CONTRIBUTORS
Mark Belair's poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Alabama Literary
Review, Atlanta Review, Harvard Review, Michigan Quarterly Review,
Poetry East, and The South Carolina Review. His books include the
collection While We’re Waiting (Aldrich Press, 2013) and two chapbook
collections: Night Watch (Finishing Line Press, 2013) and Walk With Me
(Parallel Press of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2012). For
more information, visit www.markbelair.com
Lawrence Farrar -- As a career Foreign Service officer, Lawrence Farrar served in Japan (multiple tours), Germany, Norway, and Washington,DC. Short term assignments took him to more than 30 countries. He also spent several years in Japan as a graduate student and as a naval officer. Currently a Minnesota resident, Lawrence has degrees from Dartmouth and Stanford. He also completed studies at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Study in Tokyo and the National Defense University in Washington,DC. A prior contributor to BLR, Lawrence's stories have also appeared in Tampa Review Online, Curbside Splendor E-Zine,The MacGuffin (twice), Red Cedar Review, Colere, G.W. Review, Red Wheelbarrow, The Worcester Review, Straylight (twice), Green Hills Literary Lantern (twice), New Plains Review, Evening Street Review, Bloodroot Literary Magazine, Bryant Literary Review, Prairie Winds, Cigale, Paradise Review, Cheat River Review, Streetlight, The Write Room, Jelly Bucket, Flare, and 34th Parallel. Lawrence also provided credited assistance to the author of a Hiroshima memoir published in New Madrid, and has contributed to the Loft Literary Center's "A View from the Loft."
Lyn Lifshin, a frequent contributor to BLR, has published more than 130 books and chapbooks and edited 4 anthologies of women writers. Her work has appeared in most literary and poetry magazines. She has been included in virtually every major anthology. She has given more than 700 readings across U.S.A and has been Poet in Residence at Rochester, Antioch and Colorado Mountain College. Winner of the Jack Kerouac Award for her book Kiss The Skin Off, Lyn is the subject of the documentary film, just re-released, Lyn Lifshin: Not Made of Glass. Lyn Lifshin's prizewinning book Black Sparrow won a Paterson Poetry Award, Before It's Light, following their publication of Cold Comfort. Another Woman Who Looks Like Me was published by Black Sparrow-David Godine in 2006. The Licorice Daughter: My Year with Ruffian was published by Texas Review Press who later published Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness They will publish Secretariat: The Red Freak, The Miracle. Other books include A new Film about a Woman in Love with the Dead, Marilyn Monroe -- just re-released as an e book by Rubber Boots Press. Among her books are Nutley Pond, Desire, Barbie Poems The Daughter I Don't Have, Mirrors, Barbie, When a Cat Dies, Auddley End, Black Apples, Upstate Madonna, Persephone, 92 Rapple, Lost Horses, The Doctors, The Jesus Poems, Katrina, Light at the End, Ballet Madonnas. More recently, Lifshin published All The Poets Who Touched me, Living and Dead: All True, Especially the Lies and For The Roses, poems for Joni Mitchell and Knife Edge & Absinthe: The Tango Poems Hotel Hitchcock and just out Fall of 2013: Tangled as The Alphabet: The Istanbul Poems and A Girl Goes Into The Woods. Malala was just published. Forthcoming books include: Secretariat: The Red Freak, The Miracle; Luminous Women: Eneduanna, Scheherazade, Nefertiti. Also forthcoming: the second update, 2002-2013 update to Gale Research autobiography series: Lips, Blues, Blue Lace: On the Outside. Her website for more books, photos, prose and news is www.lynlifshin.com
Karri Anne McCallister is a Graduate Student at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. She is studying Fiction Writing with a focus on Flash Fiction.
Eugene A. Melino lives and writes in New York City. His poems have appeared in Burningword and Grape Press. He attended the Writers Studio, an independent creative writing school founded by the poet Philip Schultz. In his final two years, he was a member of Phil’s master class. He earned his graduate and undergraduate degrees at New York University, where he majored in English education and also studied journalism, filmmaking and art history. For many years, he worked as a corporate writer. These days, he devotes his writing efforts entirely to poetry.
Joe Thornton is an M.A. Candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Miami-Ohio.
Travis Truax's poetry has been published in the New Plains Review.
