Contributors
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Cover
"Le Gocce (The Drops)." Lithography and woodcut, 35 x 26 cm. © 2011 Naomi Hashimoto.
Naomi Hashimoto is a printmaker and illustrator working in Tokyo, Japan. She describes her illustration process as fantafonte, an invented word combining fanta, from the Italian word for fantasy, and fonte, which means fountain or spring. She is a graduate of Tama Art University in Japan, where she studied graphic design and lithography and earned her BA in graphic design.
Prose
Bethany Maile lives with her husband in Tucson, Arizona, where she is an MFA candidate at the University of Arizona.
Nancy McCabe's creative nonfiction has appeared in many magazines, including Fourth Genre, Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, and Newsweek. She has won a Pushcart Prize and four of her pieces have made the Best American Essays notable list. Her books include After the Flashlight Man: A Memoir of Awakening (Purdue) and Meeting Sophie: A Memoir of Adoption (Missouri). Her memoir Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge: A Journey to My Daughter's Birthplace in China is forthcoming.
Nancy Zafris lives in Columbus, Ohio, and is the series editor of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
Poetry
Lavonne J. Adams is the author of Through the Glorieta Pass (Pearl Editions). She has published in more than fifty venues, including the Missouri Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Poet Lore.
Desirée Alvarez has published poems in Poetry, Boston Review, and Denver Quarterly, from which her nonfiction won an award. Also a painter, printmaker, and fabric artist who exhibits internationally, she received the Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in New York City.
John Bargowski has received a NEA Literature Fellowship, a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Distinguished Artist Fellowship, the Rose Lefcowitz Prize from Poet Lore, and the Theodore Roethke Prize at Poetry Northwest. He has new work scheduled to appear in Ploughshares, The Sun Natural Bridge, and Poetry Northwest.
Ladd Bausch, a Nebraska native and a graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan University and the University of Arizona, spent forty years as a music and technology educator in Nebraska and Arizona. He is retired and resides in Arizona with his family. [End Page 171]
John Brehm is the author of Sea of Faith, which won the Brittingham Prize from the University of Wisconsin Press. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, Southern Review, Boulevard, and many other journals. He works as a freelance writer in Boulder, Colorado.
Mark Jay Brewin Jr. has published poems in numerous journals, including Southern Poetry Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Packingtown Review. He won the Yellowwood Poetry Contest at Yalobusha Review.
Andrew Brogdon is a computer programmer living in Columbus, Ohio. His poems have recently appeared in Diagram, Sycamore Review, and Pleiades.
Roger Callen studied geology and anthropology in Adelaide and worked in the deserts of central Australia as geologist and archaeological assistant. He now lives in the Sunshine Coast District, Queensland, writes mainly poems and produces artworks on paper. His poems are published in Famous Reporter, Polestar, and Cordite. He recently won the Bauhinia Literary Awards Open Poetry Section.
Martin Cockroft's recent poems appear or are forthcoming in Anon, Beloit Poetry Journal and Connotation Press. He teaches at Waynesburg University.
Martha Collins is the author of the book-length poem Blue Front (Graywolf) as well as four earlier collections of poems and two cotranslated volumes of Vietnamese poetry. Two collections are forthcoming: White Papers (Pittsburgh) and Day Unto Day (Milkweed).
Pamela Davis has poems appearing in Atlanta Review, New Ohio Review Nimrod, Southern Poetry Review, and Quiddity, among others. She recently completed her first book of poems.
Susan Elbe is the author of Eden in the Rearview Mirror (Word Press) and has poems appearing in Blackbird, diode, North American Review, and Salt Hill. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
Rebecca Ellis lives in southern Illinois. Her poems have appeared in Contemporary Verse 2, So to Speak, Natural Bridge, Quiddity, and other venues, including a bus for the St. Louis Metro Arts in Transit Poetry in Motion Project. She edits at Cherry Pie Press, publishing a series of poetry chapbooks by Midwestern women poets.
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