Joe Cappello has worked in a manufacturing/office environment most of his career and has written short stories, plays and poetry about his experiences. Recent publications include “Bridge to an End,” appearing in the April 13, 2011, online issue of Fiction at Work. He invites you to read more of his work at: www.wordsearchers.org.
Liz Henry is a writer, translator, and blogger. She has published poems, translations, and essays in Lodestar Quarterly, Poetry Flash, Redwood Coast Review, Xantippe, Parthenon West, other, Two Lines, Cipactli, caesura, Literary Mama, Convergence, and Strange Horizons. She publishes small books under the imprints Tollbooth and Burn This Press.
Lyn Lifshin's recent books: THE LICORICE DAUGHTER: MY YEAR WITH RUFFIAN, Texas Review Press, ANOTHER WOMAN WHO LOOKS LIKE ME from Black Sparrow at Godine., following COLD COMFORT and BEFORE IT’S LIGHT, DESIRE and 92 RAPPLE. She has over 120 books & has edited 4 anthologies. Also out recently: NUTLEY POND, PERSEPHONE, BARBARO: BEYOND BROKENNESS, LOST IN THE FOG, LIGHT AT THE END, JESUS POEMS and BALLET MADONNAS, KATRINA, LOST HORSES, CHIFFON, and BALLROOM. And just out: ALL THE POETS WHO HAVE TOUCHED ME, LIVING AND DEAD. ALL TRUE: ESPECIALLY THE LIES. Her website is www.lynlifshin.com
George Masters served with the Marine Corps in Vietnam and later graduated from Georgetown University. His fiction has appeared in Portland Magazine (Maine), the Charles River Review, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place and Every Writer's Resource. In 2008, the essay appearing in our issue, "Missing In America." was published in the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle. He has written the novel "Trouble Breathing" and is seeking a publisher. For further reading, his website is www.georgeeyremasters.net.
Joan McNerney's poetry has been included in numerous literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Blueline, 63 channels, Spectrum, and three Bright Spring Press Anthologies. Four of her books have been published by fine small literary presses.
Corey Mesler has published in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published four novels, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue (2002), We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (2006), The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores (2010) and Following Richard Brautigan (2010), 2 full length poetry collections, Some Identity Problems (2008) and Before the Great Troubling (2011), and 2 books of short stories, Listen: 29 Short Conversations (2009) and Notes toward the Story and Other Stories (2011) . He has also published a dozen chapbooks of both poetry and prose. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize numerous times, and two of his poems have been chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He also claims to have written, “Countin’ Flowers on the Wall.” With his wife, he runs Burke’s Book Store in Memphis TN, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He can be found at www.coreymesler.com.
Donald O'Donovan was born in Cooperstown, New York. A teenage runaway, he rode freights and hitchhiked across America, served in the US Army with the 82nd Airborne Division, lived in Mexico, and worked at more than 200 occupations including long distance truck driver, undertaker and roller skate repairman. An optioned screenwriter and voice actor with film and audio book credits, Donald O’Donovan lives mostly in Los Angeles. His novels, published by Open Books, are available at Amazon Kindle.
Janeen Pergrin Rastall lives on the shores of Lake Superior near Marquette, MI. Her poetry can be found in: apparatus magazine; Halfway Down the Stairs; Short, Fast and Deadly; Shot Glass Journal and a future edition of The Raleigh Review.
Christopher Rosenbluth is currently working toward his MFA in Creative Writing at New Mexico State University and is in the process of completing a collection of short fiction. He is originally from New York, N.Y. and worked as a professional journalist before moving to Las Cruces, N.M. to earn his graduate degree.
Tom Sheehan served with the 31st Infantry Regiment, Korea, 1951. Books include Epic Cures: Brief Cases, Short Spans; A Collection of Friends; and From the Quickening. He has 15 Pushcart nominations, a Georges Simenon Fiction Award, and included in Dzanc Best of the Web Anthology for 2009. He has 230 short stories on Rope and Wire Magazine, and print issues that include Rosebud (4) and Ocean Magazine (8) among others. Poetry collections include This Rare Earth and Other Flights; Ah, Devon Unbowed; The Saugus Book; and Reflections from Vinegar Hill. His next book is Korean Echoes, coming fall of 2011 from Milspeak Books.
