Karl Lind is a thirty three year old filmmaker and video artist currently residing in Portland Oregon. Over the past several years his short films and videos have screened internationally in Micro-cinemas, Film Festivals and Art Galleries. His work focuses on investigating the in-between spaces between fact and fiction, emotions, memory and "reality" Karl has also collaborated with other artists on multi-media performance art pieces and installations. Karl also likes to make music videos and documentaries.
Matt Love is the author of the Beaver State Trilogy: Grasping Wastrels vs. Beaches Forever Inc.: Covering the Fights for the Soul of the Oregon Coast (2003), The Far Out Story of Vortex I (2004) and Red Hot and Rollin™: A Retrospection of the Portland Trail Blazers™ 1976-77 Championship Season. He is a regular editorial and book review contributor to Oregonian, a columnist for In Good Tilth and Bear Deluxe magazines, and teaches English and history in the Lincoln County School District. He lives at the Oregon Coast where for eight years he has served as caretaker of the Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
Evelina Zuni Lucero, Isleta/Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, is the chair of the creative
writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New
Mexico. She is the author of the novel Night Sky, Morning Star (University of
Arizona Press).
Emily Lundin is researching on a Creative Writing Fulbright Fellowship while finishing a novel set in Mississippi, where she grew up. Her work is forthcoming in CUE: a Journal of Prose Poetry, Bordercrossing Berlin, and Cutthroat: a Journal of the Arts. She teaches creative writing at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and lives in Berlin.
Tupper Malone is a sculptor who recently branched into water media.
Hannah Martin joined the military after a first aborted attempt at college; she spent her early adult years traveling the world, first as a Marine and then as a sailor. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Hannah is currently finishing up a master's degree in Theater Arts with a focus in playwrighting. Her short fiction has been published in periodicals such as Down in the Dirt, Oysters and Chocolate and New Moon.
Scott McCarthy is a graduate of Slippery Rock University's writing program. He lives in Pittsburgh where he teaches and share living quarters with his cat, Armando. His stories and essays have been published in Farmhouse Magazine, The Square Table and Cherry Bleeds.
W.S.Merwin is the author of numerous books of poetry and translations and
winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry, the Tanning Prize, and the Bollinger Award. He
lives in Hawaii. Poems in this issue are from Migration: New and Selected
Poems (Copper Canyon Press,2005).
Tom Meschery is a ten year former NBA power forward, who played for the
Philadelphia and San Francisco Warriors, and the Seattle Supersonics. He has been a head
coach for the Carolina Cougars of the ABA and an assistant coach for the
Portland Trailblazers under Lenny Wilkens. Meschery is a graduate of the University
of Iowa Workshop and a retired high school AP English teacher in Reno, Nevada. He
is the author of the poetry collections Over the Rim and Nothing We Lose Can Be
Replaced. Muscle Memory is memoir in progress.
Stephen Meyer graduated from Indiana University with a Master's degree in vocal performance, and a PhD in Music History from SUNY Stony Brook. Since 1998, he has been a member of the Department of Fine Arts at Syracuse University, where he is the director of the Music History and Cultures Program. His research specialty is early nineteenth-century opera, and he has published articles on Beethoven, Mozart, Marschner, and others in numerous scholarly journals, including the Journal of the American Musicological Society and the Cambridge Opera Journal. His book Carl Maria von Weber and the Search for a German Opera was published in 2003 by Indiana University Press. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Fulbright scholarship and an NEH Summer Stipend, In addition to his scholarly work, Professor Meyer has also been active as a performer. He appears as the bass singer in Dorian Recordings 2004 release "The Triumph of Love and Death" with Piffaro and the Concord Ensemble. He is currently working on a project concerning early sound recordings of Wagnerian works.
Tiffany Midge is the author of Outlaws, Renegades and Saints (Greenfield Review Press, 1996) and recipient of the Diane Decorah Memorial Poetry Award from Native Writers' Circle of the Americas. Previous publication credits include, Shenandoah, Poetry Northwest, North American Review and Cold Mountain Review. Currently, Midge is an MFA candidate at University of Idaho and am an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux.
