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Contributors’ Notes
Chris Allen
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Chris Allen became interested in filmmaking during High School,
and has pursued it ever since. He studied Bhakti Yoga (which he still practices) in Chicago
before receiving a degree in Film and Television
from New York University. After raising three children
and producing videos in corporate America, Allen started
his own film company, Open Sky Cinema, writing
and producing documentaries. They
include “The Delaware and Raritan Canal,” “Lost
Princeton,” “A Warm and Loving Look — The Poetry of
Stephen Kalinich,” and “Open Sky.”
For his current project, “Quark Park,” Allen has filmed and interviewed dozens of
scientists, artists, sculptors, landscape architects, and
architects in collaboration with Quark Park’s creators
Peter Soderman, Kevin Wilkes; and with the Wild River Review.
CHRIS ALLEN IN THIS EDITION:
An Interview with Rush Holt
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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.
ANGIE BRENNER IN THIS EDITION:
Turkish Authors Face Controversy
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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.
BEN CAKE IN THIS EDITION:
How Did I Get Here Again?
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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.
WILLIAM COLE-KIERNAN IN THIS EDITION:
Ask the Philosopher
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Gunter David
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Born in Berlin, Germany, Gunter fled with his parents to Paris, France, with the ascent of Hitler to power in 1933. The
family migrated to Palestine in 1935. Gunter grew up in Tel Aviv, where he attended elementary and high school. He came
to the US in January, 1948, several months before Israel became a state, to study journalism. He was a reporter on major
city newspapers for 25 years, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize by the Evening Bulletin of Philadelphia.
He covered the Yom Kippur War (1973) for the Daily News of Philadelphia. He has been to Israel a dozen times in
the last three decades as a correspondent and on visits to his relatives and friends. He speaks Hebrew perfectly. His wife,
Dalia, is a native of Haifa, Israel. She belongs to the fourth generation of her family to have been born in what was then
Palestine. Both Gunter and Dalia are American citizens.
GUNTER DAVID IN THIS EDITION:
The Long Road to the Promised Land
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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.
DANIEL ELISII IN THIS EDITION:
Insect Ash: Continuation of Being
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Jessica Falcone
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Jessica Falcone is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. She is currently spending
a year in India to conduct research for her dissertation on the changing dynamics of Buddhist pilgrimage in India.
This is Jessica’s fourth trip to India.
JESSICA FALCONE IN THIS EDITION:
Bodhi Blues — A Year in India
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Gregory Frost
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Gregory Frost’s latest novel, Fitcher’s Brides (Tor Books), is a recasting of the fairy tale
of Bluebeard as a terrifying story of faith and power in 19th century New York State. Fantasy author Jeffrey Ford
wrote of it: “Just phenomenal. The story retains some of its fairy tale nature but it takes no prisoners. I
heard him read a piece of this at the KGB in New York before I got the book, and the prose sobered me up out of a
solid drunk.” Frost has been a finalist for almost every major award in the fantasy field: Nebula Award,
James Tiptree Award, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for Short Fiction, Hugo Award, International Horror Guild
Award, and the World Fantasy Award. His shorter work has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction,
Asimov’s Magazine, Weird Tales, Realms of Fantasy, and more; and in numerous award-winning
anthologies such as Nalo Hopkinson’s Mojo: Conjure Stories; Snow White, Blood Red, edited by Ellen
Datlow and Terri Windling. Some of his work has been included in the Best New Horror collections edited by Stephen
Jones. Frost’s latest stories are “Tengu Mountain,” in Datlow & Windling’s anthology, The
Faery Reel, “So Coldly Sweet, So Deadly Fair,” in Weird Tales magazine, and “Dub,”
in Weird Trails, a faux-1930s pulp magazine anthology edited by Darrell Schweitzer. In June 2005 Golden Gryphon
Press published a collection of his short fiction, Attack of the Jazz Giants & Other Stories.
GREGORY FROST IN THIS EDITION:
Madonna of Maquiladora
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Elsa Gebreyesus
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Elsa Gebreyesus lived in Ethiopia, Kenya, and United States before going to receive her BA from Brock University in
Ontario, Canada. After Eritrea won its independence from Ethiopia, she lived there for five years, working as a Project
Officer with an indigenous women’s organization. After leaving Eritrea, she came to the U. S. where she’s
been pursuing her lifelong passion for art. In addition to her passion for art, she also volunteers and works with
organizations involved with human rights issues especially in Africa. She continues to learn from artists she admires
and has been greatly influenced by modernist painters from both Africa and the West.
