Lara Gularte has served as poetry and art editor for Reed Magazine, San Jose State University’s literary journal. She received the 2005 Anne Lillis Award for Creative Writing and Phelan Awards for several of her poems. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including the Santa Clara Review, The Montserrat Review, Kaleidoscope and Art/Life. Gularte’s poems have been translated into Portuguese by the University of the Acores and featured in the literary supplement SAAL-Suplemento Acoriano de Artes e Letras, da revista Saber/Acores. Her work was presented at an international conference on storytelling and cultural identity in June 2005 at Angra do Heroismo on the island of Terceira. 

Elaine Bartlett is a Poe-Faulkner Fellow at the University of Virginia. Her fiction has appeared in The Antietam Review and The South Carolina Review, among others. She was awarded the 2003 Yemassee prize in fiction. 

Designer

Luis Ledezma is a graduate of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he earned a B.S. in electrical engineering. He is currently the webmaster of Convergence, and the town of Tuxca (www.tuxca.com). Ledezma resides in San Jose.

Email: lledezma@alumni.calpoly.edu

Contributors

Michelle Brooks

Michelle Brooks lives in Detroit and has a doctorate in creative writing from the University of North Texas. Her fiction and poetry has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Blue Mesa Review, Orchid, Natural Bridge, Eclipse, Phoebe, and elsewhere. She has a blog at www.michellespells.blogspot.com. 

Email: brooksm@macomb.edu
Website: http://www.mmbrooks.com

Anita Cantillo

Originally from Costa Rica, Anita Cantillo now resides in Charlotte, N.C. She is the creative director of a branding firm where she names new products and pharmaceutical drugs for major companies. She holds an M.F.A. from Queens University of Charlotte and has poems published in Iodine Poetry Journal.

Email: anita.cantillo@gmail.com 

Chris Flowers

Chris Flowers is a native of Eastern North Carolina, having grown up in the small farming community of Richlands. He is currently a master’s candidate at East Carolina University. This is his first publication.

Do Gentry

Do Gentry lives in Sacramento and has had poems published in Sulphur River Literary Review, Ekphrasis, Fourteen Hills, Rhino, Spoon River Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, The Nightmare Parable, was the winner of the 2004 Permafrost competition. The two poems published here are part of a longer work based on the life of 18th century salonniére Julie de Lespinasse.

Email: Bichette3@aol.com  

Guarionex

Guarionex was born in 1949 in Manati, Puerto Rico and moved to New York City when he was three months old. A completely self-taught photographer, Guarionex has been interested in photography since age 15: “other kids had comics; I had art books.” He has spent more than three decades working in black and white photography and turned to color after 9/11. 

He has worked as a camera salesman, darkroom technician, portrait photographer and graphic designer. 

Email: guarionex@mail.com 
Website: http://www.myfotosite.com 

Bonnie Naradzay

Bonnie Naradzay, from Silver Spring, Md., is in the Stonecoast M.F.A. program. She has studied with a number of poets and given readings in the Washington, D.C. area. She works full time as a government bureaucrat, has published poems in several online journals, including Salt River Review and Beltway, and is currently learning to play the violin, Suzuki-style. 

Email: boggleplayer@comcast.net 

Varsha Shah

Varsha Shah’s poems have appeared in Between Heaven and Texas by Wyman Meinzer, a University of Texas book of photography and poetry. Her work has also been featured in Time Slice, an anthology by Mutabilis Press, and Texas Observer, Borderlands, Five Inprint Poets, Convergence, and the Houston Review, among others. Shah enjoys reading translated works of Spanish language poets as well as American, Eastern and European poets; she continues to write poetry in her mother tongue, Gujarati. A first-generation Indian-American, Shah is a financial professional, currently living in Houston, Texas. 

Email: Varsha_saraiya@hotmail.com

Lenore Weiss

The poetry of Lenore Weiss has been published in many online journals, including poetrybay.com, corpse.org, and november3rdclub.com. Her print publication credits include Paterson Literary Review, les cahiers des femmes, Citizen32, Prism, Tiger’s Eye, Blue Collar Review, Raven Chronicles, and others. She was nominated by musesreview.org for best poem of 2004, and was a finalist in the 2003 Poets & Writers “California Voices” contest. 

Weiss has published three chapbooks and serves as a fiction editor for the November 3rd Club. She is currently working with composer Paul Kirk to create a dance performance piece from her series of 16 CellPhone Poems. Weiss also serves as chair of the Middle East Peace Committee for Kehilla Community Synagogue in Piedmont, Calif.