Erik Campbell
Erik Campbell is an English teacher and technical writer trying to be
a good poet. Apart from a smattering of poems in small journals,
he has published interviews with Allen Ginsberg (1995), Phillip Glass (1995),
Arthur C. Clarke (1997), and studied under William Kloefkorn, Nebraska’s
state poet, for several years. He has also compiled and edited an anthology
of poets from Lincoln, Nebraska, titled Heaven Doesn’t Happen (Green
Bean Press, New York, NY, 1997). Mr. Campbell has recently moved to West
Papua, Indonesia to work as a technical writer, having replaced the city
(Washington, D.C.) with the jungle.
Adam Chiles
Adam Chiles' poems have appeared in Nimord International, Washington
Square, The Malahat Review, Grain, Event, Prairie
Fire and other magazines across North America. He has received two
full scholarships to attend the Bread Loaf Writers conference in
98 and 99 respectively, and was a finalist for the 2000 Pablo Neruda Award
and the 2002 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. Currently Mr. Chiles is on fellowship
at the University of Arizona.
Charlie Clark
Charlie Clark is a long-time resident of Washington DC, having also
put in short stints of residence in nearby Maryland and West Virginia.
He is currently finishing up his MFA in creative writing at the University
of Maryland, where he also completed his undergraduate degree.
William J. Cobb
William J. Cobb is the author of a novel, The Fire Eaters (W.W.
Norton) and a book of stories, The White Tattoo (Ohio State UP).
His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Mississippi
Review, American Short Fiction, The Antioch Review, and
many others. He has received a number of awards, including a National Endowment
for the Arts grant, the Sandstone Prize, and others. He currently teaches
writing at Penn State University.
Elaine Dempsey
Ms. Dempsey is currently enrolled in her final semester at University
of Missouri-St. Louis in the MFA in creative writing program. In
addition to writing poetry and fiction, she has been writing and editing
professionally for more than 15 years in advertising and communications.
After finishing her MFA she plans to use poetry writing as a means to assist
children and adolescents with HIV/Aids.
Erin Ergenbright
Erin Ergenbright's work has appeared in Tin House, the Colorado
Review, Indiana Review, Bellingham Review, Clackamas Literary Review
and Sundog: the Southeast Journal. Her first book, The Ex-Boyfriend
Cookbook, co-written with Thisbe Nissen, was recently published by
HarperCollins. She earned her MFA at University of Iowa in 1998 and now
lives in Portland, Oregon.
Ron Grant
Graduating from the University of Wisconsin with a BS in 1980 and a
MD in 1984, Ron Grant left his pediatric practice in 1999 to write and
is now a first-year MFA student at the University of Arizona. He has another
essay being published in the upcoming issue of Creative Nonfiction and
is currently at work finishing his first full length piece of nonfiction,
Silent
Stones, a memoir based on chaperoning high school students through
Poland and Israel.
Andy Kelly
Andy Kelly's fiction has won the Bellaman Memorial Award and the Joan
Johnson Award and has been published in Product and Arrowhead
Review. His nonfiction book, A Guide to the Owen Cooper Collection,
was published by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in
1998, and he has written interviews and book reviews for LiteraryType.
He is currently an assistant editor at The Mississippi Review.
Thomas Lisk
Work by Thomas Lisk has appeared in dozens of literary magazines and
newspapers, most recently in The Asheville Poetry Review, Connecticut
Review, Free Verse, and Hayden's Ferry Review. His poem, "Balloons
at the Louvre," originally published in Arts and Letters, appeared
on the Poetry Daily website last summer. A collection of his poems,
A
Short History of Pens Since the French Revolution, was published by
Apalachee Press.
Stuart Peterfreund
