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Maura Conley
Maura Conley is a writer from Long Island. She completed her MFA at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. Maura now lives in Brooklyn and is working on The Opposite of Nesting, a novel in stories.
Barbara Crooker
Barbara Crooker has published poems in magazines such as Yankee, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Denver Quarterly; anthologies, including Worlds in their Words: An Anthology of Contemporary American Women Writers (Prentice Hall) and Boomer Girls (University of Iowa Press); eleven chapbooks, and a full-length collection, Radiance, which won the Word Press First Book Award and was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. She has received three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships in Literature, the WB Yeats Society of NY Prize (Grace Schulman, judge) and the Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award (Stanley Kunitz, judge).
Rachel Dacus
Rachel Dacus's poetry collection, Femme au chapeau (David Robert Books, 2005) was reviewed as “thrilling, one-of-a-kind poetry.” She has published another book, Earth Lessons (Bellowing Ark Press, 1998), and two poetry CDs, A God You Can Dance and Singing in the Pandaleshwar Caves. Her work has recently appeared in Bellingham Review, Image, and Swink, and was included in the anthology Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English (Wesleyan University Press). More of her writing can be found at www.dacushome.com.
Nicole Henares
A native of the Monterey Peninsula, Nicole Henares lives in San Francisco with two cats and one husband. Her poems are where the blues meet the mean reds and have appeared throughout the small press. Nicole will be attending New College's Writing and Consciousness MFA Program in the fall.
Erin McElroy
Erin McElroy, (born 1982), is a photo artist, primarily from Wilmington, Delaware, and currently residing in Easthampton, Massachusetts. She has studied at Delaware College of Art and Design, New York University, and Hampshire College. She has had several Northeast exhibits, and has also been published in a handful online zines and galleries. She creates both color photo prints and black and white photo-oil transfer pieces, though she is also currently experimenting with auditory appendages to her work. You can see more of her work at www.erinmcelroy.net.
Leigh Phillips
Leigh Phillips is working towards her PhD at Binghamton University, focusing on contemporary feminisms, political discourses, and experimental poetics. Her poems have appeared in Harpur Palate, Long Shot, Lodestar Quarterly, Shampoo, and Ugly Poets, Beautiful Poems: An Anthology of Fusion. She is circulating her first poetry manuscript, Naked in the Heartbreak House. Leigh also has articles in the Encyclopedia of Third Wave Feminism, and in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of the Modern World.
Elizabeth Stark
Elizabeth Stark is the Editor-in-Chief of Fringe Magazine. She graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University with a BA in 2003, and spent time at Pembroke College, Oxford in 2001-2002. She is currently a second year MFA. candidate in fiction at Emerson College. Symbolic logic, philosophy of language, and feminism excite her on the theory circuit, and she enjoys reading and writing about modernist literature. She writes about trios, non-traditional relationships, and the bizarre occurrences of everyday life. In her spare time, Elizabeth enjoys samurai film, soapmaking, and fighting consumer culture.
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