Featured Contributing Writers

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Diana M. Raab

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Diana M. Raab is a poet and memoirist who teaches writing at the UCLA Writers' Program and at conferences around the country. Her writings have appeared widely in anthologies, literary journals and magazines. She has three poetry collections. Dear Anais: My Life in Poems for You (2008) won the 2009 Next Generation Indie Award and Reader Views Annual Award for Poetry, as well as received other high honors. My Muse Undresses Me (2007) is her chapbook and her latest collection is The Guilt Gene (2009).
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John Rachel:
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Stuart P. Radowitz
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Carl Rafala

Carl Rafala was born in New England and has traveled and lived in various parts of the earth for periods of time that ranged from 3 weeks to 5 years. He holds a Masters Degree in English and a Masters Degree in Higher Education. His fiction has appeared in various zines, and he has a collection called, "Wildflower" available at Amazon and local bookstores.

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Bernadette Raffoul-Serravalle

Bernadette Raffoul-Serravalle is currently working on a poetry manuscript.

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Chamel Raghu

Chamel Raghu is a student in Austin TX.

Kimberly Raiser

Kimberly Raiser is the editor of Route 66.

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Dorine Ratulangie

Dorine Ratulangie is a literature and SF/fantasy enthousiast and writes in Dutch, Spanish and English. She has won the María Dolores Candela provincial award of Alicante in Spain for students in 1992 and has published poems in Dutch cultural magazines and on websites: CJP Magazine, Writers Block (www.writersblock.net). Currently she lives in the Netherlands and works in IT.

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Jack Rauhala

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Greg Rayborn

Greg Rayborn is a 46 year old father and grandfather from Kentucky. After an 18 year hiatus, he is writing again. He reckons it is about time. He offers this recent comment on his work, "a baring of the soul in the most uncomplicated and unguarded moment." Greg blushes then laughs, he considers his writing simple, a mere bleeding onto a page. His recent poem "Nearer" appears in Scorched Earth Publishing.

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David Reames

David Reames was a research biologist at a large Cancer research center in Detroit, MI. He recently moved from Detroit to New York City for a slower-paced life style in which to finish his first novel.

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Kimo Reder

Kimo Reder gained his PhD in English from UCLA in 2009 and is a professor of Language and Literature at a small college in Newtown, PA (one of America’s crop-circle hotspots). He has published in The Antioch Review, Callaloo, and Westwind, and is working on a book concerning the neural overlap between speaking and tasting and its implications for experimental verse. He hopes to assemble a ukulele/marimba/shakuhachi/gravikord ensemble capable of playing the music of Moondog, Mingus, and Monk someday. Email: Kimo Reder

Benjamin Reed

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Sarah Rehfeldt

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lives in western Washington with her family. She is a writer, artist, and photographer. Her most recent publication credits include: Modern Haiga; Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction; The Golden Lantern; and DailyHaiga. Her photography web pages can be viewed here: Web Site
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Ken Rehill

Ken Rehill After more than twenty years in the counseling field in Kingman Arizona, he jumped at an opportunity to come to Fort Yukon a year and a half ago. He is employed by the Council of the Athabascan Tribal Governments as program administrator for the Yukon Flats Care Center and is responsible for providing behavioral health services to residents of ten remote villages in Alaska's northern interior, reachable only by airplane. He hadn't previously written for publication but he can't NOT write about what he is experiencing there! He began submitting in April, 2004 and, so far, 30 poems have been accepted for publication by Mobius, Poetic Voices, Poetry Motel, Soul Fountain and other presses.

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Joseph Reich

Joseph Reich is a children's therapist who works in the state of Massachusetts; A displaced New Yorker who sincerely does miss dis-place, most of all the Thai Food, the Bagels, and the Smoothies on Houston Street...

Has a wife and child and when we all get a little older desire to show them around Harlem, The Upper West Side, The Lower East Side, and boroughs of birth and childhood...

