Rio: A Journal of the Arts 14-15 (2004)
author biographies (under construction)

table of contents

student section

Kristin Abraham graduated from Central Michigan University with a B.A. in creative writing and is currently an M.F.A. student at West Virginia University. Her poetry has appeared in Can We Have Our Ball Back? and Shampoo.

Thomas Robert Barnes, a frequent contributor to Rio, ia a screenwriter, telemark skier, and flyfisher. He's published 240 pieces of poetry in the past twelve months, and done readings in Virginia, DC, Vermont, and Connecticut, Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County, and Seattle, and will be guest speaker this fall at Many Mountains Moving Literary Salon in Boulder, Colorado. His collaborations with watercolorist Penny Shrawder are Fish Story (August 2004) and Naked Truth (2004), both from Pentronics Publishing.

Jackie Bartley--no bio available.

Karolyn Boudreault is a 24-year-old from New Hampshire currently completing a B.A. in Creative Writing who appears in the student section. She has had poems in Parnassus, The Oak, Potpourri Publications Co., Art:Mag, Poetry Motel and others. Her interests include poetry, foreign languages, painting, and reading.

Louis E. Bougeois is an instuctor of English at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. His latest book of poetry is forthcoming by Word Press in 2005 entitled Olga.

Sarah Bonifacio is a student at Drew University in Madison, NJ.

Anselm Brocki currently runs his own editing business. He was formerly a senior editor for Houghton-Mifflin and editorial coordinator for the Los Angeles City Schools. He has written over 2300 poems and had over 1000 accepted by over 595 publications, including The Amherst Review and Maryland Poetry Review. Mornings at the All-Nite , a paperback of 100 poems, was published by Alpha Beat Press in 1996, and a broadside was published by Lucid Moon in 2000.

Ruth Daigon was founder and editor of POETS ON for twenty years until it ceased publication. Some of her collections are Between One Future and the Next (Papier-Mâché Press, 1995), About a Year (Small Poetry Press, Select Poetry Series 1996), and The Moon Inside (Gravity/Newton's Baby, 1999). Payday at the Triangle (Small Poetry Press, Select Poets Series) based on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York City, 1911, was published in 2001, and one of her many readings was performed in The Lower East Side Tenement Museum in Manhattan, where the fire occurred. Her latest poetry book is Handfuls of Time (Small Poetry Press, Select Poets 2002).

devin wayne davis, once called "ink (or, ‘inc.’)" in an seaside vision, has written well-over 2, 000 poems; and he likes concise verse.His work is printed in the sacramento anthology: 100 poems; sanskrit; dwan; poetry depth quarterly; soul fountain; and 11 chapbooks. Selections can be found on-line, at these fine sites: rio; the del sol review; perihelion; pierian springs; locust magazine; kota press; octavo; jones av.; pig iron malt; la petite zine; stirring; whimperbang; off course; split shot; kookamonga square; and word salad.
 
Both barnes & noble and tower books featured readings by davis; he has addressed citizens and lawmakers on the northern steps of the California State capitol, and has read at annual fund-raisers for the Crocker Art Museum.
 
davis reviewed videos for a best-selling paperback guide; he has written for a Sacramento, Ca. arts & entertainment weekly; worked for UPSand the state.
 
davis served in the u.s. army; he visited Spain, Germany, Switzerland, France, and was last assigned to Ft. Bragg, n.c. as psyop propagandist.
 
davis has twice hiked Mt. Whitney. He has three daughters and is a testicular cancer survivor.

Corinne Dewinter has been a freelance writer for 21 years, and has had fiction, poems, essays, and articles appear in journals such as Sacred Journey, The Writer, New York Quarterly, Phoebe, Touchstone, Modern Poetry, and others. She published chapbooks, including Touching the Wound.

David Doran is a student from Boston, Massachusetts.

Thomas Dorsett is a pediatrician with the Johns Hopkins Medical system in Baltimore. He's published poetry in over 400 journals over the past three decades, including Southern Poetry Review, Rattle, Descant, Verse, and Laurel Review, and is the author of a poetry collection, Dance Fire Dances (Icarus Press 1993) and several translations from German.

Barbara Foster, who also goes by Belladonna, is an associate professor in the Library Department at CUNY. She has co-authored a biography, The Secret Lives of Alexandra David-Neel (Overlook Press, 1998) and Three in Love: Menages a Trois from Ancient to Modern Times (Harper Collins, 1997). Her latest investigation is a biography of Adah Isaacs Menken, the first American superstar. She has published over 200 poems and many essays in journals.

Carol Frith edits the poetry journal Ekphrasis, which features poetry based on individual works of art from other genres, with her husband Laverne Frith. She is the 2001 winner of the MacGuffin Poet Hunt and a frequent finalist for the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award, as well as a first-place winner (1997) and several time finalist in the Blue Unicorn Open Competition, among others. Her chapbook, Moving Like a Blue Flame, won the 2001 Medicinal Purposes chapbook competition.

Daniel Gallik has had poetry and short stories published by Hawaii Review, A.I.M. (America's Intercultural Magazine), Parabola, Nimrod, Limestone (University of Kentucky), and others. Current, Daniel is working on three novels.

Do Gentry lives in Sacramento, California. She received an honorable mention in the 1998 Icarus poetry competition and has published in Confluence, Sulphur River Literary Review, Ekphrasis, Rhino, and elsewhere. Her poems are part of a manuscript based on her study of alchemy.

Katherine Holmes' published work has appeared in Wordwrights Magazine, Porcupine, The South Dakota Review, Minnesota Poetry Calendar, Talking River Review, The Wolf Head Quarterly, Skyways and Icehouses (a Walker Art Center exhibition catalogue) and other print journals.  More recently, her work has been published in the internet journals Full Circle, Gin Bender, and Front Street Review.   She has also been an honorable mention in Minnesota Monthly magazine's Tamarack Awards and a recipient of an Arrowhead arts fellowship.  When she is not writing, she works with us ed books and other collectibles.
 

