Contributor Directory
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Albertson, Jon B.
Poetry Issue 9
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry, Essays, Social/Political Interests * Location: Portland, OR * Special Qualifications: MA Engl, Creative Writing Instructor, AP Lit Teacher/Exam Scorer * Will Teach Workshops * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email * Also on Facebook
Ballard, Barry
Poetry Issue 2
Bassen, Lois
Fiction Issue 6
Primary Writing Genre: Fiction, Stage Plays * Location: Northern Rhode Island * Special Qualifications: MA, Retired * Considers Teaching Workshops * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email * Also on Facebook
Bayard
Fiction Issue 6
Primary Writing Genre: Fiction * Location: NJ * Available for Readings * Will Consider Work on Assignment * Email * Gary Heidt Signature Literary Agency * Happy, PO Box 2087, Jersey City, NJ 07308
Beck, Gary
Fiction Issue 1
Bennett, Ed
Poetry Issues 7, 10, & 12, Editor's Choice
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry * Location: Las Vegas, NV * Special Qualifications: finalist for the Alan Ginsberg Award in 1997 * Available to Teach Workshops * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email * Also on Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Plaxo
Blazek, Larry
Poetry Issue 1
Brooks, Charles Clifford III
Poetry Issue 3
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry, Prose * Location: Georgia * Special Qualifications: BS, History & Political Science, Minor English Lit * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email * Also on Facebook, MySpace
Brown, TSgt Kenneth
Poetry Issue 2
Bunch, Stephen
Nonfiction Issue 1, Poetry Issues 1 & 10
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry * Location: Lawrence, KS * Special Qualifications: MA, continuing education, literary editor, marketing * Teaches Workshops * Available for Readings * Will Consider Work on Assignment * Email * Also on Facebook
Bush, Zachary C.
Poetry Issues 2 & 11
Byrne, Matthew
Poetry Issue 9
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry * Location: Naperville, IL * Special Qualifications: MFA * Available for Readings * Will Consider Work on Assignment * Email
Chao, Yu-Han
Fiction Issue 8
Primary Writing Genre: Fiction, Poetry * Location: Merced, CA * Special Qualifications: MFA, Fiction * Teaches Workshops * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email * Personal Web Site * Rose and Thorn Reviews * Also on MySpace, Facebook
Chorlton, David
Poetry Issues 7 and 10
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry * Location: Phoenix, AZ * Special Qualifications: Poetry writing, organizing readings, translations, artist * Leads Workshop at Scottsdale Senior Center * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email * Personal Web Site * Books for Sale
Clark, John Thomas
Poetry Issue 9
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry * Location: Westchester Co, NY * Special Qualifications: BS/History, MS/ED, MA/English-Creative Writing, Retired Teacher * Has Taught Workshops * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email
Coshnear, Daniel
Fiction Issue 9, Editor's Choice
Primary Writing Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction * Location: Guerneville, CA * Special Qualifications: MFA in Creative Writing, work in mental health, teach writing in university extension programs * Teaches Workshops * Available for Readings (dependent on schedule) * Open to Working on Assignment * Email
Cromley, Giano
Nonfiction Issue 2, Editor's Choice
Primary Writing Genre: Prose * Location: Chicago, IL * Special Qualifications: MFA, English faculty at Kennedy-King College * Available for Readings * Email
Davis, Paul R.
