The Aurora Review

Winter/Spring 2005


Bridgette Alyce is an Employment Specialist in San Bernardino County, California. Her poetry has appeared in X-Magazine and SpinDrifter Literary Journal. Bridgette Alyce’s first book of poetry, Come, Joy! is due to be released in the summer of 2005. Alyce, who is also a musician, lives with her family in Hesperia, California.

Roy Bearden-White lives in Southern Illinois with his wife, son, mother-in-law, 27 fish, one dog, 19 cats, a canary, and three raccoons who claim they are just passing by. His poetry has been published by Grassroots, True Poet Magazine, Three Cup Morning, and Once Upon A Time.

C. L. Bledsoe grew up on a rice farm in eastern Arkansas and attended the University of Arkansas. He is currently an M.F.A. student at Hollins University, where he works as an editor for the Hollins Critic, as well as Ghoti Magazine. His publications include Margie, Nimrod, Natural Bridge, Story South, Snow Monkey and Eyeshot.

Amy Bouse lives in Los Angeles and shows her work throughout the United States. In July 2005 she will have a solo show at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art in Anchorage, Alaska.

Avik Chanda, a management consultant by profession, has had features, art reviews, and short stories published in a number of dailies. Poetry publications include Black Bear Review, Three Candles, Morpo Review, Reflections, The Heard, Other Poetry, Richmond Review, Adirondack Review, Poetic Depth Quarterly, Rearview Quarterly, Eclectica, Ascent, Slant, Kimera, Brittlestar, andWolf Magazine. Current or forthcoming publications include Spork, Shearsman, Fire, Stride Magazine, Octavo, Coffee House Poetry, Orbis, and Poet’s Canvas.

Ione Citrin is an avant-garde artist whose artistic expression takes fantastic shape through her diverse oil and watercolor paintings, bronze sculptures, found object collages, and mixed media assemblages. Her paintings and sculptures all visionary interpretations from her imaginative soul range from abstract to realistic to impressionistic.

Jeff Foster, who was greatly influenced by Theodore Roethke, Raymond Carver, and Joni Mitchell, tries to create nebulous pictures of spirituality with his poetry. His poetry appears in Tamafyr Mountain and Poetry Motel.


Abeer Hoque, born in Nigeria to Bangladeshi parents, moved to America when she was in high school. She has a B.S. and an M.A. from the Wharton School and an M.F.A. in Writing from the University of San Francisco. Her work has been published in Prose Ax, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, ZYZZYVA, and Switchback. She lives in San Francisco.


Christopher Mulrooney is a poet and author of notebook and sheaves. His poems and translations have appeared in The Pacific Review, Sojourn, Kennesaw Review, West47, Frank, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore.


Sherri Ryan, 22, is a recent graduate of the University of Kansas with a B.A. in English and Creative Writing. She currently lives in Wichita, Kansas, and will be pursuing an M.F.A. in Poetry this fall.


Peter Schwartz has a B.A. in Literature and Creative Writing, is a world traveler, and is half of the band ear.  His work has appeared in Porcupine, Poetalk, Anthology, Barbaric Yawp, Freefall and Writers’ Journal to name a few. He is an honorary member of the International Association of Paradoxism and of the Academy of American Poets. His poetry can be read online at: www.listentoear.com.


Kimberly Simms is the director of Wits End Poetry. She is currently working with the Metropolitan Arts Council’s arts integration program, The Tanglewood Project. Her work can be found in From the Page to the Stage, the 2003 National Poetry Slam Anthology and in Quintet, a book of poems by five young poets from South Carolina.


Jeremiah Stansbury, a Memphis-based artist, is primarily concerned with what he calls the “autobiographical” image: the integration of the inner and outer worlds by integrating one’s own understanding of the visual world with one’s art. His work has been exhibited at the Midtown Artists Market, the Painted Planet Art Space, and the Universal Art Gallery, all in Memphis.


Tom Sterner-Howe is a poetry editor at Skyline Literary Review and has been published in many independent literary magazines including Howling Dog Press/Omega, Ken*Again Magazine, Flesh From Ashes, Silence Speaks, Skyline Literary Review, and Apollo’s Lyre. He was winner of the Marija Cerjak Award for Avant-Garde/Experimental Writing in 2001, 2002, and 2003. His first novel, Madman Chronicles: The Warrior, is available at: www.PublishAmerica.com.


 



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