E. Ethelbert Miller is the author of seven collections of poetry. His latest is
How We Sleep On the Nights, We Don't Make Love (Curbstone Press, 2004). He edited
two anthologies and wrote the memoir, Father Words. Mr.Miller is the chair of
the Humanities Council of Washington D.C. and the Director of the African American
Resource Center at Howard University.
John C. Morrison works for Literary Arts in Portland. His poems have
appeared recently in Poet Lore, Sycamore Review, and Tar River Poetry.
His first book, Heaven of the Moment, won the Rhea & Seymour Gorsline
Poetry Competition and will be published this year.
Thylias Moss is a "poet, writer, and playwright, who has published a number of poetry collections, children’s books, and plays. Among her awards are a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Artist's Fellowship from the Massachusetts Arts Council, and the Witter Bynner Award for poetry." (Wikipedia)
Duane Niatum has published six books of poems, including The Crooked Beak of Love (West End Press). He was twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Michigan.
Lars Nordström was born in 1954 in Stockholm, Sweden where he lived until 1974. He was educated at the University of Stockholm, Portland State University, and Uppsala University, where he received his Ph.D. in American literature in 1989. He is the recipient of several Fulbright grants and Swedish Institute grants, as well as a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Fellowship. In 1988 he settled with his wife and two sons on a small vineyard in Beavercreek, Oregon, where he farms wine grapes, writes and translates. Lars Nordström has published poetry, prose, interviews, translations, and scholarly material in many magazines in a number of different countries.
His most recent publication is a book of oral histories of recent Swedish immigrants to the Pacific Northwest entitled: De nya utvandrarna: Tio svenskar i nordvästra USA berättar (2005).
DG Nanouk Okpik is Inupiat from Alaska. She graduated with honors from Salish Kootenai College on the Flathead Reservation in Northwest Montana with an Associates in Liberal Studies and received her BFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. While at IAIA, she received--among other awards--the Truman Capote Scholarship and a fellowship to the Centrum / Port Townsend Writer's Conference.
Lisa Olstein is the recipient of a pushcart prize and a fellowship from the
Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is a co-founder of the Juniper Initiative for
Literary Arts and Action. Poems in this issue are from Radio Cracklin, Radio
Gone (Copper Canyon Press,2006).
Mary Anne O'Neil has taught French language and literature at Whitman
College for thirty years. She holds a doctorate in Romance Languages
from the University of Oregon (1979). She is especially interested in
modern French poetry and is currently completing a book on the poetry
of Pierre Emmanuel.
Deleana Otherbull is a student of psychology at the University of Arizona where she is biding her time until she graduates in December 2007. She is of the Crow and Northern Cheyenne tribes of Montana. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2006. Among other awards, she was a Truman Capote Scholar for the years 2005-2006. Eventually, she hopes to pursue a career in clinical psychology, with the intention of writing self-help books for creative writing students.
Cesare Pavese (1908-1950)-poet, novelist, diarist essayist, translator and critic
of American literature. He was among the leading Italian writers of the twentieth
century. He received the Premio Strega, Italy's most prestigious literary prize.
Poems in this issue are from Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950, translated
by Geoffrey Brock (Copper Canyon Press,2002).
Peter Pereira is a family physician at High Point Community Clinic in West
Seattle. He is the author of three books of poetry and the winner of a Hayden Carruth
Award.
Ilan Postupetski has participated in music festivals
in Israel, Lithuania, The Czech Republic, Finland and the United
States. He has collaborated with Asaf Sagiv to produce a recording of
ten original compositions. He studied Film Scoring at Berklee College
of Music and performed and recorded in the New England region. He has
now returned to the Israeli music scene where he is a pianist,
producer, composer and arranger. You can find his music at:
www.ilansmusic.com.
