Animals
Fall, 2006
Contributors' Notes
Gene BersonGene Berson lives in San Francisco, California. He has been published in numerous small press publications, including The American Poetry Review and Bastard Angel, edited by poet Harold Norse. He has won several awards, among them second prize in the yearly Jack London Contest for his poem Sphinx Moth. He was the Director for the Western States of The Poetry in the Schools Program. He received his Masters in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. He is currently working as a display installer for Local 510, which has many writers in its ranks.
Richard Bilow
For the past 15 years, Richard Bilow has dedicated his creative energy to the development of fusion of sculpture, art and aquarium design. He has used assemblage, sculpture, architecture, and photography combined with water and life forms to manifest liquid living art environments.The photographs selected for Abalone Moon were created by Richard while free diving at Catalina Island.
Barbara Crooker
Barbara Crooker has been widely published, and has received a number of awards for her work, including the 2004 WB Yeats Society of NY Award, the 2003 Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award, 2003; Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Literature, 1985, 1989, 1993. Her most recent book is Radiance (Word Press), 2005. Barbara was a featured poet in Abalone Moon's The Sacred in the Quotidian, and more of her work appears in the issue The Transitory.
Carol V. Davis
Carol spent the 1996-97 academic year as a senior Fulbright scholar in St. Petersburg, Russia, teaching at Petersburg Jewish University. Awards include The Reuben Rose Award (Jerusalem) and 2nd prize in the Strokestown International Poetry Award (2000). Her collections are Letters from Prague (1991) and It's Time to Talk About..., (1997), published in Russia in a bilingual edition.
Carmine Giordano
A Fulbright Scholar (Classics Study, Rome, Italy), Carmine Giordano is Associate Editor of Abalone
Moon. He has published in various print magazines and journals.
Erika Horn
Erika Horn lives in San Francisco, California, and has been published in a number of small press publications, among them Bastard Angel, Acoustics, Back Roads, and Panjandrum V, an anthology. An editor of Abalone Moon, she has been featured poet on KPFK's The Carlos Hagen Show. A supervisor in a Day Treatment Center, she also facilitates weekly poetry groups with the clients at the center.
Phyllis Holliday
Phyllis Holliday studied with William Stafford at Lewis and Clark College, and has published in numerous small press literary magazines, including Sheaf, edited by David Hoag, Spit in the Ocean, edited by Ken Kesey, Tree, edited by David Meltzer, Poets West, edited by Lawrence Spingarn, Peace and Pieces, and Mythic Circle. She is presently working on a novel called The Photo Mythographer's Tale.
Sivaram Hariharan
Sivaram has a Doctoral degree in Medicinal Chemistry from North Dakota State University. Currently based in Sydney, Australia, he mainly writes fiction, and has published on Indian Link, Sydney. He has written two novels, Code-E2121, and Pride: A Tale of Lions. His book of short stories is Bees: A Hive of Short Stories.
Christine Klocek-Lim
Christine Klocek-Lim's poems have appeared in the Aurorean, Ibbetson Street, Melic Review, Tryst, and the Quarterly Journal of Ideology. In March 2005 the Aurorean showcased her work as its "Featured Poet-of-the-Quarter,"and in 2004 Inside Out, a poetry anthology, featured her photography and poetry. She is a member of the international poetry group Magnapoets and editor of Autumn Sky, an online poetry journal. She also serves as Site Administrator for The Academy of American Poets' online discussion forums at Poets.org.
Michael Niemczyk
Born and raised in southwest Oklahoma, except for army brat intervals in Augusta, Georgia and Tokyo, Japan. M.A. in English from Texas Tech. Interests include spirituality, music, and movies. Poems have been published in Illuminations, West County Wonder, and Living in the Land of the Dead.
Jaime O'Halloran
Jamie O'Halloran was born on Long Island and raised there, in New Orleans, and Seattle where she received a Master's in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. She is the author of the chapbook Sweet to the Grit. Her poems have appeared in Solo, The Cream City Review and Yankee, and other magazines, and anthologies, most recently So Luminous the Wildflowers: An Anthology of California Poets. She has won the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize and other awards. Her contributions to literary Los Angeles have included teaching workshops, founding a writers' group and reading series, curating reading series, and editing chapbooks and anthologies. She lives and teaches in Los Angeles.
Doren Robbins
Doren Robbin's book, Driving Face Down, was the winner of the 2001 Blue Lynx Award from Lynx House Press/Eastern Washington University. Parking Lot Mood Swing: Autobiographical Monologues and Prose Poetry from Cedar Hill Press, San Diego, came out in June, 2004. He was an editor, along with Uri Hertz, of "Third Rail", and his work has been widely published.
Michael Shorb
Michael Shorb is a poet, children's story writer, and novelist who lives in San Franciso, California. His poetry has appeared in such publications as Michigan Quarterly, The Nation, Kansas Quarterly, The Shakespeare Newsletter, California Quarterly, Pulpsmith, The Sun, and many others. Children's material has been recorded by Shoofly.
Lynda Skeen
Lynda lives in Hollywood, California, with her husband, several cats and a parakeet. She has been published in a variety of journals including North American Review, Tiger's Eye, Lucid Stone, Talking Leaves, Main Street Rag, and Poetry Motel, and her work appears in The Great American Poetry Show, an anthology edited by Larry Ziman. When not writing, she enjoys gardening, yoga, camping and reading.
Lynn Strongin
Lynn studied composition with Vittorio Giannini at the Manhattan School of Music. A graduate of Hunter college cum laude, she won a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. Her M.A. is from Stanford University, and she did Doctoral studies at the University of New Mexico. She has received a National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing grant, has published seven books, among them The Dwarf Cycle. In 1979, Lynn moved to Canada for what was intended to be a short stay. She remained, and now lives in her adopted land, British Columbia, Canada. Many of her poems have been published in print, online, and in a number of anthologies.
Ioanna (Ivy) Warwick
Ioanna Warwick's poems have appeared in Poetry, Best American Poetry 1992, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, Nimrod, New Letters (1989 New Letters Poetry Award), Madison Review (Felix Pollak Poetry Prize, 1994), and others. Her translations of Polish poetry have appeared in many places, including APR, kayak, and Seneca Review. Recently her book manuscript was a finalist in the Walter McDonald Competition.
Elizabeth J. Whittington
Elizabeth Jane Whittington's poems have appeared in Kalliope: A Journal of Women's Art, Lungfish Review, and in numerous issues of the Plymouth New Hampshire Writers Group Anthology of Teachers' Writing. She has been a finalist for the Sue Saniel Elkind National Poetry Award and for the New England Association of Teachers of English Poet of the Year Award. Her poetry will appear in Margie: The American Journal of Poetry and in English Journal in the fall of 2005. Her published works include short fiction, personal memoir, and scholarly articles. Ms. Whittington teaches cross-discipline writing at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire and first year writing at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire. She teaches literature and writing to incarcerated women within the Vermont State Prison system. She lives in Vermont with her husband and their children.