CONTRIBUTORS
Roy Bentley’s work has been recognized with fellowships from the NEA, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Ohio Arts Council. His poem, “Famous Blue Raincoat,” won the American Literary Review Poetry Contest in 2008, judged by Tony Hoagland. Poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Pleiades, Blackbird, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, American Literary Review and elsewhere. Books include Boy in a Boat (University of Alabama, 1986), Any One Man (Bottom Dog Books, 1992) and The Trouble with a Short Horse in Montana (White Pine Press, 2006). Starlight Taxi, his latest, won the 2012 Blue Lynx Prize in Poetry and will appear in 2013 from Lynx House.
Marc Berman is a business executive, having owned and operated commercial radio stations for 35 years. Originally from Boston, he began writing in airplanes while traveling from his home in western Massachusetts. Currently,he is the incumbent chairman of the WFCR Foundation, western New England’s NPR affiliate radio stations. As an adjunct lecturer of journalism at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, he teaches a course entitled The Business of Broadcasting. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Alembic, Bluestem, Concho River Review, Confrontation, Eclectica Magazine, Forge, Grey Sparrow, Lullwater Review, Paddlefish, Passager, Poetry East, and Pisgah Review.
Doug Bolling's poetry has appeared in Georgetown Review, Albatross, Illuminations, Blue Unicorn, Poem, Avocet, Water-Stone Review, Wallace Stevens Journal,
Cider Press Review and Plainsongs, among many others. He has received four Pushcart Prize nominations and currently lives in Flossmoor, Illinois, outside Chicago after teaching in colleges and universities in the midwest.
Leisha Douglas holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from The Union Institute, M.A. M.Ed. in counseling psychology from the Teachers’ College of Columbia University, and an M.A. in communications from Fairfield University. As a professional psychotherapist and part-time yoga teacher, she isblessed to help others in their deeply intimate, personal explorations. She has worked in a private psychotherapy practice for over twenty years and has served as a staff member of Cap Juluca’s Mind Body Spirit Program in Anguilla, British West Indies. From 2001 to 2010, Leisha codirected the Katonah Poetry Series with former Poet Laureate Billy Collins and currently serves as poetry consultant to the series committee. She designed and coproduced a poetry program for local high schools called Poetry Live from 2002 to 2004. In 1994, she placed second in the “Grand Dame” short story contest co-sponsored by The New Yorker and Veuve Clicquot. Her chapbook, The Season of Drunken Bees, received special mention in The Comstock Review’s Niles 2009 Chapbook Competition. Her poems have appeared in The Alembic, The Cortland Review, decomP, Forge, Ghoti, Ginbender Poetry Review, Hakomi Forum, Helix, The Minetta Review, and Sanskrit.
Jay Duret is a San Francisco writer who blogs at www.jayduret.com. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in many online and print journals, including December, Boston Literary Magazine, Green Briar Review, Gargoyle, Stone Path Review, Outside In, the Citron Review, Cigale Literary Magazine, and Fiction Vortex. Second Wind Publishing will publish Jay's first novel, Nine Digits, in 2014. Jay is currently at work on a book about eavesdropping in San Francisco. He welcomes feedback at jayduret@yahoo.com.
Karen English has been a children's writer for the past fifteen years. Her latest book is The Carver Chronicles with Clarion, an imprint of Houghton Miflin. Her middle grade novel, Francie (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux -1999) won the Coretta Scott King Honor Award.
David Hancock has received two OBIE awards for playwriting (The Convention of Cartography and The Race of the Ark Tattoo). He is also the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Creative Capital grant, The CalArts/Alpert Award in Theatre, and the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Amarillo Bay, Hunger Mountain, Interim Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, Permafrost, Ping Pong, The Puritan, Timber, and Wild Violet. His essays on playwriting have appeared in American Theatre, and his coauthored fiction with Spencer Golub is forthcoming or published in Chicago Quarterly Review, Pacific Review, West Wind Review, Bluestem, Inscape, The Medulla Review, and Crack The Spine, among many others.
Kim Livingston lives in the Chicago suburbs with her family, where she teaches English at Waubonsee Community College.
Sheila MacAvoy grew up in New York City and obtained a law degree from St. John’s University. After relocating to Los Angeles, she worked eighteen years as a lawyer in a large corporation. Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Writers’ Forum, Midway Journal, Red Rock Review, PANK Magazine, Eclectica, PMSpoemmemoirstory, The Monarch Review, Weber Studies, Passager, and others. She has also been published in several anthologies including The Next Parish Over (New Rivers Press, Minneapolis, MN) and Scrap Magic (FISH Publishing, Durrus, County Cork, Ireland). Her prize-winning story, “In the Valley of the Trinity,” appeared in All The King’s Horses (FISH Publishing/The Historical Novel Society of Cambridge, England). She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, was a finalist in Glimmer Train’s 2008 Family Matters competition, and was shortlisted for the 2013 FISH Short Story Prize.
Rachelle Neuman-Dimenstein is a graduate of New York University. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, kids and unruly puppy. In addition to a lifetime of writing poetry and short stories, she is a Marketing Communications Manager for a publishing company.
Carol Nissenson's background is in theatre. She is a professional actor and performs with and direct her own theatre company. In that capacity, she has written over a dozen mysteries and led hundreds of storytelling workshops. She has received three awards from the International Special Events Society for projects she scripted.
Maria Luisa Torruella has migrated from Puerto Rico to New Haven for a few years to work on an undergraduate degree at Yale. She would like to lodge a formal complaint against her muse for only showing up around examination times but is unsure of how to do so.
