Some old friends, some new faces. All in all, a lovely gathering of talent…
Dave Elsensohn
Dave Elsensohn has been a sales representative for a toy store, a plumber’s apprentice, a web designer, a Flash engineer, a spotlight operator, a pizza maker, and a student, but enjoys coaxing language into pleasing arrangements more than any of these. He does make fairly good sandwiches however, and his chili recipe gets appreciative nods from his friends. He lives with an astoundingly inspirational wife and a curmudgeonly black cat.
Mariela Griffor
Mariela was born in the city of Concepcion in southern Chile. She attended the University of Santiago and the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. She left Chile for an involuntary exile in Sweden in 1985 and returned to the United States in 1998 with her husband and two daughters. They live in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, where Mariela is the co-founder of The Institute for Creative Writers at Wayne State University and the publisher of Marick Press. Her work has appeared in periodicals across Latin America and the United States. She is the author of “Exiliana” (Luna Publications) and “House” (Mayapple Press).
Dini Karasik
Dini Karasik is a Mexican-American writer and lawyer. She is currently writing her first novel, has poems forthcoming in The Más Tequila Review and Kweli Journal and blogs about writing at DKWritings.
Amber Koneval
Amber Koneval is a 20 year old college student in Denver, Colorado double majoring in English and Religious Studies. Her work has appeared in print through journals such as The Storyteller, Crack the Spine, Time of Singing, and The Wayfarer,as well as online through such publications as Exterminating Angel and Atticus Review. She is also excitedly anticipating the release of her first novel, “‘Til the Last Petal Falls” through Mockingbird Lane Press under her fiction alias. She believes that poetry can be found wherever you look for it.
Chad Lowther
Chad Lowther is a poet from Ohio. He currently lives with his wife in Albany, NY, where he is working toward an M. A. in English and an M.S. in Information Studies at the State University of New York at Albany. He also serves as co-editor of Brarzakh Magazine, a poetics e-journal, run by the University’s English Department. He has read his work with the deep cleveland poets, and the Albany Poets, as well as at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY, in Manhattan at the Bowery Poetry Club, CBGB’s, and the Sidewalk Café, and at countless coffee shops and bars throughout the U.S.