Ascent Aspirations Magazine Print Anthology Four - Borderlines Contributors

Becky Alexander is a Cambridge, Ontario poet. She has been published in Pegasus, Country Woman, Tower, People’s Political Letter, Zygote, Canadian Writer’s Journal, The Amethyst Review, and many other journals. She has four poetry publications. Her work has won many awards and has been included in national and international anthologies. In 2000 she founded Craigleigh Press, which has published eight collections to date. Becky has edited books for fellow writers, and served as a literary judge for various groups. She was the 2002 recipient of the Bernice Adams Cultural Awards for the City of Cambridge, and won for best poem in the 2004 One Book, One Community writing contest for the Kitchener Waterloo Region, based on Jane Urquhart’s book, The Stone Carvers.

Lene Andersen is a writer who grew up in Denmark and moved to Canada quite some time ago. She lives in Toronto and shares her home with a cat and too many books.

David B. Axelrod, a three-time Fulbright Award recipient, is Suffolk County, Long Island Poet Laureate. His most recent of seventeen books, The Impossiblity of Dreams, was just published by AhadadaBooks. He maintains a website atPoetry Doctor

Penny-Anne Beaudoin has worked as a freelancer for religion and spirituality journals since 1997. Her articles have been published in Canada and the United States and she was nominated for the Canadian Church Press Award in 2000. Her fiction has appeared in Writers On Line, Quantum Muse, Lorraine and James, FreeFall Magazine, and the Canadian Writers’ Journal. Her poetry has appeared in Room of One’s Own, On Spec Magazine, and the Windsor Review. She has won or placed in a variety of competitions, and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2005.

Carla Braun is a suburban mother of a son and four cats and dogs. In her spare time she studies and writes non-fiction and poetry. Her employment background is in hospitality and business, and she has an academic background in theology. A former Vancouver resident, she now lives in Langley, B.C.

Ronnie R. Brown: Ottawa writer, Ronnie R. Brown, has had work published in over 100 journals and anthologies in Canada and beyond. Her fourth collection of poetry, States Of Matter (Black Moss, 2005) was awarded the Acorn-Plantos People’s Poetry Award. A fifth collection, Night Echoes (Black Moss, 2006), was launched in the fall of 2006. “Found” is from a manuscript-in-progress entitled Rocking On The Edge.

Heather Campbell is a new writer. She much prefers the term emerging writer, which makes her think of insects and ponds. She writes poetry and flash fiction in a style that is free and contemporary. She has lived coast to coast in many Canadian cities and towns but has settled now in Surrey, BC where she works part time at a library and writes when she can. She was born in Winnipeg and raised in Winnipeg, Victoria and Ottawa. At Carlton University she studied Art History and Philosophy.

Heather Cardin lives in Gatineau, QC with her family. She received a Master’s degree in English from Carleton University (2005) after twenty years as a high school and college instructor. She has published a number of poems in a variety of magazines, has had a poetry manuscript accepted for publication in the U.K., has published a non-fiction book entitled Partners in Spirit (2006) and has another, A Warm Place in My Heart, forthcoming in fall 2007. Her blogs can be found at Book Woman and Poet.

D.B. Cox is a blues musician/writer from South Carolina. His writing has appeared in Underground Voices, Ascent Aspirations, Thunder Sandwich, Dublin Quarterly, Aesthetica, Bonfire, Gator Springs Gazette, Heat City Review, Snow Monkey, Southern Hum, Southern Gothic and others. He has had three chapbooks of poetry published: Passing For Blue (Rank Stranger Press), Lowdown and Ordinary Sorrows (Pudding House Publications). Main Street Rag recently published his first full-length poetry collection, Empty Frames.

Linda Lee Crosfield's poetry and fiction has appeared in Room of One’s Own, Horsefly, The New Orphic Review, Ascent Aspirations, WordWorks, and in several chapbooks and anthologies. She lives and writes in Ootischenia, in South East BC.

Caroline H. Davidson has been living and daydreaming story plots for more than half a century. She recently moved from Ontario to Ladysmith, BC to live in the pleasant climate. Her life is full of music, writing and friends.

