Land of Filth and Sunshine,听His Last Lunch,听Do It Father,听A Bitter Heap,听Various Ways of Doing Things,听Johnny Appleseed,听A Bright and Shining Star,听Amongst Gentlemen,听The Cockfighter,听Of Doubt and Paranoia, 补苍诲听They Came from the Country鈥� is currently an instructor of drawing and printmaking at the 缅北强奸 in Evansville, Indiana, and takes part in a multitude of juried and group exhibitions on a regional and national level. Kosten has received various awards and has works in a number of collections at universities and museums across the country.
"Train from the South"鈥�Catherine Anderson听is the author of two collections of poetry,听The Work of Hands听(Perugia Press) 补苍诲听In the Mother Tongue听(Alice James Books). Poems have appeared in听Southern Review,听Prairie Schooner,听The Harvard Review, and others. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri.
"First Touch"鈥�Jazzy Danziger听is currently a Henry Hoyns/Poe-Faulkner fellow in the MFA program at the University of Virginia. Her work has been published in Mid-American Review听补苍诲听Boxcar Poetry Review.
"Cutthroat"鈥擜 native of Kentuckiana,听Chris Mattingly, has published poems in The Louisville Review, Margie: The Journal of American Poetry, 补苍诲听Public Republic.听He also has been the featured poet for the award-winning radio program听Accents听on Lexington's WRFL.听His chapbook听AD HOC听is forthcoming from Q Avenue Press. Mattingly is currently finishing his MFA. in Poetry from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky.
"Out of Death valley"鈥�Rick Anthony Furtak's听poems and translations have recently appeared in听Janus Head, Illuminations, Poetry Depth,听补苍诲听Blue Unicorn.
"The Web"鈥�Pamela Garvey's听chapbook听Fear听is available from Finishing Line Press. She has published poetry in many literary journals including听The North American Review,听Sonora Review,听The Spoon River Poetry Review,听Pleiades, and others. Garvey is an associate professor of English at St. Louis Community College-Meramec, and lives in the city of St. Louis with her husband and son.
"Isa" and "Those Days We Ate the Knuckles from Our Fingers"鈥擮tis Haschemeyer听attended听Stanford University as a Stegner Fellow, spent a year at the Cit茅 Internationale des Arts in Paris, France, and currently lives in Oregon with writer Zondie Zinke and their daughter, Ozymandius Wild听 Zhaschemeyerinke.
"The Fathers Who Never Seem to Speak"鈥�Angie Macri听was born and raised in southern Illinois.听A recipient of an individual artist fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council, she teaches in Little Rock. Her recent work appears or is forthcoming in听Crab Orchard Review, Folio, Nimrod, Quiddity, Redactions,听补苍诲听Tar River Poetry,听among others.
"Teaching Myself to Type"鈥�Linda Lancione Moyer听writes poetry, essays, and fiction.听Her work has appeared in听Atlanta Review,听Cimarron Review,听颁谤补锄测丑辞谤蝉别, Jabberwock,听The MacGuffin,听Notre Dame Review,听Poet Lore,听and听Post Road, among other literary journals, and will soon appear in听Compass Rose,Connecticut Review, 补苍诲听Eclipse. Her most recent chapbook,听2% Organic, 32 Short Poems from a West Marin Dairy Barn, is a best seller at Mrs. Dalloway's in Berkeley, California, her local independent bookstore. She's recently been a resident at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in New Mexico.
"These Words Are Not 缅北强奸"鈥�Jake Ricafrente听holds an MFA from The Johns Hopkins University and is pursuing a Ph D at Texas Tech University as a Chancellor's Fellow.听His work has appeared or is forthcoming in听The Cincinnati Review, South Carolina Review, Sewanee Theological Review,听and elsewhere.听He resides in Richmond, Texas.
"I Know the Neck Pain," "I Almost Sent a Different Card," and "Your Father's Been Hiding"鈥�Hilary Sideris听is the author of two chapbooks,听The Orange Juice Is Over听(Finishing Line Press) 补苍诲听Baby听(Pudding House Press). Her poems are forthcoming in听Brooklyn Review, Confrontation, 补苍诲听Connecticut Review.听Sideris lives in Brooklyn, New York.
"Such Great Misery of Late"鈥�Jon Davies听is a native of California, currently residing in Georgia. His work has appeared in such places as听Cutbank, Summerset Review, 补苍诲听The Yalobusha Review.
"Vivian's Story"鈥�Faith S. Holsaert's听defining experience was as the daughter of two mothers in a biracial 1950s household.听With five others she is an editor of the forthcoming听Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC听(University of Illinois Press). She lived for many years and raised her children in West Virginia and now lives with her partner in Durham, North Carolina, where she is working on her third novel.
"Mr. Smith's Tip-Top Tale of Woe and Horror"鈥�Nancy Holyoke听has worked for The New Yorker, Wigwag, American Girl听magazine, and the Rowland Reading Foundation. She's the author of a half-dozen children's books and the editor of far more.听Holyoke has an MFA from the Iowa Workshop.
"The Natural Order of Things"鈥�Scott Saalman听is a widely unread writer residing in Jasper, Indiana.听His work has also been represented in the anthology听Home Again: Essays and Memoirs from Indiana; Lost Magazine; The Evansville Review; Evansville Living听magazine; WNIN Public Radio's "This I Believe";听The Coconut Telegraph; The Flying Island; Country Magazine; Editor's Workshop; and numerous newspapers.听Saalman's humor column appears frequently in听The Herald听(Dubois County, Indiana).
"鲍苍飞补谤谤补苍迟别诲"鈥�Jay Shearer听lives in Chicago, Illinois, where he teaches (UIC, Purdue Calumet) and writes (fiction, essays, songs). He is currently a PH D candidate in English Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he won the 2007 Goodnow fellowship award for prose.听His writing has appeared most recently in听Other Voices, Beloit Fiction Journal, Main Street Rag, 补苍诲听The Southeast Review. Shearer lives on the west side of Chicago with his wife and son.
"Hiddenscape"鈥擨n the midst of climate change,听Barbara Haas听finds it necessary to focus her attention on the Ice Age, especially the Des Moines Lobe, the last continental glacier to visit the U.S. Other Pleistocene Epoch essays of hers have appeared in听The Wapsipinicon Almanac, the听Iowa Review听and elsewhere. She teaches in the Creative Writing & Environment MFA program at Iowa State University.
"My Skillet and I are Disappearing"鈥�Robert Long Foreman听is from Wheeling, West Virginia. His nonfiction has appeared or is forthcoming in听Pleiades, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Massachusetts Review,听补苍诲听North Dakota Quarterly, among other journals. One of his essays was listed in "Notable Essays" of听Best American Essays 2008.
"The Best American Poetry 2009," and "Black Sabbatical"鈥擟ontributing editor Brenda DeMartini鈥檚听stories and poems have appeared in听Confrontation,听Kansas Quarterly,听Minnesota Review,听Mississippi Mud,听The Sun, 补苍诲听Three Rivers Poetry Journal.
