Fall 2009

Author's Bios

Ordered Alphatically. Older issues's authors still under construction.

 

Guillermo Aldaya (Holguín, 1953) es poeta y pintor cubano. Reside en Río de Janeiro desde 1991. Ha publicado tres libros, entre ellos el poemario Fuera de set (Río de Janeiro, 2004). Mantiene una página de poesía cubana: http://arcoyespuela.blogspot.com/. Su obra plástica ha recibido diversos reconocimientos y ha sido expuesta en ciudades de Cuba, Brasil, Estados Unidos y Japón.
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Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny (Hermosillo, 1973) es Licenciada en Literaturas Hispánicas por la Universidad de Sonora y Maestra en Estudios Humanísticos por el ITESM. Becaria del FONCA en el ciclo 2008-2009. Es autora de los libros de cuento: Gente
Menuda (1999), No son gente como uno (2004) y de la novela Una no habla de esto (2007).
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Lídice Alemán was born in Cuba. She completed her master’s degree in Latin American Literature at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2007. She has published two poetry collections: Entrar descalza (Ediciones Avila, 2002) and Indecisiones del arquero (Ediciones el Abra, 2003). She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Latin American literature, and her interests include contemporary Afro Caribbean poetry, as well as gender and sexuality theory. In 2009, Lídice was named co-recipient of the Eva Sichel Memorial Essay prize for best critical essay in Spanish. She is also completing the Graduate Student Certificate in Women and Gender Studies. For more details go to: www.lidicealeman.com.
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Verónica Ariza es Doctora en Diseño y Comunicación (UPV, España), Maestra en Artes Visuales (UNAM) y Licenciada en Diseño Gráfico (UACJ). Ha expuesto su obra plástica en México, España, Polonia, Venezuela y Taiwán. Actualmente es docente investigadora en la Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez y miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.
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Daniel Bowman Jr.’s work has appeared in The Adirondack Review, American Poetry Journal, The Bitter Oleander, The Midwest Quarterly, Redactions: Poetry & Poetics, Seneca Review, and other journals. He is a student in the MFA program at Seattle Pacific University. He lives in upstate New York and teaches writing at Houghton College.
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Luis Benítez nació en Buenos Aires el 10 de noviembre de 1956. Sus 24 libros de poesía, ensayo, narrativa y teatro han sido publicados en Argentina, Chile, España, Estados Unidos, México, Venezuela y Uruguay y obras suyas fueron traducidas al inglés, francés, alemán, italiano, flamenco, griego y macedonio.
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Emily Brandt teaches English and yoga in Brooklyn, co-edits No, Dear magazine, and is working on her MFA at NYU. Her poems have appeared in Reconfigurations, Podium, BluePrint Review, and Swamp. Her photos have appeared in The New York Times and The Jewish Weekly.
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Dennis Bush’s plays have been performed in New York and throughout the United States and Canada. More than twenty of his plays and monologue collections have been published. He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America and is a contributing columnist for The Dramatist magazine.
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Alfredo Cabildo Salomón nació en la ciudad de México en el año de 1979. Estudió la Licenciatura en Letras Hispánicas en la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana y la Maestría en Letras Mexicanas en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Es alumno del Taller de Poesía y Silencio que coordina el poeta Alfonso D´Aquino. Ha publicado los poemarios Carta Astral, hoja suelta número 4, 2004 y Cuerpos Celestes, hoja suelta número 15, 2008. Su poema “Júpiter en Aries” es parte del libro Talismanes de próxima publicación.
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James Capozzi lives in Binghamton, NY. His poems are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Cream City Review, and Chicago Review.
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Elisa Alejandra Carreño (1980) nació en el bellísimo estado de Guanajuato, pero ha andado vagando los últimos 14 años. Estudió letras en Querétaro y comenzó una maestría en la Universidad de El Paso, Texas (espera continuar sus estudios cuando la fuerza la acompañe otra vez). Hoy día se desempeña como docente a nivel secundaria. Pronto va a cumplir treinta (no le toque el tema) y, como dice el cliché, remontará el vuelo otra vez. Eso cree ella (hagan changuitos para que suceda).
