ZinkZine Contributors
Fall 2005
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Dick Allen is a reclusive poet who lives by the shores of Connecticut’s
Thrushwood Lake. His most recent collections are The Day Before: New
Poems and Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected, both from
Sarabande Books. Allen has received a 2005 Pushcart Prize and poetry
writing grants from the N.E.A. and Ingram Merrill Foundation. He has
new poems forthcoming in The Nation, APR, The Hudson Review, Ontario
Review, The North American Review, and Atlantic Monthly.
David
Carkeet’s writings include five novels, three of which are "New York Times"
Notable Books: Double Negative, The Greatest Slump of All Time, I Been There
Before, The Full Catastrophe, and The Error of Our Ways. His
short stories and essays have appeared in such publications as The North
American Review, The Oxford American, The New York Times Magazine, and
The
Village Voice. He resides in Vermont.
Thomas J. Erickson has had poems published in several publications, including The Wisconsin Academy Review, North Coast Review, and Windless Orchard. He is an attorney in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Kathryn Pope earned her MFA in creative writing from Antioch University in December 2003. She is a regular contributor to ZinkZine, and her work has also been published in Parenting Magazine. She teaches creative writing at Santa Monica College and Antioch University, and she lives in Los Angeles.
Mike Pankratz
is a short fiction writer and healthcare industry consultant in Los Angeles. He
is a native of the San Fernando Valley and a graduate of UCLA. His Father,
aunt, and uncle all worked on Christmas Tree lots at one time or another. He
still loves the holidays. "Pinaceae" is his first published work.
Amy Lemmon's poems have been published in Verse, Prairie Schooner, Crab
Orchard Review, Barrow Street, and other magazines. She holds a PhD in
creative writing from the University of Cincinnati and is Assistant
Professor and Acting Assistant Chair of English & Speech at the Fashion
Institute of Technology-SUNY. She lives in New York City with her
husband, jazz bassist Bob Bowen, and their children Bobby and Stella.
The poems in this issue of ZinkZine appear in her book-length
manuscript, Saint Nobody.
Scott MacFarlane is a June 2005 graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing
Program at
Antioch University, Los Angeles. “Nullify” was written in the aftermath of the
2004 United States Presidential Election when the author lived in Arizona. He
currently lives in Western Washington. His literary study, The Hippie
Narrative, is forthcoming from McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers in
2007.
Tatyana Mishel is a writer, swimmer, trail-runner, and writing coach.
Her work is published, or forthcoming in Calyx, The Seattle Review,
Cranky Literary Journal, Swivel, Knock, In Posse Review, and a couple of
anthologies. Tatyana is the Managing Editor of In Posse Review and lives in
Seattle. Visit her website at www.tatyanamishel.com
Miriam N. Kotzin teaches creative writing and literature at Drexel University where she directs the Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing. She is a contributing editor of Boulevard and an editor of Per Contra. She received two nominations for a Pushcart Prize. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in such places as Carve, The Pedestal, Fiction Warehouse, Offcourse, Thieves Jargon, Ghoti, SmokeLong Quarterly and Slow Trains. She is featured author in the winter edition of Southern Hum. http://www.miriamnkotzin.com
Patricia Brody’s work appears in Canadian and U.S. journals,
including Poet Lore, Barrow Street, Room of One’s Own, Western
Humanities Review, and The Paris Review. She is editing an anthology,
Survival of the Soul: Artists Living with Illness. Marilyn Hacker
nominated Patricia for a 2004 PUSHCART award. “Dangerous to Know,” the title
poem of her series "In the Voices Of Lit-historic Women," was featured on
"Poetry Daily" and in a new anthology, Chance of a Ghost. Brody
maintains a part time family therapy practice and teaches American
Literature at Boricua College in Harlem. Her NYC-raised children are 20,15, and 10.
Valentina Gnup received
her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles in 2002. She
teaches writing at Greensboro College, and she is assistant editor for the
poetry journal SOLO.
In 2003 she was a winner in the North Carolina Writers Network Blumenthal Writers and Readers Series. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, including the Hiram Poetry Review, Nimrod, Charlotte Poetry Review, Blue Collar Review, Brooklyn Review, and Crab Orchard Review. Valentina received the Santa Barbara Arts Fund Individual Artist Award for poetry in 2000, the Allen Tate Memorial Award from Wind Magazine in 1995, as well as an honorable mention in the 1997 Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. Her manuscript Winter Octaves was a finalist in the National Poetry Series 2002, and her chapbook A Certain Piece of Sky (Mille Grazie Press Chapbook Series) was published in 1996. She and her two daughters moved from Santa Barbara, California to Greensboro, North Carolina in 2002.
Kathrine Varnes is the author of a collection of poems, The Paragon
(Word Tech Editions, 2005), and co-editor with Annie Finch of An
Exaltation of Forms (University of Michigan Press, 2002). She teaches
English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her latest project
involves collecting and organizing poets who want to write
collaborative sonnet crowns.