Barbara Westwood Diehl is founding editor of The Baltimore Review. She works for the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and is completing her M.A. in Writing from Hopkins. Her fiction and poems have been accepted by a variety of publications, including MacGuffin, Confrontation, Rosebud, JMWW, Potomac Review, American Poetry Journal, Measure, Little Patuxent Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Gargoyle, Superstition Review, Word Riot, Northwind, Atticus Review, Bartleby Snopes, and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.
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Author : Glenn Halak
I started writing poetry and painting very early, inspired by my great-grandmother’s poetry and painting. I love images that carry me up into the dark. I get writing and paintings out into the world, three children’s books, plays, an online book of poetry, prose, but it’s the process of interaction with what’s real, surreal, unreal and unimagined that keeps me going.
Author : Daniel Lassell
Daniel Lassell has been featured (or is forthcoming) in several publications, which include literary journals such as Future Cycle, riverrun magazine, Pure Francis, and Haiku Journal, and anthologies such as Panik: Candid Stories of Life Altering Experiences Surrounding Pregnancy, A Celebration of Young Poets, and Overplay/Underdone. In his youth, he raised llamas on a farm in Eminence, Kentucky. Today, he lives in Huntington, West Virginia, where he teaches at Marshall University. [Photo: Austin Lassell, 2012]
Author : Larry Lefkowitz
The stories, poetry, and humor of Larry Lefkowitz have been widely published in the U.S., Israel, and Britain. He is surrently looking for a publisher of his novella and short story collection: “Love, Nu! Jewish Love Stories.”
Author : Matthew Dexter
Author : Francis DiClemente
Francis DiClemente lives in Syracuse, New York, where he works as a video producer. In his spare time he writes and takes photographs. He is the author of three poetry chapbooks, In Pursuit of Infinity (Finishing Line Press, 2013), Vestiges (Alabaster Leaves Publishing, 2012) and Outskirts of Intimacy (Flutter Press, 2010). His blog can be found at francisdiclemente.wordpress.com. [Photo: Steve Sartori]
Author : Kip Hanson
Kip lives in Arizona with five demanding females. He’s madly in love with one of them; the rest are either tolerated or ignored. He was a crime fighter in another life, and once saved the world from raygun-toting aliens, but misplaced his cape one night after one too many beers. He must now content himself by telling lies, something his wife will tell you he excels at. Just Google him and see, or save yourself a few keystrokes and go to www.misterass.com.
Author : Celia Coyne
Celia Coyne has worked in publishing for 20 years as a journalist and editor and has written two non-fiction books. She is a full member of the New Zealand Society of Authors. In her fiction writing she enjoys exploring unusual themes and ideas. Two of her stories have been accepted by New Zealand-based Takahe magazine and another short story appears in Fusion, a collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories. She lives in Christchurch, where she is preparing a collection of short stories.
Author : Terence Rissetto
I am of Maori descent, with Danish, Italian and English thrown in the mix. My background includes a degree in Existential Philosophy, working as a psychiatric nurse in Australia, and a career as a public servant. I woke up from a self-induced coma of 25 years when I heard a Bukowski reading and thought it was Kevin Spacey before he became Lester Burnham. My work attempts to show there are other realities and other ways of looking at them. You can reach me at oystercatcher210@gmail.com.
Artist : Jihane Mossalim
Montreal native Jihane Mossalim studied Fine Arts at Dawson College and worked in the media industry as a special effects and beauty make-up artist before transitioning to full-time painting. Her works have been shown in galleries throughout North America, including Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Chicago and Colorado. Currently exhibited in Montreal as well as in private collections, she is now represented by Corinne Asseraf of Galerie 203 in old Montreal, where most of her paintings can be found. She is interested in how the human mind works and its selective way of remembering certain things and not others; in the way the brain views memories as still frames and how only a very select few will make it to old age. Representations of children are an essential part of Jihane’s work; people’s deepest fears, craziest dreams and beliefs, and fondest memories are born in childhood. The older we get, the more mysterious it becomes, and that fascinates her.
Artist : Lysa Rhean Provencio
Lysa Rhean Provencio is a Los Angeles based, self-taught artist who has shown in over a dozen group shows in Los Angeles galleries such as La Luz De Jesus and The Hive. She has curated six themed group shows, and did a series of paintings for Fender Guitar on custom made guitars. Her art can be described as a world woven between spectral dreams that celebrates the ebb and flow and fragility of the human experience. For Lysa, art is a light, fast prayer, a dimly lit spell, and supple confession. Currently she resides in Orange with her boyfriend and her feline muse, Babyhead. You can find her latest updates at lysarheanprovencio.blogspot.com.
