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Contributors’ Notes
Phyllis Carol Agins
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Phyllis Carol Agins’ fiction includes two novels: Suisan and Never the Same River Twice,
as well as numerous short stories, published in Kalliope, Paragraph, and Lilith Magazine
(Fall ‘06), among other journals. Her children’s book, Sophie’s Name, has been
in print since 1990, and she also co-authored One God, Sixteen Houses, an architectural study.
For many years, she served on the board of the Philadelphia Writers’ Conference and taught writing at
Penn State Abington. Lately, she divides her time between Fairmont Park and the Mediterranean coast. She has
completed a comic novel about young widowhood and is polishing a literary mystery centering on the Shakespeare
authorship question. Her next book will follow a Jewish family as they leave Algeria to make a new life in
France and America.
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Manya Bean
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Manya Bean Ph. D. is a poet, writer and translator, as well as training and supervising analyst at the Philadelphia
School of Psychoanalysis and the Southern New Jersey Psychoanalytic Institute. She lives and works in New Jersey and
Philadelphia.
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Lili Bita
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Author, actress, and musician, Lili Bita has been one of contemporary Greece’s foremost cultural ambassadors.
The brilliant interpretations of Greek culture and history in her acclaimed one-woman shows, “The Greek Woman
Through the Ages” and “Freedom or Death,” have brought the legacy off Hellenism around the world.
Her own poetry and fiction have won praise from such figures as Nikos Kazantzakis, Anais Nin, and Kenneth Rexroth.
Tasos Athanasiadis, the former director of the Greek National Theater, calls her “among the most talented women
of her generation.”
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Angie Brenner
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Freelance writer Angie Brenner is currently working on her first book: Anatolian
Days and Nights. Brenner has written articles about Turkey for local papers, and facilitates travel
literature reading groups and presentations at bookstores and libraries in southern California and Oregon.
Brenner has traveled extensively through Africa, Turkey, and Vietnam bringing back both hair-raising and
humorous stories. In 1997 she closed her store in order to travel and write, and works with elementary students
in their Language Arts program near her home in Julian, California. She has recently returned from her
fifteenth journey to Turkey.
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Ben Cake
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Ben Cake graduated from Kenyon College
in May of 2001, four months before the collapse of the twin towers and the American job market. Since
then, he has read a lot of books, filled a lot of journals, and slept on a lot of floors. After spending
a very good year in Doylestown, PA, working for The Bucks County Writer and other local publications,
he moved to New York City, where he works as a copy editor and lives in the Lower East Side. All signs
of life are welcome.
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William Cole-Kiernan
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William Cole-Kiernan was a full time philosophy professor at St Peter’s College in Jersey City, New Jersey
for thirty-three years before he retired. Now a Professor Emeritus at the College, he continues to
teach part time. The main goal in his teaching has always been to teach philosophy as a context
for students to expand their consciousness and learn to think for themselves.
His undergraduate work was at New York University, where he completed a Bachelor of Science in Civil
Engineering. After college, he served three and a half years in the United States Army as an officer
and a pilot flying reconnaissance and light cargo aircraft.
Returning from the service, he switched directions from engineering and started his study of philosophy.
He has a Master’s and a PhD from Fordham University, and specialized in American Philosophy,
especially focusing on the thought of William James and John Dewey.
He lives in Lambertville, New Jersey with his wife Barbara, and has four grown children and six grandchildren.
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Tramon Crofford
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Tramon Crofford recently graduated from Loyola
University in Chicago with a BA in English/Creative Writing where she received the John Gerrietts Award for
Excellence in Creative Writing. Elephants is her first published fiction. She lives in Chicago and
has a love/hate relationship with the city. She grew up in a rural area where she feels her true home is,
but the city has so much to teach her and so much to offer in that there is a huge population where no two
people are alike. She likes the mystery and anonymity of the city, and often catches glimpses or scenes, but
seldom gets the whole picture. Since there are so many different ways to fill in the blanks, she can never be
too sure what is reality (and what is dream/memory). She likes to revisit a moment in time, but her memory is
not always as reliable as she’d like it to be: the colors, moods, motivations and outcomes all change
blending into a daydream.
