Olivia V. Ambrogio’s creative work has been published in over 20 literary journals, including Red Cedar Review, Fugue, Café Irreal, and Electric Velocipede. In 2008, she received her Ph.D. in marine biology, studying the (surprisingly exciting) sex lives of intertidal snails. Her blog, Beasts in a Populous City (http://beastsinapopulouscity.blogspot.com), features photos and stories of wild- and zoo-life and provides a link for purchasing her photos as cards or prints.
Return to TopEllen Foos is the founder and publisher of Ragged Sky Press, a production editor at Princeton University Press, a MacDowell Colony and Vermont Studio Center fellow, and a member of U.S. 1 Poets’ Cooperative. Her first collection of poetry, Little Knitted Sister, came out in 2006. Her poems have also appeared in U.S. 1 Worksheets, Kelsey Review, Edison Literary Review, and Sensations Magazine.
Return to TopKenneth P. Gurney lives in Albuquerque, NM, USA. He edits the NM poetry anthology Adobe Walls. In order to view his full biography, publishing credits, and available books, please visit http://www.kpgurney.me/Poet/Welcome.html.
Return to TopKatharine Haake is the author of three collections of short stories, The Origin of Stars (What Books Press, 2009), The Height and Depth of Everything (University of Nevada, 2001), and No Reason on Earth (Dragon Gate Press, 1986), and a hybrid novel, That Water, Those Rocks (Nevada, 2003). Her short fiction has appeared widely in such magazines as The Iowa Review, Witness, One Story, New Letters, and The Santa Monica Review, and has been featured in the online magazine, Segue, as well as in LA’s New Short Fiction Performance Series. Haake is a recipient of an Individual Artist’s Grant from the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles, along with distinguished story recognitions from Best American Short Stories and Best of the West, an Editor’s Choice Award from Cream City Review, and an Honorable Mention in the Fountain Award for Speculative Fiction. A regular contributor to scholarship on the theory and pedagogy of creative writing, she is also the author of What Our Speech Disrupts: Feminism and Creative Writing Studies (NCTE, 2000) and co-author, with Hans Ostrom and the late Wendy Bishop, of Metro: Journeys in Writing Creatively (Longmans, 2000). She teaches at California State University, Northridge.
Return to TopAnnetta (Netty) D. Hoagland recently retired from a successful career in publishing, which included senior management in traditional newspaper, magazine, and book publishing; television and radio news production; and television documentary production. Most recently, she performed project management of digital content and rights-management system development for a major international book and information publisher. She now offers computer tech support to home users of computers all over Cape Cod, where she resides. She is an avid nature photographer and an active tennis player and enjoys local community volunteer activities.
Return to TopMona Houghton teaches creative writing at California State University, Northridge. She has had stories published in Carolina Quarterly, Crosscurrents, Bluff City, West Branch, Oracle, and Livingston Press’ Tartts 2. She also has an essay, “What I Learned from a Bricoleur,” in Everyday Urbanism, edited by Margaret Crawford and John Kaliski. Most recently, Mona won the John Gardner Memorial Prize for Fiction for her story “A Brother, Some Sex, and an Optic Nerve,” which appeared in the Summer Issue of Harpur Palate. In 2004 her novella, Frottage, won first place in the Inconundrum Press “Melville Novella Contest.” Her two novellas (Frottage and Even as We Speak) will be published in February 2012 by What Books.
Return to TopSteven Joyce is an Associate Professor of German and comparative studies at the Ohio State University, Mansfield campus. He has published a book on G. B. Shaw entitled Transformations and Texts and has published poetry in a number of poetry journals including Kimera, Red River Review, and Minimus. A new book of essays entitled The Winds of Ilion will appear in early February 2011. He holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from UNC-Chapel Hill and has published a number of articles on literary theory and criticism.
Return to TopCheryl Klein is the author of Lilac Mines (Manic D Press) and The Commuters, which won City Works Press’ Ben Reitman Award. Her fiction has appeared in The Normal School, Other, and several anthologies. She directs the California office of Poets & Writers, Inc. and received her MFA in writing from CalArts, whose chaparral surroundings inspired the setting of “The Friendliness Manifesto.” She blogs about life, art, and carbohydrates at http://breadandbread.blogspot.com.
Return to TopChristine Poulson was an art historian before she turned to crime: now she is the author of various short stories and three Cassandra James mystery novels, all set in Cambridge (Dead Letters, Stage Fright, and Footfall). Her story “A Tour of the Tower,” which appeared in the March/April 2010 issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, has been nominated by the Short Mystery Fiction Society for its Derringer Award in the category of Best Long Short Story. You can read about Christine Poulson on her Web site, www.christinepoulson.co.uk, and about what she has been reading at her blog, A Reading Life (http://blog.christinepoulson.co.uk).
Return to TopAlan Reed is a member of a Benedictine monastery in Minnesota and, besides making art, is the curator of an art collection. Previously, he taught art and, before that, he studied art in Providence, Rhode Island, and Chicago.
Return to TopPatty Seyburn Patty Seyburn, an Assistant Professor at California State University, Long Beach, has published three books of poems: Hilarity (New Issues Press, 2009), Mechanical Cluster (Ohio State University Press, 2002), and Diasporadic (Helicon Nine Editions, 1998). She has poems forthcoming in Boston Review, DIAGRAM, and Hotel Amerika. She is co-editor of POOL: A Journal of Poetry, based in Los Angeles.
Return to TopAlinda Wasner’s work has appeared in Outsider Writers, New Millennium Writers, Comstock Review, Inspirit, Wayne Literary Review, Inkwell, Passages North, and The MacGuffin, to name a few. She won 2nd place in the 2007 Chicago Poetry Center juried prize, a Prague Writer’s Scholarship, was a semifinalist in the 2010 Paumonok Poetry Prize (SUNY), and has won several other prizes. She lives and writes in Beverly Hills, MI.
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