CONTRIBUTOR NOTES - ISSUE #24

Jeffrey Alfier is a 2009 Pushcart prize nominee. His poems have appeared in The Cape Rock, Iron Horse Literary Review and Permafrost, with work forthcoming in Chiron Review. His chapbooks are Strangers Within the Gate (2005) and Offloading the Wounded (2010), and he serves as co-editor of San Pedro River Review
        Recommended poet: Brian Turner

Amelia Cook, after spending her twenties exploring warmer places like Honduras, Ecuador, and Tybee Island, has returned north and is settling in to her third decade of life in her home state of Wisconsin. She spends her days as Assistant Director for International Admissions at Madison’s Edgewood College and her evenings freelancing and teaching creative writing. Since 2007, she has been a regular contributor to Isthmus, Madison’s arts and entertainment weekly, covering local theater and other miscellany. Her earthly pleasures include Friday night fish fries, This American Life, and sharing a pitcher of Spotted Cow Ale with friends and family. She is pleased to be pursuing her MFA in poetry through the University of New Orleans.
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Jehanne Dubrow is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Stateside (Northwestern University Press 2010). Her work has appeared in Poetry, New England Review, The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, and Ploughshares. She is an assistant professor of creative writing and literature at Washington College, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
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Suzanne Frischkorn is the author of Girl on a Bridge, (2010) and Lit Windowpane, (2008) both from Main Street Rag Publishing. In addition she is the author of five chapbooks, most recently, American Flamingo, (2008). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Her honors include an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, an Emerging Writers Fellowship from The Writer's Center, and the Aldrich Poetry Award. She serves an Assistant Editor for Anti- Poetry Magazine.
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Brent Goodman is the author of Trees are the Slowest Rivers (1998 Sarasota Poetry Theatre), Wrong Horoscope (1999 Thorngate Road), and The Brother Swimming Beneath Me (2009 Black Lawrence Press).
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Leslie Harrison’s debut book of poems, Displacement, won the 2008 Bakeless prize in poetry and was published by Mariner Books, a division of Houghton Mifflin, in July of 2009. She holds graduate degrees from The Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, Irvine. Her poems have been widely published, including the Best of the Web and Best of the Net anthologies, The New Republic, Poetry, Memorious, Barn Owl Review and elsewhere. She as been a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and a Bakeless Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She lives in a small house in a small town in rural western Massachusetts.
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Andrew Howdle is a teacher in the UK, with 25 years experience, an Equalities Consultant and also an Eductional Drama Consultant. He holds a BA degree from the University of Manchester in English (Literature and Linguistics) and a research MA from the University of York. His specialisms relate to Renaissance poetry and Contemporary Poetics. He has run a poetry blog since April 2006 and is the author of Test Case for All, Equality, Empowerment and Excellence in Education.
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Susanna Lamey is a Pennsylvania native who received a dual MA in Poetry and Graphic Design from Boston University, with additional study at Susquehanna University and Ohio State. Susanna's poetry has appeared in Puerto del Sol and The Mid-American Review, and she is an AWP Intro Awards winner. Designer by day, poet by night, she currently lives in Boston, MA. Find her online at www.susannalameydesign.com (withabanjo@gmail.com)
        Recommended poet: Julia Kasdorf

Michael Lauchlan has lived in and around Detroit for his entire life. His most recent chapbook is Sudden Parade, from Riverside Press. Poems have appeared in many publications including New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Victoria Park, The North American Review, Ninth Letter, Natural Bridge, Apple Valley Review, Chiron Review, and The Collagist, and have been included in Abandon Automobile, from Wayne State University Press and in A Mind Apart, from Oxford Press. (mlauchlan@gmail.com)
        Recommended poets: Robert Hass, W.S. Merwin, Louise Gluck

Jennifer Luebbers was born and grew up in Columbus, Ohio. Currently, she lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she works as a fashion writer/editor for ModCloth.com, an independent, online clothing retailer.  In May 2009, she received her undergraduate degree from Denison University. Her poems have previously appeared in The Albion Review and Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics & Poetry/ Literature & Culture. (jen.luebbers@gmail.com)
        Recommended poet: Alison Stine

