Artist Ellen Berman whose arresting Self-Portrait, Grief, #6 appears with Amy Prodromou's short story Opening lives in
Wimberley, Texas, near Austin, with her husband David. She is represented by galleries in Dallas, Houston, and El
Paso, and has recently had a stay at the American Academy in Rome. www.ellenberman.com
Zachary C. Bush, Among the Cacti that Resembled Desert Gravestones, is a poet and writer. He lives in Georgia. His
work has appeared in over two dozen online and print literary journals. He has more recent work forthcoming in
GHOTI Magazine, The CommonLine Project, and the Poet Plant Press 2007: Lunch Anthology. He is also the author of two
forthcoming chapbooks of poetry through Scintillating Publications (2007) and Pudding House Publications (2007). This
is Zachary's second appearance in r.kv.r.y.
Dr. Les Cohen (A River in Egypt) has taught and practiced Internal Medicine in Boston for many years. His short
stories have been published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Archives of Internal Medicine, Journal of the American
Medical Association, Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, Hospital Drive, and in 2000, 2001 and 2005 he won the
Journal of General Internal Medicine's Creative Award for Prose.
Dane Cervine, The Measure of Desire, Keeping Watch, The Spell, and My Father's Depression, makes his first
appearance in this issue of r.kv.r.y. Dane's work was chosen by The Hudson Review for its New Writers Edition, and
appeared recently in the SUN Magazine, Atlanta Review, the Birmingham Review, and the Bathyspheric Review. Adrienne
Rich chose Dane's poem The Jeweled Net of Indra as the winning entry in the 2005 National Writers Union
competition, appearing in Poetry Flash as well as the SUN Magazine. Dane's poem Accordions & Shotguns was chosen
by Tony Hoagland as a finalist for the first Wabash Prize for Poetry, and appears in Purdue University's Sycamore
Review (Winter/Spring 2005). Dane's book The Jeweled Net of Indra from Plain View Press can be viewed at his new
website danecervine.typepad.com. Dane is a member of the Emerald Street Writers in Santa Cruz, California, where
he serves as Chief of Children's Mental Health for the county.
Lily Corwin (Blacksburg, Virginia Throws a Picnic, 5 Days After 32 of Us are Killed) was born and raised in beautiful
Blacksburg, Virginia. She now lives and works in Washington, DC, where she is completing her doctorate. She teaches
courses in writing and literature at Catholic University, University of Maryland University College, and Johns Hopkins
University. Recent creative publications include those in Marginalia, Poetry Motel, Dispatch, Main Channel Voices, and
Perigee. When not working on her creative or critical writing, she indulges her passions for her pets and her record
collection.
Robert Flanagan (Funeral Home) has been in recovery for a number of years. For awhile, he lived on the steps of a
funeral home.
Jamey Genna (Dirt to Wine to Grape to Glass) teaches writing in California and is a graduate of the masters in writing
program at the University of San Francisco. She also works as a major projects advisor for USF. Ms. Genna's short
fiction has been published in many literary magazines including Cutthroat, Dislocate, Shade, and Pinyon, among others.
Her collection of short-short fiction I'll Tell You That Story in a Minute was a finalist for the 2007 Elixir Press Chapbook
Awards. Her short fiction collection Nobody Has to Die for It to Tell You Something was a finalist for the Ontario Prize.
Robert Isenberg, The Mosquito Lessons, writes about travel and television for MSN.com, as well as for the theatre
and commercial publications. His literary work has appeared in McSweeney's, Yankee Pot Roast, The New Yinzer, Deek
Magazine, and Salt Journal. He is the winner of the Three Rivers Review Poetry Prize. His stage-plays have been
produced by ten different companies. He is the co-author of the Pittsburgh Monologue Project, published last year.
Reamy Jansen's (Pears) recent essays and poetry have been in 32 Poems, Gihon River Review, Hamilton Stone Review,
Innisfree Poetry Journal, and of course Alitmentum, where this piece first appeared.
Louise Kantro (Lost) who teaches high school, received her MFA in Creative Writing in 2003. She has published
and/or won prizes for more than two dozen stories. Married for thirty-five years, with two grown sons, she lives in a
messy house with her husband and two cats. This is her first appearance in r.kv.r.y.
Kaja Katamay's poetry (The Bus Driver at Night) and nonfiction has appeared or is forthcoming in eye-rhyme, The
Oregon Review of Arts, and Caketrain, among others. She lives in Portland, OR.
