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Contributors’ Notes
Our contributors provide the source of free-flowing ideas and streaming consciousness that give this
magazine its insightful and enriching current. Get to know the writers and the artists — the
thinkers — that make Wild River Review the engaging experience it is.
The Wild River Review — For Thinkers, By Thinkers.
Saad Abulhab
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Type designer, librarian, and systems engineer, Saad D. Abulhab, was born in 1958 in Sacramento, California, and grew up in Iraq.
Residing in the US since 1979, he is currently Director of Technology of the Newman Library of Baruch College, the City University of
New York. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University, and a Master of Science in Library and
Information Sciences from Pratt Institute, both in Brooklyn. Involved since 1992 in the field of Arabetic computing and typography, he
is most noted for his non-traditional type designs and the Mutamathil type style which was awarded a US Utility Patent in 2003. Designed
more that 16 fonts families since 1998 and wrote several articles in the field of Arabetic typography and scripts.
SAAD ABULHAB IN THIS EDITION:
POEM: Hamra Night (Red Night — Arabic)
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Chris Allen
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Chris Allen became interested in filmmaking during High School,
and has pursued it ever since. He studied Bhakti Yoga (which he still practices) in Chicago
before receiving a degree in Film and Television
from New York University. After raising three children
and producing videos in corporate America, Allen started
his own film company, Open Sky Cinema, writing
and producing documentaries. They
include “The Delaware and Raritan Canal,” “Lost
Princeton,” “A Warm and Loving Look — The Poetry of
Stephen Kalinich,” and “Open Sky.”
For his current project, Quark Park, Allen has filmed and interviewed dozens of
scientists, artists, sculptors, landscape architects, and
architects in collaboration with Quark Park’s creators
Peter Soderman, Kevin Wilkes; and with the Wild River Review.
CHRIS ALLEN IN THIS EDITION:
QUARK PARK: An Interview with Rush Holt
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Suzanne Ashley
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Suzanne Ashley lives in London and works as a publishing consultant. She graduated back in 1993 with a
degree in Art History, after which she carved a path through the London book industry via bookselling,
marketing, and sales. In 2005, after achieving her dream of becoming UK Sales and Marketing Director
at Continuum Books, she broke her back in a paragliding accident. Now fully recovered, she has decided
to experience the publishing world from a freelance perspective. She set up the Publishing Results
consultancy earlier in 2006 and when not working with one of her clients, Suzanne takes time out to
develop her creative writing and pilates skills.
SUZANNE ASHLEY IN THIS EDITION:
AIRMAIL: London Calling
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Eliza Drake Auth
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Eliza Drake Auth is a painter who lives and works in the Philadelphia area. She is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Art. Primarily a landscape painter, her work can be seen at Sherry French Gallery, New York City and Richard
Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia.
ELIZA DRAKE AUTH IN THIS EDITION:
ART: Natural Beauty — Paintings by Eliza Drake Auth & Poems by John Timpane
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Janice Gable Bashman
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Janice Gable Bashman’s career has included working in television and film production (major motion pictures, professional sporting events, commercials, multi-media production) and in the field of clinical psychology and psychodrama.
She has published extensively in the field of psychology and has written and directed videos
on psychodrama. More recently, she has been a book reviewer for Elle Magazine and the
Borzoi Reader, completed an author profile for Bucks Magazine (July/August 2006),
and completed an author profile for The Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market
(August 2007). She is currently working in collaboration with best-selling author Jonathan
Maberry on a book for writers about the inner workings of the publishing business.
JANICE GABLE BASHMAN IN THIS EDITION:
SPOTLIGHT: Thrill-Ride — An Interview with Barry Eisler
SPOTLIGHT: Thrill-Ride — An Interview with David Housewright
SPOTLIGHT: Thrill-Ride — An Interview with Bill Kent
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Susan Balée
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Susan Balée’s short story “Ineffable” will appear in the anthology
Philly Fiction II, due out this fall. Her essay on playwrights David
Hare and Tom Stoppard is forthcoming in The Michigan Quarterly Review
and another on novelist Jim Crace will appear in The Hudson Review.
SUSAN BALÉE IN THIS EDITION:
FAKE MEMOIR CONTEST WINNING ENTRY: Memoir of a Ghost
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David Beyer, Jr.
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David Beyer, Jr. was born on the first day of the last year that the Brewers won the pennant. It is interesting to note
that, because he really has no interest in professional baseball. He used to watch “Sesame Street” while eating
macaroni and cheese with little pieces of hotdogs in it, and not much has changed since then. He is a smelly punk that has
just moved back in with his parents, and they all live together in a southeastern Wisconsin town that used to be known as
“The Saratoga of the West.”
WEBSITE: dascbejr.livejournal.com
EMAIL: d_beyer_jr@yahoo.com
DAVID BEYER, JR. IN THIS EDITION:
COMIC: So... Only Nixon Could’ve Gone to China
COMIC: So Buttons — So... Racist?
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Ben Cake
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Ben Cake graduated from Kenyon College
in May of 2001, four months before the collapse of the twin towers and the American job market. Since
then, he has read a lot of books, filled a lot of journals, and slept on a lot of floors. After spending
a very good year in Doylestown, PA, working for The Bucks County Writer and other local publications,
he moved to New York City, where he works as a copy editor and lives in the Lower East Side.
EMAIL: benjamincake@gmail.com
BEN CAKE IN THIS EDITION:
AIRMAIL: Thursdays with Nobody
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Annika Cameron
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Annika Cameron was born in Hawaii and raised by anthroposophically-oriented hippie parents, her colorful backround the perfect
base to grow an artist in. Coming to NYC for college she graduated from Parsons School of Design with a BFA in Illustration. She
then went on to become the artist she is today, studying for many years with her mentor and renowned artist/illustrator David
Passalacqua. Comfortable in many mediums and styles she works in storyboarding, editorial, digital, reportage, photography and
more. Annika now calls Harlem, NYC ‘home’ where she resides with her soul mate and their son.
