Contributors' notesDaniela Gioseffi is an American Book Award winning author of eleven books of poetry and prose. Her first, Eggs in the Lake (BOA Editions: Rochester, NY.) won a New York State Council for the Arts grant award in poetry. She has also had a NYSCA grant for performance poetry and reads widely throughout the USA and Europe, often appearing on NPR or WNYC as well as other radio and TV stations. Her second and third collections, Word Wounds and Water Flowers, and Going On were published by VIA Folios/Bordighera Purdue U., and her latest 2002, Symbiosis, is from Rattapallax, NY. She has received excellent reviews for her poetry in varied venues and from accomplished poets from different schools of poetry. An independent voice on the literary scene for many years, her work appeared The Paris Review, Chelsea, Antaeus, The Nation, Priarie Schooner, The Cortland Review, and Poetry East among many magazines. Her interviews with well known poets are also widely published. Her American Book Award winning anthology WOMEN ON WAR: International Writings was reissued in an all new edition by The Feminist Press, NY, 2003 and has been met with exemplary reviews from BookList, Library Journal and The New York Times. Daniela edits http://www.PoetsUSA.com/ and publishes literary criticism in varied venues, i.e. Hungry Mind Review, Poet Lore, American Book Review, Rain Taxi, The Philadelphia Inquirer, etc. Her verse was inscribed in marble alongside that of William Carlos Williams and Walt Whitman on the wall of the 7th Avenue Concourse of PENN Station, 2002. Her anthology of world literature, ON PREJUDICE; A Global Perspective, from Anchor/Doubleday, NY, 1993, received a World Peace Award at The United Nations from The Ploughshares Foundation. She is the author of a novel from Doubleday The Great American Belly, optioned for a screen play by Warner Bros, and, a collection of stories, In Bed with the Exotic Enemy, containing work which received the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. She has published several translations of Latin American poets and had one of her verses inscribed in marble on a wall of PENN Station in New York near verses by Walt Whitman's and William Carlos Williams's. COREY MESLER has been a book reviewer for numerous papers for over ten years and for much longer than that he has been fumbling in a greasy till, selling Philip Roth and Iris Murdoch and Richard Powers and Steve Stern to the great unwashed who come to him from fourteen surrounding counties, asking "what is there to read?," such is his reputation. He has published work in Yellow Silk, Black Dirt, Blue Unicorn and Green Egg, and that's just the colors. His first novel, Talk, appeared in 2002, and a chapbook of poems, Chin-Chin in Eden, in 2003. "Dark on Purpose" will appear later this year from Little Poem Press. He is the husband of the world's most patient woman and the father of two children, whose talents have so far surpassed their father's he can only shake his hoary head and mutter. Jennifer Firestone teaches poetry at Hunter College in New York City. An excerpt from her manuscript Holiday is forthcoming as a chapbook by Sona Books (http://www.sonaweb.net/chapbookseries2.htm) in June 2004. Poems are either published or forthcoming in LUNGFULL! HazMat Review, Yefief, Diner, moria, Karamu, The Cortland Review, Poetrybay, Tin Lustre Mobile, Sugar Mule, Feminist Studies, Sidereality, Forpoetry.com, Madison Review, Interim, Sun Poetic Times, Phoebe, Free Lunch, and So to Speak: Feminist Journal of Language and Art. Marthe Reed teaches at University off Louisiana at Lafayette. Recently relocated to the Achafalaya Basin, she spent seven years in Perth, Western Australia. New work is forthcoming from New Orleans Review and Golden Handcuffs Review. Karen Ackland has published short fiction and essays in Quarterly West, PIF, Dicey Brown, Salon, and elsewhere. She lives in Santa Cruz, California, where she also writes marketing materials for technology and small business clients. To read more of Karen's writing, visit her Web site at www.karenackland.com. Beth Pardue lives in Charlotte, NC with her fiance and four cats. She writes both poetry and fiction. She has completed one novel and is burning through another. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking and working on do-it-yourself projects. Michael Schiavo's poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming from McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Unpleasant Event Schedule, Small Spiral Notebook, La Petite Zine, and Castagraf, as well as the anthology Don't Abuse the Muse: The Middlefinger Press's Guide to Fiction and Reality, among other fine publications. He is a graduate of the Bennington College Writing Seminars and currently lives in Connecticut. Ray Ragosta's most recent collection of poetry is Opposite Ends; a new collection, Unequal Part, is forthcoming. Both are from Paradigm Press. |