Our Authors

Cynthia Belmont is Associate Professor of English at Northland College, an environmental liberal arts college in Northern Wisconsin. She has published poems in a variety of journals, including Poetry, The Cream City Review, Iris, and Karamu. She lives in Ashland, Wisconsin.

R.T. Castleberry is a co-founder and director of the Flying Dutchman Writers Troupe, a literary performance group, and co-editor/publisher of the Flying Dutchman Writers Troupe poetry publication Curbside Review. Mr. Castleberry has been publishing poetry and fiction since the early 1970's, most notably in Borderland, Pacific Review, RiverSedge, Common Ground Review and Eclipse. In April 1999 he won the Houston Press/ National Poetry Month writing contest. He also won the online magazine Liquid Muse 2003 poetry contest. He was Epiphany magazine's featured poet of the month in April 2004. He was included in the Best of Branches 2004 issue.

A James A. Michener Fellow, James J. Cho was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won an honorable mention in Fiction International Emerging Writers' Contest. Recently, he was a quarter-finalist for Stickman Review's Fiction Contest. His short stories have appeared in numerous publications, including Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine and Open Wide Magazine. He received his M.F.A in Creative Writing from the University of Miami.

Susan Dugan has published short stories in literary magazines including Eclectica, JMWW, Carve, RiverSedge, Prosetoad, Amarillo Bay, The Saint Ann's Review, River Oak Review, Echoes, Innisfree, Hudson Valley National Journal of Prose and Poetry, and is currently writing short stories and novels. Her nonfiction has appeared in magazines such as Colorado Homes & Lifestyles and Mountain Living. She teaches creative writing to children and is a resident artist in Young Audiences, an organization that pays writers to share their craft with students.

Teresa R. Herlinger's publishing credits include an essay on the Home Forum page of The Christian Science Monitor. She is also the 2005 winner of the Oregon Writers Colony annual writing contest in non-fiction. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where she divides her time between writing poetry and creative non-fiction, and freelance copyediting.

Paul Hostovsky has new poems forthcoming in Paper Street, Four Corners, Animus, Spoon River Poetry Review, Off the Coast, Slant, and online at FRiGG, Switched-on Gutenberg, Dispatch and others. He has been featured on Poetry Daily, has won the Comstock Review's Muriel Craft Bailey Award, and has been nominated 6 times for a Pushcart Prize. He works in Boston as an interpreter for the Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf.

Diane Hueter lives in Lubbock, Texas, with her husband. Her work has appeared in Clackamas Literary Review, Comstock Review, and Texas Review. She has work forthcoming in PMS (Poem Memoir Story). She formerly worked in a building with highly unreliable elevators, so she always tried to have a book in hand, but was only stuck once for a very short time.

Ann Iverson is the author of Come Now to the Window published by the Laurel Poetry Collective in August of 2003. Her poetry has been featured on Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor. Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Water-Stone, 2000 and 2001; Margie: The American Journal of Poetry; Ache Magazine.org; Chronicle Alternative; Laurel Poetry Collective Anthology; Miller's Pond; The Oklahoma Review; Talking Stick, and more. A poet who enjoys experimenting in the visual arts, she is interested in the visceral connection between the poetic and visual image. A sampling of her art work can be viewed at threecandles.org/featured.html under the link to Deborah Keenan's collected work. Ann has taught at the Loft and currently is the Director of Arts and Sciences at Dunwoody College of Technology.

Evelyn Lauer is an MFA student at Texas State University. She lives in Kyle, Texas with her English Springer Spaniel named Belle.

A native New Yorker, Louis Mello has lived both there and in Brazil and Tanzania. He has written and published articles on economics, finance and risk management. For the past 5 years, Louis has dedicated himself to freelance writing and technical consulting for major financial firms both here and abroad. Louis is also a bi-lingual translator (English – Portuguese - English) who has taught English and Mathematics; he writes poetry, and his work was included in a Brazilian anthology of young poets. Louis holds a Ph.D. in Pure Mathematics from M.I.T., after receiving a Masters degree from N.Y.U. and completing his undergraduate work at CUNY.

