CONTRIBUTORS
Matt Andrew is currently serving with the U.S. Marines in Afghanistan. His fiction has been published in Red Fez, Literary Orphans, Smokebox, and Alfie Dog.
Lou Gaglia has published previously with Blue Lake Review. Other work has
appeared recently in Eclectica Magazine, The Cortland Review, and Halfway Down
the Stairs, and is forthcoming in The Oklahoma Review and The Brooklyner. His
story collection, Poor Advice, will be published by Aqueous Books in March,
2014.
Jinko Gotoh is an independent animation producer. Her screen credits include co-executive producer for the Academy Award-nominated The Illusionist, co-producer for 9, and associate producer on the Academy Award-winning Finding Nemo. Born in Japan, Ms. Gotoh was raised in California and attended Columbia University, where she earned a BS in Applied Math, as well as an MFA in Film. A late blooming poet she is currently writing her first book of poetry entitled Dogged by Memories. You can read her first published poem, Dogged by America at http://amphibi.us/all/dogged-by-america/.
Allison Grayhurst --Over the past twenty years Allison Grayhurst’s poems have been published in over 120 journals throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and in the United Kingdom, including Parabola (summer 2012), The Antigonish Review, Dalhousie Review, The New Quarterly, Wascana Review, Poetry Nottingham International, TheCape Rock, Journal of Contemporary Anglo-Scandinavian Poetry,
poetrymagazine.com; Fogged Clarity, Out of Our, Quantum Poetry Magazine,
Decanto, and White Wall Review. Her book Somewhere Falling was published by Beach Holme Publishers, a Porcepic Book, in Vancouver in 1995. Since then she has published nine other books of poetry and two collections with Edge Unlimited Publishing. Her poetry chapbook The River is Blind was recently published by above/ground press December 2012.
She lives in Toronto with her husband, two children, two cats, and a dog. She also sculpts, working with clay.
Mary Incontro is a former Federal prosecutor, now writing a novel, a work of legal fiction. She has published flash fiction in The Rusty Nail and has been a finalist in
Glimmer Train's fiction open. She is an assistant editor with Narrative Magazine. She blogs occasionally at www.maryincontro.com.
Mercedes Lawry has been publishing poetry for over thirty years in such journals as Poetry, Puerto del Sol, New Madrid, Seattle Review, Nimrod, and Saint Ann’s Review. She's published two chapbooks - “There are Crows in My Blood” and “Happy Darkness.” She's received honors from the Seattle Arts Commission, Jack Straw Foundation, Artist Trust and Richard Hugo House and held a residency at Hedgebrook. She has also published short fiction as well as stories and poems for children.
Darren Leo currently resides in Rhode Island, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Southern New Hampshire University.
Rosalia Scalia is a Baltimore-based writer who has worked on both fiction and nonfiction. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Amarillo Bay, The Baltimore Review, North Atlantic Review, Pebble Lake, Pennsylvania English, The Portland Review, Quercus Review, Smile, Hon, You’re In Baltimore, South Asian Ensemble, Spout Magazine, Taproot, and Willow Review. She is currently an assistant editor for Narrative Magazine.
Mike Shaw is a graduate of the University of Lethbridge with a B.A. in English and Economics. He lives and works in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
Mark Vogel, a prior BLR contributor, has published short stories in Cities and Roads, Knight Literary Journal, Whimperbang, SN Review, and Our Stories. His poetry has appeared in Poetry Midwest, English Journal, Cape Rock, Dark Sky, Cold Mountain Review, Broken Bridge Review and other journals. He is currently Professor of English at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, and directs the Appalachian Writing Project.
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 novel, Zublinka Among Women, won the Indie Book Awards First Prize for Fiction. His most recent book is a short novel, Losses.
James Whitley's work has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net, and has been published in dozens of literary journals. His first book, Immersion, won the 2001 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. His second collection, This Is the Red Door, won both the Ironweed Press Poetry Prize and the 2009 Massachusetts Book Award. His third and most recent poetry book, The Goddess of Goodbye, was published by Word Press in 2009.
