Credits
Deer Crossing, Paula Cravens
Editor
Mary (Sands) Woodbury has been the editor of Jack Magazine since its foundation in the summer of 2000, near Laguna Beach, California. Since that time, she has been a web designer for Big Bridge, and has worked with Ira Cohen, Robert La Vigne, and Larry Keenan on web art galleries. She received a BA from Purdue University in 1993, with majors in English and anthropology. She currently works for the Fraser Riverkeeper in Vancouver, British Columbia, which is an environmental charity and part of the international Waterkeeper Alliance, whose chairman is Bobby Kennedy. Her interests range from photography and short film editing to forest and river ecology, including that of the boreal rainforest where she lives. She lives with her husband and cat in Vancouver.
Contributing Editor
Michael Rothenberg has been living in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 30 years. His books of poems include The Paris Journals (Fish Drum), Monk Daddy (Blue Press) and Unhurried Vision (La Alameda Press). Rothenberg is editor and publisher of Big Bridge. He is also editor of Overtime, Selected Poems by Philip Whalen (Penguin), As Ever, Selected Poems by Joanne Kyger (Penguin) and David's Copy, Selected Poems by David Meltzer. He is presently working on Way More Out, Selected Poems of Edward Dorn (Penguin, 2007) and Collected Poems of Philip Whalen (Wesleyan University Press, 2007).
Feature Artist
Paula Cravens was raised in a central Illinois farming community. She received a BFA from Eastern Illinois University (1976) but then took time out to raise two daughters and have a few adventures. She moved to the Columbia Valley in 2004 and decided to pursue an artistic career fulltime. She has studied with Susan Woolgar, Mike Svob, and Carol Marine, among others. See her website for more of her art. Paula's art illustrates the majority of this issue.
Section Artists
Cecelia Chapman makes videos, artwork, and graphic and short stories. Selected publishers and exhibitors: Avance Publishing, Houston Literary Review, Ace Gallery, Wild Violet, Rural Messenger Press, Jack Magazine, MaryJournal, Enfuego Magazine, Unlikelystories, Otoliths, Literary Chaos, Membradisjecta, and Qaartsiluni. Selected freelance employers: Catalyst Bookpress, Stamp Francisco, Walker, Exploratorium, Kauai Museum, Rubberstampede/Delta Technical Coatings, All Night Media, Fiorucci, H20 Magazine, Citysites, Departamento Bellas Artes Guadalajara, and Macys. Education: graphic design at Parsons School of Design NY. Experience in image development for product design (print, fabric, rubber stamp, text, print collections, web) and advertising communication for small business. More on her website.
Diana Magallón is an experimental artist. More of her art can be found here.
Katie Oliver has been writing and drawing ever since she could hold a pencil. She attended Purdue University to pursue a degree in English. She was married in September of 2008 to Brian Oliver, a musician. They moved briefly to California but are going to be settling in the hip, artsy Broad Ripple area of Indianapolis, Indiana. She loves to travel, be spontaneous, write, sing, and paint. She and Brian would love to have a husband and wife band someday.
Rachel Sands has worked with and trained horses since about age five, and lives in Indiana. She is especially fond of cheese.
Fiction and Nonfiction
Paul Hawkins has been interested in popular culture and music, protest, and survival for as long as he can remember. His past and current work includes protester, refuse collector, tour manager, co-runner on musical and movement workshops, punk, student, musician, driver, general builder, brick-layer, manager of an Elvis Presley coordinator, sound system hire, PR worker, and a creative writer. He is also music editor on The Brink.
