Sandra Ervin Adams (Freedom) has freelanced for newspapers, but her heart belongs to poetry. She is a
member of the North Carolina Poetry Society, and the North Carolina Writers' Network. She is a three-time writer-
in-residence at Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities in Southern Pines, NC. Her work has been published
in The Lyricist, St. Andrews Review, Mature Years, Byline, Old Mountain Press anthologies; The Magpie's Nest,
Poetic Hours, Shemom and In Between the Lines, an anthology from Bottega Gallery in Wilmington, NC. This year
she taught a poetry workshop at New Bern (NC's) First Literary Symposium In 2006 she authored a chapbook,
Union Point Park Poems, and her second poetry book will be titled, Weymouth and Beyond. Five of her poems
were chosen for the local Council for the Arts' book, New River High Tide. Sandra lives in Jacksonville, NC.
Beth Balousek (Herman's Wish) is a poet whose work has been published in Chronogram and BlazeVOX. Her
chapbook, Aphasia was recently published by BlazeVOX. BlazeVOX has a series of poetic collections, which are
available as a free PDF download here.
Gary Beck (Intermezzo) is a writer whose poetry and fiction have appeared in dozens of literary magazines. His
poetry has also appeared in the chapbooks, Remembrance (Origami Press) and The Conquest of Somalia (Cervena
Barva Press). A collection of his poetry Days of Destruction is being published by Skive Magazine Publishing. His
plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes, and Sophocles have been produced Off-Broadway.
James Bettendorf (Reflection) taught math for 34 years at various levels. In his retirement, Bettendorf began
taking writing classes at the Loft in Minneapolis, MN. He was accepted for a two year poetry internship and has
been working on a manuscript with his mentor/advisor, Thomas R. Smith. He has had poems published in
Bittersweet, Studio One, Lower Stumpf Lake Review, and most recently in Free Verse.
Thomas Boulan (The Next Katie Couric) is a social worker living in Ypsilanti, Michigan, who helps the homeless
recover their lives. He spends equal amounts of time writing and manipulating digital photos, and feels downright
joyful when he discovers a really nice mannequin in a store window. His work has appeared in a number of print
and online journals, including Natural Bridge, jerseyworks, Pindeldyboz, The MacGuffin, Thieves Jargon, Word Riot,
Taj Mahal Review, Coe Review and Southern Ocean Review.
Marilyn Sears Bourbon who has graciously contributed her painting Girls Night Out to illustrate Melinda Palacio's
short story Alameda Street, has won numerous awards for watercolor and watermedia in juried shows, and has
had her work exhibited many times in national, gallery and museum shows. She has also served as a juror in
artistic competitions. She is a signature member of the California Watercolor Society, the Northwest Watercolor
Society, the San Diego Watercolor Society and the Texas Watercolor Society.
Simmons Buntin (Roundabout) is the founding editor of Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural
Environments and web program manager at the University of Arizona . Mr. Buntin recently won the Mid-American
Review Creative Nonfiction Award for the essay appearing in the current MAR’s issue. His other essays have
appeared in Weber Studies, Pilgrimage, Dark Sky Magazine, and elsewhere. His poetry has appeared in Southern
Humanities Review, Whiskey Island Magazine, Orion, South Dakota Review, and others. In May 2005 his first
book of poetry, Riverfall, was published by Ireland ’s Salmon Poetry. He is a recipient of a Colorado Artists
Fellowship for Poetry.
Stephen Busby (Visiting Hugh) is a traveller, writer and photographer based in the Findhorn Community,
northern Scotland. His recent prose has also appeared in Cezanne's Carrot. Stephen also runs workshops and
events on transformational themes in various countries. This is Stephen's second publication in r.kv.r.y. His first
was the short story Love Ends in r.kv.r.y.'s summer '08 issue.
Geordie de Boer (Different Shades of Yeller) writes short fiction, novels and poetry and carries his
MCP from the University of Oregon like a key using it only when needed to open a door. His poetry has been
published by poetrymagazine.com, St. Anthony Messenger, jerryjazzmusician.com and Mississippi Crow; fiction
by SNReview.org and soon by Side of Grits.
