Contributors Biographies

Rob Walker: his poetry (over 300 works) has appeared in Cordite Poetry Review, Malleable Jangle, Australian Reader, OutOfOrder!!, Stylus Poetry Journal, Famous Reporter, Numbat / Poetry DownUnder, Bluepepper, Text, Thylazine, Picture and Word, Friendly Street Poets, Wordfire, Aust Poetic Society, Wild Grapes, Nzpoets Online, Southern Ocean Review, Evasion, Snakeskin, IRELingus, The Oracular Tree, Poets4Peace, nasty, Tryst, Plum Ruby Review, Atomic Petals, Indie Journal, The Poets Porch, Sidereality, The Breath, and elsewhere. He is a South Australian writer and educator. He teaches music and drama in a state primary school in the southern metropolitan area of Adelaide and lives on a small farm in the Adelaide Hills. His blog can be found at: www.users.bigpond.com/robwalker1

Aimee Nezhukumatathil: she was born in Chicago, IL to a Filipina mother and a South Indian father. She attended The Ohio State University where she received her B.A. in English and her M.F.A. in poetry and creative non-fiction. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Tin House and elsewhere. Her latest collection is, At the Drive-In Volcano, (Tupelo 2007). Her favorite fruit is jackfruit. She is assistant professor of English at SUNY-Fredonia. She lives in Western NY with her husband, son, and their geriatric dachshund, Villanelle. Visit her website at: http://aimeenez.net/home.html

Matt Cozart: he admits he feels unrelentingly evocative of brunch and that he enjoys his privacy. The previously unpublished feels that every gym has its limitations and that if they only have weights and treadmills shouldn't be called gyms at all. sometimes he eats French toast for breakfast and allows his blog out occasionally for a night out on the town. We are not sure which town in America that is, but the blog can be found at: http://mattcozart.blogspot.com

Stefan Seith: he says that when he was a boy his parents gave him his first pocket camera and he became addicted to it. Then, as a teenager has mother couraged his photographic talents whe she arranged to have him to formal picture of the local fire brigade which prompted the city newspaper to pick up the images and use them in an article on firefighters. His current self-appointed assignment is to search for ailing factories and warehouses in the Rhine/Main River valley for interesting motifs. He resides in mainz, Germany. You can find a larger selection of his images at his website: www.fotocommunity.de/pc/account/myprofile/619461

Nathan Austin: he is a poet stirred up in words and roused up in his own self-definitions, living a livelier life than he probably ever has. He has put together a 61-page handsewn collection of his work titled (glost) which is a narrative of conversations by Noah Webster, who created the first American dictionary of the English language in 1828. Nathan resides in Brooklyn, NY. He blog is called “This Cruellest Month” and can be found at: www.thiscrellestmonth.blogspot.com

Joanne Merriam: she was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1973. A graduate in English and Mathematics from Dalhousie University, she has worked as a courier dispatcher, telemarketer, charity fundraiser, sheet music librarian, Medicaid claim sorter, check composition specialist, web designer and office administrator. Her work has appeared in dozens of periodicals, including The Antigonish Review, Chiaroscuro, The Fiddlehead, Grain, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Room of One's Own and Vallum Contemporary Poetry, as well as in the anthologies Best of Strange Horizons 2, Ice: new writing on hockey, Reactions 4, To Find Us: Words and Images of Halifax and The Allotment: New Lyric Poets. She immigrated to the USA and spent two years in Tennessee; she now lives in Concord, NH. Visit her website at: http://joannemerriam.com

Christopher Barnes: he has been published in more than 1000 magazines and websites including Inclement, New Welsh Review, Subtle Tea, Poetry Magazine, Offcourse Literary Journal, Strange Road, and Jacket Magazine. In 1998 he won a Northern Arts writers award. The writer and film maker’s collection of poems includes LOVEBITES (Chanticleer Press, 2005). He annually reads for the Proudwords lesbian and gay writing festival and participates in the workshops. He has produced a video for the BBC about historical gay figures and is an activist for gay rights and has written poetry reviews for Poetry Scotland and Jacket Magazine. He also has worked on the collaborative art and literature project How Gay Are Your Genes, facilitated by poet Lisa Mathews, exhibited at The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University. He lives in Newcastle in the UK. Visit his website at: www.christopherbarnespoet.co.uk

Daniel Colvin: he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of California at Los Angeles, School of Motion Picture and Television in 1985 then worked for the next ten years in the L.A. film industry. In 1989 he took an interest in digital media and became lead designer for Earthquest Interactive and then later CEO of Planet X Productions. In 1992 he and his wife moved to Seattle where he designed, built and then ran an interactive television studio. This lead to a two-year stint as Creative Director of Microsoft Studios. He left Microsoft in 1999 to pursue Fine Art full time, developing his photographic and painting skills. He has had multiple solo gallery shows. He lives in the Pacific Northwest. Visit his website at: www.colvinart.com

Paolo Manalo: he is the author of Jolography (University of the Philippines Press, 2003), winner of the Don Carlos Palanca Awards for Literature and the University of the Philippines Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Literary Work. His poems have appeared in The Literary Review, Columbia, Tenggara and in several literary publications in the Philippines. He was a student at the New York State Summer Writers Institute in Skidmore College. Currently he is on study leave from his duties as assistant professor of English, literature and creative writing at the University of the Philippines-Diliman to finish Ph.D. studies in creative writing at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Visit the site where he is literary editor: www.philippinesfreepress.wordpress.com

Molly Arden: she is the co-editor of The Bedside Guide To No Tell Motel and spends much of her time doing research on erotic literature of antiquity. Her poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Apartment Therapy (she was a contest winner), and elsewhere. Several translations from Catallu with her commentary are forthcoming in Classic Literature In Translation. She lives in Virginia. Her blog, “Molly Arden Says So” can be visited at: www.mollyardensaysso.blogspot.com

Closing Notes: The editor would like to thank the contributors for the use of their work. Each contributor reserves their original rights. Look for the next issue of CSR online on March 1st. Copyright 2009 by Maurice Oliver. All Rights Reserved.


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