Kirsten Eve Beachy

The Institute of Transcendence

Fiction

Kirsten Beachy’s fiction and creative nonfiction pieces have appeared in Dreamseeker, eightyone, WriterAdvice, and The Tusculum Review. She received her MFA from West Virginia University and is a fledgling assistant professor of English at Eastern Mennonite University. She lives with her husband, a green-eyed cat, and a flock of pensioned laying hens on the Briery Branch of the North River in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. Her latest accomplishments include hanging drywall, butchering broiler chickens, and having every room in the house clean at the same time.

Jenn Michelle Blair

Agreement

Note

Poetry

Jenn Blair is a PhD candidate at the University of Georgia. She is from Yakima, WA.

David Borofka

The Death of New Aurora

Fiction

David Borofka teaches composition, literature, and creative writing at Reedley College in Reedley, California. His stories have earned such awards as the Missouri Review’s Editors’ Prize and Carolina Quarterly’s Charles B. Wood Award for Distinguished Writing, and his collection, Hints of His Mortality, won the 1996 Iowa Short Fiction Award. His novel, The Island, was published by MacMurray & Beck, portions of which appeared in Gettysburg Review and Shenandoah. New work has recently appeared in Image, Southern Review, Glimmer Train, and Manoa.

Jeff E. Brooks-Harris

The Last Good Day

Creative Nonfiction

Jeff lives on the island of Oahu and works as a psychologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He and his daughter Genevieve enjoy biking and traveling together. Jeff recently published a textbook entitled Integrative Multitheoretical Psychotherapy. This is his first published piece of creative nonfiction.

Jeremy Burgess

Eli Bison Becomes an Angel

Fiction

Jeremy is still an undergraduate student, but will be a graduate student later this year. He is currently a freelance journalist for The Birmingham News and Birmingham Weekly. Social talents include bad pick-up lines, clever remarks, and the ability to grow full facial hair at a young age. He has dreams of becoming a firefighter.

Maryann Corbett

Mid Evil

Subversive

Reading the Fire Code

Poetry

Maryann Corbett's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Measure, The Lyric, Alabama Literary Review, First Things, Rock and Sling, and other journals in print and online. Her chapbook Gardening in a Time of War was published in 2007 by Pudding House. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, and works as a legal-writing adviser, editor, and indexer for the Minnesota Legislature.

Barry L. Dunlap

Erosion

Poetry

Barry Dunlap loves ice cream, a good book and sports (in no particular order). He has worked as a teacher and coach, a campus minister, a church planter, and (currently) in educational support services. His work has been published in Spillway Review, Powhatan Review, Pebble Lake Review, Christianity and Literature, The Adirondack Review, as well as other journals. Barry earned his master's in English at Southeastern Louisiana University, where he studied under Tim Gautreaux. Barry lives in Walker, LA with his wife and four children—and their Chocolate Lab Coco.

Justin Whitmel Earley

Whisper New Orleans

Sometimes in Shanghai

Poetry

Bio Forthcoming

Chris Flowers

Man Nailed to Cross in Philippines

Poetry

Chris Flowers currently teaches English at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, NC. He enjoys spending Saturday afternoons at the movies with his wife Erica, and hopes to complete his first novel sometime in the next millenium. His poetry has recently appeared in Convergence.

Hannah E. Fries

Summer Burial

Poetry

Hannah grew up in New Hampshire and feels most at home when she is hiking the White Mountains, rain or shine. She graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in English and a minor in music and is now on the editorial staff of Orion magazine in western Massachusetts. Her poems have been published in the Berkshire Review and other journals. She loves to sing (both in and out of the shower), cross-country ski, and climb trees, and has been known to dust off her French horn when the occasion calls for it.

John Keats

Arbor

Fiction

John Keats lives in Massachusetts. He received an MA in English from Boston College. His writing has appeared in Roux and Under the Sun.

