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poetry
 

poetry editor {read interview}

C.P. Stewart lives with his family in North Yorkshire. Formerly singer/songwriter with the cult band Laughing Gravy, his poetry has been widely published in the U.K., the United States, Canada, and, most recently, India.  Visit his Web site at www.cpstewart-poet.co.uk.

assistant poetry editor

Bob Bradshaw hails from Florida, where he had the great pleasure of taking classes under novelist Wyatt Wyatt and poet David Posner. He defected from Florida decades ago and now lives in California. He is proud to say, though, that he has never committed a felony or a heinous act while writing. Perhaps poetry is not as dangerous as it is reputed to be.

assistant poetry editor

Tammy Ho Lai-ming is a Hong Kong-born writer. She is co-founder and co-editor of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, the first (and currently only) Hong Kong online literary journal. More about Ho at www.sighming.com and at the Hong Kong Writers' Circle.

assistant poetry editor

Donna Vorreyer lives in the Chicago area and spends her days trying to teach middle-schoolers that words matter. Her poems have appeared in many print and online journals including New York Quarterly, After Hours, DMQ Review, Byline, Boxcar Poetry Review, Literary Mama, Flashquake, and The Hiss Quarterly. She has been a two-time finalist in Chicago's Guild Complex Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Competition and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She tries not to take herself too seriously. Visit her writing life on the web at djvorreyer.googlepages.com.

assistant poetry editor

Jacqueline West's work has been published in journals including St. Ann's Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Pebble Lake Review, Barnwood, flashquake, Briar Cliff Review, and Strange Horizons. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her chapbook, Cherma, is forthcoming from Parallel Press. Jacqueline currently lives, writes, and teaches English in eastern Wisconsin.

poetry reviewers 

Adrienne Leavy is working on her Ph.D. in literature at Arizona State University. Her poetry has appeared in Crannog magazine in Ireland and is forthcoming in several other Irish literary journals.

Amelia Possanza is pursuing her BA in comparative literature at Swarthmore College. She previously worked as a manuscript reviewer for Saturnalia Books in a basement at Drexel. Most of her written works have yet to be published.

Cari Merritt is a a sophomore at the University of Michigan.  She loves the outdoors, (of course) loves to read and write, and has a very fat cat for a muse.

Carol Ayer is a freelance writer and poet living in Northern California. Her work has been published by Woman's World, The Christian Science Monitor, The Prairie Times, Sniplits, the anthology Freckles to Wrinkles, and flashquake.Crystal Anderson graduated in 2008 from the University of California at Davis with an M.A. in English/Creative Writing. She currently resides in Davis, California.

Carrie Ryman lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin, but is a native of Ohio.  She attended Kent State University, studying Journalism, and launched her career at The Gateway Press where she contributed feature and human interest stories, as well as features for her popular sports/ adventure series.  Carrie has participated in CVNRA’s Nature Writer’s Workshop/Jill Sell and AllWriter’s Workshop/Kathie Giorgio, as well as community events to promote literature, such as Waukesha’s “Big Read.”  She has read her poetry at Martha Merrill’s Books, Brady’s Café and Arabica Coffeehouse. Carrie enjoys writing poetry, essays, fiction, nonfiction, and is currently working on her first novel.

Deborah Hauser graduated from Stony Brook University with an MA in English Literature and has taught at Stony Brook University and Suffolk County Community College. Her poetry has appeared in Long Island Sounds, Cassandra: Suffolk Community College Literary Journal, Focus: Stony Brook University Women's Studies Department Literary Journal, and other publications. Deborah has attended writing workshops at Long Island University, The New School, and the 92nd Street Y. She features at reading venues across Long Island and New York City. Visit Deborah at http://www.facebook.com/deborah.hauser.

George Bishop lives and writes in the central Florida area. He attended Rutgers University studying English and Creative Writing.  His work has appeared in both national and international magazines, both online and in print.

G. Lloyd Helm has been writing for 30 years, having published poetry in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers including The New York Poetry Anthology, Stars and Stripes News, The Los Angeles Times, The Antelope Valley Press, and The Antelope Valley Anthologies, among others.  Helm is also a publisher of and contributor to The Antelope Valley Anthologies, which are collections of poetry, short stories, and essays from the residents of Southern California’s Antelope Valley. 

Genevieve Betts received her MFA from Arizona State University in 2006 and writes poetry, reviews, and flash fiction. Recently, she was a finalist for the ABZ First Book Award and continues her goal of publishing her first book. She is also currently working on a second manuscript and teaching English at Arizona State University, as well as creative writing at South Mountain Community College. Her most recent work can be found in CHAIN, NANOfiction, Midwest Quarterly, and 42opus. She lives in Tempe, AZ with her husband and her cat.

Karen Rigby received a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and has published two chapbooks, Savage Machinery (Finishing Line Press, 2008) and Festival Bone (Adastra Press, 2004).

Rachel Elizabeth Moore holds an M.A. in English/Creative Writing from Kansas State University, and a B.A. in English from Truman State University.  Truman's Windfall published six of her poems.  She was the 2007/2008 Poetry Editor for K-State's Touchstone.  She prefers poetry without adjectives.

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