Poetry Issue 5
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry * Location: Northern Hemisphere * Special Qualifications: Cubicle slave for US Federal Government, flimsy holder of Bachelor’s degree acquired during the waning days of the Nixon Administration * May Be Available for Readings * Email
DeNicola, Deborah
Poetry Issue 5, 2008 Externalist Best of the Net Winner
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry, Memoir * Location: Pampano Beach, FL * Special Qualifications: MFA, 20+ Yrs. college teaching & writing * Teaches Workshops * Available for Readings * Email * Personal Web Site * The Future That Brought Her Here * Also on Facebook, Selfgrowth.com, and LinkedIn
Deysach, Becca
Nonfiction Issue 4
Primary Writing Genre: Nonfiction * Location: Portland, OR * Special Qualifications: MS Environmental Studies & Creative Writing, Founder/Director of Ibex Studios * Teaches workshops through Ibex Studios (i.e. Cancer Survivors' Workshop/see web site) * Available for Readings * Will Consider Work on Assignment * Ibex Studios Web Site * Ibex Studios Salon * Ibex Studios also on Facebook
Dietl, Mariana
Fiction Issue 7
Primary Writing Genre: Fiction * Location: Los Angeles, CA * Special Qualifications: Degree in International Relations, Collection of Stories 3rd Prize in UC Irvine's Chicano/Latino Literary Award, Novel won Litchfield Review's Novel Award * Available for Readings * Email
DiPrinzio, Daniel
Fiction Issue 10
Primary Writing Genre: Humor/Satire * Location: Philadelphia, PA * Special Qualifications: MA * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email * Personal Web Site
Elizabeth, Victoria
Poetry in Issue 4
Ferro, Jéanpaul
Poetry Issues 1 and 7
Primary Writing Genre: Fiction, Poetry * Location: Providence, RI * Email * Personal Web Site * Essendo Morti - Being Dead
Fitzgerald, Thomas
Poetry Issue 1
Fredericks, OPW
Photography and Nonfiction Issue 7, Poetry Issue 5
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry and Prose * Location: PA * Special Qualifications: RN, BS Health Care Administration, poet, author, editor, publisher * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email * Touch: The Journal of Healing * Also on Facebook
Giorgio, Kathie
Fiction Issue 7, Externalist nominee Best of the Net 2008
Primary Writing Genre: Literary Fiction * Location: Waukesha, WI * Special Qualifications: BA and MFA in creative writing, founder/director of AllWriters Workplace & Workshop, editor/owner of Quality Fiction magazine, writing/publishing for more than 25 years * Teaches Workshops * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email * Personal Web Site * AllWriters' Workplace and Workshop * Also on Facebook
Goity, Roland
Fiction Issue 12
Primary Writing Genre: Fiction * Location: San Mateo, CA * Special Qualifications: Fiction Editor of LITnIMAGE, MFA Creative Writing * Available for Freelance, Ghostwriting, Editing, & Workshop Instruction * Personal Web Site * LITnIMAGE
Greenberg, KJ Hannah
Nonfiction Issues 9 & 11, Poetry Issue 10
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction * Location: Israel * Special Qualifications: former rhetoric professor, current editor, columnist, blogger * Teaches Workshops * Works on Assignment * Email
Greenleaf Mürer, Esther
Poetry Issues 3 and 12
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry * Location: Philadelphia, PA * Special Qualifications: Composer, Literary Translater, Editor * Personal Web Site
Gurnow, Michael
Nonfiction Issue 8, Editor's Choice
Primary Writing Genre: Nonfiction * Location: Cape Girardeau, MO * Special Qualifications: Professor of English, freelance writer * Works on Assignment * Email * Personal Web Page
Haber, Ira Joel
Featured Artist Issue 2
Healy, Thomas
Nonfiction Issue 1
Hostovsky, Paul
Poetry in Issue 3, Editor's Choice Selection
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry * Location: Medfield, MA * Special Qualifications: Breathing for 50 years * Will Teach Workshops * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment, but Presidential Inaugurations Exclusively * Email * Personal Web Site * Two Books with Main Street Rag (Bending the Notes & Dear Truth)
Howell, Byron D.
