Published Spring 2007
 
Contributors' Notes
Poetry & Fiction | Interviews, Revaluations, & Surveying the Field
Poetry / Fiction
Anne Baldo is a grocery store cashier.
Shaindel Beers teaches at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon. Her poetry, fiction, and social commentary have appeared in Poetry Miscellany, Hunger Mountain, and the Willow Review. She is the poetry editor of Contrary Magazine.
Linda Lee Crosfield spent over 30 years in the travel business in Canada. She's on the editorial committee for WordWorks, the journal of the Federation of BC Writers, and lives in Ootischenia in South East BC.
Cindy Dean-Morrison earned both a Bachelor of Education and Arts Degree at the University of Regina. She teaches adults during the day and has had work in a variety of genres published in Grain, Western People, The Observer, and Our Times.
Peggy Smith Duke is a retired human resources professional and has published in newspapers, professional journals, and magazines for 30 years. Her poetry has appeared in Subtropics, Southern Hum, Main Street Rag, and elsewhere.
Chris Gavaler's fiction appears in Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Boulevard, and many others. He completed an MFA at the University of Virginia and now teaches at Washington and Lee University.
Gary Geddes has written and edited more than 35 books and won a dozen national and international literary awards. "Ladies and Escorts" is from a forthcoming collection of poems called Falsework. He served as Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture at Western Washington University 1998-2001.
Alisa Gordaneer is a writer and editor living on an urban homestead in Victoria, Canada. She's currently working on two novels and a collection of poetry.
Lea Harper is the author of two collections of poems, All that Saves Us and Shadow Crossing (Black Moss Press) and three recordings. She lives on a lake in Haliburton County (Ontario) where she is the Arts and Entertainment feature writer for the Highlands Communicator.
Mark Jacob is foreign/national news editor at the Chicago Tribune. He is the co-author of three non-fiction books: The Game That Was: The George Brace Baseball Photo Collection (1995), Wrigley Field: A Celebration of the Friendly Confines (2002), and the forthcoming Chicago Under Glass: Early Photographs From the Chicago Daily News. Bryan Tso Jones has been published in the Crab Orchard Review and Runes. He was a finalist for the 2006 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and currently lives in Chico, California.
Susan Keith retired early due to worsening Multiple Sclerosis symptoms, after fifteen years of practicing corporate law. Since then she has pursued her lifelong dream of writing.
Joan Mazza has worked as a Florida licensed mental health counselor, writing coach, sex therapist, and medical microbiologist and has appeared on radio and television as a dream specialist. She is the author of six books, including Dreaming Your Real Self (Perigee/Penguin 1998).
Susan McMaster's ninth book and fourth CD, Until the Light Bends, was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Award and Lampman Poetry Prize. She edits such volumes as Waging Peace: Poetry and Political Action. She works at the National Gallery, where the strike that prompted this poem took place.
Tam Lin Neville's poems have been published in Harvard Review, Mademoiselle, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Her book of poems, Journey Cake, was published by BkMk Press. She is an editor of Off The Grid Press, a new press that publishes books of poetry by people over sixty.
Sarah Sarai has published poems in ZYZZYVA, Fine Madness, FRiGG, and The Threepenny Review.
Ingrid Satelmajer has a published fiction in The Massachusetts Review, and articles in Book History and American Periodicals. She currently teaches at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Adam Shechter has published in Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Home Planet News, and The Subway Chronicles, among other publications. Adam is the editor of the forthcoming poetry journal The Blue Jew Yorker. He was born, raised and continues to reside in Brooklyn.
Paul Tyler's poems have appeared in Prairie Fire, The Malahat Review, Event, Grain, Canadian Literature, and elsewhere. The poem "Feeding Rena" is based on his experience working in an Alzheimer's care facility.
Tom Wayman's newest book of poems is High Speed Through Shoaling Water (2007). He teaches at the University of Calgary, Alberta, and served as the Fulbright Visiting Chair in Creative Writing at Arizona State University in winter 2007. His first collection of short fiction, Boundary Country, is scheduled to appear in 2007.
Interviews, Revaluations, & Surveying the Field
Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics (emeritus) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Lennard J. Davis is a Professor of English, Disability Studies, and Medical Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he heads Project Biocultures. His forthcoming books are Obsession: The Biography of a Disease and The Country of Lost Children: A Natural History of Artificial Insemination.
Nancy K. Miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her most recent book is But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People's Lives (Columbia UP, 2002).
Farnoosh Moshiri is the author of At the Wall of the Almighty, The Bathhouse, and Against Gravity.
James Schamus is CEO of Focus Features and a University Lecturer in Film at Columbia University.
Amardeep Singh is Assistant Professor of English at Lehigh University. His book, Literary Secularism: Religion and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Fiction, was published by Cambridge Scholars Press in 2006.
Robin J. Sowards is Assistant Professor of English at Hobart & William Smith Colleges. He is currently at work on two projects, one on Chomsky and literary theory, the other on materialism and theology in Browning and Hopkins.
John H. Summers is Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard, where he has taught since 2000. He is finishing a biography of C. Wright Mills.
Laura Wright teaches postcolonial literature at Western Carolina University. Her book, Writing 'Out of All the Camps': J. M. Coetzee's Narratives of Displacement, was published by Routledge in 2006.
Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of California, Berkeley, where he works in European intellectual history and Jewish history. His scholarly work has appeared in Literature and Theology and his journalism in Gastronomica. |
