2011 Issue - Santa Fe Community College

Karla Linn Merrifield: Award-winning poet, National Park
Artist-in-Residence, and assistant editor of The Centrifugal Eye, Karla
Linn Merrifield has six books to her credit, including Godwit: Poems of
Canada, which received the 2009 Andrew Eiseman Writers Award for
Poetry, and her new chapbook, The Urn, from Finishing Line Press.
Devon Miller-Duggan’s poems have appeared in CutBank, The
Indiana Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Chattahoochee Review. She has
won a fellowship from the Delaware Division of the Arts and the Editor’s
Prize in Margie. One of her poems was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
She teaches in the English Department of the University of Delaware, is
married to an historian, and has two grown daughters. Her first collection,
Pinning the Bird to the Wall, appeared in November 2008 from Tres
Chicas Books. Recent publications or acceptances include poems in Rattle,
The Chrysalis Review, Poem, and Your Daily Poem (on-line).
Joan Mitchell’s poems have appeared in literary reviews and anthologies,
including Southern Poetry Review, Puerto del Sol, Don’t Go
Away Hungry: Fifty Years of the Southern Poetry Review, and the Emily
Dickinson Awards Anthology. She was a first-place winner in the Southwest
Writers’ Annual Awards for Poetry. Joan attended the University
of Michigan and St. John’s College.
Ursula Moeller has been a full-time resident of Santa Fe for six
years, part-time for fourteen and still cheers the blue skies each day. She
writes poetry, prose and journals and has been working on a family memoir
for several years. She delights in all outdoor activities as well as photography
here in the Southwest. The SFLR has published some of her
previous works and photographs.
Ellen Birkett Morris writes stories, poems and short plays from
her home in Louisville, Kentucky. Her fiction is forthcoming in South
Carolina Review and has appeared in Paradigm, Salt River Review, The
Pedestal Magazine and Alimentum. Her story, “The Cycle of Life and
Other Incidentals”, was selected as a finalist in the Glimmer Train Press
Family Matters short story competition.
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