Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Peggy Aylsworth is a retired psychotherapist, living in Santa Monica with her poet/essayist husband, Norm Levine. Her poetry has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, The MacGuffin, Ars Interpres, Chiron Review, DMQ, Innisfree Poetry Journal, and Poetry Salzburg Review. Her work has been published in numerous other literary journals throughout the U.S. and abroad. One of her poems was nominated for the 2012 Pushcart Prize.
Mark Beaver has published prose in North American Review, Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, Fugue, Memoir, Southeast Review, Third Coast, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro's MFA program, and now lives in Atlanta with his wife and daughters. "Lone Baritone" is part of a coming-of-age memoir he has recently completed.
Ashley-Elizabeth Best is from Cobourg, Ontario, Canada. She was on the poetry shortlist for the 2011 Matrix Litpop Awards and Prism's Poetry Prize 2012. She has poetry appearing in the Red River Review, In/Words, The Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Prick of the Spindle, Fox Chase Review, CV2, and Branch Magazine. She recently placed first for poetry in This Magazine's Great Canadian Literary Hunt 2012 and was the poetry runner up for subTerrain Magazine's Lush Literary awards 2012. She has a chapbook published with Cactus Press called Slow States of Collapse. Currently she lives and writes in Kingston.
Ellis J. Biderson worked as a marketing/communications manager and executive for thirty-five years and a teacher for three years. Biderson is the author of Talking Dirty (Carol Publishing) and has had articles, fiction, and other items published in the Saturday Evening Post, Free Inquiry, English Journal, Industry Week, The Cynic, Jerry Jazz Musician, and Woman's Day.
Vanessa Blakeslee has been awarded grants and fellowships from Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Ragdale Foundation, and she was a finalist for the 2011 Philip Roth Residency at Bucknell University. Her poetry has been published in The Los Angeles Review, Fjords, Gargoyle, Italian Americana, New York Quarterly, and Southern Poetry Review, among others. An alumnus of both the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences, she also earned an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
John-Michael Bloomquist is a fifth-generation Arizonan. His poems have been published in The Carolina Quarterly, The Southeast Review, The South Dakota Review, The Portland Review, and The Superstition Review, and his work is forthcoming in Third Coast and The Lindenwood Review. He won second prize in the Glendon Swarthout poetry competition in 2010 and first prize in 2011. He is an MFA candidate in Poetry at Arizona State University.
Bruce Bond is the author of eight published books of poetry, most recently The Visible (LSU, 2012), Peal (Etruscan, 2009), and Blind Rain (Finalist, The Poet's Prize, LSU, 2008). His tetralogy entitled Choir of the Wells will be released from Etruscan Press in 2013. He has two other books forthcoming: The Other Sky (poems in collaboration with the painter Aron Wiesenfled, introduction by Stephen Dunn, Etruscan Press) and For the Lost Cathedral (LSU Press). Presently he is a Regents Professor of English at the University of North Texas and Poetry Editor for American Literary Review.
Michael Chitwood is a freelance writer and teaches at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His poetry and fiction have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The New Republic, Threepenny Review, Field, The Georgia Review, and numerous other journals. Two books of his poetry—Salt Works (1992) and Whet (1995)—were published by Ohio Review Books. His third book, The Weave Room (1998), was published by The University of Chicago Press in the Phoenix Poets series. Other poetry collections include Gospel Road Going (2002), From Whence (LSU Press, 2007), and Spill (Tupelo Press, 2007). Spill and his most recent collection, Poor-Mouth Jubilee (Tupelo Press, 2010) were finalists for ForeWord magazine's poetry book of the year.
Bill Christophersen has had poems published recently in Birmingham Poetry Review, Comstock Review, Hanging Loose, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Rhino, Right Hand Pointing and Sierra Nevada Review. He plays bluegrass and traditional fiddle and lives in New York City.
Patricia Clark is Poet-in-Residence...
