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Contributors
Gale Acuff
has authored three books of poetry: Buffalo Nickel (BrickHouse, 2004), The Weight of the World (BrickHouse, 2006), and The Story of My Lives and published poetry in Ascent, Maryland Poetry Review, Poem, Adirondack Review, Florida Review, Ohio Journal, Santa Barbara Review, and many other journals.
Jackie Bartley
has appeared most recently in Nimrod, Spillway, and Calyx. Her latest collection, "Ordinary Time," won the Spire Press Poetry Prize and was published in 2007.
Leah Erickson
published most recently in The Saint Ann's Review, Sub-Lit, Unlikely 2.0, Atomjack, and Silverthought.
Iris Gribble-Neal
is editor and publisher of Gribble Press, publishing chapbooks and full-length books, available at website www.greymaredit.com. She has been previously published in literary journals such as Washington Square and Chiron. Her chapbook was a finalist in the Floating Bridge chapbook contest, and she has been published in several issues of Pontoon, an anthology of Washington state poets.
Ian Haight
has been awarded translation grants from the Daesan Foundation, Korea Literary Translation Institute, and the Baroboin Buddhist Foundation. He is the co-translator of Borderland Roads: Selected Poems of Ho Kyun (White Pine, 2009). Poems, essays, and appear in Barrow Street, Writer’s Chronicle, and New Orleans Review. Please visit www.ianhaight.com for more information.
Dustin Nightingale
Dustin Nightingale has published poems in Margie, Portland Review, Mudfish, Cimarron Review and Diner.
Douglas Nordfors
received his MFA from The University of Virginia in 1991 and has published poems over the years in The Iowa Review, Quarterly West, Poet Lore, Poetry Northwest, and others. His book, Auras, was published last year by Plain View View Press and is available online.
Doug Ramspeck
directs the Writing Center and teaches creative writing and composition at The Ohio State University at Lima. His poetry collection, Black Tupelo Country, was selected for the 2007 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry and was published by BkMk Press (University of Missouri-Kansas City) in the fall of 2008. His poems have appeared in journals that include West Branch, Rattle, Confrontation Magazine, Connecticut Review, Nimrod, Hunger Mountain, and Hayden’s Ferry Review.
Rolli (Cover artist and Gallery feature)
writes—and draws a little—for adults (The New Quarterly, Quarterly West, CBC Radio) and children (Ladybug, Spider, Highlights for Children). He is the recipient of the 2007 John Kenneth Galbraith Literary Award (Canada); and as a winner of the 2008-2009 Commonwealth Short Story Competition, his work will soon be broadcast in over 30 countries. Visit his blog at www.rolliwrites.blogspot.com.
Michael Schmeltzer
earned an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. He helps with A River & Sound Review and was a finalist for the Crab Creek Review Poetry Contest, Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize, and Richard Hugo House New Works Competition. His work appears or is forthcoming in New York Quarterly, New Delta Review, Water~Stone Review, Poetry Midwest, and Main Street Rag, among others. He lives in Seattle.
Judith Skillman
has published poems in Poetry, FIELD, The Southern Review, JAMA, The Iowa Review, The Midwest Quarterly, and numerous other journals and anthologies. Her two most recent books are Prisoner of the Swifts (Ahadada Books) and Heat Lightning (Silverfish Review Press). She has been a Writer in Residence at Centrum. Please see www.judithskillman.com for more information.
Changming Yuan
grew up in rural China and currently teaches writing in Vancouver. Yuan's poems (are to) appear in Barrow Street, Best Canadian Poetry (2009), the Cortland Review, Exquisite Corpse, Mad Bunkers, the London Magazine and more than 150 other literary publications worldwide; his first collection, Chansons of a Chinaman has recently been released by Leaf Garden Press.
