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Two Swans Photograph by
William Routhier
ELISE BOWDITCH is a programmer and poet whose work appears in GinBender and Poetrybay. bowditch@a-sharp.com
JANET I. BUCK is a six-time Pushcart Nominee. the author of four collections of poetry, and a frequent contributor to this publication. She received the Gival Press 2003 Award for her poetry, and her book, Tickets to A Closing Play, is forthcoming. Her work has recently appeared in CrossConnect, The Pedestal Magazine, Stirring, Arbutus, Poetry Magazine.com, Facets, Artemis, Niederngasse, Moondance, Coelacanth, Offcourse, MiPo, Offcourse, The American Muse, and hundreds of journals worldwide. In 2003, Buck's poetry is scheduled to appear in Zuzu's Petals Quarterly, The Montserrat Review, Recursive Angel, The Foliate Oak, Southern Ocean Review, PoetryBay, and The Oklahoma Review.You may visit her Website at: http://members.aol.com/jbuck22874/whatsnew.html jbuck22874@aol.com
MARION COHEN's two latest math/poetry readings will be at the Bridges Conference in Maryland, and at the SIAM Math conference in Philadelphia. Her next book is Cruel and Unusual, another well-spouse book about all the things that she learned promoting her previous well-spouse book, Dirty Details. Her poetry has appeared in numerous print and online journals, including several appearances in Facets. Recently, math limericks have been added to her Website: www.mathwoman.com. Mathwoman199436@aol.com
KEVIN W. GROSSMAN lives, writes, and works in Santa Cruz, California, with his fiancée Amy, her cats, Chelsea and Charlie, and his dog, Joshua. He received a B.S. in psychology from San Jose State University where he also started working on his M.A. in English literature (currently in stasis). He has worked in university development, high-tech marketing communications, and internet recruiting. Last fall he became a victim of another dot.com demise, and since then he's been freelance copywriting, copyediting, and proofreading--and working hard to improve his craft. His work has appeared in L'Intrigue, Bluff Magazine, Rustlings of the Wind, Sparrowgrass Poetry Newsletter, Visalia Times-Delta, October Moon, The Poet's Cut, Poetically Speaking, Think For Yourself, and Facets. kwg_gdp@pacbell.net
KEVIN HARVEY is a professor of English at New England College in Henniker, NH. A selection from his O'Connor Continues will appear in 5-Trope, (www.webdelsol.com/5_trope/) and he has just finished a work entitled The French Impressionist Wrestler, a play set lovingly in Worcester, Mass.
LESLIE HARRIS is a 32-year-old African-American poet. He has written on various subjects from personal tragedies to everyday issues and has been published in anthologies by JMW Publishing, FRESH! Magazine and various ezines across the net. Quality6287@aol.com
ZYSKANDAR JAIMOT has been published in the Americas and Europe in various journals and anthologies. About his work, he writes: poetry is the night when after bouts of momentary consummation i peel the residue of sticky sonnets from off my sweaty skin. And so he finds himself in Orlando, using the humid nights and the sun to write what he hopes is meaningful poetry. He has been awarded the 2002 Indiana Poetry Prize for his poem "The Wrestler's Shower," judged by Mark Doty.jaimot@hotmail.com
M. D'ENTREMONT MCINNIS has published poetry and short fiction in 5x5 Singles Club, Arshile, The Moody Street Irregulars, Nightmare of Reason, Oak Square, Quimby Quarterly, and Version 90. He has been a featured reader at various bookstores and art galleries in Boston, including Trident Bookstore, Oni Gallery, and Stone Soup Poets, and in New York at Threadwaxing Space and Clovis Press Books.
CLAUDIA PUTNAM grew up in New England but has spent most of her adult life in Colorado, where she raises her pre-adolescent son and engages in other adventure sports. Her work has recently appeared in Penumbra and in GW Review. She's twice been a finalist in Glimmer Train contests, and her book-length collection was a semi-finalist in last year's Tupelo Press poetry contest. She received a Ragdale fellowship for a novel manuscript. A former University of Colorado writing instructor, she directs communications for an environmental law and policy group dedicated to protecting the American West. cputnam@indra.com
SUSAN RAWLINS' poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Grand Street, The Quarterly, Feminist Studies, ZYZZYVA, Poetry Northwest, Facets, and other publications. She lives in Berkeley, CA. rawlinss@rcn.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
DONNA SPECTOR is a playwright as well as a poet. Her plays have appeared Off Broadway, regionally and in Canada, Ireland and Greece. A member of Dramatists Guild and Poets & Writers, she received two N.E.H. grants to study in Greece. Her poems, stories and monologues have appeared in many literary magazines and anthologies, including The Greensboro Review, Black River Review, Blue Unicorn, Poet & Critic, Sycamore Review, The Paterson Literary Review, Poet Lore, Gaia, Monologues by Women, for Women, At Our Core: Women Writing about Power, XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience. She and her cats, Smoke and Fog, live in an old farmhouse across from a wildlife sanctuary. dspector@warwick.net
CHERYL STRAYED's fiction and nonfiction has been published in the anthologies; Best American Essays 2000, Best New American Voices 2003, and periodicals Nerve, DoubleTake, The Sun, The Slate, and Hope magazine, among others. She was a scholar at the Bread Loaf Writer's conference in 2001 and is finishing her first novel.cstrayed@earthlink.net
PHIBBY VENABLE's poems have been published in 2River, Poetrybay, Appalachian Journal, Southern Ocean Review, Circle Magazine, and various other print and internet publications. She has published one chapbook, Indian Wind Song. phibbyvenable@aol.com
KELLEY WHITE's poetry has appeared frequently in 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 by Nepenthe Books/Via Dolorosa Press. She received a Pushcart nomination for an experimental piece (from Gravity Presses) in 2000. kelleywhitemd@yahoo.com