Dr. Les Cohen (Two Doctors) has taught and practiced Internal Medicine in Boston for many years. His short
stories have been published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Archives of Internal Medicine, Journal of the
American Medical Association, Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, Hospital Drive, and in 2000, 2001 and 2005 he
won the Journal of General Internal Medicine's Creative Award for Prose. His short story A River in Egypt appeared
in our Summer-Fall 2007 issue.
Joel M. Deutsch (Polling Place Blues) is r.kv.r.y's poetry editor and a frequent contributor of poetry and non-
fiction. His publication credits range from early poems in "little" magazines like Big Boulevard and Open City to
articles and essays in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, the Directors Guild magazine,
and the online culture and travel journal World Hum. Currently at work on a novel, Joel lives in Los Angeles,
California.
Gary Hanna (Requiem for My Sister) won the Brodie Herndon Memorial Prize in 2002, received the Emerging
Artist Fellowship in Poetry from the Delaware Division of the Arts in 2003, won the Walter Winchell Poetry Contest
in 2005, and received a Residency Fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts from the Mi-Atlantic Arts
Foundation in 2007. His poems have appeared in Common Ground Review, Inkwell, California Quarterly, Mid-
America Poetry Review,Lyric, Blueline, Hawaii Pacific Review, Bryant Literary Review, Rhetoric, South Dakota
Review, Litchfield Review, Connecticut River Review, Tapestries, Clare, Broadkill Review, Rockhurst Review,
Peregrine, Bogg, and others
Eli Hastings (Turning a Room Blue) tells us he is a far-flung Seattleite who married a more far-flung Spaniard
now home, working in the arts and social services (Writers In The Schools, Pongo Teen Publishing, and the
Eastside Domestic Violence Program). He earned his MFA and taught Creative Nonfiction and English courses at
the UNC at Wilmington. A book of essays, Falling Room, came out from Bison Books (University of Nebraska
Press) in their American Lives Series 2005. A memoir, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah, and two novels are under
consideration. His work has appeared in: Rivendell, Third Coast, Cimarron Review, Pinyon, Whetstone, Alligator
Juniper, Pedestal Magazine, The Seattle Review, Wandering Army, The Tulane Review, Blood Lotus, in the
anthology, Men Speak Out (against sexual violence), Routledge Press, and is forthcoming in 580 Split and an
anthology of nonfiction craft from the University of North Carolina. An essay he placed with Third Coast was
nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the essay at Alligator Juniper won their nonfiction contest. Five of his stories
are in preproduction as a feature film at Westbound Films. Really he just wants to hang out with his old dog, Kaya.
Shaul Hendel (Me Bay) writes that he has been a pants-pissing paratrooper, a window cleaner in a holy city, a
let’s-stay-friends divorcee, a stick-to-the-point acupuncturist, a father to the amazing number one & number two,
a silent meditator trapped in a noisy mind, a traveler who forgot to return home, a you-could-have-done-worse
husband, and a should-do-better writer. As an act of professional rebellion he is not presently writing a novel. His
work has been published, or is forthcoming in The Externalist Magazine, The Pedestal, Pindeldyboz, and
Ghotimag.
Scott Kauffman (Debbie's Ranch Part II) 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 and received the American Jurisprudence Award in Conflict of Laws.
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, which provides much of the background for his first novel, In
Deepest Consequences. Scott now resides in Newport Beach, California. He maintains an active law practice,
which includes the representation of those charged with white-collar crimes. 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.
Jeff Klooger's poetry (here, How We Feel) has been published in a number of Australian literary journals
including Famous Reporter, Eureka Street, Cordite Poetry Review, Dotlit and Retort. His other interests include
music and philosophy. He has a PhD in philosophy and social theory from La Trobe University in Melbourne,
Australia, and his book on the work of Greek-French philosopher, social theorist, economist and psychoanalyst
Cornelius Castoriadis will be published in 2009.
