Blue Moon's Contributors Include...
Fiction
Gregory Cowles has a teaching-writing fellowship to Columbia University's MFA program, where he is working on a novel and serving as editor of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art. He has also been on staff at The New Yorker and The Threepenny Review, and received a scholarship to the 1996 Breadloaf Writer's Conference. He grew up in New York and California.Reed Hearne is making it up as he goes along. His essays have appeared in San Francisco magazines and journals, his stories in The South Carolina Review. A novel is currently under construction.
Wendy Cholbi's fiction has appeared in American Thoroughbred and in other journals including most recently Kudzu and the Morpo Review.
Robin Hemley is the author of three short story collections, the most recent The Big Ear (Blair, 1995) a novel, The Last Studebaker (Graywolf, 1992), and Turning Life into Fiction (Story, 1994), a book of practical criticism. His stories have appeared twice in the Pushcart Prize Anthologies, and a number of other anthologies and journals, including, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Story, North American Review, Shenandoah, ACM, Boulevard, and on the NPR short story radio anthologies, "Selected Shorts," and "The Sound of Writing." Work is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Sudden Fiction, Continued (Norton), and Homeground (Blue Heron/Before Columbus Foundation). He's currently at work on a book of nonfiction.
Walter Cummins edits The Literary Review. His stories have appeared widely among print journals--this is one of his first forays into the realm of e-publishing, and we're more than happy to have him.
Faith Miller lives in New York City with her cat Shamrock and has recently completed a novel about Slaine and her family. Other sections have appeared previously in BPQ, Hanging Loose and Decent Exposure and are forthcoming in Footwork, Prism and again in Hanging Loose. Faith's short fiction has also appeared in a number of literary magazines both on and off line. She'd get to work on a new novel if she could ever stop hunting for, and finding, typos!
Tom Harper edits The Red Mountain Review. His stories have appeared in numerous journals both online and off.
Peter Damian Bellis' collection of short stories entitled One Last Dance With Lawrence Welk and Other Stories will appear this fall from River Boat Books.
Poetry
Sally Ball received her MFA from Warren Wilson College and lives in St. Louis, where she works at Washington University's International Writers Center. Her poems continue to appear all over the place--recently, for instance, in Salmagundi, Threepenny Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Best American Poems 1995.Alan DeNiro is a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia. His work has appeared in Graham House Review, Artful Dodge, and Bottomfish.
These days Brady Earnhart is mostly writing songs and his dissertation at UVA on advertising and Walt Whitman. He is excited by publishing on-line, he says, "as long as you can print things out and hold them while you have coffee and a cigarette."
Richard Garni is a fourth grade teacher in Durham, NC. He is presently at work on a manuscript entitled Histories, Little Stories, Three Recipes & Directions to My House.
Don Goodwin was born in Maine and currently resides in Vermont. He is sick and tired of New England. Mr. Goodwin has written approximately forty-seven volumes of poetry. This is his first appearance in print.
F. David Horn "had a mid-life crisis when he was 12, so now that he is 24 he is counting his days on a single shaking hand." He has been published in Obscure, Pif, Writers from Nowhere, i like monkeys, and State of Unbeing.
Jim Laughlin earned an MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he received the Joseph Langland/Academy of American Poets Prize. He's a Full-Time Instructor and Writing Consultant at Virginia Tech.
Peter Munro lives in Seattle. He works in the field of fisheries science and spends his summers surveying bottom fish in the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska.
Ajay Narayanan is a graduate student in physics at the University of Arizona, and he is currently stationed at Fermilab in Illinois working on his doctoral thesis in high energy physics.
Forum
Thomas Hubschman writes for a large number of publications, but they can't possibly like him as much as we do.
Spokenword
Debra Marquart teaches creative writing at Iowa State University where she is at work on a collection of interrelated short stories about road life entitled "Playing for the Door" and a book of creative nonfictional essays about the Midwest entitled, "The Horizontal Life: Grim Tales from Dinky Towns." Her poetry collection "Everything's a Verb" was published by New Rivers Press in 1995, and her work has appeared in such magazines as New Letters, River City, Kalliope, Zone 3 and The Southern Poetry Review."True Tribe" and "Shit & the Dream of It" are from A Regular Dervish, a CD which features 18 poems, delivered in a riffed style, against a poetically interactive landscape of percussion and stringed instruments. Our sound technology does not do this collection justice, and we strongly recommend you pick up a copy. The other Bone People are Anthony Stevens on Percussion and Peter Manesis on just about everything else. You can reach them via their home page.
Reviews
June Owens writes regular reviews for a wider number of literary publications then one might think possible.Fiona D. Russell, Maryanne Hexberg, and Chris Oakley all live and write in Charlottesville, Virginia.
