Raleigh Review vol. 3 (2012-2013 selections in progress)
Raleigh Review vol. 2 (2011-2012)
Sherman Alexie's most recent collections include Face from Hanging Loose Press, and War Dances from Grove Press. He lives with his family in Seattle.
Paul Beckman's stories have been published in journals such as the Connecticut Review, the New Haven Review and in Playboy. He earned an MFA from Bennington College.
Josh Booton is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers. Winner of the 2011 Keene Prize in Literature, and finalist for the 2010 Missouri Review Editors' Prize, his poems have appeared in The Missouri Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Poetry Northwest, The Grove Review, and elsewhere.
Mark Budman's fiction and nonfiction have appeared or are about to appear in such magazines as Mississippi Review, Virginia Quarterly, The London Magazine, McSweeney's, Turnrow, Southeast Review, Mid-American Review, the W.W. Norton anthology Flash Fiction Forward, and elsewhere. He is the publisher of a flash fiction magazine Vestal Review. His novel My Life at First Try was published by Counterpoint Press. He co-edited the anthology You Have Time for This from Ooligan Press; a new anthology is forthcoming in 2011 from Persea Books.
Darren Demaree is living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and daughter. His work has been published in numerous journals online and in print.
Geri Digiorno, Sonoma Poet Laureate ( 2006-2007) and artist, is founder and director of the Petaluma Poetry Walk, an annual literary event celebrating its 17th anniversary this year. Geri has studied art at College of San Mateo, Solano College, Sonoma College, and Santa Rosa JC. One of her wall pieces was accepted at University of Santa Clara (1960's). A one women show at Benicia Art Gallery in Benicia, California (1985) and a collage show in Paterson NJ Hamilton House where she has read her poetry, taught collage and poetry. She has worked at the Homeless shelter in Petaluma, teaching both poetry and collage. Recently, she's been featured in an art show at Claudia Chaplines Gallery in Stinsen Beach, CA; and her collages and poetry have both been presented in the Vagina Monologues in Petaluma, CA.
Sarah Dion is currently in her third year at the University of Florida, majoring in Creative Photography with a minor in Art History. She grew up in Southeast Asia and spends life between the Southeastern United States and the South Island of New Zealand.
Jonathan Harris received an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific Universityand a Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College. A former Peace Corps volunteer, Jonathan lives in Los Angeles with his wife and kids.The Wave That Did Not Break is his first published book of poetry.
Kevin Heaton writes in South Carolina. His most recent chapbook, Breaking Ground, is forthcoming from MLM-The Quiet Press in 2011. Kevin's work has appeared in more than seventy print, and online journals. He is listed as a notable poet at: KansasPoets.com.
Nancy Hechinger’s Letters to Leonard Cohen was published by Finishing Line Press (2011). She lives in New York City and teaches at the Interactive Telecommunications Program, a graduate school in New Media at NYU. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College (1969) and her MFA at Pacific University’s Low-Residency Program (2009). Hechinger has poems forthcoming in the New York Quarterly and Mudfish.
M. J. Iuppa resides in Rochester, New York, where she is the Writer-in-Residence and Director of the Arts Minor program at St. John Fisher College. She has a MA in Creative Writing from SUNY Brockport and a MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific Lutheran University. In 1996, she was the recipient of the Writing In Rochester Award, which honors a teacher of writing for adult students who has impacted the creation and appreciation of literature in Rochester.
Renee LaGue is a seminomadic New Englander currently living in Hatfield, Massachusetts. Last season she hand-milked a cow and wrangled vegetables on a small family farm in Connecticut. Since graduating in 2009 from Oberlin College, her work has appeared in Drunken Boat and Plain China magazines and has been nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize.
Daniel Lorberbaum grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied English and Art History at Bowdoin College and now lives in New York City.
J.M. McDermott is the author of five novels, including Last Dragon
(February 2008), which was #6 on Amazon.com's Year's Best SF/F of 2008, shortlisted for a Crawford Prize, and on Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading List. His other novels include Never Knew Another, Maze, and
Three Kings of Dogsland. His short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales,
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and more.
Joseph Millar is a poet and teacher in the low-residency MFA Program at Pacific University. His work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares,Triquarterly, and most recently, River Styx. Recipient of a 2008 Pushcart Prize and grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Millar is the author of three books of poetry:
Overtime, Fortune, and his newest collection, Blue Rust, which will be published by Carnegie-Mellon in 2012. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife, the poet Dorianne Laux.