Ross Kennerly

Little Proofs

Creative Nonfiction

Ross Kennerly is a contributing writer for The Real Chicago Magazine. His creative nonfiction has also appeared in The OffKILTer Review. He received his BA in French from Alma College, a liberal arts school in Alma, MI, where he was first encouraged by a friend to seriously pursue writing. He currently lives and works in Chicago, though he will always be rooted in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Yes, he is a Yooper.

Sally Rosen Kindred

Cardinal's Eve

Poetry

Sally Rosen Kindred's manuscript, Garnet Lanterns, won the 2005 Anabiosis Press Chapbook Competition, and she received a 2007 Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Blackbird, Poetry Northwest, The Florida Review, Ruminate, and Passages North. She lives in Columbia, Maryland, with her husband and sons.

Katherine Nicole Lee

John Chapter Twelve

Poetry

Katherine's craziest jobs have included painting monograms on saddles, acting as interim church janitor, and researching the genetic components of fruit fly gonads at Johns Hopkins University. Having mastered these crucial life skills, she is now seeking a theological education at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, where she lives with her husband, Rob.

Frederick Lord

Slumming with Lazarus

Commuting through the Rapture

Poetry

Frederick (Rick) is the Assistant Dean of Liberal Arts at Southern New Hampshire University, where he also teaches English and serves as poetry editor for Amoskeag, SNHU’s literary magazine. A finalist in 2007’s Dogwood Poetry Prize and honorable mention in the Juked Poetry Prize, Lord has recently appeared in Blueline, Switched-on Gutenberg, kaleidowhirl, Main Channel Voices, caesura, Bent Pin Quarterly, Relief and Bayou. He and his wife Heather, a painter, live in Bow, New Hampshire

Linda MacKillop

Dooms of Love

Editor’s Choice for Creative Nonfiction

Linda MacKillop lives in the charming town of Wheaton, Illinois with her husband Bill. On any given semi-warm evening, they can be found wandering the streets and parks of the downtown area, sipping coffee, or attending outdoor concerts. Together they have four sons. Linda’s work has been published in The MacGuffin, iParent, and The Philosophical Mother. Recently her work also appeared in two publications by Meredith Books: Along the Way and Along the Way for Teens. At the moment the ink is drying on her first novel, Try Again Farm.

Helen W. Mallon

Biology

Editor’s Choice for Fiction

Helen W. Mallon grew up in a Philadelphia Quaker family. She received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2005. Her poetry chapbook, from Finishing Line Press, is titled Bone China. Her poems, essays and fiction have appeared in various publications, including the anthology Commonwealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania. Her story, Astral Projection is included in the 2007Best of Philadelphia Stories anthology. The working title of her novel is Quaker Playboy Leaves Legacy of Confusion.

Katie Manning

Intimacy

Poetry

Missing Bio

Michael Martin

It All Comes Down to Laundry

Poetry

Michael Martin lives on a small farm with his wife and seven children. His poetry and essays have appeared in many different magazines and journals, including Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Eclipse, and Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, not to mention Relief. He teaches English at Marygrove College in Detroit, Michigan.

Maureen Doyle McQuerry

Conversation

Beyond

Poetry

Maureen is a poet and novelist, teacher and artist in the schools. She is the author of Wolfproof (Idylls 2006), first in a YA fantasy trilogy. The sequel, The Travelers' Market, will be out in July 2008. Recent poems can be found in The Southern Review, Journal of Mythic Arts, Goblin Fruit and the Georgetown Review.

Joyce Magnin Moccero

October's Orchid

Fiction

Joyce is writer, reader, mom, grandmom. She enjoys books, rpg video games, cross stitich, Humphrey Bogart movies, and loves to teach others about writing and reading when she can.

Rick Mullin

Catholic Worker

Poetry

Rick Mullin is a journalist and painter whose poetry has appeared in various print and online journals, including The New Formalist, Contemporary Sonnet, and the Shit Creek Review, which nominated his poem, Shrine to Satan for a Pushcart Prize. His work has been accepted for upcoming issues of Measure, Blue Unicorn, and Light Quarterly, and his first chapbook, Aquinas Flinched, is due to be published this spring by Modern Metrics, New York.

