CONTRIBUTORS

Sarah Mae Allard loves bumblebees, honey, and aloe vera. She lives physically in the gritty city, but mentally in the green wilds.

Stef Baker was born 24 years ago in Wolverhampton, UK where she learned to drink beer and write poetry, both to excess.  She recently left her life behind to become a vagabond in Austria with her fella (also named Stef to avoid confusion).

Jesse Chapman is currently working to achieve a master's degree in Education at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. During her freshman year of college she lived on the East coast, in Boston, and the contrast between her experiences there and her return to the Midwest provides her with a great deal of poetic inspiration.

Maryann Corbett's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Measure, The Lyric, The Barefoot Muse, First Things, Mezzo Cammin, and other journals in print and online. A recent Pushcart nominee, she serves as a moderator on the Eratosphere online poetry forum. She lives in St. Paul and works for the Minnesota Legislature.

Ruth Day escapes her daily entropic chaos by complete immersion in words and art. Her first book of poetry and photography, Even So will be published later this year. She was born in Canada and now muses in the Chicago area with her three children and too many animals.

Peter Dunne was born in Dublin, grew up in Vienna, blagged a degree from Trinity College, Dublin, does business in London, where he lives, and spends a great deal of time in West Cork with his daughter, Meg, his son Ruairi, and his estranged wife, Maggie. He sobered up six years ago, and started to feel. He hopes to learn to express his feelings one day.

Thomas Fallica is 49 going on 16 years old. Thomas is husband to Lynda and father to Leah Emily and Thomas Robert. Thomas owns The Bulldog Publishing Company and bulldogpoetryworkshop.com. Co-existing with the humans, in the house that Thomas built himself, are three cats, three goldfish and 4000 books.

Brent Fisk is a writer from Bowling Green, Kentucky who has had work appear in Rattle, Southern Poetry Review and Cincinnati Review among other places. He has also received three Pushcart nominations. He enjoys the work of Charles Simic, Louise Gluck, and Robert Hayden.

Indiana born David Hirt is the oldest of eight.  He received his AB in English and Theatre from Wabash College and MFA in Scenic Design from Wayne State University.  He lives in Chicago where he was moonlighting as a carpenter.  He enters Postulency with the Capuchin Franciscans in August.

Joy Kettren has read and dabbled in writing poetry for the past 20 years, writing seriously over the last 2-3 years. She has just begun submitting her work to poetry journals. Joy works as a neuropsychology assistant and clinical trials coordinator at a Memory and Aging Center, working mostly with individuals who suffer from conditions such as dementia, brain injury and Parkinson's.

Carol Lucas is a retired public school teacher, having taught high school English in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for thirty-two years.  She now lives in Beaufort, South Carolina and loves golfing.  “My poem reflects a moment in time when I was golfing by myself late one afternoon.”

Renata McCormish is the author of Rimbaud's Echo (The Bulldog Publishing Co., 2006), published under the pseudonym Renata Emther. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she is enrolled in the MFA Program in Creative Writing/Poetry at Carlow University. She has worked as an interpreter; her native language is Czech.

Norm Milliken – poet, runner, retired teacher, and father of three grown sons – served with the Ninth Marines in Vietnam in 1968 as a combat machine gunner.  He lives with his wife in Oil City, Pennsylvania.

Poetrydog was born Chris Morris in Yorkshire in the North of England and was the product of a union twixt a bearded circus freak and a stray Alsation. He writes pomes when the muse takes him, although recently it’s gone on holiday to Ibiza without him.  The Cow.

Mike Tousignant lives in Lowell, Massachusetts. A senior at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Mike has studied poetry under Major Jackson and fiction with Andre Dubus.  He is currently working on his first novel, Synapse, and plans to pursue his masters in journalism after graduation.

Kathleen Walker unexpectedly discovered the joy of poetry over the past several years, after much time spent as a Technical Writer for an international IT firm. A graduate of the University of Maryland, she lives with her husband and two children just north of Washington, D.C., in a small Maryland town where she continues to write.

Kath Abela Wilson's New York born and raised Pasadena poetry is strongly influenced by a sense of place. She accompanies her mathematician husband Rick Wilson to conferences in the U.S., Europe and the Far East, most recently visiting the "Textual Ecosystem Preserve" of Puerto Rico. Her disorientation and poetic simian association began in 2001 when her map of the Kyoto Zoo was eaten by a monkey. She is currently (June 2007) traveling in Japan.

Poet r.e. young, a.k.a."the debutante," describes herself as "a small town montana girl. all her life wrapped up in the peace sign on the hill, and the rivers that flow through it all."