Epiphany | A Literary Journal

Contributors Winter 2008

B. J. Buckley
B.J. BUCKLEY, who once roller-skated from the top to the bottom of the Guggenheim Museum, has been a Poet in the Schools throughout the Rocky Mountain West for over thirty years. She has been the recipient of the Joy Harjo Prize, the Rita Dove Poetry Award, and a Wyoming Literature Fellowship, among other awards. Her most recent book, with co-author Dawn Senior-Trask, is Moonhorses & the Red Bull, from Pronghorn Press (Greybull, Wyoming). She lives in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, in a small cabin with no electricity or running water, with three dogs, a cat, and her sweetheart.

Christopher Cahill
Christopher Cahill is the author of a novel, Perfection (L’ Age d’Homme, Paris). He is the editor of The Recorder: The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society. He lives in New York City, where he was born.

Erica Ciccarone
Erica Ciccarone, Connecticut born, lived in New Orleans for several years, where she attended Loyola University. After realizing she could not be sustained by the heat of the Marigny bar life alone, she applied to New York M.F.A. programs and ended up at The New School Creative Writing Program, where she had the divine privilege of working with David Gates and Shelley Jackson. She now lives in Brooklyn, wrestles with post-M.F.A. poverty, and teaches English Composition and Literature at three New York colleges. Her nonfiction has been published in A Gathering of the Tribes, New Orleans Review, and Econoculture. “Pit” is from her working collection, Symptoms of a Greater Sorrow. She is currently battling her sister for rights to that title. She also dreams of developing three small chapters of her Western, The Authentic Life of Bonnie Durham, into a novel. This is her first published piece of fiction.

Martin Edmunds
Martin Edmunds is the author of The High Road to Taos and co-wrote, with Lavinia Currier, the screenplay for Passion in the Desert.

Dion Farquhar
Dion Farquhar is an ex-New Yorker living in Santa Cruz with the love of her life and their twin teenage sons. Obsessed by her formative experience of the ‘60s and repudiating nothing, she is finishing a novel set in the ‘80s in New York. Her poems have appeared in Otoliths, 3 by 3 by 3, Rogue Scholars, Main Street Rag, Perigee, The Argotist, City Works, Hawaii Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and other journals. Her chapbook, Cleaving, won first prize at Poets Corner Press in 2007. She teaches at Santa Cruz and Golden Gate University.

Elena Ferrante
The writer known as Elena Ferrante was born in Naples. Though one of Italy’s most acclaimed contemporary authors, she shuns public attention and keeps her whereabouts and her true identity concealed. Her previous novels available in English are Days of Abandonment and Troubling Love. Europa Editions will publish The Lost Daughter early in 2008.

Edwin Frank
Edwin Frank is editor of the New York Review Books classics series and the author of two chapbooks, Stack and The Further Adventures of Pinocchio.

George Franklin
George Franklin has a book of poems, The Fall of Miss Alaska, coming out in the spring from Six Gallery Press. He lives in New York City.

Carla Gericke
Carla Gericke was born in South Africa, raised in a diplomatic family, and has lived and traveled all over the world. She moved to America in 1996 after winning a green card in the lottery. Carla is the recipient of various awards and scholarships, most recently from the A Room of Her Own Foundation. She is earning her M.F.A. in creative writing at City College of New York, where she also teaches. Her work has appeared in Inkwell, Pindeldyboz, Promethean, Word Riot, Route Magazine, and elsewhere. Carla lives with her husband and three cacti in a rather dodgy loft in the heart of Chinatown, where she is completing her first novel.

Ann Goldstein
Ann Goldstein is an editor at The New Yorker. She has translated works by, among others, Primo Levi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alessandro Baricco, and Erri De Luca, as well as Elena Ferrante, and is currently editing the Complete Works of Primo Levi in English. She has been the recipient of several prizes, including the PEN Renato Poggioli prize and an award from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Jeffery Gustavson
Jeffery Gustavson is the author of Nervous Forces (N.Y.: Alef Books).

Gail Albert Halaban
Gail Albert Halaban lives and works in Los Angeles and New York. The Robert Mann gallery represents her fine-art work. The work in her last exhibit was from her project “This Stage of Motherhood,” examining the lives of a group of women in New York. She is a graduate of Brown University and has an M.F.A. degree from Yale University. She is the 2007 Photography Fellow for the Design Trust for Public Space for which she is working on a series of changing New York views. Her editorial work can be found in The New Yorker, People and New York magazine.

Odette Heideman
Odette Heideman — born in San Francisco, raised in Tokyo, London, Cannes, and northern New Jersey, married in Stockholm, lived in Paris, Amsterdam, New York, and now the eastern beach land of Long Island — is a citizen of everywhere, which is to say a citizen of nowhere. She is the author of a nonfiction book, Babylore, and has written for The World of Interiors and the Washington Post. This is her first published work of fiction. She teaches fiction workshops at the Writers Studio in New York.

