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Guy 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.
James Roderick Burns 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.
Jarda Cervanka (no information available)
Maureen Tolman Flannery is the author of Secret of the Rising Up: Poems of Mexico and the editor of the poetry series "Poems in Place." Raised on a Wyoming sheep ranch, she works for a plastic surgeon in Chicago where she lives with her actor husband Dan and their four children. Her poems have been selected for inclusion in twenty anthologies and over fifty literary journals.
Jessica Freeman is a full partner of Mosaic Murals Associates, Claremont California. She has executed/installed projects including National Cathedral (Shrine of the Immaculate Conception) in Washington, DC, and a full exterior granite and mosaic mural at Notre Dame University.
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.
Leona Green formerly danced as a ballerina in the Michael Fokine Russian Ballet. Her art has been on exhibit in many New York City galleries.
Ioana Ieronim
Ramona Quinn's fiction has been published in anthologies and literary magazines such as TriQuarterly and Calyx. Her plays have been produced in Atlanta and Chicago. She is the managing editor of The Playground.
Kelly Ritter is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poetry has appeared in No Roses Review, CutBank, Northwest Review, Bloomsbury Review, and others, and is forthcoming in Karamu and Notre Dame Review. She lives in Ann Arbor with her husband, Josh Rosenberg.
Joshua Rosenberg is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. "Time Running Out" is his first published story. He lives in Michigan with his wife, the poet Kelly Ritter.
Dennis Saleh's new collection of poems will be published by Quicksilver in 1999: Rhymses' Book. Other poetry, prose, and artwork appear widely in such magazines as Art/Life, Artword Quarterly, Happy, Pacific Coast Journal, and Pearl. On-line, his poetry may be seen at AfterNoon, Rio, and X-Connect.
Dean Shavit's poems have appeared in TriQuarterly, ACM, Chicago Review, Pequod, Poetry East and others. He has the world's greatest cat, and is currently in retirement from all poetry organizing. In 1996, he was lucky enough to be included in the anthology TriQuarterly New Writers from Northwestern University Press. In 1992, He won a prize from Poets & Writers. He works as a computer network administrator for an educational toy company in the Chicago suburbs.
Adam Sorkin's collaborative translations of Romanian poets have been printed in over 125 literary magazines including The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Sulfur, Partisan Review, and Poetry. His books of translations include The Sky Behind the Forest, a selection of Liliana Ursu's works translated with both Ursu and Tess Gallagher (Bloodaxe Books, 1997) and Daniela Crasnaru's Sea-Level Zero forthcoming from BOA in 1999.
Virgil Suarez's first book, You Come Singing, is due out this fall from Tia Chucha Press/Northwestern University. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.
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://members.tripod.com/~sialbach/index.html).
photos by Guy Beinring