Lunarosity Authors' Profiles A-D

        Ruben Abeyta

        writes mostly poetry, some anecdotes and essays, travel journals and two pieces of Spanish folklore. He has had poems published in over seventy journals and literary magazines, been a featured reader at the New Mexico State University Regent's Summer Program, Border Book Festival, Our Lady of Guadalupe International Festival and at coffeeshops in Las Cruces and Silver City, NM, as well as El Paso, Texas. He's a member of a writer's group, Sin Fronteras, and has done open mic readings at various resturants and lounges in Las Cruces for about seven years at least once a month. Abeyta is also on the Editorial Board of the Agua Viva Newspaper for the Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces. (August 2006)

        Michelle Angelini

        is a Southern California poet who earned her BA from California State University, Northridge in 2004. She began writing poetry some 20 years ago for emotional release. Michelle's themes and inspiration are taken from the world around her and her love of music, animals, nature and issues. She tutors English for students in grades K-12, volunteers at a local humane society and small theatre, and attends poetry readings and workshops. (February 2007)

        Ann Applegarth

        was awarded an Academy of American Poets prize at the University of New Mexico in 1980, and her work has appeared in publications such as Westwind Review, Bellowing Ark, St. Anthony Messenger, Conceptions Southwest, Ruah, Sin Fronteras, and Christianity and Literature and anthologized in Literature and the Life of Faith, and Earthships: A New Mecca Poetry Collection. She lives, writes and occasionally teaches in Roswell, New Mexico.. (December 2005, April 2008).

        Jim Applegate

        lives in Roswell, NM. He is a retired chemist and has written poetry since his sophomore year of high school. He is a member and former president of NMSPS (New Mexico State Poetry Society).

        Ismael Ricardo Archbold

        resides and works in Austin TX. A graduate of the University of Chicago and the Bennington Writing Seminars, he maintains a blog, Guide for the Careering and plays in the band "Coma in Algiers". (February 2007)

        Suzanne Aubin

        A Native of Quebec City, now lives in British Columbia where she is a language teacher and a translator. Her latest publications include BluePrint Review, Flash Flooding, Salome Magazine and Flash Flood Fiction. She received an Honourable Mention in this year's Mirrors and Masks Mindprints contest. (June 2007, December 2007)

        Glenda Bailey-Mershon's

        poetry has appeared in journals, most recently in Appalachian Heritage, and in two chapbooks, sa-co-ni-ge/blue smoke: poems from the Southern Appalachians (Jane's Stories, 2005) and Bird Talk (Wild Dove, 2000). She teaches writing in community workshops and edited three volumes of Jane's Stories anthologies. Her interest in local history and writer's lives has resulted in numerous interviews that appear online and in various archives. She is now at work on a novel set in small-town Georgia among people who choose everyday between truth and hypocrisy. (April 09)

        Sharon A. Barr

        came to rest in Alamogordo, New Mexico in 2000 where she started writing poetry. She has been published in Sparrow Forum, Ink Spot, Sin Fronteras, and will have a poem in a forthcoming issue of RiverSedge published by University of Texas at Edinburg.ÊShe is currently prematurely retired, but is avoiding getting another day job as long as possible. (August 2007)

        Gary Beck's

        poetry has appeared in dozens of literary magazines. His chapbook 'The Conquest of Somalia' is forthcoming from Cervena Barva Press. His recent fiction has been published in numerous literary magazines. His plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes, and Sophocles have been produced Off-Broadway. (April 2008).

        Hakim Bellamy

        is a two-time National Champion in the Poetry Slam scene. He was a member of the 2005 National Poetry Slam Champs Team Albuquerque in his first year of poetry slam, 6 months after his first ever slam, which he also won. The following year he was a member of the 2006 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational Champs Team UNM. One Albuquerque City Championship (2005) and 3 consecutive University of New Mexico LOBOSLAM titles later, Hakim respects the blessing, but could care less about winning poetry slams, as opposed to cultivating creativity. Hence, Hakim is in the process of adding playwrite and actor to his resume. A resume that already includes: freelance journalist, community organizer and social justice advocate. HakimÕs poetry and journalism have been published internationally as well as his radio journalism on KUNM 89.9FM out of Albuquerque, NM. He is currently working for the New Mexico Office of African American Affairs and is a board member for Poetic Justice Institute and Black Cowgirl Productions as well. He is most proud of being the former Poetry Club coach at South Valley Academy. His poetry has been published in Albuquerque inner-city buses as a winner of the RouteWords Competition (2005). His poetry has been published in the Harwood Anthology (2006), the Earthships Anthology (2007), Sin Fronteras Journal (2008), A Bigger Boat published by UNM Press (2008) and Looking Back at Place (2008). In January of last year, Bellamy was recognized as an honorable mention for the University of New Mexico Paul Bartlett Re Peace Prize for his work as a community organizer and journalist. He is regular contributor to The District and BOOM Magazines as well as a freelancer for Radio Free America.(February 09)

