About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Maura Gage Cavell is Professor of English and Director of the Honors Program at Louisiana State University at Eunice. She resides in Crowley with her husband Jeff. They have four children: Claire, 20; Nick, 16; Tom, 14; and Sally Kate, 12. They also have a German Shepherd, Magnum. She's published widely in journals and magazines and most recently in Abbey, Big Scream, Krax, Chiron Review, The Aurorean, Timber Creek Review, Black Magnolias, The Cape Rock, Taproot Literary Review, and Barbaric Yawp.
Meghan Colson is an MSU senior studying studio art and advertising. Photography is her passion and she strives to recreate the world around her on a variety of photographic media. To her, photography is about appreciating the world and sharing the things she finds significant with other people.
Jane Congdon spent 30 years as a textbook editor for a publishing company. Prior to that, she taught English and walked a beat as a newspaper reporter. Jane has participated in writing workshops including The Split Rock Arts Program and the Ghost Ranch October Writing Festival. She is writing a travel memoir of Romania titled It Started with Dracula. A selection is published in the anthology Once Upon a Place: Writing from Ghost Ranch. Jane was the Visiting Artist for the MSU Residential Option in Arts and Letters (ROIAL) Program in September 2006. She returned to Michigan State in September 2009 for a reading, "Two Voices," sponsored by the Center for Poetry. Jane lives near Cincinnati, Ohio.
Matt Dye is a junior Graphic Design student at Michigan State University. Creating and enjoying comics has always been a big part of his life and keeps [End Page 131] getting bigger as he continues to write, illustrate, and release comics. Aside from the Red Cedar Review, Matt's comic artwork has also been featured in an exhibit at Michigan State University and has been sold at East Lansing's own 21st Century Comics and Games.
Laura Gabel-Hartman is a native Floridian living in the Boston area. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Carve Magazine, Feedback, MAKE Literary Magazine, Rio Grande Review, and Southern Humanities Review.
Lia Greenwell is a third year student at Michigan State University majoring in English and Arts & Humanities. She has worked in The Center for Poetry at MSU for the last three years. This is her first publication.
Brian Patrick Heston has an MFA in Fiction from George Mason University and also a Master's in English and Poetry from the University of New Hampshire. His poetry has appeared in such publications as West Branch, The Bitter Oleander, Many Mountains Moving, Slipstream, Confrontation, Portland Review, and Gargoyle. His fiction has appeared in OurStories, Flash!Point Magazine, and is upcoming in Many Mountains Moving. Presently, he teaches composition and creative writing at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey.
Bob Hicok's sixth collection, Words for Empty and Words for Full, will be published by Pitt in 2010. His last book, This Clumsy Living (Pitt Poetry Series, 2007), received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress.
Courtney Hilden is a senior at Michigan State University, a staff member at the Center for Poetry, the former Poetry Editor of the Offbeat, and the Managaing Poetry Editor of The Red Cedar Review. When she's not busy being a member of the community, she studies English and history, reads trashy books, and sings pop songs obnoxiously loud.
Kelsey Jenko was homeschooled from kindergarten to twelfth grade. Presently she is a Michigan State University junior majoring in English with [End Page 132] a concentration in creative writing, and a minor in Spanish. Her interests include writing, sailing, and good conversations.
Jill Kolongowski lives in Boston and works for an educational publishing company. She graduated from Michigan State University in 2009 with degrees in Creative Writing and Spanish. She won third place in nonfiction in the Jim Cash Creative Writing Awards in 2008 and 2009. She enjoys ignoring the state of things and reading, writing, waterskiing, and...