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Tim Delehaunty
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Tim Delehaunty is a graduate of Holy Cross College
and the Bread Loaf School of English. He has published fiction in the magazine Aethelon, the anthology
Meridien Bound, and the Blue Parlor chapbook series. He is a winner of the Philadelphia Voices
writing contest. He currently teaches English and is the director of studies at Lawrence Academy where he
teaches a novella-writing workshop called Writing in Diners. He lives with his wife and two children
in Groton, Massachusetts.
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Daniel Elisii
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Daniel Elisii resides in Pennsylvania where he
writes draws and dreams his subconscious comics into solid shapes. He graduated from the Joe Kubert School
of Cartoon & Graphic Art and has had work published in an alternative comics anthology. He has recently
begun to self publish his own mini-comics and illustrated stories.
Visit InsectAsh.com to see more of his
words and pictures.
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James Hubbell
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James Hubbell sculpts unique living environments from nearby materials, providing beautiful shelters for humans
to dwell in harmony with nature. Over the past fifty years he has shared an inspiring vision of the spirit of nature
made tangible in glass, wood, metal, concrete, and stone, in homes, schools, gardens, pavilions, nature centers and
peace parks around the globe. He is also founder and guiding light of the Ilan Lael Foundation.
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Gary Lee Kraut
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Gary Lee Kraut is a travel and fiction writer and travel consultant living in Paris and returning
frequently to his hometown of Trenton, New Jersey. His most recent book is Paris Revisited: The Guide
for the Return Traveler. He is the recipient of FrancePress’s 1995 Prix d’Excellence for
an earlier guide to France. He operates the website
ParisRevisited.com. He has taught several travel
writing workshops at the Writers Room of Bucks County.
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Dorothy Lehman Hoerr holds a Master’s degree in English and Publishing from Rosemont College.
She has published articles, essays, and poetry in Writer’s Digest, Berks County Living,
Schuylkill Living, The Explicator, and American Writing, among others. Dorothy teaches
for Writer’s Digest Online Workshops and serves as a judge for the Writer’s Digest
self-published book contest. She is member of the part-time English faculty at Montgomery County Community College
and several other Pennsylvania colleges.
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Christopher McCauley
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Christopher McCauley is an award-winning
artist from Bucks County, PA. His pastels have been exhibited in galleries throughout the tri-state area
in both group and solo shows. He is a graduate of the Tyler School of Art, and continues to paint and teach
pastel painting workshops locally. Chris and his work are profiled in the latest edition of
Pastel Journal.
Visit ChristopherMcCauley.com to
view McCauley’s body of pastel, illustration and design work.
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Jonathan Maberry, Co-Founder & Co-Executive
Editor, has been a professional writer for thirty years and has sold over a dozen nonfiction books, three novels
(including Ghost Road Blues, June 2006, Pinnacle), and over 900 articles, as well as short stories, poetry,
plays, video scripts, song lyrics, and more. He is a book doctor and writing teacher, and is a frequent lecturer
at writers’ conferences. Visit his website at:
JonathanMaberry.com
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Fran Metzman
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Fran Metzman has published numerous short stories, a novel, and essays. She is fiction editor
for the Schuylkill Valley Journal, has led workshops and taught about working with small presses
at Rosemont College on the Main Line near Philadelphia. At work on a new novel, Metzman says that while
truth may be stranger than fiction, fiction unleashes the unconscious.
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Tim E. Ogline
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Tim E. Ogline is a Greater
Philadelphia based illustrator and graphic designer. Ogline’s illustrations have appeared in the
Wall Street Journal, the Utne Reader, Outdoor Life and Philadelphia Style among others.
Tim serves as the Comics Editor and Art Director of the Wild River Review.
Ogline, an alumnus of and former instructor at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art, is the principal
of Ogline Design. Ogline Design has proudly served a clientele including Florida Tourism, the Greater
Tampa Chamber of Commerce, Governor Ed Rendell, The White House, Lois Murphy for Congress, Big Brothers
Big Sisters Southeastern Pennsylvania, Damon's Grill, NAPA, SmithKline Beecham and many more in its
eight year history.
Visit TimOgline.com to view Ogline’s
illustration gallery. Visit OglineDesign.com
to view Ogline Design’s capabilities and creative.
