Martina Reisz Newberry has written four novels and several books of poetry, has been included in Ascent Aspirations first Anthology and has been widely published in literary magazines such as: 5 AM, Amelia, Ascent Aspirations, Atom Mind, Bellingham Review, Black Buzzard Review, Cape Rock, Caprice, Catalyst, Connecticut Poetry Review, Context South, Current Accounts, Descant, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Hob Nob, i.e.,Innisfree, International Poetry Review, Iota, Iowa Woman, The Ledge, My Legacy, New Laurel Review, Passages North, Pedestal Magazine, Piedmont Literary Review, Snake Nation Review, Sonoma Mandala, Sonora Review, Rectangle, Southern Review of Poetry, Touchstone, Visions International, Willow Review ,Women's Work, Yet Another Small Magazine, and many, many others.
Jeff Schiff is author of Anywhere in this Country (Mammoth Press), The Homily of Infinitude (Pennsylvania Review Press), The Rats of Patzcuaro (Poetry Link), Resources for Writing About Literature (HarperCollins), and Burro Heart (Mammoth Press). His work has appeared internationally in more than seventy periodicals, including Grand Street, The Ohio Review, Poet & Critic, The Louisville Review, Tendril, Pembroke Magazine, Carolina Review, Chicago Review, Hawaii Review, Southern Humanities Review, River City, Indiana Review, and The Southwest Review.
Thomas Crofts teaches medieval English literature and Latin at East Tennessee State University. His poems have appeared in The Madison Insurgent, The Texas Observer and Upstart Crow, as well as several chapbooks. His scholarly work includes articles and book chapters on Arthurian literature and a monograph, Malory’s Contemporary Audience: The Social Reading of Romance in Late Medieval England (Boydell & Brewer, 2006).
Karen Malpede’s just finished play Prophecy will receive two public readings in New York this spring, at New York Theater Workshop, in late February, and at the Makor Steinhardt Center of the 92nd St. Y, on April 23. The play will be presented as a staged reading in Berlin, at the English Language Theater, on March 31.