Contributor Bios, November 2010 Poetry
IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal was born in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. He now lives and works in Los Angeles County. His next chapbook book of poetry, Digging a Grave, will be published by Kendra Steiner Editions.
David Watts grew up in Central Texas and trained first as a musician then as a medical doctor. He was on-camera host for PBS, Lifetime Network and local television news in the 1980’s and was a live radio host on KQED-FM. His commentaries on the practice of medicine can be heard on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. His practice of medicine and gastroenterology is at the University of California, San Francisco – where he teaches in the medical school. In 1992 he earned a Masters in English/Poetry from San Francisco State University and now teaches poetry at the Fromm Institute. His poetry has been published in The Gettysburg Review, The Antioch Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, The New Virginia Review and other magazines. His book Making was awarded the Talent House Prize in 1999. He is currently working on a television special examining the relationship between poetry and medicine. He lives with his wife, Joan Baranow, and four-year-old son in Mill Valley, California.
Sergio Ortiz is a retired educator, poet, and photographer.
Cheyenne Nimes just graduated from the Nonfiction writing program at Iowa. Recent work can be found In Sonora Review, Killauthor, Ditch, abjective, J Journal and others. She was a 2009 writer-in-residence at the Iowa Art Museum and 2009 winner of DIAGRAM’S hybrid essay contest www.strangeh2os.wordpress.com.
Joyce Swing Goodlatte, whose roots are in Vermont and Chicago, is a fairly recent transplant to the west coast and is dazzled by the light in Oakland. She likes discovering the eternal/universal in the mundane.
Among other publications, Cyrus Armajani’s poems have appeared in Berkeley Poetry Review, Multicultural Education Magazine and Reed Magazine. His writing can be read at poemsbycyrus.blogspot.com. He teaches reading and writing to youth at Alameda County Juvenile Hall in Northern California and fights for their vision of and full participation in society. Cyrus lives with his wife in Oakland, California.
Cynthia K. Marshall works and plays in Dayton, Ohio. Her work has been published in Nexus.
Ross Vassilev was born in Bulgaria and now lives in Ohio. He’s a poet and the editor of Opium Poetry 2.0 (http://opiumpoetry.blogspot.com/) and Asphodel Madness (http://asphodelmadness.blogspot.com/) blogzines.
William Taylor Jr. lives in San Francisco with a lovely wife and a lovely cat. His latest collection of poetry is The Hunger Season (Sunny Outside, 2009.) He recently co-edited, along with RD Armstrong, Down This Crooked Road: Modern Poetry From the Road less Traveled (Lummox, 2009.) An Age of Monsters, his first collection of prose is due out in 2011 from Epic Rites Press.
Suchoon Mo is a former Korean Army Lieutenant and a retired academic living in the semiarid part of Colorado. His poems and essays appeared in such publications as East and West, Religious Humanism, Riverside Poetry, Dissident Editions, The Surface, Snakeskin, Bitter Oleander, Poetic Voices, Thunder Sandwich, Spillway Review, Subtle Tea, Quill and Ink, Full Moon, Stylus Poetry Journal, Sage of Consciousness, Underground Window, and Sentinel Poetry.
Michael H. Brownstein has been widely published throughout the small and literary presses. His work has appeared in The Café Review, American Letters and Commentary, Skidrow Penthouse, Xavier Review, Hotel Amerika, After Hours, Free Lunch, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, The Pacific Review and others. In addition, he has eight poetry chapbooks including The Shooting Gallery (Samidat Press, 1987), Poems from the Body Bag (Ommation Press, 1988), A Period of Trees (Snark Press, 2004) and What Stone Is (Fractal Edge Press, 2005).Brownstein taught elementary school in Chicago’s inner city (he is now retired), but he continues to study authentic African instruments with his students, conducts grant-writing workshops for educators and the State of Illinois Title 1 Convention, and records performance and music pieces with grants from the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs, the Oppenheimer Foundation, BP Leadership Grants, and others.
Michael Lee Johnson is a poet and freelance writer from Itasca, Illinois. He is heavily influenced by: Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Irving Layton, Leonard Cohen, and Allen Ginsberg. His new poetry chapbook with pictures titled From Which Place the Morning Rises, and his new photo version of The Lost American: from Exile to Freedom are available at www.lulu.com. Michael has been published in over 23 countries. He is editor/publisher of four poetry sites, all open for submission, which can be found at his web site, www.poetryman.mysite.com. All of his books are now available on www.amazon.com, www.borders.com.
Flynn O’Brien lives in San Francisco.
