Lunarosity Authors' Profiles I-Q



        Brian Ibsen

        is Director, Corporate/Foundation Relations, The University of New Mexico Foundation, Inc., Albuquerque, NM. (9/04)

        Robin Jenkins

        is fifteen years old as of this writing, a sophomore attending Onate High School, who says, "I have been writing since about second grade when my teacher assigned a poetry assignment, (Halloween poems). Since then, I have been doing my best to progress in my writing."

        Ivan Jenson

        was a prodigy in poetry and art. In New York City he received recognition and praise for his bold Pop Art. His "Absolut Jenson" painting was featured in Art News, Art in America, and he has sold several works at Christie's New York. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Word Riot, Camroc Press Review, Zygote in my Coffee, Poetry Super Highway, Hidden City Quarterly, The Blue House, Viral Cat, The Commonline project, The Write Place at the Write Time, Word Catalyst Magazine, and Bread & Circuses, among others. He now writes mainstream/contemporary novels and poetry in Grand Rapids Michigan and has published widely in the the US and the UK. (September 09)

        Dave Johnson

        is a returned Peace Corp volunteer and a logger in Wisconsin. He can be reached at Dave Johnson . (1-1-04).

        Joy Johnson

        lives in Huntsville, Alabama. (July 2004).

        Michael Lee Johnson

        lives in Chicago, IL. after spending 10 years in Edmonton, Alberta Canada, during the Viet Nam era. He is a freelance writer and poet interested in social and religious topics, and the need for universal health care in the United States. He is presently self-employed, with a previous background in social service areas. He has a B.A. degree in sociology, worked on a Masters Program in Correctional Administration. Recent published poems may be found in: The Orange Room Review website: http://www.freewebs.com/theorangeroomreview/; Bolts Of Silk website: http://boltsofsilk.blogspot.com; The Flask Review: http://www.freewebs.com/theflaskreview/; Apollo's Lyre, in their webzine: http://www.apollos-lyre.com/; Chantarelle's Notebook website: http://www.chantarellesnotebook.com; Fresh! On Line Literary Magazine website: http://members.aol.com/shirgerald/shortst.htm (June 2007)

        Kathamann

        has been painting and making 3D art for thirty years in Santa Fe, and is a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Afghanistan and an RN. Her publications include Small Canyons II and III, The Rag, When Red Becomes an Apple, Not Drowning, Waving. (June 09)

        Noel Kaufmann

        escaped last June to Santa Fe, from the bowels of the beast, the DC region. Originally from New York (Queens) he's always loved the mountains here, and though a wanderer, could possibly stay... You can keep him solvent and happy with creative free-time, by contacting him for piano tuning and repair. Noel, especially in this moment, finds himself writing less and less in the first person and more and more consistently in what he calls, with admirable succinctness, "Paragraphs: prose poetry, philosophical musings, cultural rants, absurdist slants, epigrams and innuendos." His turn-offs are oily skin and human rights violations, and his website is http://noel.creativedojo.com (June 2007)

        Kelly Kelsey

        describes herself as "a little bit gypsy and a little bit hermit. I am interested in all forms of art." She has been writing poetry since the age of five, and had several poems published in "The Mannings Mill Gazette,"a local newspaperÊin upstate New York. She earned an A.S.in Human Services, but while in college, took a lot of extra English/Writing courses and had several of her poems and short stories published in the Adirondack Community College Journal.

        She has also had poems published in separate anthologies, and won writing contests in Lemoyne, Pennsylvania and Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.(October 2008)

        Jerry F. Kerrisk

        lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. (December 2005).

        Paul Kloppenborg

        works as a librarian in Melbourne, Australia. He is widely published in both print and electronic journals. His first anthology (along with 6 other international poets) was published by Two Dog Press in 1998. A second anthology was published by Funky Dog Press, Detroit in 1999. Paul's first chapbook "Poetic Confectionery " (2002) is available from the Canadian publisher CNV.Ê He is Co-ListServ Administrator of The Muse. October 2005.

        Teresa Kupin,

        originally from New York and Mexico, is presently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis. Additionally, she is also minoring in Feminist Studies and her areas of interest focus on dual subalternities, margins and central space, and identity deconstruction.

        David Kyea

        has lived in Northern New Mexico for 37 years, more or less. He has worked as a cook, logger, ski lift operator, carpenter, shepherd, cowboy, adobe brick layer, cleared trails in the Pecos Wilderness and planted trees at altitudes of 10,000 feet. He worked 25+ years as a deputy sheriff, criminal investigator, deputy medical investigator and magistrate judge. He is a graduate of the New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy and the FBI National Academy. He dabbles in music and enjoys playing traditional New Mexico Spanish music on the guitar, mandolin, tin whistle, harmonica, violin and viola. He and his wife, Lani, live on their ranch. (April, September 2009)

        Pete Lee

        owns and operates a bookselling business. He lives with his wife in a small town in the Mojave Desert. His poetry has most recently appeared in the online journals Unfettered Verse, Antithesis Common, Alba, Thick with Conviction, and Shampoo. (June 2007)