Carole Waterhouse -- A creative writing professor at California University of Pennsylvania, I have an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a PhD in 20th Century Literature from Ohio University. My publications include fiction in The Massachusetts Review, Crack the Spine, The Artful Dodge, The Ball State University Forum, Ceilidh, Eureka Literary Magazine, Crossconnect, Spout, Parting Gifts, Half Tones to Jubilee, Tucumcari Literary Review, Turnrow, The Styles, Potpourri, The Armchair Aesthete, The Baybury Review, Arnazella, The Pointed Circle, Rockhurst Review, Oracle, Seems, Minnetonka Review and The Griffin. Book-length publications include three novels, Without Wings, The Tapestry Baby, and Winsome’s Delight, as well as a short story collection, The Paradise Ranch.
Helen Wickes lives in Oakland, California, and worked for many years as a Her first book of poems, In Search of Landscape, was published in 2007 by Sixteen Rivers Press. Her poems can be read and heard online at From The Fishouse. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI Online, Amarillo Bay, Arroyo Literary Review, Atlanta Review, California Quarterly, The Citron Review, Confrontation, Corium Magazine, Crack The Spine, Eclipse, Evansville Review, ginosko, Pirene’s Fountain, RiverSedge, Sakura Review, Sanskrit, Santa Fe Literary Review, South Dakota Review, Stand, Talking River, TriQuarterly, Runes, ZYZZYVA, Zone 3, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Collagist, The Hollins Critic, Jet Fuel Review, The Journal, Natural Bridge, Qwerty, Santa Clara Review, Folly, Forge, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Limestone, PANK, Mary: A Journal of New Writing, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Cloudbank, Bryant Literary Review, Eclectica, Ellipsis…, Southwestern American Literature, Willow Review, FRiGG: A Magazine of Fiction and Poetry, Hanging Loose, Prick of the Spindle, Boulevard, Soundings East, Verdad, The Coe Review, Concho River Review, Crucible, The Jabberwock Review, Kaleidoscope, Pleiades, PMS poemmemoirstory, SLAB, Visions International, The Griffin, Salamander, Splash of Red, Epicenter, Barnstorm, Poetry Flash, In the Grove, Freshwater, Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, Weber: The Contemporary West, West Marin Review, Whisperings, Softblow, 5 AM, the Bennington Review, Picayune Magazine, Delmarva Review, The Tower Journal, Sagarana, and the anthology Best of the Web 2009.
Carl Wooton's stories have appeared in Hudson Review (four stories), Literary Review, Georgia Review, and a dozen other journals and/or magazines. He taught writing/literature for forty-eight year is now enjoying the freedom to write that his retirement is giving him.
Lawrence Farrar -- As a career Foreign Service officer, Lawrence Farrar served in Japan (multiple tours), Germany, Norway, and Washington,DC. Short term assignments took him to more than 30 countries. He also spent several years in Japan as a graduate student and as a naval officer. Currently a Minnesota resident, Lawrence has degrees from Dartmouth and Stanford. He also completed studies at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Study in Tokyo and the National Defense University in Washington,DC. A prior contributor to BLR, Lawrence's stories have also appeared in Tampa Review Online, Curbside Splendor E-Zine,The MacGuffin (twice), Red Cedar Review, Colere, G.W. Review, Red Wheelbarrow, The Worcester Review, Straylight (twice), Green Hills Literary Lantern (twice), New Plains Review, Evening Street Review, Bloodroot Literary Magazine, Bryant Literary Review, Prairie Winds, Cigale, Paradise Review, Cheat River Review, Streetlight, The Write Room, Jelly Bucket, Flare, and 34th Parallel. Lawrence also provided credited assistance to the author of a Hiroshima memoir published in New Madrid, and has contributed to the Loft Literary Center's "A View from the Loft."
