ZinkZine Contributors
Issue Ten: Winter 2007
Richard
Garcia is the author of two books of poetry, The Flying Garcias
(University of Pittsburgh Press), RanchoNotorious (BOA Editions), and a
bilingual children's book, My Aunt Otilia's Spirits (Children's Book
Press). His poetry has appeared in many journals, such as The Dominion
Review, The Colorado Review and Luna . His work is also included
in anthologies, among them, The Best of the Prose Poem, Mother Songs, Urban
Nature , and Touching the Fire and Best American Poetry 2005
. He is the recipient of a 1993 fellowship from the National Endowment for
the Arts, a 1997 Pushcart Prize, the 1997 Mudfish Prize from Mudfish
Magazine , the Greensboro Award from the Greensboro Review , the
Cohen Award from Ploughshares, and the Georgetown Prize from the Georgetown
Review . He was poet-in-residence at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles for
twelve years, where he conducted workshops in art and poetry for hospitalized
children. More information on his publications, a bio, new writing, links to web
publications and comments by his students can be found on his website at,
RichardGarcia.info
Kathryn Pope earned her MFA in
creative writing from
Antioch University in December 2003. She is a regular contributor to
ZinkZine, and her work has also been published in Parenting Magazine.
She is the director of the Bridge Program at Antioch University and teaches
creative writing at Santa Monica College and Antioch University. She lives in
Los Angeles.
Lise
Haines is the author of In My Sister’s Country (Putnam, 2002), as
well as Small Acts of Sex and Electricity (Unbridled Books, 2006). Her
short stories and essays have appeared in many journals, including Ploughshares,
Agni, Crosscurrents, Third Rail, and Post Road. She has been a finalist in the
PEN Nelson Algren Awards and for the Paterson Fiction Prize. In addition, she
has been Writer in Residence at Emerson College and serves as a Visiting
Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard. She has also taught at Stonecoast and the
UCLA Extension Writing Program. Ms. Haines received her MFA from Bennington
College and a Creative Writing degree from Syracuse University.
Ana
V. Diez Roux is from Buenos Aires, Argentina and currently lives in a small
college town in the Midwest, where she enjoys many things but pines for the big
city life.
G.L. Griffith lives in Northern Arizona, along with his wife and two cats. His writing has appeared frequently in Storyglossia. He is an Indigo graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at Antioch Los Angeles. "Noon" is excerpted from his novel-in-progress, begun in earnest last summer.
Elizabeth A. Havey,
a former teacher of English and a registered nurse, is a copyeditor
for Meredith Books and a freelance writer. She specializes in medical topics and
has written CEU's for nurses. She has published short stories in the Nebraska
Review and Creative Woman, and articles in Better Homes and
Gardens and The Chicago Tribune. "Song for Her Mother" is excerpted
from her unpublished novel, The Moon Doctor. She is currently
working on another novel, Intruders.
Christin
Taylor lives with her husband in El Segundo, CA, where she earned her MFA
from Antioch University of Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in
relevantmagazine.com, and the Marion Chronicle Tribune. Currently, she
teaches freshman writing at Azusa Pacific University.
Joni
B. Cole is the creator of This Day in
the Life: Diaries from Women across America (Three Rivers Press/Random
House, 2005), a book drawn from a national project in which five-hundred women
kept a “day diary” on a single day. Publisher’s Weekly noted, “There is
not one piece in this compilation that is not captivating.” At the risk of being
called “touchy-feely,” Joni advocates the power of positive feedback in her
teaching and in life. Please visit
www.toxicfeedback.com or
www.thisdayinthelife.com
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