Nonfiction

Adrianne Kalfopoulou

Adrianne Kalfopoulou

Adrianne Kalfopoulou has had her work appear in print and online journals including Hotel Amerika, World Literature Today, ROOM magazine, The Broome Street Review, Web Del Sol, VPR (Valparaiso Poetry Review) and Fogged Clarity. She lives and teaches in Athens Greece, and is on the faculty of the creative writing program at NYU. Her most recent book publication is Passion Maps (Red Hen Press), a poetry collection.

Adrianne Kalfopoulou

Adrianne Kalfopoulou

Adrianne Kalfopoulou has had her work appear in print and online journals including Hotel Amerika, World Literature Today, ROOM magazine, The Broome Street Review, Web Del Sol, VPR (Valparaiso Poetry Review) and Fogged Clarity. She lives and teaches in Athens Greece, and is on the faculty of the creative writing program at NYU. Her most recent book publication is Passion Maps (Red Hen Press), a poetry collection.

Adrianne
Kalfopoulou

Benjamin Vogt

Benjamin Vogt has a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an M.F.A. from The Ohio State University. He's received a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center and nominations in two genres for a Pushcart Prize. Work has recently appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Diagram, ISLE, Orion, The Sun, and Verse Daily. Benjamin is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection Afterimage (SFA Press). He blogs at The Deep Middle, where he rants about writing and his 2,000 foot native Nebraska prairie garden.

Benjamin Vogt

Benjamin Vogt has a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an M.F.A. from The Ohio State University. He's received a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center and nominations in two genres for a Pushcart Prize. Work has recently appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Diagram, ISLE, Orion, The Sun, and Verse Daily. Benjamin is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection Afterimage (SFA Press). He blogs at The Deep Middle, where he rants about writing and his 2,000 foot native Nebraska prairie garden.

Benjamin
Vogt

Eileen Cunniffe

Eileen Cunniffe

Eileen Cunniffe has been writing nonfiction for 30 years—but the first 25 of those were without bylines, as a medical writer, corporate communications manager and executive speechwriter. Her essays have appeared (or soon will) in Wild River Review, Philadelphia Stories, ShortMemoir.com, SNReview, Prime Number Magazine, Hippocampus, and Ascent, and in the anthologies “A Woman's World Again” and “Prompted.” Her prose poems have appeared in The Prose-Poem Project and 5x5. She is a program director at the Arts & Business Council of Greater Philadelphia.    

Eileen Cunniffe

Eileen Cunniffe

Eileen Cunniffe has been writing nonfiction for 30 years—but the first 25 of those were without bylines, as a medical writer, corporate communications manager and executive speechwriter. Her essays have appeared (or soon will) in Wild River Review, Philadelphia Stories, ShortMemoir.com, SNReview, Prime Number Magazine, Hippocampus, and Ascent, and in the anthologies “A Woman's World Again” and “Prompted.” Her prose poems have appeared in The Prose-Poem Project and 5x5. She is a program director at the Arts & Business Council of Greater Philadelphia.    

Eileen
Cunniffe

Elizabeth Bernays

Elizabeth Bernays

Elizabeth Bernays grew up in Australia, then studied agricultural pests in developing countries. After serving as professor of entomology at the University of California Berkeley and Regents professor at the University of Arizona, she also obtained an MFA in creative writing. She has published twenty-five essays in a variety of literary journals and has won several awards including the X.J. Kennedy prize for nonfiction. 

Elizabeth Bernays

Elizabeth Bernays

Elizabeth Bernays grew up in Australia, then studied agricultural pests in developing countries. After serving as professor of entomology at the University of California Berkeley and Regents professor at the University of Arizona, she also obtained an MFA in creative writing. She has published twenty-five essays in a variety of literary journals and has won several awards including the X.J. Kennedy prize for nonfiction. 

Elizabeth
Bernays

Frances Lefkowitz

Frances Lefkowitz

Frances Lefkowitz is the author of  To Have Not, named one of five “Best Memoirs of 2010” by SheKnows.com. It's the story of growing up poor in San Francisco in the '70s, going to the Ivy League on scholarship, and discovering the downside of upward mobility. Her stories and articles are published The Sun, Tin House, Blip, Utne Reader, Good Housekeeping, Whole Living, Health, GlimmerTrain Stories,  and more. She has received honorable mention twice for the Pushcart Prize and once for Best American Essays. Frances now lives, and surfs, in Northern California. 

Frances Lefkowitz

Frances Lefkowitz

Frances Lefkowitz is the author of  To Have Not, named one of five “Best Memoirs of 2010” by SheKnows.com. It's the story of growing up poor in San Francisco in the '70s, going to the Ivy League on scholarship, and discovering the downside of upward mobility. Her stories and articles are published The Sun, Tin House, Blip, Utne Reader, Good Housekeeping, Whole Living, Health, GlimmerTrain Stories,  and more. She has received honorable mention twice for the Pushcart Prize and once for Best American Essays. Frances now lives, and surfs, in Northern California. 