Poetry Issue 2
Hummel, Mark
Nonfiction Issue 6
Primary Writing Genre: Fiction * Location: Jackson, WY * Special Qualifications: BA/MA English, emphasis Creative Writing, taught creative writing for 20 years * Teaches Workshops * Available for Readings * Email * The Word Wright * Mark Hummel Blog
Jansen, Bill
Poetry in Issues 6 and 11
Primary Writing Genre: Poems, Short Fiction * Location: Forest Grove, OR * Special Qualifications: BA English Lit & Creative Writing * Available for Readings * Email
Kirchner, Craig
Poetry Issue 2
Klepetar, Steve
Poetry Issue 1, Best of the Net Nominee
Klocek-Lim, Christine
Poetry, Photograph Issue 1, Board of Directors
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry * Location: PA * Special Qualifications: BA Professional Writing, Carnegie Mellon, work: technical writer, documentation specialist, editor, proofreader, awards: 2009 Ellen La Forge Memorial Prize in poetry and finalist 2006 Nimrod's Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email * November Sky * Autumn Sky Poetry
Lambert, Gavin S.
Fiction Issue 5
Primary Writing Genre: Fiction * Location: Saint Augustine, FL * Special Qualifications: BA, English * Email
Lee, Pete
Poetry Issue 2
Lefcowitz, Barbara F.
Nonfiction Issue 2
Primary Writing Genre: Creative Nonfiction, Poetry * Location: Bethesda, MD * Special Qualifications: PhD, writer, teacher, artist * Teaches Workshops * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email
Leon, Raina J.
Poetry Issue 11
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry * Location: Bamberg, Germany, travels to U.S. * Special Qualifications: BA in Journalism with minors in Spanish, English, International Studies and African American Studies; MA in Teaching of English, PhD (ABD) in Education with concentrations in English Education and Multicultural Education * Teaches Workshops * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email * Personal Web Site * Acentos Review * Also on Facebook, MySpace
Logan, Kris
Poetry Issue 2
Longo, Matthew
Fiction Issue 5
Marks, Michael M
Poetry Issue 1
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry * Location: Akron, OH * Special Qualifications: Creative Writing Degree * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email
Martin, John
Nonfiction Issue 4
Primary Writing Genre: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Screenplays * Location: Aurora, CO * Special Qualifications: MS Technical Writing, BA English, Professional writer * Teaches Some Workshops * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment, Writes Reviews and Interviews * Email
Martinez Cabrera, G.
Fiction Issue 9
Primary Writing Genre: Fiction * Location: San Francisco, CA * Special Qualifications: MDiv from Harvard, teaching at Heald College * Teaches Workshops * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email * Personal Web Site * Also on Facebook
McNichols, Michael
Fiction Issue 1
Miller, Brent
Poetry Issue 2
Moore, Greggory
Fiction Issue 3
Murphy, Rich
Poetry Issue 3
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry * Location: Marblehead, MA * Special Qualifications: MA Creative Writing, 35 yrs publication credits, 23 yrs teaching writing * Teaches Workshops * Available for Readings * May Work on Assignment * Email * Personal Web Site * Book Links Coming Soon * Also on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn
Mustin, Bob
Nonfiction Issue 4
Primary Writing Genre: Historical Fiction, Nonfiction * Location: Asheville, NC * Special Qualifications: Publishing & writing for 15 yrs, former editor of The Rural Sophisticate, MLA in writing, Blog about writing (below) * Teaches Workshops * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email * Gridley Fires: A Blog About Books and Writing * A blog: Wordsmith * Also on Facebook
Parnell, Robyn
Fiction Issue 4
Primary Writing Genre: Fiction * Location: Hillsboro, OR * Available for Readings * Will Consider Work on Assignment * Email * Personal Web Site
Payne, Diane
Fiction Issue 8
Primary Writing Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry * Location: Monticello, AK * Special Qualifications: MFA, creative writing professor * Teaches Workshops * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email * Foliate Oak Literary magazine
Perchik, Simon
Poetry Issue 2
Pobo, Kenneth
Poetry Issue 1
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry * Location: Media, PA * Special Qualifications: PhD, Creative Writing * Teaches Classes * Available for Readings * Email * Crazy Cakes * Also on Facebook
Putnam, Matthew
Poetry Issue 1
Randolph, Patrick T.
