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Contributors
Karen Alea
Karen Alea was born in Buffalo, New York in 1967 and grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. With light skin and red hair, she found herself a Cuban-American spy, getting to look into her own culture with one foot outside. Living in two worlds at a young age, she has always been interested in the emotional and social differences of world cultures. Her work has been published in Out of Line, Eureka and spitfire press literary journals. She and recently won a contest judged by her literary idol, Ann Patchett. She began her descent into an MFA program at Bennington College in January 2005.
Linda Boroff
Linda Boroff graduated from UC Berkeley in English Lit. and won first prize in The Writers Place 2004 fiction competition. Her short stories have appeared in Epoch, Cimarron Review, Prism International, Hobart, In Posse Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Eyeshot, Outsider Ink, Girls With Insurance, The Summerset Review, 24:7, Storyglossia, Ducts, Riverwalk Journal and others. In 2005, she optioned three feature-length screenplays to production companies in Los Angeles and UK. She is currently completing her first novel, set in Santa Cruz, California.
Ash Bowen
Ash Bowen lives in Arkansas where he has a healthy, thriving garden of grudges. He has work appearing or forthcoming in The Pacific Review, Red Wheelbarrow, The Melic Review, The Potomac, Miller's Pond, and others. He was recently admitted to the doctoral creative writing program at the University of North Texas. .
James Chapman
James Chapman lives in NYC, has published five novels; stories have appeared in Central Park, Cambridge Book Review, Appearances, ACM (Another Chicago Magazine), Real Fiction, DDT, Transmog, Global City Review, Northwest Review, No Roses Review, Jacob’s Ladder, Journal of Experimental Fiction, and others. He also operates a small press for experimental and “advanced” fiction, Fugue State Press.
Jason Fritz
Jason Fritz was born in 1978 in Richmond, Kentucky, where he spent his childhood and young adult life. He is a recipient of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets at the University of Pennsylvania, a contest open to all graduate students. He is also a recipient of the Terry M. Krieger Award, a prize given to the Haverford College senior demonstrating the greatest achievement in writing during the junior and senior years. His poems have appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Friends Journal, Penn Review and The Haverford Review.
Jen Karetnick
Jen Karetnick’s poetry is forthcoming in North American Review and Blue Unicorn and has appeared in River Styx, The Drexel Online Journal, Black River Review, Barrow Street, The Spoon River Poetry Review, The Nebraska Review, Sou’wester, Tigertail: A South Florida Poetry Annual, Georgetown Review and The Greensboro Review, among others. Her articles have appeared in Poets & Writers, Diversion, Ocean Drive, Where, Dining Out, The Miami Herald and others.
Christopher Locke
Christopher Locke was born in Laconia, NH in 1968. He received his MFA from Goddard College. His poems and prose have appeared in over 85 publications around the world, including The Literary Review, The Southeast Review, Poetry, Connecticut Review, West Branch, Exquisite Corpse, The Sun, Tears in the Fence, (U.K.), Descant, (Canada), The Chattahoochee Review, and on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. Chris has received several awards for his poetry, including grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain), and OBRAS Artist Center (Portugal). He was a Finalist for the Salmon Run Press National Poetry Book Award, (Co-sponsored by the Academy of American Poets), the New Issues Press Poetry Prize, the Robert Penn Warren Award, and Atlanta Review’s International Poetry Competition. His new collection, Possessed, was recently awarded publication as a Finalist in the Main Street Rag National Chapbook Competition. His previous two chapbook of poems are Slipping Under Diamond Light, (Clamp Down Press, 2002), and How To Burn, (Adastra Press, 1995). Chris is the Academic Director at Shortridge Academy, a school for troubled teens in Milton, NH..
Karyna McGlynn
Karyna McGlynn is originally from Austin, TX. Her poems have recently appeared in Rosebud, Cimarron Review, Blackbird, Good Foot, Wisconsin Review, Connecticut Review, Hotel Amerika and Verse. A three-time Pushcart nominee and graduate of the creative writing program at Seattle University, Karyna is the recipient of the Cornwell Fellowship in Poetry at the University of Michigan where she is currently pursuing her MFA.
Patrick Roscoe
Patrick Roscoe’s fiction has previously appeared in, or is forthcoming from Agni, Alaska Quarterly Review, Glimmer Train, North Dakota Quarterly, Blithe House Review, The Little Magazine, and The Nebraska Review. His work has won two CBC Canadian Literary Awards, a Lorian Hemingway Short Story Award, and a pair of Distinguished Story citations from Best American Stories.
Johanna Skibsrud
Johanna Skibsrud is from Nova Scotia, Canada and recently graduated from Concordia University's MA program in English and Creative Writing. Her poetry has appeared in Prism International, The Antigonish Review and Pottersfield Portfolio. This past spring the Montreal-based Delirium Press published "The Electric Man," a fiction chap-book, and poems are upcoming in the Canadian Magazine, Exile.
Sonia Vora
Sonia Vora lives and writes in Philadelphia and teaches fiction at Temple University. Her fiction has appeared in InVision and Riverwalk Journal and she has published non-fiction profiles of prominent writers in India Abroad and local papers. Sonia is working feverishly to complete her first novel, The Prophetic Last Words of Colonel Misri, and loves receiving unexpected notes at soniavora@gmail.com.
Mark Wekander
Mark Wekander has been a resident of Puerto Rico since 1985, except for three years in Louisiana where he earned a Ph.D. in creative writing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His poems have appeared in the Atlanta Review, Cottonwood, Salt River Review and The Caribbean Writer. His novel The New Corn Goddess was a finalist inthe 2000 Great American Book contest. In 2000 his book of poetry, Partial Places was published by Canopus Press.
Gabriel Welsch
Gabriel Welsch is a former garden designer and nurseryman. His stories have appeared in several journals, including Georgia Review, New Letters, Mid-American Review, Other Voices, and Ascent. He writes poetry as well, and his first collection, Dirt and All Its Dense Labor, is set for publication in summer 2006 with Word Tech Editions. He lives in State College, PA, and works in fund raising for Penn State.
