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The Wild River Review is the creation of a team of professional writers and artists. We are skilled editors in all genres: short and long fiction, poetry, nonfiction,
feature writing, and graphic stories.
Crafting a top-flight literary magazine is as fun as it is challenging, and we are
committed to scouting for the best writing, encouraging submissions,
and exploring unique and, at times, controversial issues.
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So... get to know us. Share in the fun. And enjoy the ride.
Joy E. Stocke
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Joy E. Stocke, WRR Executive Editor & Founder
Joy E. Stocke 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.
In addition to a 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.
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. She is founding partner of
Writers Corner USA, where she consults with writers at all levels, specializing in book proposals and book length manuscripts.
EMAIL: jstocke@wildriverreview.com
JOY E. STOCKE IN THIS EDITION:
PEN WORLD VOICES: Language Within Silence — An Interview with Norwegian Writer Per Petterson
PEN WORLD VOICES: Tonight We Rest Here — An Interview with Poet Saadi Youssef
BLOG: WRR@LARGE
SPOTLIGHT: Arabic from Left to Right — An Interview with Saad Abulhab
SPOTLIGHT: Fly Me to the Moon — A Conversation with Mathematician and Artist, Ed Belbruno
SPOTLIGHT: The Other Side Of Abu Ghraib (Part 1) — The Detainees’ Quest for Justice
SPOTLIGHT: Poetry, Science, and the Big Bang — John Timpane Goes to Cambridge
SPOTLIGHT: Rumi and Coke — An Excerpt from Anatolian Days and Nights: A Love Affair with Turkey
QUARK PARK: Of Algorithms, Google & Snow Globes — An Interview with Computer Scientist David Dobkin, Dean of Faculty at Princeton University
QUARK PARK: The Scientist as Rebel — Freeman Dyson Talks About Nuclear Weapons, Space Travel, and the Future
QUARK PARK: The Solace of Vacant Spaces — Interview with Peter Soderman
QUARK PARK: Music in Stone — Sculptor Jonathan Shor
UP THE CREEK: Editor’s Notes
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Tim E. Ogline
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Tim E. Ogline, WRR Art Director & Comics Editor
Tim E. Ogline is a Greater Philadelphia based illustrator and graphic designer. Ogline’s illustrations have appeared in the
Wall Street Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Utne Reader, Outdoor Life and Philadelphia Style
among others. His award-winning “Electrical Activity of the Heart” story,
“Opening Books & Closing Doors,” has recently been published in The Florida
Review Volume 32.1.
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 Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell (notably
the 2003 and 2007 Gubernatorial Inaugural Celebrations), The White House, the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania, Big Brothers Big Sisters Southeastern Pennsylvania, Florida Tourism, the Greater Tampa Chamber of
Commerce, Damon’s Grill, NAPA, SmithKline Beecham and many more in its nine year history.
Tim will be leaving the pages of the Wild River Review on 31 August 2007 in order to focus his full attention on
the growth of Ogline Design. Ogline Design is a full-service graphic design venture. Full-service includes identity
development, print and collateral design, interactive, illustration, copywriting and exceptional customer service.
Specializations include identity development, websites and illustration. Contact Tim Ogline at 215.431.3086 or at
tim@oglinedesign.com to discuss your creative service needs.
WEBSITE: www.TimOgline.com (illustration)
WEBSITE: www.OglineDesign.com (graphic design)
EMAIL: togline@wildriverreview.com
TEL: 215.431.3086
TIM E. OGLINE IN THIS EDITION:
PEN WORLD VOICES: Myth, Magic, and the Mind of Neil Gaiman — A Conversation with the Dream King
BLOG: WRR@LARGE
ART: The Art of Tim E. Ogline
COMIC: Electrical Activity of the Heart — Opening Books & Closing Doors
COMIC: Electrical Activity of the Heart — Money Talks
COMIC: Electrical Activity of the Heart — Rise and Shine
COMIC: Electrical Activity of the Heart — The Vision Thing
Website Design and HTML/PHP Programming
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Kim Nagy
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Kim Nagy, WRR Commissioning Editor
Incorrigible collector of ideas, Kim Nagy serves as Commissioning Editor for Wild River Review. In between scoping out
writing talent, new articles, interviews and creating new series, she is a poet, professional writer, and dedicated reader who
has interviewed a number of leading thinkers, including
historian James McPherson,
playwright Emily Mann, and
philosopher Alain de Botton.
Nagy received her Bachelor’s in History at Rider University and M.A. from the Department of History at the University
of Connecticut. She has worked in public relations and marketing for publishers, such as W.W. Norton, Routledge UK, and
Princeton University Press.
She is currently writing a book called The Triple Goddess Trials, based on her Wild River Review
column of the same name. In it, she explores every stage of women’s lives
through the timeless insights of myth.