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Dzvinia Orlowsky
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Dzvinia Orlowsky is a founding editor of Four Way Books and the author of three poetry
collections including Except for One Obscene Brushstroke (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2004).
Her poetry and translations have appeared in numerous anthologies including A Map of Hope: An
International Literary Anthology; From Three Worlds: New Writing from the Ukraine; and A Hundred
Years of Youth: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Ukrainian Poetry. She currently teaches at
the Solstice Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Pine Manor College.
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Raquel B. Pidal
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Raquel B. Pidal is a freelance editor and
writer who has worked on a variety of projects, including memoirs, business and career management books and
articles, health articles, book proposals, and novel synopses and analyses. She has also taught several workshops
for children and young writers. Raquel graduated Cum Laude from Ursinus College with a degree in English and
Creative Writing. She earned Departmental Honors for her senior thesis, a memoir about her Cuban émigré
mother, and has won several awards for her writing. Raquel’s creative nonfiction has been published in
The Bucks County Writer, The Bucks County Review, and Wild River Review, including book
reviews and a regular column in Wild River Review called
Around the Block. She is currently
working on a novel.
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The Professor
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The Professor, as he is known to legions of business contacts throughout Asia, has been traveling to
Hong Kong and elsewhere in the region since late in the last millennium. He is a native of Philadelphia, PA
and maintains his permanent residence there. His poetry, fiction, interviews and articles have been published
by Philadelphia-area newspapers, magazines and anthologies, and he is currently planning another trip abroad.
He is shown here at left, about to join the Maclehose Trail in Sai Kung.
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Jennifer C. Schelter
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Jennifer C. Schelter is a professional yoga
teacher, life coach, actress, writer, painter, photographer, and model.
She is the founder and director of Yoga Schelter
studio in Philadelphia and Yoga Unites a non-profit, anti-violence Out Reach program that promotes yoga as a tool
for health, partnership and transformation. She is known for leading over 500 people at the annual Yoga Unite
for Living Beyond Breast Cancer on the Philadelphia Art Museum steps. She is the producer of AM Awake audio
CD and a yoga DVD, The Art of Vinyasa Yoga.
As an actress she has performed in New York City Off-Broadway in her one-woman show Lingerie
at Surf Reality and at the Clurman Theatre. In 1998 she founded the role of Cordelia in the World Premier
of Taking Leave by Nagle Jackson at the Denver Center Theatre Company where she shared in
receiving the Tony Award for best regional theatre. She has traveled to Europe, the Balkans, Asia, Southeast
Asia, South America and the Caribbean photographing and painting watercolors of landscapes, architecture,
animals and people. In the summer of 1997, she was selected for Art Retreat Week on the Island of Great Spruce
Head, Maine, at the home of American Artist Fairfield Porter. She sells her work by word of mouth.
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Ceren Semerci
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Ceren Semerci is a portrait and fashion photographer. In addition,
she is a principal in the photography studio, Boom, based in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Jill Sherer
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Jill Sherer is a former Weight Loss Diary
columnist for Shape Magazine. During that time, she took six million readers (who now know how much
she weighs) on her journey to get fit each month through a series of personal essays and live chats. An award-winning
journalist, whose work has appeared in a variety of business- and health-related media, she’s also been writing
feature articles, scripts and other marketing, corporate and creative communications for more than 18 years.
(Somebody has to pay the mortgage.) She is currently rewriting her first novel, again, so she can get it to her
agent before he dies or decides to retire. She lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania, with her fiancé, her Golden
Retriever, too many houseguests, and a lot of over-the-counter pain medication.
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C.J. Spataro
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C.J. Spataro is a 2005 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Fellowship recipient. Her work has been both a finalist and won second place in the Philadelphia City Paper
Fiction Contest and she has had two stories presented at the InterAct Theatre’s Writing Aloud. Her
short fiction has been published or is forthcoming in XConnect and Hackwriters.com. Currently, she
is the fiction editor and co-publisher of Philadelphia Stories Magazine and an MFA candidate at Rosemont College.
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Wendy Steginsky
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Wendy Fulton Steginsky was born and raised in Bermuda.
