Contributors' Notes
Michael Axtell has contributed work to
Candelabrum, The Eclectic Muse, and
Paris/Atlantic. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Kate Bernadette Benedict's publication credits include
print journals such as Kalliope, Slant, Rhino, ELF, Thema,
and The American Voice and online journals such as The
Able Muse and Perihelion. Kate lives on New York City's
upper west side.
Michael R. Burch is the poetry editor of The
HyperTexts. He was nominated for the 1999 Pushcart Prize by
The Aurorean, and his work has appeared in over 70
publications, including Poetry Magazine, Light Quarterly, The
Lyric, Piedmont Literary Review, Poet Lore, ByLine, Unlikely
Stories, Lonzie's Fried Chicken, Icon, Writer's Digest, Writer's
Journal and Writer's Gazette.
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.
Keith Allen Daniels has been publishing poetry since
1972. His poems have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, Weird
Tales, Recursive Angel, Poets of the Fantastic, Narcopolis, Once
Upon a Midnight and numerous other science fiction magazines
and anthologies.
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.
He has poems forthcoming in Edge City Review and Mandrake
Poetry Review.
Michael Fantina has had a great deal of poetry published
over the last 20 years, most recently in Candelabrum, Ironwood,
The Lyric, The New Formalist and the The Sonnet
Scroll.
Mark Francis has placed original poetry and translations
of classical Chinese verse in university publications and the small
press. Following six years of living and working in Asia, he earned
a Ph.D. in Chinese from Stanford University and has been employed
on both U.S. coasts and abroad as a college professor. His recent
acceptances include poems forthcoming in Renditions, Two Lines:
A Journal of Translation, and Songs of Innocence.
George Held, with Katherine Mayer, translated two sonnets
from the Hungarian by Lorinc Szabo that appear in the 2001 issue of
Modern Poetry in Translation. His latest collection of poems
is Beyond Renewal (Cedar Hill, 2001).
Jerry H. Jenkins' poems have appeared in numerous
periodicals such as The Formalist, The Lyric, Piedmont Literary
Review, Mandrake Poetry Review, The New Formalist, Mobius, and
others, and have been anthologized in several collections,
including the Rhysling Anthology of the Science-Fiction
Poetry Association, and most recently 2001: A Science-Fiction
Poetry Anthology (Anamnesis Press). His poems have also
appeared on leading-edge poetry sites on the internet, such as
The Able Muse, The Susquehanna Quarterly, The New Formalist,
Ironwood, Terrain, Poetry Life and Times, Pyrowords, Eclectica,
Octavo and La Petite Zine. He has co-authored the book-length
collection The Weird Sonneteers with Keith Allen Daniels and
Ann K. Schwader (Anamnesis Press), and the chapbooks Avian
(Anamnesis Press), Candle and The Garden of the Sun
(Helionaut Press).
Janet Kenny was born and educated in New Zealand.
Exhibited paintings and drawings. Gave song recitals and was
soloist in orchestral and oratorio concerts. Made operatic debut in
England at Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Ill health ended singing
career. Moved to Sydney, Australia, where she worked in the
environmental movement, published a book about Chernobyl and an
essay about the Nobel laureate novelist Patrick White. Her poems
have been published in The New Formalist, The Raintown Review,
Nectarzine, Writer's Hood, Mi Po, Del Sol Review and many
others.
Barney F. McClelland's work has appeared in numerous
publications both here in the United States as well as Ireland and
Great Britain including Oxford Magazine (Miami University
Press) and Acorn 10 (Dublin Writer's Group). In 1999, An
Cailleach Press published a chapbook titled In the Field of My
Heart. He currently works as a freelance writer in Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Richard Moore has ten published volumes of poetry, one of
which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of
a novel, The Investigator (Story Line Press, 1991), a
collection of essays, The Rule That Liberates (University of
South Dakota Press, 1994), and translations of Plautus'
Captivi (in the Johns Hopkins University Complete Roman
Drama in Translation series, 1995) and Euripedes'
Hippolytus (in the Penn Greek Drama Series, U. of
Pennsylvania, 1998). Moore's most recent poetry books include
The Mouse Whole: An Epic (Negative Capability Press, 1996)
and Pygmies and Pyramids (Orchises Press, 1998). His newest
collection of poems, The Naked Scarecrow, was published by
Truman State University Press, New Odyssey Editions, in the spring
of 2000.
Harvey Stanbrough's work has been nominated for the 1999
Pulitzer Prize and the 2000 Frankfurt E-Book Award. His most recent
collection, Intimations of the Shapes of Things, was
critically acclaimed by Dr. Joseph Salemi as "a welcome addition to
the growing body of New Formalist verse." He lives on a farm near
Pittsboro, Indiana, where he works as a full-time freelance editor,
writer, and poet.
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.
Leo Yankevich was born in western Pennyslvania on October
30, 1961. His poems and translations have appeared in scores of
large and small press magazines on both sides of the Atlantic, most
recently in Edge City Review, Ironwood, Kimera, The Neo
Victorian/Cochlea, Lite: Baltimore's Literary Newspaper, Sonnet
Scroll and The Susquehanna Quarterly. He lives with his
wife and three sons in Gliwice, Poland.
