Awake

About the Authors

Craig Cotter is the author of Chopstix Numbers (Ahsahta Press). Poems from his new manuscript Awake are upcoming in Ambit, Aufgabe, Court Green, Los Angeles Review, Lungfull!, and Nimrod.

Grant Flint has poems in Amelia, Poetry, Poetry New York, Slow Trains, The Nation, Weber, and other print and online publications.

Jeannine Hall Gailey is the author of Becoming the Villainess (Steel Toe Books). Her work has appeared on in The Iowa Review and on Verse Daily and The Writers Almanac. Her manuscript in progress is She Returns to the Floating World.

Gracie Leavitt writes for Orange Life. Her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Caketrain, elimae, and Fourteen Hills. She will soon begin working on her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts.

Luca Penne received his MFA from University of Missouri, where he won the Emerson-Poe Award. He currently works in ski slope maintenance to purge himself of the flatness of the plains. His poems have appeared in a few other journals, but not yet in book form.

Kryssa Schemmerling holds an MFA in film from Columbia University. She is currently finishing a documentary about surfers in Rockaway Beach, Queens. She lives in Brooklyn.

Carolyn Foster Segal teaches in the English and Fine Arts programs at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and writes occasional columns for The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed.

John Surowiecki was awarded the first Poetry Foundation Pegasus Award for verse drama. He is the author of Watching Cartoons before Attending a Funeral (White Pine Press) and The Hat City after Men Stopped Wearing Hats (Word Works). Publications include The Alembic, Gargoyle, Margie, Nimrod, Poetry, Redivider, Silk Road, West Branch and Xanadu. He teaches poetry courses at Manchester Community College, Manchester, Connecticut.

Michelle Walbaum is working on a BA in journalism at Rutgers University. She lives in New Jersey.

Maw Shein Win is the author of two chapbooks, Tales of a Lonely Meat Eater and The Farm Without Name. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Big Bridge, Chiron Review, Hyphen, and No Tell Motel. She lives in Berkeley, California.

Elizabeth Wylder lives in Chicago. Her writing credits include poetry and flash fiction in California Quarterly, Poetry Motel, SLAB, and elsewhere.

Art © 2008 by Liz Amini-Holmes

Awake

Awake

Dreaming

Dreaming

Fallen

Fallen

12.4 (Summer 2008)   The 2River View