We are honored to announce our accepted authors for Issue 2! Our list of authors is once again composed of great works from up-and-coming authors and widely published authors alike. Issue 2 is now on sale!  Read on to see whose writing you'll be reading!

Here they are, in semi-alphabetical order by last name after the Editor's Choice award winners.

	Matthew E. Henry Editor's Choice in Poetry “Kenosis” MEH is Matthew E. Henry, an African American English/Philosophy teacher from Boston and Denver, who dabbles in music and photography (not the dead, white commentary writer for whom he was named). A graduate of Eastern Nazarene College, MEH has works appearing in Becoming Fire (ANTS), Coloring Book (RattleCat), The Communiqué Journal, Credenda Agenda, The Penwood Review, Poetry East, Word is Bond, and various other anthologies.
	Susan M. Boyer Editor's Choice in Fiction "Search and Rescue" Susan M. Boyer lives in Greenville, SC with her husband, Jim. She spends her days writing and daydreaming too much. Her work has appeared in Catfish Stew and Spinetingler Magazine. She is currently polishing her first novel, Lowcountry Boil, a Southern women's suspense tale. In her spare time, Susan occasionally makes it to her Jazzercise class, and sometimes remembers to update her blog, People I'd Like to Be at http://skinnywriter.blogspot.com, where she mostly complains about the exercise and her sluggish metabolism.
	Marilyn F. Moriarty Editor's Choice in Creative Nonfiction "How To Carry Water In A Sieve" Marilyn Moriarty teaches literature at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. She has published fiction in Nimrod, Quarterly West, Phoebe, Thema,and Peregrine. Her book Moses Unchained won the Associated Writing Programs Creative Nonfiction Award and was published in 1998. She has also written a text book on scientific writing, Writing Science Through Critical Thinking, and introduced and co-edited a book on architecture and literary theory.
	Lisa Beth Anderson Creative Nonfiction "Everyone Who Endeavors Must Be Cursed" At the end of January Lisa traded her front-porch view of the Rockies for a little of Chicago's built-world wonder. She heard that the city's bridges smell like chocolate and had to find out for herself. Her cameras didn't care what the pretense was; they were happy for the new visual possibilities. If you're curious, you can see Lisa's work at www.lbanderson.com.
	Kathleen M. Brian Poetry "Meditation on Derivation" "Forgiven" "On Grieving" Kathleen M. Brian has previously been published in Fusion and Labyrinth literary magazines as well as in the anthology Becoming Fire: Voices from Rising Generations. She received the Keisler Undergradauate Award for Poetry, honors for her creative thesis at Indiana University -- Bloomington, and a fellowship to the Summer Litarary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia. Miss Brian has held internships with Indiana Review and the Indiana University Writers' Conference. In the fall, Miss Brian will be beginning her PhD studies in U.S. history.
	Stacy Barton Fiction "Charlote Wondered" Although slightly crazy, Stacy Barton lives in a rather normal suburb in Florida with her husband, four kids and assorted cats - all of whom are pumped (especially the cats) that her collection of short stories, Surviving Nashville, will be in stores this April (because then she will be a rich and famous author and able to buy expensive cat toys). Stacy is a free-lance scriptwriter for the Disney Company and the author of short stories, children's picture books, plays, and poetry. Come join in the gab about stories and life at her blog: www.theartofstory.blogspot.com.
	Sharisse Butler Poetry "Incarnation" Sharisse Butler received a Master in Theological Studies from Virginia Theological Seminary, where she wrote an honors thesis entitled "Imagining Faith: The Experience of Doubt in Poems by Vassar Miller, Jane Kenyon, Denise Levertov, and R.S. Thomas." She has a Master of Arts in aesthetic studies from the University of Texas at Dallas and an undergraduate degree in ethnomusicology from Wheaton College. She currently teaches religion to middle school students at an Episcopal school and is a research assistant for a professor at Perkins School of Theology. She lives in Dallas with her husband, Oliver, who is an Episcopal priest.
	Barbara Crooker Poetry "Communion" "Pastoral" Barbara Crooker has published poems in magazines such as Tiferet, The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Century, Christianity and Literature, Sojourners, Windhover, Perspectives, Literature and Belief, America, and The Cresset; anthologies, including Worlds in their Words: An Anthology of Contemporary American Women Writers (Prentice Hall) and Boomer Girls (University of Iowa Press); eleven chapbooks, and a full-length collection, Radiance, which won the 2005 Word Press First Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize.. She has received three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships in Literature, the WB Yeats Society of NY Prize (Grace Schulman, judge) and the Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award (Stanley Kunitz, judge).
	Jeanne Damoff Creative Nonfiction "Selections from Parting the Waters: Finding Beauty In Brokeness" Jeanne Damoff has been married for almost 28 years to George, a biologist, poet, and musician. They have three grown children, who are her favorite people in the world. She has degrees in social work, sociology, English, and secondary education, and has taught such varied subjects as Latin, art, music, cheerleading, and Bible. Jeanne is a published writer, a professional choreographer, a musician, and a speaker. She loves to laugh and gives points to anyone who makes her laugh out loud. These points are very valuable. Everyone should strive to earn them, starting now.
