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Author Biographies
Issue Two
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Roger Aplon's books are It's Mother's Day (1996), By Dawn's Early Light at 120 Miles Per Hour (1983), and Stiletto (1976). His work appears in the anthologies Young American Poets (1968), Practicing Angels (1990), and Prairie Smoke (1990). He's the editor of From These Walls: The Writing Center Anthology II (1996), and a former managing editor of CHOICE Magazine. He currently teaches creative writing workshops at The Writing Center in San Diego.
Alice Brooks-Smith has her M.A. in English from Florida Atlantic University and has been an Adjunct Lecturer at Broward Community College. She currently lives and writes in Milton, Massachusetts.
Kirby Congdon has four reproductions of his paintings in the Spring 1996 issue of the review, Liberal Religious Education.
Randy Crosby is currently a student at Utah Valley State College.
Stephanie Dickinson was raised in rural Iowa and now lives in Hell's Kitchen, NYC. She has published poetry in The New York Quarterly, The Seattle Review, Yellow Silk, The Ledge, The Borderlands, among others.
T. Dunn's work has appeared in dozens of literary magazines including The Asylum Arts Annual, Gypsy, The Black Buzzard Review, and Voices International, and his favorite poets include Gerald Stern, Sharon Olds, Mark Strand, Greg Djunikian, and Elizabeth Bishop. Allen Ginsberg is also sorely missed.
Robert Klein Engler lives in Chicago. His poems and stories have appeared in Borderlands, Evergreen Chronicles, Hyphen, Christopher Street, The James White Review, Fish Stories: Collective II, American Letters and Commentary, Literal Latte, and many other magazines and journals, He has books of poetry, Shoreline and Stations of the Heart, published by Alphabeta Press. Other works are published on disk by Spectrum Press. He was the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award for his poem "Flower Festival at Genzano," which appeared in Whetstone.
Brian
Fitch teaches in the Department of English and Philosophy at the University
of Wisconsin-Stout. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Rafters,
Greenwood Review, Southwestern Review, Helsinki Quarterly, Tempus, and
Literary Magazine Review. His poetry has appeared in ArtWord Quarterly,
Poetic Space, Elkhorn Review, and Sewanee Review.
Allan Johnston teaches writing and literature at colleges and universities around Chicago. His poems have appeared in Weber Studies, Pacific International, CQ, Androgyne, South Florida Poetry Review, Orbis, Visions International, Americas Review, Dickinson Review, California Quarterly, and elsewhere. He has placed in competitions sponsored by the Roberts Writing Awards and the Academy of American Poets, and has published scholarly work in Review of Contemporary Fiction and Twentieth Century Literature. In 1996 Mellon Poetry Press published his first collection of poetry, Tasks of Survival.
Stephanie Jones is a graduate of the University of Texas-Austin, and San Francisco State University. She lives in Austin. Her poems have appeared in Wolf Head Quarterly (Duluth), Knocked (Swarthmore), and Damaged Goods (Los Angeles).
Suzy Lamson has been writing poetry seriously for the past 8 years. Her poems have been published in various literary magazines. Currently she is working on a collection of poetry, A Rose Between Her Teeth , which will be published by Hanover Press of Newtown CT within the coming year. A former hippie living communally in the Northern California woods without electricity for 15 years, she now lives in suburban Connecticut. .
Lyn Lifshin has published around 100 books of poems and edited four anthologies of women's writing. Her poetry has appeared in Ms., Rolling Stone, the American Scholar, and countless small-press journals. Her latest book, Cold Comfort, is published by Black Sparrow Press this summer.
RoseMarie London is Associate Editor of the Queens Historical Society Newsletter which is funded by the City of New York, Department of Cultural Affairs. Her short fiction has appeared in various periodicals; Lynx Eye and Happy for instance, and is presently featured in several on-line magazines such as AfterNoon, Webgeist and The Alsop Review with more forthcoming in Grrowl! and the print journal The Iconoclast. She lives in New York City and is never at a loss for words.
Ken Morris is a musician, songwriter and graduate of Northeastern Illinois University. He is exhibiting his metallic art and holographic poetry, a fusion of poetry, graphics, and holograms, at art fairs through the Chicago area this summer.
Carey Ott writes poetry in order to 1) find and express himself through an exploration of his changing artistic voice. 2) keep himself from losing his mind.
Elliot Richman won Fellowships in Poetry from both the NEA and New York Foundation for the Arts in 1993. "A Passover Carol" is one of four Holocaust poems in a new chapbook co-authored with Steve Fried. Poem is also part of full-length collection, Among the Beasts, a book of poems echoing the Holocaust to be published by the Lunar Offensive Press in 1997.
J. Alan Rosenstein is a native Southern Californian, presently employed as a scientist at Caltech and living in Laguna Beach. Click here to read his artistic statement.
Miriam Sagan's most recent book of poetry is The Art of Love: New and Selected Poems (La Alameda). Her second novel Black Rainbow is forthcoming from HighJinx. Forthcoming in fall 1997 is Dirty Laundry: 100 Days of Zen, a journal kept in a Buddhist monastery with her now deceased first husband, Robert Winson (also from La Alameda).
Dennis Saleh's poetry, prose, and artwork appear widely, in such places as Art Life, Caprice, Lucid Stone, and Art Word Quarterly.
Jane Stuart lives on a farm in Greenup, Kentucky where she spends most of her writing time with poetry. She wrote "Howard and the Night Crawlers," as well as other stories about Howard and Willard, just for fun: "Howard and his friend Willard were just funny characters who got into lots of things and enjoyed slang." Jane has fiction published in Prairie Wind and New Thought Journal, and poetry in White River Quarterly, Seeds of Unfolding, and Black Buzzard Review.
C.C. Sykes lives in Waterbury, Connecticut. He has work appearing in Brass City, Indefinate Space, Juxta/Electronic and Lost and Found Times (36 & 37). He has eight poems set to appear in the next print issue of Juxta, and two poems forthcoming in Found Street.
Mason West drives for pleasure in Austin where he is a freelance writer, eternal student, English tutor, poet, occasional novelist, and all-around generalist.
Terry Wright's book, What the Black Box Said, is from Mellen Poetry Press (1996). Chapbooks are No More Nature (Kairos Editions, 1993) and Fun and No Fun (Pooka Press, 1984). Poems have appeared in Sequoia, Puerto del Sol, Rolling Stone, Urbanus, Pig Iron, Slipstream Productions, and others. Winner of the Arkansas Literary Society's Fiction Prize (1994) and Poetry Prize (1996). Finalist for the Arkansas Artist of the Year Award from the Arkansas Arts Council (1996). Teaches creative writing in the Writing Program at the University of Central Arkansas.
Ernest Yates has published poetry in thirty-five magazines nationwide and is a past winner of the Grand Prize of the Pennsylvania Poetry Society, among other poetry awards.
Andrena Zawinski is from Pgh. PA where she teaches and writes. Her first book of poetry was released as a Kenneth Patchen Prize in 1996 from Pig Iron Press. Her poetry has appeared in Nimrod, Painted Bride, Poet Lore, Callaloo and elsewhere.