Josie Di Sciascio/Andrews was born in Italy and emigrated to Canada at the age of 13. She was educated in Italy for the first part of her life, then pursued her high school studies in Oakville, Ontario. She studied Italian and French Literature at the University of Toronto and received her Bachelor of Education there as well. She has a Masters Degree in Education and is currently pursuing another Masters Degree in Italian Literature. She has taught French and Italian at both the elementary and secondary levels for many years. Her passions are reading and writing, especially poetry. She is also passionate about music, ideas, art, sharing good times with friends and family, movies and traveling. She has won several prizes for her poetry, with the latest being first prize in the freeverse competition of the Ontario Poetry Society’s 2006 Anthology.

Alvin G. Ens is a semi-retired English teacher who is an on-call teacher in the federal prison system in the Fraser Valley. He edits and writes short fiction, poetry and family history. His two poetry books are Musings on the Sermon, a book of religious verse, and I Am the Poem. He is working on his third book, Rural Roots, about his experiences in growing up on the Saskatchewan prairie.

Merlene Fawdry is a prize winning writer and poet living in Australia. She spent over a quarter of a century working at the coal face of youth and family services, towards de-institutionalisation of young people and family reconciliation, and now runs writing and poetry courses and workshops. With a diploma in professional writing and editing, her writing reflects her interests in social justice and she uses the written word to speak out against social and environmental injustices. Her publishing credits include prose, short stories and poetry and books, The Hidden Risks, published in 2006, a series of four poetry chapbooks published in 2006 and The Little Mongrel - free to a good home, published in April 2007.

Peggy Fletcher, a native of Newfoundland, now living in Sarnia, Ontario, is widely published in Canadian and international journals and has six poetry books, a short story collection and a play published. She recently won second prize at the Elora Writers’ Festival.

Cynthia French is from St. John’s, Newfoundland and lives in rural Nova Scotia. She started writing poetry in 2006 in a class taught by Carole Glasser Langille. She is inspired by a small but mighty group of poets which meets in Mahone Bay. This is Cynthia’s first publication.

Rhonda Ganz lives in Victoria, where there is a poet behind every palm tree. She writes in red flannel pyjamas on nights when there is no moon. In 2006, she was a finalist in the Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Poetry Contest. In April 2007, the CBC broadcast one of her poems as part of National Poetry Month. Friday nights you can find her reading at Planet Earth Poetry at the Black Stilt Coffee House in Victoria. When not working as a graphic designer, she paints botanical watercolours and reads too much crime fiction. She shares a home and garden with her husband and three cats. She amuses herself by eating everything with a little hot sauce on the side.

Katherine L. Gordon lives to write in a secluded river valley in Ontario. She has two full collections, many chapbooks, and is an award-winning poet whose work has been published in many languages. Her latest book Myth Weavers, a collection of Canadian myths and legends, Serengeti Press, was released in April, National Poetry Month, 2007. She is the resident columnist for Ancient Heart Magazine, England. Katherine believes that poetry is the link uniting all cultures.

Jill Meriel Harrington-Fox’s poetry has been published in more than 30 anthologies and periodicals and has won prizes and honourable mentions. She works for the Region of Waterloo and lives in Cambridge where she has been an active member of the Cambridge Writers Collective for many years. Her first poetry chapbook is Where the Tide Changes (2005) Serengeti Press.

Joelene Heathcote writes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction essay. She has published widely and won many awards. Her work has been included in anthologies, Breaking the Surface (SonoNis Press, 2000), Mocambo Nights (Ekstasis Editions, 2001), Translit Vol.7 (Blitzprint, 2006), and String to Bow (Leaf Press, 2005). Her collection of poetry, What’s Between Us Can’t Be Heard (Ekstasis, 2002), was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Award. Inherit the Earth (Rubicon Press, 2006), a chapbook of poems is due out in fall, 2007. She is currently at work on a larger collection of poetry and a book of short stories.

Barbara Hunt is a dry-eyed nostalgic who delivers contemporary bites of naked truth wrapped in a rich appealing texture. She writes poetry, fiction and non-fiction from her home in Port Perry, Ontario where she’s a correspondent for a local monthly magazine. She has been published with CBC Radio One, The Globe and Mail, Metroland, Esteem and Homemakers Magazine as well as in several anthologies. She can be reached at Writers Plyaground

Marcelle Kasprowicz was born in Niort, France and lives in Austin, Texas. She received an M.A. from UT at Austin (Foreign Language Education Department) in 1983. She was awarded first prize for her poem “House of Bones”, in the Austin International Poetry Festival Anthology Di-verse-city 2001. Marcelle also won an honorable mention in the Tri-language Poem Contest 2001 from Gival Press. In 2005 she was awarded second prize in the Ascent Aspirations Magazine for her poem “The Seer”. Her poem “Field Hospital” was published in the 2005 Texas Poetry Calendar. Organza Skies, her first book, was published in 2005.