        Brian J. Bender

        finds pleasure in the simple things like listening to the birds and eating cashews. He sometimes feels a bit boxed in by all the concrete and fast machines, but if he makes it into the woods a few times a year, life is good. Brian earned his IPC (I Passed College) from two universities in Ohio and is currently working on his IPL (I Passed Life).(February 2008)

        Jim Bennett

        lives near Liverpool in the UK and is the managing editor of poetrykit (http://www.poetrykit.org/jim/index.htm). His most recent publication is a poetry collection called "The Man Who Tried To Hug Clouds" (Bluechrome Publishing 2004, 2nd edition 2005). He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Liverpool and tours throughout the year giving readings and performances of his work. (August 2007)

        Morrigan Benton-Floyd

        lives in Northern CA. Her publishing credits include The Poetry Motel, Hazmat Review, Talking Leaves and an anthology entitled The Company We Keep. She is also a 2003 Pushcart Prize nominee. (3-1-04)

        Wesley Biddy

        earned his B.A. and M.A. at Lee University, studying poetry for a brief stint at the Iowa Writers' Workshop between them. After completing a Th.M. at Duke Divinity School, he began his current degree program at Marquette University, a Ph.D. in Theology and Society. His poems have been published in Nantahala, The Pedestal, Wicked Alice, ken*again, Language and Culture, The New Pantagruel, and Communique. (December 2007)

        Michelle Bitting

        has work forthcoming or published in Glimmer Train, Swink, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Daily, Small Spiral Notebook, Nimrod, The Southeast Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Many Mountains Moving, Poetry Southeast, Slipstream, Dogwood, Salt Hill, Pearl, Rattle, and others. She has won the Glimmer Train, Rock & Sling--Virginia Brendemeuhl Award, and Poets On Parnassus Poetry Competitions. Formerly a dancer and a chef, she teaches children and is a devoted outreach worker. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Phil Abrams, an actor, and their two young children.(February 2007)

        Robert Black

        currently resides in Scotland. He has been writing for nearly fifteen years. He says he writes poetry "because it allows him to express himself properly."

        Will Bless

        is a writer from Woodbury, CT. His stories have appeared most recently in Aporia, Lake Effect Magazine, Vermont Literary Review, America's Civil War, Hudson Echoes, and Voices. A collection of short fiction is due out for publication in Spring 2005. (July 2004).

        Jessica Bodford

        is a senior at William G. Enloe High School in Raleigh, NC. Her poem, Red Ink, "is meant to be satirical (in iambic pentameter, like Alexander Pope) on the subject of what women of every age feel pressured to be." (June 2008)

        Max Bouillet

        lives in Las Cruces, NM and is an on-again, off-again student at New Mexico State University. He has been published in the Whetstone Literary Journal and has written poetry and short fiction for as long as he can remember. In a city like Las Cruces with so many striking contrasts, he asks, how can someone not be inspired to write?

        Louis Bourgeois

        left New Orleans at19 to attend college at Louisiana State University. "In 1996, I earned a BA in English and was the first graduate of the University of Mississippi's new MFA program in creative writing in 2002. Currently, I'm an instructor of English at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. I am also poetry editor of the university's literary journal, Yalobusha Review. I've published over 80 poems in America and Europe in such journals as The Southern Review, Parnassus, The Oxford American, Poem, and Tundra. My first book of poetry,Olga, is forthcoming in 2005 by Four Way Books." (2004)

        Sean Branson

        was graduated from NMSU's MFA program. In Memoriam-2004.

        Bob Brill

        is a retired computer programmer now devoting his efforts to writing fiction, memoir, and poetry. He has published fiction in Nuvein Magazine (www.nuvein.com) and A Flasher's Dozen, Lunarosity, and Bewildering Stories(www.bewilderingstories.com). Both fiction and memoir pieces of his have appeared in flashquake (www.flashquake.org). He has also published some senryu poems in Simply Haiku (www.simplyhaiku.com). He has recently completed a novel. (August 2006, August 2007)