Bill Gottlieb is a freelance writer and editor specializing in health. He is the author of Alternative Cures (Rodale, 2000) and The Calcium Key (Wiley, January 2004). His byline has appeared in Self, Reader's Digest, Men's Health, Alternative Medicine and many other magazines. He lives in northern California.

Katherine Jacob--no bio available.

Jennifer Juneau's poetry and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in The Seattle Review, Sierra Nevada College Review, Poetry International, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poetic Voices, Whitewater Review and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a fiction prize in "Beginnings" short story contest. Currently, she is studying for a master's degree in literature and linguistics at the University of Zurich.

David Krump is an English Writing major at Viterbo University who appears in our student section. He is assistant editor of Viterbo's literary magazine, Touchstone. He has recently had work accepted in Chiron Review, Red River Review, Becoming Journal, and the first student selection of Rio (issue 13).

Sean Lause teaches Composition, Speech and a course in the Holocaust
at Rhodes State College in Lima, Ohio. He lives in Bluffton, Ohio
with his son, Christopher.

David Lawrence, a former teacher at Hunter College and Wall Street millionaire, was also the world's oldest professional boxer. He is currently pleasantly broke and teaches boxing at Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn. He wrote, produced and starred in a film at the Sundance Film Festival in 1993 (based on his book Boxer Rebellion, Maverick Press 1992), and has produced and rapped on three albums. He has published over 300 poems and five books.

Robert Lietz is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Ohio Northern University. He has published over 500 poems in over 100 journals and published seven collections of poems, including Running in Place (L'Epervier Press), The Inheritance (Sandville Press), and After Business in the West: New and Selected Poems (Basfal).

Duane Locke lives in a two-story decaying house in the sunny Tampa slums. He lives isolated and estranged as an alien, not understanding the customs, the costumes, the language (some form of postmodern English) of his neighbors. His recreations activities include drinking wine (mostly Shiraz), listening to old operas, and reading postmodern philosophy.

Edward Locke--no bio available.

Daniel Luévano is the author of the chapbook The Future Called
Something O'Clock; his poems have appeared in Fugue, Edgz and other
journals. He lives in Greenville, South Carolina, with his wife,
daughter and son.

Gloria G. Murray has published in many journals including The Paterson Review, Lynx Eye, Poet Lore, The Bridge, Amelia, Bardic Echoes, the Long Island Quarterly, and the Pittburgh Quarterly. Her one-act play, What Are Friends For?, was produced at The Theatre Studio on W. 46th in New York City.

Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poetry has appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Rio and elsewhere. Readers interested in learning more about him are invited to read Magic, Illusion and Other Realities at www.geocities.com/simonthepoet, a site which also includes a complete bibliography.

Susan Pilewski is a graduate of the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems have appeared in such publications as The Last Word, Parting Gifts and The Long Island Quarterly. She currently teaches writing at SUNY Stony Brook and organizes a small reading series there, provided she can persuade enough friends to read for free. Her poetry also appears in issue 11.

P.F. Potvin holds an M.F.A in Creative Writing and Literature from Bennington Writing Seminars and has been writing poetry and fiction for about ten years. He has work in Boston Review, Sentence, Passages North, Black Warrior Review, Born Magazine and others.

Rhonda C. Poynter has published a book, Start the Car (Warthog Press, 1998) and poetry in Frontiers, The Wascana Review, Sunstone, The Madison Review and other journals. An essay, "Jukebox Lazarus," was included in the 1999 Beacon Press anthology, The Leap Years.

Jen Provenzano is a fourth-year student at the University of Iowa who will graduate in May with a B.A. in English who appears in our student section. She has been part of a selection staff for a student literary publication, Earthwords, interned for a political campaign, and given hours to STAR (Students to Assist Recruitment). After graduation, she intends to join AmeriCorps or another community-improvement program before entering the working world.

Talia M. Reed--no bio available.

Marjorie Roberts is a psychotherapist in Los Angeles specializing in counseling cancer and AIDS patients. She has a Ph.D. from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and has work in The Cape Rock, Confluence, Controlled Burn, Licking River Review, and others. She received an honorable mention in the Montalvo Biennial Poetry Competition (Sarasota, California).

Miriam Sagan's most recent books are a collection of poetry, RAG TRADE (La Alameda) and SEARCHING FOR A MUSTARD SEED: A Young Widow's Unconventional Story (Quality Words in Print), winner of the Independent Book award.

Melanie Simms is a senior at Shippenberg University, completing her B.A. in English literature who appears in our student section. She is president of Shippenberg Poetry, an active performance poetry group for students and the community of Perry and Cumberland Counties. She has been published in several newspapers, on-line journals and magazines, including Zuzu's Petals and the Penn Literary Review.

Jeanne Shannon is a retired technical writer and editor/publisher of The Wildflower Press in Albuquerque. Her poetry, short fiction, and personal essays have appeared in various small-press and university publications, including Quarter After Eight, Hunger, and The Bitter Oleander. Her book Carrying Water in a Sieve was published in a bilingual edition by Hideo Yokokawa in Tokya.

George Wallace is poet laureate of Suffolk County. He is editor of poetrybay.com, and his most recent books are swimming through water (la-finestra editrice 2002) and greatest hits (pudding house press 2003).

Allison Marlo Whittenburg has published in many journals including Arsenic Lobster, Black Collegian, Columbia, Florida Review, Height Ashbury Literary Journal, and Pittsburgh Quarterly.

photos this issue copyright 2004 by Cynthia Davidson