Frances
Lefkowitz

J. Malcolm Garcia

J. Malcolm Garcia

 J. Malcolm Garcia is the author of Khaarijee: A Chronicle of Friendship and War in Kabul (Beacon 2009), and his articles have been featured in Best American Travel Writing and Best American Nonrequired Reading.

J. Malcolm Garcia

J. Malcolm Garcia

 J. Malcolm Garcia is the author of Khaarijee: A Chronicle of Friendship and War in Kabul (Beacon 2009), and his articles have been featured in Best American Travel Writing and Best American Nonrequired Reading.

J. Malcolm
Garcia

John Gist

John Gist

John M. Gist is the author of the novels CrowHeart (1999), Lizard Dreaming of Birds (2004), and A Clearing of the Way (2008). He has published in The Agonist, Left Curve, Vibrant Life, New Mexico Magazine and others. He is co-author of the philosophical book Angst and Evolution: The Struggle for Human Potential (2009) and currently teaches Humanities at Diné College on the Navajo Nation, where he lives with his wife and dogs. With an M.F.A from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, he has made a habit, consciously or not, of living at the edges of civilization, near the wilds. 

John Gist

John Gist

John M. Gist is the author of the novels CrowHeart (1999), Lizard Dreaming of Birds (2004), and A Clearing of the Way (2008). He has published in The Agonist, Left Curve, Vibrant Life, New Mexico Magazine and others. He is co-author of the philosophical book Angst and Evolution: The Struggle for Human Potential (2009) and currently teaches Humanities at Diné College on the Navajo Nation, where he lives with his wife and dogs. With an M.F.A from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, he has made a habit, consciously or not, of living at the edges of civilization, near the wilds. 

John
Gist

Laura Van Etten

Laura Van Etten received her MA in fiction and an MFA in fiction and nonfiction. She has taught at colleges and facilitated creative writing groups in women's shelters as well as in detention centers. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Sun and her fiction recently appeared in Crazyhorse. She currently teaches creative writing and composition in Tucson, AZ. She has just finished her first novel.

Laura Van Etten

Laura Van Etten received her MA in fiction and an MFA in fiction and nonfiction. She has taught at colleges and facilitated creative writing groups in women's shelters as well as in detention centers. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Sun and her fiction recently appeared in Crazyhorse. She currently teaches creative writing and composition in Tucson, AZ. She has just finished her first novel.

Laura
Van Etten

Jerry Eckert

Jerry Eckert

Jerry Eckert's first career spanned 40 years working on agricultural development, income inequality and poverty in Africa and south Asia. He wrote over 150 articles and policy analyses to guide governments in South Africa, Lesotho, The Gambia, and Pakistan. Two papers won Best Published Article awards, five op-eds in the Christian Science Monitor changed America's South African policies, his monograph restructured Lesotho's agriculture. His most influential writing, however, became the first economic policies of the Mandela government. He now devotes his second career to an old love which has been waiting for him all these years—creative nonfiction writing.

Jerry Eckert

Jerry Eckert

Jerry Eckert's first career spanned 40 years working on agricultural development, income inequality and poverty in Africa and south Asia. He wrote over 150 articles and policy analyses to guide governments in South Africa, Lesotho, The Gambia, and Pakistan. Two papers won Best Published Article awards, five op-eds in the Christian Science Monitor changed America's South African policies, his monograph restructured Lesotho's agriculture. His most influential writing, however, became the first economic policies of the Mandela government. He now devotes his second career to an old love which has been waiting for him all these years—creative nonfiction writing.

Jerry
Eckert

Rich Ives

Rich Ives

Rich Ives has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Trust, Seattle Arts Commission and the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines for his work in poetry, fiction, editing, publishing, translation and photography. His writing has appeared in Verse, North American Review, Massachusetts Review, Northwest Review, Quarterly West, Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, Virginia Quarterly Review, Fiction Daily, and many more. In 2010 he has been a finalist in fiction at Black Warrior Review and Mississippi Review and in poetry at Cloudbank and Mississippi Review.

Rich Ives

Rich Ives

Rich Ives has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Trust, Seattle Arts Commission and the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines for his work in poetry, fiction, editing, publishing, translation and photography. His writing has appeared in Verse, North American Review, Massachusetts Review, Northwest Review, Quarterly West, Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, Virginia Quarterly Review, Fiction Daily, and many more. In 2010 he has been a finalist in fiction at Black Warrior Review and Mississippi Review and in poetry at Cloudbank and Mississippi Review.

Rich
Ives