artwork by Thomas Turman
Rio
A Journal of the Arts
Issue Four (1997)
Author Biographies
artwork by Thomas Turman
Michael Anania's most recent books are Selected Poems (Moyer Bell) and In Plain Sight--essays (Moyer Bell). A new collection of poems, In Natural Light, will be published next year. Anania teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago and lives just outside the city.
Guy R. Beinring has two books out in 1997: Too Far to Hear via Standing Stones Press and Beige Copy II & III from Nietzsche's Brolly Press.
Doug Bolling lives in Jacksonville, Illinois. His poery and fiction have recently appeared in Talus & Scree, Taproot, Collages & Bricolages, The Pannus Index, Dirigible, and elsewhere.
W.K. Buckley currently teaches in the English Department at Indiana University (Northwest). He is the editor of Critical Essays on Louis-Ferdinand Celine (G.K. Hall, 1992) and the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover: Loss and Hope (Macmillan, 1993). He has published widely in poetry journals including No Roses Review, Coe Review, Lynx Eye and many others. His chapbook By the Horses Before the Ruins has won 1997's "Best Chapbook of the Year" from Modern Poetry, and his work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
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. His story, "Phyllis: A Nightmare in Seven Scenes," appeared in the third issue of Rio.
Mike Davidson lives in Chicago, where he is an assistant public defense law attorney and part-time university English instructor. He has published poetry and short fiction in several journals (including "The Slide" which appeared in the first issue of Rio) and is currently completing a work of creative nonfiction, The NewestTestament.
Eduardo De Soignie had an exhibit entitled "Memories of Pangaea" at the Old Town Triangle Association Gallery in Chicago August 3-28, 1997.
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 two 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. His poem "The Ark" appears in Issue Two of Rio.
E.A. Gale has stories appearing in Literal Latté, The Arden, and Pleiades; poems in Literal Latté, South Coast Poetry Journal, Mobius, Green Hills Library Lantern, Piedmont, The Lyric, Poetry Motel, Confluence, and upcoming in New York Quarterly.
Leslie Woolf Hedley attended New York University, Oxford (England) and Ohio State University. He has lectured on American and Comparative Literature at several universities. He is the author of thirteen books (poetry, short stories, satires, essays, novella, one-act play) published by various presses. Winner of the Prix de Satire (Holland), The Ampersand Poetry Prize (US), The Poor Richard's Award (New York). His Holocaust Cantata (music by Marta Ptasynska) was conducted by Lord Yehudi Menuhin during the Schleswig-Holstein Festival. He is the translator of prose and poetry into eight languages.
David James works as a Dean of Academic and Student Services for Oakland Community College in Michigan. He manages to write inbetween his kids' hockey games, soccer games, piano and dance lessons. His most recent chapbook, Do Not Give Dogs What Is Holy, was published by March Street Press; his previous full-length book, A Heart Out of This World, was published by Carnegie Mellon University.
Tim Kahl currently teaches at Sacramento City College in Sacramento. He has published in The World, Die Young, B City, Conduit, Poetry Motel, Collages & Bricolages, Synaesthetic, and many others. He currently is at work on translations of German poets Rolf Haufs and Christoph Meckel, and Austrian avant-gardist Friederike Mayröcker's most recent book of poems/novel, Das bessessene Alter (The Possessed Senior Citizen) as well as a collection of contemporary Brazilian poetry. He is also co-editing an online literary journal called Mongryl at http://www.calweb.com/~tnklbnny.
Ruth Lepson's book of poems is Dreaming in Color (Alice James Books). She is poet-in-residence at the New England Conservatory of Music and Lecturer at Northeastern University. Her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Agni, The Women's Review of Books and other periodicals. She co-edited an anthology at poems from the feminist magazine Sojourner; the anthology will be published by the University of Illinois Press.
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.
Max. Lizard, aka. Maximum Lizard (Max. L. Valentonis) has an MFA in Poetry and Prose from the Naropa Institute and BA in English and American Literature from the University of South Florida. He studied with James Michener, White Deer of Autumn, Michael Dennis Brown, Anselm Hollo, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Michael McClure, Ken Kesey, and Allen Ginsberg. His work has appeared in Poetry of the People, Movement, the Spectrum, Out Where It Counts, Pipe Smoker's Ephemeris, Omnibus, Work, In Print, the Trib, the Oracle, and the Centurion. He is currently the Registrar of the USF Contemporary Art Museum.
