Contributors
The most recent work of Daphne Athas, author of Entering Ephesus, The Fourth World and other novels, is a maverick grammar, Gram-O-Rama, published in 2007, called "dangerous" by David Krinsky, writer-producer of TV's "King of the Hill." She retired from teaching at the University of North Carolina in 2009. Her next book, Chapel Hill in Plain Sight: Notes from the Other Side of the Tracks, is due in late 2010 from Eno Publishers.
Bryan Banke, native of Las Vegas, Nevada, grew up in the city's omnipotent service sector and witnessed its transition from an efficient semi-autonomous gambling mecca to its current corporate cash cow state. Much of his writing style and content originates from this period. After a multiple-year hiatus in Europe, Bryan returned to the U.S. where he is currently the Director of Asset Management Services for the nation's premier independent solar development firm. He resides with his wife and daughter in San Francisco.
Jeffery Beam is poetry editor of OBR and a botanical librarian in the Biology Chemistry Library at UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His new book, Gospel Earth, a "big book of little poems," is now available from Skysill Press, England.
Thomas Boulan hangs out with the homeless all day. It's his job. He likes it. He once belonged to a writing group that met in a pathology library at a local hospital. Unfortunately, there were no specimens for viewing and this added to his discontent. His work has appeared in a number of print and online journals, including Natural Bridge, Pindeldyboz, The MacGuffin, Thieves Jargon, Word Riot, Taj Mahal Review, Octopusbeakinc, and Southern Ocean Review.
Michael Charlton's stories have been published in such magazines as REAL, The MacGuffin, and Distillery. He grew up in Ohio and currently lives outside of Chicago.
Sixteen in the clip and one in the hole, Joshua Citrak's 'bout to make all the people say, "oh!"
Thomas A. Clark lives with his artist wife Laurie in the fishing village of Pittenweem, in Fife, Scotland, where they run Moschatel Press. Thomas Clark's books include A Still Life and Ways Through Bracken (both from The Jargon Society), Madder Lake (Coach House Press, Toronto), Tormentil & Bleached Bones (Polygon, Edinburgh), One Hundred Scottish Places (October, Eindhoven), Distance & Proximity (Pocketbooks, Edinburgh), The Path to the Sea (Arc, Todmorden), and numerous small books and cards from his own Moschatel Press. His poetry has gained an international reputation for its fullness in stillness, its deceptive simplicity, and its deep relation to the natural world. The Clarks hand print some of the most beautiful and delightful limited edition poetry works found anywhere.
Zheng Danyi, born in Sichuan in 1963, is regarded in China as one of the ten leading poets of his generation. He currently lives and writes from Hong Kong. He toured his new and selected The Wings of Summer: Selected Poems, 1984-1997 (2003) to North America and Europe to large audiences that defied all expectations. He is currently at work on a new book, as yet untitled.
Joe Franklin's stories have appeared in the Clackamus Literary Review. He lives in San Francisco, where he works as a copywriter in an advertising agency.
Richard Mark Glover is a freelance writer contracting for several regional newspapers including the Big Bend Sentinel in Marfa, Texas. His fiction includes the short story, "Chef Menteur," winner of the 2005 William March Award. After uprooting from post-Katrina New Orleans, he now lives with his wife Lori and four kids in the mountains of west Texas near Mexico.
Luo Hui has followed his success with the translation of Wings of Summer with an outstanding set of new translations, including two new ones by Zheng Danyi, appear in a web chapbook produced by The Literary Review and edited by J. P. Seaton. He is also the translator of Delicate Access by Madeleine Marie Slavick into Chinese. His translations have appeared in Beacons, Asia Literary Review, and The Literary Review. He teaches Chinese in New Zealand.
Brian Kirkpatrick lives with his family in central Texas.
Chris Riseley's first novel, Dog's Days, was published in 2004. His most recent novel, Coffee Drinkers Preferred, placed third in the Utah Arts Council's Original Writing Competition. His short fiction has appeared in Buzz Magazine and Mind In Motion. Chris teaches writing and literature at Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, Oregon. He lives with his wife and two children in Corvallis.
Mark A. Roberts teaches in Virginia Intermont College's literature and creative writing program. His critical book reviews and poems have appeared in many journals including Interdiscplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, The Asheville Poetry Review, Thin Air, and The Chariton Review. He lives with his wife and four children in view of the Holston mountain range in Bristol, Virginia.
Tyler Turkle and his daughter Lane Turkle have been documenting post-Katrina New Orleans since 2007 in support of relief, recovery, and rebuilding efforts. Their previous collaboration credits include the films, "The Last Days of Eddie Marsicano" (1994), "Harry Crews: Survival is Triumph Enough"(2007), and "State of Snakes" (2008). Their most recent documentary video project, "Deep South" is due for release through Canyon Cinema and United Pictures International in the fall of 2010. They live in Tallahassee, Florida.