Diana M. Raab

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). Her website is Diana Raab and her blog is Blog. Email: Diana M. Raab

John Rachel

John Rachel has a B. A. in Philosophy, has traveled extensively, is a songwriter and music producer, and a left-of-left liberal. Prompted by the trauma of graduating high school and having to leave his beloved city of Detroit to attend university, the development his social skills and world view were arrested at about age 18. This affliction figures prominently in all of his creative work. He is author of three full-length novels, From Thailand With Love, The Man Who Loved Too Much, and recently 11-11-11. He considers his home to be Japan but is currently traveling in Thailand, Myanmar and Taiwan while he writes his next novel, 12-12-12. Email: John Rachel

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.Email

Bernadette Raffoul-Serravalle

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

Chamel Raghu
Chamel Raghu is a student in Austin TX.

Kimberly Raiser
Kimberly Raiser is the editor of Route 66.Route 66 Magazine

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Kaleem Raja

Kaleem Raja was born in Luton, England in 1974. He is a British Asian artist, writer and educator and poetry editor of The View From Here literary magazine, founder of reVerse View poetry group and founder of the ARTSscape website.
He has had work published in magazines like Ink, Insite, Open City 360, Best New Poems, The View From Here, Humanimalz, Bitchin’ Kitsch, Monkey Kettle and local newspapers and magazines, various online sites (Hub, Glogster, Watpad, Writinghood, Write Out Aloud, Poetry.com, Forward Poetry, Soundcloud) and work featured on social websites (Blogger, Youtube, Facebook, Vimeo). He has e-published 3 books; Medication Nation and A Short Book of Short Poems and The Artisan and Other Stories.
kaleeM is a member of the Luton Poetry Society, Irish Forum Literary Society, London Poetry Society and Luton Writers’ Group. He has performed in London, Bedford, Leicester, Dunstable, Harpenden, St Albans and at 33 Arts Centre, Toddington Poetry Society and Luton Poetry Society. He has featured on Radiolab and Tropical FM.
kaleeM holds a bachelor degree in English linguistics and literature from the University of Bedfordshire and is currently studying for a masters degree in Educational Studies and Management. He is the deputy head of a private school and has been teaching for 15 years.
kaleeM’s website is ARTSscape Email: Kaleem Raja

Charles Rammelkamp

Charles Rammelkamp lives in Baltimore. His latest book, Fusen Bakudan (“Balloon Bombs” in Japanese), was published in 2012 by Time Being Books. It’s a collection of monologues involving missionaries in a leper colony in Vietnam during the war. Charles edits an online literary journal called The Potomac - The Potomac Journal. He is also a fiction editor for The Pedestal – The Pedestal Magazine. Check out his fiction feature in issue #70, stories about a character named Mark Nipple. The Pedestal Magazine, Issue #70 Email: Charles Rammelkamp

Sam Rapth

Sam Rapth hails from South India, and belongs to the community of people who are believed to have given brains to Mayans in ancient days. He has written, plenty of poems, hundreds of speculative fictions and two novels which both are social critiques in natur. He has been published by many familiar magazines in India that reach at least a million on a weekly and monthly basis. In English, his poems and prose have so far been featured at The Tongue Magazine (UK), The Static Movement Magazine (UK),The Inclement Poetry Magazine (UK),The Taj Mahal Review (India),The Yellow Mama Magazine (US), Ascent Aspirations Magazin (CAN),The Recusant Magazine (UK) ,The Mad Swirl Magazine (US) and many other Indian magazines. Email: Sam Rapth

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. Email

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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.Email

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.Email

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

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 Email: Sarah Rehfeldt

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.Email

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.