Errol Miller has appeared electronically in/on Answers, Neon Quarterley, The Far Cry, XConnect, Whisper, and Maverick Press, forthcoming in Mudlark. In print he's been published in American Poetry Review, Chicago Quarterley, Oyez Review , Talus and Scree, The Pannus Index, RE:AL, The Bitter Oleander, Black Moon, and elsewhere. A new book is Forever Beyond Us, and forthcoming Downward Glide.
Rich Murphy has published more than 200 poems in such magazines as Grand Street, Rolling Stone, Negative Capability, Kansas Quarterley, Seattle Review, Slant Journal, and International Poetry Review. He writes, "I am a poet who has assimilated the idea that each man and woman is a 'monkey in the apple tree': Darwin's monkey in Adam & Eve's tree, suffering Christ's pain in Einstein's epoch and now applying a salve from the East."
Susumu Okamoto is a Japanese artist and photographer.
Robert Parham's poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, Southern Poetry Review, America, Christian Science Monitor, The Atlanta Review, and many other periodicals. His work has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize and been anthologized in editions of the Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry (Monitor Books), Dog Music (St. Martin's Press), 45-96, South Carolina Poetry (Ninety-Six Press), and other anthologies. His chapbook Sending the Children for Song was published by the Francis Marion Press. He holds an endowed chair as a Professor of English at Francis Marion University, and founded the Francis Marion Writers' Retreat, of which he remains the Executive Director.
Simon Perchik lives in East Hampton, New York where he works as an attorney. His books are I Only Counted April, Which Hand Holds the Brother, Hands You are Secretly Wearing, Both Hands Screaming, and The Club Fits Either Hand (from The Elizabeth Press); The Snowcat Poems--To the Photographs of Robert Frank (from Linwood Publishers); Mr Lucky (from Shearsman Books); Who Can Touch These Knots and New & Selected Poems (from The Scarecrow Press); and others. His most recent books are The Emptiness Between My Hands (from Dusty Dog Press, 1993) and Letters to the Dead (from St. Andrews College Press, 1993).
David Shevin is Professor of English at Tiffin University (Ohio.) He is the author of the collection Needles and Needs (1994) and editor of Getting By: Stories of Working Lives (1996).
Eileen Tabios, editor of The Asian Pacific American Journal, is the author of a poetry collection, Beyond Life Sentences (Anvil, 1997) and a collection of essays/interviews, Black Lightning: Poetry in Progress (Asian American Writers Workshop, 1998). Her fiction and poetry have been accepted by publications in the United States, the Phillippines and Canada, including Bamboo Ridge, Santa Barbara Review, Eclectic Literary Forum, River Oak Review, Coracle, Mobius, Rain City Review, Caracoa, Chaminade Literary Review, Northeast Corridor, and WordWrights.
J. Tarwood has poems in American Poetry Review, American Poetry Monthly, Poetry Ireland, Linq, Calliope, Wind, Willow Review, Main Street Rag, Rhino, Yet Another Small Magazine, Visions, and Plainsong. One of his poems won a Plainsong poetry award this year. He has two collections looking for a home: And For the Mouth a Flower and The Cats in Zanzibar.
Thomas L. Turman is an architect and the Department Chair of the Arch/Eng. Dept. at Laney College in Oakland, CA.
Irving Weiss's recent book is Number Poems (Runaway Spoon Press). Examples from his visual poetry collection, Visual Voices (1994), can be found at The Unofficial Runaway Spoon Press Site (http://www.interlog.com/~dal/).
Eugene Wildman is the director of the creative writing program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of two experimental novels, Nuclear Love and Montezuma's Ball, and lots of nonexperimental fiction.
Thom Williams's work has appeared in Atlanta Review, Visions International, Abiko Quarterly and many other publications. His book, alive beyond blue, is published by Mellen Poetry Press and his chapbooks, in the new cairo and The Rustbelt Adventures are published by New Spirit Press and Plowman Press respectively. He has a home page at http://www.voicenet.com/~willmar/newpage/.
