Contributors

Kim Addonizio teaches poetry and composition at Vista College and San Francisco State University.

Lily Collett is a pseudonym; in keeping with the pledge of anonymity required of everyone in Twelve Step groups.

Gina Covina is a writer, artist, and publisher who lives in Berkeley, California.

Cedar Koons is a poet who lives in Timberlake, North Carolina.

V. Myagkov is a pseudonym for an Eastern European writer.

Nicholas A. Patricca is a poet, playwright, and essayist in Chicago, Illinois. He’s the artistic director of Chicago New Plays, a playwrights’ collective; he also teaches religious studies at Mundelein College.

David Putnam is an eighth-grade student at the Arthur Morgan school in Burnsville, North Carolina.

Andrew Ramer is a writer and artist who lives in two rooms in Brooklyn, New York — the fourth largest city in the United States. His story in this issue is part of a collection called Random Voices.

Deborah Shouse has a button that tells the whole story of her life: “The forest may be quiet but that doesn’t mean the snakes have left.”

Ona Siporin is a writer and editor for the Western Historical Quarterly at Utah State University in Logan. Her essays are featured regularly on KUSU-FM.