r.kv.r.y.
quarterly
literary
journal
summer
2008
contributors
quarterly
literary
journal
summer
2008
contributors
Mary Akers' fiction (here, Medusa Song) poetry and non-fiction have appeared or are
forthcoming in various international journals such as Bellevue Literary Review, The
Fiddlehead, and Primavera. She has an essay in the newly released anthology The Maternal
Is Political and her co-authored book Radical Gratitude, first published in March of 2008, is
in its second printing. Although raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia-which she will
always call home-she currently lives in Western New York with her husband and three
children. This is Akers' second appearance in r.kv.r.y. Her short story multi-tunnel colored
life appeared in r.kv.r.y.'s summer 2006 issue.
Elaine Barnard's fiction (here, Hidden Valley) has been published in Kalliope, Pearl, Sage,
Writers Forum (UK), Storyteller and Timber Creek Review. Several of her plays have been
produced at regional and university theaters. On January 11, 2008 five of her stories were
produced at the Beverly Hills Library as part of the City's "New Short Fiction" series. She
holds an MFA from the University of California at Irvine.
Stephen Busby (Love Ends) is a traveller, writer and photographer based in the Findhorn
Community, northern Scotland. His recent prose has also appeared in Cezanne's Carrot.
Some of his photos can be found here. Stephen also runs workshops and events on
transformational themes in various countries - his website is here.
Mike Bove's fiction (here, Desecration) has appeared in Mindprints and Eastoftheweb, his
poetry in The Cafe Review and Off the Coast. He lives with his wife and son in Portland, Maine
and is a member of the English faculty at Southern Maine Community College.
Steve Cushman (To Love Again) has worked as an X-ray Technologist for the last fifteen
years. He is the author of the novel, Portisville, and forthcoming short story collection,
Fracture City. For more information on Steve, and his writing, check out his web site here.
Peter Desy (Detainee) is loving his early retirement from the English Dept. of Ohio
University. He has poems in or forthcoming from The Iowa Review, Hubbub. The Literary
Review,Southern Poetry Review, other journals, as well as a poetry collection, Driving from
Columnus, and two chapbooks.
Patricia Fargnoli (Pilot Glasses) is a friend of r.kv.r.y. and the Poet Laureate of New
Hampshire. She is the author of 3 books and 2 chapbooks of poetry. Her latest book, Duties
of the Spirit (Tupelo Press 2005) is the winner of the prestigious 2005 Jane Kenyon Poetry
Book Award for Outstanding Poetry. Her first book, Necessary Light (Utah State University
Press), won the 1999 May Swenson Book Award. Fellow at the Macdowell Colony, and a
frequent resident at The Dorset Colony in Dorset, Vermont, Fargnoli was on the faculty of
The Frost Place Poetry Festival, and has taught at The Keene Institute of Music and Related
Arts, and the New Hampshire Institute of Art where she was awarded an honorary B. F. A.
Fargnoli has been the recipient of numerous poetry awards, including a nomination for the
Pushcart Awards, The Connecticut Phoenix Emerging Poet Competition, and The Robert Frost
Literary Award from The Robert Frost Foundation in Lawrence, MA. A member of The New
Hampshire Arts Council Touring Roster, she's read her work widely across the New England
States and has published over 200 poems in such literary journals as Poetry, Ploughshares,
and The Mid-American Review. Your editor-in-chief is one of the "California email friends"
who makes a cameo appearance in Pilot Glasses.
Rick Hoel (A Ride Home) is a real estate broker with Seashore Real Estate, LLC in Bluffton,
South Carolina. Rick has practiced law in private practice specializing in product liability defense
litigation and has served as general counsel for businesses with several Fortune 100
companies where he specialized in international law. In addition, Rick has worked extensively in
the design and implementation of corporate Drug Free Workplace and Employee Assistance
Programs. Rick has also written many articles about real estate and architecture in South
Carolina’s Low Country and is currently working on a book about his father’s World War II
experiences as a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft III, the subject of “The Great Escape.” Rick
currently sits on the Board of Directors of Parents Anonymous South Carolina. Rick can be
reached at his website, Bluffton Area Real Estate.com or at the online real estate networking
group, Active Rain. This is Rick's second appearance in r.kv.r.y. (see I Know I'm Not Alone).
