AUTHORS

C. Nolan Deweese is a 24 year-old musician and circus performer for Cirque Du Schmuck. Deweese is currently applying to MFA programs. His work has appeared in SHAMPOO, DIAGRAM, HOBART, and can we have our ball back?.

Erin Elizabeth is a Southern girl who is the present Editor-in-Chief of Stirring : A Literary Collection and a founder of Sundress Publications. Her publication credits include Miller's Pond, Black Bear Review, and Eye Dialect. Erin was voted Favorite Featured Poet of 1999 by Poetry Super Highway and was fellowship winner to the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets in 203. She will be attending the University of Illinois in the fall to pursue an MFA in Poetry.

Matt Hart is the editor of Forklift Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Octopus, Ploughshares, The Canary, and other journals. He teaches in the Academic Studies Department at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

Alan May works as an academic librarian. His poems have appeared in The New Orleans Review, Interim, The Laurel Review, and a handful of other journals. His first chapbook, The Light Coming through the Shape of the Moon, is forthcoming from The Wing and the Wheel Press.

Christopher Mulrooney has poems and translations in The Northridge Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Frank, Poetry Salzburg Review, Renditions, and elsewhere. He is the author of notebook and sheaves.

After almost a decade of working as a freelance photographer in Europe, Maurice Oliver returned to the U.S. in 1990 to work for the Los Angeles Times. In 1995, Oliver made a lifelong dream reality by traveling around the world for eight months. Instead of taking pictures, he used the same acute sense of creative energy to record the experience in a journal, which eventually became hundreds of poems — an so began his ambition to be a poet. Oliver’s poetry has appeared on a number of literary Web sites, including ink-mag.com, retortmag.com, webdelsol.com(ThePotomac), readingdivas.com, deepcleveland.com, onefortytwo.com, holyignorance.com, among others. His work will appear in diceybrown.com, alba.com, taintmagazine.com, and sidereality.com during their Spring/Summer 2004 issues. Oliver currently resides in Portland, Oregon, where he is a tutor.

Transtasman poet/writer Stephen Oliver is the author of twelve titles of poetry. His most recent works include Ballads, Satire & Salt - A Book of Diversions (Illustrations by Matt Ottley, Greywacke Press, Sydney, 2004) and Deadly Pollen (a poetry chapbook, Word Riot Press, NJ, USA, 2004). Oliver’s work has appeared in innumerable print and online journals including Aught, Big Bridge, DIAGRAM, Sidereality, Word / For Word, and Storysouth, among others. A considered review of his two recent titles can be found at JAS Review of Books. His forthcoming work includes The Throat's Arroyo (a poetry chapbook, Impressed Publishing, Brisbane, 2004). Oliver lives in Sydney. Click here to visit his homepage.

Ren Powell is a teacher, translator, performer and poet, a native Californian now living on the west coast of Norway. Powell has published several books of poetry translations and a personal collection, Fairy Tails and Soil, was published in Norway in 1999 as a bilingual edition (Wigestrand Forlag publishing house). Powell’s work has appeared in Seque and Big City Lit. Powell is a member of the Norwegian writer’s guild, Forfattersentrum, and this spring Powell’s second collection of poems, Mixed State, will be published by Wigestrand Forlag, also as a bilingual edition.

Sheila Mulligan received a 2002 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction. She lives in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

G. David Schwartz is the former president of Seedhouse, the online interfaith committee. Schwartz is the author of A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue, and coauthor, with Jacqueline Winston, of Parables In Black and White. He is currently a volunteer at Drake Hospital in Cincinnati and continues to write essays, and fiction.

Brandon Shimoda currently lives in between two smallish lakes and down the road from the Division of Prisons Facilities, in the town of Woodfin, North Carolina. In addition to his many nights there, he has spent innumerable in both Oaxaca, Mexico and Albany, New York. Shimoda’s writing on these two opposing forces has appeared or will appear soon in Mot Juste, The Adirondack Review, Whalelane, Pierian Springs, sidereality, and elsewhere.

Laurel Snyder's poetry has appeared in AL&C, Gulf Coast and Post Road. Snyder is currently revising a novel for children (strange ones) and obsessing over her Web site, jewishyirishy.com.

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