Contributor’s Notes | Rougarou V. 2 No. 1
Anne Corbitt a third year fiction MFA candidate at the University of Mississippi on the John and Renée Grisham Fellowship. Corbitt serves as the fiction editor for The Yalobusha Review and teaches both poetry and fiction workshops to undergraduates. Her work has appeared in The Summerset Review, The Jabberwock Review, and The Greensboro Review.
Karen Craigo is the editor-in-chief of Mid-American Review. Her poetry has appeared in a number of journals, such as Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review, Indiana Review, and others, and she is the author of a chapbook, Stone for an Eye (Kent State/Wick, 2004).
Barbara Daniels’s book, Rose Fever, will be published by WordTech Press in March, 2008. Daniel's chapbook, The Woman Who Tries to Believe, won the Quentin R. Howard Prize and was published by Wind Publications. Her poems have appeared in The Louisville Review, The Dos Passos Review, The Literary Review, and many other journals. She has also received two Individual Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and a Dodge Full Fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center.
Donovan Hufnagle is a writer, student, teacher, and father. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Dallas while instructing full-time at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth Texas.
Mark Jenkins completed an MFA at Bowling Green State University in 2004 and is currently at a PhD candidate at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette where he serves as poetry editor for Rougarou. His poetry has appeared in Faultline, REAL, minnesota review, Muse & Stone, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere.
Alan King is a writer living in the D.C. metropolitan area. His fiction and poems have appeared in The Arabesques Review, Warpland, Foliate Oak, Nimble, The Scruffy Dog Review, and Word Catalyst Magazine. His other publications include Adagio Verse Quarterly, Ink Stains, Taboo Haiku, and Whimperbang. A recipient of artist fellowships from Cave Canem and Vona (Voices of Our Nation), his work was also part of the Anacostia Exposed, a collaborative exhibit — showcasing the life and energy of Anacostia — with Irish photographer Mervyn Smyth that opened at the Honfleur Gallery in southeast Washington, D.C. and is currently on display in Northern Ireland.
Patty Paine is the author of Elegy & Collapse (Finishing Line Press, 2005). Her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming in The Atlanta Review, The Journal, The Southern Poetry Review, The Ledge, Iodine, and other journals. She also edits diode an online poetry journal. http://www.diodepoetry.com. She is currently an assistant professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Doha, Qatar.
Judith Anne Seaman is a fiction writer, a documentary filmmaker, and a journalist. She graduated from New York University, School of the Arts and has studied at the Writers Studio in New York City and The Hudson Valley Writers Center. She lives in New Jersey and is working on a novel.
Mark Spitzer, former ULL drop-out, is a professor of creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas. He is also a certified gar-nut who holds the unofficial Arkansas state record for the spotted gar on rod & reel (7 pounds!). Spitzer has 9 books out & they're listed on his website at www.sptzr.net.
A native of Little Rock, AR, Leslie St. John received her B.A. in English Literature at the University of Arkansas and her M.F.A. from Purdue University, where she served as poetry editor for Sycamore Review in 2005 – 2006. Her poems have appeared in Arkansas Review, Cimarron Review, Crab Orchard Review, Florida Review, Indiana Review, and Verse Daily. Her nonfiction has appeared in Opium Magazine. In 2007 she won first prize in the Literature Competition of the National Society of Arts and Letters. She also won the 2007 MacGuffin Prize, judged by Thomas Lux, was runner-up for the Florida Review prize, and was nominated by Lisa Lewis and Ai at the Cimarron Review for a Pushcart Prize. She dances with Variable Velocity, a non-profit modern dance company in San Luis Obispo. She joined the Cal Poly faculty in fall 2007.
