| r.kv.r.y quarterly literary journal summer 2006 contributors |
Mary Akers, author of Multi-Colored Tunneled Life, has published her fiction in Xavier Review,
Primavera, Literary Mama, Ink Pot, RE:AL, Pindeldyboz, and Ars Medica, among many others. Her
story Wild, Wild Horses was named a Notable Story of 2004 by storySouth and was short-
listed for the Million Writers Award. She is the recipient of a 2004 Bread Loaf Waitership as
well as 2005 and 2006 Bread Loaf work-study scholarships and is a graduate of the Queens
University of Charlotte MFA program in creative writing. Originally trained as a potter, Ms.
Akers currently works as Director of Admissions at the Institute for Tropical Marine Ecology, a
study-abroad program that she co-founded in 1999, located in Dominica, West Indies.
Beebe Barksdale-Bruner, author of Mrs. Alexander, has an MFA in poetry from Queens
University and a forth-coming book from Press 53 in 2007.
Jen Conley, author of The Ninth Step, grew up near Lakehurst, New Jersey, graduated
from Elon College, North Carolina, and spent a year and a half living in London, England. She
lives in New Jersey with her husband and son, where she teaches sixth grade. In May of 2006
she presented a story at the Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village, New York City. Her last
story appeared in RE:AL, The Journal of Liberal Arts.
Tracy Crow, author of Shooting Azimuths, is a former Marine Corps officer and an award-
winning military journalist whose news and feature articles about Marine life and training
during the 1980s were published in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the San
Diego Tribune, among others. “Shooting Azimuths” is an excerpt, originally published in Puerto
del Sol and nominated for the Pushcart Prize, from her military memoir, “Eyes Right, Self-
Portrait of an American Woman,” which, along with a military conspiracy novel-in-progress, is
under representation with Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, Inc. Ms. Crow's literary
nonfiction has also appeared in The Missouri Review and Mississippi Review. She is a three-time
Pushcart Prize nominee. Ms. Crow has a B.A. in creative writing from Eckerd College in St.
Petersburg, Florida, and an M.F.A. from Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina. She
teaches creative writing at Eckerd College.
Clifford Garstang, author of The Clattering of Bones which originally appeared in Timber
Creek Review, has published his work in Shenandoah, The Baltimore Review, North Dakota
Quarterly and others. He has won the Confluence 2006 Fiction Prize and was a finalist for
Harpur Palate's 2006 John Gardner Fiction Prize. He will be a Tennessee Williams Scholar at
the Sewanee Writers' Conference this summer. He has an MFA from Queens University of
Charlotte.
Robbie Gamble, author of Regrets, is a nurse practitioner working with homeless families in
the Boston area. His poetry has appeared recently in Acorn, Monkey's Fist, Modern Haiku, and
the 2005 Robert Frost Foundation Anthology.
Claudia Grinnell, author of Disadvantage Point and creator of the "Virtual Girls" appearing
with her poetry, was born and raised in Germany. She now lives in Louisiana, where she
teaches at the University of Louisiana, Monroe. Professor Grinnell is the author of Conditions
Horizontal (Missing Consonant Press, 2001). Her poems have appeared in such journals as
Kenyon Review, Exquisite Corpse, New Orleans Review, Mudlark, and Minnesota Review. In 2005,
Dr. Grinnell won the Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. More of her work can
be found at www.ulm.edu/~grinnell/cc.htm
Joy Beshears Hagy, author of Two Weeks, lives on High Rock Lake in Lexington, NC with
her husband, two dogs and a cat. Hagy holds a BA from Salem College, and received her MFA
in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte. Her poetry has appeared in various
journals including Poet’s Canvas, THRIFT, Main Street Rag and Southern Gothic Online, and will
be forthcoming in In the Yard: A Poetry Anthology from Old Mountain Press. Her poem,
“Rapture” was chosen by Kathryn Stripling Byer as Honorable Mention in the 2006 NC State
Poetry Contest.
Artist Masumi Hayashi whose photo montages grace this issue, has shown her work at
the International Center for Photography in New York, the L.A. County Art Museum, Japanese
American National Museum (L.A.), Tokyo Museum of Photography, Ludwig Museum of Art in
Germany, and the Victoria and Albert Museum of Photography in London, England. In 2003,
she had a retrospective one-person exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum in Los
Angeles. Professor Hayashi has been teaching photography for twenty-two years at
Cleveland State University. The projects contained in this quarter's edition of r.kv.r.y are
panoramic photo collages of EPA Superfund Sites in Ohio, and City Works. Her new website
at www.masumimuseum.com is called The Masumi Hayashi Museum and includes over
177 images of her work. Ms. Hayashi's photographs have been published in Doubletake (fall
1997), Aperture (Beyond Wilderness, fall 1990), See, a journal of visual culture (issue 1:1),
and Mother Jones (April 1995), Creative Camera (1993, London), Die Ziet (1999, Germany),
Photo Italia (2003, Italy). Her exhibitions have been reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, and
The Japan Times. She was one of the artists featured in the Robert Stearns' Dialogue
Magazine article, "Genius, Imagine what could happen." (2001).