ANNIKA CAMERON IN THIS EDITION:
COLUMN: Storiedmusic — In the Begiining (illustration)
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Rosemary Carstens
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Rosemary Carstens has been a freelance writer for fifteen years, focusing on writing about health, art, books, film, food,
and adventure travel. She has visited most of the remote regions of the world and is the author of Dream Rider: Roadmap
to an Adventurous Life (Black Lightning Press 2003), a book about women and motorcycling, and co-author of Sustaining
Thought: 30 Years of Cookery at the School of American Research ( 2006). Carstens lives in Longmont, Colorado, with her
most recent ride, the Road Goddess, a classic Yamaha Virago 1100.
ROSEMARY CARSTENS IN THIS EDITION:
ART: Voices of the People
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Sergio Cervetti
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Sergio Cervetti is a composer of over 150 works for orchestra, voice, chamber ensemble, dance, and film,
who finds himself for the first time published as a translator of poetry. He is no stranger to poetry
however, as a number of his compositions have set poetry to music.
Cervetti attended Peabody Institute where he studied under Ernst Krenek, Lazlo Halasz, and Stefan Grové.
In 1966 he won the Caracas Festival prize for “Five Episodes for violin, cello and piano”. Following
his graduation, he was invited by the DAAD to be composer-in-residence in Berlin. During this time he wrote
“Lux Lucet in Tenebris” for chorus for which he was awarded the Gaudeamus Prize in Holland.
He returned to the Unites States in 1970 and took up residence in New York City where he taught at Brooklyn
College, worked for Virgil Thomson, and studied electronic music with Vladimir Ussachevsky at Columbia
University. He established his reputation as a composer of electronic music with “The Hay Wain”, inspired by
the Bosch painting, sections of which are used in Oliver Stone’s film, “Natural Born Killers.”
Cervetti joined the faculty of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1972 where he taught
music composition, history and choreography as Master Teacher until 1997. During this time he began his long
association with the dance world with “40 Second/42nd Variations”, “Wind Devil”, and “Inez de Castro.”
For WNYC Radio’s 50th Anniversary Concert, Cervetti was among the composers who musically set John
Ashbery’s poem, “No Longer Very Clear”. “Nuestras Vidas Son Los Ríos”, for soprano,
string quartet and harpsichord, with a text by 16th century Spanish poet, Jorge Manrique, premiered in 2003
at the Casa de America in Madrid, cosponsored by the American, Canadian, and Mexican Embassies.
Sergio Cervetti’s opera, “Elegy For A Prince”, written in collaboration with librettist, Elizabeth
Esris, has been selected to be part of the 2007 VOX Opera Showcase Festival. Excerpts of “Elegy For A Prince”
will be performed by the orchestra and singers from New York City Opera at the Skirball Center at New York
University in May, 2007. He is currently working in collaboration with Elizabeth Esris on his second opera
based on Gilles de Rais, and a theater piece on Asperger’s Syndrome. More information concerning
“Elegy For A Prince” is at www.elegyforaprince.com.
SERGIO CERVETTI IN THIS EDITION:
POETRY: Gaucho (Español)
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Gabriel Cooney
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For many years Gabriel Cooney has photographed development and admissions projects for universities and secondary schools.
His interest in people has to assignments with a variety of non-profits. Photographic essays include Bedford-Stuyvesant, Cuba,
Brazil, Gees Bend Alabama, Italy, England, France, Morocco.
WEBSITE: www.GabrielCooney.com
GABRIEL COONEY IN THIS EDITION:
COLUMN: The Mystic Pen — The Gift (photo)
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Jonathan Cox
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Jonathan Cox is an Associate Professor of Art (Sculpture) at Marshall University in West Virginia.
He has a BFA from the University of Florida and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.
My father gave me my first toolbox when I was four. He cleared the trees from the land that he bought
from my grandmother, then used the wood from the trees to build the house that I grew up in. Before I
was fourteen, we had built five boats together. The process that I engage in with my sculpture today
begins with wood and with skills that I learned as a child. From there, I add whatever material will
best communicate the idea. I am most intent on producing works that edify and elevate the consciousness
of others. I am currently working on a large, suspended self-portrait piece and planning an extended
trip to Japan.
WEBSITE: www.JonathanCoxSculpture.com
JONATHAN COX IN THIS EDITION:
ART: The Art of Jonathan Cox
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Alice Drueding
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BORN: 1954, USA
EDUCATION: Brown University (BA), Tyler School of Art / Temple University (BFA)
Alice Drueding and Joe Scorsone (Scorsone/Drueding aka sdposters.com)
have been designing posters together since 1986. They are also faculty members in the Graphic and Interactive Design program at Tyler
School of Art of Temple University. Their work has appeared in many international publications and exhibitions, has received numerous
awards, and is in permanent collections around the world.
WEBSITE: www.SDposters.com
ALICE DRUEDING IN THIS EDITION:
ART: The Posters of Scorsone/Drueding by Joe Scorsone and Alice Drueding
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William Cole-Kiernan
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William Cole-Kiernan was a full time philosophy professor at St Peter’s College in Jersey City,
New Jersey for thirty-three years before he retired. Now a Professor Emeritus at the College, he continues
to teach part time. The main goal in his teaching has always been to teach philosophy as a context for
students to expand their consciousness and learn to think for themselves.
His undergraduate work was at New York University, where he completed a Bachelor of Science in Civil
Engineering. After college, he served three and a half years in the United States Army as an officer
and a pilot flying reconnaissance and light cargo aircraft.
Returning from the service, he switched directions from engineering and started his study of philosophy.
He has a Master’s and a PhD from Fordham University, and specialized in American Philosophy,
especially focusing on the thought of William James and John Dewey.
He lives in Lambertville, New Jersey with his wife Barbara, and has four grown children and six grandchildren.
WILLIAM COLE-KIERNAN IN THIS EDITION:
COLUMN: Ask the Philosopher
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Eileen Cunniffe is a recovering corporate communications manager who lives and writes in Havertown, Pennsylvania.
After a quarter century of putting words in other people’s mouths (and manuscripts) — as a medical writer/editor,
public affairs professional and executive speechwriter — she has at long last begun filling pages with her own words.
