Issue 65, Spring 2004
David Adams was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and is a recidivist Midwesterner. He received an M.F.A. from Bowling Green State University. He has spent most of his academic career teaching technical writing to engineering students and is currently an assistant professor of English at the University of Maine where he now directs the new Engineering Communication Project. His most recent book of poetry, First Light, was published in 2001 by Lost Shadow Press. He co-edited Over West: Selected Poetry and Prose of Frederick Eckman (National Poetry Foundation, 1999).
Ray Barker works for a university library in Kansas City, Missouri. His work has previously appeared in The Akros Review, Poetic Space, and Canto. This is his first appearance in the Hiram Poetry Review.
Stephen C. Behrendt is the George Holmes Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, where his scholarly areas are British Romanticism and the relations among the arts. His poetry has appeared widely and includes two book-length collections, Instruments of the Bones and A Step in the Dark.
Brad Buchanan has published poems in more than eighty-five journals worldwide. He teaches English at California State University in Sacramento.
Grace Butcher's poetry has been appearing in little magazines since the mid-60's - Poetry, The Midwest Quarterly, Yankee, Tar River Poetry, The Windsor Review, The Louisville Review, The Literary Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Nimrod, and others and in numerous anthologies. A poem from Poetry was chosen for The Best American Poetry 2000 as well as The Poetry Anthology: 1912 - 2002. She is the editor for The Listening Eye. She taught at Kent State University Geauga Campus for twenty-five years, retired (emeritus) in 1993, and currently teaches there occasionally.
E.R. Carlin grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, and has been recently published in Rattle, Cimarron Review, Wisconsin Review, and Medicinal Purposes Literary Review. Carlin has work forthcoming in Earth Daughter's, The Iconoclast, Epicenter, and Aethlon.
Donelle Dreese currently teaches American Literature at North Carolina State University. She holds a Ph.D. in literature and criticism specializing in American Indian and environmental literatures. In addition to publishing a book and numerous articles in her field of scholarship, she has published poetry and creative nonfiction in a wide variety of literary magazines.
Jen Hirt is an M.F.A. candidate at the University of Idaho. Her nonfiction essays were nominated for a 2003 Pushcart Prize. My book- in-progress received a 2003 Ohioana Library Grant. She has recently been published in The Ohioana Quarterly. She has a poem forthcoming in Poetry Motel, a chapbook review forthcoming in The Briar Cliff Review, and an essay forthcoming in Flyaway.
William Johnson's poems have appeared in the Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, and the Ohio Review. He is the Conway Chair in Social Studies at University School in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
Christina Kallery's poetry has appeared in the MacGuffin Poetry Motel and 3AMmagazine.com. She holds a B.A. in English and creative writing from the University of Michigan and lives in the Detroit area.
David Lawrence has published over two hundred poems in North American Review, Confrontation, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Poet Lore, and others. He has four published books including Dementia Pugilistica. He says, "I'm a real Renaissance man - actor, Ph.D., business mogul, jailbird, and professional boxer."
Diane LeBlanc is the author of Hope in Zone Four, a poetry chapbook. Her poetry and prose appear in The Comstock Review, Earth's Daughters, Great River Review, Natural Bridge, Permafrost, Primavera, Water~Stone, and other journals. She directs the writing program at St. Olaf College, where she teaches writing and women's studies.
Adrienne Lewis is the Managing Editor of Mayapple Press. Her works have previously appeared in such print and online venues as Fusion, Cardinal Sins, Controlled Burn, Poetry Midwest, The Driftwood Review, and The Poetry Super Highway. The recipient of the 2003 Raymond Tyner Prize for Poetry, her first collection of poetry (Coming Clean, 2003) was recently released. Lewis lives in Saginaw, Michigan with her husband and son; she currently attends graduate school at Central Michigan University.
