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Marcia Arrieta has been published in numerous journals including so to speak, tinfish, abraxas, osiris, 88, oracle, cold mountain review, poetry salzburg review, Mipoesias, & blue print review. She edits & publishes indefinite space, a poetry journal www.indefinitespace.net.
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Priscilla Atkins Priscilla Atkins' poems appear in Poetry London, EPOCH, Southern Humanities Review, the Bellingham Review, and other journals.
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Jennifer Bartlett Jennifer Bartlett was awarded a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship. Her first collection of poetry, Derivative of the Moving Image, is forthcoming in Fall 2007 from the University of New Mexico Press. She lives in Brooklyn with the writer Jim Stewart and their son, Jeffrey.
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Ann Bogle's short stories have appeared in journals including The Quarterly, Fiction International, Gulf Coast, Washington Review, Big Bridge, Submodern Fiction, and others. Her prose poem chapbook, XAM: Paragraph Series, was published by Xexoxial Editions in 2005.
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Kristy Bowen s the author of the fever almanac, (Ghost`Road Press) as well as a number of handmade and limited edition chapbooks, including the forthcoming feign (New Michigan Press, 2007). Her second book-length project, in the bird museum, is due out from Dusie Press Books late next year. She is the editor of wicked alice, an online poetry journal, and runs of dancing girl press, which publishes chapbooks by women authors.
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Christine Bruness has been the recipient of thirty nine writing awards, including the Rose/Rosemary Zienteck 2000 Literary Award for her first published book, Imbalance, An Experimental Collection of Micro Stories and Poetry, the New Jersey Writer of the Year Award (2000), four Readers’ Choice Awards for her work in Haiku Headlines, and winner of both the 1998 Garden State Writers’ Challenge for Poetry and the 1998 Tri-State Short, Short Story Contest. She has had over three hundred poems, articles, pieces, letters, and guest editorials published and/or scheduled to be published in many print and on-line publications, including Haiku Headlines (was the “Featured Poet” in November 2002), Rolling Stone, Free Focus, Frogpond, Dreams of Decadence, Timepieces, Transcendent Visions, Flutter, Haiku Haven, Skyline, Lilith, The Cynic Online Magazine: Café Del Soul, Poetry Sharings Journal (was the “Featured Poet” in April 2001), the Observer, the Commercial Leader, the Casino Anthology, Useless Knowledge, Bolts of Silk, Bewildering Stories, Poets Haven, Voices, etc.
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Marie Buck is from South Carolina and currently MFAs at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. You can find more work online at Glitter Pony, Weird Deer, and Shampoo.
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Michelle Caplan "After obtaining my BFA in Graphic Design at the School of Visual Arts, I worked in the Art Department at some of the top publishing houses in New York City designing a vast and varied number of book covers.
At a young age, I developed a passion for the art of collage. Today my work is a reflection of that passion, melded with the graphic arts skills I honed during my tenure in publishing. My education and work experience as a graphic designer have come together on the canvas in the form of Collage Portraiture."
www.michellecaplan.com
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Jenna Cardinale is the author of Journals (Whole Coconut, 2006). Her poems appear in recent or forthcoming issues of Blue Mesa Review, Court Green, Cannibal and McSweeney's, among others. She lives in New York City, where she teaches poetry writing at Lehman College.
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MELISSA ELEFTHERION CARR grew up in Brooklyn. Her poetry has appeared in The Paterson Literary Review, Big Scream, Defenestration, Inch, UR VOX, and other publications. She frequently posts rants and poems at melissatherion.blogspot.com. She lives in Oakland, where she is contemporaneously completing her MFA in Creative Writing at Mills College, and awaiting the birth of her first child, with her husband.
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Julie Choffel lives in California. She has degrees from UMass-Amherst and Texas State-San Marcos in poetry and geography. She has mad skills with plants. She has poems in American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, and Bird Dog.
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Alison Cimino was educated at Texas State University and Trinity College. Her poems have appeared in Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Borderlands Texas Poetry Review, and The Cambridge Codex Project. Alison currently works as an English teacher and as an adjunct poetry instructor for Lesley University's Creative Arts in Learning Program. She lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.
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J. Elizabeth Clark "I live and write in New York City. My poems have appeared in journals such as The Paterson Literary Review, The Santa Clara Review, New Writer, Edgz, and A & U: America's Literary Magazine. My bookshelves are overflowing with the works of poets like Carolyn Forché, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Adrienne Rich, and other poets who believe that writing is a form of political activism. For that reason, I am particularly excited to be included in this inaugural edition of WOMB, dedicated to a feminist poetic presence on the web."