ELSA GEBREYESUS IN THIS EDITION:
The Art of Elsa Gebreyesus
Free to be Wild: Artist Elsa Gebreyesus from Eritrea
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Johnny Goodyear
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Bio: Johnny Goodyear is a London-born writer living in Lambertville, New Jersey for now.
JOHNNY GOODYEAR IN THIS EDITION:
Metaphysics, Cinema
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Donald Hall
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Donald Hall is one of our foremost men of letters, widely read and loved for his award-winning poetry,
fiction, essays, and children’s literature. He has published sixteen collections of poetry and has edited
numerous anthologies. His poetry has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, The National Book Critics Circle
Award, a Lenore Marshall Award, and the Robert Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America. He is a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was installed as the nation’s Poet Laureate in October of 2006. Since
1975, when he resigned his university teaching position, Hall has lived in New Hampshire, on Eagle Pond Farm, an old
family house, which he shared with his wife, poet Jane Kenyon. Their life together and her tragic death from leukemia
have been the subjects of many of his poems.
DONALD HALL IN THIS EDITION:
Thinking with Muscle and Tongue: The Poetry of Donald Hall
Great Day in the Cows House
Kicking the Leaves
The Man in the Dead Machine
Mount Kearsarge Shines
Weeds and Peonies
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Israel Halpern lives on a working farm in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Currently he is working on a full-length
book of his poetry. He hosts a TV show in New York City (channels 34/35 and 56/57), called “PoetryTV,”
which has been on cable television for the last ten years. His work has been published in various literary
publications since 1965 here and abroad. Among the list of publications are: Beyond Baroque, California
Literary Quarterly, Electrum, Northwestern Press, Bucks County Writer, Freshet,
L.A. Times, San Francisco Oracle, Third Rail, and others. He has worked his way around most
of the world, including Canada, Europe, Africa, and Asia, working as journalist, filmmaker, editor, and carpenter.
ISRAEL HALPERN IN THIS EDITION:
Nulla Dies Sine Linea
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Bo Hampton
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Bo Hampton graduated from the School of Visual Arts where he
was Will Eisner’s student in New York City. He then drew, wrote and painted comics and graphic novels for 15 years,
always with a bent toward realism that was fairly uncommon in the medium. Some art highlights from that period are
Viking Glory a 96 page graphic novel for DC, Legend of Sleepy Hollow for Tundra publishing and Verdilak
a horror story co-written and painted for NBM publishing.
Hampton then spent a year as a professor at Savannah College of Art and Design, helping to develop the original
incarnation of their Sequential Arts program before moving into the realms of storyboarding animated shows and
TV commercials.
He has worked on Extreme Ghostbusters for SONY (T.V. and Full length video feature) as well as Superman
(Warner Bros.) and Batman animation for Cartoon Network spot. He has done live storyboard work for commercial
clients include Papa Johns Pizza, Bellsouth, Coca-Cola, Motorola and many more. Ad agencies that use his work regularly
include McCann-Erickson D.C., Pearson McMahon Fletcher and England, Indianapolis, Fricks-Firestone Atlanta and over
40 more all over the U.S.
BO HAMPTON IN THIS EDITION:
The Art of Bo Hampton
Graphic Novelists Robert Tinnell & Bo Hampton
Sight For Sore Eyes: A Review of Sight Unseen
Sight Unseen Preview
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Dan Kopcow
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Dan Kopcow is the author of numerous short stories, novels and screenplays and has always been fascinated with the art and craft of storytelling. His passion for stories is also reflected in his love for film and theater. He is a founding member of the Ambler Writers Group. He earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Syracuse University and, by day, is an environmental remediation project manager.
DAN KOPCOW IN THIS EDITION:
When Jilted Alice Spoke
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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 France Press’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.
GARY LEE KRAUT IN THIS EDITION:
A Letter From Paris
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Kyi May Kaung
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Kyi May Kaung, born in Burma, has a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in Political Economy. She came to
America on a Fulbright in 1982 and applied for asylum after the junta’s clampdown on the pro-democracy movement
started in 1988. Kyi won the William Carlos Williams Award of the Academy of American Poets in 1993 and a Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts Award for her play “Shaman” in 1996. She has been a Pew finalist twice. Her poem “Eskimo
Paradise” will be in the upcoming Norton Anthology of S.E. Asian Poetry. She has two poetry chapbooks —
Pelted with Petals: The Burmese Poems and Tibetan Tanka. Other poems have appeared in Meridian Bound,
Rattapallax, CrossConnect, Poets’ Attic, Mosaic, and Passport Magazine. After
working in international radio and with the Burmese democratic government in exile, Kyi is now working on a novel. Kyi
is also a visual artist and has had two one-woman art shows since 2001.