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Andrew Coburn is the author of 13 novels, three made into French films subsequently subtitled in German and Italian. His work has been translated into 14 languages. He lives in Andover, Massachusetts, with his wife Casey Coburn, a former journalist who now teaches writing at a women’s jail.
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Faith Ann Colburn: I’ve canoed the Dismal, ridden with cowboys, camped with buck skinners, and floated the Missouri. I was my grandfather’s little princess, the child who promised my grandmother I’d “carry her over the mud holes.” I couldn’t wait to leave my hometown, but it turns out I’m thoroughly rooted on the Great Plains.
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Jim Daniels’ next book of poems, Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry, will be published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2010. In addition, From Milltown to Malltown, his forthcoming collaboration with the photographer Charlee Brodsky and the fiction writer Jane McCafferty will be published by Marick Press in 2010. He is the Thomas Stockman Baker Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Tabitha Dial has taught poetry to a variety of elementary-age children in Colorado. She has an MFA from Colorado State University and is working on a series of 78 haibun and sketches for her own Tarot deck.
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Meredith Doench graduated with a PhD in creative writing from Texas Tech University and has published in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Harrington Lesbian Literary Quarterly, and others. She is one of the fiction editors for the journal Camera Obscura: Journal of Literature and Photography.
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Janet Edwards was born and raised in Monroe (Funroe), Louisiana. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Louisiana State University. Janet refuses to lose her southern accent while living in New York City, where she is currently working on her MFA at New York University.
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Íos Fernández (Cartagena de Indias, 1979) estudió literatura y teatro. Autor del libro de cuentos El siguiente, por favor (2002). Cuentos, artículos y poemas suyos han aparecido en diversas revistas y magazines literarios. Como periodista ha colaborado con revistas como SOHO y Cartel Urbano. Actualmente se desempeña como libretista para televisión.
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D. G. Fettig is a graduate student in English Literature at St. Thomas University, St. Paul, Minn. In addition to other work, Fettig most recently had a story, “The News,” published in the Summit Avenue Review, May 2009.
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Javier Gaytán Gaytán (México D.F., 1971) se recibió como Licenciado en Letras Hispánicas en la UNAM. Cursó el Diplomado en Creación Literaria de la SOGEM, 2000-2003. Actualmente estudia la Licenciatura en Creación Literaria en la UNAM.
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Leanne Haynes received her undergraduate and master’s degrees at the University of Essex in the UK. She has continued her studies there after winning a scholarship and now is working on a project called: “American Tropics, Towards a Literary Geography” in order to specialize in the writing from and about the Caribbean island of St. Lucia.
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Mauricio Montiel Figueiras (Guadalajara, México, 1968) es narrador, ensayista y traductor. Entre sus libros más recientes se encuentran La penumbra inconveniente (2001), La piel insomne (2002), La errancia. Paseos por un fin de siglo (2005), Terra cognita (2007) y Los animales invisibles (2009). Es columnista del diario El Universal de la Ciudad de México y miembro del Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte.
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Rodolfo Franco is an anthropologist, graphic designer and poet. He was born in Brazil but has lived in Spain since 1989, where he published, among other things, the visual poetry books 22 Corazones and Album de Cromos and co-edited the magazine Delta Nueve. As a poet, he works on several fronts: classical, haiku, concrete, visual, video and performance. He is also a songwriter, practices ludolinguistic procedures with palindromes and anagrams, a member of the band Comando Macondo, and a cultural agitator.
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Griselda García nació en Buenos Aires en 1979. Publicó los libros de poesía Alucinaciones en la alfalfa (2000), El arte de caer (Alicia Gallegos Editora, 2001), La ruta de las arañas (Ediciones del Dock, 2005) y El ojo del que mira (La Carta de Oliver, 2009). Co-dirigió la editorial de poesía La Carta de Oliver. Fue secretaria de redacción de la revista de poesía La Guacha. En la actualidad se dedica al dictado de talleres literarios de escritura creativa, narrativa y poesía. En el taller de clínica de obra ayuda a otros escritores a armar y ordenar el material para publicar sus libros.
