Magnolia
A Florida Journal of Literary & Fine Arts
BIOS
Peter Schmitt is the author of five books of poems, three of them full-length collections: Renewing the Vows, from David Robert Books; Hazard Duty, and Country Airport, from Copper Beech Press. Two chapbooks, To Disappear, and Incident in an Apartment Complex: A Suite of Voices, are with Pudding House. He has received the Lavan Award from The Academy of American Poets; The “Discovery”/The Nation Prize; is a two-time recipient of grants from The Florida Arts Council; and was awarded a fellowship from the Ingram Merrill Foundation. His poems have appeared in many leading journals, including The Hudson Review, The Nation, The Paris Review, Poetry, and The Southern Review, and been widely anthologized. He has also reviewed poetry and fiction for major newspapers. A native Miamian, he has taught creative writing and literature at The University of Miami since 1986. More information on the author and his books can be found on his website, www.schmittpoetry.com.
Alex Cigale's poems recently appeared in The Cafe, Colorado, Global City, Green Mountains, and North American reviews, Eleven Eleven, Hanging Loose, and Zoland Poetry, online in Drunken Boat, H_ngm_n, McSweeney's, and are forthcoming in Gargoyle, Many Mountains Moving, Redactions, St. Petersburg Review, Tar River Poetry, and 32 Poems. His translations from the Russian can be found in Crossing Centuries: the New Generation in Russian Poetry, in The Manhattan, St. Ann's, and Yellow Medicine reviews, and are forthcoming online in Brooklyn Rail's InTranslation.
Eve Anthony Hanninen writes and illustrates from a North Coast, B.C. town. Recent poems appear in Long Story Short (interview, May ’09), east to west: bicoastal verse, Sein und Werden, Moondance, Wicked Alice, and in anthologies, Crazed by the Sun and Trim (Mannequin Envy). Eve edits The Centrifugal Eye poetry journal.
Ron McFarland teaches literature & creative writing at the University of Idaho, but he visits relatives in Florida often and maintains his membership in the Florida Historical Society. Chapin House Press published his memoir of growing up in Florida in the 1950s & 1960s, Confessions of a Night Librarian & Other Embarrassments, in 2005.
Zara Raab poems and literary journalism have appeared (or will soon) in Poetry Flash, West Branch, Arts & Letters, Nimrod, Spoon River Poetry Review, Rosebud and major newspapers such as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. My Book of Gretel will come out this spring. Much of my work draws on my roots in rural northern California, where my great-great-grandparents settled. I studied at Mills College, followed by graduate work at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, then lived in Paris and Washington, D.C., freelancing as a writer and editor for New Republic Books, the National Geographic Society, and the National Endowment for Humanities, before returning to the West Coast. I now live and write in San Francisco.
Cassandra Robison is the founding editor of Artistry of Life and co-founder of Magnolia: The Florida Journal of Literary and Fine Arts. She is an Associate Professor of Communications at Central Florida Community College and faculty advisor for the award-winning student literary magazine, IMPRINTS. She teaches creative writing and other English courses.
Ursula Loscalzo lives in Long Beach, California and recently graduated from the California State University there with a degree in Film. She has been photographing scenes of her first home, the Pacific Northwest, since she received her trusty 35mm Minolta camera at the age of twelve. She hopes to make a living as a camera operator on independent films while working on her MFA in creative writing in Southern California. This is the first time her still photography has been published.
Judy Haisten grew up in the Canal Zone, Panama during the 1970’S and 1980’s. Her dad, Edwin Armbruster, worked for the Panama Canal Company. Judy is currently working on her memoir of a unique childhood in a truly special place. The book, Canal Zone Daughter, will profile her family’s experience and give readers glimpse of an American family living abroad.
CHARLES ADÈS FISHMAN is a consultant in poetry
to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
in Washington, DC.
His books include The Death Mazurka, a 1989 American Library Association Outstanding Book of the Year that was nominated
for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in
Poetry; Country of Memory (2004); Chopin’s Piano (2006); and Water under Water (2009),
recipient
of the 2010 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence. The revised, second edition of his anthology, Blood to Remember: American
Poets on the Holocaust, was published by
Time Being Books
in 2007.
Diana Hurlburt is a graduate student of library and information science at the University of South Florida, and also holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. Currently car-less in Tampa, she is learning the joys of bicycling and public transportation. She is working toward a career in youth services public librarianship, and enjoys reading and writing in her spare time.