KYI MAY KAUNG IN THIS EDITION:
Free to be Wild: Artist Elsa Gebreyesus from Eritrea
The Lovers
Mother Rape
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Mark Liskey
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Prior to becoming a writer, Mark treated chronic pain sufferers at his soft tissue rehabilitation clinic in Frazer,
Pennsylvania. He has learned that successfully treating clients required evaluating information rationally while
applying rehab strategies humanistically. He strives for the same emotional/rational balance in both his investigative
and fiction writing. Mark’s latest article appears in the May 2006 issue of Well Being Journal, and he
has just completed his speculative fiction novel about a doctor who only uses sugar pills to treat her patients.
MARK LISKEY IN THIS EDITION:
In an Hour
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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.
CHRISTOPHER McCAULEY IN THIS EDITION:
Masthead Illustration
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Jonathan Maberry, Co-Founder of the Wild River Review,
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
JONATHAN MABERRY IN THIS EDITION:
Jonathan Maberry’s Ghost Road Blues —
Mainstream Literature and Genre Meet at the Crossroads
Tales From the Fire Zone
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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.
FRAN METZMAN IN THIS EDITION:
The Age of Reasonable Doubt
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John Moskowitz
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John Moskowitz performs the role of Brand Manager
for the Wild River Review and additionally serves as the Editor for the Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror content
of the publication.
He is a professional business consultant that has performed project management, coaching/training and process
improvement for clients in the pharmaceutical, credit card and construction materials industries among others.
He has been responsible for the design of PowerPoint presentations for executive management, training materials
focused on financial analysis, project management and process improvement and flow mapping, step-by-step
instructions for software self-help menus and templates for teaching six sigma statistical control concepts.
He has also authored numerous corporate internal change management communications to reinforce company-wide policy.
JOHN MOSKOWITZ IN THIS EDITION:
Reflections on the Art of Poetry
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Kim Nagy
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Kim Nagy is a freelance writer and consultant with
extensive experience in marketing/public relations for publishers, corporations, state agencies, and nonprofits.
She received her M.A. from the Department of History at the
University of Connecticut. Kim’s experience
includes work with major publishers, such as
Princeton University Press,
W.W. Norton, and
Routledge UK. She has also written
articles on subjects ranging from biotechnology and higher education to yoga, poetry, and parenting.
For more information about Kim, go to KimNagy.com.
KIM NAGY IN THIS EDITION:
An Interview with Rush Holt
Labor of Love: An Interview with Kevin Wilkes
Journey into the Male & Female Brain: An Interview with Tracey Shors
The Triple Goddess Trials
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Brian O’Connell
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Brian O’Connell is a Bucks County, PA based freelance
writer. A former Wall Street bond trader, O’Connell is the author of 15 books, including two bestsellers. His work has also
appeared in publications like The Wall Street Journal, Men’s Health, USA Today, Cigar Magazine,
CBS News Marketwatch, Newsweek, and many others.
BRIAN O’CONNELL IN THIS EDITION:
There Used To Be a Township Here
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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.
TIM E. OGLINE IN THIS EDITION:
Panel Discussions: Cartoon Violence
Opening Books and Closing Doors
Electrical Activity of the Heart: Money Talks
Cover Illustration
Wild River Review website design and HTML programming
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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.”
RAQUEL B. PIDAL IN THIS EDITION:
Around the Block
For The Love of Movies: Mark Rosenthal’s Summer of Love
Graphic Novelists Robert Tinnell & Bo Hampton
Sight For Sore Eyes: A Review of Sight Unseen
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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.
THE PROFESSOR IN THIS EDITION:
Confessions of a Global Traveler
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Brandi Redding is a graduate fresh from Arcadia University and taking her first tentative steps into the world of writing,
editing, and publishing. A native of Pennsylvania, most of her exploration of the world is through books and her hope is to
explore uncharted worlds through her own writing.
BRANDI REDDING IN THIS EDITION:
Interview with Rosa Sophia, Writer and Auto-Mechanic
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Vicky Santibanez
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Vicky Santibanez is a Spanish translator and regular contributor to area weeklies Al Día and Nuestra Comunidad.
She wrote “A Visit to Neruda in Isla Negra” during a recent trip to Chile, her native country.
VICKY SANTIBANEZ IN THIS EDITION:
A Visit to Neruda in Isla Negra
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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.
