Contributors' Page

Contributors’ Page

Murray Alfredson has worked as a librarian, a lecturer, and in Buddhist chaplaincy. He is a prize-winning poet, has published essays and poems in Australia, the UK and the USA, and a collection: ‘Nectar and light’ in Friendly Street New Poets, 12; Adelaide: Friendly Street Poets and Wakefield Press, 2007.

Maria Basile is a surgeon practicing in New York. Dr. Basile teaches courses in Medical Humanities at Stony Brook University School of Medicine. Her poetry has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and anthologized with the creative writing of other physicians and health care professionals.

Stephen Bunch’s work has appeared recently in Umbrella and The Literary Bohemian. From 1978 to 1988, he published Tellus, a magazine featuring work by Jack Anderson, Jane Hirshfield, Denise Low, Paul Metcalf, Edward Sanders, and others. He received the 2008 Langston Hughes Award for Poetry from the Lawrence Arts Center.

Frank Cavano is a retired psychiatrist who has written poetry, published and unpublished, whenever moved in a powerful way by his experiences or the experiences of others. His goal is to listen to Heart and Soul without judgement and with compassion. He believes this is the entrance to all healing.

Mary Susan Clemons lives in Florida with her husband and two sons. She is a member of NFSPS (National Federation of State Poetry Societies), FSPA (Florida State Poetry Association), and a local poetry group, The Poet's Corner Workshop. She is a part-time moderator at Wild Poetry Forum, an on-line poetry workshop site.

Ed Bennett is a Telecommunications Engineer living in Las Vegas. Originally from New York City, his work has appeared in the Manhattan Quarterly and The Patterson Literary Review where he was a finalist for the 1997 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award. His most recent work appears in New Verse News, The Externalist, VIMMAG and the spring 2009 edition of Philadelphia Poets.

Bebe Cook is a native Texan and comes from a southern U.S. oral tradition of story-telling. She believes poetry is an opportunity to create a bridge; a chance to invite the reader to share a few minutes, to get acquainted and loves that every time a poem is read it is transformed by the intent of the writer and the experiences of the reader into something new. She has placed in local and national poetry contests and continues to write poetry to record her own rooms and moments in order to bring that tradition to the page. Her work has appeared in Flutter Poetry Journal, Autumn Sky Poetry, Six Little Things and The Cartier Street Review. She enriches her writing with the diversity of gardening, photography, and working as an environmental scientist.

Born in Britain, raised in Zimbabwe, Dennis Greene has lived in Western Australia for the last 28 years. Diagnosed with Parkinson's at the age of 37 he took the opportunity to 'follow his bliss' and began writing. In 2000 he was invited to the United States to edit "Voices from the Parking Lot -Parkinson's perspectives." For reasons he can't quite figure his poetry never mentions PD and his prose is about nothing else.

A Pushcart Prize nominee, Tina Hacker was a finalist in New Letters and George F. Wedge competitions. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Bellowing Ark, Blue Unicorn, Piedmont Literary Review, I-70 Review, Mid-America Poetry Review, Kansas City Voices; two anthologies, Show + Tell and Missouri Poets; and upcoming anthologies from Helicon Nine Editions and the Imagination & Place Press.

Sally Houtman is an American-born writer who relocated to new Zealand in 2005. She is the author of a non-fiction book entitled, "To Grandma's House, We...Stay" which is in its third printing. She has written many non-fiction articles over the years. Recently she has had poetry published in Rustblind and fiction in Midnight Screaming and Flashquake. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand with her husband and two children.

Christine Klocek-Lim received the 2009 Ellen La Forge Memorial Prize in poetry and was a finalist in Nimrod’s 2006 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. Her first chapbook,

The book of small treasures, will be published in December 2009 by Seven Kitchens Press. Her poems have appeared in Nimrod, OCHO, The Pedestal Magazine, Terrain.org, the anthology Riffing on Strings: Creative Writing Inspired by String Theory and elsewhere. She is editor of Autumn Sky Poetry, serves on the Board of Directors for The Externalist—A Journal of Perspectives, and her website is www.novembersky.com.

