Dark Sky Magazine Contributors Include:
Issue 7.2
The Anonymous Family Photos are not truly anonymous. They are my family, but I can not say who the photographer is. I was not born when they were taken, yet they still seem relevant. As photography changes, it’s nice to look at the past and be reminded that even the simplest images affect us, and also of the varied ways photography can influence us.
Born in 1976 and raised in Wisconsin, Lisa Albinger received her BFA in 1999 and immediately began showing in galleries. Her art depicts women in earthy, quirky settings, sometimes appearing as trees and sometimes receiving guidance from a Rabbit guide.
Nathaniel Beyer lives just outside of Boston, and teaches English at a small high school in Cambridge, MA. He graduated from Boston University’s Creative Writing Program in 2004, where he studied with Leslie Epstein and Ha Jin.
Dr. Muffins can be found at www.talkingpancakes.com
Gabriel Ricard writes short fiction, poetry, scripts, reviews, columns and creative non-fiction. He also works as an interviewer for Unlikely Stories, as stand-up comic and as Editor-in-Chief of Feel The Word Magazine. Born in Canmore, Alberta, Canada, he lives with his family in Waverly, Virginia.
Shannon Scott Stebbins is a frequent film reviewer for DSM.
Issue 7.1
Ryan Bird’s poems make regular appearances in some of Canada’s most suppositious literary magazines, including: Free Verse Good, Free Prose Bad; The Backslap Quarterly and Rage Against the Colophon. His poems have also made more substantial appearances in a very real chapbook called Under One Roof, available through Trainwreck Press. Also, read his blog Robot Kissing Booth.
Laura Hawbaker is a regular film writer for DSM.
Hardy Jones’s fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Delta Review, The Jabberwock Review, Chips’n’Cheese, The Iconoclast, Legions of Light, Diamond Sky Dancer, and Louisiana’s Living Traditions. He is trying to find a publisher for his first novel, Every Bitter Thing, and is currently working on a novel that centers on the protagonist of “Mules for Manhood.” He teaches at Auburn University.
Helen Rice is a designer and has a studio called ‘Fuzzco.’ A talented drawer of horses, her upcoming autobiography will feature episodes from her life characterized by a Pinto named, ironically, Helen. This series is called “Little Children,” and uses a mixed media format. For more work visit www.hiiin.com.
Tricia Ward is a 23-year-old photographer from Dilingham, Alaska, but currently lives in Seattle. Her work has appeared in various newspapers and on NPR. To view more photos, visit www.triciaward.com.
Issue 7.0
Neil Grimmett has published widely in European and American journals and magazines. His novel, Bestowing the Sun, was released last year.
Gerald Huml works in the Finance department at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, Virginia. His poems and book reviews recently appeared in Terminus, South Dakota Review, Yemassee, and RATTLE. He has work forthcoming in Poetry Southeast. This is the second poem he has published in DSM.
Malgorzata Jasinska is an 18-year-old artist from Poland who works with digital media. Her dark and surreal artworks, inspired by daydreams and nightmares, display sensitivity, passion and disquieting visions.
Christina Mann received her BFA from Columbia College Chicago. As a native Chicagoan, her camera continuously searches for new ways to capture her city. Her work is regularly exhibited throughout the city.
Shannon Scott Stebbins is a regular film writer for DSM.
Issue 6.9
Jon Feist is a 30-year-old California-born artist who paints realism and impressionism in acrylic and oils on canvass. He recently moved to Charleston, SC, where his work is displayed in multiple venues.
Rod Peckman’s recent poems have appeared in Barnwood, Babel Fruit, Thieves Jargon, and Clapboard House. He lives in a Washington state on a small lake in the woods, and spends much of his free time watching his Yellow lab swim for tennis balls and clearing nascent beaver damns.
Sean Ruane lives in Baltimore. He is working on a masters degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University. He has been published or has work forthcoming in Juked, Word Riot, Edifice Wrecked, Thieves Jargon (as E.F.Arnau and himself), Monkeybicycle, Eyeshot, elimae (as Julio Froberg), Johnny America, Sein und Werden, 3AM Magazine, Hecale, Catatonics, Wandering Army, the Flask Review, Mississippi Crow, the Drabblecast, Skive Magazine, Boston Literary Magazine (as Axel Finn ), Clockwise Cat, the Houston Literary Review, Octaves Magazine, and Art and Prose Magazine.
