Notes on Contributors

Boyd Bauman grew up on a small ranch in northeast Kansas and is now a writer and teacher in the Kansas City area. His work has appeared in Plainsongs, The South Dakota Review, The Rockhurst Review, Heartlands, and Barbaric Yawp, among others, but he states, “for some reason The New Yorker keeps turning me down.” Roeland Park, Kansas

Stacy Campbell teaches high school special education English and sponsors The Unleashed Poetry Club in Arlington, Texas. In her free time she plays the guitar, writes poetry, short stories, and loves to shoot pool. She is previously published in Writer’s Digest, North Texas Professional Writer’s Anthology, Orange Room Review, and other on-line publications. She was a 2008 Commendation Award Winner from The Society of Southwestern Authors. Hurst, Texas

Vicki Collins is the ESL instructor of the English Department at the University of South Carolina Aiken, where she has taught for twenty-one years. She is a tennis hacker, poetry dabbler, and a grammar nerd. Graniteville, SC

Kathleen Crocker has a Bachelor’s degree in English from A.S.U., Barrett Honors’ College, and has taught High School English for the past five years. She has published short fiction and poetry at A.S.U., and she is currently irritating students at Premier High School by making them read and write. Phoenix, Arizona

Alejandro Escudé is the author of Where Else But Here and Unknown Physics, two collections published by March Street Press. His poems have appeared in RATTLE, Phoebe, and Poet Lore. He is a high school English teacher and lives in Santa Monica with his wife Jennifer and his son Aaron. Santa Monica, California

Peter Fernbach, Assistant Professor of English at Adirondack Community College, is concerned, lately with the transformative and liberating effects of poetry on the unconscious mind, especially of those who are still impressionable and exploding with exuberance and possibility. Glen Falls, NY

Edward Francisco is Professor of English and Writer in Residence at Pellissippi State Community College. His poems have appeared in more than one hundred magazines and journals. His volume Death, Child, and Love (2001), was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent collection, The Alchemy of Words (2007), was one of Small Press Review’s top picks for 2008. Knoxville, Tennessee

Adrienne Hernandez, now retired, taught in the Yonkers Public Schools for 30 years.  Her poems have appeared in the Mid-America Poetry Review, The Westchester Review, Oasis Journal and various small presses.  She has facilitated intergenerational poetry writing workshops and is a member of the Poetry Caravan. Hartsdale, New York

Richard Holinger teaches at Marmion Academy, in Aurora, Illinois. His writing has appeared in magazines such as The Southern Review, The Iowa Review and Boulevard. Honors include an Illinois Arts Council poetry grant and three Pushcart Prize nominations. He is working on a collection of short fiction and a novel. Geneva, Illinois

Jodi L. Hottel is a writer and retired English teacher. Her work has been published in the English Journal, The Dickens, Frogpond and anthologies from the University of Iowa Press, Tebot Bach, and the Healdsburg Arts Council. Santa Rosa, California

Clint Margrave has published work in New York Quarterly, 3AM, Pearl, Chiron Review, Heeltap, Spillway, as well as in the anthologies So Luminous the Wildflowers and Incidental Buildings and Accidental Beauty by Tebot Bach Press.  Currently, he teaches English and Creative Writing at California State University. Long Beach, California
 

Rajiv Mohabir is an Indo-Guyanese-American who teaches English as a Second Language in Queens, New York. He is a VONA alumnus. Rajiv’s poems have appeared in Trikone, EOAGH, Saw Palm, Ganymede (forthcoming), and Ghoti magazines. His chapbook na bad-eye me will be released this year by Pudding House Press. Jackson Heights/Queens, New York

Garrett Rowlan is a substitute teacher in the Los Angeles area and has been one for the last 25 years. He just published a short poem in the Tonopah Review. Los Angeles, California
 

Diana Sher has published almost a hundred times in literary and commercial magazines. Her chapbook, After I Cut the Cord, was released in 2003 by Finishing Line Press. Currently, she teaches in the English department of Metropolitan State College of Denver. This poem was written when she was teaching in an inner city high school. Aurora, Colorado

Steve Shilling is a proud alumnus of Hope College and has been teaching high school English for twelve years in Southwestern Pennsylvania where he resides with his wife Megan and two children, Stephen and Courtney. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including in DASH Journal, Red Wheelbarrow, and Reed Magazine. In addition to teaching and writing, Shilling enjoys coaching high school football and bicycle riding. McMurray, Pennsylvania

Thomas Stein received his Master’s from Boston College and taught high school English in that city for ten years. In 2003 and 2004 he taught high school in Bulgaria on a Fulbright Teacher Exchange. He is currently an associate professor of English at Bismarck State College. Mandan, North Dakota.

Tim Willey teaches in Montana, edits Signatures (publishing student literary/visual arts), serves as a director for Montana Artists Refuge, has written…from the pieces…(a collection of poetry) and, with a colleague Scott Clapp, In Praise of Mediocrity: a Teacher’s Survival Guide in the Age of Reform (neither published…yet). Great Falls, Montana

Kerry Michael Wood says he “includes his middle name for purpose of gender-identification and so he won't be confused with the major league pitcher who whiffed 20 Astros in a single game. That guy was named after me; twenty-five years after me. I'm a retired high-school English teacher, textbook co-author, memoirist and freelancer.” Pacific Grove, California