Shabnam Nadiya is a writer and translator from Bangladesh. She is currently a
first year fiction student at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Nadiya has been
published in periodicals and anthologies such as Gulf Coast, Texts' Bones,
One World (The New Internationalist, UK), Galpa (Saqi, UK) Arshilata
(Writers' Ink, Bangladesh).
Maria Nazos is the author of A Hymn That Meanders, published by Wising Up Press. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work is published in Raleigh Review, Stymie Magazine, Inkwell, The Saranac Review, The Chicago Quarterly, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. She lives and writes in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Brenda Paro is originally from Minnesota, but has spent much of the past ten years living in various locations across the United States. She is currently pursuing her MFA in poetry writing at the University of California, Irvine. Her work has previously appeared in Rattle, Columbia Review, and a handful of other publications.
Janeen Pergrin Rastall lives in Gordon, Michigan. Her poetry can be found in: apparatus magazine; Halfway Down the Stairs, and The Blue Lake Review.
Jared Yates Sexton is Assistant Professor of English at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He works as Assistant Editor at Bull, and his fiction has appeared in magazines and journals around the country.
Jermaine Simpson is a resident of Berea, Kentucky where he is a Freshman at Berea College. His work has appeared in the New Mexico Poetry Review and Aerie International. He is a 2010 graduate of the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities.
Barry Spacks has brought out various novels, stories, three poetry-reading CDs and ten poetry collections while teaching literature and writing at M.I.T. and U C Santa Barbara. His most recent book of poems, Food For The Journey, appeared from Cherry Grove in August, 2008. Over the years his poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and hundreds of other journals.
Nick Bertelson writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. His work has appeared in Denver Syntax, Ditch Poetry, The Coe Review, and other publications.
Linda Blaskey's manuscript, Farm, won the Dogfish Head Poetry Prize and the Delaware Press Association Communication Prize in poetry and placed third nationally in the National Association of Press Women Communication contest. She is the recipient of a fellowship from Delaware Division of Arts and is on the editorial board of The Broadkill Review. She lives on a small horse farm in southern Delaware.
Dan Boehl is a workshop fellow in the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program and a founding editor of Birds, LLC, an independent poetry publisher. His chapbook Les MISERES ET LES MAL-HEURS DE LA GUERRE is now available from Greying Ghost. He lives in Austin and works for The University of Texas.
Lee Bradbury is an MFA student at NC State and would like to be a writer when he's through with college. He loves horses.
Dane Cervine's poems have appeared in a wide variety of journals, including The Sun, The Hudson Review, The Atlanta Review. His work has received awards from Adrienne Rich and Tony Hoagland, and his book The Jeweled Net of Indra was published by Plain View Press in 2007. Dane serves as Chief for Children's Mental Health for Santa Cruz County in California.
Geordie de Boer, a rambler and writer of fiction and poetry, lives in Washington State. He has been published most recently by Leaf Garden, Deuce Coup, PANK and Right Hand Pointing.
Geri Digiorno, Sonoma Poet Laureate ( 2006-2007) and artist, is founder and director of the Petaluma Poetry Walk, an annual literary event celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. Geri has studied art at College of San Mateo, Solano College, Sonoma College and Santa Rosa JC. One of her wall pieces was accepted at University of Santa Clara,(1960's). A one women show at Benicia Art Gallery in Benicia,California (1985) and a collage show in Paterson NJ Hamilton House where she has read her poetry, taught collage and poetry. She has worked at the Homeless shelter in Petaluma, teaching both poetry and collage.
Josh Eure fronts thrash metal group Armored Uprise. He lives in Raleigh, where he is pursuing the MFA in Fiction at North Carolina State University. His story "We Were Real" won the Dell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing (formerly the Isaac Asimov Award).
Caroline Fish is a feminist and is currently an undergraduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studies both Psychology and Creative Writing. She is originally from Raleigh but spends all her free time and money traveling the world. She wrote the poem "Casual Interaction" on a summer train-ride between Amsterdam and Paris.
Alan Gann teaches creative writing workshops in at-risk schools and sex ed at a Unitarian Universalist church. He is on the board of the Dallas Poets Community and is a poetry editor for their literary journal, Illya’s Honey. Gann's poems most recently appeared in Main Street Rag, Sojourn and elsewhere.
Nene Giorgadze was born in the Soviet state of Georgia. She received her MA in Georgian Literature from Ilya University (Tbilisi, Georgia). In 1999, she moved from the Republic of Georgia to the US, and she now resides in Atlanta, Georgia. Her work in Georgian has appeared in several literary magazines. Her translations of Georgian authors into English are forthcoming in The Dirty Goat and Los Angeles Review.
