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Contributors
Brad Buchanan
has published two books of poetry: The Miracle Shirker, which won an Honorable Mention in the 2007 Writer's Digest awards, and Swimming the Mirror, which won a First Prize in the 2009 Writer's Digest awards. His poetry and essays have appeared in more than 160 journals worldwide, among them Canadian Literature, Fulcrum,Twentieth Century Literature, Grain, and the Journal of Modern Literature. He also runs a new operation called Roan Press, Sacramento's Small Literary Publisher (website www.roanpress.com), and his most recent book, Oedipus Against Freud, has just appeared from the University of Toronto Press.
Laura Carter
is a poet living and writing in Atlanta, GA, where she received her M.F.A. in 2007.
Chris Crittenden
teaches environmental ethics for the University of Maine and does much of his writing in a hut in a spruce forest.
Ann Hostetler
is the author of a volume of poetry, Empty Room with Light, and the editor of A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry (Iowa, 2003). A professor of English at Goshen College in Indiana, her work has appeared in The American Scholar, Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought, Mid-America Poetry Review, Porcupine: A Literary Arts Magazine, and Valparaiso Poetry Review, among others.
Lucas Jacob
has work forthcoming in Southwest Review and has appeared in various journals, including South Dakota Review, Willow Review, and Plainsongs.
Kathleen Jones
has been published in Crucible, the literary magazine of Earlham College and nibble. While at Earlham, she won the Bain-Swiggett prize for poetry. She now lives in Ann Arbor, MI, where she works part-time for 826michigan, a non-profit writing center.
Laurence Klavan
wrote the novels, The Cutting Room and The Shooting Script, which were published by Ballantine Books. He won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the novel, Mrs. White, written under a pseudonym. His graphic novels, City of Spies and Brain Camp, co-written with Susan Kim, were published in 2010 by First Second Books at Macmillan. His short work has been published in such print and online journals as The Alaska Quarterly, The Literary Review, Conjunctions, Louisville Review, Gargoyle, Pank, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, among many others. His story, "The Dead End Job," published in Sliptongue, is included in Best New Erotica 10, now on sale. He received two Drama Desk nominations for the book and lyrics to Bed and Sofa, the musical produced by the Vineyard Theater in New York and by the Finborough Theatre in London. His one-act, The Summer Sublet, is included in Best American Short Plays 2000-2001. His website is LaurenceKlavan.com.
Jed Myers
studied poetry at Tufts University and served as editor for Tufts Literary Magazine. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Alembic, Atlanta Review, descant, The Distillery, Eclectica, Eclipse, Fugue, JAMA, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Minnetonka Review, Nimrod International Journal, Poem, Prairie Schooner, Quiddity, Spoon River Poetry Review, and others. He has been a guest editor for Chrysanthemum and served editorially for Drash. Several of his poems have appeared in the new anthology of Northwest poetry, Many Trails to the Summit (Rose Alley Press).
Guinotte Wise (featured artist)
is a sculptor, sometimes in welded steel, sometimes in words. Educated at Westminster College, University of Arkansas, Kansas City Art Institute, some of his work appears at http://www.wisesculpture.com/.