JENNIFER SCHELTER IN THIS EDITION:
The Michelangelo Effect
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Lorraine Sciuto-Ballasy
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Lorraine Sciuto-Ballasy has had a love affair with the written word ever since she can remember. She has worked as a
columnist, news writer, features reporter, editor, and publications director since graduating Temple University with
a journalism degree. Lorraine has lived by the mantra “Never waste a moment” — a likely explanation
for the manic balancing act that is her life shared with her high school sweetheart, Joe, and their three sons, Nicholas
20, Lucas 16, and Justin 10 — her greatest sources of inspiration. She believes immense joy is found in daily living —
and discovers immeasurable humor in even seemingly mundane occurrences.
LORRAINE SCIUTO-BALLASY IN THIS EDITION:
I’m Not a Psychic But...
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Christopher Shelley
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Christopher Frost Shelley earned his MFA in Creative Writing from NYU. His stories have appeared in Carve Magazine,
Apollo’s Lyre, The Plum Ruby Review, Fiction Warehouse, Prose Toad, and FRIGG.
Another of his stories will appear in the June issue of Tryst.
CHRISTOPHER SHELLEY IN THIS EDITION:
Her Name is in the Modeling Handbook
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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.
JILL SHERER IN THIS EDITION:
Diary of a Writer in Midlife Crisis
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Rosa Sophia
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Rosa Sophia is featured in our “First Bylines” section and had this to say: When I was sixteen, I
was fairly certain that I would be published by the time I was twenty and hey, it worked out! I live in Salford
Township on a farm with a close friend and I write as much as I can. My other interests include criminology,
psychology, and auto mechanics. Next time you see a 1968 Thunderbird Landau Tudor rumbling down the road, that
could be me! Someday, I want to own my own bookstore in Portland, Maine. Most of the time, all I talk about is
writing.
ROSA SOPHIA IN THIS EDITION:
For I Have Sinned
Interview with Rosa Sophia, Writer and Auto-Mechanic
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Eric Steginsky
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Eric Steginsky graduated from George School in 2005. He incorporates
his hunger and passion for photography into his daily life. He takes great joy in traveling and loves literature.
Eric plans to graduate from Guilford College in 2009 with a degree in Fine Arts.
ERIC STEGINSKY IN THIS EDITION:
The Age of Reasonable Doubt (photo)
Fire and Blood of Poetry (photo)
For I Have Sinned (photo)
How Did I Get Here Again? (photo)
I’m Not a Psychic But... (photo)
The Lovers (photo)
Madonna of Maquiladora (photo)
Meditations, Wise and Gentle — The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden (photo)
The Quiet Maverick: An Interview with J. C. Todd (photo)
Thank God for My Day Job (photo)
The Triple Goddess Trials (photo)
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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 seventies. 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 currently Managing Editor
of the Wild River Review. Poetry is her passion and she writes the column,
“Fire and Blood of Poetry”. In September 2006 two
of her poems will be appearing in Bermuda’s First Anthology of Poetry.
WENDY STEGINSKY IN THIS EDITION:
Fire and Blood of Poetry
The Quiet Maverick: An Interview with J. C. Todd
Reflections on the Art of Poetry
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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.
JOY E. STOCKE IN THIS EDITION:
Jonathan Maberry’s Ghost Road Blues —
Mainstream Literature and Genre Meet at the Crossroads
The Solace of Vacant Spaces — Interview with Peter Soderman
This Has Never Felt Like a Job — Interview with John Timpane
Up the Creek
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Marylou Kelly Streznewski
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Marylou Kelly Streznewski’s career has included theater, journalism, and the teaching of creative writing
at high school and college level. She is the author of Gifted Grownups: The Mixed Blessings of Extraordinary
Potential, a study of one hundred gifted adults, and two chapbooks of poetry, Woman Words and Rag
Time. Her short story, “Nonna’s Room” will appear shortly on Amazon Shorts. Formerly the
Poetry Editor of The Bucks County Review, Streznewski lives in Bucks County and is at work on her second novel.
MARYLOU KELLY STREZNEWSKI IN THIS EDITION:
Thinking with Muscle and Tongue: The Poetry of Donald Hall
Drumming and Dancing on the Planet of Women
Meditations, Wise and Gentle — The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden
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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.