Leila Kulpas was born in New South Wales, Australia and grew up in the bush. She is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist in Vancouver, B.C. and has been published on the internet and in a chapbook edited by Patrick Lane.

Amy Leask is a freelance writer and educator with an Honours BA in English and Philosophy and a Master’s degree in Philosophy. Her compulsion to write began in grade two, when one of her poems was published in a regional anthology. Her publishing credits include academic papers, poetry, articles and reviews. She also teaches English and Philosophy at local community colleges. When she isn’t pleading with the muses for inspiration, she enjoys creating hand-made jewelry, baking like a fiend, and reading voraciously.

Barbara Lefcourt grew up in New York City. She migrated to Canada with her family in 1963. A former teacher of Literacy and Basic Skills, Barb started writing poetry as she neared retirement. Her poems have appeared in a number of juried anthologies, chapbooks and magazines. She is a member of The Cambridge Writers Collective and The Ontario Poetry Society. In 2005, "The Power of Penmanship" won third prize in the T.O.P.S. Food For Thought Chapbook Anthology Contest and "Treasure" won Honourable Mention in their Simply Good Poetry Contest. Barb's muse quickens, particularly, during summers spent on Manitoulin Island (Lake Huron) and travels in Australia when she periodically visits some of her family there.

Sue Littleton: Born in Texas, Sue Littleton now lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her first two books, in Spanish, were published in Buenos Aires in 1972 and 1974. After 18 years in Argentina, she returned to Texas in 1976 and in 1990 received a B.L.S. from St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas. She has published six chapbooks. The Ranch on the Pecos, the story of her family’s West Texas sheep ranch was published in 1996. Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies, including three of the Ascent Aspirations anthologies and in the Ascent Aspirations Magazine online. Her poem “Regime Change Begins at Home,” from 100 Poets Against the War, has been published in Croatia and Denmark. She has edited three poetry anthologies and for five years hosted bilingual poetry venues in Austin under the auspices of the Austin Commission for the Arts. Sue is one of the four founders of the Austin International Poetry Festival, now attended by poets from all over the world. She has four books on CDrom, two with audio readings (Waltsan Publishing) and her bilingual illustrated epic poem, Corn Woman, Mujer Maiz, is available in its entirety at hhtp://www.waltsan.com/FTP/sandra/corn_woman/index.html and is the history of corn in the Americas. She has participated in the Encounters of Narrators and Poets organized by the Asociación Cultural de las Dos Orillas, Uruguay, and is presenting two books, one an illustrated bilingual re-edition of Imágenes/Images and the other Papel de Barrilete/Kite Paper (Botella al Mar, Colección Poetas del Sur) at the 2007 Uruguayan Book Fair.

Julie MacLellan is a writer and newspaper editor currently living in New Westminster, B.C. with her husband, Steve Makuch. A native of Barrie, Ontario, Julie has been scribbling stories since childhood. She’s the author of two unpublished 3-Day Novels and a large stack of short fiction that’s finally being sent out into the world. She thanks Steve, the Story Club and the Sunday afternoon writers for their encouragement.

Michael M. Marks: Starting in Cincinnati, still entrenched in the Midwest, Michael M. Marks was schooled during the cold war/fallout shelter era evolving to anti-Vietnam war college days, from Elvis to the Rolling Stones. A Midwest baby-boomer, he was the middle child of five born in a six year span.

Kate Marshall Flaherty's poetry has won several awards, including Word Magazine, THIS Magazine, Shaunt Basmajian Award for 2006 and was shortlisted for Descant’s Winston Collins Best Canadian Poem 2006 and Nimrod’s Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. In Toronto she teaches yoga, meditation and leads teen retreats and workshops for Children’s Peace Theatre.