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Molly Giles es la autora de Iron Shoes, Rough Translations y Creek Walk. Fue nominada para el Pulitzer Prize por su primer libro de ficción, Rough Translations. Creek Walk fue calificado por el New York Times como uno de los libros más notables de 1997. Hilda Benton ha publicado traducciones de los cuentos de Giles en Opción, Literal: Latin American Voices y Galerna: Revista Internacional de Literatura.
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Jeremy Gregersen is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared in Cimarron Review, The Potomac Review, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. He lives and writes in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Daniel Guzmán is a writer of fiction, surreal and otherwise. His stories have appeared in the New York Press, the L Magazine’s Literary Upstart Series, Mama D’s Arts Bordello, Rosebud Magazine, and the Moth Storytelling Series. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Art. He lives in New York City. www.danielguzman.org.
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Kristen Hernandez is a self-taught photographer working primarily with vintage film cameras. Her photos are often an attempt to capture vignettes of emotion and reflect a strong connection to the patchwork terrain of the Southwest. She currently works and resides in West Texas.
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John Ward Hocter is a writer living in Columbus, Ohio with his beautiful wife of three years.
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R. J. Lambert is a Ph.D. student in Rhetoric and Writing Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso. In 2005, he co-founded and co-edited the literary journal Bat City Review at UT-Austin. His poems have appeared in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review and Copper Nickel.
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Kathy Leonard is a professor of Spanish and Hispanic Linguistics at Iowa State University in Ames. She studied photography at the University of California, Davis, and at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she received a degree in Fine Arts with a specialty in photography. Her photographs have been published in numerous journals, websites, textbooks, short story anthologies, and have been exhibited in various venues in California, Nevada, and Iowa.
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Lyn Lifshin has written more than 125 books and edited 4 anthologies of women writers. Her poems have appeared in most poetry and literary magazines in the U.S.A, and her work has been included in virtually every major anthology of recent writing by women. Recent books: The Licorice Daughter: My Year with Ruffian, Texas Review Press, Another Woman Who Looks Like Me from Black Sparrow at Godine, Desire and 92 Rapple.
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Mirah Lucas lives in Northern California. She has published her photographs in various arts and culture magazines. She finds inspiration in travel and is contemplating an adventure to Switzerland.
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Jesse Manley is an MFA candidate at the University of New Orleans. He is an editor emeritus of Bayou Magazine and Ellipsis, and has a poem appearing in the Spring 2010 issue of Words and Images. Jesse has also performed stand-up and improv comedy for nine years.
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Terri McCord has taught visual art, design, and creative writing to all ages. Her works are included in many private collections and museums in South Carolina. She is currently teaching advanced art to middle school students.
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Omar Miranda (México) realiza estudios de doctorado en la Universidad de California, Santa Bárbara. Obtuvo una maestría en la Universidad Estatal de Nuevo México después de graduarse de la Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua. Colabora como editor adjunto de la revista de literatura y cultura latina Ventana Abierta.
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Leo Myskowski’s art has appeared in the 2009 Asperger’s Association of New England Art Show in Boston, Henniker’s Old Home Days Exhibition at the New England College Art Gallery, and in two art shows at New Hampshire Institute of Art in 2008. Myskowski entered the BFA program at New Hampshire Institute of Art at the age of 16 with two scholarships.
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John Pluecker is a writer, interpreter and literary translator of Spanish and English. His short stories, photography, poetry and essays have been presented in journals, magazines and events in the U.S. and Mexico. He has published numerous book-length translations of Mexican authors and is enrolled in the University of California San Diego MFA Program. He has a blog at badtexas.blogspot.com.
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Octavio Quintanilla’s poems are forthcoming in The Bitter Oleander, The Los Angeles Review, Bateau, Concho River Review, The Chaffin Journal, Eclipse, Iodine Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. He is currently ABD at the University of North Texas.
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Daniel Ríos Lopera (Medellín, 1985) es comunicador en lenguajes audiovisuales. Los Tiburones a veces tienen pesadillas es el primer libro publicado y contiene el cuento acá publicado. La segunda edición de este libro fue lanzada en el marco del la Fiesta del libro y la cultura ciudad de Medellín en el año 2009.
