Lara Gularte has served as poetry and art editor for Reed Magazine, San Jose State University’s literary journal. She earned her MFA in poetry from San Jose State this fall, and has 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, and 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’s fiction has appeared in The Antietam Review and The South Carolina Review, among others. She has been the recipient of the Yemassee prize in fiction and a Poe-Faulkner Fellowship. 

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 Little Village Counseling Center (www.thelittlevillagecc.com). Ledezma resides in San Jose.

Email: lledezma@alumni.calpoly.edu

Contributors

Anne Bromley

Anne Bromley grew up in upstate New York, but has now lived in central Virginia for a longer time, still surprised by the blue sky and other regional differences. She received an M.F.A. in poetry writing from the University of Virginia in 1985. She works in the university relations office, lives outside Charlottesville in a log house with her husband and two daughters, and continues to write poetry. Some of her poems have been published in the journals Streetlight, Southern Poetry Review, Iris: A Journal About Women and Artemis Online. 

Michelle Cuevas

Michelle Cuevas is a Henry Hoyns Fellow in creative writing/fiction at the University of Virginia. She’s a native of Massachusetts and a graduate of Williams College, where she studied photography with Aida Laleian and Anthony Salazar. 

Recent photography exhibitions this fall have included a collection at The Bidwell Museum in Massachusetts and “Words Worth 1,000 Pictures” at The Newcomb Gallery in Charlottesville.

Carol Frith

Carol Frith, of Sacramento, Calif., is co-editor of Ekphrasis. She received a “Special Mention” in the 2003 Pushcart Anthology and has work accepted or published in Willow, Smartish Pace, Seattle Review, Chaffin Journal, Quarter After Eight, Lake Effect, Midwest Quarterly, Cutbank, The Macguffin, The Literary Review, and Clackamas, among others. Her chapbooks are Moving Like a Blue Flame, In and Out of Light, and Never Enough Zeros. 

Email: carol4mail@aol.com

Kathie Isaac-Luke

Kathie Isaac-Luke lives in Sonora, Calif. Her poetry has appeared in several journals, including The Cafe Review, The Montserrat Review, The Sarasota Review of Poetry, and Reed, and in the anthologies The Breath of Parted Lips: Voices from Frost Place, Vol. II and Cotton and Spirit. For nearly five years, she edited cæsura, the journal of Poetry Center San Jose.

Alain Kerfs

Born in Brussels, Belgium, Alain Kerfs currently lives in Pleasant Hill, Calif. He’s had stories published in Peeks and Valleys, Lynx Eye, Grasslimb, Enigma, and elsewhere. Alain attended the M.A. program at San Francisco State University and works as an information technology professional.

Email: Kerfs@Pacbell.net 

Rebecca Lilly

Rebecca Lilly has two collections of poetry: You Want to Sell Me a Small Antique and Shadwell Hills. The latter is a book of haiku. She works as a writer in Charlottesville, Va.

Email: rlilly69@earthlink.net 

Michael Vaughn

Michael Vaughn is a regular contributor to Writer’s Digest and is the author of seven novels, including Double Blind. His poetry has appeared in The Avatar Review, Many Mountains Moving, and Terrain.org. He lives in Tacoma, Wash., and works as a journalist covering the performing arts.