SkyBat Studio’s main focus is photography, but the studio also takes on select assignments for art direction and design. Ben and Tania consider each assignment a truly collaborative effort between themselves and their clients. Their goal is to achieve the best possible solution for any creative project. Though their nest is in A Coruña, Spain, they service clients from across the globe.
Shannon Scott Stebbins is a native Chicagoan and currently resides in Evanston, Illinois. He is a writer, broker of insurance and father of a one year old child, Giovanni. He received his BA in Journalism at Roosevelt University where he was Op/Ed Editor for the Torch Newspaper. He also studied at Loyola University where he was Sports Director and on-air talent for WLUW Chicago. He has performed stand up comedy in Chicago, Portland, Oregon, and Florida. He is writing a manuscript, a screenplay, and recently pitched a television show to Apploff Entertainment. In his spare time he likes to watch Cubs games, listen to Tom Waits and breed Spider Monkeys.
Issue 6.8
Brett Hillyard is the creative force behind HillyCollective.com. Hilly is me. COLLECTIVE is defined as a partnership between a group of people who join together with a common goal. Hilly Collective is a design firm that seeks to inspire the masses through contemporary art, fashion, photography, and advertising.
Michael Lee Johnson lives in Itasca, IL. After spending 10 years
in Edmonton, Canada, during the Vietnam War era. He is a
freelance writer and poet. He has been published in USA, Canada,
New Zealand, Australia, Scotland, Turkey, Fuji, Nigeria Africa, India,
United Kingdom, Thailand, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Photographer Elizabeth Teague politely refuses to be categorized by brief biography. Rather she prefers a fictitious account of an idealized life: Ms. Teague spends afternoons baking sugarbread lollipops and grooming her ten-month old parakeet, Cheeky.
Brendan O’Brien is a 27-year-old writer living in Wisconsin. His fiction has appeared at 55 Words and Storyglossia. He was once a staunch opponent of the $4 coffee, however that stance didn’t take.
Shannon Scott Stebbins is a native Chicagoan and currently resides in Evanston, Illinois. He is a writer, broker of insurance and father of a one year old child, Giovanni. He received his BA in Journalism at Roosevelt University where he was Op/Ed Editor for the Torch Newspaper. He also studied at Loyola University where he was Sports Director and on-air talent for WLUW Chicago. He has performed stand up comedy in Chicago, Portland, Oregon and Florida. He is writing a manuscript, a screenplay and recently pitched a television show to Apploff Entertainment. In his spare time he likes to watch Cubs games, listen to Tom Waits and breed Spider Monkeys.
Issue 6.7
Isabel Barnes studied at the Art Institute of Atlanta and the Maine Photography Workshops. In New York City for the past year, she’s explored video, contemporary dance, and performance. Currently she’s back home in Alabama developing her video performance work.
Laura Hawbaker is a frequent contributor of film criticism for DSM.
A native Oregonian, Lori Huskey lives in Portland,
Oregon, where she works as an arts administrator. She
has a BA from San Francisco State University and is
finishing her master’s at Portland State University.
Having finally made good on his threat to drop out, Dennis Vickers now teaches philosophy at the College of Menominee Nation, and lives in the shadows of the Menominee forests. Recent publications include The Cynic Online Magazine, Crime and Suspense, and Go World Travel.
David Arthur-Simons is a self-taught New York painter. He holds a Masters Degree in visual arts from the Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia. For the last 3 1/2 years he has worked on a series of 365 paintings (one for each day of the year) that explore the spiritual dimensions of life. Each day he works on one painting completing as much as possible. He then returns to the same painting the following year on the same day adding and subtracting elements till the painting is “finished”. He expects to finish the series in 3-4 years.
Issue 6.6
Daniel Coury is a Lowell, MA, based photographer and artist.