Lou Gaglia has published previously with Blue Lake Review. Other work has
appeared recently in Eclectica Magazine, The Cortland Review, and Halfway Down
the Stairs, and is forthcoming in The Oklahoma Review and The Brooklyner. His
story collection, Poor Advice, will be published by Aqueous Books in March,
2014.
Jinko Gotoh is an independent animation producer. Her screen credits include co-executive producer for the Academy Award-nominated The Illusionist, co-producer for 9, and associate producer on the Academy Award-winning Finding Nemo. Born in Japan, Ms. Gotoh was raised in California and attended Columbia University, where she earned a BS in Applied Math, as well as an MFA in Film. A late blooming poet she is currently writing her first book of poetry entitled Dogged by Memories. You can read her first published poem, Dogged by America at http://amphibi.us/all/dogged-by-america/.
Allison Grayhurst --Over the past twenty years Allison Grayhurst’s poems have been published in over 120 journals throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and in the United Kingdom, including Parabola (summer 2012), The Antigonish Review, Dalhousie Review, The New Quarterly, Wascana Review, Poetry Nottingham International, TheCape Rock, Journal of Contemporary Anglo-Scandinavian Poetry,
poetrymagazine.com; Fogged Clarity, Out of Our, Quantum Poetry Magazine,
Decanto, and White Wall Review. Her book Somewhere Falling was published by Beach Holme Publishers, a Porcepic Book, in Vancouver in 1995. Since then she has published nine other books of poetry and two collections with Edge Unlimited Publishing. Her poetry chapbook The River is Blind was recently published by above/ground press December 2012.
She lives in Toronto with her husband, two children, two cats, and a dog. She also sculpts, working with clay.
Mary Incontro is a former Federal prosecutor, now writing a novel, a work of legal fiction. She has published flash fiction in The Rusty Nail and has been a finalist in
Glimmer Train's fiction open. She is an assistant editor with Narrative Magazine. She blogs occasionally at www.maryincontro.com.
Mercedes Lawry has been publishing poetry for over thirty years in such journals as Poetry, Puerto del Sol, New Madrid, Seattle Review, Nimrod, and Saint Ann’s Review. She's published two chapbooks - “There are Crows in My Blood” and “Happy Darkness.” She's received honors from the Seattle Arts Commission, Jack Straw Foundation, Artist Trust and Richard Hugo House and held a residency at Hedgebrook. She has also published short fiction as well as stories and poems for children.
Darren Leo currently resides in Rhode Island, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Southern New Hampshire University.
Rosalia Scalia is a Baltimore-based writer who has worked on both fiction and nonfiction. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Amarillo Bay, The Baltimore Review, North Atlantic Review, Pebble Lake, Pennsylvania English, The Portland Review, Quercus Review, Smile, Hon, You’re In Baltimore, South Asian Ensemble, Spout Magazine, Taproot, and Willow Review. She is currently an assistant editor for Narrative Magazine.
Mike Shaw is a graduate of the University of Lethbridge with a B.A. in English and Economics. He lives and works in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
Mark Vogel, a prior BLR contributor, has published short stories in Cities and Roads, Knight Literary Journal, Whimperbang, SN Review, and Our Stories. His poetry has appeared in Poetry Midwest, English Journal, Cape Rock, Dark Sky, Cold Mountain Review, Broken Bridge Review and other journals. He is currently Professor of English at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, and directs the Appalachian Writing Project.
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 novel, Zublinka Among Women, won the Indie Book Awards First Prize for Fiction. His most recent book is a short novel, Losses.
James Whitley's work has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net, and has been published in dozens of literary journals. His first book, Immersion, won the 2001 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. His second collection, This Is the Red Door, won both the Ironweed Press Poetry Prize and the 2009 Massachusetts Book Award. His third and most recent poetry book, The Goddess of Goodbye, was published by Word Press in 2009.