Christine Jessica Margaret Reilly

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

Al Rempel

Al Rempel> is a poet and high school teacher from Prince George, BC. His first books of poetry are understories (Caitlin Press, 2010) and The Picket Fence Diaries (Lipstick Press, 2010). He has a new book, due in spring, called This Isn’t the Apocalypse We Hoped For (Caitlin Press), which includes the poem in the video above. His poems have also appeared in The Malahat Review, CV2, filling Station and Event, on Poetry in Transit placards, and in anthologies such as The Best Canadian Poetry (2011), Rocksalt, and 4 Poets.
The Sky Canoe was first screened at the Visible Verse festival in Vancouver in October, 2012, and in the same month was shown at the University of Northern British Columbia, in Prince George.
The Sky Canoe, which began as a poem, "Bring Me My Sky Canoe", was carved into a Coleman canoe by sculptor Phil Morrison. It was created to be a memorial piece for his friend Steve Switzman, who passed away on June 25, 2011. The last journey the canoe made was to scatter Steve’s ashes on a lake. In the summer of 2012, the canoe was launched in Tacheeda Lake and the underwater footage was used to make the video-poem. No visual special effects were used.
Phil Morrison is a sculptor who works mainly in concrete & metal, and often incorporates text into his work. Al Rempel has dabbled in video-poems and wants to make more; please visit Al Rempel Web Site for more info. Steph St. Laurent is a filmmaker as well as an actor. His site is Steph St. Laurent . Jeremy Stewart is a musician and a poet; his first book of poetry is called flood basement and he can be found at Jeremy Stewart
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William de Rham

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.Email: William de Rham

Mireille Ribière

Mireille Ribière is a freelance writer and photographer, with an extensive list of publications to her name in the fields of literature, the visual arts and photography. In 2013, her Columbus Day –a handmade, limited edition artist's book– was exhibited at the Davis Orton Gallery (New York) as a winning entry of an international competition (PHOTOBOOK 2013, 15 November–22 December). Images from Catching The Light, her latest limited edition photobook, were recently on show at Joburg Fringe 2014 in Joahnnesburg (21-24 August 2014). She works and lives in the UK. Web Page Email

Eli Richardson

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. Email

Richard Rippon

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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Anina Robb

Anina Robb is a 42 year old poet living in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with her husband and two neat kids. She earned a MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and has published poems in Nebo, The White Pelican Review, Rilvendel, and Oatmeal and Poetry. This June her poem "Triangle" will appeared in the print edition of Emerge. Email: Anina Robb

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.Email

Denis Robillard

Denis Robillard was born in Northern Ontario and now teaches high school in Windsor, Ontario. For the past 15 years over 100 of his poems have appeared in the small presses and on line magazines across Canada, the USA, England and Scotland. Some of these include: Rattle, Rampike, Word Riot, Bolts of Silk, Orange Room Review, Dusty Owl, Nashwaak, Prairie Journal, Airplane Reading (USA) and several more. In 2012 alone Robillard was published by Windsor Review, Offside Magazine, Jellyfish Whispers, Encore Literary Magazine, (Quebec) Ditch and The Brautigan Book Club (UK). His poems have also been recently featured in a Black Moss Press 1812 Anthology called An Unfinished War. Email: Denis Robillard

Gerard Rochford

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.
Dead Good Poets
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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.
Former Poet Laureate, Philip Levine, said of him:
“(Matthew Rodgers) is obviously talented and a very promising emerging poet. Watch out for him. He has his own voice and it is a peculiar and potent voice to listen to.”

He studied under the current President of the Poetry Foundation, Robert Polito, who said:
“Matthew offers a kind of new rustic American poetry. He has the power to captivate and expand the boundaries of the imagination.”

