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VOL 4: KALEIDOSCOPIC POINT

Sherman Alexie is the author of twenty-two books, including The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, winner of the 2007 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, War Dances, winner of the 2010 PEN Faulkner Award, and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, a PEN Hemingway Special Citation winner. He is also the winner of the 2001 PEN Malamud Award for Excellence in the Art of the Short Story. Smoke Signals, the film he wrote and co-produced, won the Audience Award and Filmmakers’ Trophy at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. He lives with his family in Seattle, Washington.

Arlene Ang is the author of The Desecration of Doves (2005), Secret Love Poems (Rubicon Press, 2007), Bundles of Letters Including A, V and Epsilon (Texture Press, 2008), co-written with Valerie Fox, and Seeing Birds in Church is a Kind of Adieu (Cinnamon Press, 2010). Her poems have appeared in Ambit, Caketrain, Diagram, Poetry Ireland, Poet Lore, Rattle, Salt Hill as well as the Best of the Web anthologies 2008 and 2009 (Dzanc Books). She lives in Spinea, Italy where she serves as staff editor for The Pedestal Magazine and Press 1.

Aaron Asbury is a local Orlando photographer who has traversed many avenues in the arts over the past 20 years and found his voice in concert and event photography. His true passion of fine art grew from humble beginnings. Raised on a working farm in Kentucky, he was intrigued with the people and the nature that surrounded him.

Janee J. Baugher, a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and Bread Loaf Conference participant, holds degrees from Boston University and Eastern Washington University. A former poetry editor of Willow Springs and Switched-on Gutenberg, Baugher regularly collaborates with visual artists, composers, and choreographers. Her recent collaborations were produced at University of Cincinnati–Conservatory of Music, Interlochen Center for the Arts (Interlochen, MI), and Dance Now! Ensemble (Miami Beach, FL). Baugher is the author of the collection of ekphrastic and travel poems, Coördinates of Yes (Ahadada Books), and in March 2011, she presented her work at the Library of Congress.

Carmen Berenguer is a Chilean poet, audio-visual artist and reporter. She has organized the Chilean Women’s Literature Congress, created a documentary (Delito y Traicion) on women in art and politics, and her work has been published in many books and anthologies. Her blog is at: carmen-berenguer.blogspot.com.

Amaranth Borsuk is the author of a chapbook-length poem, Tonal Saw (The Song Cave, 2010), and the augmented reality chapbook Between Page and Screen (artist’s book, 2011, with Brad Bouse). Her poems have recently appeared in Colorado Review, Columbia Poetry Review, FIELD and Denver Quarterly. Collaborative translations with Gabriela Jauregui of Oulipo poet Paul Braffort have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Caketrain and Aufgabe. She is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at MIT.

Wendy Burk is the author of two poetry chapbooks, The Place Names the Place Named and The Deer, and the translator of Tedi López Mills’s While Light is Built. You can read recent poems and translations in Spiral Orb, The Drunken Boat, The Literary Review, and Tygerburning. Other projects include Borderlands Theater’s Tucson Pastorela and (F)light, a song cycle about migration along the northern and southern borders of the United States. Wendy’s poem in this issue comes from Transcripts of Tree Talks: Southern Arizona, a dissertation study consisting of unstructured interviews with 8 Southern Arizona trees, conducted under the auspices of her mind.

Katie Burpo graduated from DePauw University with a degree in creative writing and holds an MFA in Fiction from Western Michigan University. She recently studied under Stuart Dybek in Czech Republic as part of the Prague Summer Program. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Chautauqua and Barely South.

Sarawut Chutiwongpeti graduated from the Departmen of Fine and Applied Arts at Chulalongkorn University in 1996. Since graduation, he has been working as a media artist with Cyber Lab at the Center of Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University.

Star Coulbrooke is responsible for Helicon West, a bi-monthly open readings/featured readers series in Logan, Utah. Her poems appear in journals such as Poetry International and Sugar House Review. Walking the Bear (Outlaw Artists Press) is her most recent poetry collection.

Bruce Covey lives in Atlanta, GA, where he teaches at Emory University, edits Coconut Poetry, and curates the What’s New in Poetry reading series. My fourth book of poetry, Glass Is Really a Liquid, was published in the fall of 2010 by No Tell Books.

Willie Davis, a native of Whitesburg , Kentucky, won the Willesden Herald International Short Story Prize (judged by Zadie Smith) and the Katherine Anne Porter Prize (judged by Amy Hempel). His fiction has appeared in The Guardian, The Kenyon Review, storySouth, and Urbanite Magazine among other places.