Author : Margaret Elysia Garcia
Margaret Elysia Garcia writes essays, fiction, memoir, and poetry. Her recent work can be seen in Brain, Child magazine, The Weekenders Magazine, Huizache Journal, Catamaran Review, and other literary places. She lives in the remote northeastern corner of the Sierra Nevadas, where she teaches unsuspecting college students and hosts an alternative women’s radio show and a book club show on Plumas Community Radio at www.kqny919.org. She’ll be directing her first spoken word show for Listen to Your Mother this spring. You can follow her adventures and links to publications on her blog, Tales of a Sierra Madre.
Author : Wayne Mitchell
Wayne Mitchell is a career Army officer born and raised in Alaska. He now lives in Key West, Florida, where he struggles to balance his time between writing and living a life worth writing about. Wayne has published works on the subjects of post traumatic stress disorder and on urban survival.
Author : Cheryl Diane Kidder
Cheryl Diane Kidder has a B.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and two Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in: CutThroat Magazine, Weber—The Contemporary West, Bound Off, Brevity Magazine, Pembroke Magazine, Stirring: A Literary Collection, Dogzplot, Jersey Devil Press, The Northville Review, Cobalt, Identity Theory, The Atticus Review, The New Purlieu Review, Eclectica, Word Riot, In Posse Review, The Reed, the Clackamas Literary Review and elsewhere. Her blog is Truewest.
Author : Flower Conroy
Flower Conroy’s poetry has appeared in American Literary Review, Poydras Review, Menacing Hedge, and other journals. Her first chapbook, “Escape to Nowhere” was selected as first runner up in the Ronald Wardall Poetry Prize, and was published by Rain Mountain Press (New York). Her second chapbook, “Controlled Burn,” was first runner up in the Robin Becker Poetry Contest and is forthcoming from Seven Kitchens Press. She is earning an MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She currently lives in Key West.
Author : B.J. Jones
B.J. Jones writes about rogue pharmacists, phantom limbed windmills, quidnuncs, Luciferian calories, amorous bowling shoes, Funkhousers, martyred coupons, Nietzschian wire hangers, invisible tomatoes, and pen clicking adversaries while living in Dubuque, IA with his wife. Some of it even gets published.
Author : Janice D. Soderling
Janice D. Soderling’s flash and fiction appear at literary magazines such as 100 Word Stories, Boston Literary Magazine, and Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine. Forthcoming poems/translations at Raintown Review, The Centrifugal Eye, American Arts Quarterly and Literary Bohemian; poems are included in the 5-year anthology recently released by The Centrifugal Eye. Janice is assistant fiction editor at Able Muse.
Artist : David Valentine
Born and raised in New Zealand, David Valentine initially studied at Auckland’s nascent film schools of the mid 1980s. Deeply impacted by the social and cultural changes in New Zealand at that time, David turned his attention from film to political activism. After extensive travel throughout Asia, he settled in San Francisco, where he found inspiration in the early 1990s underground dance and DJ culture and began producing rave flyers, club promotions, and magazine spreads in his own distinct and instantly recognizable style. He co-founded the design/activism collective Shimako-Dominguez and has also worked independently as a graphic designer for a range of clients including Sony, Showtime, Chronicle Books, London’s Globe Center, and the MadCat International Film Festival. In his artwork, he fuses themes of myth and magic with an urban state of mind. His focus is often small, fleeting moments drawn from folklore and fairytales that are relocated to more contemporary settings. This meeting of the fantastical and the real is emphasized through his use of everyday materials like particle board, varnish, and glue alongside more painterly elements.
Artist : Marilyn Andrews
Nelson-based artist Marilyn Andrews works to create vibrant images from her environment. She finds landscapes a wonderful excuse to play with shapes, colours and textures on the canvas surface. It’s the juxtaposition and resonance of colour that she really enjoys…light and vibration. Gabriele Munter, Monet, Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt, Doris Lusk and Toss Woollaston have all influenced her work, each artist taking her through experimental paths of exploration. Marilyn has been a finalist in the New Zealand Wearable Art Awards, multiple finalist in the Telecom Artawards, winner of the Yellow Pages Arts Scholarship in 2003, and has had work selected for exhibitions nationally.
Author : Kirsten Le Harivel
Kirsten Le Harivel is a poet, traveller and youth development worker living on the Kapiti Coast in New Zealand. She has ties to Scotland, England, France and India. Her work has been published in blackmail press and the 4th Floor Literary Journal. She is a member of the Conversations Across Borders Project.
