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Photograph of Boston Common: William Routhier
NILANSHU KUMAR AGARWAL is a lecturer in English at a P.G.College of India. He is interested in Indian art and aesthetics. nilanshu1973@rediffmail.com
ACE BOGGESS of Huntington, West Virginia, earned degrees from Marshall (B.A.) and West Virginia (J.D.) Universities. His work has appeared in Harvard Review, Nortre Dame Review, California Quarterly, The Oregon Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Wisconsin Review, Portland Review, and many other literary journals. A 2001 fellowship recipient from the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, currently he is seeking a publisher for his first full-length poetry collection, The Essence of Silence, and for several literary novels. http://hometown.aol.com/aceboggess http://adirondackreview.homestead.com/reviews.html AceBoggess@aol.com
KITTY BEER is a writer and editor, currently Director of Publications at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA. She has two grown children and is reveling in recently rediscovering her fiction writing voice. Credits from the distant past include a translation from the French in Chelsea Review, fiction in The Montrealer, and winning a CBC short story contest. During her stint as an environmental journalist, she wrote for publications such as the Syracuse Herald American, the Amicus Journal, and Harvard Magazine. She is a member of Harvard Square Scriptwriters and has just finished a screenplay. This story in Facets is the first in a series. beerk@earthlink.net
JANET BUCK is a two-time Pushcart Nominee and the author of four collections of poetry. In 2001-02, her poetry is scheduled to appear in PoetryBay, The Montserrat Review, Runes, The Pedestal Magazine, The Carriage House Review, the American Muse, Swagazine, Southern Ocean Review, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, and dozens of other journals worldwide. Her work has appeared in two past issues of Facets (one in July 2001 and five in October 2001). Recent awards include first place in Kimera's Poetry Contest 2001, Editor's Choice Award for Sol Magazine, and the Kota Press Anthology Award. http://members.aol.com/jbuck22874/whatsnew.html jbuck22874@aol.com
BOB CASTLE has had work published recently in 5_trope, Gadfly, Bright Lights Film Journal, Film Comment, Eclectica, Timber Creek Review, 3 A.M. magazine, AugustCutter.com, and A Summer's Reading. He makes his living as a history teacher at a small academy outside Trenton, NJ. Popesixtus@aol.com
TIMOTHY CHEESEMAN currently teaches English at Shawnee High School in Lima, Ohio, and writing at Bluffton College and Ohio Northern University. He began graduate studies at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and received his M.F.A. from Bowling Green State University and his B.S. from The Ohio State University. From 1987-92/96, he was a professional social worker in Columbus and Toledo, Ohio. During his graduate work, he taught for a year in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and lived in Espanola. He has also worked as a college instructor, cook, janitor, naturalist, and reporter, among other jobs. He lives in Lima with his wife Kellie Armey and their son Tristam. tcheese32@aol.com
ANNE AGNES COLWELL is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware. Her book, Inscrutable Houses: Metaphors of the Body in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop, was published by the University of Alabama Press in 1997. Her first book of poems, Believing Their Shadows, has been a finalist for the University of Wisconsin's Brittingham Prize, the Anhinga Prize, New Issues Poetry Prize, and the Quarterly Review of Literature. Her poems have appeared in several journals, including, most recently, California Quarterly, Evansville Review, Phoebe, Eclectic Literary Forum, Southern Poetry Review, Stickman Review, Poetry Bay, and Writer's Voice. Poetry is also at the heart of her research interests, and she has published several essays concerning American poets, including an article in Conneticut Review on Anne Bradstreet and affliction/conversion narrative and an article in Journal X about Elizabeth Bishop's poem "The Fish." She lives in Milton, Delaware with James Keegan. colwell@UDel.Edu
STEPHANIE DICKINSON was raised in rural Iowa and now lives in the Bowery. Her poetry and fiction appear in Mudfish, Cream City Review, Chelsea, Fourteen Hills, Washington Square, Iron Horse Review, among others. Along with Rob Cook she edits the new print literary journal Skidrow Penthouse. She recently completed her first novel, Shot Girl, and is walking over the burning stones of trying to find an agent. dickinson100036@hotmail.com
MO FLEMING is a writer/folk artist living in Plainsboro, NJ. Her work has appeared in Mosaic Magazine, QBR:The Black Book Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Lilith Magazine. She is currently writing a book about Black women and Judaism. bcabooks@comcast.net