Jeff Knorr whose poem Tune-Up appears here, is the author of the three books of poetry, The Third Body
(Cherry Grove Collections, 2007), Keeper (Mammoth Books), and Standing Up to the Day (Pecan Grove Press).
His other works include the co-authored Mooring Against the Tide: Writing Poetry and Fiction (Prentice Hall); the
anthology, A Writer's Country (Prentice Hall); and The River Sings: An Introduction to Poetry (Prentice Hall). His
poetry and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies including Chelsea, Connecticut
Review, The Journal, Red Rock Review, Barrow Street, and Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America
(University of Iowa, 2002). Jeff Knorr lives in California's central valley and is Professor of literature and creative
writing at Sacramento City College.
Robin Marsden's (Beetle's Gleaming Back) short fiction has been published online at Liars' League, Lit Vision
and Zygote in my Coffee. His work has twice appeared in the Tonto Press new writing anthology. He has also been
long listed for the Fish Publishing Prize for new writing. Robin lives in London where he is currently working on a
novel, entitled Why the City Never Sleeps.
Scott Owens' work appears here for the second time. Augury appeared in our Summer 2008 issue. In this issue,
Owens contributes the poem New Bed. Scott 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.
Melinda Palacio (Alameda Street) is a 2007 PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellow. She grew up in South-Central Los
Angeles and now lives in Santa Barbara where she is a web developer and editor for Ink Byte. Her poems, short
stories, and articles have appeared in a variety of publications including BorderSenses, Maple Leaf Rag III: An
Anthology of Poems, Sage Trail Poetry Magazine, the East Valley and Scottsdale Tribune, and Latinos in
Lotusland: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature. She recently completed her first novel,
Ocotillo Dreams.
Donna Fox Parson (Practice Runs) is a writer and political organizer living in New York City. She is currently
writing a novel about the friendship between two Estonian women separated by the events of World War II. One
flees the country, lives in a Displaced Persons Camp for four years, and immigrates with her young sons to
America. The other narrowly escapes being deported to Siberia by Stalin and is forced into a Communist
collective. Donna works for Demos, a national policy and advocacy center.
Barry Pomeroy (Don't Step On the Rocks) has been an instructor in English literature at a variety of American
colleges and Canadian universities, most recently the University of Winnipeg. He is responsible for the novel
Naked in the Road, and his shorter work has been or will be published in magazines such as Treeline, Freefall,
Cosmetica, Bards and Sages, Insolent Rudder, Tart, The Tiny Globule, Shape of a Box, Willows Wept Review,
Sonar 4, Writing Shift, Ulterior, Oddville Press and Word Catalyst.
Susan Solomon (In the Service of Another) is currently an MFA candidate at Hamline University. Her work has
been published in The SUN Magazine; Rock, Paper, Scissors; and the current edition of Flurry.
Jesse Scaccia (Goat Men) has been published by the New York Times, the San Diego Union Tribune, and the
Virginian-Pilot. He co-executive produced a documentary series for BET about post-Katrina life for the band and
football team at an HBCU in Louisiana. He is currently the Perry Morgan Fellow in the MFA program at Old Dominion
University in Norfolk, Virginia.
Cathy Scott (Loves Me Loves Me Not) is a veteran journalist who traveled to New Orleans immediately following
Hurricane Katrina to report the stories of pets displaced by Katrina. Pawprints of Katrina was released in mid
July. Scott has published biographies and true crime books, including the Los Angeles Times bestseller The Killing
of Tupac Shakur. Her latest – Rough Guide to True Crime (Penguin) – is set for release in summer 2009. Cathy's
work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, the San Diego Union-
Tribune, George magazine, and Reuters News Service. Scott, who is a member of the Society of Professional
Journalists’ national Speakers Bureau, has appeared on CNN, Court TV, Unsolved Mysteries, Oxygen network’s
“Snapped,” National Public Radio, and the BBC. She was an adjunct journalism instructor for nearly five years at
the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, a position she left to remain on the Gulf Coast for four months. She lives in
Las Vegas and has a second home in San Diego.