Author : Vaughan Rapatahana
Vaughan Rapatahana is Māori and lives in Hong Kong, with a house in Aotearoa. His wife is from the Philippines, where they also have a home. His work has been published in variety of genres worldwide. Two poetry collections were published in 2011: Home Away Elsewhere (Proverse Hong Kong) and china as kafka (Kilmog Press, Aotearoa). His recent publications include a critique of English language agencies, English Language as Hydra (Multilingual Matters, U.K), and part-collections Karon Beach and Bride Price Two (Good Samaritan Press, Thailand). His novel Toa (Atuanui Press, Aotearoa) is forthcoming in 2013.
Author : Siobhan Harvey
Siobhan Harvey is the author of the poetry collection, Lost Relatives (Steele Roberts NZ, 2011), the book of literary interviews Words Chosen Carefully: New Zealand Writers in Discussion (Cape Catley, 2010), and the anthology Our Own Kind: 100 New Zealand Poems about Animals (Random House, 2009). Recently, her poetry has been published in Evergreen Review (Grove Press, US), Five Poems Journal (Ned), Meanjin (Aus), Shenandoah (US), Stand (UK) and Structo (UK). The Poetry Archive (UK) showcases a Poet’s Page devoted to Harvey’s work here.
Author : Bruce Curtis
Bruce Curtis was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1961. Bobby Darin’s version of ‘You must have been a beautiful baby’ was number one the week he was born. Great things followed from this auspicious start. He works as a sociologist at The University of Auckland. He is married to Cate. He strives to be loving and laconic in his poetry. He wishes he had started thirty years ago; he would be so much better now.
Author : Holly Painter
Holly Painter is an MFA graduate of the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. She and her partner currently live in Ann Arbor, MI, where Holly writes poetry and fiction and teaches creative writing to students at 826michigan. Holly is also a copy-editor as well as a poet for hire. She writes love poems, wooing poems, apology poems, thank you poems, and special occasion poems for clients all over the world.
Artist : Matt Gauldie
My art has always been my own interpretation of the people I’ve met and the places I’ve been; my life and experiences along the way — from shearers in dusty Maniototo sheds, painting Rawhiri’s descendents at Whiria Pa in the Hokianga to Nervous Jockeys preparing to race at Mosgiel’s Wingatui track, orchard workers at Mariakakaho, Hawkes Bay, NZ soldiers on long-range missions high in the mountains of Afghanastan’s Hindu Kush, wharfies tying down container ships at Wellington port, the theatrical world of Wellington’s late-night burlesque performers…I feel fortunate as an artist to have had the opportunity to investigate and capture these rich experiences in art.
Author : Michalia Arathimos
Michalia Arathimos is a Greek New Zealand author. She has published short stories and poetry in several New Zealand books and journals, including Best New Zealand Fiction Volume 4, Lost in Translation: New Zealand Stories, Sport, Turbine, JAAM, Metro, The NZ Listener, Otoliths and Blackmail Press. She is currently undertaking a PhD in Creative Writing with Bill Manhire at the International Institute of Modern Letters, where she is writing a novel.
Author : Carolyn Stack
Carolyn Stack is writing a memoir that speaks to the forces that drove her away from New Zealand – her native country. She ran off at the age of twenty to travel the world and finally settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her work pivots on the theme of emotional violence. She is a psychologist and psychoanalyst, and she lives and practices in Cambridge. She runs a professional/fictional blog on her website: www.carolynstack.com.
Author : Jeni Curtis
Jeni Curtis teaches English at St Andrew’s College, Christchurch, New Zealand. She has a keen interest in Victorian literature and history. She is President of the Christchurch branch of the Dickens Fellowship, and editor of their magazine, Dickens Down Under. She has published poems in the Christchurch Press, Blackmail and International Literature Quarterly, as well as having a poem featured on Helen Lowe’s Tuesday poem blog, October 31, 2012.
Author : Kate Larkindale
Kate Larkindale is a writer, cinema manager, film reviewer and mother to two boys. She is constantly surprised she can find any time to write, but doesn’t sleep much. You can usually find her hanging around the espresso machine at her cinema in Wellington, New Zealand. If that’s too far to travel, you can find her here.
Author : E.A. Fow
E.A. Fow was born and grew up in New Zealand but has lived in New York for the last twenty years. She has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College, CUNY, and now spends her time teaching, writing, painting, and chasing her four-year-old daughter around Brooklyn. Her Kiwi accent, however, hasn’t faded.
Artist : Barry Ross Smith
With each new work, I endeavor to express fresh ways to represent ideas about relationships and connections with my environment; the inside thoughts combined with outside influences. Each artwork attempts to articulate an observation that has struck me as somehow worthy of further thought. I don’t believe that art is about discovering ‘truth’ as the word truth implies universality or a collective rule. I think that being true to my environmental influences is to endeavor to be ‘honest’ about how I perceive my world.
