Friendly new faces are here to say ‘good morning.’
Jason Ryberg
Jason Ryberg is the author of seven books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, a box of loose papers that could one day be (loosely) construed as a novel and a couple of angry letters to various magazine and newspaper editors. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri with a rooster named Little Red and a billy goat named Giuseppe. His latest collection of poems is “Down, Down And Away” (co-authored with Joshua Rizer and released by Spartan Press, 2012).
Feel free to look up his skirt at jasonryberg.blogspot.com.
J. Davis
J. Davis recently finished a Language Arts Education degree at Cedarville University. Still sequestered in the tiny Midwestern village where her university is located, she is schedule to return to the life and landscape she loves best in Denver, Colorado. With too few publications to brag, you can check out her work in Heavy Feather Review, The Boiler Journal, or S/tick magazine.
Tim Kahl
Tim Kahl [http://www.timkahl.com] is the author of “Possessing Yourself”(CW books, 2009) and “The Century of Travel” (CW Books, 2012). His work has been published in Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, Notre Dame Review, The Journal, Parthenon West Review, and many other journals in the U.S. He appears as Victor Schnickelfritz at the poetry and poetics blog The Great American Pinupand the poetry video blog Linebreak Studios. He is also editor of Bald Trickster Press and Clade Song. He is the vice president and events coordinator of The Sacramento Poetry Center. He currently houses his father’s literary estate—(one volume: Robert Gerstmann’s book of photos of Chile, 1932).
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura is an MFA candidate, a Teaching Fellow, and a recipient of the Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry at Boston University. She was born in Colombia and grew up in New York City. A former attorney, she left the legal profession to pursue her passion for writing. Luisa has received awards for her poetry and was nominated for the 2012 Pushcart Prize. Her poems appear in various publications, including Connecticut Review, Louisiana Literature, PALABRA, San Pedro River Review, Ellipsis…Literature and Art, and Sunken Garden Poetry 1992-2011. Her poems have also been included in the writing curricula at colleges and universities.
Belle Ling
Belle Ling is a university graduate from the University of Hong Kong. She has completed a Master of Creative Writing in the University of Sydney. She has a special interest in writing poetry. Her favourite novelist is Haruki Murakami, and her beloved poems are those which can capture insightful images with in-depth philosophical meanings.
Mike Koenig
A Maryland native, Mike Koenig writes screenplays, teleplays, and fiction. He received his MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore and currently works at Discovery Communications. In 2013 his fiction can be seen in Phoebe.
Celia Rudd
Celia Rudd is an eighteen-year-old aspiring writer who would rather read William Faulkner, Kazuo Ishiguro, or George R. R. Martin than the latest “Teen Read.” She will attend the University of Alabama in the fall as a freshman. Currently, she is majoring in English with hopes to explore avenues in either speechwriting or screenwriting. She won a Gold Key Awardfor her writing in the Southeastern Region of the 2013 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. “Just Thoughts” was inspired by Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying. It must be noted her mother is nothing like the one portrayed in this work of fiction.
Kirby Wright
Kirby Wright was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a graduate of Punahou School in Honolulu and the University of California at San Diego. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Wright has been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and is a past recipient of the Honolulu Weekly Nonfiction Award, the Jodi Stutz Memorial Prize in Poetry, the Ann Fields Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Award, the Robert Browning Award for Dramatic Monologue, and Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowships in Poetry and The Novel. BEFORE THE CITY, his first poetry collection, took First Place at the 2003 San Diego Book Awards. Wright is also the author of the companion novels PUNAHOU BLUES and MOLOKA’I NUI AHINA, both set in Hawaii. He was a Visiting Fellow at the 2009 International Writers Conference in Hong Kong, where he represented the Pacific Rim region of Hawaii. He was also a Visiting Writer at the 2010 Martha’s Vineyard Residency in Edgartown, Mass., and the 2011 Artist in Residence at Milkwood International, Czech Republic. His futuristic novel THE END, MY FRIEND is forthcoming in 2013, and a book of selected poems will be published in 2014.