Charlie Geer is the author of the novel “Outbound: The Curious Secession of Latter-Day Charleston.” His work has appeared in Tin House, The Sun, Bloomsbury Magazine, and The Southern Review.
Jspru is a writer living in Maine.
Laura Hawbaker does a fine service as a frequent film critic for Dark Sky Magazine.
Amylin Loglisci is a life-long artist and full-time nomad. Born in 1986, the year of the fire-tiger in the Chinese Zodiac, she lives in the homes of others, hitchhiking around the world. Some more photos of her artwork and life can be found here.
Issue 6.5
Sarah Bettencourt is a Massachusetts-based photographer and educator.
Recent projects include photographic essays based in Central America,
Mexico, India, Southeast Asia and East Africa. To see more of her
work, visit her web site www.bettencourtphoto.com
Brenda Mann Hammack teaches creative writing and Victorian literature at Fayetteville State University. She is a poetry editor for Trillium Literary Journal, and her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of literary magazines including Word Riot, Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Mudlark, Heliotrope, and The North Carolina Literary Review. Her essay on Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire is forthcoming in SEL in 2008.
Paul Kelley III is an Illustrator and Graphic Designer descended from Western European immigrants who settled in Boston, Massachusetts, in the early 20th century. He is a member of the Breed Art Collective (www.breedart.org) and a frequent contributer to the Pornsaints Church (www.pornsaints.org). Personally he runs his own site at www.paulthethird.com, and runs himself into trouble when not creating art.
P.J. Martín is originally from Las Piñas, Philippines. He now finds
his home in Orange County, California, where he makes his living as a
music teacher. He is currently working on his first novel and an MFA from Chapman University.
Issue 6.4
Matt Baker has published work with The Saint Ann’s Review, Kansas City Star, Philadelphia Inquirer, Permafrost, Defenestration, FRiGG, and elsewhere. His novel, Drag the Darkness Down, will be published this year. He lives in Little Rock, AR, where he’s the circulation director at the Oxford American.
Chella Courington lives in Santa Barbara, CA. Her poetry has appeared in over thirty-five journals, including Iris, Studio, Permafrost, and Phoebe. She was a finalist in the 2007 War Poetry Contest sponsored by Winning Writers.
Gwynne Johnson currently lives and works in Chicago. She received her education from the University of Pennsylvania and the Maine Photographic Workshops. She has been included in multiple exhibitions and private collections.
Fernando Nadir Vallone was born in 1984. He currently works as a freelance artist and lives in Cordoba, Argentina. Visit his website at: www.behance.net/fernando
Issue 6.3
Born at the tail end of Generation-X in the suburban landscape of Miami, Travis Dodd grew to be a product of his times. He is an Atlanta based artist who uses his Machete Campaign to bring awareness of the inevitable ascent of Generation-X to an influential position within our society.
Laura Hawbaker does a fine service as a frequent film critic for Dark Sky Magazine.
Walker Pickering is an artist completing his MFA in photography in Atlanta, GA. In addition to his photographic work, he collaborates on several group web sites, primarily contributing video interviews with artists, curators and gallerists.
Kat Rosa works in Document Delivery Services at J. Paul Leonard Library
at San Francisco State University.
Nic Sebastian hails from Arlington, Virginia. She has two sons and travels widely. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Lily, The Adroitly Placed Word, River Walk Journal, Mannequin Envy, Poems Niederngasse, Avatar Review and elsewhere. Nic blogs at Very Like A Whale.
Issue 6.2
Michael Ray Laemmle is a multimedia artist based in Santa Fe, NM. He has work published or about to be published in Word Riot, Diamond Sky Dancer, and Konundrum Engine Lit Review.
Tammy Ho Lai-ming, aka Sighming, is a Hong Kong-born, and based, writer. She is the editor of HKU Writing: An Anthology (March 2006), and a co-founder & a co-editor of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (www.asiancha.com). More at www.sighming.com.
Laura Hawbaker is based in Chicago and is a graduate of the much ado-ed Columbia College Story Workshop method. Her writing has appeared in many publications you may or may not have heard of, such as Cicada, Newcity Magazine, The Banana King, and Hair Trigger. Her work has been acknowledged by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association as well as Preditors and Editors.
