c o n v e r g e n c e:
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WINTER 2011 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.

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 reads at and hosts local poetry events. She is a member of Poetica Erotica and regularly contributes her poetry to the Sacramento News and Review, Brevities, Medusa's Kitchen and WTF. 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


Elison Alcovendaz

Elison Alcovendaz is currently a graduate student in creative writing at California State University at Sacramento. His work has appeared in Calaveras Station and will appear in Gargoyle Magazine in Summer 2012. In addition, he has won Bazzanella Literary Awards for fiction, non-fiction, and critical analysis. In his spare time, he is working on a yet untitled collection of short stories and his first novel, The Jack of Heartland.

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.

Alan Britt

Alan Britt’s recent books are Greatest Hits, Hurricane, Vegetable Love, Vermilion, Infinite Days, Amnesia Tango and Bodies of Lightning. Britt’s work also appears in the new anthologies, American Poets Against the War and Vapor transatlántico, a bi-lingual anthology of Latin American and North American poets. Politically speaking Alan has started the Commonsense Party. He is quite fond of animals both wild and domestic and supports prosecuting animal abusers. Alan currently teaches English/Creative Writing at Towson University and lives in Reisterstown, Maryland.

Jarrett Bywaters

Jarrett Bywaters has been creating art for over 15 years, beginning by drawing cartoon and comic book characters as a teenager. Charcoal and colored chalks became his passion in high school, and pen and ink in college, a passion which grew into a collection of 80 pen and ink floral drawings which are being shown at various galleries in and around the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area and online.

Lance Calabrese

Lance Calabrese is a native Californian, a self-taught poet who has been widely published.

Martin Elwell

Martin Elwell currently lives on the New Hampshire seacoast and daydreams of hitting the road in an RV. He spends his free time running, hiking, reading and writing. Martin received his MFA from Lesley University in 2008.

Robert Lietz

Robert Lietz is the author of eight published collections of poems, including Running in Place, At Park and East Division, The Lindbergh Half-century, The Inheritance, Storm Service, and After Business in the West: New and Selected Poems. Over seven hundred of his poems have been published in print and on-line journals. In addition, Lietz is exploring digital photography and image processing and their relationship to the development of his poetry.

Paul McMillan

Paul McMillan, born in 1954, has been a professional artist since 1978. Primarily an oil painter whose style ranges from abstract to surreal, Paul occasionally includes original words and music in his paintings as subject matter. Paul recognised he was an artist at age five, and now at age fifty-seven, he feels that the world makes less sense than ever and is convinced he was right about being an artist in the first place. View more of his work at www.paulmcmillan.com.

Joyce Odam

Canadian born, Joyce Odam has lived in the U.S. since the age of three and in Sacramento since 1952. Her poetry credits include: The Christian Science Monitor, Ekphrasis, The Seattle Review, The Rattle and local anthologies Landing Signals, The Sacramento Anthology: One Hundred Poems, and Watching From The Sky, which was edited by Ann Menebroker and Martha Ann Blackman. Ms. Odam's awards include: Grand prize Artists Embassy International’s Dancing Poetry Contest in 1999 and two- times winner of CFCP Golden Pegasus Award. She now edits Brevities: A Mini-Mag Of Minimalist Poems. Her most recent chapbooks from Rattlesnake Press are Noir Love and Peripherals (Prose Poems). Joyce Odam has a passion (amounting to a credo) for the relevance of art in one’s life.

Robert Sanders

Since first holding a camera over forty years ago, Robert Sanders has had a relationship with the delicate lines of the erotic form, whether in a flower, a bottle, or a human contour. A successful commercial photographer, teacher, and mentor, Robert's work spans half a century of creative development through analog and digital. View more of his photography here.

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.

Stephen Williams

Stephen Williams holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from Central Michigan University. His academic concentrations were mathematics and psychology. He has worked as an engineer, a financial analyst and a marketing executive and has developed residential real estate and managed a commercial vineyard. His stories have appeared in riverbabble, fiction fix and The Redlands Review.

Brenda Yamen

Brenda Yamen is a Health Scientist and amateur photographer currently residing in Washington DC. She has loved photography since the age of 15 and goes nowhere without her trusty sidekick, Nigel the Nikon. Brenda's interest in photography occasionally crosses paths with her love of great music; her photos have been used by some of her favorite musicians. In addition to concert photography, Brenda enjoys landscape and nature photography, and travels extensively searching for her next photo op. Her collection can be seen at www.flickr.com/photos/bjy/.






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