Thea Zimmer (Mother's Keeper)
member of the North Carolina Poetry Society, and the North Carolina Writers' Network. She is a three-time writer-
in-residence at Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities in Southern Pines, NC. Her work has been published
in The Lyricist, St. Andrews Review, Mature Years, Byline, Old Mountain Press anthologies; The Magpie's Nest,
Poetic Hours, Shemom and In Between the Lines, an anthology from Bottega Gallery in Wilmington, NC. This year
she taught a poetry workshop at New Bern (NC's) First Literary Symposium In 2006 she authored a chapbook,
Union Point Park Poems, and her second poetry book will be titled, Weymouth and Beyond. Five of her poems
were chosen for the local Council for the Arts' book, New River High Tide. Sandra lives in Jacksonville, NC.
Beth Balousek (Herman's Wish) is a poet whose work has been published in Chronogram and BlazeVOX. Her
chapbook, Aphasia was recently published by BlazeVOX. BlazeVOX has a series of poetic collections, which are
available as a free PDF download here.
Gary Beck (Intermezzo) is a writer whose poetry and fiction have appeared in dozens of literary magazines. His
poetry has also appeared in the chapbooks, Remembrance (Origami Press) and The Conquest of Somalia (Cervena
Barva Press). A collection of his poetry Days of Destruction is being published by Skive Magazine Publishing. His
plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes, and Sophocles have been produced Off-Broadway.
James Bettendorf (Reflection) taught math for 34 years at various levels. In his retirement, Bettendorf began
taking writing classes at the Loft in Minneapolis, MN. He was accepted for a two year poetry internship and has
been working on a manuscript with his mentor/advisor, Thomas R. Smith. He has had poems published in
Bittersweet, Studio One, Lower Stumpf Lake Review, and most recently in Free Verse.
Thomas Boulan (The Next Katie Couric) is a social worker living in Ypsilanti, Michigan, who helps the homeless
recover their lives. He spends equal amounts of time writing and manipulating digital photos, and feels downright
joyful when he discovers a really nice mannequin in a store window. His work has appeared in a number of print
and online journals, including Natural Bridge, jerseyworks, Pindeldyboz, The MacGuffin, Thieves Jargon, Word Riot,
Taj Mahal Review, Coe Review and Southern Ocean Review.
Marilyn Sears Bourbon who has graciously contributed her painting Girls Night Out to illustrate Melinda Palacio's
short story Alameda Street, has won numerous awards for watercolor and watermedia in juried shows, and has
had her work exhibited many times in national, gallery and museum shows. She has also served as a juror in
artistic competitions. She is a signature member of the California Watercolor Society, the Northwest Watercolor
Society, the San Diego Watercolor Society and the Texas Watercolor Society.
Simmons Buntin (Roundabout) is the founding editor of Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural
Environments and web program manager at the University of Arizona . Mr. Buntin recently won the Mid-American
Review Creative Nonfiction Award for the essay appearing in the current MAR’s issue. His other essays have
appeared in Weber Studies, Pilgrimage, Dark Sky Magazine, and elsewhere. His poetry has appeared in Southern
Humanities Review, Whiskey Island Magazine, Orion, South Dakota Review, and others. In May 2005 his first
book of poetry, Riverfall, was published by Ireland ’s Salmon Poetry. He is a recipient of a Colorado Artists
Fellowship for Poetry.
Stephen Busby (Visiting Hugh) is a traveller, writer and photographer based in the Findhorn Community,
northern Scotland. His recent prose has also appeared in Cezanne's Carrot. Stephen also runs workshops and
events on transformational themes in various countries. This is Stephen's second publication in r.kv.r.y. His first
was the short story Love Ends in r.kv.r.y.'s summer '08 issue.
Geordie de Boer (Different Shades of Yeller) writes short fiction, novels and poetry and carries his
MCP from the University of Oregon like a key using it only when needed to open a door. His poetry has been
published by poetrymagazine.com, St. Anthony Messenger, jerryjazzmusician.com and Mississippi Crow; fiction
by SNReview.org and soon by Side of Grits.
