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CONTRIBUTORS
Douglas Collura
works as a writer in Manhattan and is the author of a spoken-word CD, The Dare of the Quick World, and the book, Things I Can Fit My Whole Head Into, which was a finalist for the 2007 Paterson Poetry Prize. He was also the 2008 First Prize Winner of the Missouri Review Audio/Video Competition in Poetry. His work has been published in The Alembic, The Broome Review, Coe Review, The Cynic, Dislocate, The Dos Passos Review, Eclipse, The Evansville Review, Paterson Literary Review, Lips Magazine, Many Mountains Moving, Sanskrit Literary-Arts Magazine, Sierra Nevada College Review, Soundings East, Spillway, 2Bridges Review, and other periodicals and webzines.
Rachel Landrum Crumble
received an MFA from Vermont College in 1983 and has published in Southern Poetry Review, Louisville Review, and Saint Katherine Review and others. Her poetry manuscript Sister Sorrow was a finalist for the 2004 Ohio Review/The Journal poetry prize. She has been awarded scholarships to Bread Loaf, Vermont Studio Center, and later, Vermont College’s Postgraduate workshops. She received Honorable Mention in Writer’s Relief Peter K. Hixson Award for Poetry in 2013.
Eileen Hennessy
has published in numerous literary magazines, including The Paris Review, Western Humanities Review, Prairie Schooner, Columbia, Confrontation, The Alembic, The Seventh Quarry, The Dirty Goat, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Folio, Inkwell Magazine, The Licking River Review, Rhino, Smartish Pace, Southern Poetry Review, The New York Quarterly, and Sonora Review, and in several anthologies. Her poetry collection titled, This Country of Gale-force Winds, was published by New York Quarterly Books in November 2011.
Robert Karaszi
worked in 1990 as a lyricist and songwriter for an independent record label where he also freelanced as a writer for upcoming artists. His poetry has appeared in The Tower Journal, Blue Hour Magazine, The Cannon’s Mouth, and is forthcoming in various print and online publications. Currently he resides in New Jersey and is active in poetry readings and related events.
Craig Kurtz
is an autistic 54-year old living at Twin Oaks Intentional Community where he writes poetry while simultaneously handcrafting hammocks. Recent work appears in Bad Robot, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Hyperlexia Journal, Inclement, Otoliths, Out of Our, Penny Ante Feud, Randomly Accessed Poetics, Red Fez, Samzidat Literary Journal and others.
Sheila MacAvoy
has appeared in The Iowa Review, Writers’ Forum, Midway Journal, Red Rock Review, PANK Magazine, Eclectica, PMSpoemmemoirstory, Blue Lake Review, The Monarch Review, Weber Studies, Passager, and others. She has also been published in several anthologies including The Next Parish Over (New Rivers Press, Minneapolis, MN) and Scrap Magic (FISH Publishing, Durrus, County Cork, Ireland). Her prize-winning story, “In the Valley of the Trinity,” appeared in All The King’s Horses (FISH Publishing/The Historical Novel Society of Cambridge, England).
Laurie Patton
earned a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and serves as professor of religion at Duke University. She has published two books of poetry: Fire's Goal: Poems from the Hindu Year (White Cloud Press, 2003) and Angel's Task: Poems in Biblical Time (Station Hill of Barrytown, )2011. Her poems have also been published in Nimrod International Journal, Calyx, CCAR Journal, Compass Rose, Confluence, Fox Cry Review, Grey Sparrow, Kerem, Phoebe, Plainsongs, Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine, Reed Magazine, Sanskrit, Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, Studio One, Summerset Review, and Women's Torah Commentary (United Reform Judaism Press).
Simon Perchik
is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The Nation, Poetry, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. His most recent collection is Almost Rain, published by River Otter Press (2013). For more information, including free e-books, his essay titled “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com.
Thomas Piekarski
is a former editor of the California State Poetry Quarterly. His theater and restaurant reviews have been published in various newspapers, with poetry and interviews appearing in numerous national journals, among them Portland Review, Main Street Rag, Kestrel, Scarlet Literary Magazine, Cream City Review, Nimrod, Penny Ante Feud, New Plains Review, Poetry Quarterly, The Muse-an International Journal of Poetry, and Clockhouse Review. He has published a travel guide, Best Choices In Northern California, and Time Lines, a book of poems. He lives in Marina, California.
Marilyn Ringer
has appeared or is forthcoming in Nimrod; Drumvoices Revue; Eclipse; Left Curve; Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine; Hawai'I Pacific Review; Sanskrit; Porcupine; Wisconsin Review; The Evansville Review; Cairn; Bayou; decomP; The Cape Rock; ellipsis; The Hurricane Review; Limestone; The MacGuffin; Mochila Review; Oregon East; Phantasmagoria; Poet Lore; Assissi; Reed Magazine; poemmemoirstory (PMS); River Oak Review; Westview; Willard & Maple; Folio; The Griffin; RiverSedge; Willow Review; The Binnacle; Diverse Voices Quarterly; Chico News & Review; Slant; Studio One; Eclectica; Quiddity Literary Journal; Clackamas Literary Review; Xavier Review; Watershed; Iodine Poetry Journal; ByLine; California Quarterly; Milk Money; Pisgah Review; Schuylkill Valley Journal; Sierra Nevada College Review; Squaw Valley Review; Pearl; Taproot Literary Review; Tar Wolf Review; Wild Violet; Crack the Spine, Poet's Cove, An Anthology: Monhegan in Poetry, 2000-2002 (New Monhegan Press, 2003); The Art of Monhegan Island (Down East Press, 2004); Chico Poets, A Calendar for 2005 (Bear Star Press, 2004); and my chapbook Island Aubade (Finishing Line Press, 2012).
