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Issue Three: Winter 2003
Marilyn
L. Taylor teaches poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, both in
the English Department and for the university’s Honors Program.
She also leads poetry workshops at the Woodland Pattern Book Center on a
regular basis.
Marilyn is the author of one full-length poetry collection and two chapbooks.
Her work has appeared in a number of magazines and
journals, including Poetry, (where
one of her poems from the August issue was recently featured on their website), The American Scholar, Iris, Smartish Pace, and The Formalist—as well as several anthologies, including most
recently the Academy of American Poets’ latest one, called “New Voices”
—and Poetry Magazine’s brand new 90th Anniversary Anthology.
Her work will be featured in two
European collections next year, for which her poems are being translated into
both German and Russian.
Marilyn’s
awards include a Wisconsin Arts Board fellowship, an “Intro” Award from AWP,
an Arthur Dakin Fellowship to the 1999 Sewanee Writers Conference, and an
Outstanding Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Library Association.
Her chapbook, Exit Only, was the winner of the Anamnesis (An-nam-NEE-sis) Press
Chapbook Competition in 2000, and she also took First Place recently in national poetry competitions
sponsored by Passager, The Ledge, and
GSU Review magazines. Her
new full-length manuscript, titled Subject to Change, was named a
Finalist in four national competitions during 2002.
Robert
Rice has driven Taxi, worked in intelligence, and is a recovering
lawyer. He earned an M.A. in International Affairs
at American University and did several years of graduate work in Latin American
studies at the University of Florida. His first novel,
The
Last Pendragon, was critically acclaimed. His short stories and
poetry have been published in numerous national and literary periodicals. In
1990 he won the Oregon State Poetry Contest, a national competition.
Agent
Of Judgment, his current novel, is published by Forge.
Barbara
Abercrombie has published two novels for adults, plus books for
children, including the award winning picture book, Charlie Anderson.
Her novels have been optioned for films and published in six languages. Her
essays, articles and poems have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers,
including The Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor and
United Airlines Hemisphere magazine.
She teaches in the Writers' Program at UCLA Extension where she won the outstanding teacher award in 1994. She also conducts workshops for The Wellness Community, a nationwide organization for people with cancer. Her latest book, Writing Out the Storm, Reading and Writing Your Way Through Serious Illness or Injury, published by St. Martin's Press in October 2002, is part memoir, part writing guide, and based on her Wellness Community workshops.
Barbara lives in Santa Monica, California and Twin Bridges, Montana with her husband. She has two grown daughters and a granddaughter.
J. Paul Peszko is a screenwriter, novelist, poet, reviewer and teacher who writes film and book reviews for regional publications.
Maureen
Murdock is a core faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute in
California and former chair of the M.A. Counseling Psychology Program in depth
psychology. A family therapist and educator, Maureen is the author of The
Heroine's Journey; Fathers' Daughter; Spinning Inward: Using Guided Imagery with
Children; and The Heroine's Journey Workbook. Her books have been translated
into nine languages. Maureen is presently completing a book on memory, identity,
and a memoir entitled To the Best of My Recollection. Maureen has been an
educational consultant to the Ministry of Education in British Columbia and the
Los Angeles Unified School District focusing on learning styles in Native
American populations and cross-cultural communication. She also teaches writing
in the UCLA Extension Writers' Program, where she was named Outstanding Creative
Writing Teacher in l995.