Fall 2010

Here are this issue’s writers’ bios:

Nora Burkey recently completed her B.A. in Creative Writing from Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts. She is currently teaching English and computer classes in Siem Reap, Cambodia for The Ponheary Ly Foundation. This is her first published story.

Tara Deal is a writer and editor in New York City. Her poetry has appeared in magazines such as failbetter, Flyway, nthposition, and West Branch, and she is the author of the poetry chapbook Wander Luster (Finishing Line Press). Her novella, Palms Are Not Trees After All, won the 2007 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize from Texas Review Press. The shortest story she’s ever written appears in Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer (Norton). Find her online at www.taradeal.com.

Daniel Guerra graduated from University of the Pacific with a B.A. in History in 2007. Following graduation he worked at a bed and breakfast and a cattle ranch. He also painted apartments, and last spring I was a substitute teacher. Presently he teaches English as a Second Language in Donghae, South Korea.

Anthony Jones teaches high school English in the South Bronx. He was the 2008 recipient of the Ruth Brill scholarship, awarded to the most outstanding fiction writer at UCLA.

David Kowalczyk lives and writes in Oakfield, New York. His fiction and poetry have appeared in seven anthologies and over one hundred magazines and journals, including Taj Mahal Review, Istanbul Literary Review, and California Quarterly. He has taught English in South Korea and Mexico as well as at Arizona State University.

Kate LaDew is a recent graduate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a BA in Studio Art.

Dan Leamen resides in Boulder, CO. He is currently the Writer in Residence for the Denver Minor Disturbance Youth Poetry Program. Dan has toured the US and Canada reading his poetry at diverse venues ranging from Brown University to the Bow of the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA.

Shannon McGarvey is a writer and poet currently living in New York City. She recently received a master’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow’s Edwin Morgan Creative Writing program. Individual poems have appeared in Merge Poetry, Haggard and Halloo, Persona, and the two-hour theatrical production ‘The Women of Ill Repute: Refute’. She has received scholarships to the Prague Summer Program Fellowship for poetry writing and the Greta Wrolstad Scholarship for Young Poets to the Summer Literary Series in Russia.

Fernando Pérez is currently a candidate in the Arizona State University MFA program, where he also teaches first-year composition.

Leonore Wilson teaches at a private university in San Francisco. Her work has been featured in such magazines as Quarterly West, Madison Review, Poets Against the War, Pedestal, Magma, Third Coast, etc. She has won fellowships and grants for her writing and been nominated for 3 Pushcart Awards.

Robert Yune’s work has appeared in Green Mountains Review and Hot Metal Bridge. In 2009, he received one of nine fiction writing fellowships through the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and received an honorable mention in Glimmer Train’s Family Matters contest, placing in the top 50 of over 1,000 entries. He earned his MFA at the University of Pittsburgh and works as a tutor for the university’s writing center, and as a reader for Chatham University’s low-residency MFA program.