Joseph has had works which have appeared in such literary journals as, Poesy, Dispatch, Falling Star, And Then, Graffiti Rag, Main Street Rag, Bouillabaisse, Decanto, Rogue's Scholar, Poetry Motel, The Beat, The Potomac Poetry Super Highway and Istanbul Literature Review.Email: Joseph Reich

Nicholas Reid

Nicholas Reid: Visiting Fellow, School of Humanities, Australian National University and Sometime Senior Lecturer, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

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Christine Jessica Margaret Reilly attended the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College. Two of her poems will be featured in The Clearing: Forty Years with Toni Morrison, 1970-2010. She has won full scholarships to both the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets and the Sarah Lawrence Summer Seminar. Her chapbook of poetry, The Blue Of was named a finalist in Susquehanna University's Pulled Pork Contest. She has been published in Barely South Review, The Salzburg Review, and twenty-six other journals. She was named Breadcrumb Scabs' Editor's Pick. She is currently writing a novel and lives in New York. Her website is Christine Jessica Margaret Reilly

Jodhi Reis

Jodhi Reis: Captain Jodhi Reis poses pen name for an American Prose Pilot commissioned by the United States Military Academy: thrown from planes and thrust through combat with real bullets and false ideas. Born: Massachusetts, 1978. Currently resides in Portland. Email: Jodhi Reis

Amanda Reynolds

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William de Rham

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William de Rham: Born and raised in New York City, William de Rham is a graduate of Georgetown University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. A former trial lawyer and the author of Smuggler’s Bluff (a novel being offered for publication), he resides in Maine where he is at work on a second novel and a variety of short stories. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in the on-line magazines Pulse and New Works Review, and in the print journals RiverSedge and Broken Bridge Review.

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Mireille Ribière

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Eli Richardson

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Eli Richardson doesn't believe everything he thinks. That's smart. His poems have appeared in Blood Lotus, Denver Syntax, Thieves Jargon, & Frigg. Eli's Gord received a Pushcart Prize nomination from Floating Bridge Press. Eli's novel Make Me about adventures of the 3rd sex will be published in 2011. Email: Eli Richardson

Nicholas Ridino

Nicholas is 22 years old, the oldest of five children, four boys and one unfortunately overprotected girl. He lives in the small town of Ione, CA, which is approximately one hour away from Sacramento. He in his second semester at Delta College in Stockton, CA. He is in the process of earning his English Degree. He would like to teach someday. He has written over twenty-five short stories since he began writing two years ago. The genre of his work he can only categorize as “psychological horror/romance.” He also has one screenplay to his credit, “Consenting Adults,” about a homicide investigation, and at present he is working on his second screenplay, titled “Coming Off.” And he his twenty-four pages into a harrowing story of domestic abuse, which he has been working on since November of last year, the title of which is “Searching For Ariel.” Previous education included earning a Computer Science Degree at Heald College in Sacramento, CA, which he received in January of 2001. When he is not writing he is most likely on the couch in the living room with his reading glasses on and his nose buried deep in a book. Thanks to the prodigious talent of my brother Joseph and my sharp-as-a-whip twelve-year-old sister Jenny, you can find excerpts from all of my stories online at my website, the address of which is: http://nicks-stories.cjb.net/ . Once there you can find a link to my e-mail address; you can write me if you have any questions or would like to know further information about me.

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Richard Rippon

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Richard Rippon writes stuff. He lives in the North East of England. He has also appeared in cautionarytale, Mannequin Envy, The Pygmy Giant and is due in 6S & Monkeybicycle. Some of his other work can be found here:My Space.
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Suzanne Roberts

Suzanne Roberts is an English instructor at Lake Tahoe Community College and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Nevada Reno in Literature and the Environment. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in ZYZZYVA, The Hurricane Review, The California Quarterly, TETYC, Poetry Motel, Spillway, Branches Quarterly, The Banyan Review, The Adirondack Review, and Thorny Locust. A poem has also been selected for the anthology The Best of Branches 2004. She also recently won the MacMillan award for "The best piece of creative writing on Nevada" from the University of Nevada, Reno.

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Gerard Rochford

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Gerard Rochford is a widely published poet living in Aberdeen, Scotland. He is a featured poet on the American website Poets Against War. His latest collection is The Holy Family and Other Poems (Koo Press), a meditation on belief and disbelief. A founder member of Dead Good Poets, he convenes monthly poetry readings in Aberdeen. Gerard's poem "My Father's Hand" was selected by the writer, Janice Galloway, as one of the Best 20 Poems of 2006 for the Scottish Poetry Library. He has been a guest reader for Planet Earth Poetry at the Black Stilt, Victoria. B.C. where he has read many times. He is a psychotherapist by trade and has many children and grandchildren.
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Ken Rodgers

Ken Rodgers lives, writes and teaches in Boise, Idaho.