        Gary Brower

        teaches at the University of New Mexico, and is a specialist in Hispanic literature. His poetry (and translations) have appeared in many magazines, journals and broadsides, among them, Puerto Del Sol, Ann Arbor Review, Beatlick News, Sin Fronteras, and Central Avenue. He is one of the organizers of the Duende Poetry Series of Placitas, NM, where he lives. His poetry collection, The Book of Knots (2007, Destructible Heart Press) and Planting Trees in Terra Incognito, are available through Destructible Heart Press, Albuquerque or online at www.destructibleheart.com (April 08, June 09)

        Wendy L. Brown

        is a former member of the Santa Fe women's writing group "Word Dancers" who self-published a book called "Dancing Between Worlds" and have performed their poetry locally, most recently in July 2007. Brown released a CD in 2004, Longing for Home, and has been published in such literary magazines as: I am a Miracle III, THE Magazine, The Litchfield Reader, The Chrysalis Reader and Northography.com. She studies alernative medicine, is an hospice volunteer, a widow and a grandmother of two boys. She recently moved to Minneapolis to be near them. Her novel, MoonSense, a spiritual parable, is forthcoming from Creatrix Books spring 2008. She is also the creator of Writing Circles for Healing, "a writing support group to write our way through loss, grief, illness, and life-altering experiences." For more info: www.writingcirclesforhealing.com August, 2003. February 2008.

        Gina Browning

        singer of classical music, has performed opera and chamber music around the world. A member of Voices of Change ensemble in Dallas, Texas, she currently specializes in new music. Her other passions include gardening, writing, skiing, and overseas travel. Ms. Browning is also the author of a book of love poems entitled Roses of Heart. She lives with her husband and son in Dallas and in Santa Fe, New Mexico. "Grandmother" is from Browning's book, Wind in the Aspens (Hummingbird Productions, 2009). (December 2008)

        Tamara Bryan

        lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She is currently in the 10th grade and is an aspiring writer. Some of her poems can be seen in the Fall 2000 issue of "A Celebration of Young Poets" and "Words on a Wire."

        Bobby Byrd

        grew up in Memphis during the golden age of that city's music. In 1963 he went to Tucson where he attended the university. Since then he has lived in the American Southwest. In 1978 he and his wife, novelist Lee Merrill Byrd, moved to El Paso with their three children. The city and the border region have become their home. He and Lee are publishers of Cinco Puntos Press. In 2005, they received the Lannan Fellowship for Culturl Freedom. His most recent book of poetry is "White Panties, Dead Friends and Other Bits & Pieces of Love." See Lunar Authors Books and Chapbooks link on Lunarosity's Index page. (April 09)

        Don "Kingfisher" Campbell

        is the founder of POETRYpeople youth writing workshops (http://home.earthlink.net/~poetrypeople) , publisher of the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly (http://home.earthlink.net/~palabraproductions) , leader of the Emerging Urban Poets writing and critique workshop (http://home.earthlink.net/~emergingurbanpoets) , and host of Monday Night Poetry in Pasadena, California (http://home.earthlink.net/~mondaynightpoetry) . He is the recipient of several poetry awards (Charles Ferguson Prize, Poetry In The Windows, among others). His poetry has been recently published in the anthologies Three Chord Poetry, Midnight Mind Number Five, So Luminous The Wildflowers, and One Drop To Be The Color Black; and is also available on the internet at www.poeticdiversity.com , www.writershood.com , www.calltoartscontests.org , www.poeticvoices.com , www.poetz.com , and www.wilmingtonblues.com , among others. His first book of poetry, "Enter," is available on www.amazon.com . (September, 2004, April 09)

        Gregory Candela

        published his second book of poems "Surfing New Mexico" in the fall of 2001. More recently his short story "Will" appeared at Lunarosity, and he has had several poems in Central Avenue, and his dramatic poem, "El Mozo Regresa" was produced for KUNM's Radio Theatre and first aired on May 25, 2003. He is currently at work on a book of short stories. August, 2003.

        Incara Cedrins

        lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. An American artist, writer and translator, she went to China in 1998 to learn to paint on silk, and remained for five years to teach writing and lecture on art at universities including Tsinghua University and Peking University in Beijing, as well as to the People's Liberation Army and students at the Central Academy of Fine Art. In 2003 she went to Nepal to study the technique of thangka painting. After the king's coup d'etat in 2005, she relocated to Riga, Latvia, started a literary agency called The Baltic Edge, and taught Creative Writing at the University of Latvia.

        She has edited an issue of the online magazine Omega featuring Latvian poets (accessible at www.howlingdogpress.com/OMEGA05), and developed an anthology of Baltic poetry from that. From it, she will form a future issue of the online journal The Drunken Boat featuring Estonian poets. She is editing and translating the Latvian section of a Baltic anthology to be published by Wolsak & Wynn, Canada in 2008, and also contributing to The New European Poets, an anthology to be published by Graywolf Press, St. Paul, Minnesota in 2008. The Atlanta Review has asked her to be contributing editor for their 2008 Chinese issue.

