Relief: A Quarterly Christian Expression

Authors for Issue 3!

Written by Coach Culbertson

Friday, 20 April 2007

Once again, here we are- announcing another amazing group of authors for Issue 3! Also included in Issue 3 is the winner of the Faith*In*Fiction/Relief Daily Sacrament Contest, Don Hoesel, and the runner-up, Angie Poole The only way to read the winning entry is to order Issue 3! Order now at the lower Pre-Sales price!

And now, let us introduce you to the talented writers you'll be reading in Issue 3!

(Authors listed in no particular order after Editor's Choice)

	J. Brisbin Editor's Choice in Fiction "Sins of the Fathers"	J. Brisbin lives in rural southwest Missouri with his wife and five children. He is currently a non-traditional student in the Creative Writing program at an area university. His other short fiction has appeared in The Cow Creek Review. He's currently knee-deep in his first novel about a rural Arkansas town in the 1920's, a roaming revival preacher, bootleggers, and a boy named Samuel. His tastes are unpredictably eclectic and he has recently begun trolling thrift shops for vintage suits from the 1930's and '40s. He maintains an Art Deco-themed blog at http://jbrisbin.com.
	Deanna Hershiser Editor's Choice in Creative Nonfiction "An Overture's Turn"	Now that her two children are fairly well grown, Deanna Hershiser writes most days in Eugene, Oregon. Her articles have appeared in several magazines and the local newspaper. She has taught continuing education classes at Lane Community College, and she's been known to pet-sit, package toothpaste in a friend's warehouse, and donate plasma. Lately she tries to figure out blogging at http://storieshappen.blogspot.com. Her engineer husband encourages her to put ads on her site so they can pay for college tuition.
	Maureen Tolman Flannery Editor's Choice in Poetry "Sometimes the Plagues are Scheduled" "Second Whitsun"	Maureen Tolman Flannery’s latest books are Ancestors in the Landscape: Poems of a Rancher’s Daughter and A Fine Line. Although she grew up in a Wyoming sheep ranch family, Maureen and her actor husband Dan have raised their four children in Chicago. Her work has appeared in forty anthologies and over a hundred literary reviews, recently including Birmingham Poetry Review, Xavier Review, Calyx, Pedestal, Atlanta Review, Language and Culture, and North American Review.
	Don Hoesel FaithInFiction Daily Sacrament Winner "Goodbye Sophie"	Don Hoesel lives in Spring Hill, TN with his wife and two children. He is the author of five novels, and has just started work on his sixth, Comedy Club, which he hopes will be the one that finally finds a home.
	Angie Poole FaithInFiction Runner Up "The Mating Habit of Lizards"	Angie Poole, CPA counts beans in Texas Forest Country. She insists there is no true distinction between left brain/right brain because Story resides in between. Her fishtales can be found at www.angiepoole.blogspot.com.
	Scott Cairns Poetry "And Why Theology"	Scott Cairns is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently, Compass of Affection. His works have been anthologized in Best American Spiritual Writing, American Religious Poems, Upholding Mystery, Shadow & Light, and elsewhere. His poetry has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Poetry, Image, Spiritus, Tiferet, etc. He is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at University of Missouri. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006. His spiritual memoir, Short Trip to the Edge, and his verse adaptations and translations, Love’s Immensity: Mystics on the Endless Life, both appeared in 2007.
	J. Marcus Weekley Fiction "Miss Sweety's Rock-Ola Machine"	J. Marcus Weekley has struggled and rested in his relationship with God for the past sixteen years; it's like a marriage on the rocks, but they're still married. His writing bears out this relationship, sometimes directly, sometimes under the surface. Marcus' writing has appeared in Quick Fiction, The Iowa Review, Margin, Theives Jargon, Poetry International, and Poetry Salzburg Review, among other places. Marcus is the author of four books, including something about, dawn breaks, and a tree isn't a tree, each available at www.lulu.com/whynottryitagain (and The Collaborative Texas Dance Halls: a Two-step Circuit, forthcoming from Texas Tech University Press, Fall 2007). His artistic heroes include George Herbert, Harry Callahan, Flannery O'Connor, Stephen King, Anne Sexton, Ben Neihart, Walt Whitman, Octavio Paz, Fairfield Porter, and Raymond Carver. You may view some of Marcus' photographs at www.flickr.com/photos/whynottryitagain2.
	Richard Wile Creative Nonfiction "Esther: A Remembrance"	Richard Wile received his MFA in nonfiction from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Creative Writing Program in 2005. His essays have been published in such diverse places as Prairie Schooner, the Christian Century, and Cigar Aficionado, as well as in an anthology, Reflections on Maine. He has recently completed a memoir, Those That Mourn: A Memoir of Grief and Grace. A native of Maine, he lives with his wife Mary Lee in an old family home in Yarmouth.
