Issue 3 Contributors
Molly McGuire received a BA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where her senior creative writing thesis won a UW Bookstore Academic Excellence award and the Cy Howard Prize. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at UMass Boston.
John D. Powers lives in Moorhead, MN where he is pursuing an MFA in poetry, and trying to fence in his yard so his children can have a puppy. John's poems, shy and underdressed, go nicely with fish and white wine.
Colby Gillette was born and raised in Ohio, but currently lives in Berkeley, California, where he reads and writes.
Brian Simoneau's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Boxcar Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Natural Bridge, Poet Lore, Poetry East, Red Rock Review, Smartish Pace, and others. He currently lives in Boston with his wife and daughter.
Irene Latham's book of poems What Came Before was named Alabama State Poetry Society's Book of the Year and earned a 2008 Independent Publisher's (IPPY) Award. Her debut historical novel for children Leaving Gee's Bend was released by Penguin/Putnam earlier this year. She currently serves as poetry editor for Birmingham Arts Journal.
Vivek Sharma's first book of verse The Saga of a Crumpled Piece of Paper (Writers Workshop, Calcutta) appeared in 2009. His work in English appears in Atlanta Review, Bateau, Poetry, The Cortland Review, while his Hindi articles and verses appear in Divya Himachal (Hindi newspaper, India), Himachal Mitra, Argala. Vivek grew up in Himachal Pradesh (Himalayas, India), and moved to United States in 2001. Vivek is a Pushcart nominated poet, published as scientist and is currently a post-doctoral research associate in Mechanical Engineering at MIT.
Robyn Bradley is a Copy Bitch by day and Novelist Ninja by night. She also has an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. When she's not writing or sleeping, Robyn enjoys watching Law & Order marathons, drinking margaritas, and determining how many degrees really separate her from George Clooney.
Michelle Gomez is a native of North Florida now living in the Bay (California). She has an MFA in Poetry from Mills College in Oakland and intends to use it to teach a love of language. She works with under-served high school students and elementary school children with special needs. Her prize project is a non-profit artist labor exchange, where artists enjoy a free work and meeting space and, in exchange, provide free workshops to area youth who need a safe place to express themselves. Her poetry has appeared in Sand Canyon Review, Flaneur Foundry, and Contingency, and she is the 2009 winner of the Ardella Mills Prize for Creative Nonfiction.
The poems of Roberto Alejandro Santos have been published in print and on-line in publications such as the Rio Grande Review, Multicultural Education Magazine, BorderSenses, Newspapertree.com, and Epculturebeat.com. Roberto currently lives in El Paso, Texas, where he is a teacher of English and host of the Barbed Wire Open Mic Series.
Danielle Jones-Pruett is an MFA candidate at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her creative work has been published in the Birmingham Arts Journal, Freethought Today, and the Southern Women's Review. She worked as the poetry editor for Breakwater Review.
Molly Sutton Kiefer is an MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota, where she currently teaches writing. Her work has appeared in CutBank, Wicked Alice, and dislocate, among others. She currently lives in Red Wing with her husband, where they are expecting their first child in January.
Randall Horton is a poet originally from Birmingham, AL now living in West Haven, CT. He is the author of The Definition of Place and The Lingua Franca of Ninth Street, both from Main Street Rag. He has an MFA from Chicago State University and a PhD from SUNY Albany. Randall is also a Cave Canem Fellow. His poems most recently appear in Crab Orchard Review and Red Clay Review. He currently teaches at the University of New Haven.
Cary Holladay, a native of Virginia, teaches at the University of Memphis. She is the author of five volumes of fiction, including The Quick-Change Artist: Stories. Her awards include an NEA grant and an O. Henry Prize.
Jennifer Haigh is the author of three novels: The Condition, Baker Towers and Mrs. Kimble. She has won both the PEN/Hemingway Award, for debut fiction, and the PEN L.L. Winship Award, for outstanding book by a New England author. Her books have been published in twelve languages. Haigh's short fiction has been published in Granta, Ploughshares, The Atlantic, The Saturday Evening Post and many other journals and magazines. She lives in the Boston area.
Jonathan Papas is an MFA candidate at UMass-Boston in poetry. His work has appeared in We Are Champion, Ocho, PANK, Willow Springs, and some others. He also coordinates WordJam, an afterschool creative writing program in several libraries and community centers in the Boston area. He sometimes blogs with three other poets at wakeuprod.blogspot.com.