Lauren Brown Hornor is working to develop a strong Riverkeeper program on the Fraser from the ground-up. Lauren provided legal support and guidance to Waterkeeper organizations located across the country while working at Waterkeeper Alliance in New York. She was responsible for Waterkeeper's Clean Water Act Defense program, designed to maintain a strong and active national presence on Clean Water Act defense issues and protect the Act from regulatory and Congressional rollback. She prepares Waterkeeper Alliance's Water Enforcement Bulletin, a quarterly publication tracking regulatory changes to the Clean Water Act, recent case law and Congressional action, all of which impacts clean water protection. Lauren holds a bachelors degree in Environmental Studies and Geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder and graduated with honors from Pace University School of Law, receiving a Certificate in Environmental Law. While at the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, Lauren represented the Riverkeeper in various enforcement actions on the Hudson River and in the Catskill Mountains.
Stephen Muret lives in the United States.
Julio Peralta-Paulino is a writer and is currently at work on several projects. Some of his publishing credits include Chronogram, Write Between The Lines, The Cerebral Catalyst, and Smokebox. He is beyond thrilled to have his writing included once more in the wondrous and jazzy magic that is Jack Magazine, inebriated with joy -- to be precise!
Margaret Pearce started life as a copywriter, married and had four children, and took to writing instead of drink to survive. She completed an arts degree at Monash as a mature student and kept on writing.
Marsanne Petty is an aspiring writer and photographer. To date, she has published several articles in magazines and authored a book (Images of America: Hamilton County, Florida). Her photographs can be seen in various places on the internet and are currently on display at Smith at Northview Hospital in Valdosta, Georgia. Visit her blog or her Flickr account. All images are available for purchase in various sizes. Simply contact Ms. Petty at mapetty@gmail.com. Or visit her new website or Twitter.
AE Reiff works in a surfactant delivery system to oil spills to stabilize Orimulsion, releasing sub-surface components in the dispersal of coalesced lumps. He is an agronomist who wrote “Pianta celeste o stella terrestre,” once had clearance with NASA to send poems into space in exobiological missions and has worked as an anthropologist, preparing a forensic examination of anti-diuretic properties of the pismuth Orc. He recently exhibited in the festival LUOGHI DELL'UTOPIA. More surfactant can be obtained at various advertised sites.
Allan Weisbecker -- author of Cosmic Banditos, In Search of Captain Zero, and Can't You Get Along with Anyone -- is a renegade, a memoirist, a surfer, an ex-smuggler, and an all-around personable great guy who also likes to kick corporate ass. Subscribe to Allan's newsletter at Bandito Books.
David Wills is an English teacher in Korea and is the editor for Beatdom.com.
Poetry and Prose
Marcia Arrieta's work has appeared in Otoliths, Dusie, Word for Word, Blueprint Review, Mipoesias, Lines & Stars, and others. Her chapbook The Curve Against the Linear was recently published in the Toadlily Press Quartet series--An Uncommon Accord. She edits and publishes indefinite space, a poetry journal.
Janine L. Baker lives in South Australia as a mother, marine scientist, and poet. Her poetry, with environmental and social themes, is influenced by an itinerant childhood, when she lived in many places around Australia and in Papua New Guinea, including cities, small towns and villages, and lighthouse islands. She writes poetry in brief spurts, and has had approximately 80 poems published intermittently during the past decade. During the mid to late 1990s, Janine’s work appeared regularly in print journals across southern Australia (including Poetrix, Centoria, Spindrift, SideWalk, Vernacular, The Write Art, and Blast), and she often read at poetry venues. During the 2000s, her work has been published in e-zines such as Retort (March 2008), Thylazine (Australian Poets No. 10, 2004) and Divan (2004 and 2009), and read several times on radio. A first collection, Circus Earth, was published in 2008 by Friendly St Poets Inc. and Wakefield Press (South Australia). One poem was selected in 2006 for use as a teaching resource in British schools, and she has written a chapter on the relations between poetry and science, in a book being edited and published by Erica Jolly (South Australia). Janine was a guest poet at New Voices festival (Eltham, Victoria) in 2008, and she has recently completed a new manuscript of 80 poems, mostly about dysfunctional post-war family
life in Australia.
