No. 6

Spring 2004

Larissa Brown transforms the raw materials of the corporate workplace into sculptures and installations. Her mixed media works have been seen in New York, Boston, and the Pacific Northwest, and her "office art" was recently featured on National Public Radio's Studio 360. Beyond studio work, Larissa has created installations in such diverse locations as a busy urban government building, a classical Chinese garden, and a Victorian-era cemetery. Her portfolio is available at www.larissabrown.net.

Heidi Bell is a writer and editor living in Aurora, Illinois. Her writing has appeared in Third Coast, Salon, The Southeast Review, and the Women's Review of Books, and is forthcoming in The Seattle Review.

Joe Bonomo's personal essays and prose poems appeared recently in Denver Quarterly, Sonora Review, Sou'wester, and River Teeth, and he is a nonfiction reviewer for The Georgia Review. He was awarded a 2004 Fellowship in Prose from the Illinois Arts Council, and is currently writing a biography of the cult New York rock and roll band The Fleshtones.

David Breeden has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Ph.D. from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, with additional study at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. He has published eight books of poetry and four novels. His short film House Whine was funded by the British Columbia Arts Council. His film Off the Wall recently won "Best of Fest" at the Great Lakes Film Festival. His newest book of poetry, Ice Cream and Suicide, will appear from UKA Press in the United Kingdom.

Sommer Browning lives in Arizona for the time being. She has poems in such journals as Salt Hill, spork, Mississippi Review, and Hayden's Ferry Review. Breakneck speeds are what she prefers.

Alan Catlin's latest books are a selected poems, Drunk and Disorderly from Pavement Saw Press and The Schenectady Chainsaw Massacre from Staplegun.

Paul Dickey first published his poetry in the 1970's in several literary journals. New poems are forthcoming in Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, The Concho River Review, and Rattle. Poems and flash fiction are online at several ezines. Biographical information and additional notes on previous publishing activity can be found at http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/dickey.htm

Stephanie Dickson writes fiction in Springfield, Illinois. She is from central Texas and has a B.S. in Entomology from Texas A&M University. She is currently at work on a collection of short stories.

Gian Lombardo has two collections of prose poetry out from Dolphin-Moon Press: Standing Room and Sky Open Again. Who Lets Go First, based on the I Ching, is due out sometime this year from Swamp Press, and Of All the Corners to Forget is due out later this year from Meeting Eyes Bindery. He teaches in the publishing program at Emerson College and runs Quale Press.

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