	Mike Duran Fiction "When Bill Left the Porch" Mike Duran lives in Southern California with his wife Lisa and four grown children. Chosen as one of ten authors for Infuze Magazine’s 2005 print anthology, Mike’s short stories have also appeared in Forgotten Worlds, Alienskin, Dragons, Knights and Angels, and non-fiction in The Matthew’s House Project and Relevant Magazine Online. Mike has written an unpublished novel entitled What Faith Awakes and is currently at work on a second. You can peruse his weekly ruminations at www.mikeduran.com.
	Leslie Leyland Fields Creative Nonfiction "Passing It On" Leslie Leyland Fields lives in Kodiak, Alaska with her husband where she writes, teaches and commercial fishes. She is the author of five books, including Surprise Child and Surviving the Island of Grace. Her essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Christianity Today, Image: Art, Faith Mystery, and many others. She teaches creative nonfiction in Seattle Pacific University´s low-residency MFA program, and is currently spending the year traveling through North and Central America with her husband and five sons, taking notes, and hoping all will survive with familial bonds intact.
	Christopher Fisher Fiction “The Priest of Exit 53” Christopher Fisher is a published author, an editor with the Office of International Criminal Justice Press, and a student at the University of Southern Maine where he is working toward an MFA in Creative Writing. His work has appeared in the Wittenburg Door, the Sam Houston State Review, and Infuze Magazine, as well as flash fiction at Another Realm and Flashing in the Gutters. He was most recently published in a horror anthology titled Thou Shalt Not. . . by Dark Cloud Press.
	Robert W. Hegwood Poetry "Blue-eyed Cats" Robert Hegwood is a technical writer living in Jackson, Mississippi. He graduated in 1979 from William Carey College with Honors in Creative Writing. His short-story Ashangel was recently published on-line at Infuze. Other current on-line writing is limited to two irregularly updated blogs, The Tallamingo County Observer , an experiment in fiction, and a more personal one called Exit East . At least four short stories are in the works and a major paradigm altering octology is being deeply thought about. We’ll see what comes of it. He’s been thinking for 15 years…but he swears he’s on to something.
	Paula Huston Creative Nonfiction "Selections from By Way of Grace: Moving from Faithfulness to Holiness" Paula Huston wrote literary fiction for twenty years before shifting her focus to spiritual writing. A National Endowment of the Arts Fellow in Creative Writing, she is the author of a novel, Daughters of Song (Random House, 1995) and numerous short stories. She also served as co-editor and contributing essayist for a literary collection called Signatures of Grace: Catholic Writers on the Sacraments (Dutton, 2000). Her most recent book is The Holy Way: Practices for a Simple Life (Loyola, 2003). By Way of Grace: Moving from Faithfulness to Holiness (Loyola) is a February 2007 release. Paula is a Camaldolese Benedictine oblate who lives with her husband on the California Central Coast.
	Jack Legg Creative Nonfiction "Light of Mine" Jack is a youth minister from Ohio. His writing has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and journals. In high school, Jack was voted President of the National Honors Society. Unfortunately, he lost this position at the induction ceremony when he publicly denounced the group as a cult. It is his passion to reach out to the invisible poor.
	Lucinda Lawson Poetry "After Babel" "My Brother Calls" Lucinda Lawson holds a writing degree from Missouri State University. Her work has been published in several small journals, including Rogue Poetry Review, The Penwood Review and Time of Singing, and has twice been nominated for inclusion in Pushcart Prize Anthologies. She lives in rural Missouri with her husband Scott and two daughters, where between bouts of pondering deep spiritual mysteries like the nature of light and incarnation, she chases cows out of the yard and keeps water in the tub to flush the toilet during power outages.
	Nancy Tupper Ling Poetry "Coming Unfrozen" "Gone Missing" Nancy Tupper Ling (Walpole, MA) is thrilled to have her work published in Relief Journal along with her mother and greatest mentor, Jean Tupper. Recently, Writer's Digest selected Ling as their Grand Prize winner out of 17, 000 participants. She has also won several awards for her poetry and children's stories, including those presented by the Pacific Northwest Writer's Association, the Alabama Writer's Conclave, and the Decatur Public Library. In 2004, her first collection of poetry entitled Laughter in My Tent: A Woman’s Search for Family was published by Steppingstone Publishers. Other publication credits include: Louisville Review, Potomac Review, Re)verb and Mid-American Poetry Review.
	Julie L. Moore Poetry "Akeldama" " Her" " Shadows" Julie L. Moore's poetry chapbook, Election Day, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2006. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in many publications, including Sou'Wester, River Oak Review, The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Blueline, The Chaffin Journal, The Fairfield Review, Christianity and Literature, The Christian Century, and The Christian Science Monitor. In addition, one of her poems recently won Second Honorable Mention in the 2006 National Poet Hunt Contest judged by Laurence Lieberman and will appear in the winter issue of The MacGuffin. Moore lives in Cedarville, Ohio and directs the Writing Center at Cedarville University.