James Cavanagh's recent publications include Edgz, Nexus, Wayne State Review, Bookpress, Yalobusha Review, and River King.
Teresa Chuc Dowell is a writer of poetry and short stories. Her poems appear in several magazines, including The National Poetry Review, Community Life Magazine, PoetryMagazine.com, Babel Fruit, and Miller's Pond (online). Her short stories appear in magazines such as SugarMule.com and Memoir (and). She has written and published a children's book called Bye Bye, Grandma (2007). Teresa teaches English literature and writing at a Los Angeles public high school.
Brian Anthony Hardie is 24 years old and has been writing poetry since the age of seven. He was born and raised in Portland, Oregon and now resides in southeast Portland. He has been published in numerous small press journals/e-zines including The Pebble Lake Review (Houston, TX), Conceit Magazine (San Fransisco, CA), Hudson View (NYC/South Africa), Decanto (UK), Ditchpoetry.com (Canada), SALiT Magazine (International), DaveJarecki.com, WordSlaw.com, and Angel Exhaust (UK). In January he was asked by the Board at Mount Hood Community College to read his work to that semester's English classes. His also in the process of writing a book of prose and poetry. He has been a musician for 16 years and has toured the West coast and Midwest as a bass player for the Portland-based experimental rock band Microtia.
Tom Hibbard's recent work has appeared in Cricket (poetry), Word For/ Word (reviews of Philip Whalen's collected poems), and i Monolingualism of the Other. The Derrida review also appeared in Jacket. A long piece on Linear/Nonlinear appeared in the 2007 issue of Big Bridge. A 2008 book of poetry, Place of Uncertainty, is available online at Otoliths storefront.
Oritsegbemi Emmanuel Jakpa was born in Warri, Nigeria, studied at the University of Lagos and the University of Iowa, and is currently living in Ireland where he is pursuing an MA in Creative Writing at the Waterford Institute of Technology. His poetry has been published in a number of online and print journals and an Irish-Canadian anthology.
John Joynt is currently a Web Editor at Drunken Boat.His poetry can be viewed in Jack Magazine and Pregnant Moon, additional works to appear in upcoming issues of Poetry Flash, Big Bridge, Diagram and Remark.
Just Kibbe was raised on a dairy farm in New Hampshire where he knew the name of every cow by the time he was four. He can neutralize, pluck, and eviscerate a chicken in less than five minutes. His muses are many. You could say he is a muse-slut. You could also say he knows who butters his bread. With two cohorts, Nate Mohatt and M. Thomas Russell, Just Kibbe captains Pirate Pig's Press, which he’s learned is more difficult to steer than a heifer through a cow shed. But come hell or high water (and come they both do), Pirate Pig Press promotes the integration of the arts and sciences through a semi-sporadic journal of creativity: Behold: The Pirate Pig; an onslaught of pocket sized books, and performances known as the “3-Ring Artist Circus.” No one circus has been duplicated.
Donal Mahoney has had poems published in or accepted by The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, Revival (Ireland), The South Carolina Review, Commonweal, The Christian Science Monitor, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Mid-America Poetry Review, The Davidson Miscellany, U.S. Catholic, The Goddard Journal, The Pembroke Magazine, The Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine, The Common Ground Review, The Centrifugal Eye, Sou’wester, Salt Lick, The Mustang Review, Obscurity and a Penny, The Road Apple Review,Fiction and other publications.
Ally Malinenko has been published by Breeding Ground, Whisky Island Magazine, The Unknown Writer, HeART and Mad Poets Society. Her first book of poems entitled, The Wanting Bone, is due out by Six Gallery Press and she is currently working on a novel for children. Ally lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two cats.
Jack Merrywell is a poet and student hailing from St. Louis, Missouri. He currently attends the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His work can be found in the Stylus literary journal and on poetshaven.com.
