Epiphany | A Literary Journal

Contributors Spring 2009

Contributors Spring 2009
ADAM L. DRESSLER serves as the assistant editor at Parnassus: Poetry in Review and as the review editor of Perihelion. He lives with his wife in Brooklyn.

ANNA KUSHNER was born in Philadelphia and first traveled to Cuba in 1999. Her current projects include a memoir about a family divided by divorce, exile, death, and politics, a translation of Guillermo Rosales' The Halfway House (forthcoming from New Directions), and a translation of The Autobiography of Fidel Castro (forthcoming from W.W. Norton). She was a finalist for the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize in 2007. Her essays have appeared in The Bucks County Writer, Crab Orchard Review, and Wild River Review, and her translations have appeared in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Words Without Borders, and the anthologies Writers Under Siege (New York University Press) and The Global Game: Writers on Soccer (Bison Books). "Olor a Cuba," originally published in Epiphany's online edition, was included in The Best of the Web 2008 (Dzanc Books).

GEORGE FRANKLIN's poetry collection, The Fall of Miss Alaska, was published last year by Six Gallery Press.

KAYLIE JONES is the author of five novels, including A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries. "City of Lights" is an excerpt from her upcoming memoir, to be published by William Morrow in the fall of 2009. Her Web site is kayliejones.com.

KEITH HENDERSHOT was born in Tennessee, educated at Bennington, and now lives in Brooklyn.

KIMBERLY FELTES has written several teen advice books. Her fiction has appeared in The Girls' Life Big Book of Short Stories. She works as a freelance writer and editor and lives in Minneapolis and New York City.

MARK O'DONNELL's plays include "That's It, Folks!," "Fables for Friends," and "The Nice and the Nasty" (all produced at Playwrights Horizons), and "Strangers on Earth" and "Vertigo Park" (both produced by Zena Group Theatre). He wrote the book and lyrics for the musicals "Tots in Tinseltown," "Hairspray" (with Thomas Meehan, for which they received a Tony), and "Cry-Baby." He collaborated with Bill Irwin on an adaptation of Molière's "Scapin," and co-authored a translation of Feydeau's "A Flea in Her Ear," both for the Roundabout. For Manhattan Theatre Club, he translated Jean-Claude Carrière's "La Terrasse." He has published two collections of comic stories, Elementary Education and Vertigo Park and Other Tall Tales (both Knopf) as well as two novels, Getting Over Homer and Let Nothing You Dismay (both now in Vintage paperback). His poems have appeared in The New Republic, Canto, The Gay and Lesbian Review, and Harvard Magazine. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lecomte du Nuoy Prize, and the George S. Kaufman Award.

MARTHA TENNENT was born in the U.S. but has lived most of her life in Barcelona, receiving her B.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Barcelona, and serving as the founding dean of the School of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Vic. She has regularly translated between Catalan, Spanish, and English, and recently edited Training for the New Millennium: Pedagogies for Translating and Interpreting. Her translations have appeared in Two Lives, Words Without Borders, eXchanges, and Review of Contemporary Fiction.

MARTIN EDMUNDS is the author of The High Road to Taos and co-wrote, with Lavinia Currier, the screenplay for "Passion in the Desert" (1997). New poems recently appeared in A Public Space.

MERCÈ RODOREDA (1908-1983) is one of the most important Catalan writers of the twentieth century. Exiled in France and Switzerland after the Spanish Civil War, she worked as a seamstress while writing the novels and stories—Camellia Street, The Time of the Doves—that would bring her international fame. In the mid-sixties, she returned to Catalonia, where she continued to write.

MIRA PTACIN is editor of LUMINA, Sarah Lawrence College's M.F.A. literary magazine. She lives in Manhattan with her husband Andrew and their little dog Maybe and is writing a book about the uterus and the American Dream.

NORMAN FILZMAN writes: "Ten years of serving...no stories to tell...none to fabricate...only scenes remembered I used words to bring to life."

PAMELA BROWN lives in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, and teaches Shakespeare, poetry, and drama at the University of Connecticut. Her poetry chapbooks include Small Daughter Also Buried Here, Letter Poem, and East Main, and her poems have appeared in Public, Frontier, and P/rose and Introductions. Her play "The Ice House" was chosen by the Boston Directors' Lab for production in 2003, and in 2008 her plays "As We Like It" and "Annunciation Shikaku" (co-authored with William Owen) were staged at UConn Stamford and Dixon Place.

PETER GOODALE was a painter who exhibited at the Jack Tilton Gallery, in New York, and at the Nielsen Gallery, in Boston, among other places. In 2001, a show of his wooden sculptures on religious themes was held at St. Peter's church, in Manhattan. A book of his poems, More Bounded Air, will be printed by the Woodside Press later this year.

SALLIE BINGHAM's books include After Such Knowledge, The Touching Hand, The Way It Is Now, Passion and Prejudice (a memoir), Small Victories, Upstate: A Novel, Matron of Honor, Straight Man, Transgressions: Stories, Cory's Feast, Nick of Time, and, last year, the short-story collection Red Car. She has also written and produced many plays, and in 1994 founded Santa Fe Stages.

SUSAN RUEL is a writer and fiddler in New York City. As an undergraduate, she took Monroe Engel's writing classes at Harvard, and she studied with John Williams in a doctoral writing program at the University of Denver. Her publications range from short stories and poems to newspaper and magazine articles on global affairs, music, travel, and other topics. With Sorbonne professor emeritus Daniel Royot, she co-authored two books on U.S. media history that were published in France by Ophrys and Didier-Èrudition.

RON SAVAGE has published more than eighty stories worldwide. Some recent publications include Glimmer Train, Shenandoah, Film Comment, and Mercury in Israel. Ron has a B.A. and an M.A. in psychology and a doctorate in counseling from the College of William and Mary. He has worked as an actor, a broadcaster, a newspaper editor, and for twenty-something years as Psychologist Senior at Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia.