Rio
Issue Three
Author Biographies
Bayard was a 1996 Pushcart Prize nominee for "God's Shoes" and "Shrines," a 1996 Best Gay Erotica Nominee for "The Recipe," and is widely published in journals such as Happy, Oxford Magazine, the Potomac Review, Aphrodite Gone Berserk, Foolscap (UK), and the Pinehust Journal.
Thomas R. Bierowski has completed a novel, is a father of one, and has an MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. He is currently a teaching fellow in the Ph.D. English program at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA.
James Roderick Burns is 24 years old, is from Stockton-on-Tees, England, has a BA in English Language and Literature from Oxford University, and is a doctoral candidate at SUNY Stony Brook. He co-founded and edits Stony Brook's fledgling literary journal, SNARK.
Kirby Congdon loves motorcycles, immortalized in a volume of poetry called Dream Work. Congdon's main work now is poetry; he has also written letters, plays and has published a magazine. His portfolio of sculpture, Ironwork, has appeared in an earlier issue of Rio. He's also written children's plays, published in Jack and Jill magazine.
Ruth Daigon was editor of Poets On: for twenty years until it ceased publication. Her latest poetry collection is Between One Future and the Next (Papier-Mache Press, 1995). She just won the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize 1997. Early, as a concert soprano, she was soloist with the New York Pro Music, sang at Dylan Thomas' funeral, and collaborated with W.H. Auden on a recording of Elizabethan Verse and Poetry for Columbia Records.
Mark DeCarteret has poems in over sixty publications including Caliban, Chicago Review, Exquisite Corpse, Snake Nation Review, Sonora Review, Turnstile. His first book, Review--A Book of Poems, was published last year by Kettle of Fish Press. He is an editor for Portsmouth Review and works for Stroudwater Books, where he coordinates a monthly reading series.
Robin DeRosa is current working on a Ph.D. in English and teaching writing at Tufts University. Her poetry has been published in several small press magazines, and she is presently developing a series of pieces written to be performed.
Jesse Glass has work in the New England Review, the Sheariman, and other magazines and anthologies. He's lived in Japan for five years and finds it exhilarating and frustrating in turn. He describes "Conquer Quincunx" as "my take on the conquest of Mexico--text and counter-text."
Roberta Gould has work in several hundred magazines and is the author of seven books, including Dream Yourself Flying (Four Zoas), Written Air, Written Water (Waterside) and Only Rock (Folder Editions). She lives in the Hudson Valley and plays the piano.
Judy Katz-Levine's book of collected poems is When the Arms of Our Dreams Embrace. She has recent poems in Brass City, Dirigible, and Bellowing Ark. Her chapbook on pregnancy (in collaboration with Miriam Sagan) is entitled Seed Glowing in a Mirror (Noctiluca). A story is forthcoming in The Sun.
Jeffrey Loo has poems in American Poetry Review, African-American Review, Negative Capability, Crosscurrents, Raven Chronicles, and many other magazines. He has a Ph.D. from NYU and has won over the 10th annual writing award from City Paper (1994) and prizes/honors from Ginsberg Awards. He performs with percussionist Toshi Makihara .
Gail Lukasik has been published in over 50 literary journals including The Georgia Review, Carolina Quarterly, Northeast. Her chapbook, Landscape Toward a Proper Silence, was published by Eye of the Comet Press. She has completed a novel, Destroying Angels.
Richard Neumann was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and is a graduate of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. His short fiction has appeared in The High Plains Literary Review, The Laurel Review, The Wisconsin Review, among others. He is a Bread Loaf Scholar and recipient of Cottonwood Magazine's Alice Carter Award for Best Short Fiction.
Kenneth
Pobo has work in Atlanta Review, Colorado Review, Dalhousie Review,
Mudfish, Nimrod, Old Crow, Hawaii Review, Cumberland Poetry Review, Indiana
Review, and elsewhere.
A chapbook called Ravens and Bad Bananas came out from Osric Press
in 1995. Last year Alpha Beat Press brought out a new collection of his
poems, A Barbaric Yawp on the Rocks.
Kenneth Speirs is a Ph.D. candidate at New York University. Like Herman Melville, he is a purveyor of personal mythologies, and currently divides his energy between hunching over Melville's tomes of the sea, of adventures, of whales, and peering out his window in search of Gatsby's orgiastic green light.
Lynne Taetzsch has work appearing in Trivia, Exquisite Corpse, Potato Eyes and the anthology, Minding the Body (Doubleday, 1994), among others. Currently she teaches creative writing at Morehead State University.
Irving Weiss 's previously unpublished "nine" is from recent book, Number Poems (Runaway Spoon Press). Examples from visual poetry collection, Visual Voices (1994), can be found at The Unofficial Runaway Spoon Press Site http://www.interlog.com/~dal/