Contributors
Robert A. Schaefer Jr received his BA of Architecture and Photography at Auburn University in Alabama and moved to Munich, Germany in 1975 where he received a MA in Architecture and Photography at the Technische Universität München. During this time he began exhibiting his work at the Amerika Hauses (cultural part of the American Embassy) in Munich, Hannover, Hamburg and Frankfurt. In 1980 the Bibliotheque Nationale of France acquired a large body of his work.
In 1981 Schaefer moved to New York City He continues to exhibit his work throughout the United States and Europe. In 1999 - 2000 the Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, AL had a 25-Year Retrospective of his work. His photography is represented by the Chamot Gallery (http://www.chamotgallery.com) in Jersey City, NJ as well as the RAAB Gallery in Berlin, Germany. Robert Schaefer teaches courses in photography at New York University and The New School.
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Marion Muller In a lifetime of juggling a passion for writing and for art, writing seems to have won out. After retiring from copywriting, she completed a Masters Degree in Studio Arts at NYU, and went on to writing reviews and criticism of fine art and graphic design for several national and international publications: The New Leader, UPPER & lower case, The Numismatist, Fiberarts, Esquire (in Germany) and Creation (in Japan). Currently concentrating on the short story, several of which have appeared in small literary magazines; one, a semi-finalist in the last PEN Syndicated Fiction Project.
Elizabeth Gaffney's first novel, Metropolis, will be published in 2004 by Random House. She is editor at large of The Paris Review.
Devjani Huggins was born in Madras, India, and lived in Madras, Calcutta, London and New York. Writing has always been a part of daily life for her, be it for machines or humans. She studied mathematics and computer science and received a graduate degree from NYU. In the past year she has taken classes in fiction writing and poetry. She has written short stories, mysteries, poems. Her poetry has appeared in PoetryMagazine; currently she is translating works from Bengali literature, and is also working on a play. She feels that writing, especially poetry, creates a kind of essential energy. At present she lives in New York, which she loves.
Marc Weissman lives in New York City, is Project Manager of Travel Channel Radio, and writes poetry and paints.
Sarah Fowles is currently a fundraiser for New York University's Faculty of Arts and Science. She earned her MA in Arts Administration from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and a BA from Grinnell College in Grinnell, IA, where she studied Literature.
Jenna Cardinale received an MFA from The New School, where she is the managing editor of the journal LIT. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Medicinal Purposes, can we have our ball back?, Good Foot, Unpleasant Event Schedule, La Petite Zine and Puppy Flowers. Her absurd musical, “Poor Bald Lucy’s Salon & Spa,” will burst onto the scene shortly.
Amy Cacciola is a graduate of Vassar and Columbia, and began writing a few years ago. She has completed a novel and is now working on a collection of short stories. She lives on Staten Island.
William P. Cadenilla, a brown eyed 25-year old paralegal at Cowan, Liebowitz, & Latman, P.C. in New York, is moonlighting as a fiction writer, as well as a freelance communications writer specializing in real estate and economic developments in Jersey City and Hudson County, New Jersey. His non-fiction writings appeared in Business News New Jersey, Business Facilities, and Plants Sites & Parks while working at the Jersey City Economic Development Corporation as a professional intern from 1999 – 2002. He graduated with a BA and double majored in English Creative Writin! g and Political Science from New Jersey City University last May 2001. He has been honing his fiction writing at New York University’s SCPS since Fall 2002, and hopes to pen a sequel to Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities and a short story collection for children.
Florence Homolka's poetry has appeared in the New York Quarterly, One Page Poetry, the West Mirror, and Norah's Scream.She also writes articles on food and travel for CITY magazine. This is her first fiction publication
Rosemary Walsh, a native of Connecticut, taught secondary school English and Humanities for forty-one years in private and public schools in Connecticut and New York. In 1998 she was named a Teacher of Excellence by the New York State English Council, and in 1990 she received a National Humanities grant to study at the University of Puget Sound. For nine years, she was head of the English Department at South High School in Valley Stream, New York, and was one of the architects of the school’s comprehensive writing program. Although she has written poetry all her life, it was only while working with Andrea Chapin in her Advanced Fiction Workshop for three semesters at NYU that Ms. Walsh became interested in the short story. “At the Lake” is one of the stories that she completed in the workshops. Now retired, she continues to write fiction and poetry at her home on Manhasset Bay on Long Island.
Daniel Schwab was born in Philadelphia in 1973, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995. There he was editor-in-chief of Punch Bowl, Penn’s second oldest publication and chief humor magazine. After graduation Daniel briefly wrote for New York magazine before turn his attention to screenwriting. Daniel recently earned his Certificate in Screenwriting from NYU, and has continued to participate in screenwriting courses.The Misogynist is his third screenplay.
Joseph Hallstein is a retired English teacher from the Bellmore-Merrick school system. He received a joint B.A. degree in Philosophy and English from Fordham University and holds advanced degrees in both fields. In the Ocean Almanac he has described his remarkable open-water swim with a beluga whale in the waters off Rockaway Beach.
Cate Fallon is an Adjunct Instructor in Photography & Imaging. She holds an M.F.A. from New York University and a B.F.A., Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is a former Digital master printer for Gilles Peres. Residency, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada; MacDowell Colony; Ucross Foundation. Photographic work exhibited at A.I.R. Gallery, New York; Blue Sky Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, Oregon; City Gallery, New York; Soho 20, New York.
Sara Nilsson is a writer living in New York City. She has published syndicated articles in the Los Angeles News Enterprise and editorials in Seal Beach Journal. Her first novel, FALLING HIGHER, is being considered for the Tupelo Press Literary Fiction Prize and the James Jones First Novel Fellowship. She recently completed her first screenplay and has received a fellowship from Summer Literary Seminars based on an excerpt from her second novel, HUMANITY IN PAIRS.