Notes on Contributors
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Essayists
Timothy J. Burbery is Professor of English at Marshall University, in Huntington, West Virginia. His book Milton the Dramatist (Duquesne UP) appeared in 2007. He has published in Books & Culture, Milton Studies, Milton Quarterly, The Ben Jonson Journal, and English Language Notes. Current projects include an essay making the case for eco-formalism, and another researching the implications of the Anthropic Principle for humanistic scholarship.
Jonathan Goossen is a Teaching Fellow in the Foundation Year Programme at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has previously published articles on Shakespeare’s and Ben Jonson’s comedies.
After a thirty-year career in the English Department at Valdosta State University, where she was Regents’ Professor, Patricia Marks retired and in 2003 was ordained an Episcopal deacon in the Diocese of Georgia. She has published five books and over 65 articles and reviews, many on nineteenth-century satire and caricature. As a deacon she created the deacons’ web site and served as Homiletics Chaplain.
Michael Karounos received his PhD from Vanderbilt University and is Assistant Professor of English at Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the recipient of the 2010 Excellence in Teaching award and his publications include papers on Mansfield Park (Studies in English Literature); Rasselas (The Age of Johnson); “Kitty Hawk” (The Robert Frost Review); and an essay on eighteenth-century aesthetics (1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era). He is currently working on publishing his study on a cultural theory of time and space.
Donovan McAbee is an Assistant Professor of Religion and the Arts at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. His work has also appeared in Poetry Review (UK) and Ruminate.
Poets
Richard Schiffman is a writer based in New York and a former journalist for National Public Radio. He is the author of two biographies: Mother of All, and Sri Ramakrishna, A Prophet For the New Age. His poems have appeared or are upcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Poetry East, The North American Review, Southern Poetry Review, 32 Poems, Rosebud, Valparaiso Poetry Review, The New York Times, and many other journals. His “Spiritual Poetry Portal” can be found at http://multiplex.isdna.org/poetry.htm.
Gillian Cummings’ poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boulevard, The Laurel Review, Colorado Review, The Cincinnati Review, Quarterly West, and other journals. Her chapbook, Spirits of the Humid Cloud, is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press in May 2012. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College’s MFA program, she lives in North White Plains, New York, and teaches workshops at a local hospital.
Benjamin Myers won the 2011 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry, awarded by the Oklahoma Center for the Book, for his first collection, Elegy for Trains (Village Books Press, 2010). His poems have recently appeared in Measure, The Chiron Review, The New Plains Review, Ruminate and other journals. Myers has also published essays in journals such as English Literary History and Studies in Philology. With a PhD from Washington University in St. Louis, he teaches literature and writing at Oklahoma Baptist University.
Moira Linehan’s debut collection, If No Moon, won the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry open competition and was published by Southern Illinois University Press. Her poem, “Last Wishes,” received America magazine’s 2010 Foley Poetry Award. Recent work of hers has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Greensboro Review, Journal of Medical Humanities, Notre Dame Review, Poetry East, Salamander, and Wild Apples. After careers as a high school English teacher and administrator in high tech and academic settings, Linehan now writes full-time and occasionally leads poetry writing workshops in the greater Boston area.
Carla Homeister has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota. Her poems have appeared in Ekphrasis, Defined Providence, and Sidewalks. She lives and works as a tutor and proofreader in Minneapolis.