Author : Julie Maclean
Originally from Bristol, UK, Julie now lives on the Surf Coast, Australia. In 2012 she was shortlisted for The Crashaw Prize (Salt, UK). Her debut collection of poetry, When I saw Jimi, will be published in June 2013 by Indigo Dreams Publishing UK. Her poetry and short fiction feature in UK, US and Australian journals including The Best Australian Poetry (UQP). She blogs at juliemacleanwriter.com.
Author : Lucy Butler
Lucy Butler recently completed a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne which looked at romance and dismemberment in recent fiction. She has published fiction in Australasia and abroad, most recently in Hue & Cry, New Fraktur and Paragraphiti. She currently lives in Golden Bay, New Zealand, where she is working on her first novel and pursuing research interests in the realm of popular culture.
Author : Kerrin P. Sharpe
Kerrin P. Sharpe lives in Christchurch, New Zealand where she is a poet and a teacher of creative writing. She has published in NZ, Australia and England. Her first collection, Three Days in a Wishing Well, has just been published by Victoria University Press.
Some of the poems published in the Anthology previously appeared in Best New Zealand Poems, Takahe, Turbine and Sport and she has a forthcoming poetry selection in Oxford Poets 2013.
Author : Gail Ingram
Gail Ingram writes poetry, short stories and is working on a short novel for teenagers. Her work has appeared or is pending in Takehe, Fineline, The Climber 2012, Ice Diver, Building a time machine and The Christchurch Press. She is the president of SIWA (South Island Writers Association) and a member of Airing Cupboard, a group of woman poets. She is inspired by great books, family and conservation, particularly of the sublime South Island landscape.
Author : Jon Wesick
Host of the Gelato Poetry Series, instigator of the San Diego Poetry Un-Slam, and an editor of the San Diego Poetry Annual, Jon Wesick has published over two hundred fifty poems in journals such as The New Orphic Review, Pearl, Pudding, and Slipstream. He has also published over fifty short stories. Jon has a Ph.D. in physics and is a longtime student of Buddhism and the martial arts. One of his poems won second place in the 2007 African American Writers and Artists contest.
Author : Claire Orchard
Claire Orchard lives in Wellington, where she divides her time more or less evenly between writing and working at a local primary school. In 2013 this ratio will shift dramatically when she begins an MA in creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University.
Author : Tom McLean
Tom McLean is a student at Victoria University of Wellington, and editor of Three Islands Magazine. His website is at tommclean.co.nz.
Author : Sarah Bainbridge
Sarah Bainbridge lives in Paekakariki, New Zealand. Her writing has appeared in Hue&Cry Journal, Pasture, and JAAM (forthcoming). She has an MA in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters, and is an echocardiographer by trade.
Author : Diane Andrews
Diane Andrews was born in Wainuiomata, NZ in 1953. She and her husband sailed from Sydney to Cairns in a sixteen-foot boat; she now lives there and is involved in many activities—see www.dianeandrewspublishing.com and Cairns Tropical Images.
She survived life-threatening cancer, with the most amazing response using medical treatment supplemented by diet. Diane has been featured in many poetry and short story anthologies and been placed in several competitions. She has published a collection of previously published stories, The Speed of Darke.
Author : Elisabeth Smith Wood
An American freelance writer living in New Zealand, Elisabeth Smith Wood usually writes poetry wearing at least one layer of cashmere. Her work has appeared in various publications including Emerge Literary Journal, Oz Poetic Society, and The Camel Saloon.
Author : Sandi Sartorelli
Sandi Sartorelli was born in the Hutt Valley of New Zealand and has lived there ever since. She has recently completed a degree in creative writing with the Whitireia Creative Writing Programme. Some of her work has appeared in 4th Floor, Blackmail Press, Conversations Across Borders, Eye to the Telescope, Poems in the Waiting Room, The Mozzie, and Valley Micropress.
She is also known as Abra Cadabra.
Author : Airini Beautrais
Airini Beautrais is a poet and fiction writer living in Whanganui, New Zealand. Her collections of poetry are Secret Heart (2006) and Western Line (2011), both published by Victoria University Press, Wellington. She has worked as a science teacher and is currently at home with her two sons, Lukas (2.5) and Felix (6 months).
“A pair of hands” is set in Whanganui in the early 1990s, a time of record unemployment in New Zealand. The Whanganui river featured in the story has been home to a variety of well known artists and writers, and often finds its way into Airini’s work.
Author : Melanie Dixon
Melanie Dixon is currently studying at Hagley Writers’ Institute. She has published work for adults and children and is working on her first novel for children. Having spent years working in television and website production, she is now indulging in full-time writing. Originally from Wales, Melanie now lives overlooking the beautiful Lyttelton Harbour near Christchurch, New Zealand, with her husband and two energetic children.
