Lunarosity Authors' Profiles E-H

        Todd Eddy

        Originally, from the corn fields of Central Illinois, then to Albuquerque, NM, then back to Bloomington/Normal, Illinois, with his wife and family. He has had poetry appear in the Alibi, Conceptions Southwest, Central Ave., and Karamu, among others. (6-05)

        Lynn Edge

        lives in Texas and enjoys the RV lifestyle which provides material for her writing. Her haibun have appeared in Rose and Thorn, Wilmington Blues, Flash in the Pan and other ezines. She is currently working on a chapbook entitled New Mexico Missives. ( July 2005)

        Michael Estabrook

        writes, "I'm a Marketing Communications Manager for a tiny division of a gigantic billions-of-dollars company, and man, going into an office every day can be excruciating. The stuffy air, the florescent lights are killing me. Thankfully I can retire in 10 or 15 years. But I still think that somehow I've got to get myself on some boat collecting phytoplankton, or into the rich brown hills of Montana searching for TRex bones. Then again maybe I simply should've stayed on Northfield Avenue where I belong and learned to fix cars like my Daddy did." (July 2004).

        Howard Faerstein

        presently lives in Santa Fe and works as an adjunct English professor at UNM-Taos. Previously, he lived in Arroyo Seco, and prior to that Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusets. He Started out in Brooklyn, New York. He says, "It's all part of looking for a home." Publications include: Confrontation, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Chiron Review, Venus Envy, Diner, The West Wind Review, Connecticut River Review, Manzanita Quarterly, among others. Recently, he was nominated by The Berkshire Review for a Pushcart Prize. August, 3003.

        Gary Ferguson

        writes that "After more than 40 years of 'life in the left brain of engineering', I am 5 years into a relentless release of a creative, artistic and intuitive approach of giving life to some long suppressed images, poetry, creations and life changes. The journey involves learning the Òropes of artÓ simultaneously with image and content development. This process is exciting, interesting and engaging." Ferguson earned his MS in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford Univ, 1970, and has been studying Art at UNM-Taos for the past 3 years.

        Ivan Fehrenbach's

        recent book, That Time Cannot Be Forgotten: A Correspondence on the Holocaust, was published by Indiana University Press. Both his creative and non-fiction work has also appeared or is forthcoming in several national magazines as well as in The Daily Press, one of the largest newspapers in Virginia, and another of his book-length manuscripts, A Pistol at His Chest: Memoir of a World War II Soldier, is forthcoming. He teaches writing at a local college and was recently admitted to the Stonecoast M.F.A. program in fiction. .(February 2006).

        Jeffrey Field

        teaches at Conlee Elementary School. A bio is located at Teachers' Lounge . Other of his work can be found online . (August 07)

        Thomas Fitzsimmons

        went into World War II as an underage merchant seaman just after Pearl Harbor and came out from the USAAF just after Hiroshima. He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Oct. 1926. Formerly writer/editor, The New Republic (Washington, DC), feature writer, The Asahi Daily News (Tokyo, Japan), he is author, translator or editor of some 60 books. At present he is editor of two book series from University of Hawaii Press: Asian Poetry in Translation: Japan; and Reflections. FitzsimmonÕs most recent works are: Build Me Ruins: The One-Eyed Boy Grows Another Eye (2002); Iron Harp: Birth of the One-Eyed Boy 1999; Planet Forces (1999);Fencing the Sky;1998, The Poetry and Poetics of Ancient Japan (a translation), 1997.

