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completed a Master's Degree in American Literature at the University of Southern Mississippi, and has subsequently taught college and middle school English.  His poetry has appeared previously in Product.
 
her poems are found in MARGIE, The MacGuffin, West Wind Review, Tiger's Eye, Calyx, and other discerning lit mags. She is a member of Lane Literary Guild's Red Sofa Poets, whose CD, Poets Demanding Ink, was published in 2007. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.
 
 
Nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, Corrine De Winter's poetry, fiction,  essays and interviews have appeared worldwide in publications such as the  The New York Quarterly, Imago, Phoebe, Plainsongs, Yankee, Sacred Journey,  Interim, The Chrysalis Reader, The Lucid Stone, Fate ,Press, Sulphur River Literary Review, Modern Poetry, The Lyric, Atom Mind, The Writer, The Lyric and over 800 other publications. She has been the recipient of awards from Triton College of Arts & Sciences, Writer's Digest, The Esme Bradberry Award, The Madeline Sadin Award, The Rhysling Award, and has been featured in Poet's Market 1995-2004. Her work is featured  in the much praised collections Bless the Day, Heal Your Soul, Heal the World, Get Well Wishes, Essential Love, The Language of Prayer , Mothers And Daughters, and in Bedside Prayers, now in its 18th printing.  Ms. De Winter is a member of HWA (Horror Writer's Association) and is a resident of Western Massachusetts.  De Winter is the author of 7 collections of poetry & prose including Like Eve, The Half Moon Hotel, and Touching The Wound, which sold over 3000 copies in its first year, and the latest "The Women At The Funeral", winner of the 2004 Bram Stoker Award for superior achievement in poetry.
 
when not writing, studies in Baltimore. Last year, Finishing Line Press published her first chapbook, Cow Poetry and other notes from the field. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Nimrod, Philadelphia Stories, flashquake, Mannequin Envy, Pemmican and Rose & Thorn.
 
got to pursue his life-long interest in literature full time when he went on disability from his job in a chemistry lab. The results have slowly crept into Chiron, Grain,  Kenyon Review,  Main Street Rag, New Delta Review, Pedestal, Poem, Poesy, Poetry Motel, Rattle, Wordrights, etc, and seven books of translations from the Hungarian, but now a volume of his own poetry (“Homing Poems”) is available from Iniquity Press.
 
His work has appeared in numerous publications and anthologies including, US Latino Literature Today and Is This Forever, Or What?: Poems and Paintings from Texas. He was also awarded a 2003 Archie D and Bertha Walker fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and was nominated for a 2003 Pushcart Prize. Recently he was nominated for a consecutive year to be the Naomi Shihab Nye Scholar and was invited to attend the 2007 Poetry at Roundtop Festival.  He also teaches poetry workshops for Writers in the Schools.
 
An American poet (b. 1939) currently lives in Canada's British Columbia. She has fourteen books out and a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee.
 
More than 450 of Kristine Ong Muslim's poems and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in over 150 publications worldwide. Her poetry has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, GlassFire Magazine, 42opus, Loch Raven Review, Noneuclidean Café, nthposition, The Pedestal Magazine, Turnrow, and Void Magazine.
 
 
has poems in recent issues of Otoliths, Dusie, and Sawbuck.  Chapbooks on the Mudlark site (2002) and the Right Hand Pointing site (2006).  Tarpaulin Sky Press will be bringing out a book tentatively titled Body Language, which will be a sort of diptych containing two separate collections, one titled Body (on parts of the body) and one titled Primer (on numbers and letters).
 
lives in Minnesota. He hosts the Dishevel’d Salon, an almost regular happy hour gathering of local writers. His first self-published chapbook, The Tequila Chronicles, received honorable mention in The Carbon Based Mistake’s 2004 Art Exchange Program Contest. His second, I Want To Look Like Henry Bataille, was published in 2006 by Little Poem Press and to his knowledge hasn’t won anything. His website is www.thedayonfire.com.
 
