Summer 2010

Here are this issue’s writers’ bios:

Emily Brandt teaches English in Brooklyn, co-edits No, Dear magazine, and is working on her MFA at NYU, where in the fall, she will be teaching creative writing to veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Her poems have recently appeared in Swamp, Reconfigurations, and BluePrint Review.

Megan Duffy‘s poems have appeared in Notes on the City, Along the Path, The Furnace Review, Flowers of Sulfur, and fosebook. Megan is poetry editor at The Meadowland Review.

Brent Fisk‘s poetry has appeared in Rattle, Southern Poetry Review, New York Quarterly and Prairie Schooner. He has received five Pushcart nominations and won honorable mention in Boulevard’s Emerging Poets contest.

Jason Gordon lives in Baltimore with his wife, Elizabeth. He teaches English at a high school for emotionally disturbed children. His work has appeared in Abbey, Bathtub Gin, Bear Creek Haiku, Pitchfork and Poetry International.

Mark Gozonsky has recently published fiction in Two Hawks Quarterly, Switchback, and Corium. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughters. Read more about him at markgozonsky.com.

Cleo Griffith, of Salida, California, has been extensively published and is Chair of the Editorial Board of Song of the San Joaquin. She is a member of PenWomen, of which she is Literary Programs Chair.

Patrick Kanouse is a managing editor for Pearson Education, a publisher in Indianapolis. His poetry has appeared in the Connecticut Review, The Evansville Review and Smartish Pace.

Paul Lewellan taught high school speech and debate for 33 years in Bettendorf, Iowa. For the last six years he’s been an Adjunct Professor of Speech Communication and Business Administration at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. He is working on his third novel, Twenty-seven Unreasonable Demands, about a retired government assassin who tries to complete his college degree without killing anyone. Paul’s publications include short stories in South Dakota Review, Rose & Thorn, Big Muddy, Word Riot, Iconoclast, Timber Creek Review and Porcupine Magazine.

Gabriel Shanks lives and works in the New York City area. An award-winning poet, playwright and stage director, he is one of the creators of The Village Fragments, which received a 2007 OBIE Award. His poetry has appeared in From Now On: New Generation Writing, Signals, the Moonrise Press anthology Chopin In Verse (2010) and elsewhere. His theatrical recognitions include the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Award, the Southern Young Playwrights Award and the Theatre Project Honor for Outstanding Vision. He was recently named a “New Arts Leader” by the Washington, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

Katie Vagnino is a second year poetry student in the Creative Writing MFA program at Emerson College in Boston. She has written theater, art and food reviews for publications including Time Out New York, Smithsonian’s The Torch and New York Magazine. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Merge, nibble, nthWORD, The Road Not Taken, The Raintown Review and Waterways. She also writes a biweekly column for The Sex Appeal blog and posts regularly on her own blog, The Vagnino Monologues.

Donna Vorreyer is a teacher and a poet who lives in the Chicago area. Her writing has been published in numerous journals, and her nature photography has previously appeared In the Mist magazine. She does not necessarily agree that a picture is worth a thousand words.

John Sibley Williams has an MA in Writing and resides in Portland, OR, where he frequently performs his poetry, works with Ooligan Press and HoboEye, and studies Book Publishing at Portland State University. His poetry was nominated for the 2009 Pushcart Prize. Some of his over 100 previous or upcoming publications include The Evansville Review, Ellipsis, Flint Hills Review, Euphony, Open Letters, Cadillac Cicatrix, Juked, The Journal, Hawaii Review, Cutthroat, Red Wheelbarrow, Aries, The Alembic, Clapboard House and River Oak Review.