c o n v e r g e n c e:
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FALL 2010 ISSUE


EDITORS


Rain Ananael

Rain Ananael is a conservation biologist whose fieldwork has primarily focused on botany, herpetology, chiropterology, ichthyology, and watershed-level preservation initiatives.  She has an MA in English. Her writing passions include folklore, ecology, new myth and memory: specifically the role emotion, experience and knowledge (ontology and epistemology) play in structuring myth and memory.

Cynthia Linville (Managing Editor/Designer)

Cynthia Linville teaches writing at California State University at Sacramento and hosts a local Friday night reading series. Her poetry has recently appeared in the Sacramento News and Review, the Sacramento Bee, Brevities, the Cosumnes River Journal, the Rattlesnake Review, Song of the San Joaquin and WTF. She is Poetry Editor for the Sacramento Poetry Center’s publication Poetry Now.

Jordan Reynolds

Jordan Reynolds is a graduate student in Creative Writing at University Las Vegas Nevada. His work has appeared in Louis Liard Magazine, the Suisun Valley Review, Poetry Now, Poetry Midwest, hardpan, the Tule Review, the League of Laboring Poets, Prairie Margins, the Sacramento News & Review, and Chronogram. In addition, his criticism can be found on The Great American Pinup and in the Connecticut River Review.  Jordan is the author of Wind Physics, a broadside from Rattlesnake Press. 




CONTRIBUTORS


Myles Boisen

Myles Boisen is a recording engineer, album producer, professional musician, teacher and writer who lives in Oakland, California. His photography has appeared in print publications and on fashion and music websites. He regularly shows his work in Bay Area galleries. View more of his photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/21341545@N00/ and find out more about his work at www.MylesBoisen.com.

Marlene Burns

Marlene Burns, a double degreed professional artist for over 40 years, is an Abstract Expressionist. Her art has been featured from coast to coast, most notably in Santa Fe. Her signature is bold color in combination with edgy design. Marlene's newest series of expressions of Hebrew prayers are also available as fine art cards, reproductions and giclees. You can see more of her work at www.art-marleneburns.com and www.kavanahpress.com.

Vince Corvaia

Vince Corvaia holds a BA in English from the New School in New York and an MFA in Poetry from Wichita State. He has published more than 100 poems nationwide and has been twice nominated for a Pushcart. He grew up in Miami Beach and currently lives in New Gloucester, Maine. Contact him at yourpalvince@gmail.com .

Tim Keane

Tim Keane's poetry collection, Alphabets of Elsewhere, was published by Cinnamon Press in 2007, and his poems and translations (from the French) have appeared in Modern Painters, Cerise Press, Denver Quarterly, Mudlark, Poetry New Zealand and other print and online magazines. Originally from The Bronx, New York, he currently lives in the East Village neighborhood in New York City. Find out more about his work at www.timkeane.com.

Paul Lewellan

Paul Lewellan’s stories have appeared in South Dakota Review, Big Muddy, Word Riot, The Iconoclast, and Opium Magazine. His latest novel, Casualties, is about a hostage crisis on the anniversary of the shootings at Columbine. Paul is an Adjunct Professor of Speech Communication and Business Administration at Augustana College. Contact him at plewellan@mac.com.

Paul Nelson

Paul Nelson writes from the North Shore of Oa’hu, after 35 years of teaching here and there, finally as Professor of English/Director of Creative Writing for Ohio University. He is an NEA recipient and has authored six books, including an AWP Poetry Award winner and a University of Alabama Press Series selection. His latest, Sea Level, was published in 2008.

Sophia Pandeya

Sophia Pandeya was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and migrated to the US in 1988. Her work appears in the Adirondack Review, Full Of Crow, and Monsoon Magazine. You can see more of her work at http://rootsandwings.tumblr.com/.

Francis Raven

Francis Raven is a graduate student in philosophy at Temple University. His books include Provisions, 5-Haifun: Of Being Divisible, Shifting the Question More Complicated, Taste: Gastronomic Poems, and the novel, Inverted Curvatures.

April Salzano

April Salzano obtained her BA in Creative Writing from Penn State Behrend and her MA from Queen Mary College, University of London. Her work has appeared in Allegheny Review, Ascent Aspirations, and is forthcoming in Poetry Salzburg. April teaches English at Penn State and Westminster Colleges.

Jasmine Dreame Wagner

Jasmine Dreame Wagner's work previously appeared in American Letters and Commentary, Verse, Blackbird, Colorado Review, Indiana Review, Seattle Review, North American Review, 32 Poems and is forthcoming in Aufgabe. She is a graduate of Columbia University and was a writer-in-residence at The Hall Farm Center for Arts & Education in Townshend, Vermont.






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