| M. E. Mishcon ("Infrastructure") has been published in Urthona,
Sequoia, The Mill Hunk Herald, Boston Magazine, The Women's
Times, New York Magazine, The Berkshire Review, The Artful Mind,
Thema, and The George Washington Review. She was a 1997 semi finalist for a
Heekin Fellowship and the winner of the Hackney Award for her her novel Just Between
Us. This last was judged by the late James Dickey. She has been the fiction and
poetry editor for The Artful Mind for the past five years. Currently, she works
as a psychotherapist in The Berkshire region of Massachusetts and lives with her husband
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Jimmy Carl Harris ("Posters") spent twenty-eight years in the United States Marine Corps, where he earned Sergeant Major stripes and decorations for service in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf. After retiring from the Marine Corps, he earned a Doctor of Education degree at the University of Alabama and spent three years as an Assistant Professor at Southeastern Louisiana University. In 1998, he returned to Birmingham with his wife, Mae, and began writing fiction in earnest. His short story "Kindness for a Contender" won 2nd place in Serpentine Magazine 1999 Short Story Contest. Other stories were awarded a Hackney Prize, an Inspiration for Writers Prize, and a ByLine Prize. Further details and excerpts from other stories are available at: http://personal.bhm.bellsouth.net/~harrisjc | |
| William Roth ("Hog") is a
professor at DeSales University in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania teaching the systems
theory of change. He currently has five books in print on the subject of societal and
organization development, as well as numerous articles. This is first published piece of
fiction.
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Noelle Wall ("Silver Lame and Green Tree Frogs") enjoyed a 20-year career as an advertising and television executive, winning numerous awards for writing and production, before she began writing fiction. She is an alumna of the New York State Writers Institute programs at Skidmore College and the University at Albany, and is completing her first novel, Countdown, about sexual politics in a television station. Silver Lamé and Green Tree Frogs is her first published short story. She lives in Loudonville, NY with her husband Tom; she has four children and six grandchildren. | |
| Lynn Veach Sadler ("The Educating of Penelope Malleable") has a B.A. from Duke and an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. Formerly a college president in Vermont, she has won an Extraordinary Undergraduate Teaching Award, pioneered in Computer-Assisted Composition, and received the Distinguished Women of North Carolina Award for education. Her academic publications include five books and some sixty-eight articles, and she has edited eighteen books/proceedings and three national journals. She now runs a small press and is a creative writer. A chapbook, Poet Geography, is forthcoming (2003) in the Mt. Olive College Poetry Series; her poems have been published in, or are forthcoming in, for example, Asheville Poetry Review, Journal of African Travel Writing, Main Street Rag, The Wolf Head Quarterly, Pudding Magazine, Lite, Bay Area Poets Coalition Anthology, The Abiko Literary Quarterly, The Robert Frost Review, Poet’s Page, Amelia, The Sandhills Review, Snakeskin Poetry Webzine, and Whiskey Island Magazine. Her stories have been published widely and have won the North Carolina Writers’ Network, Talus and Scree, and Cream City Review competitions. Her unpublished novel, Tonight I Lie with William Cullen Bryant, selected for the 1992 Blumenthal Writers and Readers Series, was runner-up for the 1997 Dana Award. For her first play (1996), Gnat (a spin-off of the 1831 Nat Turner uprising), the (professional) Temple Theater (Sanford, NC) received the North Carolina Arts Council New Works grant and the Paul Green Foundation New Play Award; the play received a Paul Green Multi-Media Award (NC Society of Historians). Sassing the Sphinx was commissioned for the First International Robert Frost Symposium. The recently completed Coming Country (Battle of New Orleans, War of 1812; libretto, lyrics) is her first musical. | Dan Huntley ("The
Light on Elgin's Dock") is a columnist for The
Charlotte Observer newspaper. His beats have included crime, politics, and education. His
story was inspired by the first writer he met when he was in junior high school. The real
"Elgin" was also an alcoholic fisherman raconteur who spent his last years
tending a funky little bar along the muddy Catawba, and would be flabbergasted to know
someone was really listening.
Christine Watt ("If Only ...") was born half a century ago in England's industrial north-east. Before emigrating to California, she took her degree in history from London University. Christine worked in publishing houses on both coasts as an editor and writer, then switched careers to work fulltime for animal rights organizations. Apart from words and animal rights, Christine's passions include opera and tennis, both watching and participating.
Paula Peterson ("Sheriff") is a San Francisco-based writer whose short stories and essays have been published in The Carolina Quarterly, The Greensboro Review, Alligator Juniper, and other quarterlies. One of her essays won first prize in New Millennium Writings non-fiction contest. She is the recipient of a Hopwood Award from the University of Michigan. She has just completed a book-length collection of personal essays and is revising a novel. |
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