Bill Ransom's work as a firefighter/EMT in Central America in the 1980s led to his poetry CD, War Baby. The author of numerous poetry collections and novels, he teaches at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Recent fiction, "Scraps," appears in Carve magazine.
Cathy Tagnak Rexford, Inupiaq/French/English, is of Kaktovik, Alaska. She has a B.A. in Native American Studies from the Evergreen State College, a B.F.A. in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Cathy also works with Native Movement, a non-profit dedicated to sustainability and youth leadership. She is currently writing a children's novel and now lives in Alaska.
Phoebe C. Rusch attended Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen Michigan, and is interested in the connection
between art and human rights advocacy, history, theater, film, any form of
communication, cultural dissonance, people. She is a Presidential Scholar and has been accepted at Princeton. After college she'd like to continue writing poetry and plays and
perhaps be a foreign correspondent.
Vern Rutsala is the author of twelve collections of poetry, including The Window, Laments, The Journey Begins, and Little-Known Sports. Among the awards for his work are a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA grants, the Juniper Prize, an Oregon Book Award, two Carolyn Kizer Poetry Prizes, the Duncan Lawrie Prize, a Pushcart Prize, the Akron Poetry Prize, the Northwest Poetry Prize, and a Masters Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission.
Asaf Sagiv is currently a student at the Berklee College of Music, has
composed music for the Harvard-Radcliffe Dance Company and, in
collaboration with Ilan Postupetski, for the Boston Playwrights'
Theatre. His music, including compositions and productions as well as
his guitar performances, has also received recognition in his native
Israel. Asaf will be moving to LA shortly upon graduation from Berklee
to work as a film/media composer. You can find his recordings at
www.myspace.com/knowtheasylum, www.myspace.com/asafsagiv and
www.asafsagiv.com.
Guilherme Schroeter is a composer of Neoclassical music, Jazz, and Pop. He was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1960 to a family of musicians. He received his Music Degree in 1988. He has been a concert pianist as well as a composer. Schroeter has written over 200 works.
Kim Shuck is a mixed Tsalagi, Sauk/Fox and Polish educator, writer and weaver. Shuck has had myriad jobs, which include writing math curricula, frothing cappuccino, teaching at the university level and being the mom of three kids who are even now entering teen hood. She has attended way too much school, one product of which is an MFA. In late summer of 2005 she made a trip with poets to Jordan in the interest of peace and communication. Her book Smuggling Cherokee from Greenfield Review Press, won the 2005 first book award from the Native Writer's Circle of the Americas.
Jim Shugrue works as a bookseller in Portland, Oregon. His poems and reviews have appeared in International Quarterly, Fine Madness, Poetry East and elsewhere. His chapbook Small Things Screaming (26 Books) was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. He is a founding editor of Hubbub Magazine.
Ryan Smithson served in Operation Iraqi Freedom from November 2004 to December 2005. He is currently a Criminal Justice major at Hudson Valley Community College. He is twenty-one years old and is writing a collection of essays about his experiences in Iraq.
Garrett Socol's first play, "The Shadow of Greatness," premiered at the Berkshire Theatre Festival 2000 in a production that starred Richard Chamberlain. His second play, "Bicoastal Woman," enjoyed a successful run at the Pasadena Playhouse in 2003. Garrett (sometimes credited as Gary) has written numerous non-fiction pieces for print magazines including Cosmopolitan, McCall's and Movieline. His short fiction has been published in Ghoti Magazine, Monkeybicycle, and McSweeney's.
Joseph A. Soldati is a poet, translator and essayist. His poetry has appeared in the anthology Line Drive: 100 Baseball Poems. He is the author of a collection of poems, Making My Name.
Lisa M. Steinman teaches at Reed College and is the author of five books of poetry and three books about poetry. She is working on a new book about American poetry with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Arthur Sze is the author of eight books of poetry, including Quipu, The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998, and The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese, all from Copper Canyon Press. "The Double Helix?" first appeared in Conjunctions, while the translations are from The Silk Dragon.