FELIX FOJAS is a member of PEN International and the Philippine Literary Arts Council. B.A. and M.A. degrees in English & Comparative Literature and Linguistics & Literature respectively. Recipient of a creative writing fellowship from Cambridge University, England. Former advertising creative director and university professor. Has lectured at The University of California at Davis, Sacramento State University, and Sacramento City College. Won a string of advertising and literary awards. Published two books and a chapbook of poetry. Works appeared, among others, in Brown River, Blue Ocean: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Philippine Literature, Rutgers University Press; New Jersey; The Fabric of a Vision: An Anthology of World Poetry, Cyberwit. net Press, Allahabad, India; Poettext, United Kingdom; Meghdutam, New Delhi, India; Evergreen Review; Verse Libre; The American Dissident; The Lucid Stone; Poetry Super Highway; Poetry Soul to Soul, Anthology Magazine; Ludlow Press; Our Own Voice; and soon in Poetry Motel; Ground Up Zine Anthology and Talvipaivanseisaus, Finland. A contributing writer to Magical Blend Magazine, Felix Fojas resides in Chico,California. simuchang@aol.com
BERNADETTE K. GEYER is the author of the poetry collection What Remains (Argonne House Press, 2001). Her poems have recently appeared in La Petite Zine, Gargoyle, PoetryMagazine.com, and other publications. She is a poetry editor for WordWrights and assistant director of the Washington Prize, an annual poetry book competition sponsored by The Word Works. Geyer lives in Arlington, Virginia. http://bernadettegeyer.homestead.com
DAVID HARBILAS is a past contributor to Facets (see "Scarecrow," July 2001). His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Two Rivers Review, Red River Review, and others. He holds an M.A. in writing from the University of New Hampshire, where he won the Richard M. Ford Memorial Award in Poetry and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Most recently he began an M.F.A. at the Bennington Writing Seminars. harbilas@aol.com
JOHN HORVATH Hungarian-American born in Chicago, educated in the American South (Ph.D.), John Horvath, Jr., has been steel mill mechanic, soldier, street poet, cab driver, professor of literature and criticism. Disabled in a parachute accident, he lives happily every after in Missippi with his wife, four children, two dogs, and two cats. He editors PoetryRepairShop (http://www.poetryrepairs.com/) since 1997 and writes. His poetry has recently appeared in The Odeum, San Francisco Salvo, Audax, MAGezine, EWG Presents, Artvilla, Ygdrasil, Duct Tape, RedCoral, Animist, Ascent, StarkRavingSanity, Bonfire, Ixion, Seeker, StarryNightReview. http://www.motherbird.com/wardjohn.html http://www.horvath.ws PRSeditor@aol.com
JOSEPH KERSCHBAUM is a recent returnee from central Europe (he is an ex-expatriate). Currently he resides in Indiana where he works in promotions for a publishing company. In the fall he will be applying to MFA programs around the country and hopefully some lucky school will take him in. jkerschb@yahoo.com
TERRY PHIPPS LANE resides in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with her 13-year-old daughter, Sarah. Terry is a part-time news reporter covering human interest features and theater/arts. She is also a freelance writer, recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine and Healthcare Review. She writes web content, enewsletters, press releases and articles in addition to providing design, web production & management, and illustration via her own business www.terrylane.com. Terry runs a poetry workshop for adults and will be leading an Artist's Way/Vein of Gold Writer's Group in the spring. She is preparing a poetry/creative writing workshop to implement in the women's prison and women's shelters in Lancaster County in the fall. Her poetry has been published in a variety of journals, both print and online. Email: terrylane@earthlink.net
COLLEEN LITTLE lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, is a self-described "stay-at-home mom." Her poetry has most recently appeared in Beginnings, Encore, Insolent Rudder, and nycBigCityLit.com. midinch@prodigy.net
MARTIN A. MITCHELL lives, works, and does his best to write near Dallas, Texas. As an Air Force brat, he had the opportunity to live in five states from New York to California as well as France and Germany by the age of 12. His work has recently appeared in print in !TEX! a magazine of Texas fiction, poetry, and art. He has a poem in the current (premier) issue of Branches Quarterly, an e-zine, and will have another poem in the journal's second issue, due out in April. mmknight@flash.net
