No. 8

Winter 2005

A Kentucky native, Craig Beaven has degrees in English and Creative Writing from the University of Kentucky and Virginia Commonwealth University. His interviews and reviews appear regularly in Blackbird, and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Limestone Review and DIAGRAM. He lives in Richmond with his wife, Amy.

William Borden's novel, Superstoe, first published in the U.S. by Harper & Row and in England by Victor Gollancz, was reissued recently by Orloff Press. His short stories have won the PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize and The Writers Voice Fiction Competition and have been published in over 40 magazines and anthologies. The film adaptation of his play, The Last Prostitute, starring Sonia Braga, was shown on Lifetime Television and in Europe and is on video.

David D. Eyob is currently working in Switzerland. He is also taking up doctoral studies in International Law. His work recently appeared in Poems Niederngasse

Christine Jablonski has a BA in International Studies from Vassar College. 'Of Feast and Faith' is her first published work.

David Kessler is a painter and sculptor living and working in
Philadelphia, PA. The images for this issue of Nidus come from a
project where Kessler limited himself to painting on single 4x4 pieces
of bathroom tile. The portraits and scenes are from his travels in
Prague.

Kelcey Parker is a Ph.D. student in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati. She has stories forthcoming at Indiana Review, Epiphany, and Amoskeag, and her work has previously appeared in New Delta Review and GW Review. She recently completed an interview with novelist Joanna Scott, which will be published in the 2006 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market. She is also at work on two novels, each racing to be her first.

Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. Readers interested in learning more about him are invited to read Magic, Illusion and Other Realities at www.geocities.com/simonthepoet which site lists a complete bibliography.

Amy Shearn's work has recently appeared in lyric, 3rdBed, Mississippi Review, Yankee Pot Roast, and elsewhere. She is an MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota, where she spends long winters knitting and endlessly renaming the dog.

Fredrick Zydek has authored eight collections of poetry. T’Kopechuck: the Buckley Poems is forthcoming from Winthrop Press. Formerly a professor at University of Nebraska and later at the College of Saint Mary, he is now a gentleman farmer. Most recently he accepted the post as editor for Lone Willow Press.

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