Lyn Lifshin, a frequent contributor to BLR, has published more than 130 books and chapbooks and edited 4 anthologies of women writers. Her work has appeared in most literary and poetry magazines. She has been included in virtually every major anthology. She has given more than 700 readings across U.S.A and has been Poet in Residence at Rochester, Antioch and Colorado Mountain College. Winner of the Jack Kerouac Award for her book Kiss The Skin Off, Lyn is the subject of the documentary film, just re-released, Lyn Lifshin: Not Made of Glass. Lyn Lifshin's prizewinning book Black Sparrow won a Paterson Poetry Award, Before It's Light, following their publication of Cold Comfort. Another Woman Who Looks Like Me was published by Black Sparrow-David Godine in 2006. The Licorice Daughter: My Year with Ruffian was published by Texas Review Press who later published Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness They will publish Secretariat: The Red Freak, The Miracle. Other books include A new Film about a Woman in Love with the Dead, Marilyn Monroe -- just re-released as an e book by Rubber Boots Press. Among her books are Nutley Pond, Desire, Barbie Poems The Daughter I Don't Have, Mirrors, Barbie, When a Cat Dies, Auddley End, Black Apples, Upstate Madonna, Persephone, 92 Rapple, Lost Horses, The Doctors, The Jesus Poems, Katrina, Light at the End, Ballet Madonnas. More recently, Lifshin published All The Poets Who Touched me, Living and Dead: All True, Especially the Lies and For The Roses, poems for Joni Mitchell and Knife Edge & Absinthe: The Tango Poems Hotel Hitchcock and just out Fall of 2013: Tangled as The Alphabet: The Istanbul Poems and A Girl Goes Into The Woods. Malala was just published. Forthcoming books include: Secretariat: The Red Freak, The Miracle; Luminous Women: Eneduanna, Scheherazade, Nefertiti. Also forthcoming: the second update, 2002-2013 update to Gale Research autobiography series: Lips, Blues, Blue Lace: On the Outside. Her website for more books, photos, prose and news is www.lynlifshin.com
Karri Anne McCallister is a Graduate Student at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. She is studying Fiction Writing with a focus on Flash Fiction.
Eugene A. Melino lives and writes in New York City. His poems have appeared in Burningword and Grape Press. He attended the Writers Studio, an independent creative writing school founded by the poet Philip Schultz. In his final two years, he was a member of Phil’s master class. He earned his graduate and undergraduate degrees at New York University, where he majored in English education and also studied journalism, filmmaking and art history. For many years, he worked as a corporate writer. These days, he devotes his writing efforts entirely to poetry.
Joe Thornton is an M.A. Candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Miami-Ohio.
Travis Truax's poetry has been published in the New Plains Review.
Carole Waterhouse -- A creative writing professor at California University of Pennsylvania, I have an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a PhD in 20th Century Literature from Ohio University. My publications include fiction in The Massachusetts Review, Crack the Spine, The Artful Dodge, The Ball State University Forum, Ceilidh, Eureka Literary Magazine, Crossconnect, Spout, Parting Gifts, Half Tones to Jubilee, Tucumcari Literary Review, Turnrow, The Styles, Potpourri, The Armchair Aesthete, The Baybury Review, Arnazella, The Pointed Circle, Rockhurst Review, Oracle, Seems, Minnetonka Review and The Griffin. Book-length publications include three novels, Without Wings, The Tapestry Baby, and Winsome’s Delight, as well as a short story collection, The Paradise Ranch.
Helen Wickes lives in Oakland, California, and worked for many years as a Her first book of poems, In Search of Landscape, was published in 2007 by Sixteen Rivers Press. Her poems can be read and heard online at From The Fishouse. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI Online, Amarillo Bay, Arroyo Literary Review, Atlanta Review, California Quarterly, The Citron Review, Confrontation, Corium Magazine, Crack The Spine, Eclipse, Evansville Review, ginosko, Pirene’s Fountain, RiverSedge, Sakura Review, Sanskrit, Santa Fe Literary Review, South Dakota Review, Stand, Talking River, TriQuarterly, Runes, ZYZZYVA, Zone 3, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Collagist, The Hollins Critic, Jet Fuel Review, The Journal, Natural Bridge, Qwerty, Santa Clara Review, Folly, Forge, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Limestone, PANK, Mary: A Journal of New Writing, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Cloudbank, Bryant Literary Review, Eclectica, Ellipsis…, Southwestern American Literature, Willow Review, FRiGG: A Magazine of Fiction and Poetry, Hanging Loose, Prick of the Spindle, Boulevard, Soundings East, Verdad, The Coe Review, Concho River Review, Crucible, The Jabberwock Review, Kaleidoscope, Pleiades, PMS poemmemoirstory, SLAB, Visions International, The Griffin, Salamander, Splash of Red, Epicenter, Barnstorm, Poetry Flash, In the Grove, Freshwater, Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, Weber: The Contemporary West, West Marin Review, Whisperings, Softblow, 5 AM, the Bennington Review, Picayune Magazine, Delmarva Review, The Tower Journal, Sagarana, and the anthology Best of the Web 2009.
Carl Wooton's stories have appeared in Hudson Review (four stories), Literary Review, Georgia Review, and a dozen other journals and/or magazines. He taught writing/literature for forty-eight year is now enjoying the freedom to write that his retirement is giving him.
