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Gary Whitehead's first full-length book of poems, The Velocity of Dust, was published by Salmon Publishing in 2004. A third chapbook, After the Drowning, is just out from Finishing Line Press. Awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts Individual Artist's Fellowship in Poetry, the PEN Northwest Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, and the Pearl Hogrefe Fellowship in Creative Writing at Iowa State University.

R. T. Castleberry is an assistant editor at Lily Literary Review and the former co-editor/co-publisher of the poetry monthly, Curbside Review. His work has appeared in numerous journals including Concho River Review, Another Chicago Review, Poet Lore, Common Ground Review, Pacific Review, Borderlands, Texas Review and previously in Right Hand Pointing.

Chris Major lives in Staffs, England. His poetry has appeared in a number of print UK magazines and on line recently at Zygote, Snakeskin, High Horse, Poetry Kit, Lily, Stirring, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Out of Order, Spent Meat, and others.  This is his second appearance in RHP.

Mark DeCarteret's poetry has appeared in AGNI, Atlanta Review, Caliban, Chicago Review, Cream City Review, Conduit, Hotel Amerika, Phoebe, Poetry East, Quick Fiction, Salt Hill, and 3rd bed, as well as the anthologies American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon Press, 2000) and Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader (Black Sparrow Press, 1999 and a poster (broadside) in Mudlark.  He have new work appearing in Agenda (England), Ars-Interpres (Sweden), Forklift, Ohio, House Organ, Le Petit Zine, Mudfish, Pool and Third Coast.  His first book, Review--A Book of Poems, was published by Kettle of Fish Press in 1995.  A new chapbook, The Great Apology, was just published by Oyster River Press. for whom he co-edited the anthology Under the Legislature of Stars: 62 New Hampshire Poets.

Doug Draime began publishing in the underground and small press in the late 1960's, while living in Los Angeles. Most recent book in print is Unoccupied Zone (Pitchfork Press, 2004). An online chap, Spleen was published in 2005 by Poetic Inhalation. And forthcoming from Scintillating Publications, Spiders And Madmen. His poems, short stories, and plays have appeared in hundreds of magazines, underground newspapers, and online journals worldwide. He currently lives in the foothills of the Siskiyou mountain range with his wife, writer, Carol Shepherd-Draime.

Carolyn Adams has been active in the literary and art communities of her native Houston, as well as throughout Texas, since 1988.  Her art and writing have been published or will soon appear in TimeSlice: Houston Poetry 2005, Common Ground Review, Lily Literature Review,  eye magazine, Aesthetica, Texas Poetry Calendar 2007 and All Things Girl, among others.  She is the former co-editor and co-publisher of Curbside Review, and Assistant Editor of Ardent.  She wishes more people wore aqua.  Right Hand Pointing is pleased to present Carolyn's visual art and poetry in this issue.

Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of the poetry chapbook, Death of the Frog Prince (FootHills Publishing, 2004). His poems have appeared in numerous journals and e-zines, including 2River View, Stirring, Lily, Plum Ruby Review, Wilmington Blues, The Rose & Thorn, and Prairie Poetry, the latter drawing on his North Dakota background.  Howard's a regular here. There's no denying it.

Will Hunt is an undergraduate at Middlebury College in Vermont. He grew up in Providence, RI. His work can be found, among other places, in Farmhouse Magazine. He says he sometimes writes about things other than superheroes, (which we at RHP regard as the literary bio equivalent of someone saying they sometimes read things other than comics.) Will Hunt also enjoys the condescending wit of obscure online literary mag editors.  (We at RHP would protest Mr. Hunt's use of the word "obscure," but for the detail that he is correct.)

James Ray Scott may be what we  call a drifter, a free spirit caught up in the machine; a noun running through the KGB's airspace. He may be the kind of guy RHP doesn't want to get mixed up with 'cause he'll only break our heart.  Publications:  Decanto Poetry Magazine/ Anthology, Taj Mahal Review, Heat City Literary Review, Word Riot, Grimm Magazine, Nussey Magazine, Sentinel Poetry Quarterly, London Ghetto Poets, Pulsar Poetry Magazine, Poultry Broadside, Pyramid Magazine.

One of our regular contributors, John Grey is an Australian born poet, playwright, musician. Latest book is What Else Is There from Main Street Rag. Recently in The English Journal, Light, and the Journal of The American Medical Association.

Joseph Trombatore's  recent work has appeared in Curbside Review, Lily, Spiky Palm, Right Hand Pointing, Ithuriel’s Spear, Underground Window, Pyramid Arts & Poetry Journal, Prose Toad, Foliate Oak, FRiGG, Gin Bender, and Watch The Eye.

Kit Kennedy's work appears or will appear in Blades, Bombay Gin, Clara Venus, Erosha, Frigg, The Hiss Quarterly, Mannequin Envy, Noon, Poetry Super Highway, Rainbow Curve, Runes, Saranac Review, and Van Gogh's Ear. She lives in San Francisco where she hosts the monthly All Poets Welcome reading series.

Pete Lee's former occupations include army sergeant/counterintelligence agent, federal intelligence operations specialist, private investigator, newspaper reporter, and social worker. His poetry has been widely published, both in print and on-line.

Peter Berghoef lives in Holland, Michigan works at a public library.  He recently had work in the 2River View.

Randall Brown is a teacher who lives outside of Philadelphia with his wife Meg, who is a cabaret singer, and their two children. He is a Pushcart nominee, a fiction editor with SmokeLong Quarterly, and on the editorial board of Philadelphia Stories. He holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from Vermont College (June 2006) and a BA from Tufts University. His stories, poems, and essays have been published widely, with recent work forthcoming in Clackamas Literary Review, Del Sol Review, Cairn, and The Saint Ann's Review.  He’s currently working on a short short collection, Mad To Live.

Lynn Strongin has authored seven published books, poems in thirty anthologies, fifty-five journals, national & international, both on-line and in print. Her anthology The Sorrow Psalms: A Book of Twentieth Century Elegy will be published in June, 2006 by the University of Iowa Press. Lynn was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in British Columbia, Canada.  She has work in previous issues of RHP.

Taylor Graham earned an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Southern California. She trains her dogs for search and rescue (which we at RHP think is fully cool) and helps her husband, a retired wildlife biologist, with his field projects. Her book, The Downstairs Dance Floor, was the winner of the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize. 

Tammy Ho, aka Sighming, is a Hong Kong-born and -based writer. She is the editor of Hong Kong U Writing: An Anthology (March 2006). Her short stories, poems and book reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in international publications, including filling station, Fire, Pressed, Poetry Monthly Magazine, Fe/male Bodies: the First Asia-based Journal on Body, Gender and Sexuality, Sweat and the City, Poetry New Zealand, Borderlines Poetry Magazine, Poetry Live!, Asian Review of Books, The Standard, and Yuan Yang. Three of her poems are translated into Chinese in Ellen Lai's collection of poetry Except For Spider and Psychotic Woman. Tammy's story 'Let Her Go' won the second runner-up place in The Standard-RTHK's Short Story Competition 2005.