        Gary Lehmann

        teaches writing and poetry at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His essays, poetry and short stories are widely published -- about 60 pieces a year. He is the director of the Athenaeum Poetry group which recently published its second chapbook, Poetic Visions. He is also author of a book of poetry entitled Public Lives and Private Secrets [Foothills Press, 2005], and co-author and editor of a book of poetry entitled The Span I Will Cross. His poem "Reporting from Fallujah" was nominated for the 2006 Pushcart Prize.Ê ÊVisit his website at www.garylehmann.blogspot.com. (June 2006)

        Noreen Lehmann

        lives in Las Cruces, NM. She born and raised in the Bronx in New York City, and has always loved to write stories. A graduate of Fordham University, she is pursuing "my true loves--writing and teaching history." An adjunct faculty member at Dona Ana Community College, she is also a member of the Mesilla Valley Writers Association Fiction Critique Group. (June 09)

        Sarah Lenzen

        is 17 and attends Marian Central HS in Illinois. When she isn't at school or working she is busy making up new words or reading into the early morning hours. In the darkness is where she feels truly alive and is where she writes mostly everything. She lives with her parents and many siblings in Woodstock, Illinois. (April 2006)

        Donald Levering

        7th book, The Kingdom of Ignorance, May 2006 by Finishing Line Press, is 25 pages of poetry. Thirteen of the 18 poems included have been previously published in journals such as Flint Hills Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Maryland Poetry Review, Nightsun, Paper Boat, The Pawn Review, Poetry East, Prayers to Protest, Slant, and Zambomba. Copies may be ordered for $12 on line at www.finishinglinepress.com; click on 2006 New Releases. You may also order by sending a $12 check to Finishing Line Press/Post Office Box 1626/Georgetown, KY 40324.

        Born in Kansas City, Donald Levering was educated at Baker University, The University of Kansas, Lewis and Clark College, and Bowling Green State University. At Bowling Green, he was a Devine Memorial Fellow in Poetry before receiving an M. F. A. in Creative Writing. He has worked as a computer operator, free-lance journalist, groundskeeper, and teacher on the Navajo Reservation. His previous publications include two full-length volumes, Outcroppings From Navajoland (Navajo Community College Press, 1985) and Horsetail (Woodley Press, 2000) as well as four chapbooks, The Jack of Spring (Swamp Press, 1980), Carpool (Tellus, 1983), Mister Ubiquity (Pudding House, 1997), and The Fast of Thoth (Pudding House, 2002). Mr. Levering was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in poetry and won the Quest for Peace rhetoric contest. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he was past Director of Theaterwork Poetry Readings series and works as a human services administrator. His 8th book is "Whose Body (2007). (Appearance in Lunarosity: April 05, Dec. 05, June 06, Oct. 07, June 08, June 09).

        Leo Lichy

        is the pseudonym of a former newspaper journalist from England, who has lived and worked in Canada, Australia and now resides in the US. (August 2007)

        Duane Locke

        is Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, was Poet in Residence at the University of Tampa for over 20 years, and has had over 5,000 poems published, 14 print books of poetry, and 4 E books. He lives in Lakeland, Florida. (December 2006)

        Ellaraine Lockie

        writes poetry, nonfiction books, magazine articles/columns and children's stories. She is a well-published and awarded poet who has received seven nominations for Pushcart Prizes in poetry and has three published chapbooks: Midlife Muse, Poetry Forum, Crossing the Center Line, Sweet Annie Press and Coloring Outside the Lines, The Plowman Press. Another, Finishing Lines, published in 2004 from Snark Publishing. Ellaraine also teaches college and community poetry workshops. Her nonfiction books are: All Because of a Button: Folklore, Fact and Fiction, St. Johann Press; The Gourmet Paper Maker, Creative Publishing, and The Low Lactose Kitchen Companion and Cookbook in 2005. (September, 2004)

        Joan Logghe

        has lived in northern New Mexico with her husband since 1973 and raised three children, and built three houses. Her books include Sofia, Blessed Resistance, and Another Desert:Jewish Poetry of New Mexico. Awards include an NEA, a Barbara Deming Grant, Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry Grants, and a Mabel Dodge Luhan Internship.

        Dimitris Lyacos

        was born in Athens in 1966. His trilogy Poena Damni (Z213: Exit, Nyctivoe, The First Death) written over the course of fifteen years, has been translated into English, Spanish, Italian and German and has been performed extensively across Europe and the USA. A sound and sculpture installation of Nyctivoe opened in London and toured Europe in 2004-2005. A contemporary theatre-dance performance based on the same book showed in Greece in 2006-2007. Lyacos' work has been the subject of lectures and research at various universities, including Amsterdam,Trieste and Oxford.Various extracts from the trilogy have appeared in literary journals around the world. For more information on the author visit "http://www.lyacos.net"
        Translator Shorsha Sullivan was born in Dublin in 1932. He studied Classics at Leeds and has spent most of his working life in England. He has a special interest in Modern Greek theatre and poetry. (August 2008)