Paul Hostovsky's poems (here Truth and Eulogy) appear widely online and in print and
often in the pages of r.kv.r.y. . A new collection, *Bending the Notes* is forthcoming from
Main Street Rag. Visit Paul's website at www.paulhostovsky.com
Carol Kanter's poetry (here, Psssssssst) has been published in Ariel, Blue Unicorn,
ByLine, Common Ground, Explorations, Hammers, Iowa Woman, The Chester Jones
Foundation, Kaleidoscope Ink, The Madison Review, The Mid-America Poetry Review, Pudding
Magazine, The People’s Press, Rambunctious Review, River Oak Review, Sendero, Sweet
Annie Press, Thema, Universities West Press, and a number of anthologies. Korone named
her the Illinois Winner of its 2001 writing project. Atlanta Review gave her an International
Merit Award in poetry in 2003 and 2005. Finishing Line Press published her first chapbook,
"Out of Southern Africa,” in 2005, and her second, “Chronicle of Dog,” in 2006
Scott Kauffman (Debbie's Ranch) graduated summa cum laude from Ohio University in
Athens, Ohio, and in the upper ten percent of his class from the Lewis & Clark Law School in
Portland, Oregon, where he was a member of the Environmental Law Review. Following
graduation, Scott tried dozens of criminal cases, first as an assistant state prosecutor and
then as an assistant public defender in a rural Ohio community. His first novel, In Deepest
Consequences, was published by Medallion Press in 2006. Scott resides in Newport Beach,
California where he maintains an active law practice. He is currently at work on a second novel
and a collection of short stories. When not working or writing, Scott gardens, reads, and
listens to baroque music. This is Scott's second appearance in r.kv.r.y. His first piece of
fiction, Rocking, appeared in the Spring 2008 issue.
Adam Lilienthal (If We're Fortunate) bartends in a Japanese hibachi steakhouse in
Allentown, PA. He spends his days reading and writing short fiction, taking walks, and
climbing trees. He doesn't vote as he finds it naive to assume elections will ever return this
government to our hands. He believes there are other means with infinitely more power to
make our heard. The implicit mysteries of a free society surround him each day.
Corinne Loveland (Life and Breath) writes nonfiction because she believes in the power of
the everyday. Regardless of what happens to us—be it shocking or simple—life as it occurs is
artistically worthwhile. As a writer and as a photographer, Corinne aims to capture the
nuances of life and portray them as art. Originally from the New Jersey Shore, Corinne now
lives in Santa Cruz, California – a less crowded Jersey Shore with easy access to San
Francisco, her favorite city.
Joe Mockus (A Life,The Road, and L.) is as good a friend of r.kv.r.y. as a poet can be.
Beginning with this issue, he assumes the duty of poetry editor with Joel Deutsch. Joe has
been published extensively here and in the small press. He is a criminal defense attorney,
rock and roll drummer, dad, husband and one of your editor's best college buddies. This is
his daughter Catherine, mentioned in Letter to Joe w/enc here.
Devin Murphy (A Tub of Vaseline) was awarded third prize in Glimmer Train’s winter 2007
Short Story Contest for New Writers. His work has appeared in Many Mountains Moving, and
303 Magazine. He is an MFA student at Colorado State University and an associate editor of
The Colorado Review.
Dorene O'Brien's work (here, How Many More Times?) has appeared in the Connecticut
Review, Carve Magazine, Clackamas Literary Review, New Millennium Writings, The Cimarron
Review, the Chicago Tribune, Detroit Noir and others. She has won the Red Rock Review's
Mark Twain Award for Short Fiction, the New Millennium Fiction Award, and the Chicago
Tribune Nelson Algren Award. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, has won the
international Bridport Prize and has received a creative writing fellowship from the National
Endowment for the Arts. Her short story collection, Voices of the Lost and Found, was
published by Wayne State University Press in 2007. She teaches writing at the College for
Creative Studies and at Wayne State University in Detroit.
Scott Owens (Augury) is the author of The Fractured World (Main Street Rag, 2008),
Deceptively Like a Sound (Dead Mule, 2008), The Moon His Only Companion (CPR,
1994), The Persistence of Faith (Sandstone, 1993), and the upcoming Book of Days
(Dead Mule, 2009). He is co-editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review, coordinator of the Poetry
Hickory reading series, and 2008 Visiting Writer at Catawba Valley Community College. His
poems have appeared in Georgia Review, North American Review, Poetry East, Hayden's
Ferry Review, Cimarron Review, Greensboro Review, Chattahoochee Review, Cream City
Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Cottonwood, among others. Born in Greenwood, SC, he is
a graduate of the UNCG MFA program and now lives in Hickory, NC.
