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JANET SHELL ANDERSON enjoys reading and writing flash fiction.
She has been published in Vestal Review, Grey Sparrow Journal, Larks
Fiction, Convergence, Pindeldyboz, Concisely, Oberon's Law, dcomP,
and others. She is nominated for the Micro and the Pushcart Prizes, and
is interested in the idea of a micro novel. She wrote this piece that covers
an entire life in a flash. She is an attorney.
ANDREW ARNOLD is a student who currently attends the University
of Arkansas at Little Rock, where he is majoring in photography with
a minor in graphic design. He was awarded the Windgate Foundation
Scholarship Fund for art majors in response to his photography portfolio,
which explored extreme close-ups of plant and insect life. Fifth
Wednesday Journal is his first publication. Andrew can be contacted at
[email protected].
ROY BENTLEY has won awards from the NEA, the Florida Division
of Cultural Affairs, and the Ohio Arts Council. The Trouble with a Short
Horse in Montana won the White Pine Poetry Prize in 2005. Starlight
Taxi has won the 2012 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry and will appear in
2013.
HANNAH BUCKLAND lives in Eureka, Illinois, and works as a
librarian at Eureka College.
ROGER CAMP's photographs have been published in over 100
magazines. He is the author of three books, including the awardwinning Butterflies in Flight (Thames & Hudson, 2002). He has taught
photography at the Columbus College of Art & Design, University of
Iowa, and the Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris. He is represented
by the Robin Rice Gallery, NYC. Additional examples of his work may
be found at rcampphoto.com.
TONY CURTIS is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at the University of
South Wales (Glamorgan) and has published over thirty books, most
recently Alchemy of Water, a bi-lingual book of poems and photographs
with the Welsh language poet Grahame Davies. He is a Fellow of the
Royal Society for Literature. http://www.tonycurtispoet.com/
KELLY DANIELS's work has appeared in Puerto del Sol, Cimarron
Review, Third Coast, Sonora Review, South Dakota Review, Santa
Clara Review, Georgia State University Review, Orange Coast Review,
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Eyeshot, and other journals. His first book, a memoir titled Cloudbreak,
California, will be released in April 2013 by Owl Canyon Press. He
lives with his wife and son in Rock Island, Illinois, where he teaches
creative writing at Augustana College.
DOUGLAS DECHOW is the science librarian at Chapman University.
Dechow is coauthor of a book about the Smalltalk programming language
entitled Squeak: A Quick Trip to ObjectLand. With Anna Leahy, he has
previously published in the Smithsonian’s Air & Space magazine, the
BBC Online, and Chapman Magazine. Together, Dechow and Leahy
also cowrite Lofty Ambitions blog, loftyambitions.wordpress.com. They
are at work on a book based on their experience of following the end of
the space shuttle program.
AMANDA DUSSAULT is a fine art photographer based in Naperville,
Illinois. Her work can be seen in photography shows in the area.
BREJA GUNNISON's short stories have appeared in Prairie Schooner
and Roanoke Review. She is a recipient of the Glenna Luschei Prairie
Schooner Award, the Lois Mackey '45 Creative Writing Award, the
White-Howells Prose Prize, and the David and Marion Stocking Prize
for Nonfiction. She is a graduate of Beloit College, where she majored
in creative writing, and she lives in Beloit, Wisconsin.
MICHAEL S. HARPER, Brown University Professor and professor
of literary arts, is the first poet laureate emeritus of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations. In 2008, the Poetry Society of America awarded
him the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry. His latest book
of poems is Use Trouble (University of Illinois Press, 2009). In 2005 he
published I Do Believe in People: Remembrances of W. Warren Harper,
1915-2004 (Effendi Press), a prose memoir of his father, a book whose
theme complements the themes of his poetry. The critic Robert Bone has
said that Harper is indebted to John Keats, in that he is “a practitioner
of ‘negative capability’ who documents the loss of home and first
neighborhood, a magic circle noted in his sixteen books of poetry.”
TED HELLER is the author of three published novels — Pocket Kings,
Funnymen, and Slab Rat — and hopefully a fourth, West of Babylon. He
lives somewhere in New York City.
DUSTIN M. HOFFMAN spent ten years painting houses before getting
his MFA in fiction from Bowling Green State University. He is currently
working on his PhD in creative writing at Western Michigan University.
His fiction has recently appeared in Blue Mesa Review, Puerto del Sol,
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Palooka, Phoebe, Artifice, The Cream City Review, Copper Nickel,
Witness, and Indiana Review.
ANNA LEAHY's book Constituents of Matter won the Wick Poetry
Prize. Her poetry and creative nonfiction appear in journals such as Crab
Orchard Review, Cream City Review, The Pinch, and The Southern
Review. She edited Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom
and publishes articles about teaching and the profession. With Douglas
Dechow, she cowrites Lofty Ambitions blog, loftyambitions.wordpress.
com,and is working on a book based on their experience following the
end of the space shuttle program.
