Contributors to our current issue are:
Yasmin Adib is a Palestinian-American poet.
Naveed Alam: See EWU Press
Salwa Arnous was born in Jaffa Palestine and began painting during the Oslo Peace Accords . She grew up in Cairo Egypt and has lived in Kuwait. She has lived in the United States for 27 years and now resides in San Antonio Texas where she works in the city’s public library (from http://411productions.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_archive.html).
Jimmy Santiago Baca, of Chicano and Apache descent, lives in New Mexico.
He has written seven collections of poetry, a collection of short
stories, and a memoir. He is an International Poetry Slam Champion, winner of
an American Book Award, an International Hispanic Heritage Award and a
Pushcart Prize.
Joseph Balaz is the author of Domino Buzz, a CD of music-poetry (www.joebalaz.com). He is also coauthor of JOMA-online, an online gallery of concrete poetry and photography with photo-artist Mary Ellen Derwis (www.jomaonline.com). His recent work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Icon, AdmitTwo, Eleventh Transmission, Right Hand Pointing, The Cerebral Catalyst, Clockwise Cat, Zygote in my Coffee, Neon Literary Magazine, Otoliths, Subtle Tea and The Pittsburgh Quarterly.
Robert Bly: See EWU Press.
David Bryant is a Portland filmmaker.
Edmund J. Campion has been a professor of French since 1977 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He earned his Ph.D. in French from Yale in 1976. His research interests, teaching, and publications have dealt with Erasmus, French writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and Senghor's poetry. He is currently writing a book on Senghor as a Catholic poet for the Edwin Mellen Press.
J. F. Connolly lives and teaches at Milton Academy. The National Foundation for the Advancement of Arts 2001 Distinguished Teacher, he has co-authored two textbooks, Poeima and Touching All Bases, and two chapbooks, Among the Living and Last Summer.
Brad Crooks is the leader of the blues band Smokin' Mojo, based in Moscow, Idaho.
John C. Davies is a professor of English at Nottingham University, England.
Marjolijn De Jager is a literary translator with a special interest in Francophone African literature, both Sub-Saharan and from the Maghreb. She translates from her native Dutch and from French, and has won several awards for translations of both poetry and fiction. She teaches in the translation studies program at New York University. (from http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/335/prmID/373)
Hilary delaBruere is a Journalism student with a minor in English and a concentration in Fine Arts at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, NH.
Steve Einhorn and Kate Power are musicians, writers, artists, community builders, Guinness World Record setters and songwriters.
Sandra Ellston teaches at Eastern Oregon University.
Andi Enns is a teenager. She is a member of the Young Playwright’s Roundtable of Kansas City at The Coterie Theatre. She has been professionally produced and her short plays have been integrated into several drama class curriculums in the Kansas City area. Her plays are available for amateur and professional production. Contact her at andi.enns@yahoo.com.
Lauren Ferretti
Tim Foster
Cassandra Flook majors in Graphic Design at Portland State University.
Mary Flower, acoustic blues guitarist, has been nominated for a 2008 Handy award, in the "Best Acoustic Artist" category.
Ellen Hamill is an
award-winning photographer of the Pacific Northwest, focusing on the
Willamette Valley and the Oregon Coast, with an occasion mountain scene,
especially in the autumn when the colors turn vibrantly warm. Old buildings
frequently appear in her photos, preserving the history of the area.
Nathalie Handal is a poet, writer, playwright, director, and producer. She has lived in Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Arab world. (from http://www.nathaliehandal.com/biography.html)
Sam Hamill has published over a dozen books of poetry. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Mellon Fund, the U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission, two Washington Governor’s Arts Awards, the Stanley Lindberg Lifetime Achievement Award for Editing, and the Washington Poets Association Lifetime Achievement Award for poetry. He is Founding Editor of Copper Canyon Press and was Editor there from 1972 through 2004.
Perry Higman: See EWU Press.