Victoria Pynchon (Letter to Joe w/enc and Sky Burial) is the founder and editor-in-chief
of this journal. Her poetry has been published in Poet Lore, The Ledge, and, Transformation
and her short fiction and literary non-fiction in the Southern New Hampshire Literary Journal
and Kudzu. She shamelessly self-publishes here from time to time but has turned 99.9% of
her writing energy over to her mediation and arbitration practice. She is the founder of the
Settle It Now Negotiation and IP ADR Blogs. She co-authors a column, The Human Factor,
for The Complete Lawyer.
Nick Sansone (here, Dolls) is 25-year-old MFA student at Emerson College. This is his first
published short story. His poetry has previously been publish The Wilmington Blues, The
Phoenix, Mi-Po, and the Orlando Sentinel.
Poet Amy Small-McKinney contributes Dillsburg, PA to this issue. In 2004, Small-
McKinney's chapbook, Body of Surrender, was published byFinishing Line Press and
showcased, that same year, at Poet's House in New York. She was nominated for a Pushcart
Prize in 2004 and again in 2006. Her work has appeared in on-line and print journals, such
as The Cortland Review,The Pedestal Magazine, ForPoetry, Elixir Press, upstreet, and Blue
Fifth Review. Small-McKinney was guest editor for the June 2006 issue of The Pedestal
Magazine and interviewed Pulitzer Prize nominee poet, Bruce Smith, for their April 2006 issue.
Her poem, Nigeria 2002, was awarded Third Place in the 2007 Philadelphia Eco Poetry Project.
When not writing poetry, she works as a counselor for children and young adults and
facilitates groups dealing with psychosocial issues. She has a Masters degree in Clinical
Neuropsychology.
James Wagner (Reprieve) has published fiction in several journals, most recently in Paper
Street and The Green Hills Literary Lantern. He lives in Minneapolis.
Richard Wirick (Juxtapositions) is one of r.kv.r.y.'s most faithful supporters. Wirick's
fiction, essays and journalism have appeared here in r.kv.r.y. as well as in Fiction, Quarterly
West, Northwest Review, Playboy, Another Chicago Magazine, Indiana Review and elsewhere.
Telegram Press recently published his haunting set of prose poems One Hundred Siberian
Postcards to great critical praise. He is completing a collection of short stories, Fables of
Rescue, and is co-founder and editor of the journal Transformation. One Hundred Siberian
Postcards grew out of his assignments in Ukraine and Siberia in 2003-5, and his adoption of a
Siberian daughter. He practices law in Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife and three
children.
forthcoming in various international journals such as Bellevue Literary Review, The
Fiddlehead, and Primavera. She has an essay in the newly released anthology The Maternal
Is Political and her co-authored book Radical Gratitude, first published in March of 2008, is
in its second printing. Although raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia-which she will
always call home-she currently lives in Western New York with her husband and three
children. This is Akers' second appearance in r.kv.r.y. Her short story multi-tunnel colored
life appeared in r.kv.r.y.'s summer 2006 issue.
Elaine Barnard's fiction (here, Hidden Valley) has been published in Kalliope, Pearl, Sage,
Writers Forum (UK), Storyteller and Timber Creek Review. Several of her plays have been
produced at regional and university theaters. On January 11, 2008 five of her stories were
produced at the Beverly Hills Library as part of the City's "New Short Fiction" series. She
holds an MFA from the University of California at Irvine.
Stephen Busby (Love Ends) is a traveller, writer and photographer based in the Findhorn
Community, northern Scotland. His recent prose has also appeared in Cezanne's Carrot.
Some of his photos can be found here. Stephen also runs workshops and events on
transformational themes in various countries - his website is here.
Mike Bove's fiction (here, Desecration) has appeared in Mindprints and Eastoftheweb, his
poetry in The Cafe Review and Off the Coast. He lives with his wife and son in Portland, Maine
and is a member of the English faculty at Southern Maine Community College.
Steve Cushman (To Love Again) has worked as an X-ray Technologist for the last fifteen
years. He is the author of the novel, Portisville, and forthcoming short story collection,
Fracture City. For more information on Steve, and his writing, check out his web site here.
Peter Desy (Detainee) is loving his early retirement from the English Dept. of Ohio
University. He has poems in or forthcoming from The Iowa Review, Hubbub. The Literary
Review,Southern Poetry Review, other journals, as well as a poetry collection, Driving from
Columnus, and two chapbooks.