SHAWNTE ORION lives in Glendale, Arizona, and was a finalist for a Writer's Foundation award. His poetry was recently published in UAS Explorations and is forthcoming in The Peralta Press. GarlicSoul@aol.com
SUSAN OSTERMAN, a New York City-based writer, earned a Bachelor's Degree from Barnard College in English Literature, and a Master's Degree from City College of New York in Creative Writing and English Literature. She has worked at everything from secretary to adjunct instructor in English to support her poetry habit. Osterman has been widely published in the U.S.A. and Europe (150 poems in various literary magazines and anthologies, including The Village Voice, Downtown, Cover Arts New York, Colorado North Review, translated into Russian (Gnosis Bilingual Anthology) and has written three books of poetry: Silence and Slow Time, Strip Mining, and A Head of Her Time. Her work is being taught in English courses in one high school and one college. She has two poetry websites: www.sosterman.blogspot.com and http://hometown.aol.com/dunalorne/INDEX.html SusanOsterman@aol.com
GIL PETTIGREW is currently finishing a master's degree in biology at Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg, Missouri. His poetry has appeared in such places as Poetry Forum, A Writer's Choice Literary Journal, Red Ink, Insects Are People Too, Interrace Magazine, Cafe Bellas Artes, and anthologies by Native West Press and Golden Apple Press. He is also a contributing editor to "The Typo" (http://www.thetypo.com), an online literary, arts, and multimedia forum. glp1234@yahoo.com
CHARLES RAMMELKAMP's work has previously appeared in many journals, including Buckle &, Chiron Review, Comstock Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Happy, Pangolin Papers, Pearl, Princeton Arts Review, Slipstream, and others. Two chapbooks, i don t think god s that cruel, and Go to Hell, are available from March Street Press. A collection of short fiction, A Better Tomorrow, has just been published by PublishAmerica, a print-on-demand publisher.Charles.Rammelkamp@ssa.gov
JOHN REPP is the author of the poetry collections Thirst Like This (University of Missouri Press) and Things Work Out (Palanquin Press) and a collection of short-short fiction entitled The Old West and Other Tales (March Street Press). His short fiction has recently appeared or soon will appear in The Journal, The Newport Review, Stray Dog, and Phantasmagoria; his essays in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and his poems in Puerto del Sol, Rhino, and Pearl Magazine. He lives with his wife, the potter Katherine Knupp, and their son, Dylan, in Erie, Pennsylvania. JohnRepp@msn.com
MARGARET A. ROBINSON has published three novels and many short stories. Poetry is her new obsession. She teaches at Widener University. mar0002@mail.widener.edu
ELIZABETH SCOTT is West Virginia born and bred but resides now inn Roanoke, Virginia. She earned her undergraduate degree at St. Vincent College in Larobe, Pennsylvania, and currently attends Hollins University in pursuit of master's degree. To otherwise pass her time, she works as a preschool aide in the city school system. Eventually she would like to re-encounter her preschoolers, in a college or university setting.ThinkinGirl13@aol.com
JOHN SWEET has been writing for 19 years now, publishing in the small press for 13, most recently in Free Verse, Moon Reader, Three Candles, and Spinning Jenny. asweetmay@aol.com
IVAN URQUIZA is an entrepreneur currently attempting to become a professional golfer. His current work appears in Miambiance fall 01, Blue Monk fall 01, Greensview Review fall 01, and Vespers winter 02. azucapress@hotmail.com
WILLIAM JOHN WATKINS has published more than 400 poems in such magazines as Rhino, South Carolina Review, Hellas, The Formalist, Able Muse, and Commonweal. His sonnet, "Wife of My Youth, Look Back, Look Back," won the 1994 Hellas Award. His hobby has evolved from riding motorcycles off road with his son, Chad, to racing them. wwatkins@brookdale.cc.nj.u
KELLEY WHITE's poetry appeared in the July 2001 and October 2001 issues of Facets. She was born and raised in New Hampshire, has degrees from Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School, and has been a pediatrician in inner-city Philadelphia for the past twenty years. In her first two years of submitting her work to be published, she has had over 500 poems accepted or published by more than one hundred journals including American Writing, The Cafè Review, Feminist Studies, and most recently, Whiskey Island Magazine. A book of her "medical" poems, The Patient Presents, has been published this month by The People's Press in Baltimore and a chapbook of very different material, "I am going to walk toward the sanctuary," will be published this summer by Nepenthe Books/Via Dolorosa Press. She received a Pushcart nomination for an experimental piece (from Gravity Presses) in 2000. kelleywhitemd@yahoo.com