EILEEN CUNNIFFE IN THIS EDITION:
ESSAY: The Great Butter Caper of Chartres
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Gunter David
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Born in Berlin, Germany, Gunter fled with his parents to Paris, France, with the ascent of Hitler to power in 1933. The
family migrated to Palestine in 1935. Gunter grew up in Tel Aviv, where he attended elementary and high school. He came
to the US in January, 1948, several months before Israel became a state, to study journalism. He was a reporter on major
city newspapers for 25 years, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize by the Evening Bulletin of Philadelphia.
He covered the Yom Kippur War (1973) for the Daily News of Philadelphia. He has been to Israel a dozen times in
the last three decades as a correspondent and on visits to his relatives and friends. He speaks Hebrew perfectly. His wife,
Dalia, is a native of Haifa, Israel. She belongs to the fourth generation of her family to have been born in what was then
Palestine. Both Gunter and Dalia are American citizens.
GUNTER DAVID IN THIS EDITION:
BLOG: The Long Road to the Promised Land
SHORT STORY: The Wanderers
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W. D. Ehrhart
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W. D. Ehrhart’s most recent collection is Sleeping with the Dead (Adastra Press 2006);
he lives in Philadelphia and teaches at the Haverford School.
WEBSITE: www.wdehrhart.com
W. D. EHRHART IN THIS EDITION:
POETRY: Untitled Temple Poem
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Elizabeth Esris
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Elizabeth Esris was published in the Bucks County Writer in Fall, 2002. Most recently she
completed the libretto for an opera, “Elegy For A Prince”, written in collaboration with
composer Sergio Cervetti, who translated “Gaucho”. (The website for the opera is
www.elegyforaprince.com)
She has taught English in the Central Bucks School District for thirteen years.
ELIZABETH ESRIS IN THIS EDITION:
POETRY: Gaucho
POETRY: Gaucho (Español)
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Robbin Farr
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Robbin Farr recently completed a year sabbatical from teaching high school and explored life without
the ubiquitous mountain of papers to grade. After retrieving a few pages of incomprehensible poems
wisely hidden in the back of a cabinet, she set off for a workshop at a wholly organic, macrobiotic,
vegan retreat where she and fellow writers drank a lot of wine late at night. She is now, despite
the unbelieving retorts from relatives, writing poetry in an MFA program at Queens University of
Charlotte, which she insists is one of the four most meaningful events of her life.
ROBBIN FARR IN THIS EDITION:
FIRST BYLINES: Design
FIRST BYLINES: First Communion
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Russ Fee
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Russ Fee is a former civil rights attorney who now teaches elementary school in the Chicago area. He is
a graduate of the College of William and Mary, where he majored in English. His poems have appeared in
journals such as Barnwood Poetry Magazine and Potato Hill Poetry. Russ is the author of a
book of poems about his teaching experiences entitled, A Dash of Expectation (Poems of the Classroom).
He has three grown children and lives in Oak Park, Illinois, with his wife Joan, a university professor.
RUSS FEE IN THIS EDITION:
POETRY: A Different Concept
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Vicky Fish
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Vicky Fish has published short stories in the Northwoods Journal and Slowtrains.
She lives in Vermont with her husband and three boys, where she is a freelance writer and a
hospice volunteer among other things.
VICKY FISH IN THIS EDITION:
SHORT STORY: Perambulating the Bounds
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Silvia Foti
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Silvia Foti’s first novel, a mystery titled Skullduggery, was published by Creative Arts Book Company, San Francisco,
in 2002. With a master’s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University, she has been writing for publication for twenty
years, much of her business derived from her freelance company called Lotus Ink. Residing in Chicago with her husband and two
children, Silvia is the president of Chicago Sisters in Crime and Love Is Murder, a multi-genre readers’ and writers’ conference.
WEBSITE: www.SilviaFoti.com
SILVIA FOTI IN THIS EDITION:
SHORT STORY: The Diva’s Fool
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James Freeman
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James A. Freeman is a transplanted Shasta County, Californian who, for twenty-five years, has taught Language and Literature and
Philosophy at Bucks County Community College in Newtown, PA. The author of fifteen books, Mr. Freeman’s own favorite fiction
titles are Ishi’s Journey — From the Center to the Edge of the World (Naturegrah), Never the Same River Twice
(Charles B. McFadden), and Parade of Days.
In a 5/5/05 Philadelphia Inquirer review of Parade of Days, reviewer Marc Shagol wrote, “The engaging
characters’ stories stay with you for days.” Books Editor Frank Wilson, writing of the reissued Ishi’s
Journey in a 1/6/06 review as his “Editor’s Pick,” said: “This is a wise and wonderful book.
The descriptions are lovingly precise, and the whole novel is a moving elegy for Ishi, the last wild Indian in North America,
and of his vanished people. If this book doesn’t sometimes make you smile and also move you to tears, then you are in need
of a heart transplant.”
Jim lives in Newtown, PA with his daughter Kellie, one dog, one thoroughbred horse, and a cockatiel. His new collection of poems
Fire in the Hole is forthcoming, as is his new novel Liars Tale of True Love.
JAMES FREEMAN IN THIS EDITION:
POEM: Three Months After
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M. Frost
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When not writing, M. Frost works as a veterinarian in Pennsylvania.
Finishing Line Press published her first chapbook, Cow Poetry and
other notes from the field. Her work has appeared in numerous
journals, including Philadelphia Stories, Schuylkill Valley Journal of
the Arts, Mad Poets Review, Potomac Review, and Nimrod.
M. FROST IN THIS EDITION:
POEM: Vision
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Constance Garcia-Barrio
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A native Philadelphian, Constance Garcia-Barrio has roots that
reach back to Fredericksburg, Virginia, home of her
great-grandmother, Rose Wilson Ware, or Maw, born into slavery about
1851. Some details of Garcia-Barrio’s novel come to her as oral
heirlooms from Maw, who lived to age 113. Garcia-Barrio spent some
summers of her childhood on Maw’s farm.