Ted McCarthy lives and teaches in Clones, and has had work published in Ireland, Britain, Europe and the States. He has a couple of scripts for short films in pre-production at the moment, and will have a second collection,  working title Beverly Downs published in 2011. He can be found online at www.writingonthewind.com (edmundmcc@hotmail.com)
        Recommended poet: Rebecca O'Connor

Nathan McClain currently lives and works in Los Angeles. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Water~Stone Review, RHINO, Tar River Poetry, Barn Owl Review, and Pebble Lake Review. (nathan.mcclain@gmail.com)
        Recommended poet: Terrance Hayes

Jill McDonough teaches incarcerated college students through Boston University’s Prison Education Program;  her poems appear in The Threepenny Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Slate, and elsewhere.  Her first book, Habeas Corpus (2008), is a collection of 50 sonnets, each one about a legal execution in American history. The winner of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the NEA, the Fine Arts Work Center, Stanford’s Stegner Program, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, McDonough is a 2010 Witter Bynner Fellow at the Library of Congress, and always looking for work.  She blogs at www.jailnotyale.blogspot.com (jilljill@bu.edu)
        Recommended poet: Alexandra Teague

Peter Munro is a fisheries scientist who works in the Bering Sea, the Aleutian Islands, the Gulf of Alaska, and Seattle. (munrop@sprynet.com)
        Recommended poet: David Lee

James Owens has two books of poetry, An Hour is the Doorway (Black Lawrence Press, 2007) and Frost Lights a Thin Flame (Mayapple Press, 2007). He lives in New Carlisle, Indiana. He blogs at www.klagewelt.blogspot.com (voixettemps@gmail.com)
        Recommended poet: Erin Keane

Steven Reese teaches at Youngstown State University in Ohio.  His second book of poems, American Dervish, will appear from Salmon Press in 2011.  A selection of his work has recently been translated and published in Cuba. (screese@ysu.edu)
        Recommended poet: H.L. Hix

Laurie Schorr's black and white photographs have been exhibited at the A.I.R. Gallery in DUMBO, New York for the 2008 Biennial Exhibition, Furthermore, curated by Lilly Wei, as well as with the Inaugural Exhibition of the Blue Door Gallery in Yonkers, New York. Most recently, Laurie’s photographs were honored at the GLAAD OutAuction NYC, in both 2008 and 2009, when she was awarded with Best Emerging Artist in Photography. Laurie works in special education and community arts programs and is a Teaching Assistant with the Teen Academy at the International Center for Photography. She is on her way down to Charlotte, North Carolina to teach at The Light Factory and the Women Centered Art Cooperative.
        Recommended photographers: Anne Arden McDonald, Lee Miller, Dora Maar, Jeffrey Silverthorne

Leon Weinmann is a poet and teacher who lives in Connecticut. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Antioch Review, Boston Review, Mimesis, Long Poem Magazine, and Blackbird. He has just finished his first ms of poems, The Engravings. (leonweinmann@yahoo.com)
        Recommended poets: Karl Kirchwey, Linda Bierds

Sarah Wetzel is the author of Bathsheba Transatlantic which won the 2009 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and will be published by Anhinga Press in Fall 2010. A daughter of the American South, Sarah somehow ended up in Israel after job-hopping across Europe. She graduated from Georgia Tech in 1989, and in 1997, received a MBA from Berkeley. Sarah completed a MFA from Bennington College in January 2009. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2009, her work appeared or will appear in Barrow Street, Valparaiso, Quiddity, Rattle, Pedestal, Stirring, Folly, TwoReview, Shampoo, and others. Sarah currently divides time between Israel and Manhattan, where she lives with her husband and one needy dog. She blogs at www.strangelandpoems.blogspot.com (srh.wetzel@gmail.com)
        Recommended poet: Maggie Nelson