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Contributors
Victoria Boynton
is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York at Cortland. She teaches creative writing and theory in the Professional Writing major. Her publications include Contraptions, poems with art by Marney Leiberman (2009, Stockport Press). Herspace: Women, Writing, and Solitude (Haworth/Routledge, 2003) and the Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography (Greenwood, 2006) with Jo Malin. Boynton's fiction and poetry, appear in such journals as Calyx, Verse, Harper Palate, Comstock Review, and Faultline. She lives with her partner and coon hound off the grid in upstate New York.
Louis Daniel Brodsky
is the author of fifty-eight volumes of poetry (five of which have been published in French by Éditions Gallimard) and twenty-three volumes of prose, including nine books of scholarship on William Faulkner and seven books of short fictions. His poems and essays have appeared in Harper's, The Faulkner Journal, Southern Review, Texas Quarterly, National Forum, American Scholar, Studies in Bibliography, Kansas Quarterly, Ball State University's Forum, Cimarron Review, and Literary Review, as well as in Ariel, Acumen, Orbis, New Welsh Review, Dalhousie Review, and other journals. His latest books of poetry include Still Wandering in the Wilderness: Poems of the Jewish Diaspora and The World Waiting to Be: Poems About the Creative Process. Brodsky's book You Can’t Go Back, Exactly won the Center for Great Lakes Culture's (Michigan State University) 2004 best book of poetry award.
George L. Chieffet
was raised on a farm in Dix Hills New York and currently lives in River Vale New Jersey. Recently, his story "Lithuanian Sweetheart" was published in the Broadkill Review. He was a finalist for the Muriel Craft Baily poetry award. His play "Love Cures Cancer" ran at the Heer Theater in New York. "Notes to the Motherland," coauthored with Paul Rajeckas, was a winner of 2004 Best Play by Theater Mania.com.
Donal Mahoney
has had poems published in or accepted by The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, Commonweal, The Christian Science Monitor, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Mid-America Poetry Review, The Davidson Miscellany, Focus Midwest, The Midwest Quarterly, Quartet, Meridian, The Goddard Journal, The Pembroke Magazine, The Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine, Sou' wester, Salt Lick, The Mustang Review, Obscurity and a Penny, The Road Apple Review and other publications.
Benjamin Matvey
has published fiction in Generation X Journal, and has had two stories performed in Philadelphia's prestigious "Writing Aloud" series (in which actors read stories before a paying audience). One story will appear in a forthcoming anthology of Philadelphia writers. His play "Brie! The Musical Dissertation," co-written with Anneliese Euler, was produced in Philadelphia thanks to a development grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts. His screenplay, No Regrets, has been optioned by Amy Lo, producer of the award-winning film Planet B-Boy.
Tim Poland
is the author of a novel, The Safety of Deeper Water (Vandalia Press, 2009), a collection of short fiction, Escapee (America House, 2001) and a chapbook of poems, Other Stones, Kinder Temples (Pudding House, forthcoming, 2008). His work has appeared in various literary magazines, such as North American Review, Cimarron Review, The Beloit Fiction Journal, Iodine Poetry Journal, Literal Latté, The Furnace Review, Rattle, Main Street Rag, Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Stickman Review, Appalachian Heritage, and others. He is the recipient of a Plattner/Appalachian Heritage Award (2002), and his work has been included in the Best of the Net anthology (2007) and has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Margaret A. Robinson
has just published a new chapbook, "Arrangements," a combination of free verse about breast cancer and sonnets about love. "Arrangements" is available at Finishing Line Press and Amazon.com. Robinson teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Widener University in Chester, PA.
Alan Botsford Saitoh
is co-editor since 2003 of Poetry Kanto, Japan's leading bicultural, bilingual poetry magazine. He received his MFA from Columbia University and has published two books of poetry-- mamaist: learning a new language (Minato No Hito, 2002) and A Book of Shadows (Katydid Books, 2003), while his third, a book of essays entitled Walt Whitman of Cosmic Folklore, is forthcoming in 2009. He lives in Japan with his wife and son and teaches at Kanto Gakuin University.
