CONTRIBUTORS
Damon Barta lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he disingenuously romanticizes the prairie winters of his youth and pretends to loathe the rain. His work has appeared in Bartleby Snopes, Necessary Fiction, Foundling Review, and JMWW.
Kimberly Ely holds a BA from The College of William and Mary and an MEd from Eastern University. She is currently an MFA student at Arcadia University. She has been previously published by Cynic Magazine, Defenstration Moderator, Spirit Magazine, and The Dog Street Journal. Her most recent publication is "Steps and Missteps," published in the anthology, Slants of Light: Stories and Poems from the Women's Writing Circle. Kimberly resides in Chester County, PA with her husband, Mark.
Jean Howard -- Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, performance poet, Jean Howard, resided in Chicago from 1979 to 1999. She has since returned to Salt Lake City. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Off The Coast, Clackamas Literary Review, Harper’s Magazine, Eclectica Magazine, Eclipse, Atlanta Review, Folio, Forge, Fugue, Fulcrum, Crucible, Gargoyle, Gemini Magazine, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Painted Bride Quarterly, decomP, The Burning World, The Distillery, The Oklahoma Review, Pinch, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Pisgah Review, ken*again, The Cape Rock, Quiddity Literary Journal, Grasslimb, Rattlesnake Review, Concho River Review, Spillway, Spoon River Review, Verdad, Wild Violet, Willard & Maple, Wisconsin Review, Chicago Tribune, among seventy other literary publications. Featured on network and public television and radio, she has combined her poetry with theater, art, dance, video, and photography.
A participant in the original development of the nationally acclaimed “Poetry Slam,” at the Green Mill, she has been awarded two grants for the publication of her book, Dancing In Your Mother’s Skin (Tia Chucha Press), a collaborative work with photographer, Alice Hargrave. She has been organizing the annual National Poetry Video Festival since 1992, with her own award-winning video poems, airing on PBS, cable TV, and festivals around the nation.
Chuck Kramer is a Chicago writer of fiction, poetry, journalism. His fiction has appeared online at Scholars and Rogues.com (http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2012/06/23/sr-fiction-the-leak-by-chuck-kramer/), Smokebox.net (http://smokebox.net/archives/Issue%2065/kramer113.html), and Flash Flooding.com. His poetry has appeared in in various anthologies. And his journalism has been published in The Chicago Tribune, The Sun-Times, The Reader, and The Windy City Times.
Lyn Lifshin is a prior and frequent conntributor to Blue Lake Review. Her book Another Woman Who Looks Like Me was published by Black Sparrow at David Godine October, 2006.. (Also out in 2006 is her prize winning book about the famous, short lived beautiful race horse, Ruffian: The Licorice Daughter: My Year With Ruffian from Texas Review Press. Lifshin’s other recent books include Before it’s Light, published Winter 1999-2000 by Black Sparrow Press, following their publication of Cold Comfort in 1997 and 92 Rapple from Coatism: Lost in the Fog and Barbaro: Beyond Brokeness and Light at the End, the Jesus Poems, Katrina, Ballet Madonnas. For other books, bio, photographs see her web site: www.lynlifshin.com. Persephone was published by Red Hen and Texas Review published Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness. Most recent books: Ballroom, All the Poets (Mostly) Who Have Touched me, Living and Dead. All True, Especially the Lies. And just out, Knife Edge & Absinthe: The Tango Poems and Hitchcock Hotel. In summer 2013, NYQ books published A Girl Goes into The Woods. Also just published: For the Roses poems after Joni Mitchell. Forthcoming books include Secretariat: The Red Freak, The Miracle, and The Malala Poems, The Tangled Alphabet: Istanbul Poems. A dvd of her film Lyn Lifshin: Not Made of Glass is now available.
Jeff Lyon is a writer and magazine editor who has won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism. He teaches journalism at Columbia College in Chicago, where he lives with his wife and an enormous dog who sits by his side as he writes and does not get the credit he deserves.
Zach Milkis is currently an undergraduate English and Political Science major at Santa Clara University originally from Friday Harbor, Washington. His poems and short stories have won various local prizes including recognition at the San Juan County Fair and publication in At Home Magazine. He served on the editorial board for The Santa Clara Review, and has volunteered teaching creative writing and poetry to students from San Jose, California to Cape Town, South Africa.
Tom Sheehan is a prior contributor to Blue Lake Review. He served in the 31st Infantry Regiment, Korea, 1951-52. He has 20 Pushcart nominations, 350 stories on Rope and Wire Magazine, and many internet sites/print issues/anthologies including Best of Sand Hill Review and Best of Frontier Tales. HIs latest eBook, an NHL mystery, is Murder at the Forum, 2013, by Danse Macabre. Scheduled for 2013 are Death of a Lottery Foe and Death by Punishment. His eBooks from Milspeak Publishers are Korean Echoes, nominated for a Distinguished Military Award, and The Westering, 2012, nominated for a National Book Award by the publisher.
Ray Sumac is an administrator and Philosophy Graduate from the North West of England. He has had a poem published in Mused, and has one forthcoming in Toucan.
