Summer 1999, Volume 3, Number 3, Contributors


Janet Buck ("The Titanic, & the Iceberg") teaches writing and literature at the college level. Her poetry, humor, and essays have appeared in The Pittsburgh Quarterly, The Melic Review, Sapphire Magazine, The Recursive Angel, Southern Ocean Review, Lynx: Poetry from Bath, Apples & Oranges, Oranges & Apples, The Rose & Thorn, San Francisco Salvo, Poetry Super Highway, Poetik License, Mind Fire, Astrophysicist’s Tango Partner Speaks, Perihelion, Oracle, Poetry Motel, Feminista!, Calliope, The Beaded Strand, and hundreds of journals world-wide. Calamity's Quilt, her first print collection of poetry, will be released by Newton's Baby Press on December 1st, with cover art by Cheryl Hight Carle and a foreward by Thomas Fortenberry. See http://www.newtonsbaby.com/calamity.html for more details.		Mark Antony Rossi ("Angry Sandals") is a poet, essayist, critic, and playwright about to embark upon a new life in the Grand Canyon state of Arizona. He is currently the Poetry Editor at The Justwrite Site and the Poetry Criticism Editor for The Open Directory Project. Homepage: http://www.angelfire.com/on2/rossi Email: markantonyrossi@hotmail.com
Gayla Chaney ("With Love, From Johnny's Burger Barn") moved frequently while growing up, settling briefly in a small town in northwest Oklahoma. Her experiences and those she witnessed during those years have provided the backdrop for many of her stories. Her work has appeared in Potomac Review, Concho River Review, Fish Stories, Women's Words, and other literary journals.		Brad Summerhill ("First Rescue") was the recipient of a Lily Peter Foundation fellowship for fiction writing. His work has appeared in the Virginia Literary Review, ACM, Sierra Outdoors, and Edging West. Originally from Reno, Nevada and a former journalist, he currently teaches world literature at the University of Arkansas.
Scott Holstad ("LA County Jail Processing Comments") has authored 9 poetry books. His work has also appeared in hundreds of magazines in 26 countries and 5 languages, including journals such as The Minnesota Review, Hawaii Review, Wisconsin Review, Kiosk, Chiron Review, Long Shot, Exquisite Corpse, Textual Studies in Canada, Pacific Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Arkansas Review, Lullwater Review, and Southern Review.		Bonnie ZoBell ("Flames") won a 1995 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship and another of her stories won a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award and was later read on National Public Radio. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Greensboro Review, The Bellingham Review, and Gulf Stream Magazine. She has attended the graduate writing workshop at Columbia University on fellowship, and teaches at Mesa College in San Diego, CA, and is finishing her first novel.

Serpentine, Volume 3, Number 3, Summer 1999