Richard Kostelanetz (Leaving Us Out) is a prolific American artist, author and critic. He was born to Boris Kostelanetz
and Ethel Cory and is the nephew of the composer Andre Kostelanetz. He has a B.A. from Brown University and an M.
A. from Columbia University; he studied as well at King's College London. He is a passionate defender of the avant-
garde. He came onto the literary scene with essays in quarterlies like The Hudson Review, then profiles of older
artists, musicians and writers for The New York Times; these profiles were collected in Master Minds. Not one to shy
away from controversy, he turned on his literary elders with The End of Intelligent Writing. Among the anthologies of
younger writers he has edited: Scenarios(1980) and The Literature of SoHo (1981). SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an
Artists' Colony (2003) evinces not the Latest but the Last. A political libertarian, he is a contributing editor for Liberty
magazine. (profile courtesy of wikipedia)
Daníel R. Martínez (Becoming Attached) is a teacher and writer living in New Mexico with his family.
Janice H. Mikesell (Metamorphosis) has written eight chapbooks and is soon to publish a ninth, “An Indulgence of
Space: Dakota poems 1983-2007.” She has been published in South Dakota Review, Midwest Quarterly, Mid-America
Review, Kalliope and Plains Poetry Journal among others. She currently has a Speakers Grant from the South Dakota
Humanities Council. This is her first publication in R-KV-R-Y.
Madeleine Mysko, Pop Pop, is a registered nurse and a graduate of The Writing Seminars of The Johns Hopkins
University. Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in such venues as The Hudson Review, Shenandoah,
Bellevue Literary Review, The Baltimore Sun and American Journal of Nursing. Her first novel, Bringing Vincent Home
(Plain View Press) is based on her experiences as an Army nurse on the burn ward during the Vietnam War, and is
due for release in September 2007. A poetry collection, Crucial Blue (Rager Media), is due for release in 2008.
Author David Plumb's work (Always Sunday) appears in St. Martin’s Anthology, Mondo James Dean, Irrepressible
Appetites An Anthology of Food, Beyond the Pleasure Dome, 100 Poets Against the War, Salt Press, UK, The Miami
Herald, The Washington Post and The Orlando Sentinel. Books include The Music Stopped and Your Monkey’s on
Fire, stories, Drugs and All That and Man in a Suitcase, Poems. A Slight Change in the Weather, short stories will
be published in November 2006. Mr. Plumb has worked as a paramedic, a butcher, a San Francisco cab driver and
an actor in several Hollywood films. In 1991 he was one of 48 people worldwide invited to present, “Finding the
Click, Addiction in Six Plays of Tennessee Williams”at the first International Conference on Literature and Addiction
held at the University of Sheffield, UK. This is David's second appearance in r.kv.r.y.
Amy Prodromou, (Opening) graduated from the University of Bridgeport where she received the Award for Excellence
in Creative Writing. She is third-time graduate winner of the annual Southern Connecticut State University Graduate
Fiction Contest (2000-2002). She has been published in some small magazines, such as Cadences: A Literary Journal
of the Arts in Cyprus, and most recently in peer-reviewed e-journal EAPSU: An Online Journal of Critical and Creative
Writing. She has a Masters of Letters in Creative Writing (University of Sydney, 2005) and is working on a novel.
Katharyn Sinelli, Breathing Rock: An Alternate Illness Narrative, was awarded a Master's Degree in Creative Writing
from Cal State Northridge. This piece is the epilogue from her thesis. Katharyn's scholarly work is focused on
Disability Studies, particularly the stories we tell about disease in literature and popular culture. This is her first
appearance in r.kv.r.y.
Emily Watters, A Doll for You, is a second year resident in Psychiatry at Northwestern University. She has previously
published works in Student Jama and The New Physician. She currently resides in Chicago and enjoys biking to work
along Lake Michigan every day
John Wesick, Aftermath, has a Ph.D. in physics, has practiced Buddhism for over twenty years, and has published
over a hundred poems in small press journals such as Pearl, Pudding, Slipstream, American Tanka, Anthology Magazine,
The Blind Man’s Rainbow, Ceremony, Edgz, The Kaleidoscope Review, The Magee Park Anthology, The New Verse News,
Poesia, Sacred Journey, San Diego Writer’s Monthly, Sunken Lines, Tidepools, Zillah, and others. His chapbooks have won
honorable mentions twice in the San Diego Book Awards.
contributors to the summer/fall 2007 issue of the r.kv.r.y. quarterly literary journal
photo by Miriam Berkley