WEBSITE: www.KimNagy.com
EMAIL: knagy@wildriverreview.com
KIM NAGY IN THIS EDITION:
COLUMN: The Triple Goddess Trials — The Triple Goddess
COLUMN: The Triple Goddess Trials — Aphrodite and the Lightbulb Factory
COLUMN: The Triple Goddess Trials — Meet Medea
COLUMN: The Triple Goddess Trials — Kali’s Ancient Love Song
PEN WORLD VOICES: The Art of Connection — A Conversation with Alain de Botton
BLOG: Live @ PEN World Voices
QUARK PARK: An Interview with Rush Holt
QUARK PARK: Labor of Love — An Interview with Kevin Wilkes
QUARK PARK: Journey into the Male & Female Brain — An Interview with Tracey Shors
SPOTLIGHT: Boundless Theater — An Interview with Emily Mann
SPOTLIGHT: Keeping Time — An Interview with Historian James McPherson
SPOTLIGHT: On the Rocks — Global Warming and the Rock and Fossil Record — An Interview with Peter Ward — Part 1
SPOTLIGHT: On the Rocks — Global Warming and the Rock and Fossil Record — An Interview with Peter Ward — Part 2
SPOTLIGHT: The Other Side Of Abu Ghraib (Part 1) — The Detainees’ Quest for Justice
SPOTLIGHT: A Voice Answering a Voice — A Conversation with Renée Ashley
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Raquel B. Pidal
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Raquel B. Pidal, WRR Contributing Editor
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 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. She currently lives in Cambridge, MA, where she is working on her
M.A. in Publishing and Writing at Emerson College. She writes a blog,
CopyRighteous, about writers’ rights as part of her
coursework, and she also works for the Emerson College literary magazine,
Redivider.
EMAIL: rpidal@wildriverreview.com
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Bryan Palmer
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Bryan Palmer, WRR Web Team
Bryan Palmer is a senior in the Information Science & Technology program at Temple University. He is currently working with
Microsoft as a Campus Representative and serving as President of the Association for Computing Machinery chapter at Temple.
Bryan was recognized with the Student Leadership Award from the Computer Information Sciences department for his work with
faculty, staff, and peers in the academic year. He also serves on several technology planning committees and is a member
of the Philadelphia Linux Users Group.
EMAIL: bpalmer@bluebottle.com
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John Moskowitz
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John Moskowitz, WRR Contributing Editor
John 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.
EMAIL: jmoskowitz@wildriverreview.com
JOHN MOSKOWITZ IN THIS EDITION:
ART: The Art of Jonathan Cox
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Jill Sherer Murray
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Jill Sherer Murray, WRR Contributing Editor
Jill Sherer Murray is an award-winning journalist, whose work has appeared in a variety of business- and
health-related media. In addition to writing feature articles, scripts, books and other marketing, corporate
and creative communications for more than 18 years, she designs and facilitates corporate communication
workshops and seminars for clients like Gatorade, PepsiCo, Tellerx, and Quaker Oats (to name a few). A
former “Weight Loss Diary” columnist for Shape Magazine, 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. Currently, Jill is working on her second novel and rewriting her first — again — so she can get
it to her agent before he dies or retires. You can read about her writing and other pursuits (i.e., dating
and marriage) in her blog
“Diary of a Writer in Mid-Life Crisis,”
which is featured on the Wild River Review. She lives in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, with her husband Dan, her
rescue dog Winnie, too many houseguests, and a lot of chocolate and over-the-counter pain medication.
EMAIL: jsherer@wildriverreview.com
JILL SHERER MURRAY IN THIS EDITION:
BLOG: Diary of a Writer in Midlife Crisis
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Brian O’Connell
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Brian O’Connell, WRR Contributing Editor
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.
EMAIL: boconnell@wildriverreview.com
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Rosa Sophia
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Rosa Sophia, WRR Associate Editor
Rosa Sophia is a writer of suspense, mystery, and psychological horror. She has had several short stories
published and has written a number of unpublished novels including Taking 1960, Smile America,
Safe, and Out on the Bluffs. She is currently working on a mystery novel called Dissonance,
which tells the story of an Indie rock band forced to solve a series of brutal murders as they make their way
cross-country. Other than writing, Rosa is also interested in criminology, forensics, auto-mechanics, and
playing her bass guitar, Charlotte. Rosa’s work can be viewed online at the Writer’s Café.
She also has a Myspace website dedicated to her writing as well as her continued progess with
Dissonance.
WRITER’S CAFÉ: www.writerscafe.org/profile/rosysophia/
MYSPACE: www.myspace.com/raizel_jones
ROSA SOPHIA IN THIS EDITION:
PROFILE: Murder, He Wrote — An Interview with Jeff Markowitz
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Jonathan Bush
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Jonathan Bush, WRR Web Team
For as long as Jon can remember he’s had a story in his head. They are sometimes short and simple,
others are deep and warrant a bit of time to write down. He’s currently a senior at Penn State
as a communications major. Jon is open to learning about the world but he has a seething anger toward
stupidity. Unfortunately the latter surrounds him more often then not. He writes a blog online and is
working on a short story and a novel.
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Christopher Tiefel
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Christopher Tiefel, WRR Associate Editor
Christopher Tiefel is a noun & verb collector & organizer. A poet working as a freelance editor & writer, Chris has discovered
that his favorite word is steep. In June he attended the Juniper Writing Institute after graduating from Kutztown University with
a degree in English/Professional Writing. While at Kutztown he managed the literary magazine Shoofly & also received the
Raymond Ford award for poetry, & the Mary S. Kittle award for social & environmental justice. Now engaged, Chris is working on
a chapbook & a catalog of this work can be found at Treefull,
a collaborative poetry blog updated maybe regularly.
CHRISTOPHER TIEFEL IN THIS EDITION:
SPOTLIGHT: The Other Side Of Abu Ghraib (Part 1) — The Detainees’ Quest for Justice
BLOG: Live @ PEN World Voices
REVIEW: What Feeds Us by Diane Lockward
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