Joel Hinman
Joel Hinman was a film producer for over twenty-five years before turning to fiction. Currently he teaches fiction and poetry at The Writers Studio, in New York. He is working on his second novel and a collection of short stories. In the last year he joined the Board of the Institute for Mediation and Conflict Resolution in the South Bronx, where he does community mediation. He is married and lives in New York City.

Elizabeth Macklin
Elizabeth Macklin is the author of two collections of poetry, A Woman Kneeling in the Big City (1992) and You’ve Just Been Told (2000). Her translation of the Basque poet Kirmen Uribe’s Meanwhile Take My Hand was published this year by Graywolf Press.

Lorri McDole
Lorri McDole lives in a suburb of Seattle with her husband and two children. Her work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Brain, Child, A Cup of Comfort for Writers, and 400 Words. She was a finalist in the Bellingham Review’s 2007 Annie Dillard Creative Nonfiction Contest and has essays forthcoming in The Rambler and Eclectica.

Carol Moldaw
Carol Moldaw’s lyric novel, The Widening, will be published by Etruscan Press in the spring. She is the author of four books of poetry: The Lightning Field (winner of the Field Poetry Prize), Chalkmarks on Stone, Through the Window, and Taken From the River. She teaches in Stonecoast, U.S.M.’s low-residency M.F.A. program, and lives in New Mexico with her husband and daughter.

D. Nurkse
D. Nurkse’s most recent books are Burnt Island and The Fall. A new book is forthcoming from Knopf in 2008. In 2007, he was elected to the Board of Directors of Amnesty International-U.S.A.

Jane R. Oliensis
Jane R. Oliensis lives in Italy, with her family, three dogs, and two cats. She is the director of Humanities Spring in Assisi, a summer program for high-school students interested in poetry, art, ice cream, and the classics.

Sameer Pandya
Sameer Pandya has published stories in Narrative Magazine and Other Voices. He is currently at work on a novel.

Douglas Rogers
Douglas Rogers is a Zimbabwe-born journalist and travel writer based in New York City. He is a frequent contributor to The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and Travel & Leisure Magazine. His book, The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe, will be published by Crown in 2009.

Matthew Rohrer
Matthew Rohrer is the author of five books, most recently Rise Up (Wave Books). He lives in Brooklyn and teaches at N.Y.U.

Michael Ruby
Michael Ruby is the author of two collections of poetry, At an Intersection (Alef, 2002) and Window on the City (BlazeVOX, 2006). Inner Voices Heard Before Sleep is the final section of a trilogy called Memories, Dreams and Inner Voices. The first section, Fleeting Memories, is being published as an ebook by Ugly Duckling Presse in Brooklyn.

Anna Steegmann
Anna Steegmann, born in Germany in 1954, has lived in New York City since 1980. She worked as an actress and psychotherapist until making writing her priority. She has published academic texts in German and English. Her poems, stories, essays, and translations have appeared or will soon come out in The New York Times, The Absinthe Literary Review, Boomer Women Speak, Dimension², Promethean, and [sic] as well as several German newspapers and anthologies. She teaches writing at City College of New York, where she received an M.A. in creative writing. She has written a memoir, The Wrong Country, her first book in English.

Joe Tully
Joe Tully is a native New Yorker who has served as a partner at btldesign, a branding and interactive agency in New York City. He continues to work for select clients through Joe Tully Design. He is also working on a memoir, Second House From the Corner, about growing up on Long Island in the ’40s and ’50s, his Irish and Italian heritage, secretive parents, HIV/AIDS, and coming to terms with being gay.

Lloyd Van Brunt
Lloyd Van Brunt is the author of Delirium: Selected Poems, Working Firewood for the Night, and seven other books of poems, as well as a memoir, Hardpan. Over the past decade, he has been working on fiction, and has completed two novels.

Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott’s books of poems include In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1960 (1962), The Castaway (1965), The Gulf (1969), Another Life (1973), Sea Grapes (1976), The Star-Apple Kingdom (1979), The Fortunate Traveller (1981), Midsummer (1984), The Arkansas Testament (1987), Omeros (1990), The Bounty (1997), Tiepolo’s Hound (2000), and The Prodigal (2004). His books of plays include Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays (1970), The Joker of Seville & O Babylon! (1978), and Remembrance & Pantomine (1980). He is the founder and was for many years the director of the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. Among his many awards are an Obie, a MacArthur grant, a Guggenheim, the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, and, in 1992, the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Cynthia Weiner
Cynthia Weiner’s work has appeared in Ploughshares, Open City, The Sonora Review, and Pushcart Prize XXX. She is the Assistant Director of The Writers Studio in New York City, and is working on a collection of short stories.