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CONTRIBUTORS

Dave Harrity has published in Memorious, Revolver, Rabbit Catastrophe, Copper-Nickel, The L.A. Review, Confrontation, The Portland Review, Existere, The Cresset, and elsewhere. He also directs ANTLER, a literary education and consulting organization based in Louisville, Kentucky.

Rosemary Hayward has appeared in Pif Magazine. She has an MA in English language and literature from Oxford University. A British transplant living in California, she works as a CPA, deriving pleasure from knowing that she is helping make people’s lives a little bit easier (most of the time).

Karen Hildebrand has been published in various journals, including Fourteen Hills, G.W. Review, and Meridian, and has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. Her most recent credits include EDGE, Poet Lore, Blue Earth Review, Glassworks, The Lindenwood Review, Nimrod, Crack the Spine, and Hiram Poetry Review. Her play, The Old In and Out, cowritten with poet Madeline Artenberg, was produced in New York City in June 2013.

Gwendolen Jensen retired from the presidency of Wilson College in 2001. Birthright, her first book of poems, was published by Birch Brook Press in 2011 in a letterpress edition (with a second printing in 2012). Her second book, As if toward Beauty (also published by Birch Brook Press), has just been released.

Her poems and translations have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, The Comstock Review, Harvard Review, The Hollins Critic, Lindenwood Review, The Malahat Review, Measure, Nashville Review, Salamander, Sanskrit, and Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Ronald Moran lives in Simpsonville, South Carolina. His poems have been published in Commonweal, Connecticut Poetry Review, Flyway, Louisiana Review, Main Street Rag, Mankato Poetry Review, Maryland Poetry Review, North American Review, Northwest Review, South Carolina Review, Southern Poetry Review, Southern Review, Tar River Poetry, The Wallace Stevens Journal, and in twelve books/chapbooks of poetry. His most recent book is The Tree in the Mind, published by Clemson University Press (2014), and he is in the process of putting another one together.

Rodney Nelson (http://www.pw.org/content/rodney_nelson) has worked as a copy editor in the Southwest and now lives in the northern Great Plains. Recently published chapbook and book titles are Metacowboy, Mogollon Rim, Hill of Better Sleep, Felton Prairie, and In Wait.

Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The Nation, Osiris, Poetry, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. His most recent collection is Almost Rain, published by River Otter Press (2013). For more information, free e-books and his essay titled “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com.

Tammy Ruggles is a legally blind photographer in Kentucky. Her photos have been published in art magazines and literary journals like Art Times Journal, Zymbol, Black Bottom Press, Whitefish Review, The Briar Cliff Review, Midnight Echo, Blacktop Passages, LION Magazine, Sliver of Stone, The Notebook, and others. She has a Bachelor's in Social Work, and a Master's in Adult Ed/Counseling, with over 10 years' experience as a child protection social worker, a Hospice social worker, and a mental health social worker.

Judith Skillman’snew book is House of Burnt Offerings from Pleasure Boat Studio. The author of fifteen collections of poetry, her work has appeared in Tampa Review, Prairie Schooner, FIELD, The Iowa Review, and other journals. She taught in the field of humanities for twenty-five years, and has collaboratively translated poems from Italian, Portuguese, and French. Currently she works on manuscript review. Visit www.judithskillman.com.