Garcia-Barrio, an associate professor at West Chester
University, West Chester, PA, has held writing fellowships at the
Ragdale Foundation, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, and the Virginia
Center for Creative Arts. Her credits include Pennsylvania Magazine, the
Philadelphia Inquirer, the Christian Science Monitor, and other
publications. The National Association of Black Journalists gave her a
magazine journalism award in 2000 for her article on African Americans in
circus history. This past summer the Interact Theatre Company chose her short story,
“The Sitting Tree,” for its “Writing Aloud” series.
Widowhood and approaching retirement have given her a second wind, and she means to sail on it.
CONSTANCE GARCIA-BARRIO IN THIS EDITION:
NOVEL EXCERPT: Blood Grip — Chapter 1
NOVEL EXCERPT: Blood Grip — Chapter 2
NOVEL EXCERPT: Blood Grip — Chapter 3
NOVEL EXCERPT: Blood Grip — Chapter 4
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Denise Gess
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Denise Gess is the author of two critically-acclaimed novels, Good Deeds (Crown, 1984) and
Red Whiskey Blues (Crown, 1989), and the nonfiction book Firestorm At Peshtigo: A Town,
Its People and The Deadliest Fire in American History (Holt, 2002). Her short fiction has
appeared in the North American Review and anthologized in The Horizon Reader. Her
personal essays have appeared in Remarkable Reads: 34 Writers and Their Adventures in Reading
(Norton 2004), Philadelphia Stories, Philadelphia Magazine, and Writer’s
Digest. She received honorable mention in creative nonfiction in the New Millennium Writing
Awards Contest (2002). She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Rowan University.
“Bad For Boys” is the lead essay in a collection of the same title.
DENISE GESS IN THIS EDITION:
ESSAY: Bad For Boys
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Johnny Goodyear
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Johnny Goodyear is a London-born writer living in Lambertville, New Jersey for now.
JOHNNY GOODYEAR IN THIS EDITION:
SHORT STORY: Metaphysics, Cinema
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Donald Hall
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Donald Hall is one of our foremost men of letters, widely read and loved for his award-winning poetry,
fiction, essays, and children’s literature. He has published sixteen collections of poetry and has edited
numerous anthologies. His poetry has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, The National Book Critics Circle
Award, a Lenore Marshall Award, and the Robert Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America. He is a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was installed as the nation’s Poet Laureate in October of 2006. Since
1975, when he resigned his university teaching position, Hall has lived in New Hampshire, on Eagle Pond Farm, an old
family house, which he shared with his wife, poet Jane Kenyon. Their life together and her tragic death from leukemia
have been the subjects of many of his poems.
DONALD HALL IN THIS EDITION:
PROFILE: Thinking with Muscle and Tongue — The Poetry of Donald Hall
POETRY: Great Day in the Cows House
POETRY: Kicking the Leaves
POETRY: The Man in the Dead Machine
POETRY: Mount Kearsarge Shines
POETRY: Weeds and Peonies
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Daniel Heyman
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Daniel Heyman graduated Cum Laude from Dartmouth College with a degree in Visual Studies, and holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania.
His work has been exhibited worldwide and collected by the Yale University Library, New York Public Library, and Rhode Island School of Design,
among others. In 2005 and 2006, Heyman traveled to Amman, Jordan and Istanbul, Turkey to visually record testimony of Iraqis detained at Abu
Ghraib. Working quickly by hand in the drypoint technique on copper plates used in printmaking, Heyman not only made portraits but transcribed
parts of the translated testimonies by writing backwards on the plate. When he ran out of copper plates, Heyman switched to watercolor as his
medium for the portraits. He currently teaches Printmaking at Swarthmore College.
WEBSITE: www.DanielHeyman.com
DANIEL HEYMAN IN THIS EDITION:
SPOTLIGHT: The Other Side Of Abu Ghraib (Part 1) — The Detainees’ Quest for Justice (illustrations)
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Dan Kopcow
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Dan Kopcow is the author of numerous short stories, novels and screenplays and has always been fascinated
with the art and craft of storytelling. His passion for stories is also reflected in his love for film
and theater. He is a founding member of the Ambler Writers Group. He earned his B.S. in Chemical
Engineering at Syracuse University and, by day, is an environmental remediation project manager.
DAN KOPCOW IN THIS EDITION:
FIRST BYLINES: When Jilted Alice Spoke
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Anna Kushner
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Anna Kushner was born in Philadelphia and first traveled to Cuba in 1999. Her current projects include the
writing of a memoir about a family divided by divorce, exile, death, and politics and a translation of
The Autobiography of Fidel Castro. Her work has appeared in The Bucks County Writer and her
translations have appeared in Words Without Borders. She lives in Queens, New York.
ANNA KUSHNER IN THIS EDITION:
ESSAY: Orlando’s House
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Nick Ladany
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Nick Ladany has written extensively about the training of psychologists, which is about as exciting as it sounds. In the end,
he’d much rather spend his day writing fiction based on the quirky realities of life. He is currently working on his
first novel about a woman who unknowingly starts dating her therapist’s best friend.
NICK LADANY IN THIS EDITION:
ESSAY: Jesus and the Guinea Pig
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Peter Leitner
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Peter Leitner grows Vinifera and makes wine at his Hunterdon County farm, near Pittstown, New Jersey, where he lives with
his wife, two children, and a Dachshund named Liesl. He planted his first vines in 2005, more than two decades after minoring
in vineyard exploration as an undergraduate in the Finger Lakes Region of New York. A recovering investment banker and
itinerant entrepreneur, Peter — in his day job — acquires companies on behalf of a global healthcare IT firm.
En vino veritas.
PETER LEITNER IN THIS EDITION:
COLUMN: The Winemaker of Hunterdon County
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Christopher McCauley
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Christopher McCauley is an award-winning
artist from Bucks County, PA. His pastels have been exhibited in galleries throughout the tri-state area
in both group and solo shows. He is a graduate of the Tyler School of Art, and continues to paint and teach
pastel painting workshops locally. Chris and his work has been profiled in a recent edition of
Pastel Journal.
