{"id":1305,"date":"2011-10-04T02:19:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T02:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?page_id=1305"},"modified":"2011-10-04T02:19:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T02:19:03","slug":"contributor-bios-1011","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/contributors\/contributor-bios-1011\/","title":{"rendered":"Contributor Bios, October 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Kasandra Larsen&#8217;s<\/strong> chapbook STELLAR TELEGRAM comes out this year from <em>Sheltering Pines Press<\/em>, and she was recently a finalist in the <em>Tiferet<\/em> 2010 Sacred Poetry contest.\u00a0Her\u00a0poems have appeared in numerous journals in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., including <em>Pure Francis, Osprey Journal, tinfoildresses, The Nervous Breakdown, nthposition, The November 3rd Club, Two Hawks Quarterly, <\/em>and <em>Breakwater Review.<\/em><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Steven Gulvezan<\/strong> is a disciple, in words, of the great sculptor, Alberto Giacometti.\u00a0 At their best he hopes that his stories and poems are able to cut close enough to the bone of truth to make them worthwhile to read.\u00a0 He\u2019s recently been published in<em>Underground Voices<\/em>, <em>Gutter Eloquence<\/em>, and <em>The Battered Suitcase<\/em>.\u00a0 Links to some of his writings may be found at:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysterywriters.org\/user\/607\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mysterywriters.org\/user\/607<\/a><strong>Justin Ehrlich<\/strong> was born in Essex in 1985 and has a degree in Philosophy.\u00a0 His poetry has been published in Danse Macabre, Dark Gothic Resurrected, Sex and Murder Anthology, The Recusant, Best of Demonic Tome, Gloom Cupboard, Breadcrumb Scabs and more.\u00a0 See more of his work at: <a href=\"http:\/\/luminousdecay.posterous.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/luminousdecay.posterous.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jan Steckel<\/strong> is a retired physician, a bisexual and disability rights activist, and a poet and writer. Her <em>Mixing Tracks<\/em> (Gertrude Press, 2009) won the Gertrude Press fiction chapbook award. Her chapbook <em>The Underwater Hospital<\/em>(Zeitgeist Press, 2006) won a Rainbow Award for lesbian and bisexual poetry. Her writing has appeared in<em> Scholastic Magazine, Yale Medicine, Bellevue Literary Review,<\/em> and elsewhere. Her first full-length poetry collection, <em>The Horizontal Poet<\/em>, is forthcoming from Zeitgeist Press. Find out more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jansteckel.com\">www.jansteckel.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"yui_3_2_0_5_1314384878097346\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Emeniano Acain Somoza, Jr<\/strong>. works as a Communications Officer at a steel manufacturing multinational in the Middle East. He considers himself the official spiritual advisor of his roommates, Gordot and Dwight &#8212; the first a goldfish, the other a Turkish Van cat. His works have been published in Triggerfish Critical Review, Troubadors 21, Gloom Cupboard, TAYO, Haggard &amp; Halloo, and elsewhere. His first book, <em>A Fistful of Moonbeams, <\/em>was published by Kilmog Press in April 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas Hoad <\/strong>resides in Ontario, Canada. He has had his work in two Brock student anthologies, the late Inscribed ~ A Magazine for Writers, Ditch Poetry, and he has donated a poem to Little Episodes. He has self-published one chapbook in 2010 titled &#8220;I Wasn&#8217;t Listening,&#8221; and is currently working on several projects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stacey Madden <\/strong>is a reclusive writer from Toronto, Canada. His writing has appeared in numerous literary journals, as well as The Globe and Mail, Canada&#8217;s national newspaper. He is primarily a fiction writer, but will dabble in poetry when he&#8217;s depressed or insane.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joseph M. Gant<\/strong> is a scientific glassblower by trade and education His work has appeared modestly in small press and academic journals. Joseph is Poetry Editor for S A M Publishing, and he recently authored a full-length collection of poetry, <em><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">Zero Division,<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"> which is published through Rebel Satori Press He maintains a sad excuse for a blog here: <a href=\"http:\/\/josephmgant.blogspot.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/josephmgant.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Marc Vincenz<\/strong> was born in Hong Kong to Swiss-British parents during the height of the Cultural Revolution. He currently lives in Iceland where he works as a freelance journalist, poet, translator and literary critic.\u00a0 He is Poetry and Non-Fiction Editor for the international webzine <em>Mad Hatters&#8217; Review<\/em>, Managing Editor of MadHat Press, and is a member of the editorial board of <em>Open Letters Monthly<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Recent poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in<em> Spillway, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poets &amp; Artists,\u00a0 Nth Position, FRiGG, MiPOesias<\/em>, <em>elimae<\/em> and <em>Inertia<\/em>. A chapbook, <em>Upholding Half the Sky<\/em>,\u00a0was published by GOSS183: Casa Menendez (2010), USA. A new e-chap, <em>The Propaganda Factory<\/em>,\u00a0is forthcoming from Argotist ebooks later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Mbizo Chirasha born in Zvishavane district [1978] ,is an internationally acclaimed performance poet, writer, and creative projects facilitator and live literature producer. He was the poet-in-residence: from 2001-2004 for the Iranian embassy\/UN dialogue<br \/>\namong civilizations project; the United Nations Information Center &#8211; 2001-2008; In 2003 Mbizo was the New Generation Poetry Delegate at The Gothenburg International Book Fair, Nordic African Institute Writers Seminar, Swedish Writers Union reading night in Sweden. He was an artist in resident in the Atelier Alexandra Art School in Egypt 2006.<br \/>\nHe was the Convener\/Event Consultant THIS IS AFRICA POETRY NIGHT 2004<br \/>\n&#8211; 2006; official performance poet Zimbabwe International Travel Expo in 2007, He is a regular guest performing poet at the Zimbabwe international Book Fair, Harare International festival of the Arts, Zimbabwe German Society various programs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kasandra Larsen&#8217;s chapbook STELLAR TELEGRAM comes out this year from Sheltering Pines Press, and she was recently a finalist in the Tiferet 2010 Sacred Poetry contest.\u00a0Her\u00a0poems have appeared in numerous journals in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., including Pure Francis, Osprey Journal, tinfoildresses, The Nervous Breakdown, nthposition, The November 3rd Club, Two Hawks Quarterly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1305","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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