Guy R. Beining’s most recent chapbooks include in rue from Phrygian Press (2008), Snug, Epicenter Press (2008), and The Centipede
that Dances with Scrub Brushes, Unarmed Press (2009). Forthcoming in 2010, World Pig 1-34, Alternating Current Press. In New York City he participated in Art Without Walls, the 9/11 Project and was included in the Color Matters Art Show at the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset, Massachusetts.

Dennis J. Bernstein is the host/producer of “Flashpoints,” a daily radio news magazine heard over Pacifica radio. His artist books, coauthored with Warren Lehrer, are in the Special Books Collections of the Museum of Modern Art and other museums around the world. Bernstein’s poetry has recently appeared in The Texas Observer, New York Quarterly, The Progressive, ZYZZYVA, Bijou Poetry Review, and Ars Medica. His new poetry collection, Special Ed, will be published in the fall.

Sarah Browning is co-director of Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness and DC Poets Against the War. Author of Whiskey in the Garden of Eden and co-editor of DC Poets Against the War: An Anthology, she received fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts, the Creative Communities Initiative, and the People Before Profits Poetry Prize. She co-hosts the Sunday Kind of Love reading series at Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC.

Alexander Budnitz is a designer and photographer working in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Emory College and the Yale University School of Art where, in addition to his design studies, he worked with photographers including Tod Papageorge, Gregory Crewdson, and Tim Davis. Alex is Senior Designer at Sametz Blackstone Associates and teaches at Northeastern University.

Lauren Camp is an artist and educator, working in a variety of visual, musical and literary arts. Recent publication credits include The Comstock Review, Cave Wall and Hotel Amerika. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Visit her online at www.laurencamp.com.

Priya Chandrasekaran is a doctoral student in Cultural Anthropology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She is a former member of the Mississippi Teacher Corps and has been awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature. She is currently working on a collection of essays based on a year spent volunteering and trekking in rural Peru.

Andrew Coburn is the author of thirteen novels, including Birthright (Simon & Schuster), a speculative re-examination of the Lindbergh kidnapping. His work has been translated into fourteen languages, and three of his novels have been adapted into French films subsequently subtitled in Italian and German. He lives in Andover, Massachusetts, with his wife Bernadine Casey Coburn, a former journalist who teaches writing at a women’s jail.

Larry Crist lives with his wife and cat in Seattle and has had stories and poems recently or soon to be published in: Alimentum, Bloodroot, Slipstream, Riverwind, Floating Bridge Press, The Taylor Trust and Real Change, Seattle’s homeless newspaper, as well as many other publications: Pearl and Rattle are two particular favorites. When not writing Larry is also an actor and scrounges around doing damn near anything and everything. He is delighted to find himself between the covers of J Journal for the second time.

Brian Daldorph teaches at the University of Kansas and at Douglas County Jail. He has also taught in Japan, England, Senegal and Zambia. His latest books of poetry are From the Inside Out: Sonnets (Woodley P, 2008), and Jail Time (2009). He edits Coal City Review.

Denise Falcone is a writer who lives in New York City. Her work has appeared in Blood Orange Review, Fresh! An Online Literary Journal, Foundling Review, South Jersey Underground, Why Vandalism? and others.

Dan Gutstein lives in Washington, DC and works at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. A collection of prose shorts, non/ fiction, will appear in early 2010 from Edge Books. His writing – poetry, memoir, fiction, drama – has been published in more than sixty journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry.

Richard Krause’s writing has appeared in such magazines as American Writing, Painted Bride Quarterly, the Hawaii Review, The Prose Poem and the American Poetry Review. He has recently had work accepted by Hotel Amerika and The Alembic. In 2003 Livingston Press published his short story collection, Studies in Insignificance. He teaches at Somerset Community College in Kentucky.

Aidan Lee is a writer and journalist based in New Delhi, India. Her poetry has been accepted by Salamander, Aunt Chloe and Bayou. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal Asia, The Nation, The Christian Science Monitor and the Financial Times, among other publications. She has an MFA in creative writing from Hunter College, where she won the Academy of American Poets Prize, and is a graduate of Wellesley College.

Andrew Lizotte lives in New York City where he works as a public defender. He is a graduate of Colby College and Syracuse University College of Law.

Cheyenne Nimes will have an MFA in nonfiction from Iowa in May, 2010. Currently at work on a book about the world water crisis, she won DIAGRAM’s 2009 hybrid essay contest for a piece on the Santa Cruz River.

Edythe Haendel Schwartz’s work has appeared widely in journals including Calyx, California Quarterly, Cider Press Review, Earth’s Daughters, Poet Lore, Pearl, Potomac Review, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Spillway, JAMA, Runes, Passager, Water-Stone and Natural Bridge, as well as in anthologies. Her collection, “Exposure,” was published by Finishing Line Press (2007) and was nominated for the California Book Award.

Peter Jay Shippy is the author of Thieves’ Latin (University of Iowa Press, 2003), Alphaville (BlazeVOX BOOKS, 2006) and How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic (Rose Metal Press, 2007). He has published widely, including in The American Poetry Review, The Boston Globe, Iowa Review and Ploughshares. Shippy teaches literature and writing at Emerson College in Boston.

Judith Skillman’s twelfth book The Never is forthcoming in 2010 from Dream Horse Press. The recipient of an award from the Academy of American Poets for her book Storm (Blue Begonia Press, 1998), Skillman’s work has appeared in Poetry, FIELD, The Southern Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Seneca Review and numerous other journals and anthologies. A writer, educator and editor, Skillman holds an M.A. in English Literature from University of Maryland, and lives in Kennydale, Washington.

Laurence Snydal is a poet, musician and retired teacher. His poetry has appeared in such journals as Columbia, Caperock, Lyric and Gulf Stream and in many anthologies including The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2000 and Visiting Frost.

David Starkey is the Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Santa Barbara City College. Two fulllength books of his poems are scheduled to be published in 2010: A FewThings You Should Know about the Weasel (Biblioasis) and It Must Be Like the World (Pecan Grove Press).

Margaret Walsh lives in Los Angeles, CA and is a former high school English teacher at a Title One law & government/police academy magnet. Currently, she works with the magnet students on their college admission essays.

Olga Zilberbourg is a San Francisco-based fiction writer and editor. In 2010, her stories will appear in The Narrative Magazine and Alligator Juniper. Some of her earlier work has appeared in Thema, Faraway Journal, roger: art & literary magazine, The Writer’s Eye, Clockwise Cat. She has volunteered as an assistant editor at Zoetrope: All-Story and42opus.com.

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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