Stella Mazur Preda, a retired elementary teacher, is owner and publisher of Serengeti Press, now based in the Hamilton area. Her poetry has appeared in many Canadian literary journals and anthologies. Her poem “My Mother’s Kitchen” was purchased by Penguin Books, New York and published in an anthology entitled In My Mother’s Kitchen, which was released in May 2006. Stella’s first book of poetry, Butterfly Dreams, was published in 2003 and she is working on getting her second book out. Stella is the past-president of the Tower Poetry Society and a member of the Cambridge Writers Collective. She also serves on the Advisory Committee of the Kairos Literary Society in Hamilton.

Elizabeth McCallister grew up in Scarborough and moved to Saskatoon. When she lived in Saskatoon, she had the good fortune and experience to work with several of the Writers-in-Residence at the Saskatoon Public Library. She attended the Sage Hill Writing Experience in the summer of 2001. She moved back to Ontario in 2002 and now resides in Brantford. She is currently a member of the Cambridge Writers Collective. Her work is forthcoming in Street #6. You can hear one of her poems at Poetry All as one of the winners in Cambridge Libraries’ Poem A Day contest.

Andrea McKenzie grew up in Victoria, B.C. where she still resides. She is a long-time fixture at the Mocambopo Poetry Series, which is now Planet Earth Poetry at the Black Stilt Cafe. Andrea holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Victoria and a Certificate in Public Relations. She is an aspiring poet, novelist, and freelance writer. Her poetry has appeared in Canadian Literature, Mocambo Nights, Quills, Boulevard Magazine and Rubicon Press. In 2005, she published her first book of poetry A Mother’s String through Ekstasis Editions.

Michelle McLean currently works as a night auditor at the Howard Johnson hotel in Woodstock, N.B. While she has written poetry her entire life, it has only been in recent months that she began sending some of it out into the world. A collection of her children’s poetry placed second in the 2007 Writers Federation of New Brunswick literary competition, and she received third place in the fifth annual Open Minds Quarterly BrainStorm Poetry Contest (2007). Michelle and her husband live in Lower Brighton, New Brunswick.

David Merrifield lives near Duncan on Vancouver Island. He has been apprenticing as a poet with intent for two years. This is his first publication. He would like to acknowledge the mutual love in his life of his mother, Irene, and his father, Ken.

Michael Mirolla is a novelist and short story writer currently residing in Toronto. His most recent publication is Berlin: A Novel(available for purchase online at http://www.trafford.com/robots/03-1650.html). A collection of short stories— The Formal Logic of Emotionwas published by Nuage in 1992. One of the stories from the collection, “A Theory of Discontinuous Existence,” was also selected for that year’s The Journey Prize Anthology, awarded for the best short fiction published in literary magazines in Canada during the previous year. He has had short stories published in numerous journals in Canada, the U.S. and Britain, including several anthologies such as Event’s Peace & War Anthology, Telling Differences: New English Fiction from Quebec, Tesseracts 2: Canadian Science Fiction, the Collection of Italian-Canadian Fiction, and New Wave of Speculative Fiction Book 1.

Annebelle Murray lives, works and writes in Uxbridge, Ontario. She is a graduate of Queen’s University. Her poetry has received recognition and awards in Canada and overseas. A number of her poems were performed in the play Musings on Motherhood (Ontario/2006).

Martina Reisz Newberry is the author of a collection of poems Running Like a Woman with her Hair on Fire, published by Red Hen Press 2005. She is also the winner of i.e. magazine’s Editor’s Choice Poetry Chapbook Prize for 1998: An Apparent Approachable Light. She is the author of Lima Beans and City Chicken: Memories of the Open Hearth — a memoir of her late father—published by E.P. Dutton and Co. in 1989. She is also the author of The Star Jasmine Club - an Adult fable, a novel purchased by E.P. Dutton & Co. She has written four novels and several books of poetry and has been widely published in literary magazines such as: 5 AM, Amelia, Atom Mind, Bellingham Review, Black Buzzard Review, Cape Rock, Caprice, Catalyst, Connecticut Poetry Review, Context South, Descant, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Hob Nob, i.e.,Innisfree, International Poetry Review, Iowa Woman, The Ledge, My Legacy, New Laurel Review, Passages North, Piedmont Literary Review, Snake Nation Review, Sonoma Mandala, Sonora Review, Rectangle, Southern Review of Poetry, Touchstone, Visions International, Willow Review ,Women’s Work, Yet Another Small Magazine, and many others. Martina lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband Brian and their benevolent dictator and cat, Gato.