While recuperating in the naval hospital at Parris Island, S. C., W. J. (Tim) Mayes worked on a scrap book that features many photographs and articles cut out of old newspapers. His book is 100 pages long, thick with grime and age, and has the word ‘CASH’ written on the cover. It was found last year at a thrift store in Thomson, GA, and could probably fetch upwards of a cool five bucks on ebay! So, Mr. Mayes, wherever you are, DSM has your scrapbook, we love what you’ve done, and we promise to take real good care of it.
Corey Wascinski is a Polish born, California native now living in Brooklyn, NY. He appreciates telling non - fiction stories and is currently directing a feature documentary film about the Minutemen on the U.S. / Mexico border. www.theminutemenmovie.com
Issue 6.1
Lindsay Appel is a printmaker/photographer/musician living in Atlanta, GA. She spends her days managing a printshop, her weekends playing music shows, and the little bits of time in between dreaming of adventures overseas. You can find Lindsay online at: http://www.myspace.com/lindsayappelmusic.
L. Annette Binder was born in Germany and came to the U.S. as a child. She has an A.B. in Classics from Harvard, an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Berkeley, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Her poetry has recently appeared in JMWW, and fiction has recently appeared in Clapboard House.
Darryl Lorenzo Wellington is a poet, playwright, short story writer, and social critic, living in Charleston, SC. His work has previously appeared in The Asheville Poetry Review, Boston Review, The Chiron Review, The Nation, and Dissent.
Issue 6.0
Josh Maday lives in Saginaw, Michigan. His work has been published in Opium, Rivet Magazine, Defenestration, Thieves Jargon, Right Hand Pointing, Johnny America, and the Ultra-Short Edition of The Binnacle, where he was a finalist in the 2005, 2006, and 2007 Ultra-Short Story Competitions. He also reviews magazines for NewPages.com.
J Michael Wahlgren has been published/will be published in Snow Monkey, Perspectives Magazine, Beauty/Truth, iddie, admit2 & elimae. He plays guitar for his grey & white feline in Boston, MA, where he is the editor of Octaves Magazine. His first chapbook of poems entitled “Chariots of Flame” was released by Maverick Duck Press in December.
Issue 5.9
Lindsay Appel is a printmaker/photographer/musician currently living in Atlanta, GA. She spends her weekdays managing a printshop, her weekends playing music shows, and the little bits of time in between dreaming of adventures overseas. You can find Lindsay online at: www.myspace.com/lindsayappelmusic.
Neil Carpathios is the author of two full-length poetry collections: Playground of Flesh (Main Street Rag Press, 2006) and At the Axis of Imponderables (Winner of the Quercus Review Press Book Competition, 2007). He is an assistant professor of English at The College of Wooster.
Jenny Wales Steele has been published in numerous literary magazines and journals. She’s a Pushcart Prize nominee, and a graduate of The College of Santa Fe. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Issue 5.8
David Brooks is an artist of sorts living in Louisville, KY. His work is not based solely in printmaking, he also creates music, and shoots photographs in his spare time. Some of David’s work is soon to be featured in “A fistful of Rock N Roll” from Dark Horse Publications.
Dana Ress is sixteen years old and has just begun to publish his work. His interest in the medium was inspired by his grandfather’s recitals of classic war poetry. He lives in Newtown, Connecticut.
Norma Carolina Rodriguez is a native of Nicaragua. Her body of work includes documentary portraits, nudes, and interior/exterior empty spaces. She currently has a solo exhibition, “Artificially Revealed,” and is studying under the Cuban photographer, Joseph Tamargo.
James Terry has published or has stories forthcoming in Fourteen Hills, The Dublin Review, Third Coast, 42Opus, Juked, Pendeldyboz, and The Barcelona Review. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.