        D. E. Fredd

        has been published in many journals and reviews. He received the Theodore Hoepfner Award given by the Southern Humanities Review for the best short fiction of 2005, was a 2006 Ontario Award Finalist and recently received a 2007 Pushcart Special Mention Award.Ê A novel, Exiled to Moab, published by Six Gallery Press was released this year. (February 2006, December 2007)

        Dr. Charles Frederickson

        describes himself as "an ARTiculate uinVERSEalist, heretical believer, pragmatic idealist and passionate reformer." His "intrepid wonderland wanderlust has taken him to 206 countries, images and impressions of each presented on http://www.imagesof.8k.com. This No Holds Bard feisty e-gadfly is a member of World Poets Society, based in Greece, with 200+ poetry publication credits on 6 continents. His innovative poem & picture PoeArtry combos are ongoing Poem of the Day features at listenandbeheard.net and a gallery of his artwork can be viewed at AscentAspirations@shaw.ca." February 2008)

        Billy Garrett

        is an architect with a graduate degree in anthropology who works in New York City for the National Park Service. Raised in the Southwest, he plans to retire in Las Cruces, NM where he will devote more time to writing and sustainable design. (August 2007)

        Bill Garvey

        lives, works and grows old in Keene, New Hampshire. His children are grown and live in Canada and Japan where they attend college and have begun their own lives. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in the following journals: Slant, 5AM, The Worcester Review, Diner, Concrete Wolf and others. He recently received his MFA in poetry from New England College. (August 2006)

        Elizabeth Bernier Gilbert

        is a native of Massachusetts who traveled with her native New Mexican husband to Belen, NM, in 1946, and has lived there ever since. She's proud of her "bookworm" character and her WWII Women's Army Corps service.

        S.R.A. Gilbert

        is a native New Mexican, was born in Belen, NM, schooled there to high school and later attended the College of St. Joseph on the Rio Grande which later became the University of Albuquerque. Presently, she works for the College of Education at the University of New Mexico.

        Howie Good

        is a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of four poetry chapbooks, Death of the Frog Prince (2004) and Heartland (2007) from FootHills Publishing, Strangers & Angels (2007) from Scintillating Publications, and the forthcoming The News at 11 from Right Hand Pointing. (June 2008)

        Art Goodtimes

        Conceived in New Mexico but born in San Francisco, Art Goodtimes -- poet, journalist and organic potato farmer-- is serving his third term as a Green County Commissioner in southwestern Colorado. Former poetry editor for Earth First! Journal and founder of the Talking Gourd poetry tradition, Goodtimes has served as poet-in-residence for the annual Telluride Mushroom Festival for the past 25 years and makes his home near Norwood on Wright's Mesa at the western edge of the San Juans.

        Idris Goodwin

        is an award winning hip hop playwright, break beat poet, recording artist and teacher committed to making work that incites, inspires, and engages. The National Endowment for the Arts awarded Idris a Playwright-in-Residence grant to explore hip-hop aesthetics in theater. Idris' break beat poetry was featured on season six of Russell Simmons' HBO Def Poetry as well as the Spoken Word Revolution Redux Anthology. Idris frequently teaches and lectures at institutions across the country on themes of art and activism.(August 2008)

        Peter Goodwin

        Born in New Jersey, lived (mostly) in England until the age of eighteen; college in Virginia, travelled through Europe and Asia; taught at University in Thailand, elementary school in England, secondary school in Virginia; moved to New York, worked as a playwright, moved to Maryland, bought a boat, writes poetry while providing succulent treats for deer, rodents , birds and insects. (August 2008)

        Taylor Graham

        is a volunteer search-and-rescue dog handler in the Sierra Nevada, and also helps her husband (a retired wildlife biologist) with his field projects. Her poems have appeared in Grand Street, The Iowa Review, The New York Quarterly, Poetry International, and elsewhere, and she is included in the anthology, California Poetry: Gold Rush to the Present (Santa Clara University, 2004). (Oct. 2005, April 2006, August 2007, February 2008, April 2008).

