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Our Contributors
Andrea Devenney teaches part-time in the English and Academic Assistance Departments at CMU. She likes salty food, and thinks more people should dance to live music. Scott Drake earned his M.A. in English Language & Literature with a Creative Writing Concentration from CMU and now teaches composition and fiction writing at a Mid-Michigan community college. Kathy Fish lives in Colorado. Her stories have appeared or will appear in Word Riot, Pindeldyboz, Gator Springs Gazette, Cranky, Wild Strawberries, FRiGG, Ghoti, Ink Pot and Night Train. Her story, “Shoebox” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is Fiction Editor for the literary ezine, Smokelong Quarterly. Julia Fox received her undergraduate degree from Cambridge University in Modern & Medieval Languages (Italian & German), and subsequently worked as Commissioning Editor on a U.K. national newspaper. She has an M.A. in English language & Literature from CMU. Robert Gable is currently completing his creative writing concentration at Central. His disillusionment with life is nearly complete. Wish him luck. Tiff Holland earned her PhD at the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. She teaches creative writing at Kent State University. Her poetry and fiction has recently appeared in Hobart's, Ghoti and Sulphur River Literary Review. She lives in Ohio with her husband, daughter and oh too human dog Zack. David James's most recent chapbook is I Will Peel This Mask Off, March Street Press, 2004. Six of his one-act plays have been produced off-Broadway. He teaches at Oakland Community College. Daniel Morris is
Professor of English at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He has published poems in journals such as
Colorado Review, Agni, Denver
Quarterly, Western Humanities Review, Southern Humanities Review, River
City, Hiram Poetry Review, and Sycamore Review, as well as a collection
of his own poetry, Bryce Passage (Marsh Hawk Press, 2004). He is
editor of Shofar, an interdisciplinary journal of Jewish
Studies. Lou Rowan's writing began in the midst of experiments around St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, and under the clear gaze of Louis Zukofsky--and he tries to bring some of the discipline and spirituality of poetry to his stories. Laurence W. Thomas’s ninth book of poetry--Man’s Wolf to Man--has just been published. His other books include poetry, fiction, humor, essay, and creative nonfiction. Retired from teaching mostly overseas, Thomas is active in lecturing, conducting workshops in Michigan and Arkansas, and writing. He can be found on his web site at larrywlarry.com. Wesley Umstead is a graduate student in the Creative Writing program at Central Michigan University. When he graduates in May, he plans to waste his overpriced education on writing comic books. Josh Vick is putting off responsibility and accumulating debt in his first year in the graduate creative writing program at CMU. He enjoys bouncing checks, drunk dialing his grandmother, and smoking a pipe with no tobacco in it. Jett Whitehead, MA ' 77 (CMU creative writing) operates a rare book business specializing in out-of-print modern poetry located in Bay City, Michigan. His poems have appeared in several issues of The Antigonish Review (St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia), The Small Pond (Stratford, Connecticut), AB Bookman’s Weekly (New Jersey), Ludington Daily News (Michigan), and elsewhere. His published articles about poetry and book collecting are reprinted on his web site: www.PoetryJett.com
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