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SPRING 2012 ISSUE


EDITORS


Lytton Bell

Lytton Bell has published three books (A Path Before Winter, 1998; The Book of Chaps, 2002; and Nectar, 2011), won five poetry contests and performed at many venues. She is a member of Poetica Erotica and her work has appeared in over two dozen publications. Bell earned a poetry scholarship to the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts in 1988 and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1993. She is a civil servant by day.

Josh Fernandez

Josh Fernandez is a freelance writer for Spin.com, Boulder Weekly, San Antonio Current and the Sacramento News and Review. His poetry is widely published, and he continues to be a sought after reader and speaker – often asked to talk about ethnic diversity, abuse and addiction. Fernandez was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his poem "The Last Thing He Said." His first full-length collection of poems, Spare Parts and Dismemberment, was published by R.L. Crow in May 2011.

Cynthia Linville (Managing Editor/Designer)

Cynthia Linville teaches writing at California State University at Sacramento and frequently hosts and reads at poetry events both on her own and with Poetica Erotica. Her book of collected poems, The Lost Thing, is forthcoming from Cold River Press. A music aficionado with a theater background, she is usually out and about supporting the arts in Sacramento and in the San Francisco Bay Area.




CONTRIBUTORS


Abbie Amadio

Abbie Amadio is a writer, student, and copy editor living in Wisconsin. She has a BA in English literature from the University of Wisconsin and is currently contemplating graduate school.

Anne Babson

Anne Babson is a Coney Island poet recently transplanted to Mississippi. She was twice nominated for a Pushcart and has won awards from Columbia, Atlanta Review, Grasslands Review, and other reviews. Her work has been published in the US, England, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, and Turkey. She has been included in the anthologies Seeds of Fire and Emergency Verse, has four chapbooks and over a hundred journal publications. Catch her blog about her North-South culture shock at carpetbaggersjournal.wordpress.com.

Eleanor Leonne Bennett

Eleanor Leonne Bennett is a teenaged photographer and artist who has won contests with National Geographic, The World Photography Organisation, Big Issue, Nature's Best Photography and more. She has had her photographs published in exhibitions and magazines across the world including the National Geographic and Airbus' See The Bigger Picture global exhibition tour with the United Nations International Year Of Biodiversity 2010. See more of her work at eleanorleonnebennett.zenfolio.com.

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 www.flickr.com/photos/21341545@N00/ and find out more about his work at www.MylesBoisen.com.

Katy Brown

Katy Brown, a resident of Davis, California, has won awards in The Ina Coolbrith Circle, The Berkeley Poets Dinner, and California Federation of Chaparral Poets competitions. She has had poems in Glass Art Magazine, Wee Wisdom, Daily Word, Harpstrings, and Song of the San Joaquin among others. Her workbook, Poetry Potions, was used in schools for nearly twenty years and is being released in a digital format. Her other writing credits include automobile humor, greeting cards, a multiple-ending book, and a series of short mysteries for young readers. She is a regular contributor to Rattlesnake Press publications

Holly Day

Holly Day is a housewife and mother of two living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her poetry has recently appeared in The Oxford American, The Midwest Quarterly, and Coal City Review. Her book publications include Music Composition for Dummies, Guitar-All-in-One for Dummies, and Music Theory for Dummies, which was recently translated into French, Dutch, Spanish, Russian, and Portuguese.

J de Salvo

J de Salvo is an artist living in San Francisco. His stories, articles, and poetry have appeared in numerous publications including Art/Life, Askew, Blue Crow Magazine, Danse Macabre, Leaf Garden Press, and New Angeles Monthly. He is the author of the novel Setarkos, the short story series The Strange Agency, and the non-fictional Guns on the Border and Elsewhere. He was born in Los Angeles near the end of the seventies.

Teresita Garcia

Teresita Garcia (aka Theresa C. Newbill) is a former elementary school teacher turned writer. Her books are available from Hedge-Witchery Books.

Carl James Grindley

Carl James Grindley grew up on an island off the West Coast of Canada and studied in the US and Europe. He has taught creative writing at Yale University and works at The City University of New York. His book Icon was published in 2008 by No Record Press. He has recent work in Anatomy and Etymology, A Bad Penny Review, Atticus Review and The Nervous Breakdown. Grindley is a founding editor of The South Bronx Review.

Patricia Hickerson

Patricia Hickerson is a Barnard College graduate, a former Warner Bros. dancer, copy editor and Penthouse fiction writer. Her work has been published in a broadside At Grail Castle Hotel, a chapbook Dawn and Dirty, and a book Punk Me as well as in numerous journals, including Echoes, The Yolo Crow, MedusasKitchen, Rattlesnake Review, The Ophidian, WTF, Presa, Passager, and Tenpagespress.com.

Keith Moul

Keith Moul's poems have been widely published for more than 40 years. His chapbook The Grammar of Mind is available from Blue & Yellow Dog Press. Moul's photographs began appearing last year, with about 75 accepted or published so far.

J. Alan Nelson

J. Alan Nelson is a writer and a lawyer. His essays, stories, epistles and poetry have been published widely in California Quarterly, Wisconsin Review, Adirondack Review, Hawai’i Review, Kennesaw Review, Illya’s Honey, Fulcrum, Connecticut River Review, Blue Fifth Review, American Scholar and many others.

Allyson Seconds

Allyson Seconds is a singer, musician and physical culturist with an artist's mind. She discovered photography studying sculpture at UC Davis and has since shot for several publications, bands, record labels, and gallery shows. She likes messing with the precision of digital photography, tousling its perfect hair-do. You can contact her at alnational1@gmail.com.






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