c o n v e r g e n c e:
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SUMMER 2012 ISSUE


EDITORS


Lytton Bell

Lytton Bell has published three books (A Path Before Winter, 1998; The Book of Chaps, 2002; and Nectar, 2011), won five poetry contests and performed at many venues. She is a member of Poetica Erotica and her work has appeared in over two dozen publications. Bell earned a poetry scholarship to the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts in 1988 and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1993. She is a civil servant by day.

Josh Fernandez

Josh Fernandez is a freelance writer for Spin.com, Boulder Weekly, San Antonio Current and the Sacramento News and Review. His poetry is widely published, and he continues to be a sought after reader and speaker – often asked to talk about ethnic diversity, abuse and addiction. Fernandez was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his poem "The Last Thing He Said." His first full-length collection of poems, Spare Parts and Dismemberment, was published by R.L. Crow in May 2011.

Cynthia Linville (Managing Editor/Designer)

Cynthia Linville teaches writing at California State University at Sacramento and frequently hosts and reads at poetry events both on her own and with Poetica Erotica. Her book of collected poems, The Lost Thing, is available from Cold River Press. A music aficionado with a theater background, she is usually out and about supporting the arts in Sacramento and in the San Francisco Bay Area.




CONTRIBUTORS


Cezarija Abartis

Cezarija Abartis' Nice Girls and Other Stories was published by New Rivers Press. Her stories have appeared in Wigleaf, Waccamaw, Story Quarterly, and New York Tyrant, among others. Recently she completed a novel, a thriller. She teaches at St. Cloud State University.

Eleanor Leonne Bennett

Eleanor Leonne Bennett is a teenaged photographer and artist who has won contests with National Geographic, The World Photography Organisation, Big Issue, Nature's Best Photography and more. She has had her photographs published in exhibitions and magazines across the world including the National Geographic and Airbus' See The Bigger Picture global exhibition tour with the United Nations International Year Of Biodiversity 2010. See more of her work at eleanorleonnebennett.zenfolio.com.

Michael D. Brown

Michael D. Brown, an American from Syracuse, New York, is a Professor of English at Nanjing Agriculture University, China. He is the award winning author of 16 books, including six volumes of poetry. Dr. Brown is a recipient of the New York State Senator, John De Francisco award for poetry.

Daniel Davis

Daniel Davis was born and raised in Central Illinois. His work has appeared in various online and print journals. You can find him at dumpsterchickenmusic.blogspot.com.

Frank Dixon Graham

Frank Dixon Graham grew up in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tulsa. At the beginning of his poetry career, he moved to Boston. He has studied under Daniel Bosch, Naomi Shihab Nye, Richard Moore, Geoff Olesner, and Cheryl Gravis to name a few. Recently, Frank moved to California’s state capitol where he engages in political activism and serves as a board member for the Sacramento Poetry Center and editor for The Tule Review.

Carl James Grindley

Carl James Grindley grew up on an island off the West Coast of Canada and studied in the US and Europe. He has taught creative writing at Yale University and works at The City University of New York. His book Icon was published in 2008 by No Record Press. He has recent work in Anatomy and Etymology, A Bad Penny Review, Atticus Review and The Nervous Breakdown. Grindley is a founding editor of The South Bronx Review.

Dallas Harder

Dallas Harder is an internet personality and photographer based in Alberta, Canada. He loves to love to read, write, paint, and exercise. Dallas is a teenager who is active in gay culture.

Dianna Henning

Dianna Henning holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She taught creative writing for California Poets in the Schools, through the William James Association’s Prison Arts Program and through several California Arts Council grants. Dianna has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her most recent book, The Broken Bone Tongue, was published by Black Buzzard Press, Austin TX and was recently reviewed by Hawaii Pacific Review. Her most recent work can be seen in Blue Fifth Review, Notebook Series; FutureCycle.

Erren Geraud Kelly

Erren Geraud Kelly's work has been published in over 60 publications in the United States, Canada and abroad. Mr. Kelly recieved his B.A. degree in English-Creative Writing from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and lives in Chicago

Tyler King

Tyler King is currently working toward his B.A. in English at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in FreeXpresSion, Jerry Jazz Musician, The Binnacle, Burning Word, Black Heart Magazine, and BlazeVOX.

J. Alan Nelson

J. Alan Nelson is a writer and a lawyer. His essays, stories, epistles and poetry have been published widely in California Quarterly, Wisconsin Review, Adirondack Review, Hawai’i Review, Kennesaw Review, Illya’s Honey, Fulcrum, Connecticut River Review, Blue Fifth Review, American Scholar and many others.

Timothy Pilgrim

Timothy Pilgrim is a Pacific Northwest poet who has published over 100 poems, mostly in literary journals like Convergence and anthologies of poetry, such as Idaho's poets: A Centennial Anthology from the University of Idaho Press. He is a a journalism professor at Western Washington University in Bellingham

Fabio Sassi

Fabio Sassi has been a visual artist since 1990, making acrylics using the stenciling technique on canvas, board, old vinyl records and other media. Fabio uses logos, icons, tiny objects and shades to create weird perspectives. Many of his subjects are inspired by a paradox (either real or imaginary) and by the news. He lives in Bologna, Italy. His work can be viewed at www.fabiosassi.foliohd.com.

Tom Trippe

Tom Trippe is a Berkeley-based photographer, windsurfer, and retired physicist. His studies of “total internal reflection” off of the undersurface of water yield surreal, dreamlike, striking, and sometimes shocking images. His images have won awards and have been shown in galleries in the Bay Area. More of his photographs can be seen on
flickr.com/photos/tomtrippe.

Robert Wooten

Robert Wooten’s poems have appeared recently in Möbius, Long Story Short, The Fifth D . . ., Thema, and others. His second chapbook, Famous Last Words, was a finalist in the 2007 competition for the Bright Hill Press Poetry Chapbook Award—a copy of which can be ordered by contacting the poet. He earned his MFA in poetry at the University of Alabama (1998) and an MA with creative writing focus at N.C. State (1994).






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