	Renee Ronika Klug Creative Nonfiction "We the People of Barbie"	Renee Ronika Klug spends semesters and summers teaching English at the college level, and holidays in Arizona, where she is from; in New York, where her newlywed husband is from; or in other countries, where she wishes she were from. She prefers the ocean over dry land but enjoys the strenuous hike, particularly in her newest home—Colorado. Renee has a bachelor’s degree in English from Biola University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Southampton College.
	S. Jason Fraley Poetry "She Can't Remember Socrates" "Because There Is No Easy Answer"	Jason Fraley works at an investment firm in West Virginia and is almost finished (thankfully!) with his MBA. His wife and cat see him occasionally. He has appeared or is forthcoming in Forklift Ohio, 42opus, The Hat, Pebble Lake Review, Caketrain, and No Tell Motel.
	Jill Kandel Creative Nonfiction "Dill"	Jill Kandel lived on the banks of the Luangingwa River in Zambia for six years. Later she lived in western Indonesia, Reading England, and in her husband's native Netherlands. After ten years of living abroad she returned to the United States. She currently lives with her husband and four children in northern Minnesota. She was awarded the Carol Bly Creative Nonfiction Award from Bemidji State University. She has been published in Minnesota Literature, North Country, and Dust & Fire. Jill has a BS, RN degree which she seldom uses since creative nonfiction has devoured her life.
	Debra Kaufman Poetry "Feast Day of St. Ursula" "Easter" "April Fools" "Grace"	Debra Kaufman is a poet and playwright who lives in Mebane, North Carolina. She is the author of two chapbooks: Family of Strangers and Still Life Burning, and the collection A Certain Light. Her poems have appeared in many literary magazines and several anthologies, and her plays and monologues have been produced throughout North Carolina and in California.
	Calee M. Lee Creative Nonfiction "Photographing the Cross"	Calee M. Lee studied screenwriting at New York University but now focuses her energies on the world of non-fiction. She lives in Southern California with her husband and is thrilled to have let her exhausted passport take a well-deserved rest in favor of raising her newborn daughter. "Photographing the Cross" is from her latest project—a collection of essays about Suburban Pilgrims.
	Paul Luikart Poetry "Moving Lucy Vegas"	Paul Luikart lives in Chicago with his wonderful wife Emily. During the day he works as a case manager for a ministry that assists homeless men and women. He has a BA in English-creative writing from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and his poetry has appeared in Miami's literary magazine Inklings as well as in small publications like VOiCE and The Lucid Stone. He is currently working on his first collection of short stories.
	Heather Stewart Poetry "El Oracion de la Ciudad"	Heather Stewart is a writer at Blake School of the Arts and captain of the Varsity Swim and Soccer Team. She is involved in her youth group and annual mission trips to Honduras. She has been published in the literary magazine Synapse, Celebration of Young Poets, the Hillsborough County Teachers of English Annual Contest Anthology, and Who’s Who Among High School Students. She has been a National English Merit Award Winner in 2005 and 2006. She recently received an Honorable Mention in Poetry from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts. She is attending Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee in 2007.
	Gregory O'Neill Poetry "Standard and Distinct Things"	Gregory O'Neill resides in Washington State. His poetry has most recently appeared in: Lily Literary Journal, The Dande Review, Triplopia, The Adroitly Placed Word Audio Poetry Project (johnvick.org) and The Furnace Review. Upcoming in Wolf Moon Journal Press, Tryst Poetry Journal and The Penwood Literary Review. His chapbook, Higher Toward Lumen is being compiled for publishing. The author would recommend Angus Fletcher's New Theory For American Poety.
	Anne M. Doe Overstreet Poetry "Anunciation" "In This Place of Grass"	Anne M. Doe Overstreet lives just shy of Seattle, works as a free-lance editor, and runs a small gardening business. If she's not pulling a weed, she's got her nose in a book, or, okay, stereotypically, a cup of coffee. A long-standing member of the Meridian Poets' group and a Soapstone Writing Residency recipient, her work has appeared in publications such as DMQ Review, Cranky, Northwest Mirror, Talking River Review, and TheMatthewsHouseProject.com. Her most recent poetic adventure was opening a meeting of Seattle's Public Safety, Civil Rights & Arts Committee with a piece about grandmothers and high heels.