Roland Goity edits fiction for the online journal LITnIMAGE. His stories appear in many journals including recent or forthcoming issues of Fiction International, Necessary Fiction, Metazen and decomP.
John Grey is an Australian born poet. He has been a US resident since late seventies. Grey works as financial systems analyst and has been recently published in the Connecticut Review, Kestrel and Writer’s Bloc with work upcoming in Pennsylvania English, Alimentum and the Great American Poetry Show.
Michelle Hartman is on the Board of Directors for the Dallas Poets Community, as well as the editor for the newly resurrected online journal, Red River Review. She's been published in San Pedro River Review and in several other journals.
Emily Howson is a recent graduate of the University of Dayton currently earning her MFA at NC State. She lives in Raleigh and doesn't miss Ohio's weather. She has published flash fiction in WOW! Women on Writing, snagging 2nd place in their Summer 2008 contest.
Timothy Kercher is in the process of moving to Kyiv, Ukraine from the Republic of Georgia, where he has been editing and translating an anthology of contemporary Georgian poetry. He completed his MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts in January 2010. His poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in the Atlanta Review and several other journals.
Diane Kimbrell has lived in NYC for many years, but was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her literary credits include Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, River Walk Journal, SF Writer's Journal, Plum Biscuit, Subtletea and Muscadine Lines. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, she has also attended Columbia and New York University. While attending Columbia, she was awarded six Woolrich writing fellowships. Diane is Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine Pages from Sages.
Jen Lambert is a wife, mother,and poet. She lives and teaches in Omaha, where she is co-editor of the forthcoming The Untidy Season: An Anthology of Nebraska Women Poets. She has poems forthcoming in Two Review and The L.A. Review.
John Lambremont, Sr. lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Lambremont earned his BA in creative writing from LSU and his poems most recently appeared in Boston Literary Magazine and A Hudson View (2010 Pushcart nomination).
His book Whiskey, Whimsy & Rhymes is available through both Google Books and Amazon.
Dorianne Laux teaches poetry in the MFA Program at North Carolina State University. Her fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon (W.W. Norton), is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award. Laux is also the author of Awake, What We Carry (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and Smoke from BOA Editions, as well as Superman: The Chapbook and Dark Charms, both from Red Dragonfly Press. Recent poems appear in Cimarron Review, Cerise Press, Margie, The Seattle Review, Tin House and The Valparaiso Review. Her fifth collection of poetry, The Book of Men, will be published by W.W. Norton in 2011.
Larry Lefkowitz's stories, poetry and humor have been published widely in the U.S., Israel and Britain.
Laura LeHew resides in Eugene, Oregon. Her work appears in a myriad of national and international journals and anthologies. She earned a MFA in writing from the California College of Arts, residencies from Soapstone and the Montana Artists Refuge, interned for CALYX, and was nominated for a Pushcart. She edits Uttered Chaos. She has one husband, eight cats and never sleeps.
Gayatri Makhijani dabbles in writing and digital advertising. Until six months ago, she lived all her life in Bombay, India. Now, she lives in New Delhi and juggles reading, book reviews, poetry and blogging with her day-job. She has been published in a number of Indian publications and the Chicken Soup for the Indian Spiritual Soul.
Joseph Millar is a poet and teacher in the low-residency MFA Program at Pacific University. His work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Triquarterly, and most recently, River Styx. Recipient of a 2008 Pushcart Prize and grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Millar is the author of three books of poetry: Overtime, Fortune, and his newest collection, Blue Rust, which will be published by Carnegie-Mellon in 2012. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife, the poet Dorianne Laux.
Adam Mrozek was born in 1968 and debuted in 2002 with his story "Milenium," published in the monthly Nowa Fantastyka. His work has also appeared in Science Fiction Fantasy i Horror, Science Fiction, and Czas Fantastyki. Currently he is concentrating on flash fiction, but he also continues to work with longer forms. He works in an elementary school, where he teaches Polish. Besides literature he is interested in music, specifically jazz, rock, metal and classical.
Scott Owens is the author of six collections of poetry and over 600 poems published in journals and anthologies. He is editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review, Vice President of the Poetry Council of North Carolina, and recipient of awards from the Pushcart Prize Anthology, the Academy of American Poets, the NC Writers’ Network, the NC Poetry Society, and the Poetry Society of SC. He holds an MFA from UNC Greensboro and currently teaches at Catawba Valley Community College.
Robert Peake studied poetry at U.C. Berkeley and in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing program at Pacific University, Oregon. His poems have appeared in North American Review and are forthcoming in Poetry International.
