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| GALE ACUFF has had poetry published in Ohio Journal, Ascent, Pleides, South Dakota Review, Santa Barbara Review, Maryland Poetry Review, Slipstream, South Carolina Review, and others. His book, Buffalo Nickel, was published by BrickHouse Press in 2004, which will be publishing his book, The Weight of the World, this year. He has taught in English departments at Texas Tech, West Virginia University, LSU-Baton Rouge, Tennessee Tech, North Carolina State, and elsewhere. He has also taught English in China and Palestine. asadgale@yahoo.com SYLVA BOYADJIAN-HADDAD is the editor-in-chief of Entelechy International/A Journal of Contemporary Ideas and a professor of English and comparative literature at New England College in Henniker, NH. She was nominated for Pushcart Prize in 2004. sbhaddad@nec.edu In recent years, AVIK CHANDRA's poetry has been published in a number of journals in the US and the UK, including Spork, Octavo, Black Bear Review, Rearview Quarterly, Shearsman, Stride Magazine, Other Poetry, Fire, Borderlines, The Coffee House, Dogma, Wolf Magazine, Carillon, Sentinel, and Brittlestar. This year he has work forthcoming in Orbis and the anthology, Allotment. avik_chandra@hotmail.com DANIEL ROY CONNELLY has written for the stage, television, and has had poetry published in The Red Wheelbarrow and Dogma Publications' The Spirit Within. A former British Diplomat, he graduated from Columbia University in 1999, and holds MLitt and PhD degrees from the University of St Andrews in Scotland. In August 2006, he will direct Seamus Heaney's 2004 translation of Sophocles' Antigone at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He teaches English at The Perse School in Cambridge, England. danielroyconnelly@yahoo.com ROBERT KLEIN ENGLER lives in Chicago and sometimes in New Orleans. Born on the southwest side of the city, Robert taught many years at Richard J. Daley College, until he was banned by the chancellor. After resolving a Chicago Commission on Human Relations complaint against the City Colleges, which he wrote about in his book, A WINTER OF WORDS, Robert went on to become an adjunct professor at Roosevelt University. Robert holds degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana and the University of Chicago Divinity School. He has received two Illinois Arts Council awards for his poetry. His is widely published on the internet. Samples of his work can be found on his Web site (robertkleinengler.com) or by googling his name. RKleinEngler@aol.com JASON FRALEY works at an investment firm in West Virginia and is pursuing his MBA. His wife and cat see him occasionally. He has been published in Redactions, Confluence, Whistling Shade, Words on Walls, Pebble Lake Review, and others. jfraley@mail.com HARDIE KARGES is a folk art dealer and world traveler, making videos for music, art, and documentary purposes in the process. Currently he divides his time between the US and Thailand, where he pursues his first love, writing. hkunlimited@yahoo.com REBECCA LU KIERNAN has published work in Ms. Magazine, Asimov's Science Fiction, North American Review, and numerous books and magazines in the US and Australia. The founding editor of the literary magazine, Gecko, she was nominated for a Rhysling Award. Her first collection of poetry, "Sex with Trees . . . ," was published by 2River Press. Her erotic collection, "The Man Who Remembered Too Much," was published by Canada's Ygdrasil. geckogalpoet@hotmail.com DAVID LUNTZ is new to poetry. In 2005, he appeared in Mastodon Dentist and Tamaphyr Mountain Poetry. dluntz@icc-ny.com LAUREN MITCHELL grew up in the Washington, D.C. area, moved to the Amazon in Ecuador at 20, Hawaii at 22, and is now moving back to Washington, D.C. to finish her BA at the University of Maryland. Her poetry has appeared in 2River View and Brick and Mortar Review. outsidetena@gmail.com KATHLEEN OLESKY, MFA, MA, is a licensed psychotherapist and published writer. She teaches workshops in Newton, MA based on the Amherst Writers and Artists Method. Her most recent work appears in The Buddha's Apprentices, Sumi Loundon, ed. Wisdom Press, Jan. 2006. kolesky@comcast.net
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ANNE ELEZABETH PLUTO is associate professor of theatre and literature at Lesley University - among other places, her work has appeared in the first issue of Facets and most recently in 88 - A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry. apluto@lesley.edu SUSAN RAWLINS' poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Grand Street, The Quarterly, Feminist Studies, ZYZZYVA, Poetry Northwest, Facets A Literary Magazine and other publications. A frequent contributor to this magazine, she lives in Berkeley, CA. s-rawlins@sbcglobal.net WILLIAM ROUTHIER is a Facets founder and the fiction editor. He lives in the Boston area and has written for Stuff Magazine, The Improper Bostonian, The Boston Book Review, and Living Buddhism. His fiction has appeared in Happy, atelier, and InterText. He is currently working on a detective novel and a collection of aphorisms. facetsmagazine@aol.com ILENE SEGALOVE received a degree in fine arts from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1972 and an MA in communication arts from Loyola University in 1975. Working in video since 1972, when she bought a porta-pak from Nam June Paik's girlfriend, Segalove was initially "offended by [video's] invasive quality but also seduced by its power." Segalove began pointing the camera at "familiar things," producing documentaries, by turns trenchant and wry, about her family (“The Mom Tapes,” “My Puberty,” “Why I Got Into TV and Other Stories"). As a multimedia artist, she has hundreds of group and solo shows to her credit and has produced two dozen radio specials. With Paul Bob Velick she is coauthor of the popular List books (List Your Self, List Your Creative Self). Currently she works as an editorial consultant and book doctor. isegalove@cox.net JOHANNA SKIBSRUD has been published by several Canadian literary journals and most recently won the Stickman Review Fiction Prize. Her poetry is upcoming in Toronto's Exile Literary Quarterly. She grew up in Nova Scotia, Canada, and has recently completed her MA in English at Concordia University in Montreal. johannaskib@hotmail.com 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, and 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 Born in New York City, LYNN STRONGIN was raised in and around New York and various parts of the South where her father, an Army psychologist, was stationed. her memoir, INDIGO, deals largely with this time and with childhood polio in the nineteen-fifties. Early studies in musical composition branched out into writing poetry. She worked for Denise Levertov in the nineteen-sixties. She will have nine published books, including an electronic chapbook, by mid-2006, and her work has appeared in over thirty anthologies and 55 journals online and in print. She was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her anthology, The Sorrow Psalms: A Book of Twentieth Century Elegy is forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press in June 2006. http://members.shaw.ca/stronginweb/index.html Having worked variously as a cook, lumberjack, landscaper, hardware store clerk, and barista, JOSHUA WEBER returned to school, taking the MFA at Oregon State, where he now teaches. He serves as the fiction editor for the Oregon Literary Review, and his work can be found in Redivider, Mudrock Tales, Inkpot, and other print and Web journals. joshuadweber@gmail.com
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Facets A Literary Magazine (Volume VI, Issue 1)
February 2006
