WOMB POETRY CONTRIBUTORS : EQUINOX ISSUE 2007Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a queer afro-antillean troublemaking grandchild. Alexis is a PhD Candidate in English, Women's Studies and Africana Studies at Duke University. She is also a member of UBUNTU and SpiritHouse and is the founder of BrokenBeautiful Press. Angela Veronica Wong lives and plays in Manhattan. She swing-dances and has been thinking about auditioning for an Off-Broadway play. Her Fall/Winter 2008 fashion theme is "Tokyo Prep." She's getting a live fish (betta, probably) for her office. She has opinions on things, and you can read some of her opinions at seriouslysquared.blogspot.com. Arlene Biala is a Filipina poet and performance artist, born in San Francisco, CA. She is the author of bone, her first chapbook of poetry published in 1993, and continental drift, published by West End Press (through University of New Mexico Press distribution) in 1999. She received her MFA in Poetics & Writing from New College of CA, and was the recipient of an artist residency at Montalvo. Arlene has taught and performed as guest artist in the Manikrudo poetry and performance workshops led by Juan Felipe Herrera of the CSU Summer Arts Programs in Long Beach, CA. Other performances include the San Francisco Asian American Jazz Festival, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, La Pena Cultural Center, Santa Clara University, SOMArts Center in San Francisco, and La Negrita in New York City. She has also performed and taught creative writing workshops with elementary and high school youth. She lives in Sunnyvale, CA with husband Carl, (blue) Queensland Heeler Pepper, and their three children: Kai, (aries) 6; Josh (scorpio) 4; and Kiana (scorpio, again) 2. C Mehrl Bennett has a B.A. w/major in ptg/drwg from Clarke College in Dubuque, IA, USA. Married and raised two sons with John M.Bennett (www.johnmbennett.net). Has published poetry/art through JMB's small press-Luna Bisonte Prods & other small press venues. She retired from office work in July 2005 after 26 years. Current wordart focuses on computer manipulation of scanned art, found objects, or digital photos, & adding words. Eve Rifkah is editor of the literary journal Diner and co-founder of Poetry Oasis, Inc., a non-profit poetry association dedicated to education, promoting local poets and publishing Diner. Poems have or will appear in Bellevue Literary Review, The MacGuffin, 5 AM, Parthenon West, newversenews.com, poetrymagazine.com, Chaffin Journal, Porcupine Press, The Worcester Review, California Quarterly, ReDactions, Jabberwock Review, Southern New Hampshire Literary Journal and translated into Braille. Her chapbook “At the Leprosarium” won the 2003 Revelever chapbook contest. At this time she is a professor of English at Worcester and Fitchburg, State Colleges and a workshop instructor. Jennifer Karmin is a poet, artist, and educator who has experimented with language throughout the U.S. and Japan. She curates the Red Rover Series with fiction writer Amina Cain and is a founding member of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented at a number of festivals, artist-run spaces, community centers, and on city streets. Jennifer teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the Chicago Public Schools. During 2007-08, she will be a guest writer in Kenya with the Summer Literary Seminars and in California with the Djerassi Program. Recent publications include MoonLit, Bird Dog, Milk Magazine, The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century, and Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces. Jill Alexander Essbaum's newest book Harlot is forthcoming from No Tell Books (Fall 2007). She lives in Zürich, Switzerland. She can be found on the web at http://swissmissus.livejournal.com and Juliet Cook is a poet and the editor of a new micropress--Blood Pudding Press. Her latest hand-designed chapbooks are available at BloodPuddingPress.etsy.com. Recent publication credits include 'Wicked Alice', 'Sein Und Werden', 'Kulture Vulture', 'Otoliths', and 'Death Metal Poetry.' Her first full length manuscript and two new chapbooks are sweetly slinking around seeking publicaton. Her blog is called CandyDishDoom. Kate Greenstreet made some photos in her studio the morning after mailing a chapbook manuscript to Gina Meyers for Lame House Press. The chapbook, called This is why I hurt you, will appear sometime in the future. Kathryn Douglas is a poet, memoirist, graphic designer and editor based in New Haven, CT. She holds two MFAs and is an administrator at Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Her work has been published in Calyx, The Cafe Review and in the anthology, I Am Beautiful: A Celebration of Women in Their Own Words. Her projects can be seen at http://kathryndouglas.blogspot.com/ Kelli Russell Agodon is the author of two books of poems, Small Knots (Cherry Grove, 2004) and Geography, winner of the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. She is the recipient of two Washington State Artist Trust GAP grants, the James Hearst Poetry Prize, the William Stafford Award, as well as a Puffin Foundation Grant for her work as an editor with the poetry broadside series: The Making of Peace. She is a graduate of the University of Washington and Pacific Lutheran University where she received her MFA. Her website is: www.agodon.com Kristen Orser is an MFA poetry candidate at Columbia College Chicago where she is one of the editors of the Columbia Poetry Review. Her work has most recently appeared in Redactions, After Hours, and Columbia Poetry Review. Laura Goldstein was born in Worcester, Massachusetts where she studied Hebrew and streams. In Philadelphia, she started out studying English and the city at Penn; then studied poetry and experimentation in Temple University's M.A. program. Now in Chicago, she teaches