Bios
Henry Aragoncillo
is a Fine Art Photographer residing in Santa Fe with his wife Debra and two cats. He utilizes the New Mexican landscape to create conceptual imagery while drawing on the past to create large color collages that reinvent the discovery of the American West. His website is: HenryAragoncillo.com.
Jim Bainbridge
is a graduate of Harvard Law School and a recipient of a National Science Foundation fellowship for graduate studies at UC Berkeley. His poems and short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in LIT, Quiddity, SLANT: A Journal of Poetry, The South Carolina Review, Wisconsin Review, and other journals. His first novel, Human Sister, will be released by Silverthought Press in 2010.
Joy Anna Becvarik
grew up covered in flour on her mother’s Santa Fe countertops, and now lives near the Seine in Paris, France (still often covered in flour). She’s passionate about travel, photography, writing and teaching. Her free time is spent trying off-the-beaten-track restaurants, testing new recipes and collecting other fun ideas for her blog www.thetomatoknife.com.
Jeff Benham
is a freelance artist who works in multiple mediums and styles. His illustrations have won regional and national awards, and his theatrical designs have been chosen best of the year by critics from San Diego to Seattle. He self-publishes handmade books and comics, and is a member of local comics collective 7000 BC. Currently he is drawing Peoplings, a graphic novel about autism written by Courtney Angermeier. More of his work can be seen at www.belmondotomato.com and www.peoplings.com.
Rosalina Oviedo Black
I was born in Mexico City. One of my first experiences learning art was at the age of eight at the "Taller de Pintura" school in the famous suburb of Coyoacan. I can say I have always been exposed to art. I am inspired with the different atmospheres of living environments in colors, shapes and forms. My 15 years in New Mexico have been a big influence on the tones and subjects of my artwork.
Jenn Blair
is from Yakima, WA. She teaches English at the University of Georgia. She has published in MELUS, Copper Nickel and The Tusculum Review, and her chapbook of poetry All Things are Ordered is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.
Barbara Bloomberg
I am a UNM student studying for my BFA in Fine Art.
S.L. Bond
grew up in Santa Fe and will be studying photography at UNM this fall. She writes about gender and Judaism at her blog Dear Diaspora, deardiaspora.wordpress.com.
Lea Bradovich
includes insects, historical apparel, gardens, birds and Mannerist painters among her many muses. Her continuing education includes an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute. A long time New Mexico resident, she has exhibited her art nationally and internationally. Her paintings can be seen at Nuart gallery in Santa Fe or on Leabradovich.com.
Gaylord Brewer
is the founding editor of Poems & Plays . His most recent books are the poetry collection The Martini Diet (Dream Horse) and the novella Octavius the 1st (Red Hen). He teaches at Middle Tennessee State University and in the low-residency MFA program at Murray State.
John F. Buckley
Raised in the Detroit area, he has lived in California since 1992. He teaches English at Orange Coast College and Santiago Canyon College while doing some writing and editing. He often isn’t sure which to pursue: awkward intensity or dreamy mindlessness. Kneejerk anxiety isn’t quite cutting it.
Lauren Camp
is an artist and educator, working in a variety of visual, musical and literary arts. She has taught self-expression on the streets of Detroit, in classrooms within depressed communities, in museums and art centers, and other venues. She believes poetry is a type of music, and music is good for the soul. She performs in collaboration with musicians on stages across the Southwest, and broadcasts her favorite music (jazz!) on KSFR 101.1FM. Her recent efforts have been focused on empowering individuals to be creative, confident and expressive. www.laurencamp.com.
Leah Cantor
is in 11th grade at Santa Fe Prep.
Mary Cisper
is a poet and artist living in northern New Mexico. Besides working on a book-length collection of poems, she hopes to hike the John Muir Trail this summer.
Sheila Cowing
Raised in rural Connecticut, Sheila Cowing earned her MFA from Goddard after her daughters were grown. She has published award-winning children's nonfiction, and two collections of poetry, most recently last spring, Jackrabbit Highways. She writes, edits and gardens, has fine views of two mountain ranges and the good company of her cat, Wooley Bear Caterpillar and dog, Louise Coon Hound.