Dr. Les Cohen (Two Doctors) has taught and practiced Internal Medicine in Boston for many years. His short
stories have been published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Archives of Internal Medicine, Journal of the
American Medical Association, Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, Hospital Drive, and in 2000, 2001 and 2005 he
won the Journal of General Internal Medicine's Creative Award for Prose. His short story A River in Egypt appeared
in our Summer-Fall 2007 issue.
Joel M. Deutsch (Polling Place Blues) is r.kv.r.y's poetry editor and a frequent contributor of poetry and non-
fiction. His publication credits range from early poems in "little" magazines like Big Boulevard and Open City to
articles and essays in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, the Directors Guild magazine,
and the online culture and travel journal World Hum. Currently at work on a novel, Joel lives in Los Angeles,
California.
Gary Hanna (Requiem for My Sister) won the Brodie Herndon Memorial Prize in 2002, received the Emerging
Artist Fellowship in Poetry from the Delaware Division of the Arts in 2003, won the Walter Winchell Poetry Contest
in 2005, and received a Residency Fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts from the Mi-Atlantic Arts
Foundation in 2007. His poems have appeared in Common Ground Review, Inkwell, California Quarterly, Mid-
America Poetry Review,Lyric, Blueline, Hawaii Pacific Review, Bryant Literary Review, Rhetoric, South Dakota
Review, Litchfield Review, Connecticut River Review, Tapestries, Clare, Broadkill Review, Rockhurst Review,
Peregrine, Bogg, and others
Eli Hastings (Turning a Room Blue) tells us he is a far-flung Seattleite who married a more far-flung Spaniard
now home, working in the arts and social services (Writers In The Schools, Pongo Teen Publishing, and the
Eastside Domestic Violence Program). He earned his MFA and taught Creative Nonfiction and English courses at
the UNC at Wilmington. A book of essays, Falling Room, came out from Bison Books (University of Nebraska
Press) in their American Lives Series 2005. A memoir, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah, and two novels are under
consideration. His work has appeared in: Rivendell, Third Coast, Cimarron Review, Pinyon, Whetstone, Alligator
Juniper, Pedestal Magazine, The Seattle Review, Wandering Army, The Tulane Review, Blood Lotus, in the
anthology, Men Speak Out (against sexual violence), Routledge Press, and is forthcoming in 580 Split and an
anthology of nonfiction craft from the University of North Carolina. An essay he placed with Third Coast was
nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the essay at Alligator Juniper won their nonfiction contest. Five of his stories
are in preproduction as a feature film at Westbound Films. Really he just wants to hang out with his old dog, Kaya.
Shaul Hendel (Me Bay) writes that he has been a pants-pissing paratrooper, a window cleaner in a holy city, a
let’s-stay-friends divorcee, a stick-to-the-point acupuncturist, a father to the amazing number one & number two,
a silent meditator trapped in a noisy mind, a traveler who forgot to return home, a you-could-have-done-worse
husband, and a should-do-better writer. As an act of professional rebellion he is not presently writing a novel. His
work has been published, or is forthcoming in The Externalist Magazine, The Pedestal, Pindeldyboz, and
Ghotimag.
Scott Kauffman (Debbie's Ranch Part II) 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 and received the American Jurisprudence Award in Conflict of Laws.
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, which provides much of the background for his first novel, In
Deepest Consequences. Scott now resides in Newport Beach, California. He maintains an active law practice,
which includes the representation of those charged with white-collar crimes. 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.
Jeff Klooger's poetry (here, How We Feel) has been published in a number of Australian literary journals
including Famous Reporter, Eureka Street, Cordite Poetry Review, Dotlit and Retort. His other interests include
music and philosophy. He has a PhD in philosophy and social theory from La Trobe University in Melbourne,
Australia, and his book on the work of Greek-French philosopher, social theorist, economist and psychoanalyst
Cornelius Castoriadis will be published in 2009.
Jeff Knorr whose poem Tune-Up appears here, is the author of the three books of poetry, The Third Body
(Cherry Grove Collections, 2007), Keeper (Mammoth Books), and Standing Up to the Day (Pecan Grove Press).
