magnolia Magnolia

A Florida Journal of Literary & Fine Arts

Thoughts
"Thoughts"
oil on canvas
by Verne Ayers

Featured Writer
Eric Lehman

Eric Lehman



Old Schoolhouse
Photo by Cassandra Robison

Essays/Non Fiction

Southern Magnolias
Lynn Strongin

Uncle Charlie's cabin
Photo by Sandy Scott

Contributors

Lynn Strongin
Eric Lehman
Margaret Aiello
Natalie Lyons
Michael Lee Johnson
Sean McQuinney
Lafayette Wattles
Cassandra Robison
Jim Fuess: Fine Art


Reach for the Sky

photo by Sandy Scott

 

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Fiction


Magnolia Florida Journal              Last Updated October 8, 2009

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.
Sandy Scott is the Professional Development Coordinator. She has been employed by CFCC since: June, 2000. She has a couple of degrees from Central Florida Community College: A.A., A.S., and is currently working on her Bachelors Degree at St. Leo. Her special Interests include: Photography, music, humor writer. She is a member of Phi Theta Kappa and has won several awards.
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. 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. In her four-decade career Strongin has received two PEN grants and an NEA award in creative writing.
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.
Michael Lee Johnson is a poet and freelance writer from Itasca, Illinois. He is the author of The Lost American: from Exile to Freedom. 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.
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.
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 current 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.
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