Gay and Lesbian Theme Views and Mechanics Publisher's Note Editor's Note Review of This Is Not For You Review of Potato Queen Crossword (Solution Posted in March. Printable version in pdf format of journal.) Creative Nonfiction Tunis, Forever By John Champagne Bisexuality 101 By Evelyn McFarland Poetry Blackouts By Steve Rydman Self Loathing By Steve Rydman A Boy Reads YM By Steve Rydman I Finally Found Me By Lucretia Randle Acorn Boy Above the Conclave By James Penha Fiction As If In Time Of War (1985) By Christopher T. Leland General Works Creative Nonfiction Stone Musings #5 By Mike Munsil Ascent Into Being By Holly Mitchell Fiction Come Winter By Sandra M. McDow The End of Stories By Sonia Vora Coal Blood By Tom Bennitt About the Contributors © 2006, River Walk Journal and respective authors and artists. All rights reserved. Do not use or reproduce without permission. River Walk Journal, Inc. Board of Directors Chairman - Elizabeth Ross Vice Chairman - Joseph Koch Secretary/Treasurer - Geri Stock-Ross Editorial Director - Patti Kurtz, DA Literacy Director - Bill Mausteller Policy Director - vacant Advisory Board Chairman - Patti Kurtz, DA Asst. Chairman - Dan Lachenman, PhD Samuel Hazo Christopher Leland Edwin Yoder Joseph Bathanti Journal Staff Publisher - Elizabeth Ross Editor-In-Chief - Joseph Koch Sen. Fiction Editor - Patti Kurtz Sen. Poetry Editor - Neeldhara Misra Sen. Creative Nonfiction Editor - Brenda Coxe Contributing Editor - Robert Dittman Publicity Director (PA) - Geri Stock-Ross For information about submissions, visit http://www.riverwalkjournal.org/submission.html. Questions about promotions, subscribers' services, and advertising should be sent to publisher@riverwalkjournal.org. River Walk Journal, Inc. is a non-profit corporation run entirely by volunteers. For information about volunteer opportunities and internships, visit http://www.riverwalkjournal.org/volunteer.html. |
Contributors' Bios Evelyn McFarland Steve Rydman - Steven Rydman completed his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Antioch University Los Angeles in December 2004. His work has appeared in many journals, including Bloom, Animus, Paterson Literary Review, Rattle and is forthcoming in the Bellingham Review. He is the poetry editor for the journal Gertrude and lives with his partner in both Pleasant Ridge, MI and Key West, FL. Lucretia Randle James Penha - A native New Yorker, James Penha teaches at the Jakarta International School in Indonesia. Among the most recent of his many published works are an article in NCTE’s ClassroomNotes Plus, a story in Columbia, and poems in Heliotrope, Thema, and at PoetryMagazine.com. A volume of his “Greatest Hits” is available from Pudding House as part of its series celebrating the work of small-press poets. John Champagne - The author of two novels (The Blue Lady's Hands and When the Parrot Boy Sings) and a scholarly monograph (The Ethics of Marginality, A New Approach to Gay Studies), John Champagne is currently an Associate Professor of English at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College. His creative and scholarly work has been featured in such journals as Kenyon Review, College English, Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, and Socialist Review. Christopher T. Leland - Christopher T. Leland is the author of five novels as well as volumes of literary criticism and translation. In 2002, he published The Creative Writer's Style Guide. He has taught creative writing courses since 1976 at the University of California, San Diego; Pomona College; Harvard University; and Bennington College. He is presently a professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Mike Munsil - JM Munsil was born in Chile, raised in Panama and now lives in Shenandoah, Texas. He is a geologist and environmental scientist, and has lived and worked in 15 countries in Latin America, and about 22 of these United States. His native-Texan wife and adopted sons try to keep him honest, but he writes anyway. Some of what he writes is true. Holly Mitchell Sandra M. McDow - Sandra McDow lives with her husband and two German Shepherds in a country home close by the Willamette River near Salem, Oregon. In her workaday life she is a Learning Disabilities Specialist in private practice. Her short story, "Second Chance" was recently published in the Riverwalk Journal. Sonia Vora - Sonia Vora recently graduated from Temple University's MA program in Creative Writing and English Literature. She has published non-fiction profiles of prominent writers in local Philadelphia papers and India Abroad and fiction in In/Vision. Currently teaching Creative Writing at Temple University, Sonia is working feverishly to complete her first novel by the end of the year. Tom Bennitt - Tom Bennitt is a legal compliance manager from Pittsburgh. He belongs to the Homestead Writers' Group and he's attended the West Virginia University Writers' Workshop. Tom graduated from Bowdoin College and is currently working on a novel. Besides reading and writing, he is an avid Pittsburgh Steelers fan. |