WEBSITE: www.ChristopherMcCauley.com
EMAIL: chris@christophermccauley.com
CHRISTOPHER McCAULEY IN THIS EDITION:
ART: The Art of Christopher McCauley
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Amy Small-McKinney
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Amy Small-McKinney lives in Blue Bell, PA with her husband and daughter. In 2004, her chapbook, Body of Surrender,
was published by Finishing Line Press and showcased, that same year, at Poet’s House in New York. She was nominated
for a Pushcart Prize in 2004 and again in 2006. Her work has appeared, or will appear in forthcoming journals, including
The Cortland Review, The Pedestal Magazine, ForPoetry, Elixir Press, Mad Poets Review,
Schuykill Valley Journal of the Arts, upstreet, Umbrella, and wordsonwalls Literary Fresco.
Small-McKinney was guest editor for the June 2006 issue of The Pedestal Magazine and interviewed Pulitzer Prize
nominee poet, Bruce Smith, for their April 2006 issue. She has a Masters in Clinical Neuropsychology from Drexel University
and makes her living as a group facilitator and counselor for families and children.
AMY SMALL-MCKINNEY IN THIS EDITION:
POEM: Map of Remembering
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Jonathan Maberry
has been a professional writer for thirty years and has sold over a dozen nonfiction books, three novels (including
Ghost Road Blues, June 2006, Pinnacle), and over 900 articles, as well as short stories, poetry, plays, video
scripts, song lyrics, and more. He is a book doctor and writing teacher, and is a frequent lecturer at writers’
conferences.
WEBSITE: www.JonathanMaberry.com
EMAIL: jmaberry@wildriverreview.com
JONATHAN MABERRY IN THIS EDITION:
SPOTLIGHT: Thrill-Ride — An Interview with Barry Eisler
SPOTLIGHT: Thrill-Ride — An Interview with David Housewright
SPOTLIGHT: Thrill-Ride — An Interview with Bill Kent
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Birute Mar
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A poet and actress, Birute Mar’s poetry collections include Neissiusti Laiskai (VPU Press, 1995),
Kokoro (Vaga, 1999) and Solo (Strofa, 2001). A member of the ensemble of the prestigious Lithuanian
National Drama Theatre, she has traveled across Europe and to South America and the United States giving
award-winning solo performances of her adaptations of “The Lover,” “Antigone,” and
“Words in the Sand” under the stage name of Birute Marcinkevicuite. This is her first publication
in the United States.
BIRUTE MAR IN THIS EDITION:
POETRY: Necklace of Silence
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John Moskowitz
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John Moskowitz, WRR Contributing Editor
John is a professional business consultant that has performed project management, coaching/training and process
improvement for clients in the pharmaceutical, credit card and construction materials industries among others.
He has been responsible for the design of PowerPoint presentations for executive management, training materials
focused on financial analysis, project management and process improvement and flow mapping, step-by-step
instructions for software self-help menus and templates for teaching six sigma statistical control concepts.
He has also authored numerous corporate internal change management communications to reinforce company-wide policy.
EMAIL: jmoskowitz@wildriverreview.com
JOHN MOSKOWITZ IN THIS EDITION:
ART: The Art of Jonathan Cox
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Steve Myers
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Steve Myers grew up in Holicong, Pennsylvania and since has lived for extended periods in various corners
of the state as well as in Rochester, N.Y. and Glasgow, Scotland. His poetry collection, Memory's Dog,
appeared from FootHills Publishing in 2004; his chapbook, Work Site, was published by FootHills in
2003. Individual poems have recently appeared or will soon appear in Atlanta Review, caesura,
The Dark Horse, Kestrel, The Malahat Review, Potomac Review, Quarter After
Eight, and Sentence, as well as in the anthology Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on
Pennsylvania. He is Professor of English at DeSales University in Center Valley.
STEVE MYERS IN THIS EDITION:
POETRY: Moon in March with Fieldstone
POETRY: What I Became
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Faith Paulsen
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Faith Paulsen has wanted to be a fiction writer since 4th grade but life interfered with her plans. This is her first published fiction. She lives, writes, and carpools in Norristown Pennsylvania with her husband, three sons, and multiple pets.
FAITH PAULSEN IN THIS EDITION:
FIRST BYLINES: Seascape
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Elizabeth Rivers
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Elizabeth Rivers has published work in the Schuylkill Valley Journal and The Christian Century.
She has won the Milton Dorfman Poetry Prize and the Portland Pen Poetry Contest and has also received countless
rejections. She is grateful for the community of poets she is getting to know in the Philadephia region and
for her present opportunities to learn more about reading and writing poetry.
ELIZABETH RIVERS IN THIS EDITION:
POETRY: Shelled Almonds
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Katherine Schimmel Abdel Baki
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Katherine Schimmel Baki is co-founder of haut>art, an art consulting company whose mission is to acquaint the public with the work
of new artists and to create visually compelling spaces for its clients. Katherine has a longstanding interest in the perceptual
dynamics of visual and aural phenomena. She holds a BA degree in Professional Music from Berklee College of Music and a graduate
degree (ALM) in the field of Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. She has spent a considerable amount of time in the
Middle East conducting original research on the Adhan, the Islamic oral call to prayer. Her field work in Cairo resulted in a
dissertation entitled, Hayya ‘ala al-Salat: The Socio-Religious Impact of the Adhan on the Muslim Community of Cairo,
(1994). In 2005-2006, she was part of the Quark Park team of Princeton, New Jersey, whose goal was to generate greater public
interest in science and art through the creation of an interactive 18,000 square foot science park in the heart of town. Katherine
is currently working on a number of research projects within the fields of ethnomusicology and social anthropology.
KATHERINE SCHIMMEL ABDEL BAKI IN THIS EDITION:
COLUMN: The Mystic Pen — Introduction
COLUMN: The Mystic Pen — Interview with Dr. William A. Graham
COLUMN: The Mystic Pen — The Phenomenology of Islam
COLUMN: The Mystic Pen — The Gift
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Joe Scorsone
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BORN: 1942, USA
EDUCATION: The University of Buffalo (BFA), The University of Illinois (MFA)
Joe Scorsone and Alice Drueding (Scorsone/Drueding aka sdposters.com)
have been designing posters together since 1986. They are also faculty members in the Graphic and Interactive Design program at Tyler
School of Art of Temple University. Their work has appeared in many international publications and exhibitions, has received numerous
awards, and is in permanent collections around the world.