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Bruno Ríos Martínez de Castro nació el 15 de septiembre de 1988 en Hermosillo, Sonora. Ha sido ganador de diversos concursos literarios como el XIV Certamen Internacional de Poesía y Narrativa Breve. Actualmente es estudiante de la carrera de Lengua y Literatura Hispánicas por el ITESM y reside en la ciudad de Monterrey, Nuevo León.
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Juan Armando Rojas Joo (Cd. Juárez, Chih., México, 1969), transfronterizo poet. Pecan Grove Press recently published a bilingual edition of his Río vertebral/Vertebral River. Previous books: Ceremonial de viento / Ceremonial of Wind (2006), Santuarios desierto mar (2004), Lluvia de lunas (1999), co-editor of the anthology Canto a una ciudad en el desierto (2004), a poetic denouncement against femicide.
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Ki Russell lives in Lafayette, LA where she chases after a Ph.D. in English. When not scuttling among literary texts or dodging swamp monsters she enjoys painting and laughter. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Fifth Wednesday Journal, Kaleidotrope, Bare Root Review, and Etchings.
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Alma Karla Sandoval (1975, Morelos, México) es poeta, periodista y profesora del Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, campus Cuernavaca. Recibió las becas del Foeca (1999) y Fonca (2000). Ha publicado Corredor de las antorchas (2000), Todo es edad (2003), Estacionamiento de avestruces (2006) y La misma escarcha (2009).
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David Scheier is a German born, red-blooded American male. When not bar hopping, one can find him alone in his bunker like bedroom hunched over a dirty keyboard, ‘writing’ and ‘drawing,’ wearing only women’s underwear. The only light a dim blue luminance from the monitor screen. David’s an artist.
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Peter Schwartz’s photography has appeared in such online literary journals as: CELLA’s Round Trip, eyeshot, and Litterbox Magazine. Poor and utterly in love with his camera, he will never give his Kodak up to the bad guys, never. Visit his online gallery at: www.sitrahahra.com.
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Kevin Trow has been an art student for the past three years and is close to attaining his BFA in graphic design with a minor in drawing. He enjoys creating images that are bold, eye-catching, and colorful, and he often creates depictions that combine organic forms in contrast with inorganic objects, creating a sci-fi or experimental theme in his artwork.
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Eric Scot Tryon currently lives in Orange County, California where he teaches creative writing at Chapman University and Orange County High School of the Arts. His fiction is forthcoming in Glimmer Train, Eureka Literary Magazine, and has previously appeared in the Wisconsin Review and Enigma.
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Aída Valdepeña (México D.F., 1976) es poeta. Estudió Literatura Latinoamericana, así como el Diplomado en Creación Literaria en la Escuela de Escritores de la SOGEM, México. Ha participado en diversos Congresos Nacionales e Internacionales. Su obra poética ha sido publicada en medios impresos y electrónicos de México, Sudamérica y España. En el 2007 obtuvo Mención de Honor en el Premio Interamericano de Poesía Jóvenes Creadores (Sinaloa) donde publicaron su primer poemario: Universo de Náufragos.
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Jere Warren is a retired graphic journalist. He was educated in commercial illustration at the Art Students League, New York, and worked for major daily newspapers before retiring from The Miami Herald in 2004. Jere was a member of the Herald team receiving the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Elian Gonzalez story.
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Alexander Weinstein is the director of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. A graduate of Naropa University, he leads fiction workshops throughout the United States and Europe and currently teaches at Indiana University. His work has appeared in Hawaii-Pacific Review, A Cappella Zoo and is forthcoming in Zahir.
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Ernest Williamson III is a polymath who has published poetry and visual art in over 220 online and print journals. Prof. Williamson teaches English at Essex County College and is finishing his Ph.D. at Seton Hall University. Visit his gallery at www.yessy.com/budicegenius/.
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Oswaldo Zavala (Ciudad Juárez 1975) es narrador y profesor de literatura latinoamericana en el College of Staten Island, City University of New York (CUNY). Fue reportero de El Diario en Ciudad Juárez y corresponsal del semanario político Proceso. Ha publicado artículos académicos en la Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana y Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, entre otras. Un cuento suyo fue incluido en la antología Los mejores cuentos mexicanos 2004. Actualmente prepara su primera novela, Literatura seminal, y un estudio monográfico sobre la obra del escritor chileno Roberto Bolaño.
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