OUR AUTHORS (cont'd)

 

Eva Konstantopoulos lives and writes in Boston. She will be graduating from Emerson College in December 2005.

Currently, Elizabeth Laborde teaches English and creative writing at a high school in Napa, California; her poems are influenced by landscapes where she’s lived, including Oregon, Southern California, and Alaska. This spring one of her poems will be published in an anthology by poetry.com and another in Opus 42.

Jim LaFond-Lewis writes poetry, rides a bicycle, minds a restaurant and avidly participates in the lives of his wife and two grown children from his home in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. He has produced volumes of poetry, but until now has remained unpublished.

Susan Major lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. She is a freelance writer and visual artist with her own business, Major Developments. Her recent publications include poetry in Curbside Review and an essay in Seven Seas Magazine. She is working diligently toward her ultimate career goal of wealthy eccentric. Predictably, the eccentric part is proving to be the easier goal to achieve.

Benjamin Ogden was born, raised, and currently resides in San Francisco, CA. He briefly attended Amherst College before entering New York University, where he studied International Literature, with an emphasis on Irish literary and cultural studies. Ben hopes to further his studies in Irish literature through a Mitchell Scholarship, before entering a PhD program in literature. In addition to poetry, Ben is currently at work on a variety of projects, including novels and feature film screenplays. Publications include Enparalelo, as well as articles currently in consideration at Yeats Annual and Your Black Eye magazine.

Cary Rainey is a writer living in Berkeley, CA. He is the author of the novel Stacy's Heart, and is currently writing his second novel and developing a TV series.

Armin Tolentino is a 23 year old living in Brighton, MA but originally hails from Lincoln Park, NJ and spent a year in Baltimore, MD. He hates doing laundry, but does enjoy cleaning the lint trap.

Maw Shein Win is a Burmese-American writer and teacher who lives in Berkeley, CA. She is also the editor and publisher of Comet, a literary, arts, and culture magazine (cometmagazine.com). Win was the recipient of the Public Corporation for the Arts grant to fund a book of poetry and short prose. Her work has been published in the L.A. Weekly, Kitchen Sink, Watchword, Shampoo, Printed Matter, and more recently in Instant City, Hogtown Creek Review, Hyphen and Monday Night.

 

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