        Randy Granger

        is a musician who lives in Las Cruces. His CD, Apostasy includes "This Old Man," the latter named the Folk Song of the year in April, 2001 by the New Mexico Music Industry. CD info: Apostasy MP3 downloads and bio

        Andrew Gretes

        is a current student of the MFA Fiction Program at American University. As an undergraduate, he studied for two years under Howard Norman at The University of Maryland. He has been awarded two separate undergraduate honors: The Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize, which was judged by Randall Kenan, and The Henrietta Spiegel Creative Writing Award. (February 2006)

        John Grey's

        latest book is "What Else Is There" from Main Street Rag. He has been published recently in Agni, Worcester Review, South Carolina Review and The Pedestal. He lives in Rhode Island. (April 2008)

        Kenneth P. Gurney

        lives in Albuquerque, NM.Ê His poetry appears regularly on the web and in print.Ê He produces the poetry website Origami Condom which started up in July 2007.Ê If you plan to offer him chocolate, please make sure it is dark chocolate, preferably Belgian, as he can be a snob about this sort of thing.(August 2007, February & August 2008)

        Tamra Hays

        teaches science at the Albuquerque Academy (New Mexico). These poems are part of a longer cycle called Questions of Faith which she wrote while on a sabbatical in Spain during 2002-03 school year. Albuquerque, New Mexico. Other of her work has been published in Conceptions Southwest, the rag, the Harwood Review, and the Florida Review.

        Tammy Ho Lai-ming,

        aka Sighming, is a Hong Kong-based writer. She is the editor of HKU Writing: An Anthology (March, 2006), a co-editor of Word Salad Poetry Magazine and a co-founder of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (www.asiancha.com). More at www.sighming.com. (April 2008)

        Peg Hoffmiller,

        entering her thirty-fifth year of teaching middle-school students, still has a yearn to learn. Having been a jack-of-all-language-arts-graduate courses and master of none, four years ago she began a master's program in English (writing focus) through Western Illinois University, Quad-Cities campuses. Having completed her thesis on writing and healing, she enjoys re-acquainting herself with the outdoors. (2001)

        Michelle Holland

        is a former English teacher at Onate High School in Las Cruces, NM. She is a member of Sin Fronteras/ Writers Without Borders and a poetry co-editor of their annual literary journal. Palanquin Press of the University of South Carolina at Aiken published a collection of her poetry, Love in the Real World, in the fall, 1999.

        Bruce Holsapple

        is currently working in central New Mexico as a speech-language pathologist. He taught briefly and has a scholarly essay on Phil Whalen's poetry forthcoming in Paideuma. His poems have appeared in The Poker, House Organ, First Intensity and Blue Mesa. (February 2008)

        Carolyn Howard-Johnson's

        first novel, This is the Place, and Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered are both award-winners. Her fiction, nonfiction and poems have appeared in national magazines, anthologies and review journals. She speaks on culture, tolerance, writing and promotion and has appeared on TV and hundreds of radio stations nationwide. She is an instructor for UCLA Extension's Writers' Program and has shared her expertise at venues like San Diego State's world renowned Writers' Conference and Call to Arts! EXPO. She was recently awarded Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by the California Legislature; her home town's Character and Ethics Commission honored her for her work on promoting tolerance and the Pasadena Weekly named her to their list of "San Gabriel Valley women who make life happen" for literary activism. Her nitty gritty how-to book, THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER won USA Book News' Best Professional Book 2004 and her chapbook of poetry, TRACINGS, was named to The Compulsive Readers Top 10 Best Reads for 2004. It is now available from http://www.FinishingLinePress.com and Amazon.com. She is a columnist for The Pasadena Star News, Home Decor Buyer and several websites. Learn more at www.HowToDoItFrugally.com or at CarolynHoward-Johnson.com . (3/04 and 2/07)

        Michael G. Howell

        has recently been "thrust into the clutches of family life. I am employed full-time as a Security Officer but somehow manage to find time in between work and family to write. I am a member of the poetry group "Prescription Strength Poetry" in Cape Girardeau, MO. I have several poems and essays published in Journey Magazine from Southeast Missouri State University as well as one comical poem on asininepoetry.com. Currently I hold a BA in English, Creative Writing Emphasis from Southeast Missouri State University and plan to complete a Masters Degree in the same field and move on to a Ph.D. (July 2004).

        Ian Hughes

        is a creative writing student at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana. Originally from Roseville, Michigan, he has been writing poetry for nine years. (3-1-04).

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