Issue 5.7
Sam Buchanan is a student at the University of Oregon, pursuing a B.F.A. in Digital Arts. Born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, he splits his time between illustration, music production, and digital photography. He’s working on ways to combine them. Check out sam-buchanan.com
Wendy Mnookin is a poet living in Newton, Massachusetts. Her books are What He Took and To Get Here (BOA Editions) and Guenever Speaks (Round Table Publications). Read more at www.wendymnookin.com
When not causing a general ruckus, Johnny Pundt can be found drawing lovely pictures in his home in Charleston, SC. He is currently working on a mural that will span his entire house.
J.A. Tyler is the founding editor of Mud Luscious. He has work published in over 70 journals and will be featured in the Better Non Sequitor, a new anthology.
Issue 5.6
Catherine Vera Dentino received a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts, NY. She lives near the ocean in New Jersey, where she works closely with The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts. She enjoys biking and tap dancing and is currently preparing for a two month trip through Africa before heading off to grad school. To see more of her work, visit www.catherinedentino.com.
John Grey’s latest book is What Else Is There from Main Street Rag. He’s been published in Agni, Worcester Review, South Carolina Review, and The Journal Of The American Medical Association.
James Hunter resides in the humid embrace of Charleston, South Carolina. He is an underwater archaeologist by trade and currently one of the scientific staff members investigating the American Civil War submarine H.L. Hunley.
James Keegan lll was belittled with a safe erudition. He has a master’s degree, and enough graduate hours for four graduate degrees. He studied creative writing at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and lives in Joliet, Illinois, with his beautiful wife, Mary Beth. Most important, he studied under a grandmaster from the University of Chicago, Milan Panic, a man who can speak fourteen languages.
Issue 5.5
Pattie Seely’s fiction, essays, and poetry have previously appeared in such journals as Orion Magazine, Buffalo Spree, Amelia Magazine, Acorn, and the NY Conservationist.
Tattfoo Tan is a Malaysian artist turned New Yorker. This Spring, he will celebrate the art of immigration in an installation at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. This multi-perspective installation explores the rich contributions and efforts of immigrants to maintain their heritage while adopting ingredients from a new local culture.
D. Harlan Wilson is the author of three collections of short fiction and a new science fiction novel, Dr. Identity, or, Farewell to Plaquedemia (Raw Dog Screaming Press 2007). His stories and essays have appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies throughout the world in several languages. He is the editor-in-chief of The Dream People (www.dreampeople.org), a journal of Bizarro texts. For more information on Wilson and his work, visit his official website at www.dharlanwilson.com.
Tom Wolff studied painting at the Art Institute of Boston and Arts Students League in New York. He is an adjunct professor at Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, W.Va. He’s been published in the Washington Post Magazine, House & Garden, Garden Design, Smithsonian, Audubon, and the New York Times Magazine/Sophisticated Traveler. His current exhibition is “Listening to the Prairie,” a traveling exhibition by the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of Natural History.
Issue 5.4
Bianca Furrow lives near the mountains with her cats Magda and Peabody. She’s a champion thrifter, macaroni and cheese devotee, and is madly in love with Oliver Kangamangus.
Sean Lovelace is on a river right now. He has a book and a beer. Other times he teaches at Ball State University. He recently won the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize and his work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Willow Springs, and so on.
Rob Strong was born in the wintertime in Massachusetts. He received a bachelor’s degree in computer science and economics, a master’s degree in photojournalism. In 2006 he founded the Chiron Photos agency. To see more of his work, visit robstrongphotos.com
Brandi Wells is a student at Georgia Southern University, pursuing a B.A. in Writing and Linguistics. Her work has appeared or is soon forthcoming in Ghoti Magazine, Vulcan, Storyglossia, Zygote in my Coffee, Toasted Cheese and Thieves Jargon.
Issue 5.3
Gary Beck’s poetry has appeared in dozens of literary magazines. His chapbook, ‘The Conquest of Somalia’, will be published by Cervena Barva Press. His recentfiction has been published in numerous literary magazines. His plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes, and Sophocles have been produced Off-Broadway.
Richard Brouwer lives in the Hague. He received the Royal Prize for painting and has shown his works in many exhibitions. He has also been published in The Villager and The Santa Monica Daily Press. More of his work can be seen in Issue 4.0
Michael Meyer is a Brooklyn-based photographer. He splits his time making work that explores his personal interests and hang ups, and educating teens in the potential photography has in shaping their world.
