No. 7

Fall 2004

John Beaver is a photographer living in Appleton, Wisconsin. His 'cyanonegative' photography combines the printing process of cyanotype (invented in 1842) with homemade cameras and modern digital scanning and printing. In his spare time he is Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at University of Wisconsin - Fox Valley, in Menasha, Wisconsin. Visit www.ArtCo-op.com/jbeaver.html or email jbeaver@uwc.edu.

Zelienople's own Emily Brungo is a 2001 graduate of Carnegie Mellon's creative writing program. Her poems can also be found at RogueScholars.com and the fall issue of New York Quarterly. Some of her favorite things are hospital socks, the NFL and wheat toast; but she can't stand curry, misplaced apostrophes and Interstate 80.

Mark DeCarteret's work has appeared in AGNI, Chicago Review, Conduit, and Salt Hill as well as such anthologies as American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon Press, 2000) and Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998 (Black Sparrow Press, 2000). Recently his work has been featured online at Maverick Magazine and Mudlark. His most recent book The Great Apology was published by Oyster River Press in 2002.

Steve Fellner is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Brockport. This piece is a part of an as of yet unpublished memoir entitled Where I Went Wrong. Other excepts have appeared in Cimarron Review, North American Review, Another Chicago Magazine, and Northwest Review, among others.

Michelle McEwen has a degree in English writing from University of Pittsburgh, with a concentration in poetry. Currently, she lives in a small town in central Connecticut where she writes short stories excessively.

Nahrain Al-Mousawi is a masters student in Arabic studies. Her work has appeared in The Adirondack Review, Fireweed, Eleven Bulls, Entropic Desires, and Euphony.

Tara Moyle received her MFA in poetry from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2004 where she was awarded The Academy of American Poets Catherine and Joan Byrne Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Exquisite Corpse and Brilliant Corners. She lives and teaches in Richmond, VA.

Wendy Murray is from Great Britain and currently lives in California. This is her first published story but a play she wrote, "Mrs Worthington, You Were Warned," was performed in London at the Arts Theatre, the King's Head and on the BBC. She recently adapted a Hemingway piece for A&E. She works in and around the film industry.

Ellen McGrath Smith is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh, where she earned an MFA in Poetry and an MA certificate in Cultural Studies in 1993. Her poetry and criticism has appeared in American Book Review, The Denver Quarterly, Zone 3, and other national publications. An essay on the American prose poem is forthcoming in Sentence 2.

Lara Tupper is an Instructor of Writing at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and graduate of the MFA Program for Writers, Warren Wilson College. A former lounge singer, she has performed in Thailand, Japan, China and the United Arab Emirates. "Dishdash" is her first electronically published story.

A 2001 Pushcart Prize nominee, Elizabeth Volpe lives and teaches in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including: Borderlands, the Texas Poetry Review, California Quarterly, Phoebe, Diner, Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine, Comstock Review, MacGuffin, Rattle, The Atlanta Review, and The Adirondack Review. She recently was awarded first prize in the Briarcliff Review 2004 Poetry Contest. New work is forthcoming in Red Rock Review.

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