Tetman Callis’s stories and poems have appeared in various publications, including Ontario Review, New York Tyrant, Denver Quarterly, and Thieves Jargon. His paintings, photographs, and mixed-media pieces have shown in Albuquerque and New York City. He makes his living as a paralegal. His poem, “regarding dreams and prisons,” is from his unpublished collection, matters of love and sex, etc.
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Nick Conrad has new poetry in current or forthcoming issues of Argestes, Blueline, Borderlands, Common Ground, Dos Passos Review, Edison Literary Review, the Kerf, The Mochila Review, The Portland Review, Southern Poetry Review, Stand(UK), Talking River, Texas Literary Review, and Wisconsin Review. One of his poems has been featured on the Verse Daily website. Another was favorably mentioned in a recent review on the website new pages.com. Two poems recently appeared in the Winterhawk Press Anthology Zeus Seduces.
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Pepa de Rivera lives in Madrid and is a government official in the City Council of Boadilla del Monte. Her photographic education began in 1977; she has studied photography, monographic photography andportraiture. Her work has been exhibited in individual and collective exhibitions, and forms part of permanent collections. She is co-publisher of the photography magazine 1:1.
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Deborah Digges received an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 1984 and is the author of four books of poems, a book of translations, and two memoirs. Her poetry books include Vesper Sparrows (Atheneum), which won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize from New York University in 1987, Late in the Millennium (Knopf, 1989), Rough Music (Knopf, 1995), which won the Kingsley Tufts Prize, Ballad of the Blood, the poems of Cuban dissident poet Maria Cruz Varela (Ecco Press), Trapeze (Knopf, 2004), and Dance of the Seven Veils (Knopf, 2008). Her memoirs are Fugitive Spring (Knopf 1989) and The Stardust Lounge, stories from a boy’s adolescence (Nan Talese, Random House, 2000).
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Caleb Gardner was born and raised in Cambridge, MA. BA from Harvard University in 2006, MFA from NYU in 2009. Other work published in Anderbo and forthcoming in the Journal of Medical Humanities.
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Jack Granath is a librarian in Kansas City.
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George Guida has published two collections of poems, Low Italian (Bordighera Press, 2006) and New York and Other Lovers (Smalls Books, 2008). His 2009 Pushcart Prize-nominated story, “Rome,” part of a novel-in-progress, also appears in J Journal (Spring 2008). His collection The Pope Tales will appear in 2010. His play, “The Pope Play,” was given a 2009 joint workshop production in New York City by Teatromania and Theatreworks. Visit his Web site at www.georgeguida.com.
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Lyn Halper’s fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in such literary journals as Karamu, Bellevue Literary Review, Fiction International and The Newport Review. Her poetry and plays have won national competitions and she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Fiction International. Presently she is with Cabrini Immigration Services in Dobbs Ferry, NY.
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Jeff P. Jones teaches writing at the University of Idaho. His honors include a Pushcart Prize (2008) and the Wabash and A. David Schwartz prizes. His stories have been in or are forthcoming from Alaska Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, Post Road and elsewhere. In 2009, he served as a teaching fellow in fiction at the Wesleyan Writers Conference.
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Rick Kempa lives in Rock Springs, Wyoming, where he directs the Honors Program at Western Wyoming College. Other work of his on themes of social justice appears in recent issues of Puerto del Sol (New Mexico State University, Las Cruces), South Loop Review (Columbia College, Chicago), Redivider (Emerson College, Boston), and in the anthology Out of Line: Writings on Peace and Justice (Garden House Press, Trenton). A book of his poems, Keeping the Quiet, is available from Bellowing Ark Press.
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Randy Koch writes a monthly column on writing called “Serving Sentences” for LareDOS: A Journal of the Borderlands and has poems published in Passages North, Texas Observer, The Raven Chronicles, Revista Interamericana, Sparrow, Measure and other publications. After teaching composition and creative writing in Minnesota and Texas for sixteen years, he recently completed an MFA at the University of Wyoming and now teaches at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.
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Peggy Landsman has published work in Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes (C&R Press), Spindle, Iodine Poetry Journal and other publications. Much of her work has been translated into Romanian and published bilingually. Her poetry chapbook To-wit To-woo is available from FootHills Publishing. She has also published a contemporary romance novel Passion’s Professor (Midnight Showcase) under the pen name Samantha Rhodes. She has a website at ttp://home.att.net/~palandsman. (A slightly different version of “Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu” has been published bilingually in the Romanian journal, Contemporary & Literary Horizon.)
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Joan Maiers teaches at Marylhurst University and hosts the Moonstruck Literary Series near Portland, Oregon. She worked with a defense committee to obtain a landmark victory of post-conviction relief for Santiago Ventura Morales. Her work appears in Sojourners, Calyx, Hubbub, Oregon English Journal, and the anthologies If I Had a Hammer and Out of Season. “Alien in Pima County” is listed in the 1,000 Poems Project in Salinas, CA. She is preparing her poetry collection, Specific Gravity, for publication.