ROBERT J. LEVY's work has appeared in Poetry, Paris Review,
Georgia Review, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, Alaska
Quarterly Review, North American Review, The Gettysburg Review,
Southwest Review, and many other publications. He has won an NEA
fellowship, fellowships to Yaddo and the MacDowell colony, and
several awards from the Poetry Society of America. He has published
two full-length collections: Whistle Maker (Anhinga) and In the Century
of Small Gestures (Defined Providence), as well as five chapbooks.
LAURENCE LIEBERMAN has published fourteen books of poetry
and three books of criticism. Recent books include Carib's Leap:
Selected and New Poems of the Caribbean (Peepal Tree Press, UK), The
Regatta in the Skies: Selected Long Poems (University of Georgia Press),
and Beyond the Muse of Memory: Essays on Contemporary American
Poets (University of Missouri Press). Starting in 1970, he was awarded
four fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study of University of
Illinois. He was founding editor of the Illinois Poetry Series (l971-2009)
and is professor emeritus of English at University of Illinois.
JANET McNALLY's writing has appeared in Best New Poets 2012,
The Gettysburg Review, Crazyhorse, Mid-American Review, Ecotone,
Hayden’s Ferry Review, Crab Orchard Review, and others. She is a
graduate of the MFA program at the University of Notre Dame and was
awarded a fellowship by the New York Foundation for the Arts. She
teaches at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York.
JENNY MUELLER lives in St. Louis and teaches at McKendree
University. Her poems are forthcoming in Crazyhorse and Colorado
Review. She most recently published work in the online journal Hinchas
de Poesia.
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SIMON PERCHIK is an attorney whose poems have appeared in
Partisan Review, The Nation, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. For more
information, including free e-books, his essay titled “Magic, Illusion and
Other Realities,” and a complete bibliography, please visit his website at
www.simonperchik.com.
ALEX PICKETT lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is an assistant
editor for Cream City Review. His story "Pharaoh" appears in the spring
2013 issue of Bayou.
MARGE PIERCY's eighteenth poetry book, The Hunger Moon: New
& Selected Poems, was published by Knopf in November; also they
published The Crooked Inheritance, The Moon is Always Female, and
What are Big Girls Made of. Piercy’s recent novel is Sex Wars; PM Press
republished Dance the Eagle to Sleep and Vida with new introductions
last year. Her memoir is Sleeping with Cats (Harper Perennial). She is
working on a short story collection for PM.
CECILIA PINTO received a degree in creative writing from Knox
College and an MFA in the same subject from the School of the Art
Institute. Her work has appeared in Esquire, Diagram, Fence, Rhino,
Snake Nation Review, This Literary Magazine, qartsilunni, PoetsArtists,
Mississippi Review, Seneca Review, Quarter After Eight, TriQuarterly,
and elsewhere.
PETER SERCHUK’s poems have appeared in a variety of journals
including Boulevard, Poetry, Denver Quarterly, North American Review,
Nimrod, The South Carolina Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and
others. His work has also appeared on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's
Almanac. His collections include Waiting for Poppa at the Smithtown
Diner (University of Illinois Press) and most recently, All That Remains
(WordTech, Editions 2012). He lives in Los Angeles.
SAID SHIRAZI lives in a condo development in central New Jersey
with a rat, a cat, a dog, a turtle, a monkey, a blackbird, a tiger, and a
robber. His story “A Feynman Is Good When Hard” appeared in the fall
2007 issue of Fifth Wednesday Journal. Wednesday nights he volunteers
as a tutor with HomeFront, and Friday mornings he teaches a writing
class at a maximum-security prison in Trenton.
STACY SIMMERING is from Bell City, Missouri and has recently
moved from London to Hawaii. She studied at the Photography Institute
of London. Her photograph, “Nun,” appeared in the fall 2010 issue of
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Fifth Wednesday Journal and earned Honorable Mention from Chuck
Osgood, the judge for the Fifth Wednesday Journal Editor’s Prize in
Photography in 2012. Her work has also been featured on Nick Kelsh's
DVD, Photo Tips for Scrapbookers.
ROB McCLURE SMITH's fiction has appeared in The Gettysburg
Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Manchester Review, The
Barcelona Review, and many other literary magazines. He teaches at
Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.
KEVIN STEIN has published eleven books of poetry, criticism, and
anthology, including his new collection Wrestling Li Po for the Remote
(Fifth Star Press). Recent books include the essays Poetry’s Afterlife:
Verse in the Digital Age (University of Michigan Press) as well as the
verse collection Sufficiency of the Actual (University of Illinois Press).
He teaches at Bradley University and currently serves as Illinois Poet
Laureate.
JESSE MIKHAIL WESSO is a twenty-one-year-old who lives and
writes in Peoria, Illinois. An upcoming graduate of Bradley University's
BA program, he plans to attend an MFA poetry program next spring.
HARRY WILSON is a retired professor of art at Bakersfield College.
His photographs have been exhibited and published widely. A
somewhat overlooked intrepid photographer, he is still below the radar,
apparently refusing fame and fortune. See more of his work at www.
harrywilsonphoto.com.
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