Margie Cronin’s twelfth book is The Flower, The Thing (UQP, 2006). Her 2001 book, Talking to Neruda’s Questions, has recently appeared in a bilingual Italian/English translation (Bratain, Italy, 2005). A forthcoming collection, Irrigations (of the Human Heart) ~ fictional essays on the poetics of living, art & love will be out with Ravenna Press, USA, in 2006.
Nominated many times for the Pushcart Prize, Corey Mesler has published poems in many journals like Arkansas Review, Visions International, Potomac and others. He has also a chapbook of poems, Piecework, from the Wing and a Wheel Press and he won in 2003 the Moonfire Poetry Chapbook Competition and his chapbook, Chin-Chin in Eden, was published by Still Waters Press.
Djelloul Marbrook was born in Algiers, grew up on Long Island and Manhattan. He was a reporter for The Providence Journal and an editor for The Elmira (NY) Star-Gazette, The Baltimore Sun, The Winston-Salem Journal & Sentinel, The Washington Star and Media News newspapers in Ohio and New Jersey.
Le Pham Le: Born in Viet Nam, Le Pham Le attended the University
of Pedagogy in Saigon, where she earned a BA in Vietnamese
Language and Literature. After teaching in high schools for five years,
Le fled her country with her family due to the fall of South Viet Nam.
Her poems have appeared in Nimrod International Literary
Journal, Rattle, Beacons, Ocean Magazine, Erbacce, and Cum Hoa
Tinh Yeu. Her first publication is a bilingual collection of Vietnamese
poems entitled Gio Thoi Phuong Nao/From Where the Wind Blow
translated by Dan-Thanh Pham Le and Nancy Arbuthnot
(Vietnamese International Poetry Society, 2003).