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Juliet Cook adores poetry. Recent poetic projects include ‘The Laura Poems’, a series of ten titillating poems about Laura Palmer of ‘Twin Peaks’ fame, hand-designed into limited edition, ribbon-bound chapbooks and available for purchase via BloodPuddingPress.etsy.com. Recent publication credits include ‘Wicked Alice’, ‘Venereal Kittens’, ‘POTION’, ‘Sein Und Werden’ and ‘MiPORadio’. Cook’s personal blog, CandyDishDoom is at www.xanga.com/CandyDishDoom and she also contributes to the group literary/art blog, taking the brim__ took the broom. Her full-length poetry manuscript ‘Horrific Confection’ is currently seeking publication, as is her new chapbook ‘Heart Urchin’.
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Julia Drescher lives in Austin, Texas and teaches composition at Texas State University. She is also an editor for the online journal "Little Red Leaves," which debuts May 2007.
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Meagan Evans lives in Martindale, TX. She is a student of poetry and teacher of composition at Texas State University. She has some work in other places if you look for it.
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kari edwards is author of obedience, Factory School (2005); iduna, O Books (2003), a day in the life of p. , subpress collective (2002), a diary of lies - Belladonna #27 by Belladonna Books (2002), and post/(pink) Scarlet Press (2000). edwards' work can also be found in Scribner's The Best American Poetry (2004), Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action, Coffee House Press, (2004), Biting the Error: writers explore narrative, Coach House, Toronto, (2004),and Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others, Hawoth Press, Inc. (2004).
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Ebony Noelle Golden, MFA, is a poet, performer, and educator currently teaching African American Literature, Composition and Creative Writing at North Carolina Central University and Louisburg College as a Visiting Instructor. She has self-published a chap book of poems titled the sweet smell of juju funk and is currently editing mama's hieroglyphics to be released in 2007. In the near future, Ebony plans to undergo doctoral studies in Performance and stage her multimedia choreopoem, What Aunt Sarah Says to Siffronia When Sweet Thing is Moon-Watching and Peaches is Dancing to the Wind. Ebony can be contacted via email at goldendharma@yahoo.com or www.goldendharma.blogspot.com.
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Michalle Gould lives in Austin, Texas, and teaches writing at St. Edwards University. She blogs at haikubotany.blogspot.com.
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K. Lorraine Graham moved to Southern California in January 2006 from Washington, DC where she taught at the Corcoran College of Art + Design and alternately co-curated the In Your Ear and Ruthless Grip reading series. She is the author of two chapbooks: Dear [Blank] I
Believe in Other Worlds (Phylum) and Terminal Humming (Slack Buddha). Moving Walkways, a full-length chapdisk, is forthcoming from Narrowhouse Recordings. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Foursquare, My Spaceship, Magazine Cypress, H u n d r e d s, MiPoesias
Magazine, No Tell Motel, Rock Heals, Submodern Fiction, Dusie, Mirage#4/Periodical, Primary Writing, HOW2, and elsewhere. Lorraine edits Anomaly, an occasional press that published Lyrical Eddies: poems after the music of marilyn crispell, by Jefferson Hansen. With
Mark Wallace, she co-edits Submodern Fiction.
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Anne Heide edits CAB/NET out of Denver. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Glitterpony, Cranky, H_NGM_N, and Ur Vox, among others. She is currently working towards a doctorate in English and Creative Writing and the University of Denver.
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Amy King Amy King is the author of ANTIDOTES FOR AN ALIBI (Blazevox Books) and I'M THE MAN WHO LOVES YOU, forthcoming 2007. She currently teaches Creative Writing and English at Nassau Community College and is the managing editor for the literary arts journal, MiPOesias(www.mipoesias.com). Please visit www.amyking.org for more.
