Louis E. Bourgeois was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in the Slidell/LaCombe area, as well as East New Orleans on Bayou Sauvage. In 1996 he earned a B.A. from Louisiana State University in English and in 2002 was the first graduate of The University of Mississippi’s MFA program in creative writing.
He has published translations, fiction, memoirs, poetry, and interviews in over two hundred magazine and journals in North America, Europe, and Asia. In 2004, he was the winner of the University of Milwaukee’s Cream City Review’s poetry contest for his poem “The Shed: The Daughter of Shadows Speaks from Max Beckmann’s The Dream (1921).”
Poet, Novelist, Literary Critic and Lecturer at
California State University, Long Beach in USA, Clifton Snider is the author of eight books of poetry, the last being The Alchemy of Opposites, three novels, including Wrestling with Angels: A Tale of Two Brothers, and a book of literary criticism, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made On: A Jungian Interpretation of Literature, as well as fiction, poetry, reviews, and articles in many international publications.
Walter Cummins has published approximately 100 stories in such magazines as Kansas Quarterly, Other Voices, Crosscurrents, Florida Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Confrontation, and on the Internet. His previous story collections are titled Witness and Where We Live.
Hugh McFadden : Born in Derry, Northern Ireland, but has lived in Dublin since childhood. He has had poems published in a variety of literary magazines, including Aquarius, Belfast Review, Broadsheet (ed. Hayden Murphy), The Cork Review, Cyphers, Great Book of Ireland, Irish University Review, The Red Wheelbarrow, and Poetry Ireland Review. His first collection, Cities of Mirrors, was published by Beaver Row Press. A second collection, Pieces of Time, was published in 2004 by Lapwing Press.