Contributors

Jane Armstrong (Jane.Woodman@nau.edu) teaches at Northern Arizona University. Her stories have appeared in North American Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, New Orleans Review, Valley Guide Quarterly, Apalachee Quarterly and elsewhere. She has work forthcoming in Connecticut Review and Brevity.

Kim Church (akc@ipass.net) is a fiction writer and attorney in Raleigh, North Carolina. She was a 1997-98 recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council literary fellowship, which is supporting work on a first novel. Short pieces have appeared in Northern Lights, North Carolina Humanities, and most recently in the anthology Voices from Home.

Guggenheim award-winner Robert Sward (sward@cruzio.com) teaches at the University of California Extension in Santa Cruz. Chosen by Lucille Clifton to receive a Villa Montalvo Literary Arts Award, he is the author of 14 books including A Much-Married Man, A Novel, and Four Incarnations, New & Selected Poems. Read the novel about a five-times married, one-woman man in Robert Sward's A Much Married Man. A book all about love, compassion, and relationships. Contributing Editor to Blue Penny Quarterly (Internet), Sward also served as judge for eSCENE 1996, "the best short stories published on the Internet."

William Tyree (tyree@asia-u.ac.jp) currently teaches at Asia University in Tokyo, Japan. He is a graduate of the MA writing program at Northern Arizona University, and is the former Editor-in-Chief of Thin Air. His short stories have appeared in the North American Review, Miranda Station Review, and elsewhere. He is now at work at a new novel while his others ferment in his desk drawer.

Jeff Whipple (jkwhip@aol.com) is an artist and writer in Sarasota, Florida. He has had more than 50 solo exhibitions in galleries, universities and museums throughout the USA and he's won many awards in art competitions. His paintings are in the collections of several museums and colleges. Whipple's plays have been featured in fifteen productions in Chicago and Florida. He is a regular contributor to the New Art Examiner and in 1995-6, he was a weekly columnist for The Albuquerque Tribune. Whipple taught at several colleges including Arizona State University and Northern Illinois University. He's won two state fellowships from Illinois and two from Florida.

David Wimberley (harris@gol.com) has a degree from Auburn where he placed twice in the literary fiction contest--first one year, second another. He once published a bulletin-board electronic review, The Alabama Fiction Review, which featured writers such as Rich Cumyn of Canada, Yevgeny Yevtushenko from Russia, and Doug Lawson and Madison Jones. All that was blown away by the WWW, a far more excellent medium than the old dial-up BBS services.