WEBSITE: www.SDposters.com
JOE SCORSONE IN THIS EDITION:
ART: The Posters of Scorsone/Drueding by Joe Scorsone and Alice Drueding
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Marc Schuster
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Marc Schuster teaches English at Montgomery County Community College. His fiction has appeared in Weird Tales,
Redivider, and Philadelphia Stories, among other journals. He is currently a reader for
Philadelphia Stories.
EMAIL: marc.schuster@verizonmail.com
MARC SCHUSTER IN THIS EDITION:
SHORT STORY: Slow
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Elizabeth Sheldon
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Elizabeth Sheldon is a media executive who works in New York City as Vice President of Lorber HT Digital. She is the recipient
of three National Endowment for the Humanities Television & Radio Grants and a frequent industry speaker and writer. She has an
M.A. in Germanic Languages & Literatures from Princeton University and as a Fulbright Scholar she researched and produced a film
on the effects of reunification for east German women. She attended Humboldt University in Berlin and received her B.A. from Mills
College in Philosophy. She lives in Princeton with her husband and son.
ELIZABETH SHELDON IN THIS EDITION:
REVIEW: The Prisoner, or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
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Jill Sherer Murray
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Jill Sherer Murray, WRR Contributing Editor
Jill Sherer Murray is an award-winning journalist, whose work has appeared in a variety of business- and
health-related media. In addition to writing feature articles, scripts, books and other marketing, corporate
and creative communications for more than 18 years, she designs and facilitates corporate communication
workshops and seminars for clients like Gatorade, PepsiCo, Tellerx, and Quaker Oats (to name a few). A
former “Weight Loss Diary” columnist for Shape Magazine, she took six million readers
(who now know how much she weighs) on her journey to get fit each month through a series of personal essays
and live chats. Currently, Jill is working on her second novel and rewriting her first — again — so she can get
it to her agent before he dies or retires. You can read about her writing and other pursuits (i.e., dating
and marriage) in her blog
“Diary of a Writer in Mid-Life Crisis,”
which is featured on the Wild River Review. She lives in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, with her husband Dan, her
rescue dog Winnie, too many houseguests, and a lot of chocolate and over-the-counter pain medication.
EMAIL: jsherer@wildriverreview.com
JILL SHERER MURRAY IN THIS EDITION:
BLOG: Diary of a Writer in Midlife Crisis
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Joy E. Stocke
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Joy E. Stocke, Executive Editor & Founder
Joy E. Stocke has published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and has written about and lectured widely on her travels in Turkey and Greece, as well as religion, ancient and modern.
In addition to a travel memoir, Anatolian Days and Nights, she is working on her second book of poems set in Greece, and a novel set in the U.S., Germany, and Crete.
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison with a Bachelor of Science in Home Economics/Journalism, she participated in the Lindisfarne Symposium on The Evolution of Consciousness with William Irwin Thompson at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City. She is founding partner of Writers Corner USA, where she consults with writers at all levels, specializing in book proposals and book length manuscripts.
JOY E. STOCKE IN THIS EDITION:
PEN WORLD VOICES: Language Within Silence — An Interview with Norwegian Writer Per Petterson
PEN WORLD VOICES: Tonight We Rest Here — An Interview with Poet Saadi Youssef
SPOTLIGHT: Arabic from Left to Right — An Interview with Saad Abulhab
SPOTLIGHT: Fly Me to the Moon — A Conversation with Mathematician and Artist, Ed Belbruno
SPOTLIGHT: The Other Side Of Abu Ghraib (Part 1) — The Detainees’ Quest for Justice
SPOTLIGHT: Poetry, Science, and the Big Bang — John Timpane Goes to Cambridge
SPOTLIGHT: Rumi and Coke — An Excerpt from Anatolian Days and Nights: A Love Affair with Turkey
QUARK PARK: Of Algorithms, Google & Snow Globes — An Interview with Computer Scientist David Dobkin, Dean of Faculty at Princeton University
QUARK PARK: The Scientist as Rebel — Freeman Dyson Talks About Nuclear Weapons, Space Travel, and the Future
QUARK PARK: The Solace of Vacant Spaces — Interview with Peter Soderman
QUARK PARK: Music in Stone — Sculptor Jonathan Shor
UP THE CREEK: Editor’s Notes
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Marylou Kelly Streznewski
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Marylou Kelly Streznewski’s career has included theater, journalism, and the teaching of creative writing
at high school and college level. She is the author of Gifted Grownups: The Mixed Blessings of Extraordinary
Potential, a study of one hundred gifted adults, and two chapbooks of poetry, Woman Words and Rag
Time. Her short story, “Nonna’s Room” will appear shortly on Amazon Shorts. Formerly the
Poetry Editor of The Bucks County Review, Streznewski lives in Bucks County and is at work on her second novel.
MARYLOU KELLY STREZNEWSKI IN THIS EDITION:
PROFILE: Thinking with Muscle and Tongue — The Poetry of Donald Hall
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DJ T’challah
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Groomed to be an accomplished dealer of funky music from childhood, T’challah has studied all genres of music as an avid
listener and drummer, guitarist and singer. He began Dee-Jaying parties at eight years old. He graduated from Essex County College
where he majored in communications. T’challah has done approximately sixty weddings and 105 award ceremonies. A graduate
from The Center for Media Arts with their “Golden Ear” Award, T’challah studied to become a recording and
video engineer. He has worked for Hype Williams and Erik White as a live sound engineer and on videos for successful Rap Artist
D.M.X., Ja-rule, and Nelly. He’s currently producing Hip-Hop and R&B acts with Erik White and Michael “Moon” Reuben.
DJ T’CHALLAH IN THIS EDITION:
COLUMN: Storiedmusic — In the Beginning
COLUMN: Storiedmusic — Where DJ T finds a home. Or does he?
COLUMN: Storiedmusic — The Night I Walked Out
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Kazunori Takenaga
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Kazunori “Ken” Takenaga is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War, where he first met
W. D. “Bill” Ehrhart. Takenaga, then a Japanese National, now holds dual American and Japanese
citizenship. He is currently a tourism specialist working for hotels in the Seto Inland Sea area of Japan.
