CONTRIBUTORS
Margaret Adams (Maryland) is a Maine-born writer and weekly columnist for the
Bangor Daily News. Her work has most recently appeared in Utne Reader, Z Magazine,
Down East Magazine, and Gray’s Sporting Journal. She graduated from Vassar College
in 2007 and currently lives in Baltimore.
Ann Barnet (Washington, D.C.) is a neurologist who practiced at Children's Hospital.
She founded a community center for parents, The Family Place. With her husband,
Richard Barnet, she wrote The Youngest Minds, a book on children's brain development.
Currently she is finishing a memoir.
Teri Bordenave (Maryland), a third-generation San Franciscan, relocated to Kent Island
from upstate New York in 2009. Her work has appeared in the San Gabriel Valley Poetry
Quarterly and Love In The Time Of Cancer. She is also a photographer, gardener, wife,
mother, and executive coach and organization development consultant.
Sherry Chappelle (Delaware), a former teacher, has twice been selected by the Delaware
Division of the Arts for retreats and grants. In 2009 she was first runner-up for the
Dogfish Head Poetry Prize. She reads her work at Poetry at the Beach and has published
in The Broadkill Review.
J. Wesley Clark (Maryland) has published, in a career that spans more than fifty years,
over five hundred poems in such magazines as Bogg, Chiron Review, Lilliput Review,
Red Rock Review, and RiverSedge. He is the founder of the Annapolis Poetry Theater and
hosts Writers Around Annapolis on the city's television channel twice a month.
Anne Colwell (Delaware) has had her work published in many literary reviews. Her
chapbook, Father’s Occupation, Mother’s Maiden Name, won the Dogfish Head Poetry
Prize. Her first book, Believing Their Shadows, was a finalist for four prizes. She
received an Established Artist Award in Poetry and an Emerging Artist Award in Fiction
from the Delaware State Arts Council.
Barbara Esstman (Virginia) is the coeditor of A More Perfect Union and the author of
The Other Anna and Night Ride Home. Both novels were adapted for TV film by
Hallmark Productions. Her short stories have received a Redbook fiction award and two
Pushcart Prize honorable mentions. She teaches at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD.
Gwen Florio (Montana) grew up on the Woodland Beach, DE, Wildlife Refuge on the
tide marshes of the Delaware Bay. She has published stories in Confrontation,
Philadelphia Stories, and Sotto Voce and has recently completed a novel about
Afghanistan.
Sunil Freeman (Maryland) is the assistant director of The Writer's Center in Bethesda,
MD, as well as the author of two books, That Would Explain the Violinist and Surreal
Freedom Blues. His work has appeared in several journals and anthologies and is on the
Library of Congress podcast of The Poet and the Poem.
Gary Hanna (Delaware) received the Emerging Artist Fellowship in Poetry from the
Delaware Division of the Arts in 2003 and a Residency Fellowship to the Virginia Center
for the Creative Arts in 2007. His poetry has appeared in more than fifty journals and
anthologies since his move to Delaware. He is the director of the Poetry at the Beach
reading series.
Nancy G. Hickman (Maryland) grew up near Millville, DE, and recently returned to the
peninsula after many years in Philadelphia. Her work has appeared in Philadelphia
Stories, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Delmarva Quarterly. She has been chosen twice
for the National Book Foundation’s Summer Writing Program.
Graham Hillard (Tennessee) teaches at Trevecca Nazarene University. His poems,
stories, and essays have appeared in Oxford American, Tar River Poetry, The Portland
Review, Puerto del Sol, and many others.
Douglas C. Jackson (Virginia) has earned the Tennessee Writers Alliance Short Fiction
Award and the James Andrew Purdy Award for Fiction. His work has appeared in
Haunted Voices, Haunting Places: An Anthology of Writers of the Old and New South.
