Jon Ballard is a poet and an occasional literature instructor for Oakland Community College in Royal Oak, Michigan who currently lives in Mexico City. His poetry has previously appeared in Soundings East, Riverrun, The Old Red Kimono, SP Quill, The MacGuffin, The Dande Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, Poetry Midwest and The Centrifugal Eye, and is forthcoming in Rock Salt Plum Review, SubtleTea, and The Valparaiso Poetry Review. Jon's first chapbook collection, Lonesome, is forthcoming from Pudding House Publications in 2007.
Ann Bergheim is a high school teacher in Northwestern Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in San Diego Arts and Poets Magazine and Scribe Spirit.
Scott Brewer is a member of the Writer's Center of Indiana and the Poetry Alliance of Indy. He has lived all his life in Indiana and grew up in the small town of Fairmount. He received a B.A. from Wabash College in 1980, and is currently a City Forester for Carmel, Indiana. Scott received an individual artist grant in 2005 from the Indiana Arts Commission to publish a book, Instinct and Everyday Blues. His favorite subjects are his family, Indiana, and other poets.
Joyce Brinkman is Indiana's Poet Laureate. Joyce's first published poem appeared in Hill Thoughts, the literary journal of her Alma Mater, Hanover College. Although she has written poetry since age nine, she believes there are always new things to learn. Serving as Indiana Poet Laureate gives her the opportunity to learn from poets laureate of other states and from the rich visions, voices, and valor of Hoosier poets, writers, artists, and citizens.
Dan Carpenter has published poetry in Illuminations, Pearl, Maize, Flying Island and Pith and fiction in Sycamore Review, Prism International, Laurel Review, Fiction, Pearl, Hopewell Review, Flying Island and other journals. A collection of columns Dan wrote for The Indianapolis Star, where he earns his living, was published by Indiana University Press in 1993 with the title Hard Pieces: Dan Carpenter's Indiana. He also contributed to the IU Press books Falling Toward Grace (1998) and Urban Tapestry (2002) and wrote the text for the photo book Indiana 24/7 from DK Publishing (2004).
Patrick Carrington teaches creative writing in New Jersey and is poetry editor for the art & literary journal Mannequin Envy. He was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His poetry is forthcoming in Rattle, The New York Quarterly, The Eleventh Muse, The GW Review, Yemassee, The Louisville Review and other journals. Patrick's first book-length collection is Rise, Fall, and Acceptance (Main Street Rag, 2007).
Antonia Clark is a medical writer for a medical software company in Burlington, Vermont. She has previously published short fiction and essays in The Missouri Review, StoryQuarterly, The Sun, Thema, Troika, and other journals. Poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in kaleidowhirl, The Pedestal Magazine, and Rattle. She is currently co-administrator of The Waters, an online poetry forum and workshop.
Terry Coffey's prose and poetry has appeared in various publications, including Kaleidoscope, Papyrus and The Baker Street Journal. He pays the bills doing technical publications and media relations in New Castle, Indiana, where he lives with his wife and the world's best dog, Star Morgan.
Terry Cunningham is an Indianapolis poet who frequents the Writer's Center of Indiana. He has also published pre-teen short stories in Club House and High Adventure magazines.
Steve De France is a widely published poet, playwright and essayist. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry in 2002 and 2003, Steve has recently been published in The Wallace Stevens Journal, The Mid-American Poetry Review, Ambit, Atlantic, and The Sun. In England he won a Reader's Award in Orbis Magazine for his poem "Hawks." In the United States he won the Josh Samuels' Annual Poetry Competition (2003) for his poem "The Man Who Loved Mermaids." His play THE KILLER premiered at the GARAGE THEATRE in Long Beach, California in 2006. In 1999, he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Chapman University for his writing.
George Fish came to poetry late, discovering he had the poetic muse through attending Richard Pflum's Poetry Salon workshop at the Writer's Center of Indiana. He has been an expository freelance writer since 1981, has a degree in economics from Indiana University, and has been a socialist activist since 1965.
S.P. Flannery was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and now resides in Madison where he writes poetry and maintains a website about primates called The Primata at http://members.tripod.com/cacajao. His poetry has most recently appeared in Hummingbird, Words-Myth, The Onion Union, Merge and Poetry Salzburg Review.
