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Spring 2008 Program for Writers Chicago Bar Association Charles Goodnow Memorial Award Poetry judged by Fran Abbate, Beloit College winner, "Vanishing Room" by Erica Bernheim "What I admire about the poem is its dynamism. It's always just ahead of me: its breathless, propulsive structure pulls me at the same time as its aphoristic gestures invite meditation. It's smart and formally inventive, but not without humor or heart, and rewards multiple readings." Runner up "Grant's Dissector" by Garrett Brown Prose judged by Davis Schneiderman, Lake Forest College winner, "Yuri-G" by Megan Milks “This piece uses the growing alienation of the protagonist as the pivot for its formal play. The slavish repetition of Yuri Kimoto-Graham’s behaviors, parsed through the opaque wall of the narrator’s failed office relationships, pulses like a throbbing wound­and becomes one in the final moments. This story makes style its substance, and explores an almost-obsessively detailed entropic condition." Runner up "Blue Tape" by Jennie Berner Individual News, Spring 2008 Erica Bernheim accepted a tenure-track position at Florida Southern College. Rone Shavers accepted a tenure-track position at The College of Saint Rose. Snezana Zabic was featured in the Croatian culture and politics magazine Zarez. Nicole Martinez' story "Dewormed" will appear in the anthology Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta (GirlChild Press 2008). Jay Shearer's story "Highway to Versailles" is forthcoming in Beloit Fiction Journal and "The Boos" appeared in Other Voices. Megan Milks' story "Yuri-G" was a finalist in the DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction Contest. A novel excerpt is forthcoming in the anthology Wreckage of Reason (Spuyten Duyvil 2008). Other work can be found in Mildred Pierce, Pocket Myths #4: The Odyssey, and Forge. She also presented her work at AWP, &NOW Festival, and the Literary Writers Network Prose Show. Her story Tomato Heart was presented as a performance piece by Cathy Nicoli at Amherst College. Ivan Rodden/Faute's story "Watermelon Baby" appeared in The Mochila Review. Recent online publications include "My Lover, My Friend, My Mortality, All Has Come to Accuse Me in My Decay" in The Cerebral Catalyst, "Ulysses" in Behind the Wainscot, and "Urban Renewal" in The Abacot Journal. His story "Lemongrass" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He was selected as a participant in the 2008 CIC Summer Institute in Theory and Criticism. Roxanne Pilat was accepted to attend the nonfiction session of the New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore, under the direction of Phillip Lopate. Individual News, Fall 2007 Snezana Zabic was one of ten recipients of the 2007 Chicago Consular Corps Scholarship. Her story "Meet Satan" will appear in Copper Nickel in January 2008, and her poem "American Studies Map #8: Difference in America 1970" is forthcoming in Rhino. A selection of her poems will also appear in the online journal Little Red Leaves. Carrie Messenger has stories forthcoming in Witness and The Jabberwock Review. Her essay about the Moldovan rock band Zdob si Zdub will appear in Barrelhouse, and Romanian translations are forthcoming in Asheville Poetry Review, Circumference, Rhino, and Beloit Poetry Journal. Rone Shavers was awarded residencies to the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT and the Ragdale Arts Foundation in Lake Forest, IL. Restoration, a book of poems by Christina Pugh, is forthcoming from TriQuarterly Books (Northwestern University Press). Chad Heltzel has poems "Of Stone" forthcoming in Blue Unicorn and "Building a Bonfire" in the anthology In Other Words. Ivan Rodden/Faute's adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" was the prizewinner in the City Lit Theater Art of Adaptation Festival; his ten-minute play a "Love Story for Two Players/Four Personalities" appeared in Rockhurst Review. His story "Little Egypt" will appear in The Louisville Review. Several shorts are forthcoming or have appeared as well including: "Forget Not All That Has Been Accomplished" in The Cupboard Pamphlet; "Smashing, Just Smashing" as a 'Staccato Microfiction' piece in The Blotter Magazine; "Let Me Be Alone With My Thoughts, Dear One" in Aquapolis Literary Journal; "Airstream" appeared in the online journal 971 MENU and "Advertising" in the online experiment 55 Words. Also, an excerpt from his novel Aeglaca appeared in The Orphan Leaf Review(UK) . Spring 2007 Program for Writers Awards 2007 Goodnow Award in Poetry judged by Richard Jones, DePaul University winner "Sight" by Anna Marie Craighead-Kintis "'Sight' is a remarkable meditation on birth, vision, and joy. It is also a political poem, in that it honors 'the darkness' in which the human is formed, giving sight to the unborn and its 'particular joy at seeing nothing.' More importantly, it enlightens and rewards the reader, who listens attentively to creation's 'celestial rush' and turns "pulse to picture.' This is a marvelous poem." Runner up "Archaeoacoustics" by Chad Heltzel "This poem finds inspiration, design, and ultimately its voice from the idea that unearthed shards of pottery can actually tell the stories of our lives, if we can teach ourselves to listen to these fragments, these broken pieces of clay that, by their very existence, prove that we once upon a time were whole."' 