KAZUNORI TAKENAGA IN THIS EDITION:
POETRY: Untitled Temple Poem
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William Irwin Thompson
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William Irwin Thompson was born in 1938 in Chicago Illinois. The family moved to Southern California at the end
of World War II where he earned a B.A. at Pomona College. His formal education continued at Cornell University,
where he held a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (M.A. [1964]; Ph.D. [1966]). He became a member of the faculty in Humanities
at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965 and remained until 1968, when he left MIT to teach at York University
in Toronto (1968-1973).
Although he has held various other visiting appointments — at Syracuse University, the University of Hawaii,
University of Toronto, Western Behavioral Sciences Institute, and the California Institute of Integral Studies —
Thompson has since remained outside of academe. In Passage About Earth, Thompson writes about individuals from
the ‘60s — among them Ralph Nader, Buckminster Fuller, Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, John Lilly — who
“left institutions behind to become institutions in their own right.”
In 1972, Thompson founded The Lindisfarne Association, originally based in New York, later to find a permanent home
in Crestone, Colorado, home of the Lindisfarne Fellows House and the Lindisfarne Chapel. For 25 years, under the
sponsorship of its Dean — and chair of the Association — James Park Morton, Lindisfarne was headquartered
in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York.
The Association also gave rise the Lindisfarne Press, which, though no longer an independent house, still publishes
under its own imprint for The Anthroposophical Press.
WEBSITE: www.WilliamIrwinThompson.org
WILLIAM IRWIN THOMPSON IN THIS EDITION:
POETRY: Canticum, Turicum
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Christopher Tiefel
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Christopher Tiefel, WRR Associate Editor
Christopher Tiefel is a noun & verb collector & organizer. A poet working as a freelance editor & writer, Chris has discovered
that his favorite word is steep. In June he attended the Juniper Writing Institute after graduating from Kutztown University with
a degree in English/Professional Writing. While at Kutztown he managed the literary magazine Shoofly & also received the
Raymond Ford award for poetry, & the Mary S. Kittle award for social & environmental justice. Now engaged, Chris is working on
a chapbook & a catalog of this work can be found at Treefull,
a collaborative poetry blog updated maybe regularly.
CHRISTOPHER TIEFEL IN THIS EDITION:
SPOTLIGHT: The Other Side Of Abu Ghraib (Part 1) — The Detainees’ Quest for Justice
BLOG: Live @ PEN World Voices
REVIEW: What Feeds Us by Diane Lockward
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John Timpane
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John Timpane is Associate Editor of the Editorial Board of the Philadelphia Inquirer. He edits “Currents”,
the Inquirer’s Sunday ideas section; he also writes editorials and op-eds and consults on the daily “Commentary
Page.” Before coming to the Inquirer in 1997, he taught English at colleges and universities for 17 years. He has
published poetry, fiction, essays, criticism, and four books: Writing Worth Reading (coauthored with Nancy H. Packer:
NY: St. Martin, 1994), It Could Be Verse (Berkeley: Ten Speed, 1995), Poetry for Dummies (coauthored with Maureen
Watts: NY: Hungry Minds, 2000), and Usonia, NY: Building a Community with Frank Lloyd Wright (coauthored with Roland
Reiseley: NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000). He is married to Maria-Christina Keller, copy executive of Scientific
American; they live in Lawrenceville with their children, Pilar and Conor.
JOHN TIMPANE IN THIS EDITION:
ART: Natural Beauty — Paintings by Eliza Drake Auth & Poems by John Timpane
POETRY: Song of the Blessed One — The Bhagavad-Gita, Canto 11
SPOTLIGHT: Poetry, Science, and the Big Bang: John Timpane
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Pilar Timpane
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Pilar Timpane is a Social Work student at Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, NJ. Currently she is serving a year as a
short-term missionary in Valle de Chalco, Mexico where she is working at la Biblioteca Lampara del Camino (Light for the
Path Library). The library provides tutoring, english classes, and works in tandem with the local church to serve the
area’s children.
PILAR TIMPANE IN THIS EDITION:
AIRMAIL: Here is Your Neighbor — This is Mexico
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J. C. Todd’s poems and translations have appeared in the anthology Shade 2004, and in
American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard
Review and other journals. Pine Press published two chapbooks: Nightshade (1995) and
Entering Pisces (1985).
Awards include a fellowship in poetry from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, two awards for poetry from
the Leeway Foundation, a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts international artist exchange fellowship to
the Schloss Wiepersdorf colony in Germany, a scholarship to The Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators
in Sweden, and a stipend from the Latvian Cultural Capital Foundation. Her poems have received five Pushcart
Prize nominations.
She is an associate editor for the poetry web magazine, The Drunken Boat
(www.thedrunkenboat.com), where she
has edited special features on contemporary Lithuanian and Latvian poetry in translation, and she was guest
poetry editor for the Summer, 2005 issue of The Bucks County Review, and co-editor of “Recurrence
in Another Tongue: Poets Translating Poets” that appeared in Frigate 4 in 2003.
A lecturer in Creative Writing and in the Writing for College program at Bryn Mawr College, she has an MFA
from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
J. C. TODD IN THIS EDITION:
SPOTLIGHT: The Quiet Maverick — An Interview with J. C. Todd
POETRY: Instant of Turbulence
POETRY: Men Kissing
POETRY: Necklace of Silence
POETRY: Nightshade
POETRY: Pissing
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Steve Tomsko
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Steve Tomsko lives in Harleysville, PA with his lovely wife, two wonderful daughters, four loyal dogs, and
one Zen cat, where he writes fiction for the love of it and nurtures the dream of a best-seller.
STEVE TOMSKO IN THIS EDITION:
SHORT STORY: The First Pinto
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Jennifer C. Werner
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Jennifer C. Werner is a recent graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, having received her B.A. in English with a concentration
in Creative Writing in May 2006. She is currently playing the waiting game, having applied to multiple MFA programs in Poetry. She
resides in Princeton, NJ.
