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Line Press and his first full length collection, Nixon on the Piano, will
be published in 2009 by David Robert Books. He is the founding editor
of Burnside Review.
Mihaela Moscaliuc has published poems in Great River Review,
Meridians, Kestrel, and The English Record; reviews in TriQuarterly,
Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, and Poetry International; and articles
in Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and Interculturality and
Translation. Her co-translations of contemporary Romanian poetry
appear in Arts & Letters, Mississippi Review, Connecticut Review, and
Mid-American Review. She lives in Salisbury, Maryland.
Lisa Ortiz has had poems published in Princeton Arts Review, Wolf
Head Quarterly, Poesy, and the anthology Split Verse: Poems to Heal
Your Heart. Poems are forthcoming in the online magazines Tryst and
Literary Mama. She lives in La Honda with a sad-eyed husband, two
wild-haired daughters and a big red horse.
Krishna Pattisapu is an undergraduate studying English and speech
communication at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She is
currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of the university’s undergraduate
literary magazine, Grassroots.
Laura Paul is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of
Florida. She lives in Pine, Colorado, and teaches composition at Red
Rocks Community College. Her poems have appeared in Sou’wester
and PMS, and she has new work in the upcoming winter issue of the
Cincinnati Review.
Sara Pennington lives in Hindman, Kentucky, and is completing her
Ph.D. in creative writing at Florida State University. She is the online
editor of the Chattahoochee Review. Her poems have appeared or are
forthcoming in the Greensboro Review, Ecotone, Ninth Letter, and Arts
& Letters.
Mike Puican was a member of the 1996 Chicago Slam Team. He
has had his poetry published in the U.S. and in Canada in Rhino,
Michigan Quarterly Review, Crab Orchard Review, Another Chicago
Magazine, and Malahat Review. He won the 2004 Tia Chucha Press
Chapbook Contest for his chapbook, 30 Seconds.
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