EDITORS
Omar Alvarado, Translation Editor, was born in Ecuador and grew up in New York City. He graduated from Amherst College with a degree in Economics. After graduation he moved to Austin, Texas and pursued a career as a rock musician but now has returned to his true passion, literature. He is currently enrolled in the Queens College MFA program and will be completing a thesis both in fiction and translation. He plans to have his first novel completed soon after he graduates.
John Reid Currie, Editor, is a poet and teaching artist. He has read his work and performed at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Nuyorican Poets Café, Earshot, and ABC No Rio. His work can be found in Greenwich Village, published by St. Martin’s Griffin and Green at Work published by Island Press.
Arthur Ganzer is a photographer and artist. He lives in Merrick, Long Island with his wife and son. His photography can be viewed on www.flickr.com. Additional photography and artwork can be seen by contacting aganzer@verizon.net.
Deonne Kahler, Creative Nonfiction Editor, has been writing freelance for seven years. She wrote the “Small Business 101” column for the San Francisco newspaper Bay Area BusinessWoman, as well as the music column “The Hum” and arts and entertainment features for The Taos News. Recent credits include New Mexico Magazine, A Prairie Home Companion, and Wow! Women on Writing. Visit Deonne at her blog www.lifeonthehighwire.com.
Stefanie Lipsey, Tech Editor, is a librarian, writer-poet and mom. Her poems have appeared in several print and online journals including: The Long Island Quarterly, Roguescholars.com, Poetz.com, and Big City Lit. For her website and link to her blog, “Writing Yoga,” please visit her online at www.stefanielipsey.com.
Jackie Pervizaj, Creative Nonfiction Editor, is pursuing an MFA at Queens College, City University of New York. Her short stories have won finalist status at Glimmer Train Press Inc., and she is now working on a novel and collection of short stories. She lives with her two cats, Porthos and Gaia, in Kew Gardens, NY.
Ann Podracky, Fiction Editor, is a second year graduate student in Queens College's MFA in Creative Writing and Translation. Her short fiction appeared most recently on the CUNY 9/11 Memorial website. She will be reading on January 9th in the Earshot Reading Series at The Lucky Cat Cafe.
Leah Pollack, Poetry Editor, is a senior project manager at the Family Independence Administration of New York. She has received numerous awards for her poetry, and has taught creative writing workshops for high school students.
Mike Sanders, Fiction Editor, is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at Queens College, and working to complete his first novel. He is an alumnus of both Binghamton University and the Bronx High School of Science.
Peter Vanderberg, Poetry Editor, is pursuing an MFA at Queens College. Prior to that, he served for four years in the US Navy. His poetry has appeared in The Meridian Anthology, Hunger Mountain, and in The New York Times. He is a high school teacher in Astoria and lives in Lynbrook, NY with his wife and two children.
CONTRIBUTORS
Oscar Bermeo was born in Ecuador and raised in the Bronx. He now makes his home in Oakland, where he is the poetry editor for Tea Party magazine and lives with his wife, poet Barbara Jane Reyes.
Donna Brook, author of four books of poetry, has recently had poems in The Brooklyn Rail, The Recluse and Hanging Loose #93.
Robert Calero graduated from Queens College with a BA in English. He is currently employed as perhaps Manhattan's tiniest bouncer at a jazz bar in the West Village.
Christie Casher is a teacher and writer from Brooklyn, NY. She has been published in Fair Use and the Pipe Dream and edited an anthology of poetry, Ugly Poets, Beautiful Poems (Lagoon Drive Press, 2004). She received her MFA from Emerson College in 2006 and an MS in Education from Pace in 2008. She is currently working on a new book and teaching English Language Arts in East New York.
Cyrus Cassells is the author of four acclaimed books of poetry: The Mud Actor, Soul Make a Path through Shouting, Beautiful Signor, More Than Peace and Cypresses. Among his honors are a Lannan Literary Award. He is a Professor of English at Texas State University-San Marcos.
Eric Darton’s novel Free City (WW Norton 1996) was subsequently published in German and Spanish translations. His cultural history of the World Trade Center, Divided We Stand (Basic Books, 1999) became a New York Times bestseller. He is currently writing and publishing, via weekly email installments, an ongoing journal of our strange times called Born Witness. His most recent book is Beaky Chronicles, twelve animal tales for adults, with illustrations by Katie Kehrig. Other of Darton's writings may be found at www.ericdarton.net.
