Miriam Sagan
Miriam Sagan was born in Manhattan, raised in New Jersey, and educated in Boston.
She holds a B.A. with honors from Harvard University and an M.A. in Creative Writing from Boston University. She lived on the coastal extremes of San Francisco and Martha's Vineyard before settling in Santa Fe in 1984.
Sagan is the author of over a dozen books and her work has appeared internationally in some two hundred magazines. Her non-fiction appears in The New Mexican, Albuquerque Journal, New Mexico Magazine (Bimonthly Book Shelf Column), The Santa Fean, Crosswinds and Sage Magazine.
She has held residency grants at Yaddo and MacDowell, and is the recipient of a grant from The Barbara Deming Foundation/Money for Women.
Katherine McLeod SearleA BA from the University of Iowa and an MA from Western Illinois University, Katherine McLeod Searle is a two-time winner of the Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest, is featured in Who's Who Among American Teachers and holds the Language Arts Department Chair at J.B. Young Intermediate School. She's been married for twenty-two years and says "I have lived in Bettendorf and Davenport, Iowa, all my life."
Karl J. SherlockKarl J. Sherlock is an English Instructor at three community colleges in San Diego, California. His work has appeared in such print journals as The Gorey Detail (Ireland), Dickinson Review, Cream City Review, Jacaranda Review, South Coast Poetry Journal, and others. His book-length manuscript The Forthright Wishes of Angels stills seeks publication. Recently, he has been working on a sestina project called Six Notes, from which the several sestinas appear on these pages.
from Six Notes: A Work in Progress
from The Forthright Wishes of Angels
Christian Simon
Christian Simon is a South African now resident in Cleveland, Ohio, where cold winters, more than anything else, have compelled him indoors, and to poetry.
He is a Ph.D. graduate in anthropology from UC San Francisco and Berkeley. His academic awards include the Glaxo Prize, a Center for Science Prestige Scholarship, and a nomination for Dissertation of the Year (1996). His poetry is still largely unpublished, with the exception of "You, the Poet, Decide the Fate of a Talking Lobster," which is accepted for publication in La Petite Zine.
His work draws on interests in anthropology and a footloose upbringing, including birth in Germany, childhood in Africa and Iran, and adulthood in North America.
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Ernest SlymanErnest Slyman was born in Appalachia - Elizabethton, Tennessee, and attended East Tennessee State University. His work has been published in The Laurel Review, The Lyric, Light: A Quarterly of Light Verse (Chicago), The NY Times, Reader's Digest and The Bedford Introduction to Literature, St Martins Press, edited by Michael Meyer, and Poetry: An Introduction, St Martins Press, edited by Michael Meyer as well as numerous literary sites on the World Wide Web. Mr. Slyman's fiction can be found in The Writers section. E-mail Ernest Slyman
Robert Lavett SmithBob Smith was born in Michigan in 1957 and grew up in the New York area. He has traveled widely, in the U.S. and in Europe. He holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of New Hampshire, where he studied with Charles Simic and Mekeel McBride. He now lives in San Francisco.
Barry Spacks
A long-time teacher at M.I.T and U. C. Santa Barbara, Barry Spacks is the author of various novels, stories, plus seven poetry collections (most recent: BRIEF SPARROW, L.A. press Illuminati, and SPACKS STREET: NEW & SELECTED POEMS, Johns Hopkins).
Many new poems of his can be found in over a dozen e-zines on the Net.
Email: Barry Spacks
A.E. Stallings
A. E. Stallings was born in 1968. She grew up in Decatur, GA and studied Classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford University. She has contributed to numerous journals, including The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Chattahoochee Review, Five Points, The Formalist, and Poetry, and The Oxford American.
She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize (Pushcart Prize Anthology XXII), the 1997 Eunice Tietjens Award from Poetry, and the third annual James Dickey Poetry Prize from Five Points. Her work has also been included in the Best American Poetry series (1994). Her manuscript, Archaic Smile, was chosen by Dana Gioia for the Richard Wilbur Award, and is forthcoming from the University of Evansville Press. She currently resides in Athens, Greece, with her husband, John Psaropoulos. Other work by A.E. is available at http://www.geocities.com/aestallings
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Billy Marshall Stoneking
Billy Marshall Stoneking is an Australian/American poet and playwright, the author of seven books, including Singing the Snake, Sixteen Words for Water (A play about Ezra Pound) and Taking America Out of the Boy. His poems have won numerous prizes and are featured in The New Oxford Book of Modern Australian Poetry (ed by Les Murray) and The Penguin Book of Contemporary Australian Verse (ed by J Tranter) among others. He is currently living in Sydney where he is Head of the MA programme (scriptwriting) at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.
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Jan Strever
Jan Strever teaches traditional classes of creative writing, literature, and composition, as well as Online English 101 and Online Introduction to Literature; publishes Kimera: A Journal of Fine Writing; edits Research and Reflections, Gonzaga University's educational electronic journal; advises Legends, the literary and art magazine of Spokane Community College; manages Pause a moment: Poetry, a weekly-updated, comprehensive list of poetry links and prose.
