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Spring/Summer 2010
NICK ADMUSEN’s poetry has most recently appeared in the Kenyon Review Online, Barrow Street, the Mid-American Review, and Blackbird. He is a doctoral candidate at Princeton University, currently researching contemporary Chinese prose poetry and living in the Haidian district in Beijing.
JEFREY M. BAKER is a writer and teacher living in Brooklyn, N.Y. He has recently put together a collection of the poems from the kids in Soweto entitled “The Sound of the Sun,” and has hopes to organize a second poetry workshop for somewhere in India within the year. He is also at work on his own first collection of poems.
HARMONY BUTTON has a B.A. from Middlebury College and an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Utah. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Mantis, AfterImage, BlazeVOX, Prick of the Spindle, White Whale Review, and Sleet Magazine. In 2006, she was awarded the Larry Levis Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets.
SHENA CRANE was born in Rhode Island and currently lives in Dana Point, California, with her husband. She is the author of What Do I Do Now? Making Sense of Today’s Changing Workplace, which was featured on the “Today Show” and translated into Braille by the National Federation of the Blind. Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Glamour, Men’s Fitness, National Business Employment Weekly, and other publications. At present, she is working on a set of essays and a novel.
RICHARD FELINGER is a writing teacher, former journalist, and 2009 nominee for the Pushcart Prize. He has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Wilkes University, and he won the 2008 Flash Fiction Contest at Red Cedar Review. His stories have appeared in other journals, such as Potomac Review, Willow Review, Audience, and PANK. He lives with his wife and son in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.
SAMANTHA GILISONis the author of the novels The Undiscovered Country (Grove/Atlantic Press, 1998) and the The King of America (Random House, 2004). She has received a Mrs. Giles E. Whiting Award in Fiction and was a 2003 Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction. Gillison’s short fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals and publications, including Open City, Descant, and American Writing and is forthcoming in Playboy. She grew up in Papua New Guinea and lives in Brooklyn.
TOBY TUCKER HECHT is a scientist and short-story writer who lives in Bethesda, Maryland. Her fiction has appeared in The Baltimore Review, THEMA, Red Wheelbarrow, RE:AL, The MacGuffin, and other print and online literary journals. Her latest stories have included dancing somewhere in the plot, and she and her husband have, in empathy with her characters, taken lessons in East Coast Swing.
SABINE HEINLEIN just finished writing her first literary-nonfiction book, about three friends trying to adjust to freedom after having spent several decades in prison for murder. Her writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, The Idler, the e-zine Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, Die Zeit, and Süddeutsche Zeitung, among other places. She has been awarded a Yaddo residency, an N.Y.F.A. Fellowship for Nonfiction Literature, and a residency at the MacDowell Colony. She lives with her husband, the painter Giovanni Garcia-Fenech, a cat, and two rabbits in Sunnyside, Queens.
CHRIS IOVENKO has published stories in Open City, The American Voice, Outercast, Farmhouse Magazine, and The Los Angeles Reader. He has written nonfiction pieces for The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Spin, and Details. His award-winning dark comedy “Easy Six” (Showtime, 2005) marked his feature writing and directing début.
STACEY KAHN graduated from Skidmore College with an English major and a music minor. Her senior thesis, “Music in the Works of Oscar Wilde and Arthur Symons,” was awarded honors and placed in the college library. Her short story, “Paper,” was published in the Skidmore arts journal, Folio. She worked for Continuum Publishing and Bauer Publishing as an editorial intern, and now writes for a music blog, Music Bytes. She is an M.F.A. candidate in creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College.
A. B. MEYER is a pseudonym of the author of two books, one fiction and one nonfiction, which were published under another name. Her writing has often appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times.
CAROL MOLDAW’s So Late, So Soon: New and Selected Poems will be published by Etruscan Press in June 2010. She is the author of four other books of poetry and a novel, The Widening (Etruscan, 2008). A recipient of a Lannan Foundation Marfa Writer’s Residency, an N.E.A. Creative Writing Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize, Moldaw lives outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
RICK MULLIN is a journalist and painter whose poetry has appeared in several print and online journals, including Measure, Unsplendid, Envoi, and The Flea. His chapbook, Aquinas Flinched, is available from Exot Books (N.Y.) and his book-length poem, Huncke, is forthcoming from Seven Towers (Dublin). He lives in northern New Jersey.
JOSEPH RADKE’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in several journals, including Boulevard, New York Quarterly, The Journal, Minnetonka Review, Copper Nickel, and Natural Bridge. He teaches writing in Green Bay.
KAREN RIGBY (www.karenrigby.com) is the author of two chapbooks and an editor of Cerise Press. Previous work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Canteen, Quarterly West, and other journals.
JOSEPH RIIPI is the author of the novel Do Something! Do Something! Do Something! (Ampersand Books, 2009). Recent writing appears in The Brooklyn Rail, The Bitter Oleander, KNOCK, New Delta Review, flatmanCROOKED, Salamander, and other places. He lives in New York, where he is finishing his M.F.A. www.josephriippi.com.
HARILYN ROUSO is a writer, painter, social worker, psychotherapist, and activist who has worked in the disability-rights field, with an emphasis on issues of women with disabilities, for twenty-five years. She has written more than twenty articles and books on gender and disability, including Double Jeopardy: Addressing Gender Equity in Special Education and Strong Proud Sisters: Girls and Young Women with Disabilities. Recently, she has been working on a book of essays that combines the personal with the political as she reflects on her experiences as a disabled woman. Some of these essays, in combination with her paintings, have been published in the e-zine Ducts.
ANTHONY SCHNEIDER graduated from N.Y.U. with an M.F.A. in fiction. Born, bred, and buttered in South Africa, he lives, writes, and plays more tennis than is sensible in New York City. His fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, Conjunctions, BoldType, Pindeldyboz, and the anthology The Encyclopedia of Exes, among other places.
MAKAMBO TSHIONYI, J.D. Some things about me: First, for what it’s worth, I am a recovering attorney; second, I am a medical student not too fond of blood; third, I love much more than just about anything else the coastline of the state of Oregon; fourth, I admire greatly Jean Toomer. O.K., the boring stuff: I was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I was raised in Eugene, Oregon. I am a graduate of Harvard Law School. I currently attend the University of Illinois School of Medicine. I have no white picket fence. “The Waif” is début fiction for me.
CYNTHIA ZARIN is the author of three books of poems, including The Watercourse, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, as well as five books for children. Her new book, The Ada Poems, will be published by Knopf this September. A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, she teaches at Yale.
