CONTRIBUTORS
Sarah Zenk Blossom teaches composition and creative writing at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Minnesota State and a BA in English from Carleton College. Her work has appeared in the Blue Earth Review, the Minnesota Daily, and the Mankato Free Press, and on her mother's coffee table.
Henry Alfred Bugalho is the editor of Revista SAMIZDAT, a literary magazine that publishes Brazilian and Portuguese authors, and he is an accomplished independent travel writer in South America. Three of his novels and one novella were published in Brazil to this date, O Canto do Peregrino (Editora Com-Arte/USP), O Covil dos Inocentes, O Rei dos Judeus, and O Homem Pós-Histórico. His work has appeared in journals such as Revista SAMIZDAT and in Brazilian anthologies as well.
John Cravens' stories have been published in Slow Trains Literary Journal, The Shine Journal, SLAB Literary Magazine, Subtle Fiction, The Monarch Review, The Waterhouse Review, and Soundings Review. John is an architect and has had design responsibilities for international projects. He is a graduate of The University of Oklahoma, and lives with his wife in Tulsa.
Michael Lee Johnson is a poet and freelance writer from Itasca, Illinois. His new poetry chapbook with pictures, titled From Which Place the Morning Rises, and his new photo version of The Lost American: from Exile to Freedom are available at: http://stores.lulu.com/promomanusa. The original version of The Lost American: from Exile to Freedom, can be found at: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-46091-7. He also has 2 previous chapbooks available at: http://stores.lulu.com/poetryboy. In addition, all of his books are now available on Amazon.com.
Steven Levery is an analytical biochemist currently living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark. Past writing has appeared in print journals such as Spindrift and The Greensboro Review; more recent flash fiction can be found on-line at Boston Literary Magazine, Word Riot, Everyday Weirdness, Litsnack, and shortly in the upcoming 2011 annual print anthology from Unbound Press (UK). Photos, fictions, and random sociopathic jottings appear semi-regularly at the author's blog, ninetyfirst place.
Lyn Lifshin's recent books are: 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
M.J. Nicholls is a firm believer in the brief bio. He lives in Glasgow and writes fiction and its opposite.
Catherine Owen has published widely in North American and European magazines, has nine trade books of poetry out and has been nominated for a range of awards. Her upcoming book is a collection of memoirs and essays called Catalysts (Wolsak & Wynn, 2012).
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. For more information, including his essay “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” and a complete bibliography, please
visit his website at www.simonperchik.com.
David M Pitchford lives in the Midwest with his ailing parents and an ancient dog to match. A prolific writer of poems, he keeps a blog at http://bitterhermit.wordpress.com, reads voraciously, and pokes around at novel manuscripts.
Robert Wexelblatt is professor of humanities at Boston University’s College of General Studies. He has published essays, stories, and poems in a wide variety of journals, two story collections, Life in the Temperate Zone and The Decline of Our Neighborhood, a book of essays, Professors at Play; his recent novel, Zublinka Among Women, won the Indie Book Awards First Prize for Fiction.
Ian Woollen's short fiction has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Mid-American Review, and Onthebus. His second novel, HOOSIER LIFE & CASUALTY, was published last year by Casperian Books.
Sarah Zenk Blossom teaches composition and creative writing at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Minnesota State and a BA in English from Carleton College. Her work has appeared in the Blue Earth Review, the Minnesota Daily, and the Mankato Free Press, and on her mother's coffee table.
Henry Alfred Bugalho is the editor of Revista SAMIZDAT, a literary magazine that publishes Brazilian and Portuguese authors, and he is an accomplished independent travel writer in South America. Three of his novels and one novella were published in Brazil to this date, O Canto do Peregrino (Editora Com-Arte/USP), O Covil dos Inocentes, O Rei dos Judeus, and O Homem Pós-Histórico. His work has appeared in journals such as Revista SAMIZDAT and in Brazilian anthologies as well.
John Cravens' stories have been published in Slow Trains Literary Journal, The Shine Journal, SLAB Literary Magazine, Subtle Fiction, The Monarch Review, The Waterhouse Review, and Soundings Review. John is an architect and has had design responsibilities for international projects. He is a graduate of The University of Oklahoma, and lives with his wife in Tulsa.
Michael Lee Johnson is a poet and freelance writer from Itasca, Illinois. His new poetry chapbook with pictures, titled From Which Place the Morning Rises, and his new photo version of The Lost American: from Exile to Freedom are available at: http://stores.lulu.com/promomanusa. The original version of The Lost American: from Exile to Freedom, can be found at: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-46091-7. He also has 2 previous chapbooks available at: http://stores.lulu.com/poetryboy. In addition, all of his books are now available on Amazon.com.
Steven Levery is an analytical biochemist currently living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark. Past writing has appeared in print journals such as Spindrift and The Greensboro Review; more recent flash fiction can be found on-line at Boston Literary Magazine, Word Riot, Everyday Weirdness, Litsnack, and shortly in the upcoming 2011 annual print anthology from Unbound Press (UK). Photos, fictions, and random sociopathic jottings appear semi-regularly at the author's blog, ninetyfirst place.
Lyn Lifshin's recent books are: 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
M.J. Nicholls is a firm believer in the brief bio. He lives in Glasgow and writes fiction and its opposite.
Catherine Owen has published widely in North American and European magazines, has nine trade books of poetry out and has been nominated for a range of awards. Her upcoming book is a collection of memoirs and essays called Catalysts (Wolsak & Wynn, 2012).
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. For more information, including his essay “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” and a complete bibliography, please
visit his website at www.simonperchik.com.
David M Pitchford lives in the Midwest with his ailing parents and an ancient dog to match. A prolific writer of poems, he keeps a blog at http://bitterhermit.wordpress.com, reads voraciously, and pokes around at novel manuscripts.
Robert Wexelblatt is professor of humanities at Boston University’s College of General Studies. He has published essays, stories, and poems in a wide variety of journals, two story collections, Life in the Temperate Zone and The Decline of Our Neighborhood, a book of essays, Professors at Play; his recent novel, Zublinka Among Women, won the Indie Book Awards First Prize for Fiction.
Ian Woollen's short fiction has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Mid-American Review, and Onthebus. His second novel, HOOSIER LIFE & CASUALTY, was published last year by Casperian Books.