Issue 29, Winter '12

Contributors

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Laurah Norton Raines

Issue 10

Laurah Norton Raines, a recent MFA grad, works as a visiting instructor of creative writing at Georgia State University, the school that issued her degree. Laurah’s work has appeared in several magazines, and she is working on the launch of her own journal Sub-Lit. Laurah is also an associate editor at Five Points. She enjoys dogs, retro culture, tattoos, and psychobilly music.

Valentina Ramos

Issue 21 • Website

After 15 years working as a graphic designer, Valentina Ramos started to create other arts and crafts. From these creations, Valentina Design was born: her world of fantasies and dreams; where her uplifting drawings and designs took shape. In her Miami studio, this Venezuelan artist spent countless happy hours playing with her paints and her Rapidograph Pens. She enjoys working with different materials, but black ink is one of the mediums you will always find in her original prints, paintings and drawings. Her love for artwork with little intricate details are a signature of her own drawing style.

Susan Rich

Issue 24

Susan Rich is the author of three collections of poetry, The Cartographer’s Tongue / Poems of the World, Cures Include Travel, and The Alchemist’s Kitchen. She has received awards from PEN USA, The Times Literary Supplement, and Peace Corps Writers. Her fellowships include an Artists Trust Fellowship from Washington State and a Fulbright Fellowship in South Africa. She has worked as a staff person for Amnesty International, an electoral supervisor in Bosnia Herzegovina, and a human rights trainer in Gaza and the West Bank. She lives in Seattle and teaches at Highline Community College.

Joe Robb

Blogger

Rawboned and brawny from too many years in the Northeast, Joe returned to Cincinnati to participate in the cultural revolution that is the birthright of the Midwest. He was published once in Quick Fiction and is proud that his story was among the shortest of the issue’s very short stories. When not writing, cooking, eating, or wandering, agog, in the new, super supermarket that sprang up by his house overnight, Joe works at an IT company and volunteers at Inktank, a nonprofit dedicated to serving the literary needs of Cincinnati.

Ethel Rohan

Issue 24

Raised in Ireland, Ethel Rohan now lives in San Francisco. She received her MFA in fiction from Mills College, CA. Her work has or will appear in Guernica, Gargoyle, Potomac Review, Los Angeles Review, and Southeast Review Online, among many others. Her short short story collection, Cut Through the Bone, is forthcoming from Dark Sky Books in December, 2010. A second short short collection, Hard to Say, is forthcoming from PANK, 2011. She blogs at ethelrohan.com.

Jaffney Roode

Issue 13

Jaffney Roode is working towards an M.A. in literature at UMass Boston. Her interests include making simple things complicated, reading South African literature, watching Roseanne, and ensuring that academia is liberating and fun.

Andy Ross

Issue 28

Andy Ross is freelance writer and newspaper reporter who hails from Mississippi. He recently left behind his Deep South roots for New York City where he currently works as a research assistant for Newsweek/The Daily Beast. His writing has appeared in Memphis Magazine, Mississippi Sports Magazine, Texas Highways, Texas Live Magazine, Jambase and various newspapers.

Michael Royce

Issue 27

Michael Royce was a community organizer for 10 years with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Mississippi, the anti-poverty program in Kentucky, as an anti-war activist and eventually an anti-war GI, and as a labor organizer. He followed this with a career as a trial lawyer representing industrial workers and victims of toxic chemical exposure. And for the last few years, he has been active promoting potable water and electrification in remote villages of the less developed world through Green Empowerment, a nongovernmental organization headquartered in Portland, Oregon. When not being so serious, he spends most of his time with expanded family, writing, hiking, biking, practicing yoga and kayaking. His short stories and creative nonfiction pieces have appeared in The Prick of the Spindle, The Linnet’s Wings, and Our Portland Story, an anthology.

Francine Rubin

Issue 16

Francine Rubin is a graduate student at Columbia University, working towards becoming a certified high school English teacher. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and a BA in Theater from Dartmouth College. When not studying or writing, Ms. Rubin may be found in a dance studio. She recently performed in site-specific work at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and for the last five years has taught ballet to children and adults throughout the Northeast. Her poetry has previously appeared in the Long Island Pulse.

Joanna Ruocco

Issue 14

Joanna Ruocco is an MFA Candidate at Brown University.

Jayme Russell

Issue 26

Jayme Russell is an MA candidate studying poetry at Ohio University. She is an assistant editor of Quarter After Eight and also works for New Ohio Review. She lives in Athens, Ohio.

Kate Russell

Issue 21

Kate Russell is a graduate of Indiana University and University of Maine at Farmington. She lives in Clifton, Maine and is currently at work on a novel set on Mount Desert Island.