Poetry Issue 1
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry, Fiction * Location: La Crosse, WI * Special Qualifications: MA, Applied Linguistics; Philosophy * Teaches Workshops * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email * Personal Web Site * University Profile
Rayman-Rivera, Nanette
Poetry Issue 2
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry, Memoir * Location: New York City * Special Qualifications: Degree from New School University * Available for Readings in New York City * Proofreading and Editing Experience * Only the Homeless Find the Divine * Also on Goodreads & LinkedIn
Robinson, Margaret A.
Poetry Issue 1
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry * Location: Swarthmore, PA * Available for Readings * Book: Arrangements from Finishing Line Press * Book: Sparks from Pudding House Press
Rodosek, Edward
Fiction Issue 2
Ross, Adrienne
Nonfiction Issue 6
Primary Writing Genre: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction * Location: Seattle, WA * Considers Work on Assignment * Email
Schnoeker-Shorb, Yvette A.
Poetry Issue 2, Externalist Best of the Net Nominee
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry * Location: Prescott, AZ * Special Qualifications: Degrees include Interdisciplinary MA in Ecosemantics, BA in Poetry with a Minor in Linguistics, BA in Wildlife Studies; Research interests include biophilia and evolutionary psychology * Mentor, Usually for Prescott College * Sometimes Available for Readings * Sometimes Works on Assignment * Email * Native West Press
Schwartz, G. David
Nonfiction Issue 1
Schwartz, Peter
Featured Artist Issue 8, Poetry Issue 9
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry * Location: Augusta, Maine * Special Qualifications: Artist * Mentors * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email * Personal Web Site * Dogzplot * Also on Facebook
Shamim Miah, A.S.M.
Poetry Issue 12
Primary Writing Genre: Romantic, Neoclassical, Black Comedy, Satire * Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh * Special Qualifications: BA Hons in English, MA in English * Teaches Workshops * Available for Readings * Email * Secondary Email * Blog * Also on Facebook
Shinn Piccolella, Romy
Poetry Issue 5
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry, Nature Writing * Location: Liberty, PA * Special Qualifications: MFA, Chapbook "Tether" available from Pudding House Press * Will Teach Workshops * Available for Readings * Email
Siegel, Scot
Poetry Issue 9
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry * Location: Lake Oswego, OR * Special Qualifications: selected Squaw Valley Community of Writers 2007 * Teaches Urban Planning Workshops (Applied Externalism) * Available for Readings * Email * Some Weather * Poets & Writers Listing * Also on Facebook, Poets & Writers, Twitter
Sills, Caryl
Fiction Issue 7
Primary Writing Genre: Fiction * Location: Tinton Falls, NJ * Special Qualifications: Retired Assoc. Prof. and Chair, English Dept., Monmouth University, W. Long Branch, NJ * May Be Available for Readings * Email
Skorpen-Tifft, Beret
Poetry Issue 13
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry and Prose * Location: South Portland, ME * Special Qualifications: MFA, Creative Writing
Solonche, Joel
Poetry Issue 1
Strahan, Bradley
Poetry Issue 2
Sullivan, Thomas
Nonfiction Issues 7 and 12
Primary Writing Genre: Nonfiction/Humor * Location: Seattle, WA * Special Qualifications: BA History, MA Economics * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email * Life In The Slow Lane: Surviving a Tour of Duty in Drivers Education * Life in the Slow Lane: Surviving a Tour of Duty in Drivers Education E-Book (the latter forthcoming in 2010)
Teitelbaum, Bill
Fiction Issue 2, Best of the Net Winner
Thompson, Mel C.
Poetry Issue 4
Primary Writing Genre: Spoken Word/Poetry * Location: San Francisco Bay Area * Special Qualifications: BA Philosophy * Available for Readings * Email * Personal Web Site * Free chapbooks available upon request
Thornbrugh, David
Poetry Issue 1
Tierney, Gavin
Fiction Issue 11
Primary Writing Genre: Short Fiction * Location: Seattle, WA * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email
Tolf, Francine Marie
Poetry Issue 4 (Editor's Choice), Nonfiction Issue 7
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry, Nonfiction * Location: Minneapolis, MN * Available for Readings * Personal Web Site * Like Saul
Tyler, J.A.