2007 Goodnow Award in Prose judged by Chris Fink, Beloit College winner "Highway to Versailles" by Jay Shearer “Highway to Versailles' is a Technicolor cross-Texas road trip, careening toward accident from the first paragraph ... O’Connor-esque in the way the characters’ frivolity is presented in stark contrast to the grim determinism of the landscape." Runner up "31.647861, 35.151361" by Josh Bernstein This is an ambitious, polyphonic narrative about the Arab/Israeli conflict The winners of the 2007 Other Voices fiction contest and Near South poetry contest have been announced: For Other Voices, Ivan Rodden's story "Lemon Grass" will be published in a forthcoming issue. For Near South, the winning poem is "One-Acts: a Poem" by Snezana Zabic; runner up is "Ode to Grammar" by Jennifer Moore. Near South will publish both of these poems. **** Individual news, spring 2007 Nnedi Okorafor's second novel, The Shadow Speaker, will be released in October of 2007 by Hyperion Books (Jump at the Sun), and her first novel, Zahrah the Windseeker, will be released in Nigeria this year by Kachifo Press. Mary Biddinger's book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is now available from Steel Toe Books. Christina Pugh received an individual artist fellowship in poetry from the Illinois Arts Council for 2007. Patricia McMillen's first chapbook, Knife Lake Anthology, was published by Puddinghouse Publications (Columbus, OH) in May, 2006. It's a collection of 17 poems inspired by her experiences standing vigil outside Indiana State Prison during executions in 2004-2005. She introduced it to the public in January 2007 in the form of a readers' theatre group reading at Unity Temple, Oak Park. She also has a poem coming out in RHINO 2007, edited by (among others) Jackie White, PhD 2005. Ivan Rodden/Faute's story "A Thing Enclosed is Not Common" will appear in the anthology Touched by Wonder (Meadowhawk 2007). A chapter from his ongoing project 365 Stories for the Edification of Children, With Additional Stories for Special Occasions, And Morals Applicable for All Occasions, was selected as a finalist for the Calvino Prize (2006) sponsored by the Creative Writing Program of the University of Louisville. Carrie Messenger's story "International Women's Day" will appear in the forthcoming issue of Cream City Review. Her translation of a poem by the Moldovan writer Vasile Girnet will appear in the next issue of Poetry International. Fall 2006 Ivan Rodden/Faute's short story "How Eloise Began as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years How Eloise Began as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years How Eloise Began as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years How Eloise Began as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years How Eloise Began as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years How Eloise Began as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years How Eloise Began as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years gan as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years How Eloise Began as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay ennd Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years How Eloise Began as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years How Eloise Began as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years How Eloise Began as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years How Eloise Began as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years How Eloise Began as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years How Eloise Began as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years gan as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years How Eloise Began as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years How Eloise Began as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years How Eloise Began as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years How Eloise Began as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years How Eloise Began as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years How Eloise Began as a Loser and Where It Took Her" was accepted for the Spring 2007 issue of The Pinch (formerly known as River City). His story "Rice" appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of Driftwood - A Literary Journal of Voices From Afar, and his work "Removed from Hazeroth" will appear in the inaugural issue of Relief Journal in November. Paul Bergstraesser has a creative nonfiction essay entitled "In the Broiler" forthcoming in the Fall 2006 issue of Sojourn. Mary Biddinger's first book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. Poems from this collection are currently appearing or forthcoming in The Eleventh Muse, The Iowa Review, Salt Hill, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. An Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Mary won the 2006 Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional and Community Service. She will be serving on the AWP Pedagogy Forum Steering Committee for the next several years