NewPages - Contributors
Kristin Abraham is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Little Red Riding Hood Missed the Bus (Subito Press, 2008), and Orange Reminds You of Listening (Elixir Press, 2006); her poem “Little Red Riding Hood Missed the Bus” was selected for Best New Poets 2005. Additional poetry, lyric essays, and critical essays have been published in such places as Court Green , Columbia Poetry Review , LIT , Quarter After Eight , and The Journal . She currently teaches English at Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne, WY, and lives with her husband in Fort Collins, CO.
Tanya Angell Allen is a writer from New Haven, Connecticut. Her poems and essays have been published in such places as The Lyric, Expansive Poetry & Music, and The New York Times.
Barbara Baldwin has an MFA in Poetry, Creative Writing, and Literary Editing from Eastern Washington University. She studied with mentors James J. McAuley, Carolyn Kizer, William Stafford, Carole (Simmons) Oles, and Madeline DeFrees. She runs her own reading series, "9on 9,"in Washington State, tutors English online and is studying ASL with a private tutor. Work is forthcoming or has appeared in: the Snail Mail Review, the West Wind Review, Fugue, Speakeasy, Blue Unicorn, the Gulf Stream Review, and elsewhere.
John Baum is a writer who also teaches high school English; his fiction has appeared in The MacGuffin, Booth, and Blue Mesa Review. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, Libby, and their two dogs—Charlie and Lolly.
Ann Beman earned her MFA in creative nonfiction from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts: Whidbey Writers Workshop. She is nonfiction editor for The Los Angeles Review, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Stone's Throw, Stymie, and Canoe Journal. A Duke grad, Beman kayaks, skis, and runs in California’s Kern River Valley, where she lives with her husband and two whatchamaterriers. Only recently has she become a small dog convert, and it's still a little weird.
Alyse Bensel is currently pursuing her MFA in poetry at Penn State. When not engaged in her teaching and studies, she works at non-profit art organizations and at the local CSA. Her poetry has appeared in The Meadowland Review, and her book reviews have appeared in CALYX, Coldfront, Newpages, and on WPSU radio.
Jeremy Benson writes stories, poems, criticism and letters. He is an editor for 360mainstreet.com and the Avalanche at swsalps.com, and is the postmaster general of the Aloha Project poem-on-a-postcard blog.
Stephanie Burns received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from New School University. Her poems have been published in the tiny, LUNGFULL, The Sink Review, and on the Verse website. Her reviews have appeared in H_NGM_N and NewPages. She lives in Greensboro, NC.
Robyn Campbell received her BA in English Writing (Fiction) from the University of Pittsburgh, where she also minored in French. Her work has appeared in The Original Thought and Caper Literary Journal. She is a reader for the Pittsburgh based Weave Magazine while working on poetry of her own. Currently living in Philadelphia, she works in a coffee shop and acts like one of those post-grad kids from that movie Slacker.
Rachel
Cuschieri-Murray received her MS in Communication from Eastern
Michigan University. Her passions include reading, cooking, and gardening.
Rachel’s mom likes to introduce Rachel as “my activist.”
Lesley Dame is a writer and editor living in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She is co-founder, nonfiction, and poetry editor for damselfly press. Dame is the author of Letting Out the Ghosts, a poetry chapbook, and her poems have appeared in numerous online and print journals. www.wix.com/lesleydame/poet
Mark Danowsky resides in Northwest Philadelphia and works for a private detective agency. His poetry appears in Imitation Fruit, Short, Fast and Deadly, and Every Day Poets. He has reviewed books for ForeWord Reviews and Gently Read Literature.
Charles Davenport teaches Composition and Literature at Saginaw Valley State University and Delta College, and is on the board of directors for the Friends of Theodore Roethke. His poetry has appeared in Pinnacle Review, Wyoming Writes, and The Other Herald. He earned his Master’s degree from State University of New York, Brockport.
Chey Davis works as an Assistant Professor of English at Delta College.
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
Mary Florio is excited to be a part of NewPages and lives in Birmingham.
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
Patrick James Dunagan lives in San Francisco and works
at Gleeson Library at USF. He is the author of “There are
people who think painters shouldn’t talk”: A
GUSTONBOOK (Post-Apollo,
2011). Recent writings of his have appeared in: Amerarcana, Barzakh, Big
Bell, The Critical Flame, Fulcrum, Galatea Resurrects, House Organ, The
Poetry Project Newsletter, Polis, and Rain Taxi. In addition
to his own poems and book reviews, he’s currently working with Persian poet
Ava Koohbor co-translating her work from Farsi.