JENNIFER C. WERNER IN THIS EDITION:
REVIEW: Gulliver as Slave Trader — Racism Reviled
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Phoebe Wilcox
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Phoebe Wilcox grew up in river communities along the Delaware River in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Through
her writing she aspires to tell an engaging story while imparting a message of hope for people in difficult
circumstances. She takes inspiration from the idyllic rural character of her childhood’s landscapes, and the
beauty that is still prevalent in her local area. She is employed by The County of Bucks as a social worker
and lives with her husband and two children. This is her first publication. The larger story, a novel entitled
Angels Carry the Sun, is currently in pursuit of an agent.
PHOEBE WILCOX IN THIS EDITION:
NOVEL EXCERPT: Angels Carry the Sun
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Jennifer Williamson
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Jennifer Williamson grew up in Vermont. She went to college in upstate New York, and has been living in
Philadelphia for the past few years. She’s had her work featured in Interact Theatre’s
“Writing Aloud” series, and has won prizes for poetry from the Academy for American Poets
and NPR. She is a freelance copywriter by day, and by night can be found at open readings and theatre
auditions throughout the Philadelphia area.
JENNIFER WILLIAMSON IN THIS EDITION:
POEM: Tall Naked Ships in Spike Heels
SHORT STORY: Bone by Bone
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Dave Worrell
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Dave Worrell studied literature and philosophy at Union College in beautiful Schenectady, New York. His poems have appeared
in US 1 Worksheets and Mad Poets Review. He has performed poems at Chris’ Jazz Café in Philadelphia.
He is a fatalistic Phillies fan.
DAVE WORRELL IN THIS EDITION:
POEM: Snowfall
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Bill Wunder
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Bill Wunder’s poems have twice been nominated for The Pushcart Prize, and in 2004 he was named Poet Laureate of Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. His poems have been a finalist in The Robert Fraser Poetry Competition, The Mad Poet’s Society Competition twice,
and The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards three times. Recently, his work has appeared in The Manhattan Review, Lips,
The Paterson Literary Review, Mad Poet’s Review, Drexel University On-Line Journal, Wild River Review,
and others. He has read or lectured in many venues, including local schools, James A. Michener Museum, Bucks County Community College,
The Poetry Project at The Montgomery Theater and The Joaquin Miller Cabin Poetry Series sponsored by the National Park Service. Via
Dolorosa Press in Cleveland, Ohio published Bill’s chapbook titled A Season Of Storms. His book Pointing At the Moon
is forthcoming from Wordtech Communications.
BILL WUNDER IN THIS EDITION:
POEM: Morocco
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Chellis Ying
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Chellis Ying received her MFA at the University of San Francisco and her BA at Kenyon College. She has been
published in Best Travel Writing 2005, Best Women’s Travel Writing 2005, SoMa Literary
Review, Driftwood Literary Review, and throughout the Guardian. She is the Program Coordinator for
Abroad Writers’ Conference, volunteer for the Progressive Reading
Series, and the Marketing Director at China Books.
CHELLIS YING IN THIS EDITION:
SHORT STORY: Red Bean Soup
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Dan Zegart
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Dan Zegart is a veteran writer with a comprehensive range of non-fiction experience, from investigative journalism to first-person memoir.
In addition to more than twenty years as an investigative reporter for newspapers, television and national magazines, he also authored an
intimate memoir, presented as a series of letters from a 9/11 widow to her infant daughter.
Zegart’s journalism has been featured in Ms., Playboy, Reader’s Digest, Salon.com and The Nation,
for which he frequently covers legal and political issues. He has written, reported or produced for PBS’s “Frontline,”
ABC News “20/20,” and the ABC “Directions” documentary series. He has consulted for PBS “Nova.”
He also reports and writes for The New York Times.
Zegart’s first book was Civil Warriors: The Legal Siege on the Tobacco Industry (Delacorte, 2000) of which The New York
Times Book Review said, “Zegart succeeds in his ambitious goal of condensing the details of seven litigations, including three
trials, into a single strong narrative populated by vivid characters. Along the way, he provides numerous surprising portraits.”
The premier text on the “cigarette wars” of the nineties, Civil Warriors has been taught in political science, public health,
and law school classes. To write it, Zegart criss-crossed the country over a six-year period, conducting some three hundred interviews and
acquiring more than a million pages of documents.
His latest book, Your Father’s Voice: Letters for Emmy about Life with Jeremy — and Without Him after 9/11, is the story
of Lyz Glick, widow of Jeremy Glick, who died during a failed attempt to drive terrorists from the cockpit of Flight 93 on September 11th.
A paperback version was published in September 2005.
Your Father’s Voice was co-written with Glick and published in 2004 after excerption in Reader’s Digest. Publisher’s
Weekly called it a “beautiful book... unflinching and emotionally powerful,” while Kirkus Reviews said it is a
“poignant addition to the literary legacy of 9/11....an act of preservation as much as of mourning.”
In support of books and articles, Zegart has appeared on ABC television’s “World News Tonight” and “Nightline,” the
BBC World Service, National Public Radio’s “Marketplace,” Air America Radio’s “Ring of Fire” and “Morning
Sedition,” and more than 100 other radio and television programs across the United States and in Canada and Australia. He has spoken or
lectured at the University of Virginia School of Law, Wesleyan University, Princeton University, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, the World
Conference on Tobacco OR Health and elsewhere.
Zegart lives in Lambertville, New Jersey.
DAN ZEGART IN THIS EDITION:
SPOTLIGHT: The Other Side Of Abu Ghraib (Part 1) — The Detainees’ Quest for Justice
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Eveline Zoutendijk
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Eveline Zoutendijk owns and manages the
Sarnic Hotel, built over a fifth-century
Byzantine cistern in Istanbul’s historic district of Sultanahmet. Cordon Bleu-trained chef, she also gives
Turkish cooking classes. Her essay, “The Painting or the Boy”, appears in the collection
Tales From the Expat Harem, Foreign Women in Modern Turkey released in Turkey by Dogan/Kitap Press and was released in
March 2006 in the U.S. and Canada by Seal Press.
EVELINE ZOUTENDIJK IN THIS EDITION:
AIRMAIL: Of Fawlty Towers and Minarets
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