Recent Publications: Cicada (Spring 2013), Art Times (Spring 2013), The Stray Branch (Spring 2013), The New Mexico Poetry Review (Winter 2013), The Tule Review (Spring 2012), Ascent Aspirations (Spring 2012), The Eclectic Muse (Summer 2012), Ascent Aspirations (Winter 2011), Speed Poets (Summer 2011), and Down in the Dirt Magazine (Fall 2011) Email: Matthew Rodgers

Anthony J Rodway

Anthony J Rodway is a forty-three year old poet and novelist from Bedford, where he lives alone in a small room with only the occasional blue-bottle for company. People say he wastes his life, that one day he’ll have more blue-bottles than he can handle. Currently he is working on his third unpublished novel – an investigation of ‘image’ and its inability to describe love – whilst fruitlessly hunting for an appropriate agent. Email: Anthony J Rodway

Lacey Roop

Lacey Roop is a nationally acclaimed spoken word poet. In 2011, she placed 6th at the Women of the World Poetry Slam (WOWPS), has been the Austin, TX Individual World Poetry Slam (IWPS) representative as well as a two-time member of the renowned Austin Poetry Slam. Roop has toured everywhere from Texas to Canada and everywhere in-between. She has shared stages with numerous artists from finger-painting kindergardeners to The Wailers. She is the author of three self-published chapbooks and one full length collection, And Then Came the Flood, published by Timbermouse. What is far more interesting about Lacey, however, is that she has an uncanny ability to get hit by cars while biking, and finds the fact that we are all made of stars both fascinating and comforting, and wears a key around her neck that unlocks the bottom of the ocean. Really, it does.
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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. Email

Imogen Rosenbluth

Imogen Rosenbluth is a second-year undergraduate in the creative writing program at Brandeis University. Her work has appeared on the New York Times Learning Network and in the What About Peace? International Youth Arts publication, and I won the Edith Garlow Memorial Poetry Contest in 2011. Email: Imogen Rosenbluth

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 .Email

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. Email

Joanne Ross
Joanne Ross is a local reviewer who lives in Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, BC.
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Rena Rossner

Rena Rossner is a graduate of the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University, she studied at Trinity College Dublin, McGill University in Montreal and she currently lives in Jerusalem. She's written extensively for The Jerusalem Report and The Jerusalem Post. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming from Poetica Magazine, MiPoesias, and Inclement Poetry Magazine, among others. Her first novel is out on submission. Email: Rena Rossner

Sy Roth

Sy Roth: Retired after forty-two years as teacher/school administrator, he now resides in Mount Sinai, far from Moses and the tablets. This has led him to find words for solace. He spends his time writing and playing his guitar. He has published in Visceral Uterus, Amulet, BlogNostics, Every Day Poets, Barefoot Review, Haggard and Halloo, Misfits Miscellany, Larks Fiction Magazine, Danse Macabre, Bitchin’ Kitch, Bong is Bard, Humber Pie, Poetry Super Highway, Penwood Review, Masque Publications, Foliate Oak, Miller’s Pond Poetry, The Artistic Muse, Word Riot, Samizdat Literary Journal, Right Hand Pointing, The Screech Owl, Epiphany, Red Poppy Review, Big River, Poehemians, Nostrovia Poetry’s Milk and Honey, Siren, Palimpsest, Dead Snakes and Kerouac’s Dog. Email: Sy Roth

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

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

Austen Roye currently resides in Cleburne, Texas, a relatively small town located along the underbelly of the Dallas/Forth Worth area. He has published numerous pieces through various literary magazines and independent presses and is currently completing work on his third novel. "Sun Bleached" and "Clarity" are pieces taken from his latest collection, god save your mad parade. Email: Austen Roye

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.Email

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

Walter Ruhlmann

Walter Ruhlmann works as an English teacher, edits mgversion2>datura and runs mgv2>publishing. Walter is the author of several poetry chapbooks and e-books in French and English and has published poems and fiction in various printed and electronic publications world wide. Nominated for Pushcart Prize once. His blog Site Email: Walter Ruhlmann

Kieran Rundle

Kieran Rundle is an emerging writer who delves into the swirling mists around dark and lyrical poetry and stories. After having several poems published within it, she became the "Poetry Editor" for Miracle Magazine. Writing is her true passion, seconded by dancing under a full moon, and she dreams of one day sharing her love with the world. Email: Kieran Rundle

Keeley Rusek

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.Email: Keeley Rusek

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.Email

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