Contributors' Notes
Deborah Warren's poems have appeared in Cumberland
Poetry Review, Edge City Review, The Formalist, Orbis, Sparrow,
and other journals. She was the runner-up for the 1998 Robert Penn
Warren Poetry Prize and the 2000 T. S. Eliot Prize.
Leo Yankevich's poems and translations have appeared
widely on both sides of the Atlantic, most recently in Blue
Unicorn, Edge City Review, Sulphur River Literary Review,
Cedar Hill Review, Envoi, Kimera, The MacGuffin, Poetry Nottingham,
Staple, and Windsor Review. He lives with his wife and
three sons in Gliwice, Poland.
Janet Kenny was born and educated in New Zealand, where
she exhibited paintings and performed as a concert singer. She
moved to the United Kingdom, where she made her debut in opera at
the Glyndebourne Festival and worked as a singer until illness
forced her to retire. She has published an essay about the novelist
Patrick White and a book about Chernobyl. Some of her poems have
been performed by leading Australian actors. She now lives in
Sydney with her husband.
William Ruleman is an associate professor of English at
Tennessee Wesleyan College. His poems have been published in
Berkeley Poetry Review, Acumen, Envoi, Orbis, and many other
journals.
M.A. Schaffner has poems recently published or
forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, The Formalist,
Cumberland Poetry Review, Poetry Salzburg, and Planet:
The Welsh Internationalist. Schaffner's first collection,
The Good Opinion of Squirrels, published by Word Works,
Inc., won the Washington Writer's Center publication prize and the
Columbia Book Award.
David Castleman lives in a shanty in a redwood grove with
two improbably conceited cats, listening by evening to John
McCormack and Billie Holiday. His poems, tales and imaginatively
critical essays have appeared in hundreds of journals on both sides
of the Atlantic. For money he labors in a lumberyard north of San
Francisco.
Alan Reynolds' poems have been published in US and UK
magazines, including a fifteen-sonnet series in ENVOI and
poems in Mobius.
Jerry H. Jenkins' poems have appeared in The
Formalist, The Lyric, Mobius, Mandrake Poetry Review,
Harp-Strings, Piedmont Literary Review and Pirate
Writings. His book-length collection of poems, in collaboration
with Keith Allen Daniels and Ann K. Schwader, was published by
Anamnesis Press in June 2000, under the title The Weird
Sonneteers.
Boris Dralyuk was born in the former Soviet Union and has
lived in Los Angeles, CA since 1991. He is currently a student at
UCLA in the Russian Studies and Comparative Literature
departments.
Peter Norman's poetry and fiction have appeared in
various Canadian literary journals, including Windsor
Review, Prism International, The Fiddlehead, and
Event.
Michael Fantina has recently had poems appear in The
Lyric and the last several issues of Candelabrum Poetry
Magazine.
J.B. Mulligan writes from Washingtonville, NY, that he is
married, has three children, numerous pets, has written over 300
poems and stories which have appeared in dozens of magazines
including Pith, Liberty Grove Poetry Review, Deeply Shallow
and Wide-eyed Stories. He has had two chapbooks published
(Samisdat Press), The Stations of the Cross and This Way
to the Egress.
Edward Weir has written music for national television
specials and film, and his articles, satire, and poetry appear in
various journals and magazines such as The Formalist,
Orbis, SPSM&H, Whiskey Island, The
Atlanta Review, The Lyric, Troubadour, The
Ledge, The Door, Windhover, Acoustic
Musician and Guitar Review. He has won the Felix
Stefanile Sonnet Award, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and
his fiction appears in Sideshow 1997, Fine Print,
Lynx, Eye, Foliage, The Bitter
Oleander, and Reader's Break, among others.
Joe Johnson is an undergraduate writing major at Johns
Hopkins University.
Anthony Lombardy's poems and translations have appeared
in Classical Outlook, The Cumberland Poetry Review, The
Formalist, Italian Americana, Mandrake Poetry Review, The New
Yorker, Pivot, and Sparrow. His translation of
Euripides' Bacchae was published and produced at Nashville's
Parthenon. His first book of poems is Severe (Bennett &
Kitchel 1995). He teaches classics and poetry writing at Belmont
University.
Piotr Gwiazda has reviewed for Rain Taxi Review of
Books, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, and
In-Between. His paper on Merrill is forthcoming in Texas
Studies in Literature and Language. He has a Ph.D. in English
from New York University (a dissertation on Merrill and Auden) and
he currently teaches at SUNY's Fashion Institute of Technology.