Fiction Issue 10
Primary Writing Genre: Fiction * Location: Fort Collins, CO * Special Qualifications: BA English Liberal Arts, MA Composition & Lit * Teaches Workshops through Dzanc Creative Writing Sessions * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email * Personal Web Site * Mud Luscious Press
Tzagoloff, Helen
Poetry Issue 8
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry, Memoir * Location: New York, NY * Available for readings in New York
Vlasopolos, Anca
Poetry Issue 4
Primary Writing Genre: Fiction, Poetry, Memoir * Location: Grosse Point, MI * Special Qualifications: PhD in Comparative Lit, English Professor for 35 yrs * Teaches Workshops * Available for Readings * Rarely Works on Assignment * Email * Personal Web Site * Corridors Magazine
Walker, Siovahn A.
Poetry Issue 1, Editor's Choice
Ward, Rebecca
Nonfiction Issue 2
Warnock, Larina
Founder/Editor
Primary Writing Genre: Fiction, Poetry * Location: Corvallis, OR * Special Qualifications: See Web Site * Available for Workshops * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Contact Email * Personal Web Site * Also on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn
White, Donovan
Poetry Issue 12
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry * Location: West Townsend, MA * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email * Also on Facebook and LinkedIn
Wilcox, Daniel
Poetry Issue 2
Wiley, Yvette
Poetry Issue 10, Editor's Choice Selection
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry * Location: Tulsa, OK * Special Qualifications: B.S. Biology: Environmental Specialist * May Be Available for Readings * May Work on Assignment * Email
Wilkens, Gary Charles
Assistant Editor
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry * Location: MS * Special Qualifications: MFA Poetry, Professor of Poetry * Email * Personal Web Site
Wilson, Dr. Parker
Nonfiction Issues 5 & 7
Primary Writing Genre: Mental Health * Location: Denver, CO * Special Qualifications: Doctorate, Clinical Psychology; Adjunct Professor Univ. of Colorado, Argosy University * Teaches Workshop * May Be Available for Readings * May Work on Assignment * Email * Also on Facebook, Twitter
Winans, A.D.
Poetry Issue 3
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry * Location: San Francisco, CA * Special Qualifications: former editor & writer for San Francisco Art Commission, Neighborhood Arts Program * Available for Readings * Email * Personal Web Site
Winter, Joe
Fiction Issue 13
Primary Writing Genre: Mainstream Fiction * Location: Orange County, CA * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email * Also on Facebook
Wylie, Matthew
Poetry Issue 6
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry, Short Fiction * Special Qualifications: MA, Professor * Teaches Workshops * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email * Moral Crime and Moral Punishment * Wylie in Centrifuge
Yanagisawa, Miko
Fiction Issue 2
Location: United Kingdom * Teaches Photography Workshops * Works on Assignment * Personal Web Site * Also on Twitter
Zahniser, Ed
Poetry Issue 5
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry, Nonfiction * Location: Shepherdstown, WV * Special Qualifications: Senior Editor/Writer, National Park Service Center for Media Services * Teaches Workshops * Available for Readings * Works on Assignment * Email * Book for Sale: Mall-hopping with the Great I Am, Atlantis Rising Communications, PO Box 955, Sheperdstown, WV 25443-0955
Zurlo, Tony
Poetry Issue 5
Primary Writing Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Essays * Location: Arlington, TX * Special Qualifications: "I'll confess to having several degrees, but only under threat of torture," teaches English at community college, taught in Nigeria and China * Limited Availability for Readings * Will Consider Working on Assignment * Email * Latest Collection Mind Dancing available on Amazon, but contact author directly for lower price
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