Cynthia Arrieu-King teaches creative writing at Stockton College in New Jersey and is an echocardiographer. Her poems have or will appear in Black Warrior Review, Prairie Schooner, New Orleans Review, Diagram, Forklift, Ohio, and No Tell Motel. Her chapbook The Small Anything City is available from Dream Horse Press.
Joseph Borja was born and raised in the island of Guam, which is an unincorporated territory of the United States. He is currently a student at the University of Guam.
Jodie Hollander, originally from Milwaukee Wisconsin, makes her living as an English teacher in Monterey, CA. Beyond her writing, Jodie spends her time traveling and competing on the tennis courts. Most recently, she was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship where she investigated education and adolescent life in post apartheid South Africa. Her plans are to continue to write, travel and seek to gain knowledge about people and various cultures around the world.
Kat Meads’s most recent book publication is a novel, The Invented Life of Kitty Duncan. Her essays have appeared in The Missouri Review, New Letters, Drunken Boat, The Southern Review and Agni Online. Her nonfiction collection, Born Southern and Restless, was published by Duquesne University Press. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a California Artist Fellowship and writing residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo and the Millay Colony for the Arts.
Chigozie
Obioma
is a writer of Nigerian descent. He has written and directed
plays in Nigeria since 1996. His short fiction has appeared in
Verbsap
magazine and is forthcoming in Blueprint
Review.
His first novel, The
Native Hurricane
will be published in July 2008 by Athena Press (UK). He is currently
studying and living in Cyprus.
Jana Russ teaches Composition, World Literatures, and Chinese Civilizations at The University of Akron, and is currently enrolled in the MFA program of Northeast Ohio Universities, a consortium of Cleveland State University, Kent State University, Youngstown State University, and The University of Akron. Her poems have appeared in Circle Magazine, The Akros Review, Riverwind, Penguin Review, Georgetown Review, Juice, and Poetry Midwest.
Scott T. Starbuck likes to visit dolphin yoga masters in the waters off Encinitas, CA. He has poems forthcoming in Oregon English Journal, Talking River, and The Trumpeter. Some of his poetry is available online at Blood Orange Review, Terrain.org, and the Nature Writing section at The Raven Chronicles Web site. |