Emma Howell : See EWU Press.
M. E. Hope
William Kittredge became a major cultural voice with his 1987 collection of essays Owning It All, which mapped the emotional terrain of the modern West. His memoir, Hole In The Sky, was marked by questionings, qualifications, wonderings. His task was introspection, the examined life, a cutting away of rationalizations, self-dissection. He explained from the outset that his was a memoir of failure. The book describes his childhood and youth farming in the Warner Valley of southeastern Oregon, up to the point when he is thrust out of that isolated insular Eden. (from http://www.writersontheedge.org/kittredge.html)
Andrew Klaus is a filmmaker.
Terence Kuch has published work in Commonweal, Dissent, Dust, Grecourt Review, Journal of Irreproducible Results, Mademoiselle, New York magazine,
North American Review and elsewhere. He has had a play produced at Arena Stage in Washington D.C.
Casey Kwang was nominated for the Oregon Book Award in 1999. Kwang rceived his Bachelor of Arts in English with an emphasis in Writing from Southern Oregon University. He lives and works in Ashland, Oregon as a screenwriter and copywriter.
Dorianne Laux is the author of three collections of poetry from BOA Editions, Awake (1990), introduced by Philip Levine, What We Carry (1994), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Smoke (2000). She is also co-author, with Kim Addonizio, of The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (W.W. Norton,1997). Her fourth book of poems, Facts About the Moon, was published by W.W. Norton in fall of 2005. (from http://www.blueflowerarts.com/dlaux.html)
Lois Leveen lives, writes, and makes art in Portland, Oregon. Her writing has appeared in African American Review, MELUS, Transformations, and other journals and collections. She has taught English at UCLA and Reed College, and is currently writing the world's first memoir about a Jew from New York visiting Mary's Harbour, a town of 400 in Labrador. She has not been ice skating since the Carter administration.
Herb Lowrey
Lisa Suhair Majaj is a Palestinian-American writer. Her poetry, creative prose, and academic articles have been published in a wide range of journals and anthologies. She has also published three collections of critical essays on Arab and third world women. (from http://www.geocities.com/musesreview/poemreview_lisamajajjune2005.html)
Jessica Miele is a poet and fiction writer living in Phoenix, Arizona.
She was educated at Hiram College and Simmons College, and will enter
the University of Massachusetts at Amherst MFA program in the fall of
2008. She is a librarian of the Maricopa County Library District and is
at work on a novel.
Joseph Millar has published two books of poetry. His work has appeared in many magazines and journals, including The Alaska Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Poetry International, and Prairie Schooner. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Montalvo Center for the Arts and Oregon Literary Arts.
Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet, songwriter and a novelist. She was born to a Palestinian father and American mother. Although she regards herself as a "wandering poet", she refers to San Antonio as her home. (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Shihab_Nye)
Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang is a Cape Coast poet.
Jonathan Pease is a professor of Chinese at Portland State University.
Allan Peterson is the author of two books: All the Lavish in Common (2005 Juniper Prize) and Anonymous Or (Defined Providence Press Prize) and four chapbooks. Recent print and online appearances include: Northwest Review , Blackbird, Bellingham Review, Perihelion, Stickman Review, Marlboro Review, Massachusetts Review. Work forthcoming in: Boston Review, Notre Dame Review, Swink.
Sapphire Pleiades' book, Les Fables Des Fleurs, a collection of prose poems, is available through Amazon.com. Fluent in several languages, she is considering a translation in some century of El Poema del Mio Cid. This is her favorite land -- long ago and far away. She directs you to her website: www.threshingfloorpress.com.
Kate Power and Steve Einhorn are musicians, writers, artists, community builders, Guinness World Record setters and songwriters.
Sheri Reda is a writer, editor, and performer interested in the poetics of plain speech. She was the founding Editor of Conscious Choice Journal of Ecology and Natural Living and writes mostly about literature, performance, ecology, and social issues. She lives in Chicago with her husband Rob and their two children.