Diane C. Neill has published fiction and creative nonfiction in twenty literary magazines. Her creative nonfiction book Two Too Early: The Story of Premature Twins and her novel Doc's Women are in final editing.

Radames Ortiz's work has appeared in numerous publications. He currently resides in Houston, TX.

Charles Rafferty's The Man on the Tower was published by the University of Arkansas Press in 1995 after winning the Arkansas Poetry Award. Where the Glories of April Lead was published by Mitki/Mitki Press in 2001, and During the Beauty Shortage was published by M2 Press in 2005. In addition, Rafferty has placed poems in The Formalist, TriQuarterly, The Southern Review, Quarterly West, Massachusetts Review, DoubleTake, Louisiana Literature, Connecticut River Review, The Laurel Review, Poetry East, and Connecticut Review, as well as in an anthology published by Carnegie Mellon University Press' American Poetry: The Next Generation. Recent awards include the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry, the River Styx International Poetry Prize, and a grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Rafferty currently teach American literature and writing at Albertus Magnus College and works as an editor for a technology consulting firm. He lives in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, with his wife and two daughters.

More than 250 of Bertha Rogers's poems appear in many journals and anthologies. Her collections include Sleeper, You Wake (Mellen, NY 1991), A House of Corners (Three Conditions Press, Maryland Poetry Review Chapbook Contest Winner, September, 2000); The Fourth Beast (chapbook, Snark Press, IL, 2004), and Even the Hemlock (Poetry & Art Collection, Six Swans Artists Editions, NY, 2005). Her translation of Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon epic poem, was published in 2000 (Birch Brook Press, NY). She is the founder of Bright Hill Press, www.brighthillpress.org, and the director of the New York State Literary Web Site, www.nyslittree.org . Her web site is www.bertharogers.com.

Joanna Catherine Scott was born in England, raised in Australia, took her graduate degree in Philosophy at Duke University, and now lives in Chapel Hill. She is the author of three poetry collections, a collection of oral histories of Indochinese refugees, and four novels, including Book Sense Book-of-the-Year nominee The Lucky Gourd Shop, a story of international adoption set in South Korea. Her new novel, The Road from Chapel Hill, is a story of inter-racial love and conspiracy against the Confederacy in Civil War North Carolina. It was inspired by the true story of a slave from Chapel Hill and is due out from Penguin/Berkley in November 2006.

Ira Shull received a BA in Creative Writing from Oberlin College, and an MA in Writing from the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of a non-fiction book about teachers, and his short fiction has appeared in Witness and other literary journals. He lives in Shirley, MA.

Erin Teegarden received an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh in 2003. She is the founder and former Managing and Poetry Editors of nidus, the University of Pittsburgh's first online literary journal (www.pitt.edu/~nidus). Currently, she lives in Chicago and teaches college writing. Additionally, she is the co-founder and co-host of a reading/performance series in Chicago, the reconstruction room readings (www.recroomers.com). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Bellingham Review, PMS (poemmemoirstory), Eye Rhyme, Sunspinner, Liberty Hill Poetry Review, Pittsburgh's City Paper, and preling, among others.

Kyle Torke teaches writing and literature courses at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Gorsky Press released his first full-length collection of poems, Archeology of Bones, in June 2001. Archeology of Bones also won the Literary Sashimi Award, which recognizes excellence in a recent publication of fiction or poetry. He has published fiction and poetry in a number of fine magazines and journals (including New Letters, The MacGuffin, and Hawaii Pacific Review), and his screenplays have also won awards. Most recently, the Jabberwock Review published his short story ‘Tanning Season.’ Three poems appear in this fall's issue of the Front Range Review, Gumball Poetry currently hosts two poems, and two are forthcoming in War, Literature & the Arts. A group of five poems was a Finalist in the New Letters Poetry Competition.

 

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