CONTRIBUTOR'S NOTES: A--N

GARY ADLER is a poet/songwriter/musician/sculptor. He performs with his band, Migrant Pickers.http://migrant-picker.stumbleupon.com

STEPHANIE ANAGNOSON
is a writer and poet living in Southern California.

AMY BALLARD's poetry has appeared in Open Spaces Quarterly. She is a newspaper correspondent living in Idaho who has had some success with magazine articles as well. Website: www.amyballard.com

NICOLETTE BETHEL
was born and raised in Nassau, Bahamas, where she currently resides. She has lived, studied and worked in the UK and Canada, and is now apprenticed to the Government for her sins and others'. She is a playwright, a poet, a fiction writer and an anthropologist, and her work has been published in a variety of places, including Calabash, The Caribbean Writer, The Amherst Review, The Paumonak Review, II, and numerous local and regional collections.

RUMJHUM BISWAS is an erstwhile copywriter. Her prose and poetry have been published in many online and print magazines and anthologies in India and abroad. Her poem "Cleavage" was in the long list of the Bridport Poetry Competition 2006. More about her work at www.rumjhumbiswas.com

HOWIE GOOD, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of three poetry chapbooks, Death of the Frog Prince (2004) and Heartland (2007), both from FootHills Publishing, and Strangers & Angels (2007) from Scintillating Publications. He was recently nominated for the second time for a Pushcart Prize.

GILES GOODLAND has had a few books of poetry published, including Littoral (Oversteps, 1996), A Spy in the House of Years (Leviathan, 2001) and Capital (Salt, 2006).


JAMES KILNER is writing a PhD thesis on the poetry of Ted Hughes at York St John University in England. His own poetry has been published previously in Words-Myth, while it has also appeared in various UK literary journals,
including Aesthetica and The New Writer.


CHRIS MAJOR lives in staffordshire England. He has had poetry in many print and online mags, including Words Myth.

RICK MARLATT is a middle school English teacher from Kearney, NE and a MA Creative Writing student at the University of Nebraska. He earned a BAE in English Language Arts and a BA from UNK. This fall, he will begin work towards an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California Riverside at Palm Desert. Previous work has appeared or will be appearing such journals and magazines as Blue House, Slow Trains, Language and Culture, The Carillon, The Reynolds Review, Universal Journal, and the University of Nebraska Research Journal.


DAN McALOON, 50, is a native of Sydney, NSW, Australia. When he is not working as a journalist and editor in the non-profit sector, he pursues his creative writing. In the 1980s he wrote original radio plays and (co-wrote) a comedy series about a rock'n'roll detective for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. His play "The Peacemaker' was a nominee for an AWGIE (Australian Writers Guild) in 1985. The previous year his first published short story "Caesar and Reece" appeared in the influential paperback series 'Australian Short Stories'. Dan's earliest published works were poems that appeared in mid-70s surfing magazines. Contact email: mcaloon.dan@gmail.com


ALANNA McDONALD is a young aspiring poet, hailing from the belly of the Midwest. Her work deals primarily with the fruitful worlds of academia and travel. As simply a nubile undergraduate, Alanna and her poetry are stepping into the world, adding a little heart, bite and wonder.

JOHN N. MILLER Though born in Ohio (1933), John N. Miller grew up in Hawai'i (1937-1951) and retired from college teaching (British and American literature, creative writing) in 1997. He now lives with his German-born wife in an elegant geriatric ghetto ("retirement community") in Lexington, VA.


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