Author Index

AUPREY, GENE
Gene Auprey is a retired construction manager presently living in rural Maine. An avid outdoorsman and life-long New Englander, much of his poetry deals intimately with the culture and environment of the North Eastern States. His poems have appeared in journals including Worm, Soundzine and Shit Creek Review.

  • "Lost" (VI#1, 6/08)

BROOKS, GEORGE
George Brooks teaches writing, literature and adult literacy in central Utah where he lives with his wife, daughter and garden.

  • "The Foxes Have Holes, or Escalante" (VI#1, 6/08)
  • "3 fall haiku, looking up" (excerpt) (VI#1, 6/08)

CHAFFIN, C.E.
C.E. Chaffin has been referred to as “a web phenomenon” (Savoy) and “the famous Dr. Chaffin” (Pink Puddin’ Review), as well as being listed with other celebrities at the site, “Famous People Who Have Experienced Manic-Depression.” His faux fame can be sampled at his blog, cechaffin.blogspot.com. Shoe size: same as mouth.

  • "The Proper Sound" (VI#1, 6/08)
    Appears in the author's collection Elementary (Mellen Press, 1997)

CONE, TEMPLE
Temple Cone is the author of five chapbooks of poetry, the most recent of which, Eurydice & Orpheus, is due out from Finishing Line Press this year. He is an assistant professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy.

  • "Cord" (VI#1, 6/08)

DIETZ, MAGGIE

  • "Paisano" (VI#1, 6/08)

HOWARD-HOBSON, JULEIGH
A 2006 finalist for the Morton Marr Poetry Prize, Juleigh Howard-Hobson's work has been nominated for both a Pushcart and the 'Best of the Net'. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Mezzo Cammin, The Raintown Review, The Barefoot Muse, 14 by 14, The Chimaera, Soundzine, Candelabrum and many other print and online journals.

  • "Twilight" (VI#1, 6/08)
    Appears under the title "Twilight Reverie" in VerseWeavers (OSPA, 2007)

KALOGERIS, GEORGE

  • "Tentava la Vostra Mano la Tastiera," translated from the original Italian by George Kalogeris (VI#1, 6/08)

KOUYIALIS, THEOKLIS

  • "Eurydike," translated from Greek by Nora Clark Liassis (VI#1, 6/08)
    Appears in the volume My Own Deftera (Moufflon Publishing, 2007)

LEVIN, JANE
Jane Levin is a former psychologist, current volunteer community worker and nine year survivor of ovarian cancer. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in over two dozen publications, including the anthologies Illness & Grace/Terror & Transformation, Drash: Northwest Mosaic, County Lines and Best Lesbian Poetry 2008. Her chapbook, Legacy, was released in 2008. Jane and her partner have escaped Minnesota winters by volunteering – on organic farms in New Zealand, at a state park in Arizona and cooking for displaced residents in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward.

  • "Devotion" (VI#1, 6/08)
    Previously published at Terrain.org V.21 (2008)

LIASSIS, NORA CLARK
Nora Clark Liassis is a professor of English literature at the European University Cyprus. Her research interests and publications include 19th and 20th century poetry, comparative poetry studies, poetry and heritage, and prose poetry in translation.

  • "Eurydike," translated from the original Greek by Theoklis Kouyialis (VI#1, 6/08)
    Appears in the volume My Own Deftera (Moufflon Publishing, 2007)

MINUS, ED

  • "Two Views, from Some Distance, of a Deciduous Tree" (VI#1, 6/08)

MONTALE, EUGENIO

  • "Tentava la Vostra Mano la Tastiera," translated from Italian by George Kalogeris (VI#1, 6/08)

NIENOW, MATTHEW
Matthew Nienow is the author of Two Sides of the Same Thing, winner of the 2007 Copperdome Chapbook Award. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in American Literary Review, Poet Lore, Pebble Lake Review, Nimrod and Best New Poets 2007.

  • "What the Tundra Has to Offer" (VI#1, 6/08)
    Previously published in Trestle Creek Review (2006) and appears in the author's chapbook, Two Sides of the Same Thing (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2007)

RAAB-FABER, JOY
Joy Raab-Faber attends the University of New Mexico where she studies English and Creative Writing. She earned an Associate of Applied Science in metals technology through Albuquerque CNM. She is also a recycling artist. Her first short stories will be published in 2008 in Unlikely Stories and Slow Trains. She thanks Terry Brown Davidson for help and support.

  • "Walk Lake" (VI#1, 6/08)

RICHE, ROBERT
Robert Riche is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Connecticut Foundation for the Arts grant, Advanced Drama Research grant; winner of the Stanley Drama Award, and a Breadloaf Writers Conference scholar. He has published one novel (The Permanent Press), and several short stories, including one most recently in Commentary. My plays have been performed in numerous LORT regional theaters and at the Bristol Old Vic in England. A new chapbook, On the Line, will be published by Pudding House this summer.

  • "Psalm" (VI#1, 6/08)

SALTARELLI, ANDREW
Andrew Saltarelli lives with his wife in Stevensville, Montana.

  • "The Broken Rose" (VI#1, 6/08)