Contributors' Notes
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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.