| Larry N. Gwartney
("A Mourning Dove Dawn"), winner of Serpentine's 1997 Short Story Contest,
teaches English and speech at a high school in his hometown of Salmon, Idaho. Prior to
returning home, he taught at three other high schools in Idaho and Montana in the past
twenty years. In the summers, Gwartney also works as a whitewater guide on the Main and Middle Forks of the Salmon river, presently leading expeditions for an outfitting company called Salmon River Lodge. Gwartney relies on his twenty-five years of river experience for much of his work including his first novel, Reflections in Satin and Jade, which is in search of a publisher. Gwartney writes in a variety of genres, including both rhymed and free verse poetry, short stories, and novels.
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Mary Hazzard ("A
House on the Marsh") is the author of four novels and numerous plays. She has
been writer-in-residence at Lehigh University and the College of William and Mary and has
received a playwriting grant from the NEA. She was recently a Senior Fellow at the Fine
Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Her novel Family Blood was the
winner of the 1998 Ariadne Fiction Prize and has just been published by the Ariadne Press.
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| Lisa Martinovic ("Prayer
for a Harley Rider", "Mind if I commit suicide?", "Is nothing
sacred?") is a native San Franciscan who recently
returned to the Bay Area after six years of deep cover research in Hogeye, Arkansas. Lisa
specializes in high-octane social commentary, Ozark character studies, and a genre she calls poemedy -- a hybrid art form combining the most compelling qualities of poetry and stand-up comedy. She has seven self-published books to her credit and one audio-tape. Lisa has toured as a performance poet throughout the US, featuring everywhere from New York City's Nuyorican Poet's Cafe to City Lights in San Francisco, sharing the stage with such noted poets as Gary Snyder and Miller Williams,. Her poetry has appeared in seven anthologies and numerous magazines, including Andre Codrescu's Exquisite Corpse, Southern Exposure, The Underwood Review, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, and the just-released Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. A series of her self-styled poetical commentary is currently airing on KUAF, Fayetteville, Arkansas’ NPR affiliate. As the Co-Chair of the Ozark Poets and Writers Collective, Lisa organized and participated in local poetry slams, and currently serves on the Executive Council of Poetry Slam, Inc., the national governing body for the growing world of slam. She has been on slam teams representing The Ozarks at the National Poetry Slam every year since 1995. Three-time winner of the annual Ozark Grand Slam, she is not bashful about calling herself the SlamQueen of the Ozarks. Lisa has no website yet, but is delighted to be contacted at poemedy@aol.com
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Leopold McGinnis ("Snow
Angel") is a 21 year old native Calgarian, currently residing in Vancouver British
Columbia, Canada while completing a B.A. in Communication Studies at Simon Fraser
Univeristy. Snow Angel, one of many short stories he has written, is his first
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| Rebecca Mitchell ("My
Dance for Gloria"), as a once troubled runaway teenager turned social worker for
adolescents, has filtered her seven years of chaotic experience in the field of
preventional treatment onto the pages of this short story. Formerly published in Florida's
Feedback Magazine as a heavy metal music critic, she is currently the President and Editor-in-Chief of Loud Comics, she is busy writing for the comic book series Crusaders. Please visit http://www.loudcomics.com or email loudcomics@hotmail.com |
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