Ann Tinkham is a writer/instructional designer based in Boulder, Colorado. She has written over 40 online courses in subjects ranging from emergency preparedness to energetic healing. Ann’s nonfiction book, Climbing Mountains in Stilettos, was released in June, 2007. Her fiction has appeared in All Things Girl, Apt, Double Dare Press, E difice Wrecked, Hiss Quarterly, Lily, Miranda, MotherVerse, Slow Trains, Stone Table Review, Syntax, Thirst for Fire, Toasted Cheese, Wild Violet, and Writethis.com.
Issue 5.2
Isabel Barnes studied at the Art Institute of Atlanta and the Maine Photography Workshops. In New York City for the past year she’s explored video, contemporary dance, and performance. Currently she’s back home in Alabama developing her video performance work.
Benjamin Pryor is from Maggie Valley, NC. His work has appeared in The Oxford American, The Southern Review, Cimarron Review, Oxford Magazine, The Wallace Stevens Journal, The North Carolina Literary Review, Main Street Rag, MiPOesias Magazine, and Pataphysica. He currently lives in Chapel Hill.
Joel Reibert lives in Southport, NC, where he continues to work on his project documenting the effects of dementia. He recently gave a lecture on the subject at Duke University.
Sybil Wilen is working on a book that will chronicle the History of Belly Dance in America. She graduated in 2004 with an MFA in Creative Writing from Stonecoast College. She has published work in the Baltimore Review and is a staff writer for Carpe Nocturne.
Issue 5.1
Claire Gilliam is a British born photographer residing in New York State. Having graduated from Sheffield Hallam University with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, she continued her photographic studies at Kingston University, UK and at Rockport College, Maine. She is currently working on an ongoing project that delves into the world of personal history.
Rebecca Hirsch hails from the Middle West and now resides near the edge of the Greenpoint oil spill in Brooklyn. She graduated with a B.A. in Individualized Study from N.Y.U. and currently works at various slave-laboring institutions that don’t pay her enough.
Lisa Iglesias was born and raised in Queens, NY. She mourns for a bike named Golden Boy and lives with a tiny dog, named Friedrich. More of her work can be seen in Issue 4.1.
Corey Mesler is the owner of Burke’s Book Store, in Memphis, Tennessee,. He has published poetry and fiction in numerous journals including Rattle, Pindeldyboz, Quick Fiction, American Poetry Journal, Thelma, Mars Hill Review, Adirondack Review, Poet Lore, and others.
Ben Mittlemen owns and operates SkyBat Studio.
Tania Vasallo is a photographer/ art director. Born and raised in Madrid, she was educated at St. Louis University, Miami Ad School, and Maine Photographic workshops. She currently runs SkyBat Studio with her husband in A Coruña Spain.
Issue 5.o
Jack Cantrell is a designer and musician living in Phoenix.
Brent Harrewyn considers photography to be a passion that challenges him to see, rather than simply look at the world. Contributing photographs are taken from his recent trip to China. View more of his work at www.flickr.com/photos/bharrewyn.
Amanda McQuade neither confirms nor denies anything. Her work has recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in Aquapolis, Lethe, Pregnant Moon Review, and silent actor. Currently, she resides in Los Angeles with her husband, Matt.Edward Mc Whinney is an Irishman living in Cork. His work has been published in Juked and Contrary Magazine
Issue 4.9
Jeff Gibbs received his MFA from the University of Arizona. He has published poems, stories, and essays in Word Riot, Blood Lotus, Dazzling Mica, Diagram, 3AM magazine, Heat City Review, and most recently, Noo Journal. Currently, he is working on a nonfiction book about his experiences in Turkey.
Gwynne Johnson currently lives and works in Chicago. She received her education from the University of Pennsylvania and the Maine Photographic Workshops. She has been included in multiple exhibitions and private collections.
Ashley Kenney was born in Nova Scotia 23 years ago and spent the majority of her youth in Liverpool. Along with drawing, she enjoys painting, sculpting, photography… the list continues to grow.
