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Contributors
Eleanor Leonne Bennett
is a 15-year-old award-winning photographer and artist who has won first place with National Geographic, The World Photography Organisation, Nature’s Best Photography, Papworth Trust, Mencap, The Woodland trust and Postal Heritage. Her photography has been published in the Telegraph, The Guardian, BBC News Website and on the cover of books and magazines in the United States and Canada. Her art is globally exhibited, in Great Britain, France, Canada, Spain, Germany, Japan, Australia and among other locations. Please visit her website http://eleanorleonnebennett.zenfolio.com.
Ed Coonce
is an Encinitas, California artist, actor and writer. The pieces featured here are part of a 20-piece series featuring the Calabacita, or "little squash," who has been anthropomorphized, and finds himself in "situations." He is a board member of KidExpression, an Oceanside, CA non-profit organization that teaches kids from 7-17 to write, illustrates and edits their stories, and publishes them to paperback. He is also a contributing author to WritersReal, a quarterly magazine for North County San Diego writers. He graduated from San Diego State University with a degree in anthropology, and is a Marine Corps VietNam veteran. He studied acting under Monty Silverstone, and has screenwritten and acted in Sheep and Wolf an entry in the annual Berlin and Aspen Film Festivals. His eBook, Stories from East Hell is available on Amazon.com, and his newest book, Return to East Hell is currently being printed for distribution.
Doris Ferleger
psychologist and poet, is the winner of the New Letters Poetry Prize, the Robert Fraser Poetry Prize, the 2009 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, PA prize and the A Room of Her Own creative non-fiction prize. Her first book, Big Silences in a Year of Rain (Main Street Rag, 2010), was a finalist for the Alice James Books Beatrice Hawley Poetry Prize, and her chapbook When You Become Snow (Finishing Line Press, 2011) was a semifinalist (under a different title) for the Black Lawrence Review Poetry Prize 2008. Her work has been published in numerous literary journals including Compass Rose, decomP, South Carolina Review, South Dakota Review, Quiddity, New Letters, Cimarron Review, Poet Lore, Lullwater, and Many Mountains Moving. She holds an MFA in poetry from Vermont College and a Ph.D. in psychology. She has a private practice in Mindfulness-Based Psychology.
Jean C. Howard
has appeared or is forthcoming in Off The Coast, Clackamas Literary Review, Harper's Magazine, Eclectica Magazine, Eclipse, Atlanta Review, Folio, Forge, Fugue, Fulcrum, Crucible, Gargoyle, Gemini Magazine, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Painted Bride Quarterly, decomP, The Burning World, The Distillery, Pinch, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Pisgah Review, Pinch, ken*again, The Cape Rock, Quiddity Literary Journal, Grasslimb, Rattlesnake Review, Concho River Review, Spillway, Spoon River Review, Verdad, Willard & Maple, Wisconsin Review, Chicago Tribune, among 70 other literary publications. Featured on network and public television and radio, she has combined her poetry with theater, art, dance, video, and photography.
A participant in the original development of the nationally acclaimed "Poetry Slam," at the Green Mill, she has been awarded two grants for the publication of her book, Dancing In Your Mother's Skin (Tia Chucha Press), a collaborative work with photographer, Alice Hargrave. She has been organizing the annual National Poetry Video Festival since 1992, with her own award-winning video poems, airing on PBS, cable TV, and festivals around the nation.
Nikolai von Keller
has appeared in the Timber Creek Review, Oxford Magazine, Hawaii Pacific Review, and Miller's Pond. He is also the recipient of the Forbes Rickard Poetry Prize and Nathalie Walker Llewellyn Poetry Prize, as well as a 2007 Watson Fellowship for poetry. He currently works as a television writer in Los Angeles.
Len Krisak
has taught at Brandeis, Northeastern University, and Stonehill College. In 2000, his full-length collection, Even as We Speak, won the Richard Wilbur Prize and was published by the University of Evansville Press.
His work has appeared over the years in Agenda, Commonweal, The Hudson Review, PN Review, The Formalist, The Cumberland Poetry Review, Tennessee Quarterly, Classical Outlook, Pivot, Rattapallax, The Weekly Standard, and The Oxford Book of Poems on Classical Mythology, among many others.
In addition to the Richard Wilbur Prize, he is a past recipient of the Robert Penn Warren and Robert Frost Prizes, along with numerous awards from the New England Poetry Club, the Los Angeles Poetry Festival, and over 50 other organizations. He reads extensively throughout New England.
He is the former winner of the GoldPocket.com National Trivia Competition and is a four-time Champion on Jeopardy!
Justin Nicholes
is the author of the novels Ash Dogs (Another Sky, 2008) and the recently released River Dragon Sky(Signal 8, 2012). His stories have appeared in Slice, Prick of the Spindle, SLAB, Karamu (now Bluestem Review), and elsewhere. He currently teaches English composition in China and knows kung fu.
Frank C. Praeger
is a retired biologist who lives in the Kewenaw which is a peninsula that juts out of the northwest portion of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan into Lake Superior. His poetry has been published in various journals in both the UK and the USA.
Charles Springer
has degrees in anthropology and is an award-winning painter. New poems will appear in upcoming issues of the Edison Literary Review, lungfull, and Triggerfish. A Pushcart nominee, he is currently working on a manuscript for his first collection.
Debra Kay Vest
is the author of Children of the Glassblower in TROIKA I (winner of the Walt Cieszynski Memorial Prize), former editor-in-chief of The Cream City Review, and current director of The Vest Conservatory for Writers (www.vestconservatoryforwriters.com). She is the recipient of Pushcart Prize nominations in poetry and fiction.