Lauren Yates is a Philadelphia-based poet and a recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, Lauren directed the performance poetry collective The Excelano Project. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in FRiGG, Melusine, The Bakery, and The Legendary. For more information, visit http://laurentyates.tumblr.com
Kimberly Ely holds a BA from The College of William and Mary and an MEd from Eastern University. She is currently an MFA student at Arcadia University. She has been previously published by Cynic Magazine, Defenstration Moderator, Spirit Magazine, and The Dog Street Journal. Her most recent publication is "Steps and Missteps," published in the anthology, Slants of Light: Stories and Poems from the Women's Writing Circle. Kimberly resides in Chester County, PA with her husband, Mark.
Jean Howard -- Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, performance poet, Jean Howard, resided in Chicago from 1979 to 1999. She has since returned to Salt Lake City. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Off The Coast, Clackamas Literary Review, Harper’s Magazine, Eclectica Magazine, Eclipse, Atlanta Review, Folio, Forge, Fugue, Fulcrum, Crucible, Gargoyle, Gemini Magazine, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Painted Bride Quarterly, decomP, The Burning World, The Distillery, The Oklahoma Review, Pinch, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Pisgah Review, ken*again, The Cape Rock, Quiddity Literary Journal, Grasslimb, Rattlesnake Review, Concho River Review, Spillway, Spoon River Review, Verdad, Wild Violet, Willard & Maple, Wisconsin Review, Chicago Tribune, among seventy other literary publications. Featured on network and public television and radio, she has combined her poetry with theater, art, dance, video, and photography.
A participant in the original development of the nationally acclaimed “Poetry Slam,” at the Green Mill, she has been awarded two grants for the publication of her book, Dancing In Your Mother’s Skin (Tia Chucha Press), a collaborative work with photographer, Alice Hargrave. She has been organizing the annual National Poetry Video Festival since 1992, with her own award-winning video poems, airing on PBS, cable TV, and festivals around the nation.
Chuck Kramer is a Chicago writer of fiction, poetry, journalism. His fiction has appeared online at Scholars and Rogues.com (http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2012/06/23/sr-fiction-the-leak-by-chuck-kramer/), Smokebox.net (http://smokebox.net/archives/Issue%2065/kramer113.html), and Flash Flooding.com. His poetry has appeared in in various anthologies. And his journalism has been published in The Chicago Tribune, The Sun-Times, The Reader, and The Windy City Times.
Lyn Lifshin is a prior and frequent conntributor to Blue Lake Review. Her book Another Woman Who Looks Like Me was published by Black Sparrow at David Godine October, 2006.. (Also out in 2006 is her prize winning book about the famous, short lived beautiful race horse, Ruffian: The Licorice Daughter: My Year With Ruffian from Texas Review Press. Lifshin’s other recent books include Before it’s Light, published Winter 1999-2000 by Black Sparrow Press, following their publication of Cold Comfort in 1997 and 92 Rapple from Coatism: Lost in the Fog and Barbaro: Beyond Brokeness and Light at the End, the Jesus Poems, Katrina, Ballet Madonnas. For other books, bio, photographs see her web site: www.lynlifshin.com. Persephone was published by Red Hen and Texas Review published Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness. Most recent books: Ballroom, All the Poets (Mostly) Who Have Touched me, Living and Dead. All True, Especially the Lies. And just out, Knife Edge & Absinthe: The Tango Poems and Hitchcock Hotel. In summer 2013, NYQ books published A Girl Goes into The Woods. Also just published: For the Roses poems after Joni Mitchell. Forthcoming books include Secretariat: The Red Freak, The Miracle, and The Malala Poems, The Tangled Alphabet: Istanbul Poems. A dvd of her film Lyn Lifshin: Not Made of Glass is now available.
Jeff Lyon is a writer and magazine editor who has won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism. He teaches journalism at Columbia College in Chicago, where he lives with his wife and an enormous dog who sits by his side as he writes and does not get the credit he deserves.
Zach Milkis is currently an undergraduate English and Political Science major at Santa Clara University originally from Friday Harbor, Washington. His poems and short stories have won various local prizes including recognition at the San Juan County Fair and publication in At Home Magazine. He served on the editorial board for The Santa Clara Review, and has volunteered teaching creative writing and poetry to students from San Jose, California to Cape Town, South Africa.
Tom Sheehan is a prior contributor to Blue Lake Review. He served in the 31st Infantry Regiment, Korea, 1951-52. He has 20 Pushcart nominations, 350 stories on Rope and Wire Magazine, and many internet sites/print issues/anthologies including Best of Sand Hill Review and Best of Frontier Tales. HIs latest eBook, an NHL mystery, is Murder at the Forum, 2013, by Danse Macabre. Scheduled for 2013 are Death of a Lottery Foe and Death by Punishment. His eBooks from Milspeak Publishers are Korean Echoes, nominated for a Distinguished Military Award, and The Westering, 2012, nominated for a National Book Award by the publisher.
Ray Sumac is an administrator and Philosophy Graduate from the North West of England. He has had a poem published in Mused, and has one forthcoming in Toucan.
Lauren Yates is a Philadelphia-based poet and a recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, Lauren directed the performance poetry collective The Excelano Project. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in FRiGG, Melusine, The Bakery, and The Legendary. For more information, visit http://laurentyates.tumblr.com