William Doreski lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. His latest collection of poetry is Waiting for the Angel (2009). He has published three critical studies, including Robert Lowell’s Shifting Colors.  His fiction, essays, poetry, and reviews have appeared in many journals, including Massachusetts Review, Notre Dame Review, The Alembic, New England Quarterly, Harvard Review, Modern Philology, Antioch Review, Natural Bridge.  He won the 2010 Aesthetica Creative Works competition in poetry.

Kate Durbin is a Los Angeles-based writer and performance artist. She is author of the poetry collections The Ravenous Audience (Akashic Books, 2009), and, with Amaranth Borsuk, Excess Exhibit (Zg Press, forthcoming). She is also author of the conceptual fashion book The Fashion Issue (Zg Press, forthcoming), and four chapbooks. She is founding editor of the online journal Gaga Stigmata: Critical Writings and Art About Lady Gaga.

Jesse Patrick Ferguson’s poems and reviews have been published in ten countries, in both print and online formats. Recently, his writing has appeared in Canadian Literature, The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, Poetry Ireland Review, The Walrus, Poetry and Harper’s. His work has also been anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry in English 2009, edited by A.F. Moritz. Jesse is a poetry editor for The Fiddlehead, and in fall 2009 he published his first full-length poetry collection, Harmonics (Freehand Books). He is also a folk singer and multi-instrumentalist.

Yolanda Franklin is a third generation, north Florida native born in the state’s capital— Tallahassee. She currently teaches Dual Enrollment English, Reading, and English II at “THE” Manatee High School in Bradenton, Florida, and serves as an Adjunct faculty member at State College of Florida. Her work has appeared in Sugarhouse Review and The Hoot & Howl of the Owl Anthology of Hurston Wright Writers’ Week. She enjoys Salsa dancing, food tasting, and makeup artistry.

Jesse Glass makes his home in Tokyo, where he teaches American literature and history at Meikai (Bright Sea) University.

Racquel Goodison was born and grew up in Kingston 20, Jamaica. She earned a doctorate in English at Binghamton University and is currently an assistant professor at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Her stories can be found in such literary journals as the Black Arts Quarterly, Proud Flesh Journal, Kweli Journal, and Drunken Boat.

Liz Henry is a blogger, poet, translator, editor, and web developer. She lives on a houseboat, and runs Burns This Press. You can find her at http://bookmaniac.org.

Tania Hershman‘s first collection, The White Road and Other Stories, was commended, 2009 Orange Award for New Writers. She is currently writer-in-residence in the Science Faculty at Bristol University and has been awarded an Arts Council England grant to work on a collection of biology-inspired fictions.

David Hicks is a native New Yorker who lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife Cynthia. He teaches literature and fiction writing at Regis University in Denver, where his two children, Stephen and Caitlin, are studying. His short stories have been published in Glimmer Train, Colorado Review, GSU Review (now New South), and South Dakota Review. He has just completed his first novel, The Ruins, about an 18-year-old from the Bronx visiting his family in Italy and coming to terms with his sister’s death.

Karen Holden is a poet, painter, and book artist. She is currently the development writer at Marymount College in Palos Verdes, California.

Janis Butler Holm lives in Athens, Ohio, where she has served as Associate Editor for _Wide Angle_, the film journal. Her essays, stories, poems, and performance pieces have appeared in small-press, national, and international magazines. Her plays have been produced in the U.S., Canada, and England.

Erin Hoover co-hosts a monthly podcast which features first books from poets and fiction writers, Late Night Library. She lives in Brooklyn.

Jac Jemc lives in Chicago. Her chapbook, This Stranger She’d Invited In, is due out from Greying Ghost Press early next year and her first novel, My Only Wife, is forthcoming from Dzanc Books in 2012. She blogs regularly at jacjemc.wordpress.com.

Maria Jones lives in Titusville, Florida. She is currently studying alternative medicine at Everglades University in Orlando, Florida, and has been studying photography for six or so years.

Zack Kleyn is an artist based in the Los Angeles area.

Kathryn Kruse graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison with a minor in Creative Writing and then spent several years exploring the world.

Robin Linn facilitates local poetry workshops around themes including playfulness and elements of craft. She likes to paint when she has time.

Jaime Margary is a painter, sculptor, animator, illustrator, and secret writer and photographer.