Meridith Gresher trained as a classical dancer at The Atlanta School of Ballet and apprenticed with International Ballet Rotaru. Ultimately, she traded point shoes for pen and legal pad, before the days of her laptop. Her work has appeared in 2River View, FRiGG, edifice WRECKED, Blast, The Journal of Modern Post, Poems Niederngasse (Marginalia Section), and Red River Review. More work is forthcoming in Identity Theory, Flashquake, and Snow Monkey.
Tom Holmes is a co-founding, co-editor of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics. He is author of After Malague–a (FootHills Publishing, 2005) and Poetry Assignments (Sage Hill Press, 2007).
Beth Stolar Kehayes was born and raised in northern Ohio and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The College of New Jersey. She has been published in Alone Together, True Poet Magazine, Poetry Super Highway, PoetryStop, Flutter Poetry Journal, Taborri Press and Sage of Consciousness. Forthcoming publications include Autumn Sky Poetry in March 2007.
Norbert Krapf is a native of Jasper, Indiana who has lived in Indianapolis since 2004 after 34 years of teaching at Long Island University, where he directed the C.W. Post Poetry Center. His six collections of poems include the recent collaboration with Darryl Jones from I.U. Press, Invisible Presence: A Walk through Indiana in Photographs and Poems(2006), as well as Looking for God's Country (2005), The Country I Come From (2002), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and Somewhere in Southern Indiana (1993).
Christine Lê has recently had her writing accepted to Ginosko and The Autism Perspective. Her manuscript ãVietnam Moonä received a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. She lives in Hawaii, working as a psychologist with children and adults.
Joseph Lofgren is an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota in Duluth where he studies English and Psychology. Although he has written for a number of years, he is previously unpublished.
Jeffrey H. MacLachlan received his MFA at Chatham College and his work has appeared in the Brooklyn Review, Zaum, Boston Literary Magazine, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He hails from Skaneateles, New York.
Ravi Mangla is currently a student residing in Fairport, New York. His interests include tennis, music, and travel.
Rohana McCormack, born in North Carolina, has lived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and in West Lafayette, Indiana. She is currently active in the Writers' Center of Indiana. Rohana has been anthologized in the Indiana Sesquicentennial , Purdue University Miscellany, Indiannual and was recently accepted in an upcoming Pudding House Publications anthology, Hymns to the Outrageous. She has been variously published in little magazines like Kayak, Sparrow, No Exit Quartet and Flying Island.
Corey Mesler, nominated for the Pushcart numerous times, has published prose and poetry in Turnrow, Adirondack Review, American Poetry Journal, Paumanok Review, Yankee Pot Roast, Monday Night, Elimae, Poet Lore, Euphony, Rattle, Jabberwock Review, Dicey Brown, Cordite Poetry Review, Cellar Door and others. He has written a novel-in-dialogue, Talk (Livingston Press, 2002) and a novel, We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (Livingston Press, 2006). Corey's poem, "Sweet Annie Divine," was chosen for Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac. Corey and his wife own Burke's Book Store in Memphis, Tennessee.
Beth Mink is an Industrial Electrician from Fishers, Indiana with a fabulously handsome husband, two wildly intelligent sons, three dogs and a yellow jeep.beep.beep.
Mary C. O'Malley has MFA and MSW degrees and is the mother of five children including two sets of twins. Some of her work has appeared in Whiskey Island, Mid-American Poetry Review and online in The Box Car Review, Cezanne's Carrot, Poetry Midwest and Lunaristy. She also has been published in the recent anthology Cleveland in Prose and Poetry.
Tolu Ogunlesi was born in 1982. He was a 2005/2006 Fellow on the British Council Crossing Borders Nigeria Literature Project, and a participant in the BBC Africa 05 My Africa Project. He is the author of a collection of poetry, Listen to the Geckos Singing from a Balcony (Bewrite Books, UK, 2004). His fiction and poetry have appeared in Wasafiri, Sable, Orbis, Eclectica, Stickman Review, VLQ, Inkpot, Mississippi Review, Times Arts Review, Smoke: A London Peculiar, Sentinel Poetry Quarterly, Camouflage, Pindeldyboz, Dance the Guns to Silence and Subtle Tea and he has fiction forthcoming in Litro, The Arabesques Review and The Weaverbird Anthology of New Nigerian Fiction.
