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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 Editor-in-Chief
Joy E. Stocke is founder and Editor in Chief of Wild River Review. She has published fiction, nonfiction and poetry, and has written about and lectured widely on her travels in Greece and Turkey, as well as religion, ancient and modern. Her travel memoir, Anatolian Days and Nights, co-written with Angie Brenner, will be published by Fulbright Publishing, in 2010.
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a Bachelor of Science in Broadcast Journalism, she participated in the Lindisfarne Symposium on The Evolution of Consciousness with cultural philosopher, poet and historian, William Irwin Thompson. She has worked with numerous writers shepherding their manuscripts and articles into print and onto the web, and is currently working with Voluntour Morocco focusing on rural economic development and women’s and children’s education in rural areas.
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: Interview with Greg Olsen - Scientist, Entrepreneur, and Space Traveler
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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Kim Nagy
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Kim Nagy, WRR Executive 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:
Up the Creek: A Wild Peace
COLUMN: The Triple Goddess Trials — Fire in the Head:
Brigit’s Mysterious Spark
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
COLUMN: The Triple Goddess Trials — Syrinx and the River
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: Interview with Greg Olsen - Scientist, Entrepreneur, and Space Traveler
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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Katherine Schimmel Abdel Baki
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Katherine Schimmel Baki, Director of Global Partnerships
Katherine Schimmel Baki is co-founder of haut>art, an art consulting company whose mission is to acquaint the public with the work
of new artists and to create visually compelling spaces for its clients. Katherine has a longstanding interest in the perceptual
dynamics of visual and aural phenomena. She holds a BA degree in Professional Music from Berklee College of Music and a graduate
degree (ALM) in the field of Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. She has spent a considerable amount of time in the
Middle East conducting original research on the Adhan, the Islamic oral call to prayer. Her field work in Cairo resulted in a
dissertation entitled, Hayya ‘ala al-Salat: The Socio-Religious Impact of the Adhan on the Muslim Community of Cairo,
(1994). In 2005-2006, she was part of the Quark Park team of Princeton, New Jersey, whose goal was to generate greater public
interest in science and art through the creation of an interactive 18,000 square foot science park in the heart of town. Katherine
is currently working on a number of research projects within the fields of ethnomusicology and social anthropology.
KATHERINE SCHIMMEL ABDEL BAKI IN THIS EDITION:
COLUMN: The Mystic Pen — Introduction
COLUMN: The Mystic Pen — Interview with Dr. William A. Graham
COLUMN: The Mystic Pen — The Phenomenology of Islam
COLUMN: The Mystic Pen — The Gift
COLUMN: The Mystic Pen — Interview with Dr. William Chittick
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Don Lafferty
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Don Lafferty, Social Media Consultant
Don was born and raised in Philadelphia but ran away from it all at the age of nineteen to see the worlds while serving his country flight testing guidance systems for the US Air Force.
After a four year hitch, he fell into the sales end of the electronics business on the first working day of ‘84 and by 1992 had become widely regarded as one of the strongest technical communicators and salespeople in the country. Since then, Don has continued to provide sales and training based solutions to companies targeting new markets and increased market share.
In addition to writing corporate communication, corporate marketing copy, and articles for national magazines, Don is a regular contributor to the global conversation revolving around Online Social Networks like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. He’s crafted and executed some of the first successful marketing strategies through these communities, and continues to define methodologies for helping business capitalize on this exploding social phenomenon.
EMAIL: dlafferty@wildriverreview.com
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Joseph Glantz
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Joseph Glantz, WRR Consulting Editor
Joe practiced law in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, for a dozen years and designed large scale databases for AT&T. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and received his J.D. from George Washington Law School.
He received a grant from the Thomas Skelton Harrison Foundation for his writing project, Philadelphia Originals, which seeks to show that the unique styles (how Philadelphians paint, sing, practice law, tell a joke, cook) of Philadelphia’s most notable professions can be traced back to the perfect complement of the spiritual William Penn and the practical Benjamin Franklin. His second project. Philadelphia Before You Were Born, is a study of the last time Philadelphia newspapers used artists for all their illustrations.
Joe’s published writings include a humorous look at book clubs for the Bucks County Writer and the literary stages of a baseball season for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
His favorite quote is William Penn’s “Where wit has wisdom to express it, now there’s the best orator.”