poetry and literature at Loyola University, studies sound and performance through the MFA Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, performs her work around the city, and practices yoga. Her poetry and sound work have been published in print and online in XConnect, Combo, MPRSND, Great Works UK, and the University of Albany's "The Little Magazine". Her work with the collective Clairaudient can be found on Ubuweb. Lillian Baker Kennedy, author of Tomorrow After Night (Bay River Press, 2003) and Notions (Pudding House, 2004), practices law and lives in an old cape bordered by wild roses in Auburn, Maine. Kennedy’s poetry has been included in Off the Record, (James Elkins, Editor) Legal Studies Forum, 2004, an anthology of poetry by lawyers; exhibited (Earthly Beatitudes, An Exhibit of Sculpture by Kerstin Engman and Poetry by Lillian Baker Kennedy), University of Southern Maine, Lewiston/Auburn Atrium Gallery, and included in various journals including Cider Press Review which nominated her poem, “The Red Radio Flyer Wagon” for a Pushcart. Luisa A. Igloria (previously published as Maria Luisa Aguilar-Cariño) is an Associate Professor in the MFA Creative Writing Program and Department of English, Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia ). Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals including Poetry, Crab Orchard Review, The Missouri Review, Poetry East, Smartish Pace, The Asian Pacific American Journal, and TriQuarterly. Various national and international literary awards include the 2007 49th Parallel Poetry Prize (Bellingham Review, selected by Carolyne Wright); the 2007 James Hearst Poetry Prize (selected by former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser for the North American Review); the 2006 Richard Peterson Poetry Prize ( Crab Orchard Review ); the 2006 Stephen Dunn Award for Poetry; Finalist for the 2005 George Bogin Memorial Award for Poetry (Poetry Society of America, selected by Joy Harjo); the 2004 Fugue Poetry Prize(selected by Ellen Bryant Voigt); Finalist in the 2003 Larry Levis Editors Prize for Poetry from The Missouri Review; Finalist in the 2003 Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press); a 2003 partial fellowship to the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg; two Pushcart Prize nominations; and the 1998 George Kent Award for Poetry. Originally from Baguio City in the Philippines, Luisa is also an eleven-time recipient of the Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature in three genres (poetry, nonfiction, and short fiction); the Palanca award is the Philippines' highest literary distinction. She has published nine books including ENCANTO (Anvil, 2004), IN THE GARDEN OF THE THREE ISLANDS (Moyer Bell/Asphodel, 1995), and most recently TRILL & MORDENT (WordTech Editions, fall 2005. TRILL & MORDENT was a Runner-up for the 2004 Editions Prize, the recipient of the 2005 Calatagan Award from the Philippine American Writers and Artists organizationa nominee for the 9th annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards (poetry category) in 2006, and a nominee for the 2007 Global Filipino Literary Awards (poetry category). www.luisaigloria.com Nava Fader attended SUNY at Buffalo's Poetics Program, writing her master's thesis on Adrienne Rich. She has been published in Nedge, Muse Apprentice Guild, Coconut, The Seneca Review, Shampoo, Moria, and sidereality with poems forthcoming in seconds, Bird Dog, Sawbuck, and FourSquare. Most of her poems begin with a line by somebody else. She is currently working (stealing) from Sylvia Plath. Nicki Hastie lives in Nottingham, England. She has been published in Chroma, Diva, Trouble & Strife and critical anthologies on topics relating to women’s health, coming out stories, lesbian fiction, and representations of lesbians in popular culture. She has an MA in Modern Literature from Leicester University. Nicki is a founder member of Woman-Stirred, a collective blog with three US women showcasing lesbian and bi women’s writing (http://woman-stirred.blogspot.com). A full list of publications can be found at www.nickihastie.demon.co.uk Nicole Cooley has published two books of poetry, Resurrection (winner of the 1995 Walt Whitman Award) and The Afflicted Girls and a novel Judy Garland, Ginger Love. Her writing on mothering has appeared in the anthologies Toddler, The Best of Literary Mama and Fence Books’ recent collection, Not For Mothers Only. She is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Queens College-The City University of New York where she directs the new MFA program. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two daughters, Meridian and Arcadia. Pearl Pirie is a member of Ottawa's Omnigothic Neofuturists, practices ambiblogstrous writing and has recently taken up hobbies including parallel polishing of manuscripts. Her poetics blog is at pearlformance.livejournal.com She has had work placed in Atmospherics (1994), The Gristmill, Bywords (occasionally since 1995), Best of MiPo CafeCafe, and The Times Online. She has been heard on MiPo Radio, The Countdown. Raina J. León, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006) and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective, has been published in Salt Hill Journal, Xavier Review, MiPoesias, Torch, Poetic Voices without Borders, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade, Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces, AntiMuse , Farmhouse Magazine, Furnace Review, Constellation Magazine and Tiger's Eye Journal among others with forthcoming work in Black Arts Quarterly and Poem Memoir Story. Her first collection of poetry, Canticle of Idols, was a finalist for both the Cave Canem First Book Poetry Prize (2005) and the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize (2006). It will be published in 2008. Return to Womb Summer Issue Contents |