Alison Ruch has a MFA degree from Oregon State University and currently teaches writing in Corvallis, Oregon. She has written articles about Northwest wines for avalonwine.com and is working on a collection of short stories. Recent fiction "We Runners" will appear in the forthcoming issue of StringTown.
Dirgham H. Sbait is a Professor of Arabic/Semitic Languages,
Literatures, & Folklore at Portland State University.
Maxine Scates' first book, Toluca Street, received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press, and subsequently the Oregon Book Award for Poetry. She is co-editor, with David Trinidad, of Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford published by Copper Canyon Press. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Agni, American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Hubbub, Ironwood, Luna, Massachusetts Review, Missouri Review, North American Review, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, The Women’s Review of Books, and ZYZZYVA. She has received fellowships in poetry from the Oregon Arts Commission and Literary Arts and has taught at the Mountain Writers Center and as Writer-in-Residence at Lewis and Clark College and Reed College. (from http://www.cherry-grove.com/scates.html)
Peter Sears won the 1999 Pergrine Smith Poetry Competition for his book of poems, The Brink. His first book-length collection, Tour,was published in 1987. He has also published four chapbooks of poetry and two teaching books, Secret Writing and Gonna Bake Me a Rainbow Poem. His work has been published in many magazines and literary journals and widely anthologized. (from http://www.writersontheedge.org/sears.html)
Virginia Shank is working toward her MFA in poetry from the University of Idaho in Moscow, ID. She prides herself on being the only poet she knows to make a claymation film of her own work.
Jim Shugrue's poems have appeared in journals such as International Quarterly, Fine Madness, and Poetry East; and in two chapbooks: Small Things Screaming (26 Books), a finalist for the Oregon Literary Award, and Icewater (Trask House Books, 1997). His work has been recognized by an Oregon Arts Commission poetry fellowship and by the (New York) Open Voice Award. (from http://www.lclark.edu/org/artslive/poetry.html)
Terry Simons is a writer who lives in Portland, Oregon.
Bill Siverly retired from teaching composition, literature, and creative writing at Portland Community College, and now lives in Portland, Oregon. He is co-editor with Michael McDowell of Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place. (from http://www.student.wvc.edu/mirrornorthwest/contemporary/siverly.htm)
Floyd Skloot's memoir about the shaping of a writer's life, The Wink of the Zenith, will appear in fall 2008 from the University of Nebraska Press. Nebraska published both In the Shadow of Memory, which won the PEN Center USA Literary Award, and A World of Light, which was a NY Times Book Review Editors Choice selection. Skloot's essays have won a Pushcart Prize and been included twice in The Best American Essays and The Best American Science Writing, and once in The Best Food Writing. In spring 2008, Tupelo Press will publish his Selected Poems and in fall 2008, LSU Press will publish a new collection of his poetry, The Snow's Music. Skloot lives in Portland, OR, with his wife, the painter Beverly Hallberg.
Nate Souza is an English student at Portland State University.
Veronique Tadjo: See EWU Press.
Heather Treseler is a Lilly Fellow and a doctoral candidate at the University of Notre Dame.
This year, she's teaching at Washington University while finishing a dissertation
on lyric iconography in post-war American poetry. Her work has appeared or is
forthcoming in 13th Moon, Timbuktu (U. K.), Sow's Ear Poetry Review, and Notre
Dame Review.
Chris Woebken studies Design Interactions at the Royal
college of Art in London. He explores how design and
technology can address hidden human needs, affect our
behavior and social relationships.
Carolyne Wright: See EWU Press.
Karen Spears Zacharias is the descendant of Appalachian Mulengeons. The Oregon State University graduate is the author of the forthcoming Where's Your Jesus Now? (Zondervan, 2008). Her commentary has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek and National Public Radio. She served an editorial panelist for the National Endowment of the Arts, Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, (Random House, 2006). Mother of Rain is her first work of fiction.