Pamela Knight, author of Joy Despite the Cracks, has worked as a subway mass transit
driver for the MBTA in Boston, MA, for the last twenty three years. She has published two
pieces in Chicken Soup for the Recovering Soul Daily Meditations. Residing by Nantasket
Beach, she lives with her two teenage children and three cats. She enjoys her book club,
gardening and bird watching.
Artist David Laity, whose work appears with the poem Mrs. Alexander, is a Australian
artist who believes that the important things: inspiration, passion, perseverance and
dedication cannot be taught but must come from within. David Laity's work focuses on
sensual form. He is inspired by or modelled on his wife and muse, Regina, these are the
images that he is most passionate about. David appreciates that success comes from painting
what you feel strongly about. 'I paint what I love. I love the sensuality and beauty of the
female form. My works are a celebration of love and intimacy. I'm endeavouring to show that
sexuality is something that can and should be celebrated.'
Nathan Leslie, author of Cargo, has published four collections of short fiction include everse
Negative (Ravenna Press, 2006) and Drivers (Hamilton Stone Editions, 2005). Leslie’s work
has appeared in over 100 magazines including Shenandoah, South Carolina Review, North
American Review, and Cimarron Review. He is fiction editor for The Pedestal Magazine. This is
his second appearance in R.KV.R.Y. His short story Trance can be found here. His website is
www.nathanleslie.com.
Linera Lucas, author of Black Walnut, holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte.
Her work has appeared in Pipes and Timbrels and Bede's Journal and is forthcoming in the
anthology In the Yard.
Michael P. McManus, author of Rain, is a two time Pushcart nominee and recipient of a
Fellowship from the Louisiana Division of the Arts. He was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He
currently lives in Louisiana where by day he sells plumbing supplies to the masses. At night he
reads and writes, and from time to time sips a round or two at the local Irish pub. He is a
Navy Veteran and lifetime member of the Disabled American Veterans. Michael's poems and
short stories have appeared in numerous publications.
Richard Wirick, a frequent r.kv.r.y contributor and author of Crocodile and Bridge Jumper,
1977, has published his fiction, essays and journalism in Quarterly West, Northwest Review,
Playboy, Another Chicago Magazine, Indiana Review and elsewhere. He is completing a collection
of short stories, Fables of Rescue, and is co-founder and editor of the journal Transformation.
Telegram Books recently published a collection of his prose poems, One Hundred Siberian
Postcards, which grew out of his assignments in Ukraine and Siberia in 2003-5, and his
adoption of a Siberian daughter. He practises law in Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife
and three children.
Primavera, Literary Mama, Ink Pot, RE:AL, Pindeldyboz, and Ars Medica, among many others. Her
story Wild, Wild Horses was named a Notable Story of 2004 by storySouth and was short-
listed for the Million Writers Award. She is the recipient of a 2004 Bread Loaf Waitership as
well as 2005 and 2006 Bread Loaf work-study scholarships and is a graduate of the Queens
University of Charlotte MFA program in creative writing. Originally trained as a potter, Ms.
Akers currently works as Director of Admissions at the Institute for Tropical Marine Ecology, a
study-abroad program that she co-founded in 1999, located in Dominica, West Indies.
Beebe Barksdale-Bruner, author of Mrs. Alexander, has an MFA in poetry from Queens
University and a forth-coming book from Press 53 in 2007.
Jen Conley, author of The Ninth Step, grew up near Lakehurst, New Jersey, graduated
from Elon College, North Carolina, and spent a year and a half living in London, England. She
lives in New Jersey with her husband and son, where she teaches sixth grade. In May of 2006
she presented a story at the Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village, New York City. Her last
story appeared in RE:AL, The Journal of Liberal Arts.
Tracy Crow, author of Shooting Azimuths, is a former Marine Corps officer and an award-
winning military journalist whose news and feature articles about Marine life and training
during the 1980s were published in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the San
Diego Tribune, among others. “Shooting Azimuths” is an excerpt, originally published in Puerto
del Sol and nominated for the Pushcart Prize, from her military memoir, “Eyes Right, Self-
Portrait of an American Woman,” which, along with a military conspiracy novel-in-progress, is
under representation with Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, Inc. Ms. Crow's literary
nonfiction has also appeared in The Missouri Review and Mississippi Review. She is a three-time
Pushcart Prize nominee. Ms. Crow has a B.A. in creative writing from Eckerd College in St.
Petersburg, Florida, and an M.F.A. from Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina. She
teaches creative writing at Eckerd College.
Clifford Garstang, author of The Clattering of Bones which originally appeared in Timber
Creek Review, has published his work in Shenandoah, The Baltimore Review, North Dakota
Quarterly and others. He has won the Confluence 2006 Fiction Prize and was a finalist for
Harpur Palate's 2006 John Gardner Fiction Prize. He will be a Tennessee Williams Scholar at
the Sewanee Writers' Conference this summer. He has an MFA from Queens University of
Charlotte.