Mary Christine Delea is the author of The Skeleton Holding Up the Sky (Main Street Press, NC), two chapbooks, and over 200 published poems. Upcoming publications include Eclipse and Cider Press Review. Originally from Long Island, she now lives in Oregon with her husband and their five cats.
Deborah Di Bari grew up in East Harlem. After graduation from FIT, she pursued a career in textile and fashion design. She plans to continue nourishing her passion for narrative and writing in an MFA program after completion of the Goddard College BFA in Creative Writing, where she is a founding editor of Guideword.
Judy Gerbin is a graduate of Pratt University and works as a graphic designer. She is currently writing short stories and poetry. She lives in Yonkers with her husband.
Robert Hershon has published 12 poetry collections, most recently Calls from the Outside World. He is co-editor of Hanging Loose Press and executive director of The Print Center. He has won two NEA Fellowships and three from New York State.
Ry Kincaid’s poems appear in recent or upcoming issues of Tipton Poetry Journal, The Honey Land Review, Poetry Flyer, and The Battered Suitcase. His historical baseball play, The Rajah of Saint Louis, debuted last year. Kincaid lives in Kansas City, Missouri.
Cathy McArthur’s poetry has appeared in Jacket, Lumina, The Melic Review, Xconnect. Shampoo, The Memphis State Review, Blue Fifth Review, sonaweb, and other presses. Her work was selected for
CUNYArtsGala, 2004, 2005 and 2006. In 2006 she received an MFA in Poetry from The City College of New York, and was also awarded The Malanche Prize for her translations of Contemporary Latin American Poets. She currently teaches Literature and English Composition at CCNY. She is also Program Coordinator for the Readings On the Bowery series, sponsored by Four Way Books.
Lynne Martens is a New Yorker who now lives in Vermont to be near her family. She owns her own business, a Pilates exercise studio. She loves flash impressions of startling beauty--an inspiration for the poem "A Potted Plant In June."
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich lives and writes in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Michael Morical’s work has appeared in various journals including The New York Quarterly, Rattapallax, Frogpond and The Pedestal Magazine. His first chapbook, Sharing Solitaire, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.
Mihaela Moscaliuc’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit, New Letters, Connecticut Review, Meridians, Crab Orchard Review, and Poetry International. She has published reviews, translations, and articles in Arts & Letters, Mississippi Review, Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, The Georgia Review, Soundings, and elsewhere.
Rena J. Mosteirin is a poet and fiction writer. She is the winner of the 2008 Kore Press Fiction Chapbook award for her story "Nick Trail's Thumb." She blogs poetry at White Whale Crossing. Rena has also won the Sydney Cox Memorial Award (2005, 2007), the Grimes Prize (2007), and the Class of 1954 Award (2007). She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and currently lives in Thetford, VT.
Susan O'Doherty is the author of Getting Unstuck without Coming Unglued: A Woman's Guide to Unblocking Creativity (Seal Press, 2007). Her work has appeared in Eureka Literary Magazine, Northwest Review, Ballyhoo Stories, Apalachee Review, Eclectica, and Literary Mama, and the anthologies Sex for America: Politically Inspired Erotica (HarperPerennial, 2008), Mama, Ph.D: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life (Rutgers University Press, 2008), About What Was Lost: Twenty Writers on Miscarriage, Healing, and Hope (Penguin, 2007), and It’s a Boy! (Seal Press, 2005). New work is scheduled to appear in Ars Medica,and Feed Me! Writers Dish about Food, Eating, Weight, and Body Image (Random House, 2009). Her popular advice column for writers, "The Doctor Is In," appears each Friday on the publishing blog Buzz, Balls & Hype.
Lisa Romeo, a New Jersey resident, writes essays and other nonfiction for a broad range of media, including The New York Times, magazines, literary journals, and anthologies. She is at work on a memoir and recently completed an MFA in nonfiction.
Thaddeus Rutkowski is the author of the novels Tetched and Roughhouse. Both books were finalists for an Asian American Literary Award. He teaches fiction writing at the Writer's Voice of the West Side YMCA and lives with his wife and daughter in Manhattan.
Diane Shakar is a Reiki Master and instructor. She is currently writing short stories and poetry. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband.