The Absinthe Literary Review
C O N T R I B U T O R S ’   N O T E S

Spring  2002
  

Al Billings

Al Billings completed his BA at Vermont College in January 2000 and is in his first semester in the MFA creative writing program at Antioch University Los Angeles. He is previously un-published. Billings is also a musician and garden designer. He has recently taken up the Oud, and he is currently undertaking a formal study of Middle Eastern music. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, his musical instruments, and his elliptical creative ramblings.

Zoe Brigley

Zoe Brigley is a young Welsh poet, in her last year of a Creative Writing degree Warwick who has been published in several anthologies and held workshops at colleges and schools.

Amy Templeton Buckley

Inspired by her Kentucky childhood and lineage dating back to Bourbon County in 1785, Amy Templeton Buckley’s poetry is inspired by the ancestral mud that clings to our roots.  Journal credits include: The Adirondack Review, Free Verse Poetry Journal, Poetic License News, Poetic Voices and Steel Point Quarterly.

Maria Cuervo

Maria Cuervo was born in Havana, Cuba and somehow ended up in Madison, Wisconsin where she received a BA in English and a BFA in Fine Art from UW-Madison and won several George B. Hill awards as well as a Cy Howard Prize for her poems. When not writing or painting she’s a web geek at Wisconsin Public Television.

C. J. Hopkins

CJ Hopkins’ plays and stage-texts have been produced extensively, and have been presented by musical groups and in conjunction with multidisciplinary arts exhibits, in New York, Philadelphia and the UK.  His poetry and experimental writing has been published in little magazines on the East and West coasts, and his 1992 play, Horse Country, appears in the anthology Plays and Playwrights for the New Millennium (New York Theatre Experience, 2000).

Jarret Keene

Jarret Keene was born in 1973. His Pushcart-nominated stories, essays, and verse have appeared in recent issues of American Literary Review, The Carolina Quarterly, The Chattahoochee Review, The Greensboro Review, The Florida Review, Louisiana Literature, The New England Review, Passages North, The Texas Review, and Utne Reader. His most recent book is Monster Fashion (Manic D Press 2002). He currently teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

David Ritchie

David Ritchie is the Northwest Regional Vice President of the Washington Poets Association. His poetry and fiction have been widely published in the U.S. and abroad, including in Mountaineer’s Magazine, The Animist, The Paumanok Review, Red River Review, Drexel University’s On-line Journal, Albany University’s Offshore Journal, Clay Palm Review, Parnassus Literary Review, BigCityLit-New York Edition, ComradesUK, and Short Stories Magazine. He lives in the San Juan Islands.

Tobias Seamon

A finalist previously for the Dana Award for poetry, Tobias Seamon’s work has appeared in CutBank, 3rd Bed, and (forthcoming) the online magazine themorningnews.org. He contributes frequently to the website www.0format.com, and edits the online journal www.whalelane.com. 

Gary Sloan

Gary Sloan retired in 1999 from Louisiana Tech University, where he was George Anding Professor of English and a frequent contributor to scholarly journals.  Since retiring, he has written articles on literature, science, and religion for such “popular” publications as Skeptic, Free Inquiry, The Freethinker (London), Freethought Today, American Atheist, American Rationalist, Impact, and Exquisite Corpse. His wife, LaRue, is the Shakespeare specialist at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.    

Shari Diane Willadson

Shari Diane Willadson is a writer living in Washington State
with her husband. She has work on the net at Melic Review, Gravity, and Samsara among others. Her most recent print publication is in Cider Press Review’s Volume 2.  

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