Behzad Dayeny
Director of Food Services at Santa Fe Community College. Born in Iran, I have been living in Santa Fe since 1984.
Bibi Deitz
is a writer and New Yorker living in Santa Fe. She started her undergraduate study in writing at Bennington College in Vermont, and she is now finishing at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. 3rd Person, March is a portion of a larger whole, a recently completed novella, Second Avenue.
Stephanie Dickinson
has lived in Iowa, Texas, Louisiana and now in New York. Her work appears in Dirty Goat, Hotel Amerika, Mudfish, Fourteen Hills, among others. Her novel Half Girl, winner of the Hackney Award (Birmingham-Southern) is published by Spuyten Duyvil. Her stories have been reprinted in New Stories from the South, The Year’s Best, 2008 and 2009.
John Drabanski
I come from a background of science and teaching. I was introduced to art as therapy for a brain injury that I experienced some ten years ago. I was introduced to relief printing through the art program at the Santa Fe Community College.
Carter DuBois
I was raised in Santa Fe and was pleasantly subjected to the art of photography by my father at an early age. I have been a business owner for the past 35 years and have recently rekindled the flame that photography gives me on a full time basis. I am a commercial pilot in both single and multi-engine aircraft. I currently study and work at the Santa Fe Community College Photography Department.
Howard Efner
is a retired research chemist and photographer living near Lamy, New Mexico. He has had a lifelong interest in photography and specializes in landscape, found images, and historic printing processes. Working tools range from modern digital cameras to restored ultra large format cameras. He holds a PhD in chemistry.
Darrell Epp's
poetry has appeared in over 60 magazines, including Poetry Ireland and Tulane Review. His poetry collection is for sale on www.amazon.ca.
Rita Feinstein
is seventeen years old and a full-time student at Santa Fe Community College. This fall, she will be somewhere in New York, hopefully interning at a publishing house and subsisting off of soy mochas. Her fiction is semi-autobiographical—usually with a paranormal twist or a liberal dose of sarcasm. In the future, she intends to study in Ireland, where she will spend most of her time lurking outside Bono’s house. The second half of Tuesday (originally titled Clairaugustus) is part of Feinstein’s Senior Writing Portfolio, which was awarded a national gold medal in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards of 2010. Feinstein received a $10,000 scholarship and onstage recognition at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
Maureen Tolman Flannery’s
most recent book of poems about Latin America is Destiny Whispers to the Beloved. Other volumes of her work include Ancestors in the Landscape, Secret of the Rising up, A Fine Line and Knowing Stones. Although she grew up in a Wyoming sheep ranch family, Maureen and her actor husband Dan have raised their four children in Chicago. Her work has appeared in fifty anthologies and over a hundred literary reviews, recently including Birmingham Poetry Review, Xavier Review, Calyx, Pedestal, Atlanta Review, Out of Line, and North American Review.
Maureen Freyne
was born in New York, New York. Art discovered her and she discovered her passion for watercolor after moving to New Mexico in the 1990's. She is frequently an art student at SFCC.
Carolee J. Friday
has photographed fine art and documentary subjects in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico since 2001. Her work is exhibited at the annual Contemporary Hispanic Art Market in Santa Fe and galleries in Albuquerque and Taos.
Melissa Godwin's
journaling style of prose is filled with truthful, raw emotion. She finds humor in the darkest of situations and continues to create beauty from turbulence as well as an emerging sense of soul consciousness. She has published one book and lives in New Mexico with her husband and three dogs. Please visit: www.mellifluous.com
James Griffith
is a nationally recognized artist living in Santa Fe since the 1970s.
Bob Haynes’
poetry has appeared in Bellingham Review, New Letters, Nimrod, Poetry Northwest, Lake Effect, Louisville Review, Louisiana Literature, and elsewhere. A book of poems, The Grand Unified Theory, was published in 2001. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he teaches at Arizona State University and occasionally online at Writers on the Net.
