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Biographies Poets: Suzanne Frischkorn, the author of The Tactile Sense (Alpha Beat Press, 1996) and Exhale (Scandinavian Obliterati Press, 2000), has published recently in Pif, Wisconsin Review, In Posse Review and Pedestal Magazine. Associate editor of Samsara Quarterly, she has a new book entitled New Jersey Made Me Reckless (Lords of Language Press, 2002). Thomas Gribble received an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship for Literature and an Associated Writing Programs' Intro Journal Project award. He has published in Hawaii Review, Puerto Del Sol and has one chapbook, Interest Free Karma, (Kimera Publishing, 2001). Co-publisher and editor of Heliotrope, he teaches at Spokane Community College. Iris Gribble-Neal, an English instructor at Eastern Washington University, co-edits the journal Heliotrope. Her poetry has been published in Washington Square, Cape Rock and Pontoon. She also has published Year and a Day Man, a mixed genre work of letters, news, and memoir. Claudia Grinnell, born and raised in Germany, teaches at the University of Louisiana. She has been published in Hayden's Ferry Review, New Orleans Review and River Oak Review. Her first book of poetry is Conditions Horizontal (Missing Consonant Press, 2001). Ariana-Sophia M. Kartsonis has recently published in Another Chicago Magazine, Denver Quarterly, Fine Madness, Mississippi Review, Bellevue Literary Review and Quarterly West. The poems in Literary Salt are part of a chapbook entitled The Book of Lila. Ariana-Sophia lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Leigh Kirkland is a Marion L. Brittain Fellow in the department of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Tech and has published in Raritan, Poet Lore and elsewhere. Priscilla Long is the author of Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry (Paragon House, 1989). Winner of The Journal's William Allen Creative Nonfiction Prize for 2001, she has published in The Southern Review, North Dakota Quarterly, The Seattle Review, Passages North and Southern Humanities Review. She received an M.F.A. from the University of Washington, teaches for the University of Washington Extension program and is senior editor of the online history encyclopedia (http://www.historylink.org). Frank Matagrano is the author of 'Moving Platform' and 'How to Breathe in Case the Plane Goes Down,' which received the National Looking Glass Poetry Chapbook Award from Pudding House Publications (http://www.puddinghouse.com) in July of 2001. Kevin Miller's second poetry collection is Everywhere Was Far (Blue Begonia Press, 1998). His first book, Light That Whispers Morning (Blue Begonia Press, 1994), won the Bumbershoot/Weyerhaeuser Publication Award. He has published in Crab Creek Review, ZYZZYVA and Talking River Review. The recipient of an Artist Trust grant, he was a Fulbright Exchange teacher at Grenaa Handelsskole, Grenaa, Denmark. Radames Ortiz has a chapbook of poems entitled Between Angels & Monsters. His work has appeared in Gulf Coast, The Mesquite Review and elsewhere. He was recently awarded a fellowship from the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets at Bucknell University. He lives in Houston where he works for Arte Publico Press. Peter Pereira is a family physician in Seattle and a founding editor of Floating Bridge Press. His chapbook The Lost Twin, a King County Arts Commission Special Projects recipient, was published by Grey Spider Press. His book Saying the World won Copper Canyon's 2002 Hayden Carruth Award. The book is due out in 2003-4. He has published in Poetry East, North Dakota Quarterly, Willow Springs and Seattle Review. He was a winner of a 1997 "Discovery"/The Nation Award, an Artist Trust Fellowship and a Seattle Arts Commission Writers Award. Kathryn Rantala has published recently in Field, American Journal of Print, Notre Dame Review and elsewhere. Founder and co-editor of Snow Monkey, she has a book entitled Missing Pieces (Ocean View Press). Judith Skillman has published in Poetry, The Southern Review, Northwest Review and Prairie Schooner. She has received grants from the Washington Arts Commission, the King County Arts Commission, the Centrum Foundation and the Academy of American Poets. Her most recent books are Red Town (Silverfish Review Press, 2001) and Sweetbrier (Blue Begonia Press, 2001.) She teaches humanities at City University and is a co-editor for Fine Madness. Amy Trussell has published in New Orleans Review, The Prague Revue and Oshun African Quarterly. Her collaborative work was exhibited at the 1999 International Poetry Biennial in San Diego and Mexico City. She is also the founder of Front Porch Records, a folk music recording company. Short Story Writers: Zdravka Evtimova was born in Bulgaria where she has published three collections of short stories and two novels. Her short stories have been published in the UK, Germany, Poland, Greece, Turkey, Russia, Macedonia and Yugoslavia. DJ Gaskin has published in The Washington Post, Switched-On Gutenberg, WordWrights, and others. "Measurements" is her first short fiction publication. She lives in a treehouse in Burke, Virginia, where she is at work on more stories, countless poems, and her first novel. Maryanne Stahl lives on a lake with her husband, son, dog, cats, ducks and other wild things. She is an assistant editor for Web del Sol's In Posse Review. Her first novel, Forgive the Moon, will be published by New American Library (Penguin Putnam) in June 2002. Visual Artists: Augusta M. Asberry won first place in Seattle's Sundiata Festival poster contest and the 19th Annual Seattle Urban League Art Show. A member of the Seattle Urban League's advisory board to develop an African American museum. Her paper sculpture CD's Inspiration is part of The Harborview Medical Center's Cultural Collection. Twelve of her paintings are part of the Roslyn Woodhouse Collection. Augusta's artwork is also on permanent exibition at the Isis On First Avenue Gallery in Seattle; Amy Burnett's Gallery, Bremerton, WA; Leanin' Tree Art Museum in Boulder, Colorado; Bricktop's Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts; and elsewhere. Bruce Brezel's work has been displayed at the Washington State Capital Museum, featured in The Olympian and has won awards at the Heritage Art Show. He paints in gouache and oil under the tutelage of Xiaogang Zhu. Tibor M. Mucsi was born in Budapest on November 27, 1970. M. Anne Sweet has a poetry collection entitled Nailed to the Sky (Linear Arts Books, 2001). After many years of working exclusively as a graphic artist, she has returned to photography, videography and other forms of artistic expression. Her URL is http://www.quillonline.com. Glenn Werner was born in New York City. He studied at Parsons School of Design and lives in the New York Hudson Valley with his wife and one child. Carol V. Yocom is a student at the University of Utah. |