Hazel Foster writes and naps on a floor in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has a B.A. in Writing from Grand Valley State University, where she emphasized in fiction and poetry. Her work can be found both in print and online. Visit her at hazelfoster.com.
Erik Fuhrer is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Glasgow. He enjoys reading both fiction and poetry and his favorite author is Virginia Woolf. Erik has published and presented numerous papers on Woolf and has also had his poems published in several journals such as the Long Island Quarterly, First Literary Review East, and the Shot Glass Journal. His poem "life in the key of war" was a finalist in the Oxonian Review's annual poetry competition (2010). Erik is currently an associate editor of fiction at Literary Laundry.
Bracha Goykadosh received her MA in English Literature from Brooklyn College in 2011. Currently, she studies law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City. Find her at www.brachagoykadosh.com.
Denise Hill began as a reviewer with NewPages in 2002, then became editor. She currently teaches at Delta College in Michigan and is an active member of the AWP 2-Year College Caucus.
Joanna
Kurowska is a poet and literary scholar. Her poems have appeared or
are forthcoming in a number of journals such as Apple Valley Review,
American Tanka, Bateau, Christianity and Literature, International Poetry
Review, Illuminations, The New York Quarterly, Oklahoma Review, and
others. Forthcoming is Kurowska’s first poetry collection in English,
Inclusions, by červená Barva Press. Previously she published two books
of poetry in Poland (Ściana : The Wall, 1997; and Obok : Near,
1999).
Dave Larsen lives with his wife, Jennifer, and his daughters, Zoe and Quinn, in Grand Blanc, MI.
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.
David R. Matteri is a college student living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He will be receiving his B.A. in English this June and hopes to enter the publishing industry or teaching. He has one piece of flash fiction published at flashesinthedark.com.
Olive Mullet is a retired Ferris State University English professor, who taught composition and humanities for twenty-five years. Michigan State University’s Red Cedar Review has published her story “Les Voleurs” in their Winter 2002 xxxvii issue 2. Since retirement in 1995, she is writing short stories and a novel and has written book reviews for the Grand Rapids Press, the Big Rapids Pioneer and the Friends of the Big Rapids Library Newsletter.
Alex Myers lives in Rhode Island, where he writes and teaches. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in a variety of journals. Full details are available at alexmyerswriting.blogspot.com.
Gina Myers is the author of a full-length poetry collection, A Model Year (Coconut Books, 2009), and several poetry chapbooks, including Behind the R (ypolita press, 2008).
Marcus Myers lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where he teaches social studies to gifted and talented middle school students. His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from Main Street Rag, The Mid-American Review, The National Poetry Review, Plain Spoke, Pleiades and Tar River Poetry.
Aimee Nicole recently finished up a YA manuscript about Cait, a 17-year-old girl who is diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. Aimee graduated from Roger Williams University with a degree in Creative Writing and has been published by Red Booth Review, Psychic Meatloaf, Mouth of the Bay, and The 22 Magazine’s blog.
C.J. Opperthauser is a student of English at Central Michigan University. He has had poems published in numerous magazines, including Temenos and Eclectic Flash, and is editor-in-chief and poetry editor for greatest lakes review. He has a deep passion for good poems and good fish dinners.
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
John Palen's Open Communion: New and Selected Poems was published by Mayapple Press in 2005. Since then he has had poetry chapbooks out from March Street Press and Pudding House, and has recent poetry and flash fiction published or forthcoming in Clapboard House, Off the Coast, Bare Root Review, Jelly Bucket, Sleet, and Press 1. A Michigander for more than 35 years, he is now living and writing in Central Illinois.
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.
Lydia
Pyne is a writer and currently teaches history and philosophy of
science at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
http://pynecone.org
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 in western Massachusetts. She blogs at www.lifemorelived.com, where she muses on minimalism, creativity, and her 4 fat cats.
Caitlin Reid likes books and stories. She is currently hard at work living an interesting life so she can write about it later.
Erin F. Robinson is currently pursuing her MA in English Literature from California State University East Bay and is Associate Editor for the Arroyo Literary Review. She works as a freelance court reporter in Oakland, California, and writes fiction in her spare time.