Danny Pelletier lives with his wife and two childen in central New York. His work has appeared in Contemporary Haibun Online, Pear Noir!, Quarterly West, Monkeybicycle, and Night Train. He holds an MFA from Goddard College and teaches writing at Hartwick College.
Jessy Randall's collection A Day in Boyland (Ghost Road Press, 2007) was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Ted Kooser chose a poem from it, "Superhero Pregnant Woman," for his American Life in Poetry Column.
James Robison has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Grand Street, The Mississippi Review, Raleigh Review and elsewhere.
Emily Rose studies literature and teaches writing at Portland State University. She expects to complete her Master's degree in Literature in English in the spring of 2011.
Rae Rose's poetry and fiction has been published in literary journals, including The Pedestal Magazine, Cicada, THEMA, Earth's Daughters and The San Diego Poetry Annual. She resides in Portland, Oregon, but she is not a hipster.
Lawrence Rouse, Jr. is a Special Forces medic currently serving in Afghanistan. He has been writing, on and off, since he was twelve years old. He is married to poet-artist Kristin Holmes Rouse, the woman of his dreams. Last year they gave birth to a laughing metaphor who already calls himself Holden. Everything from here forward is a big joke.
Renée Ruderman, born in New York City, is an assistant professor of creative writing at Metropolitan State College of Denver. Her first poetry collection, Poems from the Rooms Below, was published in 1995 by Permanence Press, San Diego. She has won national prizes for her poems, and some of them have appeared in The Bellingham Review, Xanadu, Eclipse, Buckle &, and New Millennium Writings. Renée has been a Writer in Residence at The Vermont Studio Center (1997) and The Woodstock Guild, NY (1999).
Amy L. Sargent lives in southwest Oregon with her husband. Currently working as a writing and literature instructor, Amy earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA. Her poems have appeared in several journals, including Wicked Alice, The Pinch, and The Dos Passos Review.
Mather Schneider is a cab driver by trade and lives in Tucson, Arizona. Schneider's poems most recently appeared in RATTLE, New York Quarterly, and elsewhere. His new book Drought Resistant Strain is available through Interior Noise Press out of Austin, Texas.
G. Tod Slone has a doctorate from the Universite de Nantes and is founding editor of The American Dissident, a Journal of Literature, Democracy & Dissidence.
Gary Sprague lives in Maine with his wife and two sons. He has stories awaiting publication in Spilling Ink Review and The Linnet's Wings.
Lisa Lopez Snyder lives in Columbia, South Carolina, where she is at work on her first novel. Her short stories have been published in The Scrambler, Foliate Oak, the Birmingham Arts Journal and Quill & Parchment. She is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of South Carolina.
Heather Stevens completed her BA in Film and minor in Creative Writing at NC State University in 2010. She’s planning to travel I-40 West 107 miles from Raleigh and will wind up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina at some point.
John-Michael Velez is originally from Long Island where he attended Stony Brook University. He received his MA in Literature and Creative Writing from West Chester University in Pennsylvania, where he volunteered at the Poetry Center and the Annual West Chester Poetry Conference: Exploring Form and Narrative. In May, John graduates with the MFA in poetry from North Carolina State University.Ajay Vishwanathan lives in Georgia with his lovely wife and twin girls, who wonder why he has so little hair on his head when Mommy has so much. Two-time Best of The Net nominee, Ajay is the Chief Editor of the Foundling Review, and has work published or forthcoming in over seventy literary journals, including Smokelong Quarterly, 34th Parallel, elimae, and The Potomac.
Paul Weidknecht's work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Yale Anglers’ Journal, Potomac Review online, The Oklahoma Review, Stymie Magazine, Outdoor Life, and elsewhere. He has been awarded a scholarship to the Norman Mailer Writers Colony (Summer 2010), and lives in northwest New Jerseywhere he's at work on a novel and a collection of short stories.
Stephen R Williams is a writer of short stories and poetry. He is currently in Iraq running water for our military, trying not to get blown up.Gavin Wisdom is an undergraduate student at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He is a student intern for Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts and is an associate editor for There and Back Magazine: Colorado’s Outdoor Magazine. Along with poetry, Gavin’s primary focus is on creative nonfiction, literary journalism and documentary filmmaking.
Annie Zaidi writes poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama, blog posts, reports, reviews and (in a dark, distant past) recipes she never actually tried. She is the author of Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales, a collection of essays (Tranquebar, 2010) and a collection of short, illustrated poems, Crush (Jaico, 2007). She has been a journalist for the better part of a decade and has written for several newspapers and magazines including Frontline, Tehelka, Mid-day and Biblio. She currently lives in Mumbai, India.