Laura Levesque grew up in Baltimore, MD. She earned her Bachelor’s in Creative Writing and English Literature from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. She is an active member of several online poetry boards and has been published in The Montage, Mirage, Alphabet Soup, and others.

Donal Mahoney has worked as an editor for The Chicago Sun-Times, Loyola University Press, McDonnell Douglas Corp. (now the Boeing Corp.) and Washington University in St. Louis. He has had poems published in or accepted by The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, Orbis (England), Commonweal, The Christian Science Monitor, Revival (Ireland), The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Istanbul Literary Review (Turkey), The Shit Creek Review (Australia), Public Republic (Bulgaria), and other publications.

Linda K. Marshall is a retired high-school English teacher, happily married for 43 years, mother of two, grandmother of three, preacher's kid, nearly life-long writer of little verses.

Esther Greenleaf Mürer lives in Philadelphia. At 73, she considers herself an emerging poet. Her work has been recently published or is forthcoming in Mimesis,

The Externalist, Town Creek Poetry, and Unsplendid.

Sherry O’Keefe, a descendent of a Montana pioneer, mother of two, sister to four, cousin to dozens, credits her Irish upbringing for her story-telling ways and the healing touch from stories passed down through the generations. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Barnwood Poetry Review, Avatar Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Two Review, Soundzine and Main Street Rag. Her chapbook, Making Good Use of August is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.

A former New York State politician, news broadcaster and award-winning copywriter, Kelly Grace Smith’s passion for the written and spoken word has directed her life for over three decades. A dedicated poet, her most recent poem, white lotus III, placed fourth in the 2009 Annual Writer's Digest Poetry Awards Collection.

Arti Subramanian is a newly minted doctor who likes to pretend she has a life outside of medicine. She has been writing poetry since she was seven years old. During med school, her love of poetry and the words themselves became a lifeline to sanity and hope, an escape from sunlit illness and barred windows. Medicine influences all her poetry - either as an escape or as core, and she writes everyday just so she can pretend she is sane at all other times.

Alarie Tennille serves on the Board of Directors of The Writers Place in Kansas City, Missouri. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including Poetry East, ByLine Magazine, English Journal, Coal City Review, and The Mid-America Poetry Review.

Christian Ward is the author of “Bone Transmissions” (Maverick Duck Press, 2009). His work currently appears in Sage Trail, Grasslimb and Sein Und Werden and is forthcoming in Envoi and The Emerson Review.

Colin Ward currently lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada with his R.N. wife, Denise, and their corgi, Cora. His work has been anthologized in "Talus and Scree" and has appeared online in such venues as "Beside the white chickens," "Autumn Sky Poetry," and "Prairie Poetry."

Larina Warnock writes poetry & prose from Corvallis, Oregon where she lives with her husband and four children. Her work, which often details the healing journey of her family, has appeared as a top ten winner in Writer's Digest's poetry competition, Wheelhouse Magazine, The Oregonian, Space & Time Magazine, and many others. She serves as the site administrator for the poets.org discussion forum, editor of The Externalist, chair of Writers on the River, and as a volunteer for CALYX.

Yvette Wiley is a half Native American from the Muscogee Creek Tribe, and she lives in Tulsa, OK. She raised her daughter, earned a B.S. in biology, and works in the environmental and natural resources field. Poetry is a creative expression of the culture and the heartbeat of the lives which surround her. She has one previous publication in the Journal, The Externalist.

James S. Wilk is a practicing physician in Denver, Colorado, specializing in medical disorders complicating pregnancy. His work has appeared in a variety of literary and medical journals, including Measure, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Ars Medica, The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, The Raintown Review, The Barefoot Muse, and CHEST. His chapbook, Shoulders, Fibs, and Lies, is available through the author or through Pudding House Press.

Toni L. Wilkes graduated from UCLA. Toni’s first chapbook, Stepping Through Moons, is soon to be published by Finishing Line Press. Her work also appears or is forthcoming in Confrontation, Folio, GW Review, Roanoke Review, Rosebud, Sow’s Ear, Texas Review, and other noted journals. Toni lives in Santa Rosa, California.

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