Lara Gularte has served as poetry and art editor for Reed Magazine, San Jose State University’s literary journal. She received the 2005 Anne Lillis Award for Creative Writing and Phelan Awards for several of her poems. At the 2005 Juniper Creek/Unnamed Writer’s National Poetry Competition judged by Christian Wiman, she received honorable mention. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including the Santa Clara Review, The Montserrat Review, Kaleidoscope and Art/Life. Gularte’s poems have been translated into Portuguese by the University of the Acores and featured in the literary supplement SAAL-Suplemento Acoriano de Artes e Letras, da revista Saber/Acores. Her work was presented at an international conference on storytelling and cultural identity in June 2005 at Angra do Heroismo on the island of Terceira. 

Elaine Bartlett is a Poe-Faulkner Fellow at the University of Virginia. Her poetry and stories have appeared in The Antietam Review, The Comstock Review, Calyx, Fourteen Hills, Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley and San Jose’s Downtown Magazine, among others. She was awarded the 2003 Yemassee prize in fiction. Her fiction is forthcoming in The South Carolina Review.

Designer

Luis Ledezma is a graduate of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he earned a B.S. in electrical engineering. He is currently the webmaster of Convergence, and the town of Tuxca (www.tuxca.com). Ledezma resides in San Jose.

Email: lledezma@alumni.calpoly.edu

Contributors

Adeel Ahmad

Adeel Ahmad was born in Montreal and grew up in Ottawa, Canada. Besides photography, he has worked as a musician, toy designer and engineer. Currently based in San Francisco, he is working on several photographic projects, including a document on modern suburbia. He has studied at the California College of Arts under Sean McFarland, and is also a photographer for Emporis.com.

Website: http://www.thebourgeoisie.com
Email: adeel@thebourgeoisie.com

Brad Buchanan 

Brad Buchanan is assistant professor of English at California State University, Sacramento, where he teaches creative writing as well as British and world literature. His poems have appeared in more than 100 journals, among them Canadian Literature, The Notre Dame Review, The Portland Review and The Seattle Review. His book of poems The Miracle Shirker was published in June of 2005 by Poet’s Corner Press. He maintains a poetry blog at www.miracleshirker.blogspot.com, and he is currently managing editor of the Tule Review, the biannual journal of the Sacramento Poetry Center (of which he is also a board member).

Grace Cavalieri

Grace Cavalieri has produced “The Poet and the Poem” on public radio, now entering its 29th year. Among other honors, Cavalieri has received the Allen Ginsberg Award for Poetry, the Pen-Syndicated Fiction Award and the Bordighera Poetry Award, 2005. Cavalieri’s new book, Water on the Sun, will be published in fall 2006. Her latest book, What I Would Do for Love, won a 2005 Paterson Prize and is the basis for her new play, Hyena in Petticoats. The play receives a staged reading in New York City in March 2006.

Dane Cervine

Dane Cervine’s poems have recently appeared in The Hudson Review and The Sun, and his new work is forthcoming in the Atlanta Review. His poem “Accordions & Shotguns” was chosen by Tony Hoagland as a finalist for the Wabash Prize for Poetry and appears in Purdue University’s Sycamore Review. Cervine’s new book is What A Father Dreams. His chapbooks include News from a Burning Man, Moving the Dark God’s Hand, and Speaking In Tongues. Cervine is a member of the Emerald Street Writers in Santa Cruz, Calif., where he serves as chief of children’s mental health for Santa Cruz County.

Email: danecervine@cruzio.com

Rebecca Epstein

Rebecca Epstein, of Ithaca, N.Y., is a recent graduate of Cornell University, where she studied human development and was editor-in-chief of a campus literary magazine for three years. Her work is forthcoming in Arable. She received the 2006 Silent Voices Short Story Award.

Email: Becca.Epstein@gmail.com

Suzanne Richardson Harvey

Suzanne Richardson Harvey has taught at Emeritus College for over five years. Previously she lectured in the English department of Stanford University and served as a resident fellow in an all-freshmen dormitory. She was also previously an instructor at Tufts University in New England, where she earned her doctorate in Elizabethan poetry. 

Lauren Mitchell

Lauren Mitchell grew up in the Washington, D.C. area. She has lived in Ecuador and Hawaii and is moving back to Maryland to complete her bachelor of arts at the University of Maryland. Her recent work can be seen in 2 River View. She keeps a blog at www.outsidetena.blogspot.com.

William Piety

William Piety is a graduate of Loyola University in New Orleans and attended Loyola’s law school. He recently lived in Europe, primarily Barcelona, Spain, but moved back to New Orleans just months before Hurricane Katrina. He now lives in San Francisco, where he writes short fiction and poetry.

Email: Bill.piety@gmail.com

Elizabeth Kate Switaj

Originally from Seattle, Elizabeth Kate Switaj currently teaches English to elementary school students in Ashikaga city, north of Tokyo. She holds an M.F.A. in poetics and creative writing from New College of California and a B.A. from Evergreen State College. Her work has appeared in several small press journals, including Unlikely 2.0, The Diagram, Eratio, GutCult, and the Other Voices International Project. She keeps a blog at http://qassandra.livejournal.com.