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Tony Bonds hails from Texas and is currently enjoying an indefinite vacation in San Diego where he teaches, writes short stories and is hammering out a novel manuscript. Regrettably, he has not yet learned to surf.
Having been fed a steady diet of science fiction and fantasy since she was old enough to read, Janet Cannon dreams of one day flying a dragon through space...or at least publishing a series of books where the main character does so. Currently she teaches computer applications and communication arts to fifth and sixth graders in Southeast Missouri.
Brian Allen Carr lives in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Texas Review, Front Porch, American Book Review, elimae, SmokeLong Quarterly and other publications.
Anna Clark's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The American Prospect online, Utne Reader, Bitch Magazine, The Women's International Perspective, Women's eNews, ColorLines, Writer's Journal, Blood Lotus and other publications. She edits the literary and social justice weblog, Isak and holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She lives in Detroit.
Larry O. Dean was born and raised in Flint, Michigan. He attended the University of Michigan, during which time he won three Hopwood Awards in Creative Writing. His most recent chapbook is I Am Spam (2004), poems “inspired” by junk email. Also a critically-acclaimed songwriter, Dean has numerous CD releases, including Fables in Slang (2001), Gentrification Is Theft (2002), and Fun with a Purpose (2009). He was a 2004 recipient of the Hands on Stanzas Gwendolyn Brooks Award, presented by the Poetry Center of Chicago. www.larryodean.com
Lisa Dolensky's humorous creative nonfiction has recently appeared in anthologies published by Chicken Soup For The Soul, Simon & Schuster's imprint Howard Books and Tyndale House. Her 2009 free verse debuted (after collecting dust in drawers nearly 20 years) in Cabinet des F'ees, Halfway Down The Stairs and Kaleidoscope. Lisa's also a 2009 University of Alabama Longleaf Writing Project fellow and even proud of 300+ (& counting) rejections.
Laura Di Giovine is originally from the Pacific Northwest and has lived in Italy and Brazil. She currently lives in Chicago and works in the publishing industry. She is also a freelance editor and writer and can be found on the web at www.lauradigiovine.com
Donna J. Essner teaches college English and works for the University Press at Southeast Missouri State University, while finishing her Masters in Creative Writing. For three years she authored monthly gardening articles for the Southeast Missourian newspaper. She writes short stories and poetry. Her work has been published in Journey and Big Muddy.
Brian Foley is a writer living in a New England village made out of concrete. His work has appeared in Lit, Sleeping Fish, MiPOesias, Hobart, Caketrain, Eyeshot, Nigh Train, & BlazeVox, among others. He is the author of The Tornado is not a Surrealist (Greying Ghost Press).
Rav Grewal-Kök lives in Brooklyn, where he is writing a novel. His short fiction has appeared in the Santa Monica Review, and is forthcoming in The Ledge.
Christina Hall has her Masters in English from Oakland University. She has her own editing business, www.draftwords.com, and has been editing fiction for almost five years. Recently one of her authors won multiple parent's choice awards for her series of children's books. She also teaches creative writing at various venues to middle school students and adults. She lives in the middle of nowhere with her five year old son, both of which make for good writing material.
Denise Hill has been teaching college English for well over a decade in addition to first writing for then becoming the editor for NewPages and NewPages Press. She currently teaches at Delta College in Michigan and is an active member of the AWP 2-Year College Caucus.
Jason Hinkley lives in Brooklyn and writes as a freelancer, selling bicycles to Manhattanites to make up the difference. He blogs regularly about his reading habit at at http://sammyandbeckett.com
Cyan James is a recent MFA graduate from the University of Michigan, where she currently works as a research assistant at the Center for the History of Medicine. She's completing her Hopwood-winning novel, and has been published in The Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Oleander Review, among others.
Rachel King, a fiction writer from Oregon, is a current MFA candidate at West Virginia University. You can contact her at king.rachelsuzanne-at-gmail.com
Krystal Languell is the author of the forthcoming chapbook, The Mean Particle (Tilt Press, 2010) and editor-in-chief of Bone Bouquet. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Denver Quarterly, No Tell Motel, 32 Poems and elsewhere.
Over the years, Jeanne M. Lesinski has published four children's books, including Bill Gates (Lerner), and hundreds of articles for magazines and reference books. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in the anthology Poem, Revised and a number of journals. She edits www.360MainStreet.com.
John Madera John Madera lives in New York City. His work has appeared in 3:AM Magazine, elimae, Bookslut, The Quarterly Conversation, NewPages, and forthcoming in The Diagram. You may find him at hitherandthithering waters, editing The Chapbook Review, and singing and playing guitar in Mother Flux.