Mariah Hegarty
is the founding editor of Manzanita Quarterly, a literary journal in publication from 1998 -2004. A Colorado native, she has lived in New Mexico and the Pacific Northwest. Currently she resides in Denver, where she leads writing groups and works as a manuscript consultant. Her email is mariahpoet@gmail.com.
Barbara Hill
lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, and Santa Fe. She has an MA in creative writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago and she is an ordained interfaith minister. As a child she gave serious thought to the questions in her poem, Dreams, Questions, Wishes. She has always been grateful for richness of her dream life.
Jessica Beth Howard
lives in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, where she works as a community organizer. She has a M.A. in English from Eastern Kentucky University and has published poetry in Limestone, New Madrid, Coffee Talk Quarterly, Sincerely Elvis: An Anthology of Poetry about Elvis Aaron Presley, and Pegasus.
Maureen Howles
was born and raised in western Pennsylvania. She obtained a B.F.A. degree from the University of Connecticut where she majored in painting and minored in photography. She continued studies in western landscape painting at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. A love of the outdoors and the aesthetic appeal of the Southwest brought her to Santa Fe, where she has resided for many years.
Amorak Huey
recently left the newspaper business after 15 years as a reporter and editor. He teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, and his poetry has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Oxford American, Crab Orchard Review, Subtropics, Poet Lore, Gargoyle and other journals.
Frances Hunter
who lives in Santa Fe, is the author of two collections of poetry, A Maverick Elation and Sesame. Poems of hers have appeared in anthologies and literary journals. Her recently published biography Mary 'Pickhandle' Fitzgerald: Rediscovering a Lost Icon is available from hunter.hopeful@gmail.com. She is currently slaving away on a memoir.
Dallas Huth
moved to Langley, Washington, from Santa Fe in 2009. She recently won first place for poetry in the Whidbey Island Writer's Association contest. Other poems have appeared in Small Canyons Anthology, Looking Back to Place, and previous issues of Santa Fe Literary Review. Her new dog Stella takes her to the beach almost every day.
Will Karp
worked for many years as a business planner for a large aerospace corporation in Connecticut and looked forward to the time when he could pursue his interest in creating art. Before moving to Santa Fe in 2004 he operated a web design business which he continued for a while in Santa Fe. In addition to painting, photography, and printmaking, he now spends much of his time volunteering for several local service organizations. He is grateful that living in New Mexico has afforded him the opportunity to view and experience art in a whole new way while expanding his horizons as well.
Katherine Kubarski
has been working her magic as a grant proposal writer for the past 20 years. Since forming GRANTWORKS Proposal Writing Services (www.grantworks.com) in 1991, she has helped hundreds of organizations secure funding from major foundations and government agencies. A Relax and Write workshop on the sacred island of Molokai coaxed her into creative writing – something she has long wanted to do. Katherine lives in Santa Fe, where she enjoys hiking and cross country skiing in the surrounding mountains.
Donald Levering
was recently a featured Duende Series reader. His most recent poetry book is Whose Body from Sunstone Press. His forthcoming book is The Number of Names, also from Sunstone. He lives in Santa Fe, where he works as a human services administrator.
Kathryne Lim
has been inspired by the beautiful New Mexico landscape for nearly a decade. She lives in Santa Fe, where she is a social worker and aspiring writer.
Jane Lin
teaches poetry writing at UNM-Los Alamos and facilitates the Poetry Gatherings at Mesa Public Library. She has received a New York Times Fellowship from NYU and a work-study scholarship from Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her poems have also appeared in New Madrid, Borderlands, and elsewhere.
Jane Lipman’s
chapbooks, The Rapture of Tulips and White Crow’s Secret Life, were published by Pudding House Publications, 2009. The Rapture of Tulips was a finalist for three New Mexico Book Awards. Her poems have appeared in RUNES, Santa Fe Literary Review, Sin Fronteras, and many other journals and anthologies.