Rod Jellema (Washington, D.C.) founded and for twenty years directed the creative
writing program at the University of Maryland. The winner of many awards, he has
written forty-five new poems for a book of collected poems to be released (including a
CD of his readings) in September 2010.
Merrill Leffler (Maryland) has published two collections of poetry, Partly
Pandemonium, Partly Love and Take Hold. He has guest-edited an issue of Beltway
Poetry Quarterly and, for Shirim, two special issues: Dryad at 40 and The Poetry of
Eytan Eytan, which he translated from the Hebrew with Moshe Dor.
Frank Maguire (Maryland) is a native of Dublin, Ireland, and a veteran of both the
British Army and the British Air Force. He has worked in electronics and as a tech writer,
which led to a job as station engineer in Ireland, where he met his wife, who brought him
to America.
Robert McGuill (Colorado) is a Pushcart Prize nominee and Glimmertrain finalist
whose stories have appeared in The MacGuffin, South Dakota Review, Talking River, The
Baltimore Review, pacificREVIEW, and other literary publications.
Melissa McLoud (Maryland) has worked for thirty years in museum exhibition and
program development in Washington, D.C., and on the Eastern Shore. She is currently
teaching in a new Master of Arts in Cultural Sustainability program at Goucher College
and working on public and nonprofit interpretive and writing projects.
Kristine Ong Muslim (Philippines) has been published in A cappella Zoo, Beeswax
Magazine, Boston Review, GlassFire Magazine, Grasslimb, Narrative, No Teeth, Pank
Riddle Fence, The Pedestal, and Southword. She has been nominated five times for the
Pushcart Prize and twice for the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s Rhysling Award.
Bonnie Naradzay (Maryland) studied with Robert Lowell in the 1960s, earned an MFA
in poetry in 2008, and has participated in Stanley Plumly's workshops at The Writer’s
Center in Bethesda. Her work has appeared in JAMA, Two Review, SLAB, Salt River
Review, Innisfree, Beltway Quarterly, Anderbo, Convergence, and others.
Amanda Newell (Maryland) teaches English at Gunston Day School in Centreville, MD,
and has also been a visiting lecturer in English at the University of Paris in France. Her
poetry has been accepted for publication by Bellevue Literary Review and Little Patuxent
Review.
Judy Reveal (Maryland), published author, editor, and indexer, is also the president of
the Eastern Shore Writers' Association. She has been involved with the Maryland Writers
Association and has taught creative writing around the Eastern Shore. She is currently
working on the third book in her Lindsey Gale mystery series.
Amy Rutledge (Maryland) currently works for a nonprofit and has written about a
variety of environmental issues. She learned about fossils from her grandmother, an
amateur geologist, who left her a box of rocks and fossils as an inheritance.
Carol Porter Smith (Wyoming) grew up in Ohio and New York, attended the University
of Colorado at Boulder several times (medical technology, MBA, creative writing), and
has published a handful of poems over the last ten years. She currently resides in
Saratoga, WY, where she runs a small B&B.
Sue Ellen Thompson (Maryland) is the author of four books of poetry, most recently
The Golden Hour (2006), and the editor of The Autumn House Anthology of
Contemporary American Poetry. She received the 2010 Maryland Author Award from
the Maryland Library Association. She lives in Oxford, MD.
E. C. Vojik (Maryland) is a CPA and senior tax analyst for a public utility. An avid
reader, he also enjoys writing stories, poems, and essays based on his
experiences growing up and living in and around Baltimore, several of which have won
awards.
Marjorie Weber (Delaware) was a journalist for five years, then moved into technical
writing, consulting primarily for AT&T. She belongs to the Eastern Shore Writers'
Association and the Rehoboth Beach Writers' Guild.
David Woodward (Quebec, Canada) was a coastal steward for the Nature Conservancy
in Long Island, protecting piping plovers, whose seemingly tiny, insignificant, and
invisible lives taught him about the weight of being. His work has been published in
Hamilton Stone, Subtle Tea, and Menda City, among others.