Dan Magers is co-founder and editor of Sink Review (sinkreview.org), an online poetry magazine, as well as the publisher of the chapbook press Immaculate Disciples Press. He has poems published or forthcoming in Forklift, Ohio, Sixth Finch, Free Verse, the tiny, and other journals. Currently, he works on professional engineering books at a publishing company. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Keith Meatto is a fiction writer with short stories published or forthcoming in Harpur Palate, Opium, Glossolalia, Ghoti, The Northville Review, and Writers’ Bloc. This fall, he was a writer in residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska. He is a graduate of Yale College and The New School (MFA) and has worked many years as a teacher and a journalist.
Dan Moreau’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Farfelu, Word Riot, Clapboard House and Segue.
The journal reviewers from Pacific University in Oregon are all undergraduates who assist senior editors at Silk Road literary review. Silk Road Editor Kathlene Postma asks the students to assess other journals in order to strengthen their own work on Silk Road. “These are avid readers—of every submission we receive and of literature in general,” she says. “They approached these journals from NewPages with an open mind and a desire to get a grasp on what’s happening in the world of small press publishing. They are excited to share what they found with other passionate readers and writers.” The Pacific University reviewers can be contacted at http://silkroad.pacific.edu
Jessica Powers is a writer and lives in the Bay Area. Her novel The Confessional (Knopf, 2007) explored race, violence, religion, and friendship on the U.S. Mexico border. You can read her blog at www.jlpowers.net.
Sima Rabinowitz is the author of The Jewish Fake Book (Elixir Press 2004) and Murmutation (New Michigan Press, 2006). Her poetry and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in Witness, Tampa Review, Prairie Schooner, Hotel Amerika, Water-Stone, Salamander, Flyway, and many other publications. She works in the office of Institutional Development of a major university in New York City and lives in the Bronx. She appreciates New Pages' contributions to cyberspace and the literary world.
Sara C. Rauch lives, works and writes in Northampton, MA. Her poems have previously appeared in The Berkshire Review, upstreet, freefall, Inkwell, Picayune, Earth’s Daughters and The Black Boot. Besides writing and reading, she likes walking to work, cilantro and nuance. Email her at sara.c.rauch[at]gmail[dot]com, or visit her blog at www.cactusroom.blogspot.com.
Cynthia Reeser is the Editor-in-Chief and founder of the online literary journal, Prick of the Spindle. Her book reviews, articles, poetry and visual art can be seen throughout the web in such places as NewPages, Bookslut, Tarpaulin Sky, 42opus, elimae and Temenos, with poetry forthcoming in Dogzplot. Her chapbook, Light and Trials of Light, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.
Jason Tandon is the author of two collections of poetry, Give over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt (Black Lawrence Press, 2009), which was selected for the 2006 St. Lawrence Book Award, and Wee Hour Martyrdom (sunnyoutside, 2008). His poetry has appeared in the New York Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, Poet Lore, Poetry International, and on Verse Daily.
Henry F. Tonn is a semi-retired psychologist whose fiction and non-fiction has appeared in such publications as the Gettysburg Review, Foliate Oak, Quay, and Fifth Wednesday Journal. He lives on the coast of North Carolina with his faithful dog, Fred, and is presently engaged in writing a memoir of his forty-three years in the mental health field.
Elizabeth Townsend graduated from Central Michigan University with a degree in English: Creative Writing. She is an avid reader and is currently working on a novel she hopes to have published in the future.
Roy Wang is a Canadian poet living in Ferndale, MI, where he works in technical sales. With a degree in Math & Physics from the University of Toronto, he is currently applying for MFA programs in poetry.
Caroline Wilkinson's fiction, poetry and nonfiction has appeared in many literary journals including DIAGRAM, Memorious, Konundrum Engine Literary Review, Crossing Rivers Into Twilight, Tarpaulin Sky and 42opus. She has received a grant from Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Links to her work along with her comments on contemporary books can be found at her website, www.carolinewilkinson.com. She lives in upstate New York.
Anne Wolfe works at Delta College in their archives and Academic Testing Center. She has an AMLS from the University of Michigan. Among other jobs, she has been a stringer and radio reporter and published news articles for the Ann Arbor News, the Saginaw News, the Bay City Times, and the Midland Daily News. She can be reached at wolfe.a-at-sbcglobal.net.
Micah Zevin's poetry has appeared in the Chiron Review and most recently in G22 Literary Journal. During the past year he has been working on a novel-in-verse about the life of the "Bearded Lady" from adolescence through adulthood and has just completed his first short film Shelf Life. He also is one of the founding members for a new sketch comedy troupe The Despots. Currently, he is a Librarian in the Queens Library system and lives with his fiancée, a playwright, earning her MFA at Adelphi University. You can read and hear his poetry at www.somarspoetry.blogspot.com.
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