Robert Lietz’s poems have appeared in numerous print and web journals in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. His eight published collections include, Running in Place, At Park and East Divsion, The Lindbergh Half-century, Storm Service, and After Business in the West. When he is not writing, Lietz can be found making, post-processing, and printing digital photographsIssue
4.8
Jacob Dearing landed in Austin, Texas after spending the last few years in the Army. He concerns himself most with catching up on his education and looks forward to a time when he can roam the world free of concern, talking to strangers and wrestling with the abstract.
Bill Gillard is a refugee from the high cost of living in his ancestralhomeland of New Jersey. He lives in Appleton, teaches English at theUniversity of Wisconsin, and considers Doctor Who in front of a roaring fire on a cold night a romantic date. So far, his wife agrees, bless her soul.
Shaun Mader is a photographer based in New York City. His diversebackground in film, theater, and music offers a wide palette ofinspiration. His extensive travels in Southeast Asia has also deeplyforged his sensibility to find simplicity in the seemingly chaotic. www.shaunmader.com
Jonathan Sanchez is the author of “Fools All of Us: stories of the white city” and “Bandit.” He lives in Charleston, SC, and is the owner of the Blue Bicycle Books store.
Issue 4.7
Mariya Alexander was born in the former Soviet republic of Ukraine,in the Black Sea port city of Odessa. She moved to the U.S. with herfamily in 1994 and currently lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and their two cats. Mariya likes to take pictures of people when they aren’t looking, and to create abstract compositions with still life and nature subjects.
Michael McManus’s short stories and poems have appeared in numerous publications, including The Dublin Quarterly, Contrary Magazine, ONTHEBUS, Atlanta Review, Prism International, Burnside Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, West Wind Review, Square Lake, Rattle, Louisiana Literature, Texas Review, among others. He has received a Fellowship from the Louisiana Division of the Arts.
Lizeth Nino was born in Texas, raised in Mexico, and currently lives in San Antonio. She took an interest in visual arts at age 3, and has not stopped since… She studied Graphic Arts at San Antonio College and has done graphic design for numerous non-profit organizations.
Jeanette Marie Sayers is a Medical Writer and the Poetry Editor of The Furnace Review (www.thefurnacereview.com). She obtained her M.A. in Editorial Studies from Boston University. Her works have appeared in California Quarterly and Red Owl Magazine and on Poetry Daily.
Issue 4.6
Carey Denniston’s photographs are part of the series I tried, but the devils found me there and are an interpretation of ‘home’ – where the fundamentals of hope and despair remain directly, and indirectly, at odds.
Rose Koonse studied Art and Design in Columbia, Missouri. She now lives in a friend’s laundry room while pursuing the craft of costuming.
Valerie Z Lewis has a BS in English Education from New York University, and an MFA in Writing from Goddard College. She is an adjunct professor at SUNY Orange. Her stories have been published by The Pitkin Review, Torquere Press, and SNReview. She enjoys avoiding social situations, walking her dog, metaphors, chicken, acoustic guitars, public radio, rummage sales, dystopian novels, homoeroticism, and coffee. She is currently consuming tap water and processed cheese in the hope that it will make her immortal.
Rich Murphy’s credits include Great Grandfather, a chapbook; poems in Rolling Stone, Poetry, Grand Street, New Letters, Negative Capability, Spiral Bridge, foam:e, and Confrontation; and essays in Fulcrum, The International Journal of the Humanities, Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning , Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics Poetry / Literature and Culture, and Fringe. Currently, he is guest editor for Inertia Magazine.
Issue 4.5
Sargam Garg graduated from Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi, and then earned a MS from the University of Texas. She currently resides in Pennsylvania with her husband. A lover of yoga and impressionist paintings, Sargam has written over 200 poems and short stories.
Joe Jankovsky, a photographer and darkroom expert from Arizona, has been active in the photography industry for twenty-five years. His career started in the photofinishing field where he spent over eight years as a full-time darkroom printer and has since become a freelance photographer and imaging consultant.