Rumit Pancholi earned a BA in English from the University of Maryland and is currently an MFA student in poetry at the University of Notre Dame duLac in South Bend, Indiana. Rumit's poetry has appeared in Banyan Review, Double Dare Press, Poetry Super Highway, Antithesis Common, Foliate Oak and The Clemson Poetry Review. Upon graduation he hopes to work at a publishing firm.
David Parker's work has appeared most recently in Powhatan Review, Mid-American Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and Lullwater Review. He currently resides and works in Monmouth, Oregon.
Richard Pflum has published two collections (A Dream of Salt and A Strange Juxtaposition of Parts) and has recorded a CD (Strange Requests). His poems have appeared in Sparrow, Event, Kayak, The Reaper, The Exquisite Corpse, Tears In The Fence, Arts Indiana Literary Supplement, Indiannual, The Flying Island, The Hopewell Review, Ploplop, The Indiana Experience and Bear Crossings. His chapbook, The Haunted Refrigerator and Other Poems, is forthcoming from Pudding House Publications.
Stephen R. Roberts recently retired from 35 years in the insurance claims business. His poems have been published in various literary journals including Borderlands, New Laurel Review, Blueline, Briar Cliff Review, Willow Springs, and Karamu. He has 5 published chapbooks, the most recent, Rhubarb DeSoto (Pudding House Publications, 2004).
Margaret A. Robinson has a chapbook, Sparks, at Pudding House Publications and will have four poems in the spring issue of Prairie Schooner. Margaret teaches at Widener University and lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. She loves to cook.
Beth Rodriguez resides in Virginia. She has an essay included in the anthology Telling Tongues.
Andrew Shelley is a poet and critic born in West Yorkshire, England. Andrew did a Ph.D. on Samuel Beckett at Oxford, where he held a Research Fellowship. He has lived and worked as writer and tutor in Greece, Turkey and Italy. He is the author of Peaceworks (The Many Press, 1996), Requiem Tree (Spectacular Diseases, 2002) and Thornsongs (Unarmed, 2005). He is currently living and writing in a rough but interesting area of East London.
Noel Sloboda teaches at Penn State York and serves as dramaturg for the Harrisburg Shakespeare Festival. His writing has appeared in Studies in the Humanities, FRiGG, Underground Voices, 55 Words, Ghoti, Waterways, Triptych Haiku, Ottawa Arts Review, and other places.
Dorothy Summers studied poetry at IUPUI in Indianapolis. Formerly she worked as a public affairs specialist for the U.S. Army and as an editorial assistant. She has published news and feature stories in national Army magazines and in newspapers in Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois.
Rohith Sundararaman lives in Bombay, India. His work has appeared in eclectica, elimae, edifice WRECKED, right hand pointing, GUD and other magazines. He is 22 and he might become a manager some day.
Donna Vorreyer lives and writes in the Chicago area, where her family and friends have become used to the constant presence of a notebook wherever they go. Her poetry has appeared and is forthcoming in numerous journals including After Hours, Flashquake, New York Quarterly, Byline, Literary Mama, and Bathtub Gin.
Christian Ward is a London based poet whose poetry has appeared in
Andwerve, Adagio Verse Quarterly and Word Riot. His second chapbook, Goddess & Other Poems, was recently published by Scars Publications. He is currently studying Creative Writing and English Literature at Roehampton University, London.
James R. Whitley's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Barrelhouse, Can We Have Our Ball Back, JMWW, Poetry Southeast, Umbrella, Ward 6 Review and Word Riot. Whitley's first book Immersion won the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. His second book This Is the Red Door won the Ironweed Press Poetry Prize and will be published in 2007. He is also the author of two poetry chapbooks: Pietà and The Golden Web.
David Michael Wolach teaches philosophy, aesthetics, and art history at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Recent publications include Poetry Midwest, Unfettered Verse, Elizabeth Street Review, Sorites: A Journal of Metaphysics and Storyglossia. The recipient of a Mary K. Davis Award for Short Fiction and a Peralta Press Editor's Prize, Wolach is also managing editor of Wheelhouse Magazine.