Issue 64, Spring 2003
E.R. Carlin grew up in Youngstown, Ohio. He has recently been published in Beloit Poetry Journal, Hunger Magazine, Blind Man’s Rainbow, Iconoclast, and Epicenter. He has work forthcoming in Poems & Plays, Cedar Hill Review: Roque Dalton Redux Issue, Wicked Hollow, and Hazmat Review.
Sean M. Conrey completed his M.F.A. at Purdue and is beginning a Ph.D. in rhetoric and composition. He spent his undergraduate years at Western Michigan University. His work has appeared in Permafrost, Another Chicago Magazine, Notre Dame Review, Plainsongs, and Cream City Review.
Steve De France has been twice nominated for a Pushcart and is the winner of other lesser poetry awards. Recent publications have appeared in Mid-America Review, Amherst Review, Lynx Eye, ArtMag, Tacenda, Writers Bloc, Rattle, and California State Poetry Quarterly. He has an M.F.A. in poetry and teaches writing at an inner city college in Los Angeles. He lives in Long Beach, California. Joan Dy is an M.F.A. candidate at Southern Illinois University— Carbondale. Her poems are forthcoming in the Southeast Review, Re)verb, and Lyric.
Robert Flanagan has published a novel, Maggot, two collections of short stories, Naked to Naked Goes and Loving Power, and numerous chapbooks of poems in Canada, England, Northern Ireland, and the U.S. He lives in Ohio.
Sarah Gemmill lives in Winchester, Massachusetts, with her husband and three children.
J. Allen Hall’s poems and personal essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly, Bellingham Review, Margie, Cimarron Review, and Rhino, among others. He lives in Houston, where he is currently completing a doctorate at the University of Houston.
David Hart retired several years ago as general counsel to a corporation headquartered in Chicago and resumed the study and writing of poetry. He graduated from Northwestern University, where he majored in composition, and from Harvard Law School. His work has appeared previously in Southwest Review.
Grace Haugh is a college student. She grew up in Missouri and Arkansas, and people say she has a funny accent. She has been writing poetry for several years, and she has had two poems published. She enjoys crocheting and cooking, and she thinks men who dress as women are sexy.
Gregory Hill lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. Henry Hughes’ poetry has appeared in Antioch Review, Carolina Quarterly, and Southern Humanities Review. His collection, Men Holding Eggs, received the Oregon Book Award in November 2004.
Austin Hummel teaches poetry and film at Northern Michigan University.
William Johnson holds the Conway Chair in Social Studies at University School. His poems have appeared in Antioch Review and the Denver Quarterly.
Lyn Lifshin has published more than one hundred books of poetry, including Before It’s Light, Cold Comfort, and A new Film about a Woman in Love with the Dead. She has a new book forthcoming in 2005—Another Woman Who Looks Like Me. For more information about Lyn Lifshin, visit her website at www.lynlifshin.com.
Shane McCrae received an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’Workshop and is currently a student at Harvard Law School. His work has appeared in American Letters and Commentary and Orion.
Daniel Morris is author of Bryce Passage (March Hawk Press, 2004). He is a professor at Purdue University.
Chad Prevost teaches at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, as assistant professor, creative writing specialist. He has works in print or forthcoming in places such as Puerto del Sol, The Connecticut Review, South Dakota Review, Confluence, Cimarron Review, Louisiana Literature, RE:AL, and The Southeast Review. He can be reached at chadprevost@yahoo.com.
Yvonne B. Robery has had poems published in Christian Century, The Cresset, Christianity and the Arts, and others. She graduated with a B.A. in literature from Wheaton College in Illinois and earned an M.A. in literature from Northwestern University. She works as a supervisory paralegal for federal administrative judges at the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board in Chicago, Illinois.
Kathleen Rooney is the author of Reading with Oprah (University of Arkansas Press, 2005). Visit her online at www.kathleenrooney.com. Meg Thompson is originally from Grafton, Ohio. She is working toward her M.F.A. from West Virginia University.
Marine Robert Warden lives in Riverside, California. He is a physician consultant to the California State Department of Health. Recent poems have appeared in Bellowing Ark, Free Lunch, the Iconoclast, and Pearl and Rattle. Future work will appear in the Sulphur River Literary Review and Glass Tesseract. His hobbies include family, cooking, and fishing.