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Matthew Rodgers

Matthew Rodgers is a poet,whi mostly writes, only from those impulses, that nag at the mind until they are got out. He likes flowery free verse prose, and would consider his work perennial in imagery, having influence from western and eastern, from the old and the new. He loves to read, Kahlil Gibran, Charles Bukowski, and Fredrico Lorca.


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Michelle Rose

Michelle Rose studied English Literature and Creative Writing at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. She currently lives in Cincinnati, where she is working on her first fiction novel. She is also an artist and photographer and occasionally works as a figure model for local art schools. Other poems of hers are scheduled to appear in The Incliner.

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James Ross

James Ross is an active Vancouver Islander who hikes and observes the flora and fauna of his island paradise. His photography in this exhibit ranges from his immediate backyard, Vancouver Island and the Rockies of the Canadian Great Divide .

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Jeffrey Ross

Jeffrey Ross is finishing a four year degree in English Literature and Native Studies at Laurentian University. He has lived in Phoenix most of his life but moved to Sudbury for the wamer weather. Last year he made a brief departure from school to work as a journalist. His appreciation of writing has lead him to keep practicing using poetry as a medium. His focus is on Romantic period literature.

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Joanne Ross

Joanne Ross is a local reviewer who lives in Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, BC. Email: Joanne Ross

Kelly Rothenberg

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“Mother’s Love” appeared in Redsine in 2000. Recently he has had two book reviews/criticisms accepted on Stephen King’s Everything’s Eventual and Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend for Salem Press’ Magill’s Literary Annual, 2003. A complete list of his published fiction and nonfiction work (over forty to date) is available at his web site.

Deborah Rothschild

Deborah Rothschild is a freelance writer, grandmother, feminist, and supporter of liberal causes.

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Rebecca Rowe

Rebecca Rowe is a writer from Colorado most recently published in the May issue of Ascent and the March issue of Sol Magazine. When she is not writing, she hikes the Sangre de Christo mountains and sand dunes for inspiration.

Sutirtha Roy

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Sutirtha Roy: Standing in the cross road, feeling deep within – a tadpole among the Slavs. Left with rusty stars in this pale grayish-white landscape,Prufrock’s baffled half brother, searching for words for the last thirty seven winters and still trying to believe - it’s never just possible to hold back the spring. Email: Sutirtha Roy

Austen Roye
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Andrea Rudy

Andrea Rudy has an MA in creative writing, and her short stories have appeared in various journals including The Berkeley Fiction Review, A Room of One's Own, and FRONT. She was also in the 2003 edition of the anthology, Coming Attractions.

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K. Easton Ruben

K. Easton Ruben's work has been published in Washington Square; Connecticut Review; Iris; and The Paterson Literary Review, among other literary journals. Her novels have won the Asian Pacific American Literature Award, the Golden Kite Honor Award, and a Booksense Citation. She is on the faculty of Hamline University. Email: K. Easton Ruben

Keeley Rusek

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Keeley Rusek is terrible at writing bios, because the small talk perspective of most bios irritates her and does not contain the delicious experience of peeling the onion layers back that she thinks leads to truly experiencing another person. Her publishing experience has room for growth. She is seeking inspiration in the journey, although of course she keeps walking regardless.

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Jenni Russell

Jenni Russell is a retired exotic dancer, currently working on a prose/poetry memoir describing my ten-year career in the American sex industry. Her poetry has been published in Mipo Print and The Writer's Hood e-zine and The Melic Review. She is an active member in online poetry workshops and has won the PBL and IBPC Internet poetry competitions. This year, she was nominated for the Ruth Halls Younger Poets Award at Indiana University. Her interests include human sexuality and gender, literary theory, and popular culture. She is the interviewer for Mipoesias Magazine and currently resides in a small town in North Carolina with her fiance, Jack, and her pet bird, Percy Budgie Shelley.

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