Steve Marshall Newton: After studying literature with C. D. B. Bryant and poetry with Jon Anderson at the University of Iowa, and creative writing with novelist Philip Roth, at the University of Iowa Creative Writers’ Workshop, Steven Marshall Newton studied creative writing and English literature in the undergraduate program at the University of New Mexico, and poetry with Gene Frumkin in the graduate program. He later became a professional songwriter, part-time artist and photographer, poet, novelist, and short story writer, His short story “Nothing But A Kiss” won First Place in the Santa Fe Reporter Annual Short Story Contest and was later published in the Amarillo Bay Literary Magazine. “Somewhere in LA” received honorable mention in the Alibi Magazine Short Story Contest. He has had short stories published in the Amarillo Bay Literary Magazine, Evergreen Review, Juked, Gator Springs Gazette, Hot Metal Press, Ascent Aspirations, and Blink. He has recently completed three mainstream contemporary novels, Southeast of Eden, The Ghosts of Babylon, and Shrinking Violet, and is nearing completion on a historical novel, Billy’s Kid.

Deborah Nickle-Vail was born in Montreal and was part of the anglophone exodus from Quebec during the 1980’s. Much of her writing takes her back to that time and place. She now lives in Mission B.C. with her family and teaches at the elementary school level. Currently, she is working on a novel, and a collection of short stories.

Debbie Okun Hill: Since the fall 2004, Debbie Okun Hill has had two short stories and over 60 poems published in over 25 different Canadian and US publications including Quills, MOBIUS, North American Maple, Rhyme and Reason: Modern Formal Poetry, Reportage (Cranberry Tree Press), and all print editions of Ascent Aspirations Magazine. Her poems have won awards from The Ontario Poetry Society, the Canadian Poetry Association, the 2006 Toward the Light Poetry Contest, and most recently the 2007 WCDR Dan Sullivan Memorial Poetry Contest. Read her most current work in the chapbook Executive Sweet: A Collection of Poetry by TOPS Executives.

Diane Attwell Palfrey Diane Attwell Palfrey was born in Toronto and has lived in Cambridge for the past sixteen years. She is a poet and prose writer. Diane is a member of the Cambridge Writers Collective and has poetry published by the Waterloo-Wellington CAA, Serengeti Press, Craigleigh Press, Hammered Out, The Ontario Poetry Society and Ascent Aspirations.

Amy Pedersen is currently working on her MA in English at the University of Victoria.

Roy Roberts is a Vancouver poet published in The Fed Anthology (Anvil) and from this new world (tendollarwords) and forthcoming in Prairie Fire magazine. He lives in the ARC (Artists Resource Centre) with his wife, ceramic sculptor Shelley Holmes and their son, painter Jordan Roberts, where his involvement in the fine arts community has led him to create ekphrastic poetry (poetry inspired by art in other media) for presentation at exhibition openings; the latest for the collaborative paintings of The Blank Canvas Project at the Seymour Art Gallery, N. Vancouver.

Sheryl Salloum is a Vancouver-based freelance writer who has lived in and enjoyed both rural and urban locales. Her work has appeared in numerous Canadian publications. She has published two books: Underlying Vibrations: The Photography and Life of John Vanderpant (Horsdal & Schubart, 1995), and Malcolm Lowry: Vancouver Days (Harbour Publishing, 1987).

Johnmichael Simon was born in England in 1938 and raised in South Africa from the age of ten. He has been living in Israel almost continuously since 1955. He currently lives in the village of Metulla, Israel on the border of Lebanon, with fellow poet and artist Helen Bar-Lev, their cats and a dog. John writes poetry every day; some of it wins prizes and honorable mentions in anthologies in Israel and abroad. He is a member of the board of ‘Voices’ the Israeli English speaking poetry group and has published several illustrated books of poetry including Silly Wishes, a book of children’s verse and Cyclamens and Swords and Other Poems About the Land of Israel (Ibbetson Press, Boston, Mass., USA) in collaboration with Helen. John has been guest poet at readings in England, the US and Canada and contributes to numerous Internet publications and print Anthologies. He is member of the Voices Israel Anthology editorial board and also a member of the Canadian Poetry Association and the Canadian Federation of Poets.