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Sarah Mangold is the author of Household Mechanics (New Issues, 2002), selected by C.D. Wright for the New Issues Poetry Prize and the chapbooks Picture of the Basket (Dusie, 2006), Boxer Rebellion (g o n g, 2004), and Blood Substitutes (Potes & Poets Press, 1998). She lives in Seattle where she publishes Bird Dog, a journal of innovative writing and art (www.birddogmagazine.com). Recent work appears/forthcoming, Chicago Review, Mirage/Period[ical], Coconut, la petite zine, Verse, and the Denver Quarterly
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Holaday Mason's manuscript "Towards the Forest" will be published in the fall of 07 by New Rivers Press & her second book, "Dissolve" was a finalist for the 2005 Autumn House Press prize and a semi finalist for both The Backwater Press & The Tupelo Press awards. Pushcart nominee, she is the author of two chapbooks “ Light Spilling From Its Own Cup” (Inevitable Press,1999) and “Interlude” (Far Star Fire Press, 2001). Publications include, Poetry International, American Literary Review, Pool, Smartish Pace, Runes, Solo, The Greensboro Review, Portland Review, The River Styx, Art Life, and The Spoon River Review. She lives in Venice California & sometimes serves as artist in residence for Beyond Baroque for whom she co-edited the anthology Echo 681.
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Karen McBurney lives and writes and rides horses in a small town just north of Austin, Texas. She has an MFA from Texas State and she has an MSIS from the University of Texas (which means she's a librarian).
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A Seattle native, Susan Meyers has lived and taught in Minneapolis, Tucson, Chile, and Costa Rica. She has an MFA from the University of Minnesota and is currently studying for a doctorate at the University of Arizona. This summer, she spent a few blissful weeks at the Hedgebrook Retreat for Women Writers. Her work has recently appeared in Calyx and Terra Incognita.
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Kathryn Miller "I was born and raised on the coast of Brazil. Over the years I saw too many natural and beautiful places paved over, covered with buildings or filled with trash. I always wondered what I could do about that inevitable sequence of events. I completed my undergraduate and graduate studies in the United States receiving a B.S. and M.A. in Biology, and later a M.F.A. in Sculpture.
With a background in biology, botany, ecology, sculpture and photography, my work is based on an interest in the natural environment and an obsession with observing life supporting systems. In recent projects I have used various methods to intervene with degraded and compromised areas of the landscape to restore local wildlife and more self-sustaining plant communities. Crossing the boundaries of art, my projects often involve collaborations with people from other disciplines. My work ranges from small non-sanctioned acts like seed bombs, to funded projects that focus on local environmental issues.
I am currently a Professor of Art at Pitzer College of the Claremont Colleges in the Los Angeles area and volunteer with the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network working with injured, starving and oil soaked sea birds."
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Michele Miller was born on a Christmas eve in Michigan, and has moved close to thirty-five times since then. She has degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where she was co-editor of the undergraduate creative writing magazine, NOTA (None of the Above), and from the University of Arizona at Tucson, where she received her MFA in poetry. Among other prizes, Michele has been awarded an Arizona Commission on the Arts Fellowship, and her first (yet to be published) manuscript, The Pop-up Book of Sticks & Stones, was a finalist in the National Poetry Series Open Competition and a runner-up for the 2007 First Book Award from Kore Press. She currently lives with her husband and two unruly rescued hounds in Austin, Texas, and works in marketing, events, and publication design for the Southwestern Writers Collection and Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern & Mexican Photography at Texas State University-San Marcos.
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Susan Morrison-Kilfoyle, a professor of English literature at Texas State University – San Marcos, is the author of numerous articles on medieval literature and a book, Women Pilgrims in Late Medieval England: Private Piety as Public Performance (London: Routledge, 2000). She has also published poetry in Mothering Magazine and in the Travel section of the New York Times. The poems here, entitled Beowulf’s Women, are from a book in progress set in the Anglo-Saxon period shifting to the 20th century. This prose book periodically switches to lyrical moments such as in these poems.
Susan has taught and lived in Japan and Germany, both (the former) East and West. She teaches comparative medieval literature and has taught creative writing in Germany. She recently spent a year on London on sabbatical which inspired a memoir, Driving on the Left: An American Family’s Year in London (currently under consideration). She is working on an interdisciplinary book on excrement in the Middle Ages. She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, daughter and son.
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Toti O'Brien is an artist and art teacher. Borne in Italy, she lives and works in Pasadena, California. She's part of the Emerging Urban Poets, she writes for a few Italian underground magazines. She's published a book of short stories, one of essays, and two children books. View Moments.
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Danielle Pafunda is author of Pretty Young Thing (Soft Skull 2005). Her second manuscript My Zorba is right behind you. Other poems and reviews appear in such publications as Best American Poetry 2006 and 2004, Conjunctions, Georgia Review, and TriQuarterly. She is co-editor of the online journal La Petite Zine, and pursuing her PhD in the University of Georgia's Creative Writing Program. She lives either in Athens GA, Shelburne NH, or Valdivia Chile with partner-in-crime and babe.
