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Contributors
Cathleen Richardson Bailey
is a self-taught writer and textile artist. She is a 2003 recipient of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ Fellowship in Literature. Bailey’s quilts have shown in museums and galleries throughout the United States. Her short story, "Marching Up Seabreeze" will be published in Cake Train Literary Magazine, November 2003. In May – April, Bailey will experience an 8-week residency with Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City . The Center provides uninterrupted time for artist to pursue personal creative goals. Bailey shares her gift of combining creative writing and fiber art with various organizations including Brooklyn Public Library, Cuyahoga Valley National Park and The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Artists-in-Education Residency Program.
Ward Kelley
has published more than 1500 of his poems in journals worldwide. His publication credits include such journals as: Plainsongs, Another Chicago Magazine, Rattle, The Chaffin Journal, Midstream, Zuzu’s Petals, Ginger Hill, Sunstone, Pif, Whetstone, Melic Review, Thunder Sandwich, Potpourri and Skylark. He was the recipient of the Nassau Review Poetry Award for 2001. Kelley is the author of two paperbacks: “histories of souls,” a poetry collection, and Divine Murder, a novel; he also has an epic poem, “comedy incarnate” on CD and CD ROM.
Claudia Grinnell
teaches English at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Her poems have appeared in various journals and magazines, such as Hayden's Ferry Review, New Orleans Review, Bottomfish, The Alembic, Recursive Angel, and Exquisite Corpse. Most recently, Claudia won the Southern Women Writers Conference Emerging Poets Award.
Mark Holt-Shannon
is a writer, photographer and stay-home-father. He has done some freelance writing for Strawberry Banke Museum and for the University of New Hampshire, A couple of his personal essays were picked up by New Hampshire Public Radio. He has had one essay published in Garden Lane, a local (Durham, NH) literary publication.
Peter Markus
has published stories in Massachusetts Review, Black Warrior Review, Quarterly West, Northwest Review, Third Coast, 3rd Bed, Seattle Review, New Orleans Review, among others, and has published online at 5_Trope, Taint magazine, failbetter, Pindeldyboz, The American Journal of Print, and Word Riot.
Matt Morris'
poems are part of his book, Nearing Narcoma, which was recently selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of Main Street Rag’s Annual Poetry Book Contest, (published in October 2003). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Barbaric Yawp, Cape Rock, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Free Lunch, G.W. Review, Manthology: Poems of the Male Experience, New York Quarterly, Red Booth Review and other magazines and anthologies.
Scott Mulrane
was recently chosen as a recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship for poetry. His writing has appeared in many magazines, including Esquire and The Iowa Review.
Allan Peterson
holds degrees from Southern Illinois University and Rhode Island School of Design in Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking. He is currently Chair of the Visual Arts Department and Director of the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts at Pensacola Junior College, Florida.
His new book, Anonymous Or, was winner of the Defined Providence Press competition, 2001. His chapbooks include: "Stars on a Wire," published by Parallel Editions, University of Alabama, Institute for the Book Arts, 1989, and "Small Charities," #7 in the Panhandler Press Chapbook Series, University of West Florida, 1994, and "Lucky For Us," Halftones To Jubilee, 1999.
Peterson has published widely in print and online. His awards and honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry,1992, as well as prizes from Mississippi Valley Review, Negative Capability, Snake Nation Review, The Cape Rock, California Quarterly, Black Bear Review, The Gopherwood Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, and others.
David Starkey
teaches in the MFA program at Antioch University-Los Angeles, and is the author of a textbook, Poetry Writing: Theme and Variations (NTC, 1999), as well as several collections of poems from small presses, most recently Fear of Everything, winner of Palanquin Press's Spring 2000 chapbook contest, and David Starkey's Greatest Hits (Pudding House, 2002). He has published more than 300 poems in literary magazines such as American Scholar, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cutbank, High Plains Literary Review, The Journal, Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, Notre Dame Review, Poet Lore, Sycamore Review, Texas Review, and Wormwood Review.
A Special Thanks to Thomas A. Pack and Susan M. Pack-Brown for serving as panelists for the Stickman Review Fiction Contest.
