Patricia Abbott’s stories have appeared in more than fifty literary and crime fiction publications. She was a Derringer award winner last year for her flash fiction story, “My Hero.” Forthcoming stories will appear in several crime fiction anthologies. A Detroiter, she blogs at http://pattinase.blogspot.com.
Return to TopOlivia V. Ambrogio’s work has been published in Red Cedar Review, Fugue, Café Irreal, Electric Velocipede, and other literary journals. Her poems also appeared in Abandon Automobile: An Anthology of Detroit Poets (Wayne State University Press). She recently completed her Ph.D. in marine biology, studying the (surprisingly exciting) sex lives of intertidal snails.
Return to TopSven Birkerts edits the journal Agni at Boston University and directs the Bennington writing Seminars. He is the author of eight books, most recently The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again (Graywolf Press). He has published other ’shorts’ in The Threepenny Review, The Oxford American, Other Island and Water-Stone.
Return to TopSimmons B. Buntin is the founding editor of Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments. His first book of poems, Riverfall, was published in 2005 by Ireland’s Salmon Poetry and another collection is forthcoming, also from Salmon, in 2010. His poetry has appeared in South Dakota Review, Orion, Whiskey Island Magazine, Verse Daily, Isotope, and the LBJ: Avian Life, Literary Arts. He is a recipient of the Colorado Artists Fellowship for Poetry and of a Pushcart Prize nomination.
Return to TopClaire Crabtree has published poetry in various journals, including Passages North, Cross Currents, VIA, America, Phoebe, and So to Speak (wherein her poem “Thorn, Needle” was a finalist for its annual prize). Her scholarly work focuses on Faulkner and women writers such as Louise Erdrich, Virginia Woolf, and Toni Morrison. She is a Professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at University of Detroit Mercy. Her poetry appeared in Corridors 3 (“Northwest Detroit B & E”) and 5 (“Internal Injuries”).
Return to TopJim Daniels’ recent books include Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies, winner of the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize, Eastern Washington University Press; Mr. Pleasant, (fiction) Michigan State University Press; and In Line for the Exterminator, Wayne State University Press, all published in 2007. He teaches creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University.
Return to TopLinda Nemec Foster is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Amber Necklace from Gdansk, which was a finalist for the Ohio Book Award in Poetry, and Talking Diamonds, forthcoming from New Issues Press (which will include her poem “Deserted Fairground, 1947,” premiering in this issue of Corridors). Her poems have been published in The Georgia Review, Nimrod, North American Review, and New American Writing. She is the founder of the Contemporary Writers Series at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her poem “How the Game of Death Is Ultimately Played” appeared in Corridors 2.
Return to TopJohn Gallagher is a journalist who lives and writes in Detroit. He has written two books on architecture and is working on a non-fiction book about Detroit’s future.
Return to TopLaurence Goldstein is the author of four books of poetry, most recently A Room in California (Northwestern University Press, 2005) and three books of literary criticism, most recently The American Poet at the Movies: A Critical History (University of Michigan Press, 1994). He is also the editor or coeditor of eight other volumes. Professor of English at the University of Michigan, he has recently completed a 32-year tenure as editor of Michigan Quarterly Review.
Return to TopHarriette Hartigan has been photographing the birth experience since 1973, creating art and ethnography of this elemental reality. She became a midwife along the way. Brought to Earth by Birth is her recently published book. Harriette focuses on life’s realms and ways of being—living and dying. Her photography provided the cover for Corridors 1.
Return to TopLouise Kertesz has been a business journalist specializing in health care for 20 years. She left Detroit for Southern California in 1989, but the call of the Midwest recently brought her back to Chicago, where she now lives. A daughter, grandson, and good friends live in metro Detroit, so she’s glad for long rides, good reads, and time to write on the Amtrak.
Return to TopRobin Kish took her MFA from Indiana University, where she worked for three years as an editor with The Indiana Review. She has been published in Hayden’s Ferry Review, and her work is forthcoming in The Florida Review and Euphony. She teaches writing at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Return to TopChristopher Leland is a translator, the author of five novels, a book of literary history, and two books about writing. He recently branched out into poetry and is working on a book tentatively titled An Eccentric History of the World, Volume I from which the poems herein are excerpted. He lives and works in Detroit.
Return to TopShirley Geok-Lin Lim is a Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of five books of poems, three books of short stories, two books of criticism, one book of memoirs and a novel. Professor Lim has served as editor/co-editor of numerous scholarly works, including The Forbidden Stitch (1989) and Approaches to Teaching Kingston’s The Woman Warrior (1991).
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 TopSuzanne Scarfone is Education Director and Senior Writer with InsideOut Literary Arts Project in Detroit and a teaching artist with VSA arts, an international organization which showcases the accomplishments of artists with disabilities. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals. Surreally domestic, they strive to capture the visionary in the remembered pain and pleasure of everyday experience.
Return to TopAmy Scattergood, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, lives and works in Los Angeles. A former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, she now writes for the Los Angeles Weekly, where she is the food-blog editor. She is the author of the poetry collection The Grammar of Nails; her poetry has appeared in over 30 journals; and her food writing appeared in many issues of the LA Times as well as in other publications. In addition to her other writing, she is currently working on a cookbook.
Return to TopAmy Uyematsu is a sansei poet and teacher from Los Angeles. She has three published collections: 30 Miles from J-Town, Nights of Fire, Nights of Rain, and Stone Bow Prayer. Amy also co-edited the widely used UCLA anthology, Roots: An Asian American Reader.
Return to TopFlorence Weinberger has published three books of poetry: The Invisible Telling Its Shape, Breathing Like a Jew, and Carnal Fragrance. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Nimrod, River Styx, Passager, Another Chicago Magazine, Antietam Review, Comstock Review, Pacific Review, and The Literary Review.
Return to TopTyrone Williams teaches literature and theory at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of two books of poetry, c.c. (Krupskaya Books, 2002) and On Spec (Omnidawn Publishing, 2008). He also has several chapbooks out, including AAB (Slack Buddha Press, 2004), Futures, Elections (Dos Madres Press, 2004)and Musique Noir (Overhere Press, 2006). A new book of poems, The Hero Project of the Century, is forthcoming in 2009 from The Backwaters Press. He recently completed a manuscript of poetry commissioned by Atelos Books. His website is located at the following link: http://home.earthlink.net/~suspend/.
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