Patricia Fargnoli (Pilot Glasses) is a friend of r.kv.r.y. and the Poet Laureate of New
Hampshire. She is the author of 3 books and 2 chapbooks of poetry. Her latest book, Duties
of the Spirit (Tupelo Press 2005) is the winner of the prestigious 2005 Jane Kenyon Poetry
Book Award for Outstanding Poetry. Her first book, Necessary Light (Utah State University
Press), won the 1999 May Swenson Book Award. Fellow at the Macdowell Colony, and a
frequent resident at The Dorset Colony in Dorset, Vermont, Fargnoli was on the faculty of
The Frost Place Poetry Festival, and has taught at The Keene Institute of Music and Related
Arts, and the New Hampshire Institute of Art where she was awarded an honorary B. F. A.
Fargnoli has been the recipient of numerous poetry awards, including a nomination for the
Pushcart Awards, The Connecticut Phoenix Emerging Poet Competition, and The Robert Frost
Literary Award from The Robert Frost Foundation in Lawrence, MA. A member of The New
Hampshire Arts Council Touring Roster, she's read her work widely across the New England
States and has published over 200 poems in such literary journals as Poetry, Ploughshares,
and The Mid-American Review. Your editor-in-chief is one of the "California email friends"
who makes a cameo appearance in Pilot Glasses.
Rick Hoel (A Ride Home) is a real estate broker with Seashore Real Estate, LLC in Bluffton,
South Carolina. Rick has practiced law in private practice specializing in product liability defense
litigation and has served as general counsel for businesses with several Fortune 100
companies where he specialized in international law. In addition, Rick has worked extensively in
the design and implementation of corporate Drug Free Workplace and Employee Assistance
Programs. Rick has also written many articles about real estate and architecture in South
Carolina’s Low Country and is currently working on a book about his father’s World War II
experiences as a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft III, the subject of “The Great Escape.” Rick
currently sits on the Board of Directors of Parents Anonymous South Carolina. Rick can be
reached at his website, Bluffton Area Real Estate.com or at the online real estate networking
group, Active Rain. This is Rick's second appearance in r.kv.r.y. (see I Know I'm Not Alone).
Paul Hostovsky's poems (here Truth and Eulogy) appear widely online and in print and
often in the pages of r.kv.r.y. . A new collection, *Bending the Notes* is forthcoming from
Main Street Rag. Visit Paul's website at www.paulhostovsky.com
Carol Kanter's poetry (here, Psssssssst) has been published in Ariel, Blue Unicorn,
ByLine, Common Ground, Explorations, Hammers, Iowa Woman, The Chester Jones
Foundation, Kaleidoscope Ink, The Madison Review, The Mid-America Poetry Review, Pudding
Magazine, The People’s Press, Rambunctious Review, River Oak Review, Sendero, Sweet
Annie Press, Thema, Universities West Press, and a number of anthologies. Korone named
her the Illinois Winner of its 2001 writing project. Atlanta Review gave her an International
Merit Award in poetry in 2003 and 2005. Finishing Line Press published her first chapbook,
"Out of Southern Africa,” in 2005, and her second, “Chronicle of Dog,” in 2006
Scott Kauffman (Debbie's Ranch) graduated summa cum laude from Ohio University in
Athens, Ohio, and in the upper ten percent of his class from the Lewis & Clark Law School in
Portland, Oregon, where he was a member of the Environmental Law Review. Following
graduation, Scott tried dozens of criminal cases, first as an assistant state prosecutor and
then as an assistant public defender in a rural Ohio community. His first novel, In Deepest
Consequences, was published by Medallion Press in 2006. Scott resides in Newport Beach,
California where he maintains an active law practice. He is currently at work on a second novel
and a collection of short stories. When not working or writing, Scott gardens, reads, and
listens to baroque music. This is Scott's second appearance in r.kv.r.y. His first piece of
fiction, Rocking, appeared in the Spring 2008 issue.
Adam Lilienthal (If We're Fortunate) bartends in a Japanese hibachi steakhouse in
Allentown, PA. He spends his days reading and writing short fiction, taking walks, and
climbing trees. He doesn't vote as he finds it naive to assume elections will ever return this
government to our hands. He believes there are other means with infinitely more power to
make our heard. The implicit mysteries of a free society surround him each day.
Corinne Loveland (Life and Breath) writes nonfiction because she believes in the power of
the everyday. Regardless of what happens to us—be it shocking or simple—life as it occurs is
artistically worthwhile. As a writer and as a photographer, Corinne aims to capture the
nuances of life and portray them as art. Originally from the New Jersey Shore, Corinne now
lives in Santa Cruz, California – a less crowded Jersey Shore with easy access to San
Francisco, her favorite city.
Joe Mockus (A Life,The Road, and L.) is as good a friend of r.kv.r.y. as a poet can be.
