ZinkZine Contributors
Winter 2004
(to browse books by our contributors, <<click here>>)
Judith
Smith Miller owns and operates a studio where she makes large-scale
porcelain sculpture, paintings, and drawings that she sells to public spaces and
through galleries in the Midwest. For the past twenty years she has been
a volunteer for a hospice organization; four years ago she began working at a
long-term care facility, still as a volunteer. Her training and long experience
as an visual artist drives her interest in the people and events of this
universal situation and her direct contact and conversations with care center
residents, her fondness for them, and her concern for their welfare has led to a
collection of nonfiction short stories that illustrate life within long-term
care institutions.
Mary Wehner writes poetry and fiction from her home on the east shore of
Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin. Her work has recently been published by Red
Hydra Press, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A letterpress broadside, “The Chinese
Painting,” is currently available through
www.redhydra.us. She has been selected for inclusion in the literary
magazine, 45 South, and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters
publication: Poetry and Prose. Her poems have appeared in five Wisconsin
Fellowship of Poets publications and she has been awarded first place in a
statewide Wisconsin Poet’s contest in 1999. She was awarded a one-month
residency at Norcroft Women Writers Retreat in Minnesota in 2000.
Because of her natural surroundings, she feels as Stephen Dunn does when he
says, “As it pertains to my writing, I’m capable, at best, of a keen and useful
alertness to the landscapes of my poems.”
David Ryan’s fiction has appeared, or is upcoming, in BOMB Magazine, The Mississippi Review Prize Issue, 5_Trope, Tin House, Alaska Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, New Orleans Review, and Salt Hill, among others.
Susan
Suntree is a writer, performer, and teacher whose work investigates the
dynamics of science, art, and spiritual philosophies as they engage contemporary
life. She has presented her poetry and performances nationally and
internationally, and has published books of poetry, biography, and translation,
as well as essays, reviews, and book chapters. She is the founder and
Artistic Director of Theatre Flux which has produced many of her performances
and plays. Her recent one-woman performance and forthcoming book, Sacred
Sites/Los Angeles, explores the prehistory and sacred geography of Los
Angeles, where she lives. She founded FrogWorks, an eco-political street
theater troupe, and is co-director of Earth Water Air Los Angeles, a giant
puppet trek connecting and telling the story of endangered open spaces. An
environmental activist and a long-time Zen student, Susan currently teaches at
East Los Angeles College.
Paul Marks, a retired LAPD captain, has had his work published in the Los Angeles Times, La Cucina Italiana and ZinkZine. He has completed one manuscript, The Crime Seen, the story of a troubled LAPD lieutenant who comes to terms with his own personal demons while investigating a tragic shooting, and is now at work on another. Paul is currently a student in The UCLA Extension Writers' Program. To read an excerpt from The Crime Seen, <<click here>>.
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 privately and lives in Venice, California.
Janet Sternburg is a poet and essayist, best known in the literary world for
editing the classic two-volume set, The Writer on Her Work, long
recognized as a groundbreaking work on women and writing. Norton issued a
special anniversary edition in 2000 with a new introduction by Julia Alvarez.
The Writer on Her Work has been named one of the 500 Great Books by Women:
Thirteenth Century to the Present, and has been recognized by the Literary
Guild, Writers Digest Book Club, Quality Book Club and the Common Reader.
Kristen
Cnossen Nichols earned her MFA in creative writing from
Antioch University in
December 2003. She is a regular contributor to ZinkZine, and her writing has
also been published in Antioch's Crimson Crane. She teaches middle school English and lives in
Long Beach, California.