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poetry
 

poetry editor {read interview}

C.P. Stewart lives with his family in North Yorkshire. Formerly singer/songwriter with the cult band Laughing Gravy, his poetry has been widely published in the U.K., the United States, Canada, and, most recently, India.  Visit his Web site at www.cpstewart-poet.co.uk.

assistant poetry editor

Celeste Lipkes is an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University, where she studies writing, history of science, and bioethics. She has poems forthcoming in Smartish Pace and The Bellevue Literary Review. She is a recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship from Hopkins, the BLR 2009 Prize for Poetry, and a Davidson Fellowship in Literature from the Davidson Foundation. She has attended workshops at Lake Forest, Kenyon, and Sarah Lawrence College.
 

assistant poetry editor

Jacqueline West's work has been published in journals including St. Ann's Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Pebble Lake Review, Barnwood, flashquake, Briar Cliff Review, and Strange Horizons. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her chapbook, Cherma, is forthcoming from Parallel Press. Jacqueline currently lives, writes, and teaches English in eastern Wisconsin.

assistant poetry editor

Tammy Ho Lai-ming is a Hong Kong-born writer. She is co-founder and co-editor of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, the first (and currently only) Hong Kong online literary journal. More about Ho at www.sighming.com and at the Hong Kong Writers' Circle.



poetry reviewers 

Adrienne Leavy is working on her Ph.D. in literature at Arizona State University. Her poetry has appeared in Crannog magazine in Ireland and is forthcoming in several other Irish literary journals.

Alexandra O'Mallory is a professional Irish-born writer and singer in the band Sacred Hearts. She publishes widely in both the United States and Ireland and holds a Bachelor of Science in Archaeology. She relies on the fields of Ireland to be her muse.

Bob Bradshaw hails from Florida, where he had the great pleasure of taking classes under novelist Wyatt Wyatt and poet David Posner. He defected from Florida decades ago and now lives in California. He is proud to say, though, that he has never committed a felony or a heinous act while writing. Perhaps poetry is not as dangerous as it is reputed to be.

Cari Merritt is a a sophomore at the University of Michigan.  She loves the outdoors, (of course) loves to read and write, and has a very fat cat for a muse.

Carol Ayer is a freelance writer and poet living in Northern California. Her work has been published by Woman's World, The Christian Science Monitor, The Prairie Times, Sniplits, the anthology Freckles to Wrinkles, and flashquake.Crystal Anderson graduated in 2008 from the University of California at Davis with an M.A. in English/Creative Writing. She currently resides in Davis, California.

Carrie Ryman lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin, but is a native of Ohio.  She attended Kent State University, studying Journalism, and launched her career at The Gateway Press where she contributed feature and human interest stories, as well as features for her popular sports/ adventure series.  Carrie has participated in CVNRA’s Nature Writer’s Workshop/Jill Sell and AllWriter’s Workshop/Kathie Giorgio, as well as community events to promote literature, such as Waukesha’s “Big Read.”  She has read her poetry at Martha Merrill’s Books, Brady’s Café and Arabica Coffeehouse. Carrie enjoys writing poetry, essays, fiction, nonfiction, and is currently working on her first novel.

Donna Vorreyer lives in the Chicago area and spends her days trying to teach middle-schoolers that words matter. Her poems have appeared in many print and online journals including New York Quarterly, After Hours, DMQ Review, Byline, Boxcar Poetry Review, Literary Mama, Flashquake, and The Hiss Quarterly. She has been a two-time finalist in Chicago's Guild Complex Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Competition and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She tries not to take herself too seriously. Visit her writing life on the web at djvorreyer.googlepages.com.

George Bishop lives and writes in the central Florida area. He attended Rutgers University studying English and Creative Writing.  His work has appeared in both national and international magazines, both online and in print.

G. Lloyd Helm has been writing for 30 years, having published poetry in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers including The New York Poetry Anthology, Stars and Stripes News, The Los Angeles Times, The Antelope Valley Press, and The Antelope Valley Anthologies, among others.  Helm is also a publisher of and contributor to The Antelope Valley Anthologies, which are collections of poetry, short stories, and essays from the residents of Southern California’s Antelope Valley. 

Grace Andreacchi is an American-born novelist, poet and playwright. Works include the novels Scarabocchio and Poetry and Fear, Music for Glass Orchestra (Serpent's Tail), Give My Heart Ease (New American Writing Award) and the chapbook Elysian Sonnets. Her work appears in Horizon Review, Eclectica, Word Riot and many other fine places. Grace is also managing editor at Andromache Books, a new writers' cooperative. She lives in London and writes a regular literary blog, "Amazing Grace," at graceandreacchi.blogspot.com. Visit her at graceandreacchi.com.

Genevieve Betts received her MFA from Arizona State University in 2006 and writes poetry, reviews, and flash fiction. Recently, she was a finalist for the ABZ First Book Award and continues her goal of publishing her first book. She is also currently working on a second manuscript and teaching English at Arizona State University, as well as creative writing at South Mountain Community College. Her most recent work can be found in CHAIN, NANOfiction, Midwest Quarterly, and 42opus. She lives in Tempe, AZ with her husband and her cat.

Karen Rigby received a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and has published two chapbooks, Savage Machinery (Finishing Line Press, 2008) and Festival Bone (Adastra Press, 2004).

Nichole LeFebvre is a junior English major at Pace University where she is co-editor of the Pfozheimer Honors College E-Journal. She is a staff writer for the Pace Press and enjoys reading, writing poetry, tennis and piano.

Patience Wieland owns a small business and works in multimedia and technology, but her favorite label of all is "inkslinger." Her written credits include essays for The Montreal Gazette, and Battered Suitcase; and poems in Parting Gifts and The Aurorean. She has also written a column on nostalgia and pop culture, and a historical series for the Old California Gazette, where she won a San Diego Press Club award.

SJ Chambers has a B.A. in Art History and is a freelance writer.  She has had poetry and art published in Mungbeing and Hiss Quarterly magazine, and criticism in Up Against the Wall.

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