ZinkZine Contributors
Fall 2003
C. M. Mayo
is the author of Miraculous Air: Journey of a
Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico (University of Utah
Press, 2002), and Sky Over El Nido (University of Georgia Press,
1995), which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Mayo’s
poems, short stories, and essays have been widely published in literary
journals, among them, Chelsea, Fourth Genre, The North American Review, The
Paris Review, Tin House, West Branch, and Witness. Mayo is also
founding editor of Tameme, the bilingual (English/Spanish) journal of
new writing from Canada, the U.S., and Mexico. She lives in Mexico City and
Washington, D.C., and is currently at work on a novel. Mayo’s website is
www.cmmayo.com
Leslie Lehr Spirson's novel, 66 Laps,
won the Pirates Alley Faulkner Prize. An Emmy-winning graduate of the USC
School of Cinema-TV, Spirson wrote the film Heartless. Her humorous
parenting books include Welcome to Club Mom, the inspiration for
Clubmom.com. This fall, her book
Nesting: Lifestyle Inspirations for Your Growing Family, launches
designer Wendy Bellissimo as the style guru for a new generation of hip moms.
Spirson teaches fiction writing at the
UCLA Extension Writers' Program.
Read more about Leslie at
www.lesliespirson.com
Kathryn Pope
will earn her MFA in creative writing from
Antioch University in December 2003.
Her work has been published in ZinkZine and Parenting Magazine. She teaches
creative writing privately and lives in Venice, California.
Peter Levitt's books of poetry include Bright Root, Dark Root and One
Hundred Butterflies. He has also published fiction, journalism, and
translations from Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish. In 1989 he received the Lannan
Foundation Literary Award in Poetry. A longtime student of Zen, he edited Thich
Nhat Hanh's The Heart of Understanding and Jakusho Kwong's No
Beginning, No End: The Intimate Heart of Zen. He has been leading workshops
in writing, creativity, and spirituality in the United States and abroad for
thirty years. For more information about Peter and his work, check out Peter's
website at
www.peterlevitt.com
Irina Reyn
is the book review editor of the online literary magazine Killing
the Buddha. Her essay, "Recalling a Child of October" appeared in
the anthology Becoming American: Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women,
edited
by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah (Hyperion). Her article on immigrant writing will
appear in an upcoming issue of The Writer magazine. She lives in Pittsburgh and
New York City. To read "Killing the Buddha," go to
www.killingthebuddha.com
John S. Hutton is a physician, children’s bookstore owner, and… writer,
from Cincinnati, Ohio. He is seeking representation for his novel -- a
satire of affluent suburbia, founded on concepts from chaos
theory -- entitled Placid Heights.
Kristen
Cnossen Nichols will earn her MFA in creative writing from
Antioch University in
December 2003. Her writing has been published in ZinkZine and in
Antioch's Crimson Crane. She teaches middle school English and lives in
Long Beach, California.