Contributors

Katarina Boudreaux holds a BA in English and a BA in Music performance from TCU, and she is currently a working musician and writer…which means she teaches, is a church organist and choral director, and a crafter of songs and verse.  She has been published in the Oak Bend Review, Pank, Texas Poetry Journal, The Skiff, and by the Ottawa Valley Writer’s Guild.  Originally from Louisiana, she resides in Connecticut with two cats and an entire city block population of books.

Richard Burrell, a native of Northwest Arkansas, grew up surrounded by older relatives who frequently spent hours at a time recounting events and happenings from their lives as children and young adults living and working during the first half of the 20th century in the Ozark hills. His story, "Last Days," is based on one of dozens of unique oral histories that Rick heard and collected over the years and is the last story he ever had the privilege of hearing his grandfather recite.

Calla Devlin's fiction has appeared in anthologies and literary journals, including Watchword, Five Fingers Review, and Square Lake. Her story “Borderlines” won honorable mention as one of the year’s most notable publications in Dave Egger’s Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003. Most recently, her work was included in two anthologies, Lost on Purpose: Women in the City and Because I Love Her: 34 Women Writers Reflect on the Mother-Daughter Bond.

Jeanette Daugulis was born and raised in the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. She is currently working on a novel and her memoirs and continues to write poetry as a way of expressing her life experiences.

Deborah Gottner earned a BA in English and Writing at the University of Northern Colorado and received teacher certification; she currently teaches high school students literary analysis, mythology, and writing (academic and creative, expository and argumentative). She has published poetry in The Lucy Westenra Society, a short story in A Pig Paper, and recently a humorous prose piece ("Woman Reveals She Just Can't Help Herself") in Defenestration.

Jeff Jackson grew up in Southern Illinois, went to University of Illinois for his undergraduate degree and the University of Arkansas for graduate school.  He has worked at NWACC since fall of 2000 and lives in Fayetteville with his two dogs.  His 50's home is decorated with vintage/modern furniture and geegaws. 

Olga Ledyan was born in Minsk, Belarus, and is interested in fine art, photography, and painting.

Dave Malone is the author of two books of poetry, most recently Under the Sycamore (Elder Mountain Press). His poems have appeared in Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozark Studies, New Millennium Writings, Red Rock Review, Stone’s Throw, and decomP. More poems are forthcoming in Kansas English, Sleet Magazine, Word Riot, Mid Rivers Review, and The Cape Rock. He teaches composition and film at Missouri State University-West Plains.

Steve Meador’s book Throwing Percy from the Cherry Tree, released by D-N Publishing in 2008, was an entrant for a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. He is widely published. Recent work appears in Prism Review, Two Hawks Quarterly, Quicksilver, and many others. He has several Pushcart nominations. 

Greg Moglia's poems have been accepted in over 100 journals in the U.S., Canada, and England as well as five anthologies. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2005 as well as the University of Virginia anthology Best New Poets of 2006. He lives in Huntington, New York.

In accordance with the teachings of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, Cindy Munroe spent the first decades of her life living from the outside-in. She now lives her life from the inside-out  and, subsequently, finds inspiration which compels her to write poetry. She loves to write poems about nature and her life experiences.

Duncan Richardson has published poetry and prose in magazines and book since 1982, including work for children.  .  He has served with various writers groups including Crime Writers Queensland and the Fellowship of Australian Writers. His verse play The Grammar of Deception was produced and broadcast by ABC radio in 2008.

Dan Sherman was born two years before Franklin Delano Roosevelt's last term ended.  He grew up within three miles of Harry S. Truman's home.  He graduated from high school the year John F. Kennedy took office.  Lyndon Baines Johnson was in office when he married, and all three of his daughters were born during Richard Milhous Nixon's presidency.  Dan taught high school science during the terms of Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter.  During the terms of Ronald Reagan, Bush I, Bill Clinton, and Bush II, Dan owned and operated several businesses. Obama's call for change prompted Dan to take up the pen and see if he could discover what was left unsaid between the lines of his past life.

Fredrick Zydek is the author of eight collections of poetry.  T’Kopechuck: the Buckley Poems is forthcoming from Winthrop Press later this year.  Formerly a professor of creative writing and theology at the University of Nebraska and later at the College of Saint Mary, he is now a gentleman farmer when he isn’t writing.  He is the editor for Lone Willow Press. His work has appeared in The Antioch Review, Cimmaron Review, The Hollins Critic, New England Review, Nimrod, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Yankee, and others.  He is the recipient of the Hart Crane Poetry Award, the Sarah Foley O'Loughlen Literary Award.