Werner Low lives in Cambridge, MA. His stories have appeared in “The Journal (of Ohio State University),” “Lily Literary Review,” “The Literary Review” (of Trinity College, Hartford), “Pedestal Magazine,” “Pinehurst Journal,” “Slow Trains,” “The Square Table,” “Void Magazine,” as well as other publications.
Mira Marpel lives in Vermont with her goats and chickens. She is a self-taught artist, and drawing is her secret love when she is not growing vegetables. She has exhibited her work at the Keds Gallery.
Issue 4.4
Jonathan Atchley is an artist from southern California. He resides in Brooklyn, New York, and works as a sculptor’s assistant, musician, graphic designer, and painter/mixed media artist.
Lightsey Darst lives in Minneapolis, where she writes poetry and dance criticism and teaches English and humanities classes. She is the recipient of a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
Mathew Scott was born and raised in Portland, OR. He later moved to San Francisco, where he attended the Academy of Art. He still lives and works in the Bay Area, always traveling around with a camera by his side.
Christopher Wachlin was born and raised in Grand Chute, Wisconsin. He attended the University of Iowa, where he missed a lot of classes but did meet his beautiful wife, Jennifer, in French Composition. He currently lives in Redwood City, California. “Talking WriteMax!” is his first published story.
Issue 4.3
Simmons B. Buntin is the founding editor of Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments. His first book of poetry, Riverfall, was published in May 2005 by Ireland’s Salmon Poetry.
James Hunter resides in the humid embrace of Charleston, South Carolina. He is an underwater archaeologist by trade and currently one of the scientific staff members investigating the American Civil War submarine H.L. Hunley.
Michael Schwartz is originally from West Bloomfield, MI. He came to Minneapolis to study photography at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He now lives in south Minneapolis and can be contacted via email at schwartz.mr@gmail.com
Mark Vogel has directed the Appalachian Writing Project for ten years. He is married to the beautiful and talented writer, Susan Weinberg. He is currently Professor of English at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
Issue 4.2
Charlie Geer is the author of the novel “Outbound: The Curious Secession of Latter-Day Charleston.” His work has appeared in Tin House, The Sun, Bloomsbury Magazine, and The Southern Review.
Talia Herman studied at Parsons and resides in Berkeley, CA. The image featured in this issue is from a series of a drag/street theatre non-profit that has managed to work for and with the support of a small rural community in Northern California, which also happens to be Talia’s hometown.
Gerald Huml works in the Finance department at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, Virginia. His poems and book reviews recently appeared in Terminus, South Dakota Review, Yemassee, and RATTLE. He has work forthcoming in Poetry Southeast.
Shine Park was born in Seoul, Korea. After high school,he moved to Vancouver and studied Media art at Emily Carr Institute ofArt and Design.
Issue 4.1
Jean Paul Ferro is a writer from Providence, Rhode Island. He is a 4-time Pushcart nominee. His work has been featured on WBAR radio in NYC.
Lisa Iglesias was born and raised in Queens, NY. She mourns for a bike named Golden Boy and lives with a tiny dog, named Friedrich.
Jeremy Ingebrand has recently moved from the depths of NE Philadelphia across the board to Portland, Oregon. This 28-year-old photographer now finds himself shooting a whole new landscape of long night exposures of rustic abandoned buildings, train yards, and every day city life.
Kevin Keating has had his work published in numerous journals. He currently teaches English at Baldwin-Wallace College in Cleveland, Ohio.
Issue 4.0
Richard Brouwer lives in The Hague. He received the Royal Prize for Painting and has showcased his works in many exhibitions. He has also been published in The Villager and The Santa Monica Daily Press.
J. Brent Crossen grew up near Gainesville, Florida. He is currently helping with the barley harvest in Tibetan Buddhist Ladakh, a region of the Jammu-Kashmir state in India.
Moira McDonald is a San Francisco based artist who has studied at Parsons in New York and is currently enrolled at California College of the Arts. She loves Polaroid and a good laugh.
Allison Shoemaker is a graduate of Western Michigan University’s creative writing program. While there, she drank a lot of coffee and made a lot of trouble. Her work has appeared in The Pedestal, Barnwood Magazine, and The Commonline Project. She is theater director and vocalist living in Chicago.
