Issue 7 Contributors
Pushcart prize winner Jill McDonough’s books include Habeas Corpus (Salt, 2008) and Where You Live (Salt, 2012). The recipient of fellowships from the NEA, the Library of Congress and elsewhere, she teaches at UMass-Boston and directs 24PearlStreet, the online writing program at the Fine Arts Work Center.
Alicia Hilton is a poet, essayist, fiction writer, and law professor. She received an MA in Humanities with a focus on Creative Writing from the University of Chicago, a JD from the University of Chicago, and a BA in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. Her work has been published in Australia, Austria, Canada, India, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Alec Hershman lives in St. Louis where he teaches at The Stevens Institute of Business and Arts and at Florissant Valley Community College. Other poems appear in recent and upcoming issues of Denver Quarterly, The Colorado Review, The Journal, Lumina, Apt, The Sycamore Review, The Sugar House Review, The Owen Wister Review, and Vinyl Poetry.
Ann Rushton lives in Iowa City, IA with her husband and children. Her works have previously appeared in Wigleaf, Storyglossia, Bartleby Snopes, JMWW, RE:AL, and other publications. She is the co-editor of Bound Off, a literary audio journal.
Sharanya Manivannan is the author of a book of poems, Witchcraft. She received the Lavanya Sankaran Fellowship for 2008-2009, and the Elle Fiction Award for 2012, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in Drunken Boat, Killing The Buddha, Monkeybicycle, The Nervous Breakdown, Dark Sky Magazine, Superstition Review, and elsewhere. She lives in India.
Grace Schauer is a recent graduate of the MFA program at Emerson College. She earned a BA in English from the University of Mary Washington and worked as an editorial assistant for two years before returning to school. A Florida native, she grew up outside Washington, DC. Her poem "Wake" will appear in the Winter 2012-13 issue of Ploughshares. She currently resides in Cambridge, MA.
Philip Matthews teaches creative nonfiction and poetry writing at Washington University in St. Louis, and is a gallery assistant at The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. His work has recently appeared in Assaracus, The Puritan, The Tusculum Review, and Zone 3, and he was a finalist this year for the Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer's Prize.
Fabio Sassi has been a visual artist since 1990, making acrylics using stenciling techniques on canvas, board, old vinyl records, and other media. Fabio uses logos, icons, tiny objects, and shades to create weird perspectives. His subjects are inspired by paradoxes, either real or imaginary, and by the news. He lives in Bologna, Italy. His work has appeared in Red Fez, Right Hand Pointing, Qwerty Magazine, Orion Headless, Phoebe Journal, Yes Poetry, Four and Twenty, Minetta Review, Prick of the Spindle, Alliterati Magazine, and many others.
Karen Locascio is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Amethyst Arsenic and Rufous City Review. Milk is her sworn enemy.
Amanda Rhodes is a designer, thinker, and self-tinkerer who strives to figure out why things work and how they can work better. Originally from Asheville, North Carolina, she moved to Boston after completing her Master of Architecture from the University of Oregon. You can follow her on Twitter: @rhodesamanda.
Nicole DiCello was one of 17 finalists for the 2012 Knightville Poetry Prize judged by Charles Simic, and won second place in the Blue Mesa Review 2011 poetry contest judged by Lisa Gill, Richard Vargas, and Danny Solis. She was also one of 12 poets selected by Marge Piercy for her 2012 poetry writing intensive on Cape Cod. Nicole's work has been published in various places, such as The New Guard, Poetry East, Nimrod, Concho River Review, and Ballard Street Poetry Journal. She is an MFA candidate for Creative Writing Poetry at Emerson College and a reader for Ploughshares.
Melissa Watt is an MFA candidate studying poetry at Emerson College. She lives next door to her boyfriend in Boston and rides horses whenever she can.
Tim Kidwell is a writer and actor based in St. Louis. His poetry has appeared in Big Muddy, Eads Bridge and Able Muse. His articles have appeared in health journals, travel journals and The Wall Street Journal.
Martin Ott and John F. Buckley began their ongoing games of poetic volleyball in the spring of 2009. Poetry from their previous collaboration Poets’ Guide to America, forthcoming on Brooklyn Arts Press, has been accepted by more than forty publications, including Confrontation, Post Road and ZYZZYVA. They are now working on a second volume of collaborative poems, The Yankee Broadcast Network.
D. S. Butterworth teaches literature and creative writing at Gonzaga University. He has a creative non-fiction book, Waiting for Rain: A Farmer’s Story, and a book of poems, The Radium Watch Dial Painters. His poetry and fiction have appeared in many literary journals.
Christina Cook’s poems, translations, essays, and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in a number of journals, most recently including Dos Passos Review, Prairie Schooner, New Ohio Review, Midwest Quarterly, Crab Orchard Review, and Cimarron Review. Her chapbook, Lake Effect, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. She holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a contributing editor for Inertia Magazine and Cerise Press. Christina is the senior writer for the president at Dartmouth College.
Originally from Michigan's rural Upper Peninsula, and after bouncing around the Midwest and a stint on the East Coast, Sarah Jo Mayville now lives, writes, and teaches in San Diego, California. Sarah is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Her poetry has also appeared in Margie, Plainsongs, and the North American Review.
Emily May Anderson holds a BFA from Bowling Green State University and an MFA from Penn State University. She currently lives in Columbus, Ohio where she teaches English and Communications and does freelance proofreading. Her work has appeared in Diverse Voices Quarterly, Sweet: A Literary Confection, Poetry East, Pudding Magazine, Apropos Literary Review, and other venues.
William Hurst is a poet currently living in Madison, WI. His poetry emphasizes the place of the natural in unnatural circumstances, and is influenced primarily by the work of Kay Ryan, Matsuo Basho, and Charles Simic. He has been published in The Rectangle–the literary journal of the International English Honors Society–Penwood Review, Full Armor Magazine, Inkspill Magazine, Poetry Quarterly, and other online literary publications. He is currently working on a chapbook entitled Bird Impersonations, currently nearing its final draft.