Joe Long
has had a lifetime career as a professional photographer. He specialized in art, advertising, and editorial work and was published in all forms of media. He is a teacher, tutor, mentor and a consultant. Joe continues to work on his longtime figurative study of women.
Yves Lucero
single Frenchicano male, 42 and proudly bald, seeks inspiration for long term relationship. Hobbies include scribbling, musing, teeth grinding and wiping beads of blood off forehead after staring at blank page for extended periods. If you are free spirited, fun-loving, dangerous and neurotic, then you’re probably reading Rumi.
Pi Luna
originally grew up in Minnesota where she studied classical realism drawing and painting for five years. In 2002 she moved to Santa Fe. She recently graduated from Prescott College with her B.A. in art and is now working on her MFA through an online program with Goddard College. In addition to making art, Pi Luna works as a tutor at the Santa Fe Community College's Tutoring Center. To see more examples of her work go to www.pi-luna.blogspot.com.
Leslie Wray McBride
is a fine art photographer originally from Santa Fe. She strives to create beautiful pictures that challenge the viewer. Her work can be viewed at: www.lesliewraymcbride.com.
Carrie McCarthy
is an emerging photographer based in Santa Fe. She began actively photographing in 2008 and has studied with Carlan Tapp and Norman Mauskopf. Ms. McCarthy finds a beauty and mystery in the “what used to be”, and in the contradictions, juxtapositions and headscratching moments she encounters in the course of everyday life. A former television commercial copywriter in Chicago, New York and Moscow (yes, that Moscow), Ms. McCarthy left the rat race for the land of prairie dogs in 2000. She is currently a freelance creative director and principal in INK, a communications and design agency.
James McGrath
has three books of poetry with Santa Fe's Sunstone Press: At the Edgelessness of Light, Speaking with Magpies and Dreaming Invisible Voices, plus work in 20 anthologies. He regularly attends the Listowel Writer's Week in Ireland. He was USIS-Arts America poet-artist in residence in Yemen, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Republic of Congo in the 1990's.
Ann Marie McKelvey
While bowing deeply to everything that arises, Ann Marie breathes mindfully into every moment... unless, of course, she doesn't...
Devon Miller-Duggan’s
poems have appeared in CutBank, The Indiana Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review and The Chattahoochee Review. She has won a fellowship from the Delaware Division of the Arts and the Editor’s Prize in Margie. One of her poems was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She teaches in the English Department of the University of Delaware, is married to an historian, and has two grown daughters. Her first collection, Pinning the Bird to the Wall, appeared in November 2008 from Tres Chicas Books.
Joan Mitchell’s
poems have appeared in literary reviews and anthologies, including Southern Poetry Review, Puerto del Sol, Don’t Go Away Hungry: Fifty Years of the Southern Poetry Review, and the Emily Dickinson Awards Anthology. She was first-place winner in the Southwest Writers’ Annual Awards for Poetry (2000).
Sharon Niederman
lives, writes and blogs in Raton, NM at embracingthenorth. wordpress.com. Her two forthcoming books are New Mexico's Tasty Traditions: Folksy Stories, Recipes & Photos (New Mexico Magazine, 2010) and Shrines & Signs: Spiritual Journeys Across New Mexico (Countryman Press, 2011). Visit her website: www.sharonniederman. com.
Bill O'Neill
is the former Executive Director of the New Mexico Juvenile Parole Board, and currently works with high-risk youth as the Development Director for the Parole Empowerment Program, a project of the New Mexico Conference of Churches. He grew up in Ohio and is a graduate of Cornell University.
Brooke Palance
lives in Tesuque, New Mexico.
Alan Pearlman
is a Santa Fe photographer who owes much to the insights and encouragement he has received in the outstanding photography program at the Santa Fe Community College. During a long career in neurology and neurobiology he studied the development and function of the parts of the brain that are essential for vision. His fascination with how we see carried over to photography, the exciting way in which we let others know what we are seeing and what it means.