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Virgil Suárez
Virgil Suárez was born in Havana, Cuba in 1962.Since 1974 he has lived in the United States.He is the author of four novels, The Cutter, Latin Jazz, Havana Thursdays, and Going Under, and of the collection of stories, Welcome to the Oasis. His memoirs, Spared Angola: Memories of a Cuban-American Childhood and Café Nostlagia: Writings from the Hyphen, chronicle his life of exile in both Cuba and the United States.He is also the author of four collections of poetry: Garabato Poems, You Come Singing, In the Republic of Longing, and Palm Crows, forthcoming this year from the University of Arizona Press in its prestigious "Camino del Sol" Series.
As editor he has published the best-selling anthologies: Iguana Dreams: New Latino Fiction and Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets.Also forthcoming are three new anthologies: American Diaspora (Iowa University Press, 2001), Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America, and Clockpunchers: Poetry of the American Work Place.
His essays, stories, poems, and translations continue to appear both nationally and internationally in journals and reviews the likes of TriQuarterly, Poetry London, Parnassus, Poetry Wales, Imago, Field, Cimarron, Indiana Review, Chelsea, Prairie Schooner, Crazy Horse, The Toronto Review, Queen's Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Salmagundi, New England Review, Ploughshares, The Mississippi Review, The Kenyon Review, and The Southern Review.
He is a professor of creative writing at The Florida State University.
Email: Virgil Suárez
Robert Sward
Guggenheim award-winner Robert Sward teaches at UC Extension in Santa Cruz.
Chosen by Lucille Clifton to receive a Villa Montalvo Literary Arts Award, he is the author of 16 books including Four Incarnations, New & Selected Poems (Coffee House Press). Contributing Editor to the eZine Blue Moon Review he has just completed a new book, Rosicrucian in the Basement / Selected Poems, (Black Moss Press, Canada).
Other work by Robert is available at RobertSward.com.
Email: Robert Sward
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Don Taylor
Don Taylor has a doctorate in English with a specialty in botany. Success in the construction business took him away from teaching from 1977 to 1991. He resumed teaching in 1991 and has taught at Wichita State University, Friends University, Kansas Newman College, and Butler Community College.
Writing poetry and short stories comes in at an exciting fifth of necessary things to do, according to this 65-year old grandfather of five—watching the kids T-ball games, eating tacos and ice cream, playing poker, ogling cocktail girls, hanging around with the wife, watching college and pro sports often takes preference. Email: Don Taylor
Henry Taylor
Henry Taylor is Professor of Literature and Co-Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at American University in Washington, DC., where he has taught since 1971. His third collection of poems, The Flying Change, received the 1986 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; his first two, The Horse Show at Midnight (1966) and An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards (1975), were reissued in one volume in 1992. His translations from Bulgarian, French, Hebrew, Italian, and Russian have appeared in many periodicals and anthologies, as well as two collections by the Bulgarian poet Vladimir Levchev, the most recent being Black Book of the Endangered Species (Word Works, 1999). He has also published translations from Greek and Roman classical drama; his translation of Sophocles' Electra appeared (spring 1998) in the Sophocles, 1 volume of the Penn Greek Drama series. Another collection of poems, Understanding Fiction: Poems 1986-1996, appeared in the fall of 1996, and his collection of clerihews, Brief Candles, appeared this spring from LSU Press. He is now at work on a new collection called Crooked Run, titled after a creek in his native Loudoun County, Virginia; several of those poems have appeared in the past year in such journals as Missouri Review, Georgia Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review; they are represented here by “A Little Respect” and “The Dining Room at Springdale.” He has received Fellowships in Creative Writing for the National Endowment for the Arts (1978 and 1986), a Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1980-81), the Witter Bynner Prize of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1984), and the Golden Crane Award of the Washington Chapter of the American Literary Translators Association (1989).
Jamie Wasserman
Jamie Wasserman is the former managing editor of The Alsop Review.
His poetry and essays appear (or are forthcoming) in Weber Studies, Magma, City Primeval, Kimera, CrossConnect, and others. He was nominated for a 1999 Baltimore Artscape award for poetry by Lite; Baltimore's Literary Arts Newspaper.
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Bob Zordani
Bob Zordani holds an M. F. A. in Creative Writing from The University of Arkansas and currently teaches at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois. He is the author of three handmade limited edition chapbooks – My Funny Barbecue, Last Resort, and A Formal Introduction. His poems have appeared in such journals as New England Review, Shenandoah, and The Spoon River Poetry Review and have been anthologized in The Best American Erotica and The Book of Eros. Epileptic's Song, his first full-length collection of poetry, is forthcoming from Water Press in Spring, 2004. Mr. Zordani’s honors include an Illinois Literature Award and an Associated Writing Programs Intro Award. Zordani is an avid bass fisherman, an amateur mycologist, and a veteran harmonica player who has gigged for years in small clubs across the Midwest.
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