WILLIAM IRWIN THOMPSON IN THIS EDITION:
Canticum, Turicum
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John Timpane
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John Timpane is Associate Editor of the Editorial Board of the Philadelphia Inquirer. He edits “Currents”,
the Inquirer’s Sunday ideas section; he also writes editorials and op-eds and consults on the daily “Commentary
Page.” Before coming to the Inquirer in 1997, he taught English at colleges and universities for 17 years. He has
published poetry, fiction, essays, criticism, and four books: Writing Worth Reading (coauthored with Nancy H. Packer:
NY: St. Martin, 1994), It Could Be Verse (Berkeley: Ten Speed, 1995), Poetry for Dummies (coauthored with Maureen
Watts: NY: Hungry Minds, 2000), and Usonia, NY: Building a Community with Frank Lloyd Wright (coauthored with Roland
Reiseley: NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000). He is married to Maria-Christina Keller, copy executive of Scientific
American; they live in Lawrenceville with their children, Pilar and Conor.
JOHN TIMPANE IN THIS EDITION:
Dusty and Bugs
October
Song of the Blessed One — The Bhagavad-Gita, Canto 11
With a Gift of Earrings
This Has Never Felt Like a Job — Interview with John Timpane
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Robert Tinnell
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Robert Tinnell has directed such films as Believe
with Elisha Cuthbert and Frankenstein and Me with Burt Reynolds. More recently, he penned the hit graphic novels
The Black Forest and The Wicked West as well as the screenplay Bobby At Work, an adaptation of an
Anthony Bourdain novel for producers Steve Golin of anonymouscontent and Ron Yerxa and Albert Berger of Bona Fide and
director David (Asylum) Mackenzie. He is currently re-writing his screenplay, Sacrifice, for Fortress
Entertainment. Tinnell is repped by Jon Karas of Infinity Management International.
ROBERT TINNELL IN THIS EDITION:
Graphic Novelists Robert Tinnell & Bo Hampton
Sight For Sore Eyes: A Review of Sight Unseen
Sight Unseen Preview
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J. C. Todd’s poems and translations have appeared in the anthology Shade 2004, and in
American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard
Review and other journals. Pine Press published two chapbooks: Nightshade (1995) and
Entering Pisces (1985).
Awards include a fellowship in poetry from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, two awards for poetry from
the Leeway Foundation, a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts international artist exchange fellowship to
the Schloss Wiepersdorf colony in Germany, a scholarship to The Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators
in Sweden, and a stipend from the Latvian Cultural Capital Foundation. Her poems have received five Pushcart
Prize nominations.
She is an associate editor for the poetry web magazine, The Drunken Boat
(www.thedrunkenboat.com), where she
has edited special features on contemporary Lithuanian and Latvian poetry in translation, and she was guest
poetry editor for the Summer, 2005 issue of The Bucks County Review, and co-editor of “Recurrence
in Another Tongue: Poets Translating Poets” that appeared in Frigate 4 in 2003.
A lecturer in Creative Writing and in the Writing for College program at Bryn Mawr College, she has an MFA
from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
J. C. TODD IN THIS EDITION:
Bud
Green
Her Garden
Launching
Men Kissing
Mock Orange on Wash Day
Nightshade
Wild Laurel
The Quiet Maverick: An Interview with J. C. Todd
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Steve Tomsko
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Steve Tomsko lives in Harleysville, PA with his lovely wife, two wonderful daughters, four loyal dogs, and
one Zen cat, where he writes fiction for the love of it and nurtures the dream of a best-seller.
STEVE TOMSKO IN THIS EDITION:
The First Pinto
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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.
JERRY WAXLER IN THIS EDITION:
Thank God for My Day Job
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Chuck Wendig
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Chuck Wendig is a freelance game writer, having contributed to over 30 books for White Wolf Game Studios. He also
writes fiction, with short stories published among various outlets. Somewhere in there, he also finds time to try to write
screenplays, though he has absolutely no idea what he’s doing. (But certainly that’s part of the fun.)
He currently resides in Pennsylvania with his recently-captured wife and his two batty dogs. A mad tangle of his mundane exploits
(along with other semi-useless information) can be found at his website, Terribleminds
(www.terribleminds.com).
CHUCK WENDIG IN THIS EDITION:
It Is What It Is
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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.
SARA JO WEST IN THIS EDITION:
Staff Photos
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Bill Wunder
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In 2006, Bill Wunder’s manuscript Pointing at the Moon was chosen as a finalist
in The T.S. Eliot Prize, The Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, and The May Swenson
Poetry Award. Bill, a Pushcart Prize nominee in poetry, was named Poet Laureate of Bucks County in 2004. His poems have been finalists in The Robert Fraser Competition, The Mad Poet’s Society Competition two times, and The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards three consecutive years. His work has appeared in The Manhattan Review, The Paterson Literary Review, Lips, The Mad Poet’s Review, Drexel University On-Line Journal, and many others.
BILL WUNDER IN THIS EDITION:
A Distant Shore
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