Elizabeth Raby
is the author of three chapbooks and two full-length collections of poetry, The Year the Pears Bloomed Twice, 2009 and Ink on Snow, 2010, both published by Virtual Artists Collective (vacpoetry.org)
Lori Romero
won the Spire Press Poetry Chapbook Competition. Her first chapbook, Wall to Wall, was published by Finishing Line Press. Her short story, Strange Saints, was a semifinalist in the Sherwood Anderson Fiction award. Lori’s poetry and short stories have been published in more than eighty journals and anthologies. She was recently nominated for her second Pushcart Prize.
Legacy Russell
is a writer and mixed media artist living in New York City. Born and raised in the East Village: Thompkins Square Park 'HOWL'! Karen Finley's America! Faith Ringgold's 'Tar Beach' rooftops! She currently works at the Brooklyn Museum and is co-founder of the contemporary artist collaborative, CONTACT Project (www.contactproject. net). Little Beast is part of a larger poetic journey in process, titled Young Love.
Katherine DiBella Seluja
has worked with children and families in various healthcare settings for more than 25 years. Exposed to rhythm and sound through her early musical training, Katherine is currently translating health and illness experiences into poetry. She lives in Santa Fe.
Michael G. Smith
practices the art of teaching Mathematics at SFCC. A wilderness junkie currently wandering the field of koans, he has published poetry in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, the Kerf, Nimrod, Santa Fe Literary Review, Sulphur River Literary Review and other journals.
Stephen Sossaman
is a poet and playwrite in New York City, and author of Writing Your First Play. His work has appeared in Paris Review, Southern Humanities Review, Columbia Review, and a number of other literary journals.
George Such
has had a chiropractic practice for the past 26 years in Richland, Washington. He recently completed an undergraduate English degree and hopes to begin graduate studies in English in 2010. His poems have appeared in Dislocate, Lullwater Review, Pennsylvania English, Permafrost, Roanoke Review, and several other literary journals.
Meg Tuite
has been published or will soon be published in Calliope,The Boston Literary Magazine, SLAB Magazine, Galleys Online Magazine, Crash, Jersey Devil Press, Midnight Screaming Magazine, Sleet Magazine, Ink Monkey Magazine, Blue Print Review and Fractured West out of the UK. She won a cash prize in the fiction contest at Santa Fe Community College and her story was published in the Fall 2009 contest issue.
Anne Valley-Fox
has a new collection of poems, How Shadows Are Bundled, from UNM Press. That book and others can be glimpsed on her web site at AnneValleyFox.com.
Frank Wechsler
is a graphic designer in Santa Fe. His firm, fw graphic designs, has an office in the Design Center downtown. Previous to having moved here 6 years ago, he was a designer in New York City for 14 years. This past year he formed a partnership with Jane Dill, graphic designer and calligrapher, called Santa Fe Logo Designs. He is also an instructor in the Media Arts Dept at Santa Fe Community College.
Kenneth Weene's
novel, Memoirs From the Asylum, is soon to be published by All Things That Matter Press, the publisher of his earlier novel, Widow's Walk. His poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous venues. Ken and his wife now live in semi-retirement in AZ where Ken continues to write.
Cynthia West
is known for painting, poetry, photography, digital imaging and book arts. Her home, where she has lived for over thirty years with her husband and family, is a healing center as well as her studio and gallery. Her works are collected world-wide. She is the author of four collections of poetry, For Beauty Way, Inked Wingbeat, Santa Fe, 1990, 1000 Stone Buddhas, Inked Wingbeat, 1993, Rainbringer, Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, 2004 and The New Sun, Sunstone Press, 2007.
Emily May Wingren
is a ball of light being projected onto a screen as music you've never heard before plays. She likes treats and doing things the wrong way. Emily intends to design her own major in film, music, and neuroscience.
Rachelle Woods
is grateful for poetry community - writing around a table laden with treats and tea, reading, revising, and performing in collaboration.