Noel Sloboda lives in Pennsylvania, where he teaches at Penn State York and serves as dramaturg for the Harrisburg Shakespeare Company. His poetry has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Crannog, MiPOesias, Pear Noir!, Philadelphia Stories, and The Shakespeare Newsletter. He is the author of the collection Shell Games (sunnyoutside, 2008) as well as two chapbooks: Of Things Passed (Finishing Line Press, 2010) and Stages (sunnyoutside, 2010).
Shannon Smith has a BA from Columbia University in New York and an MA in English and an MLIS in Library Science and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She also writes music reviews for Foxy Digitalis.
Elena Spagnolie earned her MA in creative writing and Magical Realism studies from New York University in 2009. In addition to her reviews at NewPages, she is an editor at BookBrowse magazine (an on-line guide to great fiction), and she currently works as an intern at the Taryn Fagerness Literary Agency in San Diego, CA.
Kimberly Steele is a native Floridian and a recent Queens convert. She holds an MFA in poetry from the New School University in New York City. She writes fiction, nonfiction, essays, and the ever-popular blogs, but poetry serves as both the source and outlet of her fanaticism. She currently works as a freelance writer and editor.
Caleb Tankersley recently received a BA in Writing from Southeast Missouri State University. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Big Muddy , Cave Region Review , Cutthroat , and Journey. He has been working on a short story collection and applying to MFA programs throughout the United States. He currently resides in the Kansas City area.
Jeff Tigchelaar’s poems appear or loom at Court Green, Juked, Rhino, Redactions, Best New Poets 2011, Hunger Mountain, Natural Bridge, North American Review, Controlled Burn, Tar River Poetry, Grist, and Verse Daily. His work has been micro-reviewed at cellpoems.org, and received an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. www.pw.org/content/jeff_tigchelaar
Henry F. Tonn is a semi-retired
psychologist whose fiction, nonfiction, poetry, book and literary journal
reviews have appeared in such print publications as the Gettysburg
Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, and Connecticut Review, and
online publications such as Front Porch Journal, Summerset Review,
and Eclectica. He recently completed a memoir of the first twenty
years of his career as a psychologist entitled I NEVER MET A PARANOID
SCHIZOPHRENIC I DIDN'T LIKE, and a collection of short stories entitled
VEXATIONS AND AGITATIONS.
www.henrytonn.com
The journal reviewers from Utah State University are all graduate students, many of whom also teach introductory level writing courses to first and second year students. Several have interned with Isotope: A Literary Journal of Nature and Science Writing and with Western American Literature. As part of their creative nonfiction workshop, students had the opportunity to read some of the best writing being published by small and literary presses. They were impressed by the quality and diversity found in the journals, as well as by the exciting use of image. The Utah State University reviewers can be reached by contacting their instructor, Jennifer Sinor: jennifer.sinor-at-usu-dot-edu
Jeff Vande Zande teaches writing at Delta College. His novels include Landscape with Fragmented Figures (Bottom Dog Press) and Into the Desperate Country (March Street Press). His short stories and poems have appeared in Rattle, College English, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Coe Review, and others. He maintains a website at www.jeffvandezande.com.
Jennifer Vande Zande worked in Public Radio where she had the opportunity and pleasure of interviewing university presidents, community activists, artists and writers. She has written for www.360MainStreet.com. Her writing and production have won her awards from the Michigan Association of Broadcasters. She lives in Midland Michigan with her husband Jeff and their two children. Presently, she is on the staff of NewPages.
Jett Whitehead received his MA in creative writing/poetry from Central Michigan University in 1977. His poems have been published as broadsides, and in a variety of poetry journals. Since 1991 he has been a full-time out-of-print book seller specializing in fine and rare editions of modern poetry. Visit: www.PoetryJett.com
Vanessa Willoughby is a recent graduate of The New School’s MFA program. Previously, she earned her BA in Writing, Literature & Publishing at Emerson College. In addition to writing for NewPages, Vanessa is a staff writer for the music and entertainment blog, 411Mania.com. Her favorite authors include: Sylvia Plath, Mary Gaitskill, Mary Karr, Jeffery Eugenides, Marya Hornbacher, Bret Easton Ellis, JD Salinger, and Megan McCafferty.
Back to NewPages Magazine Reviews
Back to NewPages Book Reviews