Stephen C. Middleton has had several books of poetry published, most recently Worlds of Pain / Shades of Grace (Poetry Salzburg) and A Brave Light (Stride). He has featured in five anthologies including Paging Doctor Jazz (Shoestring). He was editor of Ostinato , a jazz and jazz-related poetry magazine, and The Tenormen Press, producing limited edition illustrated books of music related poetry. His live work includes readings, storytelling, performance pieces with musicians, and stand up comedy. He is currently working on a project (prose and poetry) involving jazz, blues, politics, folk art, mountain environments, and long-term illness.
Nathaniel Mohatt is from South Dakota and the Rosebud Reservation, the Great Plains, sage, sweet grass and pine canyons, and from Fairbanks, Alaska, the tundra bogs, gnarled black spruce and braided rivers. He has a BA in German literature, an MFA in poetry, and is currently employed at the Cold Climate Housing Research Center. He is also co-founder of the Pirate Pig Press. His poems have appeared in Big Bridge and the San Gabrielle Valley Quarterly Review.
Rich Murphy was born in Lynn, Massachusetts. Credits include a book of poems, The Apple in the Monkey Tree, by Codhill Press; chapbooks Great Grandfather by Pudding House Publications, Family Secret by Finishing Line Press, and Hunting and Pecking by Ahadada Press; poems in Rolling Stone, Poetry, Grand Street, Trespass, Feile-Festa, New Letters, Pank, Segue, Big Bridge, Pemmican, foam:e, and Confrontation; and essays in Fulcrum, The International Journal of the Humanities, Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics Poetry / Literature and Culture, Fringe, Big Toe Review, and upcoming in Journal of Ecocriticism. He now teaches writing at VCU.
Rodney Nelson's poems got into mainstream print (Georgia Review, Nimrod, elsewhere) quite awhile ago; but he turned to fiction in 1982 and did not write another poem until 2004, when there was a comeback in the ezines. See his entry in the Poets & Writers directory. He spent most of his life in the northern parts of California and Arizona, working as book and copy editor. Nelson moved back to his native Great Plains in 1999.
Dave Oprava is an ex-pat American writer and poet living in Wales who has been published in almost two dozen places scattered throughout print and cyberspace. VS. is his first full-length book of poems and is an eclectic combination of innovative, new forms of poetry amidst a bed of free verse ruminations.
Ordering information is available from his site.
Jayne Lyn Stahl is a widely published poet, playwright, essayist, and screenwriter. Her work has appeared in such notable little magazines as Exquisite Corpse, Poetry Magazine, (online), Pulpsmith, The New York Quarterly, and City Lights Review as well as in major anthologies. She is a member of PEN American Center, PEN USA, and the Academy of American Poets.
Jon Tait is a former sportswriter and was the press officer at the now defunct Scottish soccer club Gretna FC.
Charles D. Tarlton is a retired professor of political theory from upstate NY and is now living in San Francisco. He has written poetry for most of his life, but only published small quantities over the years. Most of his creative juices were required for research and writing essays in the history of political theory. He has delved as deeply as possible into the writings of Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. He has, in the basket here beside his chair, hundreds of pages of experimental theater and poetry (experimental by his own rights). Now that he is retired he dreams of using this and whatever new ideas arise to fashion a post-disengagement body of work, at least to satisfy himself.
Barbara Zargoza resides in Naples, Italy. After many years as a graduate student, then a technical writer and published author of non-fiction, she is engaged in writing a fiction novel while also traveling throughout Europe, visiting Roman ruins, and hauling along her three kids.
Video
Cecelia Chapman (see above for bio).
Henry Ferrini: Independent filmmaker Henry Ferrini hails from Gloucester Massachusetts, the vibrant and struggling New England seaport that has, for more than 25 years, been his muse. Over the years, much of his work has been focused on his hometown, cultivating a passion for local cultural geography that has summoned him to surrounding working-class communities such as Lynn, Salem, Peabody and Lowell, unearthing material most would overlook. His latest project returns him once again to his own backyard. For more, see his website.