Pat Smekal has always loved words. She would write more of them if she didn’t spend so much time with other loves, including Yoga, hiking, travel, kayaking and grandchildren. Nonetheless, during the past four years or she has won a number of prizes across Canada for her poetry, and has had work published in Island Writer, Reportage, Love the Main Course, A World of Words 2006, and Ascent Aspirations Anthologies (One and Two). Pat and her husband, George, live next to the sea, on Vancouver Island.

Susan Snowden’s poems have appeared in anthologies and literary journals, including Now and Then, Moonwort Review, Slow Trains, Backstreet Quarterly, and Waterways: Poetry in the Mainstream. She has received awards from Writer’s Digest, Appalachian Writers Association, The Writers’ Workshop, and others. Snowden is a freelance book editor based in Hendersonville, NC. She also teaches creative writing part-time at Blue Ridge Community College in Flat Rock.

Colin Stewart: After six long years at SFU, Colin Stewart finds himself stuck with a degree in computer science. To remedy this situation, he is now pursuing a much more practical degree in creative writing, after which he will enter the lucrative field of writing novels. Until then, Colin will spend his time writing, doing slam poetry, looking for a publisher for his novel, and playing on the slides in the park.

Luminita Suse lives in Ottawa. She is a member of the Ottawa Independent Writers, Valley Writers’ Guild, and The Ontario Poetry Society. Her poetry has been published in the “Anthology One” and “Agua Terra” anthologies of Ascent Aspirations Magazine, Enchanted Crossroads anthology and Verse Afire newsletter of The Ontario Poetry Society, Sage of Consciousness literary E-Zine, The Saving Banister anthology of the Canadian Authors Association – Niagara Branch, and Bywords Quarterly Journal. Visit her website at Web Site

Lynn Tait lives in Sarnia, Ontario. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Lichen, Windsor Review, Quills, Contemporary Verse 2, Carousel, No Love Lost III, and Ascent Aspirations Magazine Anthology Two, Windfire. She has published a chapbook titled Breaking Away, 2002.

Mildred Tremblay lives in Nanaimo, BC. Her latest book of poetry The Thing About Dying is available from Oolichan Books. She is the recipient of many awards, amongst them The Arc National Poetry Award, and The League of Canadian Poets Award. Recently she placed first and second in the Victoria Erotica Festival Poetry contest.

Wendy Visser lives in Cambridge, Ontario. She has been published recently in Ascent Aspirations Anthology Three, AguaTerra,2007, Hammered Out # 11, Peter Street Publications, Hamilton, On. Street # 5, Serengeti Press, 2007, Myth Weavers: Canadian Myths and Legends, Serengeti Press, 2007, Tower Poetry, Vol 56, No.1, Tower Poetry Society Press, Summer 2007, and in Cloud Shine, launched in 2007 by Craigleigh Press. Wendy’s haiku are currently featured on the dailyhaiku website where she is one of six contributors for the spring/summer sessio, 2007. Her book, Riding A Wooden Horse, Craigleigh Press recently won the WRAC (Waterloo Regional Arts Council) best book award.

Julie Waugh lives in Sydney, Australia and holds a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of New South Wales. Her work has been published in Decanto (UK), Poetrix(AUS), Positive Words (AUS), The Mozzie (AUS) and various anthologies as well as on-line in Above Ground Testing, Stylus Poetry Journal, Souhern Ocean Review and PixelPapers.

Jan Wood lives in Northern Saskatchewan where each day the nearby forests and lakes give inspiration. She is a patron of the arts who recently found reason to record bits of life in ink, none of which is dry yet. She is presently creating and publishing leather-bound journals, Out of Ink Printers, a hobby turned business venture.

Ed Woods is a Hamilton area writer currently involved in the entertainment business. Inspiration for writing evolved from life experiences through employment, travel, and daily challenges originally related in storytelling. Near future plans include publishing an anthology.

Charlene Zatorski is a married mother of four trying to figure out the world around her through poetry and prose.

Bonnie ZoBell has received an NEA for her fiction, a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, and the Capricorn Novel Contest Award. Her work has appeared in such magazines as American Fiction, The Bellingham Review, Arts & Understanding: America’s AIDS Magazine, Cosmopolitan Magazine, and she has had flashes in Word Riot, Salome, Juked, and The Boston Literary Review. She is the Creative Writing Coordinator at Mesa College in San Diego, California.