About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Nicolas Beier is a junior at the University of Michigan. Although he is pursuing a degree in computer science, Nicolas finds great worth in photography and other art forms. He enjoys embarking on multi-day bike trips, shooting on film with manual focus, working with young people, and listening to all sorts of music.
Richard N. Bentley has published two books: Post-Freudian Dreaming (short stories) and A General Theory of Desire (poetry). He won the Paris Review/Paris Writers' Workshop International Fiction Award, is a Pushcart nominee, and has appeared in several anthologies. He loves to hear from people who've read his stuff at rbentley@valinet.com. Visit his website at www.dickbentley.com.
Ariane Bolduc, a native of southern California, currently lives in Columbus, Ohio, where she serves as the Grants Manager for ProMusica Chamber Orchestra and as an Artist-in-Residence at Riverside Methodist Hospital. She received her BA in English from the University of Southern California, and her MFA in creative writing from the Ohio State University. In 2006, she received an Individual Excellence Award in Poetry from the Ohio Arts Council, and she has published in the Connecticut Review, Salt Hill, and The Laurel Review, with a poem forthcoming in The Portland Review.
Susan Howard Case began writing poetry in the late 1980s, during her career as a high school English teacher. Her need to write grew rapidly, as did her interest in contemporary poetry. She wrote and studied what she could on her own, with the help of conferences and workshops, throughout the 1990s. Ultimately she enrolled in the Bennington MFA program and graduated in June 2007. She devotes her time now to her own reading and writing, as well as participating in and running workshops. She has never published a book, though her chapbook Blown Roses is forthcoming [End Page 169] from Puddinghouse Press, and her poems have appeared in several journals, including The Comstock Review, The Ledge, Peregrine, Primavera, and The Sow's Ear.
Gavin Craig is a graduate student in English literature at Michigan State University. He cofounded the literary journal The Offbeat and served as editor from 1999–2001. His writing has been published in Oats, The Offbeat, and City Pulse, and his chapbook Nine Poems is available from Revelator Press at http://revelatorpress.blogspot.com.
Weston Cutter is from Minnesota and has had work published recently in Boxcar Poetry and Hawai'i Pacific Review and has work forthcoming in Controlled Burn and Southern Indiana Review.
Pamela Davis is a California native living in Santa Barbara and plotting her next trip to Paris. She spent 30 years as a freelance writer and editor specializing in health and medicine before returning to her first love, poetry. She reads her poetry annually at Shakespeare & Company in Paris and at the Books & Authors Festival in Santa Barbara. Pamela is currently finishing her first chapbook. As a poet and essayist, Pamela is inspired by dead French writers, overheard conversations, tricks of memory, and hiking the hills behind her home. The daughter of a mortician, she is not afraid to write about death, although the wildfires in California scare her silly.
Kathleen Dobruse, 20 years after being summoned to this plane of existence, still hasn't decided what she wants to be when she grows up (or if, indeed, she plans on growing up at all). She came to Michigan State University with the goal of becoming a veterinarian and "saving the animals," only things haven't turned out quite the way she expected. Upon discovering that studying chemistry is an experience not unlike staring into the abyss, she sought to restore her sanity by studying professional writing. Results so far have been mixed, at best. Combining two such drastically different disciplines at once causes her to be viewed as something of an oddity by members of both her fields, which brings her no small amount of satisfaction. Her eventual goal is to somehow combine her scientific background with her love of writing, though she's still a bit fuzzy on the specifics as to how. [End Page 170]
James Doyle's latest book is Bending Under the Yellow Police Tapes...
