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Eric Magrane recently completed a permanent mirror-poem installation at Casa Libre en la Solana in Tucson, Arizona. His website is www.ericmagrane.com.

Robert Tiffin is a 25 year-old filmmaker and writer currently living in Atlanta, Georgia. His first feature length film, Downtime, was recently released on DVD after two long years in production. He also has a chapbook, Flowers from The Devil, currently available on Amazon. He continues to write daily while also shooting an experimental companion piece to his poems called, Flowers for The Devil, which will be released on DVD sometime this summer.

CL Bledsoe is the author of two forthcoming collections, Anthem, and _____ (want/need), which includes these poems. He is an editor for Ghoti Magazine .

Daniel Sumrall received his MFA from the University of Notre Dame in 2003 and currently teaches English at Manchester Community College in Connecticut.

William Doreski’s most recent collection of poetry is Another Ice Age (2007). He has published three critical studies, including Robert Lowell’s Shifting Colors. His essays, poetry, and reviews have appeared in many journals, including Massachusetts Review, Notre Dame Review, The Alembic, New England Quarterly, Harvard Review, Modern Philology, Antioch Review, Natural Bridge.

Hosho McCreesh is currently alive & working & writing & painting in the gypsum badlands of the American Southwest. His work has appeared in the small press since 1999 in both English & translation abroad--most recently in Quercus Review, Remark, Microbe (Belgium), Noveaux Delits (France) as well as the Guerilla Poetics Project--both as broadsides & in the GPPReader.   New chapbooks from BOTTLE OF SMOKE PRESS, HEMISHPERICAL PRESS, & SUNNYOUTSIDE are due out this year.

Mark Cunningham has poems in recent or forthcoming issues of Sentence, Parcel, and Practice. Tarpaulin Sky Press will be bringing out a book tentatively titled Body Language, which will contain two separate collections, one titled "Body" (on parts of the body) and one titled "Primer" (on numbers and letters).  Mark's web chapbook, Second Story, appears on Right Hand Pointing and we're closing in on a second one to appear here.

Sally Allen McCall has lived and written and taught in Kansas, New Zealand, Ohio and California. She has recently published in The Comstock Review, Iris, Out of Line, Nimrod, Poetry East, Barrow Street, Left Curve, Epicenter, Café Review and Cider Press Review. Her chapbook, How to Behave at the Zoo and Other Lessons, was a winner of the State Street Press competition. Her first book manuscript, Rescue, won the Backwaters Press Prize. A new chapbook, Trying to write a poem without the word blood in it, came out in 2005. A book length manuscript, Where Once, is in progress.

Noel Sloboda's poetry has appeared in print and online in a number of places, most recently Word Riot, Broadsided.org, Vulcan, Scifaikuest, and Gentle Strength Quarterly.

  Lynn Strongin
 

Lynn Strongin is widely published  in print and on the web and  has appeared many times in Right Hand Pointing and this includes a web chapbook, Portable Debit Machine.

Ward Crockett is a filmmaker and freelance writer skulking about Chicago, IL. Your K-12 child may have recently encountered his short essay questions in textbooks published by McGraw-Hill and Holt, Rinehart & (who can forget) Winston. But if your K-3 children are encountering short essay questions in school, then way to go, you uncompromising parent you. Ward's fiction, poetry, and nonfiction appear in Catch, Danger City Two, Exposed and Rockstar (yes, the one with the naked people in it).

Jason Arbogast is currently a graduate student in Iowa State University's creative writing MA program. The rumors of the corn are mostly untrue. His short story collection, Lost and Found in Kalamazoo, was recently released by Main Street Rag Press.

Elizabeth Bruno is a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin Parkside where she received a B.A. in English with a writing concentration. She is currently working and living in Wisconsin. Her poems have previously appeared or are forthcoming in Stirring, Eclectica, Lily, The Potomac, Kaleidowhirl & Shakespeare’s Monkey Review.

Beth Thomas writes mostly short fiction. Her work has recently
appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Monkeybicycle, Pindeldyboz, elimae, and other places.

  Jonathan Hayes
 

Jonathan Hayes lives in San Francisco. He has taught poetry at 826 Valencia – a writing center for children – located in the Mission District of the City.

David Highsmith is the proprietor of Books & Bookshelves in San Francisco. Recent poems are forthcoming in the Antioch Review, Beatitude, foam:e, and Sawbuck. His books include Poison in the System, Fragments from Bernard, The Chatterley Stanzas, and Catalina Island.

Jay-Pee Sayson lives in Davao City, Philippines. He was the former Editor-in-Chief during his college (University of Mindanao.) He graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Management Accounting and was a recipient of RP President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Academic and Leadership Excellence Award. He enrolled in the Graduate School with Masters Degree in Business Administration major in Corporation and Executives in Davao City.  He has work in the Fall issue(Oct.2007) and Feb.2008 issue in the Houston Literary Review.  Currently, he works as a travel specialist at Expedia.com.

Rich Murphy's credits include Great Grandfather, a chapbook; poems in Rolling Stone, Poetry, Grand Street, New Letters, Negative Capability, Spiral Bridge, foam:e, and Confrontation; and essays in Fulcrum, The International Journal of the Humanities, Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics Poetry / Literature and Culture, and Fringe.

Sue Turner's left brain turned right about a decade ago when writing and painting replaced gainful employment. Well and widely published, she writes at home and dreams of other places while blogging Tumblewords.
 

F.J. Bergmann lives in Wisconsin, for the 4th or 5th time, and at fibitz.com. While she lacks literary academic credentials, she is kind to those so encumbered. Her work has appeared in 13th Warrior Review, 21 Stars Review, Foliate Oak, Opium, Press 1, and a recent chapbook, Aqua Regia (Parallel Press 2007).