Carl Wooton's fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in a variety of journals and literary reviews. His stories have appeared in The Hudson Review, Literary Review, Georgia Review, and a dozen other journals and/or magazines. He has taught writing/literature for forty-eight years.
Marc Berman is a business executive, having owned and operated commercial radio stations for 35 years. Originally from Boston, he began writing in airplanes while traveling from his home in western Massachusetts. Currently,he is the incumbent chairman of the WFCR Foundation, western New England’s NPR affiliate radio stations. As an adjunct lecturer of journalism at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, he teaches a course entitled The Business of Broadcasting. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Alembic, Bluestem, Concho River Review, Confrontation, Eclectica Magazine, Forge, Grey Sparrow, Lullwater Review, Paddlefish, Passager, Poetry East, and Pisgah Review.
Doug Bolling's poetry has appeared in Georgetown Review, Albatross, Illuminations, Blue Unicorn, Poem, Avocet, Water-Stone Review, Wallace Stevens Journal,
Cider Press Review and Plainsongs, among many others. He has received four Pushcart Prize nominations and currently lives in Flossmoor, Illinois, outside Chicago after teaching in colleges and universities in the midwest.
Leisha Douglas holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from The Union Institute, M.A. M.Ed. in counseling psychology from the Teachers’ College of Columbia University, and an M.A. in communications from Fairfield University. As a professional psychotherapist and part-time yoga teacher, she isblessed to help others in their deeply intimate, personal explorations. She has worked in a private psychotherapy practice for over twenty years and has served as a staff member of Cap Juluca’s Mind Body Spirit Program in Anguilla, British West Indies. From 2001 to 2010, Leisha codirected the Katonah Poetry Series with former Poet Laureate Billy Collins and currently serves as poetry consultant to the series committee. She designed and coproduced a poetry program for local high schools called Poetry Live from 2002 to 2004. In 1994, she placed second in the “Grand Dame” short story contest co-sponsored by The New Yorker and Veuve Clicquot. Her chapbook, The Season of Drunken Bees, received special mention in The Comstock Review’s Niles 2009 Chapbook Competition. Her poems have appeared in The Alembic, The Cortland Review, decomP, Forge, Ghoti, Ginbender Poetry Review, Hakomi Forum, Helix, The Minetta Review, and Sanskrit.
Jay Duret is a San Francisco writer who blogs at www.jayduret.com. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in many online and print journals, including December, Boston Literary Magazine, Green Briar Review, Gargoyle, Stone Path Review, Outside In, the Citron Review, Cigale Literary Magazine, and Fiction Vortex. Second Wind Publishing will publish Jay's first novel, Nine Digits, in 2014. Jay is currently at work on a book about eavesdropping in San Francisco. He welcomes feedback at jayduret@yahoo.com.
Karen English has been a children's writer for the past fifteen years. Her latest book is The Carver Chronicles with Clarion, an imprint of Houghton Miflin. Her middle grade novel, Francie (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux -1999) won the Coretta Scott King Honor Award.
David Hancock has received two OBIE awards for playwriting (The Convention of Cartography and The Race of the Ark Tattoo). He is also the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Creative Capital grant, The CalArts/Alpert Award in Theatre, and the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Amarillo Bay, Hunger Mountain, Interim Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, Permafrost, Ping Pong, The Puritan, Timber, and Wild Violet. His essays on playwriting have appeared in American Theatre, and his coauthored fiction with Spencer Golub is forthcoming or published in Chicago Quarterly Review, Pacific Review, West Wind Review, Bluestem, Inscape, The Medulla Review, and Crack The Spine, among many others.
Kim Livingston lives in the Chicago suburbs with her family, where she teaches English at Waubonsee Community College.
Sheila MacAvoy grew up in New York City and obtained a law degree from St. John’s University. After relocating to Los Angeles, she worked eighteen years as a lawyer in a large corporation. Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Writers’ Forum, Midway Journal, Red Rock Review, PANK Magazine, Eclectica, PMSpoemmemoirstory, The Monarch Review, Weber Studies, Passager, and others. She has also been published in several anthologies including The Next Parish Over (New Rivers Press, Minneapolis, MN) and Scrap Magic (FISH Publishing, Durrus, County Cork, Ireland). Her prize-winning story, “In the Valley of the Trinity,” appeared in All The King’s Horses (FISH Publishing/The Historical Novel Society of Cambridge, England). She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, was a finalist in Glimmer Train’s 2008 Family Matters competition, and was shortlisted for the 2013 FISH Short Story Prize.
Rachelle Neuman-Dimenstein is a graduate of New York University. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, kids and unruly puppy. In addition to a lifetime of writing poetry and short stories, she is a Marketing Communications Manager for a publishing company.
Carol Nissenson's background is in theatre. She is a professional actor and performs with and direct her own theatre company. In that capacity, she has written over a dozen mysteries and led hundreds of storytelling workshops. She has received three awards from the International Special Events Society for projects she scripted.
Maria Luisa Torruella has migrated from Puerto Rico to New Haven for a few years to work on an undergraduate degree at Yale. She would like to lodge a formal complaint against her muse for only showing up around examination times but is unsure of how to do so.
Carl Wooton's fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in a variety of journals and literary reviews. His stories have appeared in The Hudson Review, Literary Review, Georgia Review, and a dozen other journals and/or magazines. He has taught writing/literature for forty-eight years.