Beginning with this issue, he assumes the duty of poetry editor with Joel Deutsch. Joe has
been published extensively here and in the small press. He is a criminal defense attorney,
rock and roll drummer, dad, husband and one of your editor's best college buddies. This is
his daughter Catherine, mentioned in Letter to Joe w/enc here.
Devin Murphy (A Tub of Vaseline) was awarded third prize in Glimmer Train’s winter 2007
Short Story Contest for New Writers. His work has appeared in Many Mountains Moving, and
303 Magazine. He is an MFA student at Colorado State University and an associate editor of
The Colorado Review.
Dorene O'Brien's work (here, How Many More Times?) has appeared in the Connecticut
Review, Carve Magazine, Clackamas Literary Review, New Millennium Writings, The Cimarron
Review, the Chicago Tribune, Detroit Noir and others. She has won the Red Rock Review's
Mark Twain Award for Short Fiction, the New Millennium Fiction Award, and the Chicago
Tribune Nelson Algren Award. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, has won the
international Bridport Prize and has received a creative writing fellowship from the National
Endowment for the Arts. Her short story collection, Voices of the Lost and Found, was
published by Wayne State University Press in 2007. She teaches writing at the College for
Creative Studies and at Wayne State University in Detroit.
Scott Owens (Augury) is the author of The Fractured World (Main Street Rag, 2008),
Deceptively Like a Sound (Dead Mule, 2008), The Moon His Only Companion (CPR,
1994), The Persistence of Faith (Sandstone, 1993), and the upcoming Book of Days
(Dead Mule, 2009). He is co-editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review, coordinator of the Poetry
Hickory reading series, and 2008 Visiting Writer at Catawba Valley Community College. His
poems have appeared in Georgia Review, North American Review, Poetry East, Hayden's
Ferry Review, Cimarron Review, Greensboro Review, Chattahoochee Review, Cream City
Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Cottonwood, among others. Born in Greenwood, SC, he is
a graduate of the UNCG MFA program and now lives in Hickory, NC.
Victoria Pynchon (Letter to Joe w/enc and Sky Burial) is the founder and editor-in-chief
of this journal. Her poetry has been published in Poet Lore, The Ledge, and, Transformation
and her short fiction and literary non-fiction in the Southern New Hampshire Literary Journal
and Kudzu. She shamelessly self-publishes here from time to time but has turned 99.9% of
her writing energy over to her mediation and arbitration practice. She is the founder of the
Settle It Now Negotiation and IP ADR Blogs. She co-authors a column, The Human Factor,
for The Complete Lawyer.
Nick Sansone (here, Dolls) is 25-year-old MFA student at Emerson College. This is his first
published short story. His poetry has previously been publish The Wilmington Blues, The
Phoenix, Mi-Po, and the Orlando Sentinel.
Poet Amy Small-McKinney contributes Dillsburg, PA to this issue. In 2004, Small-
McKinney's chapbook, Body of Surrender, was published byFinishing Line Press and
showcased, that same year, at Poet's House in New York. She was nominated for a Pushcart
Prize in 2004 and again in 2006. Her work has appeared in on-line and print journals, such
as The Cortland Review,The Pedestal Magazine, ForPoetry, Elixir Press, upstreet, and Blue
Fifth Review. Small-McKinney was guest editor for the June 2006 issue of The Pedestal
Magazine and interviewed Pulitzer Prize nominee poet, Bruce Smith, for their April 2006 issue.
Her poem, Nigeria 2002, was awarded Third Place in the 2007 Philadelphia Eco Poetry Project.
When not writing poetry, she works as a counselor for children and young adults and
facilitates groups dealing with psychosocial issues. She has a Masters degree in Clinical
Neuropsychology.
James Wagner (Reprieve) has published fiction in several journals, most recently in Paper
Street and The Green Hills Literary Lantern. He lives in Minneapolis.
Richard Wirick (Juxtapositions) is one of r.kv.r.y.'s most faithful supporters. Wirick's
fiction, essays and journalism have appeared here in r.kv.r.y. as well as in Fiction, Quarterly
West, Northwest Review, Playboy, Another Chicago Magazine, Indiana Review and elsewhere.
Telegram Press recently published his haunting set of prose poems One Hundred Siberian
Postcards to great critical praise. He is completing a collection of short stories, Fables of
Rescue, and is co-founder and editor of the journal Transformation. One Hundred Siberian
Postcards grew out of his assignments in Ukraine and Siberia in 2003-5, and his adoption of a
Siberian daughter. He practices law in Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife and three
children.
