ZinkZine Contributors
Issue Nine: Summer 2006
Kathrine Varnes is the author of a book of poems,
The Paragon (Word Tech 2005), co-editor with Annie Finch of An Exaltation
of Forms (University of Michigan Press 2002), and an instigator of
collaborative sonnet crowns. Her new play, Listen, will be directed by
David Crespy in the 2007 Comedies-in-Concert Series at the University of
Missouri-Columbia. This summer, she moves to Lexington, Kentucky.
Marilyn
Taylor’s work has appeared in Poetry, The
American Scholar, The Formalist, Evansville Review and Smartish
Pace. She won First Place in recent contests sponsored by Dogwood,
Passager, The Ledge, and the GSU Review. Her latest book,
Subject to Change (David Robert Books, 2004), was nominated for the 2005
Poets Prize. She is a contributing editor for The Writer, where her
columns appear bi-monthly.
Tatyana Mishel is a writer who teaches workshops and
coaches writers through Write Now! (http://www.tatyanamishel.com) Her work has
appeared or is forthcoming in CALYX, the Seattle Review, Swivel, KNOCK,
ZinkZine, and more. When not writing, she likes to pretend she is a big-time
athlete—runner, swimmer, triathlete . . . or ballerina . . . and a talk show
host.
Emily Lloyd's work has appeared in Smartish Pace, Phoebe, Three Candles, The Paumanok Review, Bloom, McSweeney's, and other journals. Her chapbook, The Most Daring of Transplants, won the 2004 Dogfish Head Poetry Prize. Lloyd is a freelancer by day, librarian at Delaware Technical College by night.
Moira Egan's first book of poems, Cleave (WWPH, 2004), was nominated for the National Book Award and was a finalist for the ForeWord Book of the Year Award. Recent poems have appeared in Gargoyle, Notre Dame Review, Poems & Plays, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, 32 Poems, West Branch, and in several anthologies. Two of her Bar Napkin Sonnets won the Baltimore City Paper Poetry Prize (2005).
Patricia
Brody’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poet Lore,
Barrow Street, Room of One’s Own, Western Humanities Review
and The Paris Review. Her work was nominated by Marilyn Hacker for
Pushcart Prizes in 2004 and 2005. She is editing an anthology, Survival of
the Soul: Artists Living with Illness. Brody maintains a part-time
family therapy practice and teaches American Literature at Boricua College in
Harlem.
Amy
Lemmon's poems and essays appear in Verse,
Prairie Schooner, New Letters, Crab Orchard Review, Rattapallax, and
elsewhere. Her chapbook, Fine Motor, was a finalist in the 2006 Center
for Book Arts competition. She is Acting Assistant Chair of English and Speech
at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, and a Contributing
Editor at Barrow Street. She blogs at http://saint-nobody.blogspot.com
Kathryn Pope earned her MFA in creative writing from Antioch University in December 2003. She is a regular contributor to ZinkZine, and her work has also been published in Parenting Magazine. She teaches creative writing at Santa Monica College and Antioch University, and she lives in Los Angeles.
Brad Kessler is the author of Birds in Fall (Scribner) and
Lick Creek (Scribner), as well as several award-winning children's books. His
work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, The Kenyon Review, The New York
Times Magazine and Bomb. He is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts
Literature Fellowship and the Lange-Taylor Prize from Duke University's Center
for Documentary Studies.
Ruth Francisco
a graduate of Swarthmore College, studied voice and drama in New York City and
then moved to Los Angeles to work in the film industry. She currently lives in
L.A.
Carolyn See
is the author of five novels, including The Handyman
and Golden Days. She is a book reviewer for
The
Washington Post and is on the board of PEN Center USA West. She has a Ph.D.
in American literature from UCLA, where she is an adjunct professor of English.
Her awards include the prestigious Robert Kirsch Body of Work Award (1993) and a
Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction. She lives in California.
Paul Marks entered the Los Angeles Police Academy after graduating from Claremont McKenna College in 1976. His rise through the ranks of the Department included patrol, narcotics and vice assignments. He was the first member of his Academy class to become a member of the Department’s elite command staff. After 22 years with the L.A.P.D., Paul retired in 1999.
Naomi
Benaron’s fiction has appeared or will appear in PRISM, New
Millennium Writings, CALYX, Red Rock Review, Tartts 2,
and several on-line journals. She receives her MFA from Antioch University Los
Angeles in June 2006. Before losing all touch with reality and dedicating
herself to a life of writing and poverty, Naomi was a geophysicist. She is
working on her first novel.
Debby
Dodds is attended NYU as an undergraduate drama major and Antioch University
for her MFA in Creative Writing. She has been published in The Crimson Crane,
The Arrowhead and Illusions and has created reading passages for SAT
diagnostic tests. She co-produced the writer’s series, “Off the Page at The
Empty Stage,” in Los Angeles. She teaches writing and acting classes. She and
her partner, Deke, recently moved to Portland, OR with her daughter Dory. She is
working on a mostly true book called Party Girl.
Annette DeNoyer
is a June 2006 graduate from Northwestern University with a MA in creative
writing. “Luna Loca” is her first published work and has been nominated for The
Best New American Voices 2008 anthology. She lives in Chicago and currently
works in real estate to support her writing habit.
Heather Dewar’s
essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in Utne, North Shore magazine,
Time Out Chicago, The Common Review and Third Coast Press
among others, and her fiction was recently nominated for the Best New
American Voices 2008 anthology. She earned her M.A. in English from
Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English and is currently completing
her M.A. in creative writing from Northwestern University. She teaches writing
and literature in Chicago.
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