Contributor’s Notes
Beth Couture is a 3rd year PhD student in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Georgetown Review, The Southern Poetry Anthology’s Mississippi issue, the anthology Thirty Under Thirty from Starcherone Books, and the collective novel A Language of Now from Chiasmus Press. She is also the co-editor of Squid Quarterly, an online journal of short short fiction and prose poetry, and an associate editor of The Journal of Truth and Consequence.
Chris Crittenden lives in a rugged coastal area and does much of his writing in a hut in the woods. Backed by a Ph.D. in philosophy, he fearlessly teaches environmental ethics for the University of Maine. He has been interviewed twice on Poets Café, a radio show of KPFK Los Angeles, and was recently nominated for the Best New Poets anthology by the editor of Raving Dove. Gordian Butterflies, his latest chapbook, is reviewed in the current issue of Arsenic Lobster (20). Some recent acceptances are from: Mannequin Envy, Chaffey Review, Merge Poetry Journal and Quicksilver. He blogs as Owl Who Laughs.
David Galef has published fourteen books and is a professor of literature and creative writing at Montclair State University. His most recent book of poetry is Lists.
Victor David Giron is the son of immigrants from Mexico and Guatemala. He lives in Chicago with his wife Shannon and sons David and Desmond. Victor went to college wanting to study philosophy. Instead, he became an accountant. He enjoys art and independent music, and as a result of trying to find another creative outlet and trying to deal with it all, discovered that he loves to write fiction. Victor’s literary heroes are J.D. Salinger and Nikos Kazantzakis. He is in the process of self-publishing his first novel in the spring of 2010.
Karyna McGlynn was born and raised in Austin, TX and received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she received a Hopwood Award and the Zell Fellowship. Her first book, I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl, won the 2008 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry from Sarabande Books. She’s the author of three chapbooks: Scorpionica, Alabama Steve and Small Shrines. Her poems have recently appeared in Fence, Denver Quarterly, Diode, Octopus, Typo, Caketrain and Anti-. Karyna is currently the Claridge Writer-in-Residence at Illinois College. She edits L4: The Journal of the New American Epigram with Adam Theriault.
Kristen Orser is the author of EAT I (Wyrd Tree Press, forthcoming), Fall Awake (Taiga Press, forthcoming), Squint (Dancing Girl Press, 2009), and Winter, Another Wall (blossombones, 2008). She lives in Chicago, where everyone pretends it's not as cold as it really is all winter.
Julie Porter recently completed her MFA at Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently at work on a collection of poems titled “Meditations on Meat.” She received third place in the Charles Simic Poetry Contest. In 2006, she completed her MA at the Bread Loaf School of English where she received an honorable mention in the Robert Haiduke Poetry Competition, judged by Paul Muldoon.
Doug Ramspeck’s poetry collection Black Tupelo Country, was selected for the 2007 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry and will be published by BkMk Press (University of Missouri-Kansas City) in the fall of 2008. Several hundred of his poems have appeared in journals that include West Branch, Rattle, Confrontation Magazine, Connecticut Review, Nimrod, Hunger Mountain, and Seneca Review. He directs the Writing Center and teach creative writing and composition at The Ohio State University at Lima. He lives in Lima with his wife, Beth, and their daughter, Lee.
Wendy Whelan-Stewart has an MFA from McNeese and is a graduate assistant at ULL.
