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Contributors’ Notes
Lisha Adela García is a bilingual, bicultural poet who has México, the
United States, and that land in between (Spanglish) in her work. She has
an MFA from Vermont College and currently resides in Arizona with her
dog, Chiquita, and her cat, Nube. García is a simultaneous interpreter
and translator and is influenced by the American Southwest, the ghosts
that haunt her labyrinth, and border culture. This Stone Will Speak, a
chapbook, is forthcoming from Pudding House Press, and she has
publications in anthologies for Red Hen Press and Bluelightpress. She
also has a Masters from Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Ramón García’s poetry has appeared in Quarry West, Best American
Poetry 1996, Poesída: Aids Poetry from Latin America, the United
States and Spain, The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S.-
Hispanic Literature, The Americas Review, Ambit (UK), MARGIE, and
Poetry Salzburg Review (Austria). He has forthcoming work in Eclipse,
Mandorla, and the Los Angeles Review. He has been a recipient of two
MacDowell Colony National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a
research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and
a residency fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
He is Associate Professor in Chicano/Latino Studies at the California
State University, Northridge.
Chris Gavaler’s fiction appears in Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah,
Boulevard, and over a dozen other publications. He completed an
MFA at the University of Virginia and now teaches at Washington
and Lee University.
Heather E. Goodman ’s fiction has been published in Whistling Shade
and Minnesota Monthly, where her story “Skull” was a finalist for the
Tamarack Award. In 2006–2007, she worked as a Loft Mentor Series
award winner. Currently, she is completing her short story collection
“Bones.” Originally from Pennsylvania, she lives in Minnesota with
her husband, Paul, and their dog, Zane.
Susan Grimm is a native of Cleveland, Ohio. Her poems have appeared
in West Branch, Poetry East, Rattapallax, and The Journal. In 1996,
she was awarded an Individual Artists Fellowship from the Ohio Arts
Council. Her chapbook, Almost Home, was published by the Cleveland
State University Poetry Center. In 1999, she was named Ohio Poet of
the Year by the Ohio Poetry Day Association. Her book of poems,
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