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Eddie Bell (“Twenty-First Century Man”) is a poet with a
strong narrative voice. His poems tell stories about people
and life, past and present, through a black man’s eyes. He
has two published volumes, has made sponsored tours
of France and is currently working on his first novel and
a collaborative project, Festival of Tears, a fictional work about lynching, which brings together voice, music and dance.
Eddie is retired from the State University of New York and resides in New
Paltz, NY.
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Sally Bellerose (“Tripping”) has received many awards including an NEA, The Barbara Deming Prize, and The
Rick DeMartinis Award. Her work appears in current issues of Rock and Sling, The Journal of Humanistic Anthropology, Passager, Cutthroat, Saint Ann’s Review, Cup of Comfort for Writers, and Crab Orchard Review. Please visit her at SallyBellerose.com and read chapter one of her novel The Girls Club. “Tripping” was a finalist for the Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award.
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Karen Benke (“Gun”) is the author of a chapbook, Sister (Conflu:X Press, 2004). Her poems have appeared in various anthologies and
literary magazines, including Ploughshares, Poetry East, Hawaii Pacific Review, and online at Poetry Daily. A poet-teacher for many years in the California
Poets-in-the-Schools program, she lives in Mill Valley, California, with her
husband and son.
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Yvonne Cannon (“Slippage” “Land of the Stars”) worked in the film industry as office manager for Surf Theatres, San
Francisco. When This You See (Browser Books, 2006) is her first book. She’s published in ZYZZYVA, North American Review, Santa Clara Review, Confrontation, Fruitflesh, and Caesura. She was a finalist in the Slapering Hol Press 2005 Poetry Chapbook Competition, won an Honorable
Mention, San Jose Center for Poetry Prize 2001, and was a winning selected poet
in Poets Eleven 2007 city-wide contest.
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Linda Coleman (“Horses”) has been writing memoir for the past ten years. She has recently completed a
full-length work, Radical Descent, as yet unpublished, about her transit through idealism and dogma amidst the
violent revolutionary underground of the early 1970s. She leads memoir writing
workshops on eastern Long Island for women, both incarcerated and free, through
Herstory Writers Workshop Inc (www.herstorywriters.org) a community writing project for women from all walks of life which she helped
to organize.
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Richard Costello (“2 or 3 Things I Know About Brain Injury”) lives, works, writes in Greensboro, NC, and plans to continue same indefinitely.
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Rachel Dacus’ (“Big Bang”) books are Femme au chapeau and Earth Lessons. Her poetry and prose have appeared in numerous magazines and the anthologies Italy: A Love Story and Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English. She studies mystical literature and has traveled to Italy and twice to India.
After childhood in southern California, she migrated north to U.C. Berkeley in
1966 to major in literature and counterculture. She lives in the San Francisco
area.
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Frances Pettey Davis (“A Cure for Scarring”) lives in Summerland, California and is a columnist for Coastal View News. Her stories, essays and poems have appeared in Calyx, The Chattahoochee Review, The Vincent Brothers Review, Reed Magazine, Passager, Quercus Review and several anthologies and online journals. Her travel writing is featured in Italy, A Love Story and Mexico, A Love Story published by Avalon Books. She is a winner of the Lamar York prize for
nonfiction and a Pushcart prize nominee.
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Sally Lipton Derringer (“Verlaine” “Cultivation”) is an instructor of Creative Writing at Rockland Center for the Arts in West
Nyack, New York. She has an M.A. in Creative Writing from Antioch University,
and has taught in the English Department at SUNY Rockland. Her poetry
manuscript was a finalist for Fordham University’s Poets Out Loud Prize as well as the New Issues Press First Book Award. Her
work has been published in many literary journals.
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Glenn Deutsch (“Hoyer Lift”) has published stories or poems in such journals as The Modern Review, Notre Dame Review, New Delta Review, River City (now The Pinch), Controlled Burn, and Iodine Poetry Journal, and feature articles in magazines including Poets & Writers, Men’s Health, and Harper’s Bazaar. A former editor of Third Coast, he currently teaches literature and creative writing at Kalamazoo College.
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Marshall D. Dury (“Steps”) is a writer, guitarist and teacher who lives outside of Boston, MA with his
wife Melissa. His writings have been included in Please Welcome!, he completed a creative manuscript for his undergraduate degree in English
titled “The Beating Heart of Busted Rhyme,” and more recently he has completed his own chapbook entitled Set the World Aflame. Dury is currently collaborating with the literary photojournal/e-zine Waterlogged August for inclusion in a spring edition on the theme of commitment (www.waterloggedaugust.com)
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Anne Matlack Evans (“Basin, Pool and Ocean”) grew up in southern California and migrated to northern California. “Basin, Pool, and Ocean” is the opening piece to a collection of linked stories she is currently
completing. Her fiction has appeared in Eclipse, and her nonfiction in The Ruminator Review and The San Francisco Chronicle. She teaches fiction and literature, and is the Managing Director of the Napa
Valley Writers’ Conference.
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