She found her way to the U.S. via Europe in the late 70’s. She was a special education teacher for many years
and worked most recently as program director at the Writers Room of Bucks County. She is Managing Editor of the
Wild River Review. Poetry is her passion and she writes the column,
The Fire and Blood of Poetry.
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Harvey Steinberg
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Harvey Steinberg looks at himself as an artifact
of the world rather than the world as an artifact of himself. Harvey submits writings, and over 20 journals in 10 states
have published his poems, and occasionally other forms of literature as well. He is now writing theater works and
finds this to be the most fulfilling medium (some short pieces have been staged). He will ultimately work toward
the creation of quality verse plays and poetic drama. So although retired, he is not deterred.
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Joy E. Stocke
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Joy E. Stocke is Co-Founder of the
Wild River Review. She is author of a novel, Ugly Cookies (Pella Publishing, 2000)
and a volume of bilingual (English/Greek) narrative poems, The Cave of the Bear
(Pella Publishing, 1999) based on her travels in Crete.
She has published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and has written about and lectured widely on her
travels in Turkey and Greece, as well as religion, ancient and modern. She appeared on the syndicated
NPR radio program A Chef’s Table
in May 2004 to talk about Turkish Cuisine.
In addition to a literary travel memoir, Anatolian Days and Nights, she is working on
her second book of poems set in Greece, and a novel set in the U.S., Germany, and Crete for which she
was awarded a fellowship at the Ragdale Foundation
in Lake Forest, IL.
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison with a Bachelor of Science in Home Economics/Journalism,
she participated in the Lindisfarne Symposium on The Evolution of Consciousness with William
Irwin Thompson at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City. Currently she is completing a
three-year program in Tantric Studies at the Saraswati River Yoga School in New Hope, PA.
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William Irwin Thompson
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William Irwin Thompson was born in 1938 in Chicago Illinois. The family moved to Southern California at the end
of World War II where he earned a B.A. at Pomona College. His formal education continued at Cornell University,
where he held a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (M.A. [1964]; Ph.D. [1966]). He became a member of the faculty in Humanities
at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965 and remained until 1968, when he left MIT to teach at York University
in Toronto (1968-1973).
Although he has held various other visiting appointments — at Syracuse University, the University of Hawaii,
University of Toronto, Western Behavioral Sciences Institute, and the California Institute of Integral Studies —
Thompson has since remained outside of academe. In Passage About Earth, Thompson writes about individuals from
the ‘60s — among them Ralph Nader, Buckminster Fuller, Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, John Lilly — who
“left institutions behind to become institutions in their own right.”
In 1972, Thompson founded The Lindisfarne Association, originally based in New York, later to find a permanent home
in Crestone, Colorado, home of the Lindisfarne Fellows House and the Lindisfarne Chapel. For 25 years, under the
sponsorship of its Dean — and chair of the Association — James Park Morton, Lindisfarne was headquartered
in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York.
The Association also gave rise the Lindisfarne Press, which, though no longer an independent house, still publishes
under its own imprint for The Anthroposophical Press.
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Jerry Waxler
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Jerry Waxler, M.S., is a workshop leader
and therapist, specializing in the challenges faced by writers. He has established a reputation as a mentor
and coach for writers who want to achieve their goals. His motivational and self-development workshops with
titles such as Self-development for Writers, The Writing Habit, and Going Public form
the basis for a 200 page workshop packet named Four Elements for Writers, How to Get Beyond ‘Yes-But,’
Conquer Self-Doubt and Inertia, and Achieve Your Writing Goals available from his
website. Jerry’s columns appear regularly
in the Doylestown Patriot and the Wild River Review.
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Sara Jo West
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Sara Jo West is the Program Director and an Editor for
Career Doctor for Writers.
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Eveline Zoutendijk
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Eveline Zoutendijk owns and manages the
Sarnic Hotel, built over a fifth-century
Byzantine cistern in Istanbul’s historic district of Sultanahmet. Cordon Bleu-trained chef, she also gives
Turkish cooking classes. Her essay, The Painting or the Boy, appears in the collection Tales From the
Expat Harem, Foreign Women in Modern Turkey released in Turkey by Dogan/Kitap Press and to be released in
March in the U.S. and Canada by Seal Press.
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