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Judith
Arcana |
Judith
Arcana's writing appears widely in journals and anthologies; work has appeared
recently or is forthcoming in Poetica, Triplopia, Bridges, Nimrod, NW Women's
Journal, Women's Lives and Fresh Water. Among her books is Grace Paley's
Life Stories, A Literary Biography; newest book: What if your mother (Chicory
Blue Press).
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Casey
Bognore |
Born
and raised in Boston, I spent my adult life in Chicago where I taught creative
writing at Northwestern University for 10 years. Several years ago I moved
here to Maine to live in the woods and pursue my fiction ambitions. I’ve
owned my own business for over 25 years, making my living as a public relations
and science writer, numbering among my clients, Business Week, and Forbes
Magazine. I also continually write fiction and have just completed a new
novel. |
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| Marjorie
Brown |
A
holistic physician in private practice in Brooklyn. Her short stories, poetry,
and essays have appeared in small presses and alternative health magazines.
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| Katie
Budris |
Loves
dance, travel, red wine, Eastern Europe, and of course, poetry. Her work
has appeared in "After Hours," "The Albion Review,"
"Flashquake," and other journals. She will be receiving her MFA
in Creative Writing from Roosevelt University in the fall of 2006. |
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| Susan
H. Case
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Has recent work in many journals, including Gulf Stream Magazine, Saranac
Review and Slant. Recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize, she is the author
of The Scottish CafÈ (Slapering Hol Press, 2002), Hiking The Desert
In High Heels (RightHandPointing, 2005), and Anthropologist In Ohio (Main
Street Rag Publishing Company, 2005).
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| Dion
Farquhar |
A
poet and prose fiction writer. Obsessed by her formative experience of the
Sixties and repudiating nothing, she is currently finishing a novel that
conjures the erased social DNA of a generation's formation. Her poems have
appeared in Otolith, Poems Niederngasse, Perigee, The Argotist, AUGHT, Xcp:
Streetnotes, Rogue Scholars, City Works, boundary 2, Hawaii Review, Cream
City Review, Sinister Wisdom, Painted Bride Quarterly, Sulfur, etc. |
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| Maureen
Flannery |
Ancestors in the Landscape: Poems of a Rancher’s Daughter was nominated
for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. Although she grew up in a Wyoming sheep ranch
family, Maureen and her actor husband Dan have raised their four children
in Chicago; A Fine Line was also published this year and produced
as musical theatre. Her work has appeared in forty anthologies and over
a hundred literary reviews, recently including Midwest Quarterly Review,
Amherst Review, Calyx, Atlanta Review,Margin, and North American Review. |
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| Bill
Graeser |
Born and raised on Long Island, Bill has worked as a dairy farmer, a teacher
of the Transcendental Meditation technique and currently as a carpenter
in Fairfield, Iowa. Published in “Chiron Review,” “Long
Island Quarterly,” “Performance Poets,” “Dryland
Fish,” “The Live Poets Society,” and “Punk Debris.”
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| Jon
Hansen |
A writer, librarian, and occasional blood donor. His work has appeared in
a number of venues, including Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, and Lenox Avenue.
He and his wife Lisa live in the exurban Atlanta sprawl. They are expecting
their first child in June. |
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| Glenn
Hopkins |
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| Susanna
Lang |
I have published original poems and essays, and translations from the French, in such journals as Kalliope, Southern Poetry Review, World Literature Today, Chicago Review, New Directions, Green Mountains Review, Jubilat and Baltimore Review. Book publications include translations of Words in Stone and The Origin of Language, both by Yves Bonnefoy. I won a 1999 Illinois Arts Council award for a poem published in The Spoon River Poetry Review, and my manuscript was a finalist this year in the Briery Creek Press first book competition. I live with my husband and son in Chicago, where I teach at a new Chicago Public School.
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| Beth
LeClair
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| Vic
Perry |
A
prose editor at House Taken Over.
His stories and poems have appeared in Tarpaulin
Sky, SNReview,
and monkeybicycle.
He lives in New Mexico with his wife Marci and five children.
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| Paul
Martinez Pompa |
Has lived in the Chicagoland area for most of his life. He studied at
the University of Chicago and at Indiana University, where he received
his MFA in creative writing. His chapbook, Pepper Spray, was published
by Momotombo Press in 2006. He currently teaches English at Triton College.
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Benjamin
Rosenbaum |
His
stories have been published in Strange Horizons, Nature, Harper's, McSweeney's
and F&SF. He is spiky and inedible. More at http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com
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| Dan
Seiters |
As
a longtime publicity manager for Southern Illinois University Press, I’ve
probably written the jacket copy for about 1,500 books and enough news releases
to paper the walls of a huge castle. Among my publications are Image Patterns
in the Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald and a novel entitled The Dastardly
Dashing of Wee Expectations. |
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| Bryan
Walpert |
His
poems have appeared in such journals as AGNI, Crab Orchard Review, Gulf
Coast, Poet Lore, and Tar River Poetry, as well as in several anthologies.
An American, he teaches creative writing at Massey University in Palmerston
North, New Zealand.
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| Natalia
Zaretsky |
Taught
Physics in a college in Moscow, in 1980 emigrated to the United States,
worked as a computer programmer. Now she is retired and writes poetry ‘full-time’.
Her first book of poetry Autumn Solstice has been published by Windsong
Publishing Co., CA. (2003). Her manuscript City of Naked Feelings will be
published by the same publisher in 2006. She
has received the Fourth Prize for her poems by Iliad Press, Poetry Magazine,
Outstanding Achievement in Poetry Award, 2003, and President’s Award
of Literary Excellence, 2004. Her poems have appeared in many magazines
and reviews. |
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