VOLUME 2 - 2007-2008
CONTRIBUTORS
Carol Frost's latest book, The Queen's Desertion, appeared in 2006 from Northwestern University Press.
Roxanne Halpine attended the 2001 Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets and received her M.F.A. from UNC Greensboro. Her work has appeared in The
Greensboro Review.
Michael Hettich's two most recent books are Swimmer Dreams and Flock and Shadow: New and Selected Poems, both of which were published in 2005. A chapbook, Many Loves, won the 2007 YellowJacket Press contest for Florida poets. His work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, and he has won two Florida Arts Council Fellowships. He lives with his family and teaches at Miami Dade College.
Megan A. Hoak is a native Floridian and a self-proclaimed "rabble rouser." She received her BA in English—with concentrations in both creative writing and literature—from Florida Southern College in 2007. She currently resides in Lakeland, Florida, where she enjoys writing poetry and stirring up all sorts of trouble.
heather hughes (she prefers lower case h's), a Miami native relocated to Boston, revels in academia and works in the arts. She is the Business and Development Manager for Quick Fiction, a short fiction magazine that is developing a writing center in the North Shore area of Massachusetts. She returns to Florida often—the next trip will be to attend the Key West Literary Seminar and poetry workshop on scholarship. Her work is forthcoming in Grain and Prick of the Spindle.
Allison Eir Jenks has won the Ohio University Press Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. She is the author of Palace Of Bones.
Horacio Sierra is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at the University of Florida. Horacio has written news and features stories for newspapers such as The Miami Herald, The Miami Hurricane, The Gainesville Sun, The Satellite, and Hispanic magazine. He was born and raised in Dade County, Florida.
Richard Siken’s poetry collection Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, a Lambda Literary Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, Conjunctions, Indiana Review, and Forklift, Ohio, as well as in the anthologies The Best American Poetry 2000 and Legitimate Dangers. He is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize, two Arizona Commission on the Arts grants, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
T. (Teresa) Stores is the author of two published novels, Getting to the Point and SideTracks (Naiad Press, 1995, 1996). Her new novel, Backslide (Sinister Wisdom, forthcoming in 2008), explores the fundamentalist Southern Baptist religion, set against the America of 1969-70, through the coming of age and later coming out of a young believer. Current works in progress include a collection of short fiction set in southern Vermont, titled Frost Heaves, and a novel for young adults. Stores’s fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Oregon Literary Review, Sinister Wisdom, Out Magazine, Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly, Blithe House Quarterly, Poetry Motel, Artistic F/X, Bloom, Cicada, Earth’s Daughters, Best Lesbian Fiction 2005, Rock & Sling, Blueline, and Kudzu. She has been awarded writing grants by the Vermont Arts Council, Barbara Deming Fund, and the Cardin Fund, and has been a scholar and contributor at the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley and Bread Loaf. A graduate of the MFA program at Emerson College, Stores is an assistant professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Hartford.
Alicia Thompson currently resides in Riverview, Florida, just one highway exit from the spot where Lobster Boy was killed. Her first novel for young adults, The Psych Major Syndrome, will be published by Hyperion Books for Children in spring 2009.
Jeffrey Tucker currently teaches English at Brigham Young University; in addition to Saw Palm, he has been published in Inscape, and he has a publication forthcoming in The Sandy River Review. Jeffrey lives in the Salt Lake City area with his wife.
Terri Witek is the author of The Shipwreck Dress (2008), Carnal World (2006), and Fools and Crows (2003), as well as a book about Robert Lowell's revisions. She holds the Art and Melissa Sullivan Chair in Creative Writing at Stetson University.