Miranda Merklein is a journalist and English teacher living in Santa Fe New Mexico. Her work has appeared in Oxford American, Iron Horse Literary Review, Word Riot, and many other publications.

Rachel Nagelberg is a graduate student in USF’s creative writing program.

T.A. Noonan is the author of Petticoat Government (Gold Wake Press, 2011) and The Bone Folders (Sundress Publications, 2011). Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter, Verse Daily, Phoebe, RHINO, Harpur Palate, and many others. She is currently working on a novel.

Anne Pitkin‘s third collection, Winter Arguments, is just out from Ahadada Press. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Poetry Review, The New Orleans Review and many others. She has worked in the Washington State Poetry in the Schools program and taught Community College English. She was an editor of Fine Madness, an international poetry magazine produced in Seattle until its retirement after a successful twenty-five years. She currently lives in Seattle.

Ruth Polleys, a life-long New Englander, serves as Assistant Web Editor for Alimentum: The Literature of Food and proofreader-on-call for select and top secret projects. Her writing has appeared in Alimentum, Charles River Review, and Six Word Stories. She’s currently an MFA candidate in the Bennington Writing Seminars.

Lynne Potts is currently Poetry Editor of AGNI and former Poetry Editor of the Columbia Journal of Literature and Art. She lives in New York and Boston. Her work has appeared in Paris Review, American Literary Review, Meridian, Guernica, American Letters and Commentary, Southern Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Southwest Review, Inkwell, Backwards City Review, Oxford Magazine, Nimrod, The Journal, New Orleans Review, Southern Humanities Review, Dalhousie, AGNI, and Cumberland Review among others.

shathley Q is Director of the Knowledge Systems Unit at Second Vector, a cultural studies-business think tank, and Comics Editor at PopMatters.com, an online commentary and analysis magazine focusing on popular culture.

Helen Silverstein, co-editor of Southern Women’s Review, is an author of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. She has published in journals as diverse as OBIT magazine and Big Pulp. Helen enjoys playing with words and form to push the boundaries of what we think we know or experience. Helen has a BA from Bowdoin College and an MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has studied creative writing intensively in Maine through the Stonecoast Creative Writing Program.

Noel Sloboda currently lives in Pennsylvania, where he serves as dramaturg for the Harrisburg Shakespeare Company and teaches at Penn State York. His poetry has recently appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Redivider, Pennsylvania College English, and The Shakespeare Newsletter. He is the author of the collection Shell Games (2008) as well as two chapbooks: Of Things Passed (2010) and Stages (2010).

Bishakh Som is an architect and artist from Brooklyn, NY. His work has been published in the comix anthologies Hi-horse and Blurred Vision as well as in his solo book, Angel. Some of his work can be seen at hi-horse.com.

N. A’Yara Stein, born in Memphis in 1971, is a Romani-American poet and writer living on a chicory farm. She holds an MFA from the University of Arkansas and is a grant recipient of the Michigan Art Council and the Arkansas Arts Council and was the former editor of the arts quarterly Gypsy Blood Review. She’s published in America, The New Orleans Review, The Birmingham Poetry Review, The Oxford American, California Quarterly, Chiron Review, Crossroads: a Journal of Southern Culture, Great Midwestern Quarterly, and Poetry Motel among others. Ms. Stein lives near Chicago with her sons.

Nataniel Taggart is an editor of the semi-annual poetry magazine, Sugar House Review. He lives in Salt Lake City.

Robert Walker began writing poetry while playing bass in the cover-band ManHole (an all male group that played songs originally recorded by Courtney Love’s mid-90s band Hole). After ManHole split, sighting artistic differences, Walker enjoyed a brief solo career opening for Ru Paul. After a scandal involving George Michael and a public restroom forced him out of the music business he became a High School teacher in rural Florida; where his colorful tales of life on the road lead to him being known as the “eccentric” English teacher. Robert is a graduate of the Virginia Tech MFA program, and his poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming from Ashe’: The Journal of Experimental Spirituality, Knockout, 5AM, Limp Wrist, Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, Mipoesias, Pearl, and Poet Lore. He was part of the reading series for the 2008 Saints & Sinners literary festival in New Orleans. Robert claims no responsibility for any historical inaccuracies in this biography.

Natalie Young is a graphic designer and editor for the poetry magazine Sugar House Review, based out of Salt Lake City. Her recent publications include Tar River Poetry, Terrain.org, Chiron Review, The Dos Passos Review, and Redactions: Poetry & Poetics. She’s a fan of Bill Murray and peanut butter.