        A collection of poetry titled Fugitive Connections was published in 2006 by the Virtual Artists Collective. Her poems, stories and translations from the Latvian have appeared in The North American Review, Prairie Schooner, The Minnesota Review, the Massachusetts Review, among others. (October 2007)

        James Cihlar's

        poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, The James White Review, and Briar Cliff Review, and in the anthology Aunties: 35 Writers Celebrate Their Other Mother, edited by Ingrid Sturgis and published by Ballantine. His reviews and essays have appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Literary Magazine Review, and the Lincoln Journal-Star. He has worked in editing, art, and marketing at Redleaf Press, Coffee House Press, and New Rivers Press. In 2000 he won a Minnesota Arts Board Fellowship in Poetry. (December 2005).

        Marion Deutsche Cohen

        is the author of seventeen books, including her newest, "Crossing the Equal Sign" (Plain View Press, TX) and preceding it, "Dirty Details: The Days and Nights of a Well Spouse" (Temple University Press, PA). She has taught math at Philadelphia-area colleges, and currently teaches at Arcadia University. (December 2007)

        Jane Candia Coleman

        is a Pulitzer prize nominee and WesternHeritage Award-winning author of "No Roof But Sky" and "The Red Drum," (both by High Plains Press) and the author of numerous novels, short story and essay collections. She lives on a ranch near Rodeo, New Mexico, at the Arizona-New Mexico border. Her newest books are "Borderlands: Western Stories, a collection of short stories," and "Mountain Time," an autobiographical memoir that explores a life lived close to what Coleman calls "the inherent justice of the natural world." Both are published by Thorndike Press.

        Michele Connelly

        lives on the East Fork of the Gila River, a long way from Silver City, NM. (August 2006).

        Christina Cook

        is a student at Vermont College, where she is a candidate for the MFA in Poetry with a Concentration in Translation. Her poems have appeared in "Buckle &" and in "Poemeleon." (December 2006).

        Wendy Courtemanche

        is a nurse and herbalist living in Taos, NM. She has worked in Chiapas, Mexico as a human rights observer and as a teacher of herbal medicine. (July 2004)

        Jim Courter

        is a writer and writing coach at Western Illinois University. Among others, his fiction has appeared in Aethlon: The Journal of Sports Literature, Eureka Literary Magazine, and Downstate Story, and his essays have appeared numerous times on the op-ed page of the Chicago Tribune. (2001/2007)

        Robert Covelli

        has published poems, stories and excerpts in the Poetry Review, Tracks, Mad Blood, the Inkslingers Review and Pedestal Magazine. His novella and three stories, Tom Fool & Three More, was selected as finalist in competition for the Ulysses Award from the Institute of Independent Literature. He lives in Santa Fe NM with his wife and daughter. (May 2007)

        Wayne Crawford

        lives in Las Cruces, NM, where he writes and manages Lunarosity and is co-editor of the Sin Fronteras Journal. His poetry has appeared in, among others, Las Cruces Poets and Writers, Eureka Literary Magazine, Language Arts, Aethlon: The Journal of Sports Literature. Online at Moongate, NewVerseNews , Shampoo, Mannequin Envy, A Garlic Press, among others. Other: Chapbook, The Corner of Clark and Kent (2004 Mesilla Valley Press), book of poetry, SUGAR TRAIL (SFP 2007), Oasis Bound, spoken word CD with musician Randy Granger (2009).

        Carla Criscuolo

        was born and raised in New York City and claims the experience has spoiled her so badly she is not fit to live anywhere else. Her poetry has appeared in The Orange Room Review, The Blue Jew Yorker, and is forthcoming in Main Channel Voices and decomP. She works at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY. (October 2008)

        Ruth Daigon

        was founder and editor of POETS ON: for twenty years until it ceased publication. Her poems have been widely published in E mags, print mags, anthologies and collections. . . Daigon's poetry awards include "The Ann Stanford Poetry Prize, 1997 (University of Southern California Anthology, 1997) and the Greensboro Poetry Award (Greensboro Arts Council, 2000). The latest of seven books is "Payday At The Triangle" (Small Poetry Press, Select Poets Series) based on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York City,1911 was published in 2001 and one of her many readings was performed in The Lower East Side Tenement Museum in Manhattan, the area where the fire occurred. "Handfuls of Time" (Small Poetry Press, Select Poets Series), her last book, was published in 2002, Her poetry was published by the State department in their literary exchange with Thailand and their translation program has just issued the first book of Modern American poets in English and Thai in which she appears. Garrison Keillor featured her poetry on his morning poetry show. She has just cut a CD of her poetry for Jaimes Alsop Productions and appeared in The Mississippi's Review's issue on War and its Aftermath. (February 2007)

