Contributors, January 2010
Jenn Blair is from Yakima, WA. She teaches at the University of Georgia. Her work has appeared in MELUS, El Jadid, The Tusculum Review, and Copper Nickel among others.
Adam Henry Carriere is a poet, teacher, and broadcaster. Recent publications include Tonopah Review, Alternative Reel, Apparatus Magazine, decomP, Lamplighter Review, The Smoking Book, The Mayo Review, Counterexample Poetics, Pushing the Envelope, Zygote in My Coffee, Juked, Tattoo Highway, and The Bicycle Review. His first chapbook, Zigeunertänze, was published earlier this year by Chippens Press; his second, Sky, is forthcoming from Differentia Press.
Born on the South Side of Chicago, Adam is presently domiciled in Las Vegas, where he publishes Danse Macabre, Nevada’s first online literary magazine. He serves on the Editorial Board of Popular Culture Review, and has been awarded the Literary Arts Fellowship in Poetry from the Nevada Arts Council.
Nina Cheng was educated at The Lawrenceville School and Colgate University, earning a BA in International Relations and English. Nina is a member of the acclaimed New York collective, The Poetry Brothel. She has been dividing her time between New York, Connecticut, China, England, and France.
Scott Elliott has been published in a variety of small press outlets including Ellipsis, Blue Collar Review, Pegasus, The Inquisition, and 2009 Nevada Poets, a anthology by Ferris Jones.
Joseph Goosey wishes to escape his residence in Jacksonville, Florida. He has one chapbook available via Poptritus Press and one forthcoming via Shadow Archer Press. He is currently at work and would like to leave so he can buy a $1 Guinness. He loves you for reading.
Laudizen King lives in Los Angeles and currently divides his time between Northern and Southern California. His poetry has been published in the United Kingdom by Gloom Cupboard and his stories have appeared in Word Catalyst Magazine, the MilSpeak Memo, and in the Wilderness House Literary Review. In 2009, Laudizen published his first book, a collection of memoirs and travels titled, 'Signposts and Junctions'. Visit his website at www.laudizen.com.
Paul Piatkowski teaches high school English in the town of Welcome, North Carolina. He has had poetry published in U.S. 1 Worksheets and The 2River View.
Susan Pepper Robbins is a life long writer and teacher whose first novel was published when she was fifty ("One Way Home" Random House, 1993) and her stories have won prizes and have been included in collections and finalists in national competitions, most recently in the Spokane Prize.
Garrett Rowlan is a teacher and writer who lives in Los Angeles.
Heather Ann Schmidt is an adjunct professor at Oakland Community College and teaches creative writing at the Pontiac Creative Arts Center. She edits tinfoildresses. Her poems can be found in various online and print journals. Her books are Channeling Isadora Duncan( Gold Wake Press, 2009), The Bat's Lovesong: American Haiku (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2009), The Owl & the Muse: Collected Tanka( recycled karma press, 2009) and a full collection of poems forthcoming from Village Green Press. She received her MFA from National University and is pursung a PhD from Union Institute.