EMAIL: jglantz@wildriverreview.com
JOSEPH GLANTZ IN THIS EDITION:
COLUMN: Interviews with the Famously Departed: Ben Franklin Speaks
COLUMN: Interviews with the Famously Departed: Jane Austen Speaks
COLUMN: Interviews with the Famously Departed: Abraham Lincoln Speaks
COLUMN: Interviews with the Famously Departed: Charles Dickens Speaks
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Fred Young
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Fred Young, WRR Finance Editor
Fred Young is a New Jersey-based banker who grew up in Wisconsin. Twenty-eight years ago he started as a broker. For the past 22 years he has been in the banking industry. Currently he is on sabbatical advising 501(c)3 organizations and start-up ventures. As the middle child of 14, Fred has been a keen observer of the power and the options that the understanding of money can provide. He joined the finance world at a time when mortgages were 20% and Reagan's trickle-down theories were in full force. He has advised individuals and not-for-profits on how best to properly structure their savings plans and their assets from the commercial real estate scare of the early 90's to the dot-com bust to Y2K, and all the good and bad in between.
EMAIL: fyoung@wildriverreview.com
FRED YOUNG IN THIS EDITION:
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Bryan Palmer
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Bryan Palmer, Director, WRR Web Team
Bryan Palmer is a recent graduate of the Information Science & Technology program at Temple University. During his time at Temple he worked with
Microsoft as a Campus Representative and was President of the Association for Computing Machinery chapter.
Bryan was recognized with the Student Leadership Award from the Computer Information Sciences department for work with
faculty, staff and peers over his academic career. He currently serves on several technology planning committees and is a member
of the Philadelphia Linux Users Group.
EMAIL: bpalmer@wildriverreview.com
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Jeremy Trout
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Jeremy Trout, WRR Media Consultant, Web Tech
A graduate of Temple University's intensive Radio, Television and Film program, Mr. Trout is a multi-media jack of all trades. Jeremy works (simultaneously) in such diverse fields as Web Design and Maintenance, Tech Solutions, Audio/Video Production, Literary Publicity, Publishing and Design.
As part of Wild River Review's Web team, Jeremy bridges the gap between old-school craft and 21st-century technology.
EMAIL: jtrout@wildriverreview.com
VIDEO WORK: "Stagnant F."
- Live Video and Promos - Book Publicity Promo
Web and Graphic work: "Test Site"
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Terrence Cheromcka
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Terrence Cheromcka, Deputy Editor
Born and raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Terrence Cheromcka is a student at New York University. Her love of New York City and her writing career began when she became a Time For Kids reporter at age 11. She interviewed stars such a Jewel, New Jersey Nets player, Richard Jefferson; Lil Bow Wow, and Dale Earnhardt Jr.; and she covered the first Kid's Conference at the United Nations. Along with being a published political cartoonist she is also a contributor to "the Vent" section of her local newspaper.
EMAIL: tcheromcka@wildriverreview.com
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Lauren Johnson
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Lauren Johnson, Contributing Editor
Lauren Johnson is the founding editor if XNK Magazine (www.backpocketbooks.com) and a graduate of Bard College with a Bachelor’s Degree in English. She was an editorial intern with Conjunctions magazine, and has done freelance work for The National Collegian. Lauren began her literary career working in foreign rights for literary agencies in New York City. She writes both fiction and poetry, and her work can be found in The Common Ground Review, The Bard Papers, and The Berkshire Review, volumes I and II. .
EMAIL: ljohnson@wildriverreview.com
XNK Magazine: "www.backpocketbooks.com"
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Brett Celinski
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Brett Celinski, Intern
Born in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1987, Brett Celinski is a senior at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. A writer of fiction, satire, stories of childhood-born creatures, and an aspiring illustrator since elementary school (influenced by Tove Jansson, Antonio Prohias and Ralph Steadman), Celinski possesses political curiosity and an eye for journalistic integrity.
EMAIL: bcelinski@wildriverreview.com
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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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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
RAQUEL B. PIDAL IN THIS EDITION:
ART: The Cutting Edge — An Interview with Artist Chris Resko
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Gabriel Amadeus Cooney
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Gabriel Amadeus Cooney, WRR Staff Photographer
The world of Gabriel Cooney's award-winning photography ranges from the intimate intensity of portraiture to the powerful evocations in his landscapes. He was first drawn into photography as an eighteen-year-old on the streets of Morocco. Since then he has earned acclaim for his penetrating portraits of artists and writers, as well as farm workers and schoolchildren. Working with only natural light, Cooney finds the hidden inner nature of his subjects. His assignments for non-profits and academic institutions have taken him from Bedford-Stuyvesant to Rio de Janeiro, from Italy to Cuba, and Harvard to Oxford.
WEBSITE: www.GabrielCooney.com
GABRIEL COONEY IN THIS EDITION:
COLUMN: The Mystic Pen — The Gift (photo)
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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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Christopher Tiefel
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Christopher Tiefel, WRR Contributing 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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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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