	Ellen Morris Prewitt Fiction "Jesus Called"	Ellen Morris Prewitt lives with her husband and two Yorkies in Memphis. Her fiction has appeared in Image, Southern Hum, Arkansas Review, Eureka Literary Magazine, Gulf Coast Literary Journal, Peralta Press, and elsewhere. Excerpts from her memoir have been in Alaska Quarterly Review, North Dakota Quarterly and River Teeth. Her first novel was a semi-finalist in the James Jones First Novel Competition, 2005. A short story received Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize XXXI: Best of the Small Presses, 2007. She makes religious objects from broken and found objects, a book on which is in the works.
	Alys Matthews Creative Nonfiction "Dances with Olivia"	Alys Matthews is a high school senior in the small town of Gloucester, Virginia. She lives with her mother and two sisters, and is active in her youth group and annual mission trips with the Rappahannock District Youth Choir, a traveling choral group. Writing has been my lifelong passion, and she hopes to major in English and pursue a writing career. Her biggest priorities are family, friends, and trying to see a little piece of God in everything. This is her first publication
	Christopher Mulrooney Poetry "letter to the churches"	Christopher Mulrooney has written poems and translations in Pusteblume, The Tusculum Review, Cake, Marginalia, and Santa Fe Literary Review. His criticism appears in Elimae, Blue Fifth Review, and Parameter.
Photo coming soon	Cicely Angleton Poetry “For Judas Iscariot”	Cicely Angleton was born in Duluth Minnesota, 1922, brought up in Tucson, AZ, and graduated Vassar College, PhD at Catholic University of America in medieval studies. She has studied at the Writer’s Center, Bethesda MD for many years. Her publications include A Cave of Overwhelming, a collection of poems, Delos, Poetry, Passager. She won the Passager contest in 2005 and has given several readings in the Washington/ Virginia area. She was married to James Angleton, who went on to be with the Lord in 1987, has three children and two grandchildren, and currently resides in Great Falls, Virginia.
	Marianne Taylor Poetry "Lament in a Country Graveyard"	Marianne Taylor is a Professor of English at Kirkwood Community College where she teaches literature and creative writing. She has been the recipient of the Allen Ginsberg Award and the Helen A. Quade Memorial Writer's Award; and her manuscript, Salt Water, Iowa, has been a finalist for the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, the Richard Snyder Memorial Poetry Prize, and the Winnow Press Open Book Award. Her work has been published widely in national journals such as Nimrod International Journal, North America Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Connecticut Review and Rosebud. She lives in the small town of Mount Vernon, IA, with her husband and four sons.
	Ann Cefola Poetry "Boys of Iona Prep" "St. Agnes, Pink Slipped"	Ann Cefola is the author of Sugaring (Dancing Girl Press, 2007) and translator of Hélène Sanguinetti’s Hence this cradle (Seismicity Editions, 2007). Ann is a 2007 Witter Bynner Poetry Translation Fellow and recipient of the 2001 Robert Penn Warren Award judged by John Ashbery. In addition to Confrontation and Natural Bridge, her work has appeared in Hunger Enough (Pudding House, 2004) and Off the Cuffs (Soft Skull, 2003). Ann holds an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and works as a creative strategist with her own company, Jumpstart (jumpstartnow.net). She and her husband, Michael, live in the New York suburbs.
	Lois Barliant Fiction " A Miracle for Marty"	Lois Barliant has worked in advertising and taught high school English before working full-time on writing. She has had stories and essays published in The Clothesline Review, The Chicago Quarterly Review, The Rambunctious Review, Out of Line, and Heartlands, a Magazine of Midwest Life and Art, and she is working on a novel. She also works as an editor for the Chicago Quarterly Review. She was born in Colorado but has lived most of her life in Chicago.
	Jeff P. Jones Poetry "Flotsam"	Jeff P. Jones’s work has won the Wabash Prize in Fiction, the Lamar York Prize in Nonfiction, and the Hackney National Short Story Award. He has work in or forthcoming from Gulf Coast, Puerto del Sol, Sycamore Review, Hawai'i Pacific Review, Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. He lives and writes on the Palouse in northern Idaho.
	Christopher Essex Fiction "Saints of Colorado"	Christopher Essex received an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University, where he was a Hemingway Fellow and served as fiction editor at the Indiana Review. He earned my bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Colorado-Boulder, where he worked on the staff of Rolling Stock and Walkabout magazines. He has had short stories published in The Portland Review, Sou’wester, Pearl, Fugue, The MacGuffin, Whiskey Island, Blue Mesa Review, Crescent Review, Flying Island, Bathtub Gin, and other literary magazines. Christopher passed away in his home on April 17, 2007, and will be sorely missed by his friends and family.