Magnolia
A Florida Journal of Literary & Fine Arts
Silver River State Park
Old Cracker Homestead
Photo by C. Robison
BIOS
Eric Lehman:
Eric D. Lehman is a professor of English at the University of Bridgeport and has published fiction, poetry, travel stories, and essays in dozens of journals, such as Canopic Jar, Switchback, The New Formalist, SNReview, and Artistry of Life. He was recently a finalist for the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection Prize for New Fiction.
Michael Lee Johnson
Michael Lee Johnson is a poet and freelance writer from Itasca, Illinois. He is the author of The Lost American: from Exile to Freedom, http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-46091-7. He has also published two chapbooks of poetry and is presently looking for a publisher for two more. Johnson has been published in more than 240 different publications worldwide. He is also publisher and editor of four poetry flash fiction sites. Author website: http://poetryman.mysite.com/
Jim Fuess (artist)
Jim Fuess has had hundreds of group shows and over 45 solo shows over his 34 year artistic career. He is known for his vividly colored abstract paintings. He also has a series of black and white paintings which are an exercise in going back to the basics of form and structure. They deal with the relationship of shapes and figures to each other and to negative space. He works with liquid acrylic paint on canvas. More of his work, both in color and black and white, may be seen at www.jimfuessart.com
Lynn Srongin
Born in New York City in 1939, Lynn Strongin's name comes up
regularly in college classes as one of the most unique voices in
American poetry. Strongin has lived in British Columbia for more than
a quarter century, but considers herself a profoundly American writer.
During the 1960s, she worked with Denise Levertov amidst the lively
political environment of Berkeley, California. One of the great
imagist poets of the 20th century, Strongin's poetry and prose have
been published worldwide in over 70 print and online journals; she has
been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in poetry five times.
Her book Albino Peacock: Tales of a Jewish Girl in the South will be
published in late 2008 alongside her latest book of poems, Cape
Seventy, nominated for the Griffin Award for Excellence in poetry.
Anthologized in 30 different volumes, her work is included in the
award-winning Visiting Emily: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of
Emily Dickinson. She is the author of many books of prose and poetry,
including three recent books of poetry: Rembrandt’s Smock (Plain View
Press), The Girl with Copper Colored Hair (Conflux Press), and Wyves
of the Fire Dye (Last Heron Press.) She is also the editor of the
anthology The Sorrow Psalms: A Book of Twentieth Century Elegy
(University of Iowa Press), and its companion volume, Crazed by the
Sun: Poems of Ecstasy. In her four-decade career Strongin has
received two PEN grants and an NEA award in creative writing.
Lafayette Wattles
In addition to being a former teacher, Lafayette Wattles has also worked in factories, sold women's shoes and jewelry, been a bank teller, and presently works in the pro shop of a golf course. His poetry is forthcoming in Underground Voices, FRIGG, Mannequin Envy, Thick With Conviction, Chantarelle's Notebook, and The Centrifugal Eye, among others, and his photography has appeared or is forthcoming as cover art in Blood Lotus, Carve, and Thick With Conviction.
Natalie Lyons
Natalie Lyons, wife and mother, currently is a student at the University of Florida where she is studying writing and ecology for a planned career in environmental journalism. Lyons was previously the student editor of the Florida state honored literary magazine IMPRINTS; she has interviewed two of America’s finest poets, Ted Kooser and Li Young Li.
Peggy Aiello’s poem won the Debra Vazquez Award for Excellence in Poetry from the Florida Community College Press Association, 2008. She is currently student editor of IMPRINTS 2009 and served on the magazine’s staff in 2008. A mother, wife, and a college student, Aiello is active in her church where she has attained the status of deacon. She plans to continue her study in creative writing through the MFA.
Bill Winter's poems and short fiction have appeared in The Hiss Quarterly, Monkeybicycle, and Wild Violet, among others. He lives in Seattle, where he works for a Major Technology Company. But not That One.
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