Liz Henry is a writer, translator, and blogger. She has published poems, translations, and essays in Lodestar Quarterly, Poetry Flash, Redwood Coast Review, Xantippe, Parthenon West, other, Two Lines, Cipactli, caesura, Literary Mama, Convergence, and Strange Horizons. She publishes small books under the imprints Tollbooth and Burn This Press.
Lyn Lifshin's recent books: THE LICORICE DAUGHTER: MY YEAR WITH RUFFIAN, Texas Review Press, ANOTHER WOMAN WHO LOOKS LIKE ME from Black Sparrow at Godine., following COLD COMFORT and BEFORE IT’S LIGHT, DESIRE and 92 RAPPLE. She has over 120 books & has edited 4 anthologies. Also out recently: NUTLEY POND, PERSEPHONE, BARBARO: BEYOND BROKENNESS, LOST IN THE FOG, LIGHT AT THE END, JESUS POEMS and BALLET MADONNAS, KATRINA, LOST HORSES, CHIFFON, and BALLROOM. And just out: ALL THE POETS WHO HAVE TOUCHED ME, LIVING AND DEAD. ALL TRUE: ESPECIALLY THE LIES. Her website is www.lynlifshin.com
George Masters served with the Marine Corps in Vietnam and later graduated from Georgetown University. His fiction has appeared in Portland Magazine (Maine), the Charles River Review, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place and Every Writer's Resource. In 2008, the essay appearing in our issue, "Missing In America." was published in the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle. He has written the novel "Trouble Breathing" and is seeking a publisher. For further reading, his website is www.georgeeyremasters.net.
Joan McNerney's poetry has been included in numerous literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Blueline, 63 channels, Spectrum, and three Bright Spring Press Anthologies. Four of her books have been published by fine small literary presses.
Corey Mesler has published in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published four novels, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue (2002), We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (2006), The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores (2010) and Following Richard Brautigan (2010), 2 full length poetry collections, Some Identity Problems (2008) and Before the Great Troubling (2011), and 2 books of short stories, Listen: 29 Short Conversations (2009) and Notes toward the Story and Other Stories (2011) . He has also published a dozen chapbooks of both poetry and prose. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize numerous times, and two of his poems have been chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He also claims to have written, “Countin’ Flowers on the Wall.” With his wife, he runs Burke’s Book Store in Memphis TN, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He can be found at www.coreymesler.com.
Donald O'Donovan was born in Cooperstown, New York. A teenage runaway, he rode freights and hitchhiked across America, served in the US Army with the 82nd Airborne Division, lived in Mexico, and worked at more than 200 occupations including long distance truck driver, undertaker and roller skate repairman. An optioned screenwriter and voice actor with film and audio book credits, Donald O’Donovan lives mostly in Los Angeles. His novels, published by Open Books, are available at Amazon Kindle.
Janeen Pergrin Rastall lives on the shores of Lake Superior near Marquette, MI. Her poetry can be found in: apparatus magazine; Halfway Down the Stairs; Short, Fast and Deadly; Shot Glass Journal and a future edition of The Raleigh Review.
Christopher Rosenbluth is currently working toward his MFA in Creative Writing at New Mexico State University and is in the process of completing a collection of short fiction. He is originally from New York, N.Y. and worked as a professional journalist before moving to Las Cruces, N.M. to earn his graduate degree.
Tom Sheehan served with the 31st Infantry Regiment, Korea, 1951. Books include Epic Cures: Brief Cases, Short Spans; A Collection of Friends; and From the Quickening. He has 15 Pushcart nominations, a Georges Simenon Fiction Award, and included in Dzanc Best of the Web Anthology for 2009. He has 230 short stories on Rope and Wire Magazine, and print issues that include Rosebud (4) and Ocean Magazine (8) among others. Poetry collections include This Rare Earth and Other Flights; Ah, Devon Unbowed; The Saugus Book; and Reflections from Vinegar Hill. His next book is Korean Echoes, coming fall of 2011 from Milspeak Books.
