bird Dog, milk,Coconut, Lungfull!, among others. She is on sabbatical this semester--never realizing how wonderful it would be to have a semester off to write poetry. She is currently working on a chapbook that will be published by BlazeVox Books. Her other passion is the war literature class that she has created and teach online.

Lauren Kenny is currently a student of English at Longwood University in Virginia. She grew up in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and much of her writing draws upon her experience spending summers with family in rural Old Trap, NC. Her work has been published in Contrary Magazine out of Chicago.

Patrick Lawler has published three books of poetry: A Drowning Man is Never Tall Enough (University of Georgia Press, 1990), (reading a burning book) (Basfal Books, 1994), and Feeding the Fear of the Earth, the winner of the Many Mountains Moving poetry book competition (2006). In addition, his fiction and poetry have appeared in the following publications: American Poetry Review, Apalachee Quarterly, Bitter Oleander, Black Clock, Central Park, Confrontation, Court Green, Diagram, Epoch, Fringe,The Iowa Review, Ironwood, Kansas Quarterly, The Literary Review, McSweeney’s, Many Mountains Moving, Minnesota Review, New York Times Book Review, Nimrod, Northwest Review, Shenandoah, Slope, Southern Humanities Review, and Turnrow.He has received an NEA Fellowship, two grants from the New York State Foundation for the Arts, and a Saltonstall Award. At LeMoyne College, he is a creative writing instructor, and is also Associate Professor at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry where he teaches writing and nature literature classes.

Corey Mesler has published prose and/or poetry in Turnrow, Adirondack Review, American Poetry Journal, Paumanok Review, Yankee Pot Roast, Monday Night, Elimae, H_NGM_N, Center, Poet Lore, Forklift OH, Euphony, Rattle, Jabberwock Review, Dicey Brown, Cordite, Smartish Pace, others. A Pushcart Prize nominee, he also has two novels from Livingston Press: Talk: a Novel in Dialogue (2002) and We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (2007). His first full-length collection of poems, Some Identity Problems, is due out from Foothills Publishing, in 2007. His poem Sweet Annie Divine was chosen for Garrison Keillor's "The Writer's Almanac". Corey and his wife own Burke's Bookstore, one of the country oldest (founded in 1875) and best independent bookstores. He can be reached at www.coreymesler.com

E.C. Messer currently lives in Chicago where she is pursuing her MFA in writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
She holds a BA in theatre from UCLA. Her poems have most recently appeared in At-Large Magazine.

Sheila E. Murphy's most recent published books include THE CASE OF THE LOST OBJECTIVE (CASE) (Otoliths Press, 2007: http://www.lulu.com/content/840898) and CONTINUATIONS a collaboration with Douglas Barbour. (The University of Alberta Press, 2006: http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664). Murphy performs her textual and visio-textual work widely, including presentations as part of the Be Blank Consort, and collaborates in both genres. Her home is in Phoenix, AZ, USA.

Poet and collagist/object maker Laurie Price is the author of Except for Memory (PantographPress), Under the Sign of the House (Detour), The Assets (Situations) and Minim (Faux Press). Her work has appeared in numerous print and online journals, more recently Barbara Henning’s blogspot, The Duplications, The Bedside Guide to NoTell Motel – Second Floor, Eoagh, Otoliths and The Hamilton Stone Review. She currently lives in Granada, Spain and maintains this fotolog: http://www.fotolog.com/laurpricex.