Hannah Faith Notess

Psalm 19

A Wreck

The Disaster Tourist

Single-Point Perspective

Poetry

Hannah Faith Notess is working on her MFA in Creative Writing at Indiana University. She is also editing a collection of personal essays about growing up female and evangelical. Her poems have recently appeared in Slate, Crab Orchard Review, and Rattle and are forthcoming in Image and 5AM

Brian G. Phipps

Miscarriages

Winter Solstice

Poetry

Brian G. Phipps holds a BA in English with an emphasis in creative writing from Western Michigan University, where he also studied music composition, and he has published poetry and other writing in Re:generation Quarterly and poetry in Mars Hill Review, Rock and Sling, and The Handmaiden. He works as an editor for a book publishing company in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he lives with his wife and five kids. In addition to writing poetry, his interests include playing ice hockey and serving as a chanter in his Greek Orthodox parish.

J. Stephen Rhodes

Look Up

Creative Nonfiction

Before taking up writing full-time, J. Stephen Rhodes served as the academic dean of Memphis Theological Seminary and as a Presbyterian pastor. His poetry has appeared in Shenandoah, Tar River Poetry, The William and Mary Review, and The International Poetry Review, among others. His essays have appeared in Gettysburg Review, Brevity, Snowy Egret, and The Christian Century. He is currently working on a book dealing with the relationship between service and self-care and is seeking publication of his first book of poetry. He lives with his wife, Ann, on a farm in south central Kentucky.

Meg Sefton

Deborah

Fiction

Meg Sefton is a low residency MFA student at Seattle Pacific University. She lives in Orlando, Florida with her husband, son and dog. When not writing, reading, or studying, she’s tending the house poorly, driving her kid around in her messy car, and baking and/or burning prepared meals. Occasionally, she breaks out for a trip across the ocean. Last year she and her clan went to London. She hopes to go to New Zealand soon. Her current favorite color is blue and she has been recently enjoying fabulist stories and fairy tales. She likes coffee in any form or concentration. The same goes for chocolate.

Allison Smythe

The Significance of Place

Creative Nonfiction

Allison Smythe runs a graphic design firm, Ars Graphica, in Rocheport, Missouri, where she lives and works with husband Wayne Leal, a sculptor, and their two daughters. Her work has or will appear in The Weight of Addition, an anthology of Texas Poetry, Packingtown Review, Cranky, Verse Daily, versal V, The Southern Review, MO Writing from the River, The Gettysburg Review, Relief, the 2007 Texas Poetry Calendar, thematthewshouseproject.com, RainTown Review, TimeSlice, Anderbo.com, Gulf Coast and other journals, anthologies, record albums, and the Voice. Please stop by allisonsmythe.com and say hello.

Meredith Stewart

Forgetting Grace

Poetry

Missing bio

Mario Susko

There and Here

The Other Side

What I Want to Say

The Color of Blood

Editor’s Choice for Poetry

Mario Susko, a witness and survivor of the war in Bosnia, came, in a sense, back to the US at the end of 1993. He received his MA and PhD from SUNY Stony Brook in the 1970s and has taught at the University of Sarajevo and Nassau Community College, where he is currently an Associate Professor in the English Department. He is the recipient of several awards, including the 1997 and 2006 Nassau Review Poetry Award, the 1998 Premio Internazionale di Poesia e Letteratura "Nuove Lettere" (Naples, Italy), and the 2000 Tin Ujevic Award for "Versus Exsul" for the best book of poems published in Croatia in 1999. Susko is the author of 25 books of poems. His recent work includes his selected poems 1982-2002 Reading Life and Death (Zagreb: Meandar, 2003) and the anthology of modern Jewish-American short stories A Declaration of Being (Zagreb: Meandar, 2006) which he co-edited with Myron Schwartzman and translated into Croatian.