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Mark J. Mitchell is an award-winning poet whose work has appeared in kayak, Blue Unicorn, Pearl, Santa Barbara Review, The New Renaissance, Lilliput Review and numerous magazines over the last thirty years. His work has also appeared in the anthology Line Drives (SIU Press). He makes his living in the wines business. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, the filmmaker Joan Juster.
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Ansley Moon was born in India and has since lived on three continents. She received an MA in Creative Writing from Trinity College, Carmarthen, and her work has been featured in Southern Women’s Review, Glass: A Poetry Journal and various anthologies. She was recently chosen as a Fiction Semi-Finalist in the SLS Unified Contest, and she is a Poetry Editor for The Furnace Review. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
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Joel Moskowitz, an artist and picture framer, lives with his beautiful wife and their scary cat, slightly tamer day by day, in Sudbury, Massachusetts. He draws and paints on discarded library catalog cards. He has poems published in Midstream, JUDAISM, The Healing Muse and Whiskey Island Magazine. He is the first place winner of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire’s National Contest, November, 2008.
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James O’Brien attends Iowa State University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment where he writes fiction and teaches advanced composition. After graduating from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 2007, O’Brien served with AmeriCorps VISTA. Currently, he is at work on a collection of short stories centered on Washington D.C.’s straightedge punk scene as well as several pieces of magic realism. “Night’s
Work” is his first publication.
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David Radavich is the author of By the Way: Poems over the Years
(Buttonwood, 1998) and Greatest Hits (Pudding House, 2000). His plays
have been performed across the U.S., including six Off-Off-Broadway, and
in Europe. His most recent publications are America Bound: An Epic for Our
Time (Plain View, 2007) and Canonicals: Love’s Hours (Finishing Line, 2009).
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Donna Reis co-edited and contributed to the anthology, Blues for Bill: A
Tribute to William Matthews, The University of Akron Press (2005). Her
non-fiction book, Seeking Ghosts in the Warwick Valley was published by
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd (2003). She is the author of three chapbooks of
poetry. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals
including Beyond Lament: Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust,
Northwestern University Press (1998) and Chance of a Ghost, Helicon Nine
Editions (2005). Her work has appeared previously in J Journal.
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Francine Rubin’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Fringe
Magazine, Fuselit, Long Island Pulse, Ozone Park, and Pank. She holds
an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and a BA in Theater
from Dartmouth College. Growing up in New York, she trained at the
School of American Ballet and has worked as a freelance dancer and
ballet teacher.
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David Salner has lived all over the United States, working as an iron ore
miner, furnace tender, and machinist. He has walked dozens of picket
lines and currently participates in immigrant-rights and abortion-rights
activities. His fourth collection, John Henry’s Partner Speaks, appeared
in 2008. His poems are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Isotope, and
Upstreet. He is working on a novel about hard-rock miners in the Old
West.
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Dell Smith works as a technical writer northwest of Boston. His (nontechnical)
writing has appeared in Lynx Eye Quarterly, Grub Street Free
Press, and Hacks, the Grub Street 10th anniversary anthology. He is a
regular contributor to The Review Review website and maintains a blog at
dellsmith.com that features book reviews, author interviews, and essays
on writing. He lives with his wife in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Meg Stone is the Executive Director of IMPACT, an organization
working to prevent abuse and violence by giving people the tools to
defend themselves against assaults and advocate for healthy relationships
and sexual respect in their communities (www.impactboston.org). She
is working on a memoir entitled Another Chance at Home about fifteen
years of domestic violence work. Previous publications include the
anthologies Pinned Down by Pronouns (Conviction) and I Do/ I Don’t:
Queers on Marriage (Suspect Thoughts).
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Jessie van Eerden’s essays have appeared in Best American Spiritual
Writing, The Oxford American, Image and other publications. She holds
an MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa and was awarded the
2007-08 Milton Fellowship at Image and Seattle Pacific University for
work on her first novel. Jessie teaches at the Oregon Extension of Eastern
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FALL 2015
Fiction by Diya Abdo, Cara Bayles, Stephanie Dickinson, Paul Hadella, Joe Jarboe, Donald Edem Quist, Alison Ruth
Poems by Austin Alexis, Byron Case, Courtney Lamar Charleston, Jessica Greenbaum, Brad Johnson, Don Kimball, Thom Schramm, Hasanthika Sirisena, Judith Skillman, Jack Vian, Catherine Wald, JJ Amaworo Wilson, Paula Yup
Nonfiction by Lyle May
BookTalk: The Number of Missing by Adam Berlin
March 25, 2015
4:15-5:30pm
Conference Room, 9th fl.
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
524 West 59th Street
New York, NY 10019
In the months after 9/11, David and Mel meet to drink, give each other comfort and reminisce about Paul—Mel’s husband and David’s best friend. The memories are not all good for David. Before Paul died, the two friends fought, brutally questioning each other’s lives. Fueled by anger and grief and too much alcohol, David stumbles through the city while holding onto a silent promise he’s made to a dead friend: he will wait for Mel to fall so he can catch her. Like the best post-war novels, where catastrophe is not an easy catalyst for plot, where characters go on living but not really, is about New York during a time when the city seemed dead.
*All book talks are free and open to the public.
Refreshments will be served.
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