Robbie Gamble, author of Regrets, is a nurse practitioner working with homeless families in
the Boston area. His poetry has appeared recently in Acorn, Monkey's Fist, Modern Haiku, and
the 2005 Robert Frost Foundation Anthology.
Claudia Grinnell, author of Disadvantage Point and creator of the "Virtual Girls" appearing
with her poetry, was born and raised in Germany. She now lives in Louisiana, where she
teaches at the University of Louisiana, Monroe. Professor Grinnell is the author of Conditions
Horizontal (Missing Consonant Press, 2001). Her poems have appeared in such journals as
Kenyon Review, Exquisite Corpse, New Orleans Review, Mudlark, and Minnesota Review. In 2005,
Dr. Grinnell won the Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. More of her work can
be found at www.ulm.edu/~grinnell/cc.htm
Joy Beshears Hagy, author of Two Weeks, lives on High Rock Lake in Lexington, NC with
her husband, two dogs and a cat. Hagy holds a BA from Salem College, and received her MFA
in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte. Her poetry has appeared in various
journals including Poet’s Canvas, THRIFT, Main Street Rag and Southern Gothic Online, and will
be forthcoming in In the Yard: A Poetry Anthology from Old Mountain Press. Her poem,
“Rapture” was chosen by Kathryn Stripling Byer as Honorable Mention in the 2006 NC State
Poetry Contest.
Artist Masumi Hayashi whose photo montages grace this issue, has shown her work at
the International Center for Photography in New York, the L.A. County Art Museum, Japanese
American National Museum (L.A.), Tokyo Museum of Photography, Ludwig Museum of Art in
Germany, and the Victoria and Albert Museum of Photography in London, England. In 2003,
she had a retrospective one-person exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum in Los
Angeles. Professor Hayashi has been teaching photography for twenty-two years at
Cleveland State University. The projects contained in this quarter's edition of r.kv.r.y are
panoramic photo collages of EPA Superfund Sites in Ohio, and City Works. Her new website
at www.masumimuseum.com is called The Masumi Hayashi Museum and includes over
177 images of her work. Ms. Hayashi's photographs have been published in Doubletake (fall
1997), Aperture (Beyond Wilderness, fall 1990), See, a journal of visual culture (issue 1:1),
and Mother Jones (April 1995), Creative Camera (1993, London), Die Ziet (1999, Germany),
Photo Italia (2003, Italy). Her exhibitions have been reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, and
The Japan Times. She was one of the artists featured in the Robert Stearns' Dialogue
Magazine article, "Genius, Imagine what could happen." (2001).
Pamela Knight, author of Joy Despite the Cracks, has worked as a subway mass transit
driver for the MBTA in Boston, MA, for the last twenty three years. She has published two
pieces in Chicken Soup for the Recovering Soul Daily Meditations. Residing by Nantasket
Beach, she lives with her two teenage children and three cats. She enjoys her book club,
gardening and bird watching.
Artist David Laity, whose work appears with the poem Mrs. Alexander, is a Australian
artist who believes that the important things: inspiration, passion, perseverance and
dedication cannot be taught but must come from within. David Laity's work focuses on
sensual form. He is inspired by or modelled on his wife and muse, Regina, these are the
images that he is most passionate about. David appreciates that success comes from painting
what you feel strongly about. 'I paint what I love. I love the sensuality and beauty of the
female form. My works are a celebration of love and intimacy. I'm endeavouring to show that
sexuality is something that can and should be celebrated.'
Nathan Leslie, author of Cargo, has published four collections of short fiction include everse
Negative (Ravenna Press, 2006) and Drivers (Hamilton Stone Editions, 2005). Leslie’s work
has appeared in over 100 magazines including Shenandoah, South Carolina Review, North
American Review, and Cimarron Review. He is fiction editor for The Pedestal Magazine. This is
his second appearance in R.KV.R.Y. His short story Trance can be found here. His website is
www.nathanleslie.com.
Linera Lucas, author of Black Walnut, holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte.
Her work has appeared in Pipes and Timbrels and Bede's Journal and is forthcoming in the
anthology In the Yard.
Michael P. McManus, author of Rain, is a two time Pushcart nominee and recipient of a
Fellowship from the Louisiana Division of the Arts. He was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He
currently lives in Louisiana where by day he sells plumbing supplies to the masses. At night he
reads and writes, and from time to time sips a round or two at the local Irish pub. He is a
Navy Veteran and lifetime member of the Disabled American Veterans. Michael's poems and
short stories have appeared in numerous publications.
Richard Wirick, a frequent r.kv.r.y contributor and author of Crocodile and Bridge Jumper,
1977, has published his fiction, essays and journalism in Quarterly West, Northwest Review,
Playboy, Another Chicago Magazine, Indiana Review and elsewhere. He is completing a collection
of short stories, Fables of Rescue, and is co-founder and editor of the journal Transformation.
Telegram Books recently published a collection of his prose poems, One Hundred Siberian
Postcards, which grew out of his assignments in Ukraine and Siberia in 2003-5, and his
adoption of a Siberian daughter. He practises law in Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife
and three children.
