right hand pointing

Jordan Smith is the author of five collections of poetry.  The most recent, The Names of Things Are Leaving, will be published this coming year by the University of Tampa Press.  He lives, teaches, and writes in upstate New York.

Ed Pavlic is author of Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue which Adrienne Rich selected to win the The American Poetry Review / Honickman First Book Prize in 2001 and a book of literary essays, Crossroads Modernism (U. Minn. P, 2002). He teaches in the English Department and directs the Africana Studies Program at Union College in Schenectady, NY.

Lynn Strongin was born in NYC(2939) and raised in and around the Big Apple as well as traveling thru various parts of the South during the war when her father was an Army psychologist. Early studies in musical composition branched out into writing. Lynn worked for Denise Levertov during the politically active Sixties in Berkeley.  She 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 has made British Columbia, Canada, her home for the past twenty-five years.  

Bruce New writes: "I was born in 1970. I currently reside in the wilds of northern Kentucky, on a mountaintop, next to the sun, where I create my artwork high on butterfly wine."

CL Bledsoe is an editor for Ghoti Magazine. www.ghotimag.com He has work in Nimrod, Thunder Sandwich, Margie, Natural Bridge, and Diner, among other places.  His work appeared in Issue 8 of Right Hand Pointing.

Douglas Barricklow won first prize for fiction in Willamette Week newspaper’s writing contest.  He has poems in or forthcoming in The Bellowing Ark, The Blind Man’s Rainbow, West Wind Review, The Suisun Valley Review, Plazm, Fireweed, Potpourri, Cutting Teeth, The Jefferson Monthly, and the on-line poetry journal,  Mastodon Dentist.

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, and Rose & Thorn. This is his second appearance in Right Hand Pointing.

Manfred Gabriel moved to the U.S. in 1997. He divides his time between Western Massachusetts and New York City, where he works as a lawyer.  His first published piece of fiction, "Driving North," was in Issue 4 of Right Hand Pointing.

Jane K. Kretschmann teaches English, writes poetry, and walks her retriever, Belle.  She has poems in Fresh Boiled Peanuts, Waterways: Poetry in the Mainstream, and the online journals Artistry of Life and Muscadine
Lines: a Southern Journal.

Bernard Quetchenbach's poems and essays have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Worcester Review, Ascent, HazMat Review, and Isotope.  His "Hermit" poems are part of a series; other poems in the series have appeared in magazines including Rosebud, Blueline, Pleiades, and The Bridge, and  in a chapbook, The Hermit's Act, from Finishing Line Press. He lives in Lakeland, Florida.

Charles P. Ries lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His narrative poems, short stories, interviews and poetry reviews have appeared in over one hundred print and electronic publications. He has received three Pushcart Prize nominations for his writing and most recently he read his poetry on National Public Radio’s Theme and Variations, a program that is broadcast over seventy NPR affiliates. He is the author of The Fathers We Find, a novel based on memory. Ries is also the author of five books of poetry — the most recent entitled, The Last Time which was just released by The Moon Press in Tucson, Arizona. He is the poetry editor for Word Riot (www.wordriot.org). His website is at http://www.literati.net/Ries

Jared Sinclair lives in Charleston, SC where he is studying English. He always wears two shirts--a condition which does not lend itself to the Charleston weather. Jared has and has had many loves in life, but it is macaroni and cheese which fills the great void. In his spare time, Jared reads children's novels and avoids cooking.