Issue 7 Contributors

  • Cath Barton is a singer, writer and photographer who lives in Abergavenny, South Wales. Her stories have been published here and there, notably in Short, Fast, and Deadly, Fractured West and the anthologies 100 Stories for Queensland and Eighty Nine. You can see her exhibition of photographs of Wales at www.camelsaloonwales.blogspot.com
  • Rich Boucher: A past member of five national poetry slam teams, Rich has published four chapbooks of poetry and for seven years hosted an open reading and slam in Newark, Delaware. Since moving to Albuquerque in 2008, Rich has been performing and writing steadily in the Duke City. His poems have appeared in Adobe Walls: An Anthology of New Mexico Poetry, Fickle Muses, Clutching at Straws, Shot Glass Journal, Mutant Root, The Mas Tequila Review, Borderline, and The Legendary.
  • Mike Cluff is a full-time English and Creative Writing instructor at Norco College in southern California. His forthcoming book “Elegant Worry” is scheduled to be published in late 2011. In his free time, he paints and acts in community theater throughout Southern California.
  • Tatjana Debeljački was born in Užice. She writes poetry, short stories, longer fiction and haiku. She is the editor of the magazine “Poeta”, published by Writers’ Association “Poeta”.
  • Sarah Gamutan
  • Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of the full-length poetry collections Lovesick (Press Americana, 2009), Heart With a Dirty Windshield(BeWrite Books, 2010), and Everything Reminds Me of Me (Desperanto, 2011), as well as numerous print and digital poetry chapbooks, including most recently Inspired Remnants from Red Ceilings Press and The Penalty for Trying from Ten Pages Press.
  • Christy Hall graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Hull in 2010. For the majority of 2011 he has been living in London and writing poetry. He has had poetry published across the U.K as well as extensively online. He turned 24 in September.
  • Gill Hoffs lives in the UK with her husband and 4 year old son though her mind wanders all over the place.  Her work has won several prizes and is available widely online and in print, including in the recently released Lost Children Charity Anthology.
  • Bob Kalkreuter
  • Len Kuntz is a writer from Washington State.  His work appears widely in print and online at such places as The Literarian, Anastamoo and Cricket Online Review.
  • David W. Landrum teaches Literature at Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan, USA. His poetry and fiction have appeared widely. His novella, The Gallery is available from Amazon.
  • Lori Lipsky has worked as a music teacher and choir director for much of her adult life. She lives near Madison, Wisconsin with her husband and daughter. Red Poppy Review, Penwood Review and Pegasus Review have recently published her poems.
  • Martin Lochner currently stay in Cape Town and studies at the University of South Africa.He is involved in the performing arts  and is busy with a conceptual installation that depicts the atrocities Apartheid.
  • Mamta Madhavan has been writing poetry since the age of 13 in her second language English. She is a freelance journalist based in India.
  • Sarah Lucille Marchant is a Missouri resident and university student, studying journalism and literature. She pens poems, devours music, drinks hot tea in July, and has a pet praying mantis named Professor Peach.
  • Matt Markle is a 20 year old college student earning his bachelors degree in creative writing at SUNY Newpaltz. Although writing was not always his major academic focus he has always has a need to put his mind on paper, and loves to read the thoughts of others. A poem starts with just one old line and ends with a new thought in anther persons head. He reads, he thinks, he writes, he shares, and he hopes you’ll do the same.
  • Sheila E. Murphy’s most recent book publications are Reverse Haibun (White Sky Books, 2011) and Toccatas in the Key of D (Blue Lion Books, 2010). Continuations XXVI – L (an ongoing collaboration with Douglas Barbour) will appear in 2012 from The University of Alberta Press. Murphy lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Ben Nardolilli is a writer currently living in Arlington, Virginia. His work has appeared in Perigee Magazine, Red Fez, Quail Bell Magazine, Elimae, and Yes Poetry. A chapbook of his Common Symptoms of an Enduring Chill Explained, has been published by Folded Word Press. He maintains a blog at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com and is looking to publish his first novel.
  • Frank Praeger is a retired biologist who lives in Keweenaw peninsula which  juts out from the northwest corner of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan into Lake Superior.  Poetry  has been published in various journals (hard copy and on-line) in  both  the UK and the USA.
  • Chris Skoyles is a writer and journalist from Lancashire, England. His previous poems have been published in The Ugly Tree, Awen and Speech Therapy amongst others.He also works with bands and live music events and blogs about about words, music and more at www.chrisskoyles.co.uk
  • Ellie Stewart has a degree in English and Philosophy and works at an education charity in West London. She has been published in various places online including The Pygmy Giant and The Molotov Cocktail and is currently working on a children’s novel.
  • Clinton Van Inman is a high school teacher in Tampa Bay, Florida.  He is 65 and was born in Walton on Thames, England. Though he still refuses to submit to any school or Ism and believes in art for art’s sake.  He still fights for the “cause.”