Greg Thielen lives in Tempe, Arizona with his wife and three daughters. He serves on the advisory board for the Virginia Piper School of Creative Writing at Arizona State University. He has also published interviews with Allen Ginsberg, Norman Dubie, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Alberto Rios in various literary journals. His chapbook, Vacancies, was the winner of the 1996 Sarasota Poetry Theatre's annual chapbook contest.
Susan J. Tweit is the author of ten books that explore the relationship between humans and other species and the landscapes we share. She's written for markets as diverse as Audubon Magazine, Popular Mechanics, Los Angeles Times, and the Martha Stewart Living Radio Network.
Phyllis Unkefer is from East Lansing, Michigan. She graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy as a creative writing major in May 2006. She is currently taking a year off from her studies and living in Hong Kong, where she writes, sings, drums, goes to church, hikes, and travels to different countries in Southeast Asia. She plans to attend a university in the States next fall.
Phillip Van recently completed MFA studies in NYU’s graduate film program, Tisch School of the Arts, which he attended on a full Dean's Fellowship. He now works as a director and cinematographer in New York.
Aaron Walker received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also studied screenwriting at Portland State University. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
Luke Warm Water has been featured at poetry venues throughout the U.S. and in Europe, and won Poetry Slam competitions from Oregon to Germany. Recent literary publication credits include: Drumvoices Revue and Red Ink, and his book On Indian Time (2005) and forthcoming book Iktomi's Uprising (2007). Luke currently resides in northern California.
Ming Wei works in traditional Chinese watercolor styles.
Joel Weishaus is the Resident Writer at Museu do Essencial e do Além Disso, Bibliothecadas das Marauilhas, Rio de Jenerio, Brazil, and a visiting professor at Portland State University. His most recent book is The Healing Spirit of Haiku (coauthored with David H. Rosen). He has widely exhibited Digital Literary
Art, in July, 2005, at the 2nd International Academic Conference of Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies, Texas A&M University. He is a member of the International Association for Jungian Studies and the Oregon Friends of C.G. Jung.
James Welch (Blackfeet/Gros Ventre) was primarily a novelist, whose books include Fools Crow, Winter in the Blood, The Death of Jim Loney, The Indian Lawyer and others. His poetry has been collected under the title Riding the Earthboy 40.
Sari Weston’s essay “Cast Again” was a finalist in the 2004 Northwest Perspectives contest of the Oregon Quarterly. While living in Portland , she co-founded a local writing group, the Carbon River Writers, which hosted public readings for over two years. Recently transplanted to North Carolina , she is currently at work on a novel about the intersection of Yankees, bugs, traffic and old-timers in the New South -- and raising a son, Jack, aged two.
Orlando White is Diné (Navajo) from Sweetwater, Arizona. His clans are of the Zuni Water Edge People and born for the Mexican Clan. He holds a B.F.A. degree in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Red Ink Magazine, To Topos, 26 Magazine, and Ur Vox. He is currently in the literary arts program at Brown University.
Leslie Wilson is Co-Principal of a media/film production company, AMI, and Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief of Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture, which publishes both creative and scholarly texts. At Pepperdine University, she has directed the undergraduate program in creative writing, the MFA in screenwriting, WordFest, and the Fall Literary Arts Festival. Her most recent film script, Mississippi Son, was shot on location on the Mississippi Gulf Coast last summer and is currently on the film festival circuit. Her most recent script for stage, Faking It, premiered at the 2006 Fall Literary Arts Festival in Pepperdine's Raitt Recital Hall.
Elizabeth Woody (Navajo/Warm Springs/Wasco/Yakama) has received the 1990 American Book Award, Hedgebrook's J.T. Stewart award (for those who write transformational work), and the discretional William Stafford Memorial Award for Poetry from the Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Association in 1995. Please see www.hanksville.org/storytellers/ewoody for a complete CV and list of publications.