His other works include the co-authored Mooring Against the Tide: Writing Poetry and Fiction (Prentice Hall); the
anthology, A Writer's Country (Prentice Hall); and The River Sings: An Introduction to Poetry (Prentice Hall). His
poetry and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies including Chelsea, Connecticut
Review, The Journal, Red Rock Review, Barrow Street, and Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America
(University of Iowa, 2002). Jeff Knorr lives in California's central valley and is Professor of literature and creative
writing at Sacramento City College.
Robin Marsden's (Beetle's Gleaming Back) short fiction has been published online at Liars' League, Lit Vision
and Zygote in my Coffee. His work has twice appeared in the Tonto Press new writing anthology. He has also been
long listed for the Fish Publishing Prize for new writing. Robin lives in London where he is currently working on a
novel, entitled Why the City Never Sleeps.
Scott Owens' work appears here for the second time. Augury appeared in our Summer 2008 issue. In this issue,
Owens contributes the poem New Bed. Scott 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.
Melinda Palacio (Alameda Street) is a 2007 PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellow. She grew up in South-Central Los
Angeles and now lives in Santa Barbara where she is a web developer and editor for Ink Byte. Her poems, short
stories, and articles have appeared in a variety of publications including BorderSenses, Maple Leaf Rag III: An
Anthology of Poems, Sage Trail Poetry Magazine, the East Valley and Scottsdale Tribune, and Latinos in
Lotusland: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature. She recently completed her first novel,
Ocotillo Dreams.
Donna Fox Parson (Practice Runs) is a writer and political organizer living in New York City. She is currently
writing a novel about the friendship between two Estonian women separated by the events of World War II. One
flees the country, lives in a Displaced Persons Camp for four years, and immigrates with her young sons to
America. The other narrowly escapes being deported to Siberia by Stalin and is forced into a Communist
collective. Donna works for Demos, a national policy and advocacy center.
Barry Pomeroy (Don't Step On the Rocks) has been an instructor in English literature at a variety of American
colleges and Canadian universities, most recently the University of Winnipeg. He is responsible for the novel
Naked in the Road, and his shorter work has been or will be published in magazines such as Treeline, Freefall,
Cosmetica, Bards and Sages, Insolent Rudder, Tart, The Tiny Globule, Shape of a Box, Willows Wept Review,
Sonar 4, Writing Shift, Ulterior, Oddville Press and Word Catalyst.
Susan Solomon (In the Service of Another) is currently an MFA candidate at Hamline University. Her work has
been published in The SUN Magazine; Rock, Paper, Scissors; and the current edition of Flurry.
Jesse Scaccia (Goat Men) has been published by the New York Times, the San Diego Union Tribune, and the
Virginian-Pilot. He co-executive produced a documentary series for BET about post-Katrina life for the band and
football team at an HBCU in Louisiana. He is currently the Perry Morgan Fellow in the MFA program at Old Dominion
University in Norfolk, Virginia.
Cathy Scott (Loves Me Loves Me Not) is a veteran journalist who traveled to New Orleans immediately following
Hurricane Katrina to report the stories of pets displaced by Katrina. Pawprints of Katrina was released in mid
July. Scott has published biographies and true crime books, including the Los Angeles Times bestseller The Killing
of Tupac Shakur. Her latest – Rough Guide to True Crime (Penguin) – is set for release in summer 2009. Cathy's
work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, the San Diego Union-
Tribune, George magazine, and Reuters News Service. Scott, who is a member of the Society of Professional
Journalists’ national Speakers Bureau, has appeared on CNN, Court TV, Unsolved Mysteries, Oxygen network’s
“Snapped,” National Public Radio, and the BBC. She was an adjunct journalism instructor for nearly five years at
the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, a position she left to remain on the Gulf Coast for four months. She lives in
Las Vegas and has a second home in San Diego.
Thea Zimmer (Mother's Keeper)
r.kv.r.y. quarterly literary journal
fall 2008.winter 2009
contributors
fall 2008.winter 2009
contributors
