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HOLDER
is the founder of the Ibbetson St. Press. His poetry and articles have
appeared in the Café Review, Main St. Rag, Illyia's Honey,
Brevities, Poesy, and many more. He is a contributor to Inside
the Outside (Presa Press), a major anthology of American Avant-Garde
Poets, and has a collection out by the Yellow Pepper Press, Wrestling
With My Father (2005). ibbetsonpress@msn.com MARK JACKLEY is a business writer who lives in the Washington, DC, area. His poems have appeared in numerous journals and his chapbook, “Brevities,” will be published later this year by Ginninderra Press. mjackley@gannett.com ZYSKANDAR JAIMOT has been published in the Americas and Europe in many journals and anthologies. He was awarded the 2002 Indiana Poetry Prize for his poem "The Wrestler's Shower," judged by Mark Doty. jaimot@hotmail.com
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BRAD JOHNSON is currently teaching at Palm Beach Community College, Florida, and has a chapbook, Void Where Prohibited, available at puddinghouse.com. He lives in South Florida with his affectionate wife and not-so-affectionate dogs. lionsleeps2nite@bellsouth.net SHETHRA JONES-HOOPES lives in Pennsylvania. This is her first published work. shethra77@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 PETE LEE's former occupations include army sergeant/counterintelligence agent, federal intelligence operatoins specialist, private investigator, newspaper reporter, and social worker. His poetry has been widely published, both in print and online. pete.lee@mchsi.com JOHANNA PITTMAN is a native of Arizona and currently lives in the Boston area, where she works as an administrative assistant. Johanna is a working harpist and also volunteers as a therapeutic musician for Mass General Hospital's volunteer harp program, Gentle Muses. She graduated from Emerson College with a degree in Writing, Literature, and Publishing. johannapittman@gmail.com SUSAN RAWLINS' poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Grand Street, The Quarterly, Feminist Studies, ZYZZYVA, Poetry Northwest, Facets A Literary Magazine and other publications. She is a contributing editor to this magazine and 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 EDWARD SALEM is is a Palestinian-American whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Triplopia, NOÖ Journal, American Drivel Review, Conte, Dispatch, Mindfire Renewed, Muscadine Lines, Subtle Tea, Left Curve, and others. This fall Edward begins his MFA in Writing candidacy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. edwardsalem27@yahoo.com RYAN SCOTT grew up in Australia but for the moment calls the Czech Republic home. His short storeis and poetry have appeared in Niederngasse, Pixel Papers, The University of New England Review, Idiom 23, and The Tablet, among others. scottryan@hotmail.com TOM F. SHEEHAN has six Pushcart nominations and a Silver Rose Award from American Renaissance for the Twenty-first Century (ART) for short story. His memoir, A Collection of Friends, was issued in September 2004 by Pocol Press and was nominated for PEN American Albrand Memoir Award. His fourth poetry book, This Rare Earth & Other Flights, was issued in 2003, by Lit Pot Press. Another mystery, An Accountable Death, is serialized on 3amMagazine.com. His work can be seen in Projected Letters, Elimae, StorySouth, 3711 Atlantic, Triplopia, Melange, Prose Toad, Moonwort Review, Black Medina, Starry Night Review, Deaddrunkdublin, Megaera, The Square Table, Slow Trains, The Paumanok Review, 42 Opus, Snow Monkey, Ken *Again, Taj Mahal, Literati Magazine and many others. He has been a feature writer in Nuvein, New Works Review, Tryst, and Eclectica. tomfsheehan@comcast.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 was published by the University of Iowa Press in June 2006. yosunt@shaw.ca CLIFFORD K. WATKINS, JR., is a writer/poet/lyricist/rapper originally from High Point, North Carolina. Some of his publishing credits include: Underground Window, Endzville, Infinite Glass, Prism Quarterly, Cynic Magazine, Seeker Magazine, Oracular Tree, Poetic Voices, Ygdrasil, Poetry Stop, Zygote in My Coffee, Wildchild Publishing, Forever Underground Magazine, Muscadine Lines, Poet's Haven, Lit Vision, Interpoetry, Canopic Jar, Winamop, Long Story Short, TM Poetry, The Toe Tree Journal, The Persistent Mirage, A Darker Vision, Emptiness Spills, Red Fez, Words Words Words, Vain Glory, The Voyager, Tears for Eternity, Green Brier Review, True Poet Magazine, The Taj Mahal Review, From a Common Spring: Volume II, and decomP. HollowOfMockery@aol.com
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Facets A Literary Magazine (Volume VI, Issue 2)
June 2006
