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SUMMER 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.

Tim Kahl

Tim Kahl is the author of Possessing Yourself (Word Tech, 2009). He is a professor, translator, and poet whose work has been published in Prairie Schooner, American Letters & Commentary, Berkeley Poetry Review, Notre Dame Review, the Spoon River Poetry Review, the Texas Review, and many more. He also appears as Victor Schnickelfritz at the poetry and poetics blog The Great American Pinup and at the new poetry and multimedia blog, Linebreakstudios. He is also the editor of Bald Trickster Press and the forthcoming book-length renga poem on the subject of the city of Sacramento to be published by Sacramento Poetry Center Press.

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.




CONTRIBUTORS


Marcia Arrieta

Marcia Arrieta's work appears in So to Speak, anything anymore anywhere, Big Scream, and Otoliths. She edits and publishes Indefinite Space, a poetry journal at www.indefinitespace.net.

Francis DiClemente

Francis DiClemente is a writer, photographer and video producer in Syracuse, New York. His photos can be viewed at www.flickr.com/photos/francisdiclemente and he can be contacted at ffdhold@yahoo.com.

Richard Luftig

Richard Luftig is a retired professor of educational psychology and special education at Miami University in Ohio. He is a recipient of the Cincinnati Post-Corbett Foundation Award for Literature and a semi finalist for the Emily Dickinson Society Award. His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals in the United States and internationally in Japan, Canada, Australia, Finland, Bulgaria, Thailand and England and Hong Kong. His third chapbook was published by Dos Madres Press.

Pierrino Mascarino

Pierrino Mascarino’s work has appeared in Linnet's Wings, Beat, Bartleby Snopes, Darkest Before Dawn, Penguin Review, Black Lantern, Hackwriters, and Fear of Monkeys. He played the title role in the award winning movie, Uncle Nino, has appeared on national television over 6000 times, has won the Dramalogue Award twice, and lettered in football at St. Anthony's Grammar School in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1952. You can contact him at pierrino@mascarino.com.

Eric V. Neagu

Eric V. Neagu lives, writes, and works as a consultant in Chicago. His undergraduate degree is from Purdue University in civil engineering, which he uses to redevelop former industrial areas. Eric has a graduate degree from The University of Chicago, which he mostly uses to give directions to Barack Obama's house.

Mary Ocher

Mary Ocher was born in Moscow in 1986, grew up in Tel Aviv, and is now living in Berlin.

Benjamin Norman Pierce

Benjamin Norman Pierce paints in tempera. In 2004 he self-published a novel, Snuck Past Death and Sleep. He has published poetry in Lilliput Review, Dragonfly, Raintown Review, Red Owl, Scifaikuest, Free Verse, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Calendar, Primordial Traditions, and has poems forthcoming in Acme: a Journal of Critical Geography.

Timothy Pilgrim

Timothy Pilgrim, a journalism professor at Western Washington University, is a Pacific Northwest poet who lives in Bellingham, Washington, and has published over 70 poems, mostly in literary journals and anthologies such as Weathered Pages: The Poetry Pole (Blue Begonia Press). You can visit his website at http://hope.journ.wwu.edu/tpilgrim and contact him at tpilgrim@hope.journ.wwu.edu.

Elahzar Rao

Elahzar Rao holds a BA in English from Hunter College in New York City. He is currently working as clerk for the U.S. Census Bureau and pursuing a master’s in special education. His publication credits include artwork in Cerise Press, Prick of the Spindle, the Centrifugal Eye, and Fogged Clarity, as well as fiction in Six Sentences and SixWordStories.net. More of his work can be viewed here. You can contact him at elahzar@ymail.com.

Richard B. Ressman

Dr. Richard Ressman bought his first Nikon camera in 1969 as a surgical intern, developed and printed his first photos in his eleven by seven foot Intern’s call room, and practiced orthopedic surgery for nearly thirty years before becoming a full-time photographer in 2002. Visit his website at www.photosurgeon.net.






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