Quay Contributors

William L. Alton started writing in the Eighties while incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. Since then his work has appeared in The Oklahoma Review, The Red River Review, Poet’s Corner, and Whalelane among others. He earned both his B.A. and M.F.A. in Writing from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon where he continues.

Danita Berg is an assistant professor of writing at Oklahoma City University, where she directs the new Red Earth Low-Residency M.F.A. in Creative Writing. She has published or has upcoming creative works in journals such as Redivider, Southern Women’s Review, and The Houston Literary Review, among others, as well as the anthology Press Pause Moments: Essays about Life Transitions by Women Writers. She earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Goddard College and Ph.D. in English at the University of South Florida.

Antonia Clark works for a medical software company in Burlington, Vermont, and is co-administrator of an online poetry workshop, The Waters. Her work has appeared in many print and electronic journals, including The 2River View, Anderbo, Apparatus Magazine, The Cortland Review, Eclectica, The Pedestal Magazine, Rattle, Soundzine, and Umbrella. She loves French food and wine, and plays French café music on a sparkly purple accordion.

Saroja Ganapathy teaches English literature to undergraduate students in Mumbai, India. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared online in journals such as Muse India and Soundzine. She is also an ardent student of Indian classical music.

Beatrix Gates’ next poetry book will be published by Spain’s puerta del mar in 2010 and translated into Spanish by Jesus Aguado. Her third poetry collection was Ten Minutes, Firm Ground Press, 2006. Beatrix Gates and Electa Arenal translated The Poems of Vikram Babu by Jesus Aguado, HOST Publications, 2009, and Gates’ In the Open was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Gates’ poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Dirty Goat, and The Kenyon Review, and she has been a poetry fellow at the MacDowell Colony and VCCA.

Julie Greene lives in Watertown, Massachusetts with her Schnoodle dog, Puzzle. She earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Goddard College. She has published works in Swamp Magazine, Pitkin Review, Breath and Shadow, and Fresh! Literary Magazine. Besides writing, she enjoys knitting sweaters for Puzzle, and recently has dabbled in stand-up comedy.

Rose Hunter blogs at Whoever Brought Me Here Will Have to Take Me Home. A book of her poetry is forthcoming (November 2010), from Artistically Declined Press. She is also the editor of the online poetry journal YB. At the moment she is somewhere between Australia and Mexico.

Luisa A. Igloria is the author of Juan Luna’s Revolver (2009 Ernest Sandeen Prize, University of Notre Dame), Trill & Mordent (WordTech Editions, 2005) and eight other books. Luisa has degrees from the University of the Philippines, Ateneo de Manila University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she was a Fulbright Fellow from 1992-1995. Other awards include Finalist in the first Narrative Poetry Contest (2009); the 2007 49th Parallel Prize from Bellingham Review; the 2007 James Hearst Poetry Prize (North American Review); the 2006 National Writers Union Poetry Prize; the 2006 Stephen Dunn Award for Poetry; 11 Palanca Awards and the Palanca Hall of Fame Distinction in the Philippines. Originally from Baguio City, she lives in Norfolk, Virginia and is a professor on the faculty of Old Dominion University, where she currently directs the M.F.A. Creative Writing Program. She keeps her radar tuned for cool lizard sightings. www.luisaigloria.com

Ken Jaworowski’s most recent play, ‘Interchange,’ was produced in New York by the WorkShop Theater Company. His plays have also been performed in London and around the United States. His one-act ‘One to the Head, One to the Heart’ was published in A Cappella Zoo, and his short story ‘Bowfin’ appears in the latest issue of The Angler literary magazine. He is a staff editor for The New York Times.

Blake Kimzey’s fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Lifted Brow (Australia), Red Line Blues (USA), Untitled Books (UK), and Short FICTION (UK). Blake’s next story will appear in Monkeybicycle 8 and he is currently working on a collection of stories and a picaresque novel. Born in Texas, Blake has worked as a bicycle tour guide in France and now lives with his wife, Artist Danielle Kimzey, in Iowa City. Learn more at www.blakekimzey.com.