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Anne Elezabeth Pluto is Professor of Literature and Theatre at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. She was a member of the Boston small press scene in the late 1980s and startedCommonthought Magazine at Lesley 18 years ago. She has been a participant at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 2005 and is returning again in 2006. Her most recent publications are in 88 A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Facets – Winter 2006, and Quadrangle. Her poem, “Lantern Festival” was showcased for the Poetry and Prose Program in Boston City Hall during the winter and spring 2006.
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Barbara Jane Reyes is the author of Gravities of Center (Arkipelago, 2003), and Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish, 2005), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Mills College, and she lives with her husband, poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland, CA. Her author website is http://barbarajanereyes.com.
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J.B. Rowell lives in Durham, North Carolina, where she writes poetry and teaches. Her poems have appeared and are forthcoming in asinine poetry, remark, Verse Libre Quarterly, Birmingham Arts Journal, MotherVerse, and the North Carolina Poet Laureate web site. Her womb is currently occupied by baby #3.
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Jessica Schneider is a fiction writer and poet and the co-founder of www. Cosmoetica.com, as well as the only contributor to her only blog http://jaschneider.blogspot.com/. She has written several novels as well as short story collections and plays. Some places her work has appeared is Avatar Review, Eclectica, storySouth, Manifest, Unlikely 2.0, Ken Again, Stick Your Neck Out, Sidereality, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Hackwriters, among others, and her short story "Sandwiches From Home" was nominated for the Million Writer's Award, as well as having her poem "Another Woman" picked for poem of the day for 5/26/06 by Frank Wilson, the Philadelphia Inquirer' s Book Editor. She can be contacted through Cosmoetica's website.
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Ashley Smith is a poet in the MFA program in San Marcos, Texas where she also works in organic propagation and landscaping. She can be reached at ashley@txstate.edu.
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Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett is the author of a book of poetry, Roam, published in 2006 as part of the Crab Orchard Award Series. Her poems have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, RATTLE, and Hayden’s Ferry Review. Among her honors are the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize and the Robert Frost Poetry Award as well as fellowships from the Millay Colony and the Mellon Foundation. She teaches at the Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University. www.susansw.com
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Annette Sugden is an artist, poet and writer living in Los Angeles, CA. Her work has appeared in Beyond Baroque Magazine, poeticdiversity (http://www.poeticdiversity.org), and the now defunct Barefoot Magazine. She is a contributing editor at poeticdiversity. She also works as a therapist to children on the autism spectrum.
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Eileen Tabios has released 15 poetry collections, an art essay collection, a poetry essay/interview anthology, and a short story book. Recipient of the Philippines' National Book Award for Poetry, she recently released Dredging for Atlantis (Otoliths, 2006, http://dredgingforatlantis.blogspot.com). In 2007, she releases two multi-genre collections: SILENCES: The Autobiography of Loss (Blue Lion, 2007) and THE LIGHT SANG AS IT LEFT YOUR EYES (Marsh Hawk Press). She performs the poetics blog, "The Blind Chatelaine's Poker Poetics" (http://angelicpoker.blogspot.com) and edits the journal GALATEA RESURRECTS (http://galatearesurrects.blogspot.com) while steering Meritage Press (www.meritagepress.com).
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Sunnylyn Thibodeaux is from New Orleans and has been in San Francisco for six years. Her poems have recently been published in BigBridge #11, Blue Book #8, New College Review, Noi, and Night Palace. Her recent books include Curves & Curses (Auguste Press, 2000), Last We Spoke (Auguste Press, 2004), 20/20 Yielding (Blue Press, 2005), and Hidden Driveways Ahead (forthcoming).
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Elizabeth Treadwell's Birds & Fancies (Shearsman) will be published in March 2007 and Wardolly (Chax) later in 2007. Her work is also forthcoming in the anthologies Not For Mothers Only: Contemporary Poets on Child-Getting and Child-Raising (Fence) and Efforts & Affections: America's New Women Poets & the Generation That Inspires Them (Iowa). More info: elizabethtreadwell.com.
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Susan Settlemyre Williams holds an MFA degree in creative writing from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Mississippi Review, River City, Shenandoah, storySouth, The Cream City Review, Pinstripe Fedora, and Tattoo Highway, among other journals. She was co-winner of the 2006 Diner Poetry Contest. Her book-length manuscript Ashes in Midair was the runner-up for the 2005 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and her chapbook Possession is forthcoming. She also publishes reviews regularly in the online journal Blackbird, of which she is book review editor and associate literary editor.
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