Robert Lowes lives in St. Louis and writes all about physicians as a senior editor for Medical Economics magazine. His poetry has appeared in The New Republic, The Christian Century, The Jabberwock Review, Regeneration Quarterly, Blink, The Worcester Review, and The Cape Rock. He also has work coming out in The Tampa Review and Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics. He is a student in the M.F.A. creative writing program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Cyrus Mahan is a prominent Iranian writer and poet living out of his country since 1986. He has published numerous articles, short stories, and poems, all concerned with the Iranian struggle for freedom, democracy, and equality. He was arrested two times when the Shah was in power and spent four years in jail under the present regime. Many critics consider him one of the most socially conscious poets and writers of today's Iran. "New Flag" was written in prison and smuggled out by someone whose prison term ended in 1983. The poem was originally written in Persian.
Khaled Mattawa is the author of a book of poems, Ismailia Eclipsei (Sheep Meadow Press), the translator of two volumes of Arabic poetry, and the co-editor of Post-Gibran: Anthology of New Arab American Writing (Syracuse University Press). A recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, Princeton University's Hodder Fellowship, and an NEA translations grant, Mattawa's poems, essays, and translations have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Agni, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and Best American Poetry, among many other journals and anthologies. A graduate of the Indiana University creative writing program, Mattawa is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin.
Carrie McGath's first collection of poetry, Small Murders, is due for release in spring 2005 by New Issues Press. She currently lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Daniel Morris is the author of Bryce Passage, a book of poems (Marsh Hawk Press). He is an associate professor and assistant head of the English Department at Purdue University.
Allan Peterson is the author of several books, including Anonymous Or, Chapbooks: Stars on a Wire, and Small Charities. He has been published in Gettysburg Review, Water-Stone, Marlboro Review, Shenandoah, Green Mountains Review, West Wind Review, Roanoke Review, and many others. He has won the 2002 Arts & Letter Poetry Prize, the Florida Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry, and the NEA Fellowship in Poetry.
Virgil Renfroe is finishing his M.F.A. at UNC Greensboro and has work forthcoming in the Atlantic Review. He is currently the assistant poetry editor at The Greensboro Review.
Dana Roeser's first book, Beautiful Motion, winner of the Samuel French Morse Prize at Northeastern University Press, will be published in fall 2004. Her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Another Chicago Magazine, Descant, Indiana Review, The Iowa Review, The Laurel Review, The Literary Review, The Massachusetts Review, Northwest Review, Passages North, Pool, Shade, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and others.
Susan Serafin is an M.F.A. candidate and teaching fellow at Northern Michigan University. She is a great indoorswoman in the frigid Upper Peninsula, working on a book of poetry called Elegy for Susan X. and Mr. C.
Clara Silverstein, a writer and editor at the Boston Herald, has published poems in magazines including The Comstock Review and The Sow's Ear. Her memoir, White Girl: A Story of School Desegregation, is forthcoming from University of Georgia Press. She is program director of the summer writers' center at Chautauqua, New York.
Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz, grandson of Irish and Russian immigrants, was born south of Pittsburgh. Although he attended college, he has done physical labor most of his life. His poems have appeared in various Irish and American journals. His chapbook on the immigrant experience, So Here We Are, was recently published by Temporary Vandalism Recordings.
Erin Sweeten is a recent graduate of the writing seminars at Johns Hopkins University. She works as a creative writing instructor in the Washington, D.C. area.
Jim Teeters is a social worker, writer, and trainer living near Seattle. He is the author of Teach with Style (Redleaf Press, 2001) for adult educators. He holds a writer's certificate from the University of Washington extension and has published poetry in Beginnings, Arnazella, and Northwest Renaissance Poets.
Anne Wilson lives and teaches in San Diego. Her book of flamenco- inspired poetry, Soleá, has just been published by Finishing Line Press. Anne was nominated for a Pushcart in 2000 and has won over thirty awards in five years. She has had work published in The Bitter Oleander, South Dakota Review, Rattle, and others.
Mike White lives in Salt Lake City and serves as poetry editor at Quarterly West. He has recent or forthcoming work in journals including The Iowa Review, Barrow Street, Poetry International, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and West Branch. He received a Pushcart Prize nomination in 2003.
Matt Zambito is originally from Ransomville, New York, and now lives in Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in The North American Review, RHINO, Pearl, and Another Chicago Magazine. He is the drummer for Lower Lights Burning.