is the editor for HUNGUR magazine, the co-editor for Sounds of the Night, etc., at Sam's Dot Publishing, and the poetry editor for Tales from the Moonlit Path.
 
has been published in various small press journals, his book-length poem, “Condo,” (Lit Pot Press, 2006) considers the process of aging and loss in a senior living condominium complex.
 
has published 3 books of poetry, The Invisible Telling Its Shape (Fithian Press, 1998), Breathing Like a Jew (Chicory Blue Press, 1998) and Carnal Fragrance (Red Hen Press, 2004).  Her poetry appears in numerous literary magazines, including Antietam Review, Comstock Review, Nimrod, the Pedestal, Solo, onthebus, and Rattle.  Many of her (edgy and otherwise) poems have been anthologized.  
 
is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Pedestal and elsewhere. Family of Man (Pavement Saw Press) and Rafts (Parsifal Editions) are both scheduled for publication 2007.
 
Raymond Wachter

his work has appeared in Round Magazine, Apple Valley Review, Dicey Brown, and this month's Word Riot. He resides in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and is growing a thick skin as he accumulates rejections for his novel, Buddha’s Diary.
 
Is an Italian teacher of English, born and living in Venice-Italy, writing poems exclusively in English since 1993, they have been published in around three hundred literary magazines since 1999,  in U.K, U.S. and elsewhere. His poetry collection, “Re-Emerging”, was published as an on-line book by www.gattopublishing.com  in 2006.
 
Lyn Lifshin’s ANOTHER WOMAN WHO LOOKS LIKE ME was just published by Black Sparrow at David Godine October, 2006. It has been selected for the 2007 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence for previous finalists of the Paterson Poetry Prize. (ORDER@GODINE.COM ). Also out in 2006 is  her prize winning book about the famous, short lived beautiful race horse, Ruffian: THE LICORICE DAUGHTER: MY YEAR WITH RUFFIAN from TEXAS REVIEW PRESS. Other of  Lifshin’s recent prizewinning books include: BEFORE IT’S LIGHT published winter 1999-2000 by Black Sparrow press, following their publication of COLD COMFORT in 1997.Other  recently published books and chap books include: IN MIRRORS from Presa Press and UPSTATE: AN UNFINISHED STORY from Foot Hills and THE DAUGHTER I DON’T HAVE from Plan B Press. Other new books include WHEN A CAT DIES,  ANOTHER WOMAN’S STORY, BARBIE POEMS, SHE WAS LAST SEEN TREADING WATER and MAD GIRL POEMS, A NEW FILM ABOUT A WOMAN IN LOVE WITH THE DEAD, came from March Street Press in 2003. She has published more than 120 books of poetry, including MARILYN MONROE, BLUE TATTOO, won awards for her non fiction and edited 4 anthologies of women’s writing including TANGLED VINES, ARIADNE’S THREAD and LIPS UNSEALED. Her poems have appeared in most literary and poetry magazines and she is the subject of an award winning documentary film, LYN LIFSHIN: NOT MADE OF GLASS, available from Women Make Movies. Her poem, No More Apologizing has been called among the most impressive documents of the women’s poetry movement, by Alicia Ostriker.@  An update to her Gale Research Projects Autobiographical series, On The Outside, Lips, Blues, Blue Lace, was published Spring 2003. She has several forthcoming books including WHAT MATTERS MOST.  TSUNAMI is forthcoming from BLUE UNICORN. Arielle Press will publish POETS (MOSTLY) WHO HAVE TOUCHED ME, LIVING AND DEAD. ALL TRUE, ESPECIALLY THE LIES summer of 2006. For interviews, photographs, more bio material, reviews, interviews, prose, samples of work and more, her web site is www.lynlifshin.com. She is working on a new collection of selected poems, a collection of poems about the amazing race horse Barabaro as well as other collections.