	Andrew McNabb Fiction "Bride of Christ" Andrew McNabb's short-fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals, magazines and anthologies, including, "Not Safe, But Good: Best Christian Short Stories, 2007 (West Bow), The Missouri Review, Many Mountains Moving, Rock & Sling, Potomac Review and New Delta Review. He lives in Portland, Maine with his wife and children and has recently completed a story collection, "The Body of Portland." Andrew is at work on a book-lenght memoir/diary/love letter to his children. More about him can be viewed on his website, www.andrew-mcnabb.com.
	Michael Martin Poetry "Optics" "Answer" Michael Martin has published poetry and essays in a wide spectrum of journals and magazines, including Cross Currents, The Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Under the Sun. He teaches at Marygrove College in Detroit, Michigan and lives on a small farm with his wife and seven children.
	Paul Morgan Poetry "I was in the day, I was something" Paul spent his youth locked in his room with his books, writing poetry and doodling plans for world domination in the margins. At twenty eight he's been published a total of four times and hopes to eventually publish a collection of his work. In the meantime he and his wife manage an apartment building in downtown Portland. They share their humble abode with their baby son and consider themselves very blessed.
	Thomas O'Connell Poetry "Thoughts from an Also Ran" Thomas O'Connell is a librarian living in the mountains of southwestern Virginia with his wife and a couple of swell daughters. His poems and stories have appeared in Pebble Lake Review, Sleepingfish, Coe Review and Thereby Hangs a Tale, as well as other print and online journals.
	Paul Prather Fiction "Ecumenism" Paul Prather is a pastor in rural Kentucky and a former religion writer for the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader, where he still contributes a twice-monthly column. He’s won writing awards from the Kentucky Press Association, the Kentucky Arts Council and the Kentucky Writers Coalition. His fiction has appeared in The Louisville Review, Frostproof Review, and New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best 2003. Anne Tyler selected his story “The Faithful” for Best of the South, an anthology honoring the twenty best short stories to have appeared in the New Stories from the South series over the past decade.
	Kathleen Rogers Poetry "Missionary's Wife" Kathleen Rogers has published poems in Blueline and the Shehandoah Valley Writers Guild Showcase XII along with a number of non-fiction articles. She is currently closing down a 12-year history publication and looking forward to writing again rather than editing and doing layout. Graduates of the College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Kathee and her wildlife-biologist husband have settled in the West Virginia mountains, where the Rogers family hunts, fishes, and homeschools.
	Faydra Stratton Fiction "Miracles" Faydra Stratton grew up in south Florida, lived in coastal North Carolina for six years, and with mixed-emotions is settling into her new life in east Texas. She recieved her MFA in fiction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and especially loves her undergrad alma mater, The University of Florida. (TWO national championships in one year!) To read more about Faydra go to: http://www.faydrastratton.com
	Anushka Anastasia Solomon Poetry "I Ought" "I'd Leave The Motherland" Anushka Anastasia Solomon, is a former Denver Post columnist, and Evergreen, Colorado poet. In 1995, she won the 3rd prize in the IV National New Straits Times - Shell Short Story Competition. A graduate, of Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, she transferred from the University of Missouri-Columbia's School of Journalism, to study creative writing under the late Jamaican poet laureate, and professor of writing, Andrew Salkey. Anushka taught English in Malaysia, to America and Australia bound students. She has been in voluntary exile from Malaysia since her conversion to Christianity in 1998. Her published works and blog can be viewed at http://www.AtTheWindow.us/
	Jean Tupper Poetry "Auntie Saves The World" Jean Tupper has worked as a magazine writer and editor, but her current writing love is poetry. She’s been writing poetry for several decades and has published extensively in literary magazines such as Carquinez Review, Eclipse, The Madison Review, The MacGuffin, and others. Her first full-length book of poems Woman in Rainlight was recently published. Tupper presents poetry both solo and with the Fine Line Poets, a group founded by her daughter Nancy Tupper Ling. She has given many readings in schools, libraries and bookstores in New England and beyond. She also reads and workshops with the Wood Thrush Poets, a Connecticut-based group of six published poets who have been colleagues and friends for 27 years.
	Jennifer Koiter Poetry "Sonnet Attempting Unselfishness" "Driving Through Snow" "Salome(Reimagined)" Jennifer Koiter's work has appeared in The Eleventh Muse, J3tlag.com, Euphony, and the anthology Poems from the Baca Grande. She survived graduate school at the University of Chicago, and when she's not writing, you can usually find her at her day job, teaching South Asian mythology at the University of Wyoming.
	Rhoda Janzen Poetry "Sunday Sonnet with a Big Fenced Yard" "Babel's Stair" Rhoda Janzen’s poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Yale Review, Gettysburg Review, Southern Review, and many others. Her first poetry book is Babel’s Stair (Word Press, 2006). In 2001 she appeared in the PBS television series Closer To Truth. Janzen is an Associate Professor of English at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.

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