        Catherine Daly

        teaches at West Los Angeles College, and is the author of the forthcoming, Locket, on Tupelo Press. (3-1-04)

        Lucille Lang Day

        has published four poetry collections: Infinities, Wild One, Fire in the Garden, and Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope, which was selected by Robert Pinsky for the Joseph Henry Jackson Award. She is also the author of two poetry chapbooks: Lucille Lang Day: Greatest Hits, 1975-2000 in Pudding House's invitational series, and The Book of Answers, released by Finishing Line Press in September 2006. Her first children's book, Chain Letter, was published by Heyday in 2005. Her poetry and prose have appeared widely in such magazines and anthologies as The Hudson Review, The Threepenny Review, Mother Songs (Norton), and California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present (Heyday). She received her M.A. in English and M.F.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State University, and her M.A. in zoology and Ph.D. in science and mathematics education from the University of California at Berkeley. She is the founder and director of a small press, Scarlet Tanager Books, and the director of the Hall of Health, an interactive children's museum in Berkeley. (February 2007)

        Jeremy Degler

        born in Las Cruces, NM, has also lived in Oklahoma, Texas and Pennsylvania. (December 2008)

        Rafaella Del Bourgo

        is a long-time Berkeley resident who teaches English at the college level. She has traveled all over the world and has lived in Tasmania and Hawaii. Her writing has appeared in magazines and journals such as WordWrights, Caveat Lector, Puerto Del Sol, Rattle, and The Bitter Oleander; in 2006 she was featured as a Spotlight Artist on the Raintiger website. She has won several awards for her writing, and summer 2001 was a finalist for the Frances Locke Memorial Award for Poetry, and the River Styx Poetry Contest juried by Billy Collins. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2002 and 2006, and won the Lullwater Prize for Poetry in winter of 2003. She was the 2006 winner of the Helen Pappas Memorial Prize in Poetry and won the New River Poets Award. In 2007 she won first place in the Maggi H. Meyer Memorial Poetry Contest for the maxi poem and second place for the midi poem. Her first collection of poetry, I Am Not Kissing You, was published in August, 2003. Ms. Del Bourgo lives in a 100 year old Queen Anne Victorian house with her husband and a small herd of cats.(February 2007)

        Robert Demaree

        is a retired school administrator with ties to North Carolina, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, where he lives five months of the year. He has published three collections of poems, including Fathers and Teachers, (April 2007, Beech River Books). He also has had over 300 poems published in 80 periodicals. (August 2008)

        Lea C. Deschenes

        lives in Worcester, MA and received her MFA in Poetry from New England College. She was a Jacob Knight Award recipient and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has appeared on-line and in print (Ballard Street Poetry Journal, Henniker Review, Spillway, Snakeskin, etc.) She once found a five-leaf clover during a solar eclipse. (February 2008)

        Bill Dodd

        is a Southwest native, was schooled at the University of New Mexico, studying writing with Robert Creeley and Charles Tomlinson in the sixties when he began publising poems with Henry Rago at Poetry. In the intervening years he has taught writing literature at Eastern Oregon University, the University of Houston, Victoria, and New Mexico State University. Among his poetry titles is "Staked Plains" by Vellum and Velours Press, Seattle. He currently lives in Las Cruces, NM, and his poems here represent his first internet efforts.

        Neal Dorenbosch

        lives in southern Utah with his wife, seven-year-old daughter and a three-legged Great Dane named Buddha. A mediocre Golden Gloves boxer at one time, Neal eventually discovered beer a less painful way of achieving altered states of consciousness. His fiction is forthcoming or has mysteriously appeared in places like The Pittsburgh Quarterly; Rio Grande Review; Foliate Oak; Southern Ocean Review; Laughter Loaf; The Blue Moon Review; Collected Stories; The Dead Mule; Literary Potpourri; Lily; Fiction Warehouse; Southern Cross Review; Espresso Fiction and Esopian. His work has been published internationally as well as in the U.S.

        Eddie Dowe

        is an 8th grade English and Creative Writing teacher in Norfolk, VA. and 2nd year student in the Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University. Previously published in The Country Mouse, Simply Haiku, The Ghent Reader, Poetry 360, and Skipping Stones Anthology.(December 2006)

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