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Artists and Authors in this issue of Cadillac Cicatrix

	Gay Baines lives in East Aurora, New York, and is a member of the Roycroft Wordsmiths. Her poetry has appeared in Poet Lore, Rattapallax, Cimarron Review, Slipstream, and other journals. She is co-founder and poetry editor of July Literary Press in Buffalo. In 2002 she published her first novel, Dear M.K. The latest version of her collected poems, titled Walking After the Blizzard, is still looking for a publisher.
	Dick Bentley is a graduate of Yale and the Vermont College Writing Program. His recent book of poems and short stories, Post-Freudian Dreaming and A General Theory of Desire are available from amazon.com or www.dickbenley.com. He can be contacted at rbentley@valinet.com for comments, suggestions, advice or for no reason at all. He teaches at Holyoke College.
	Jed Bierhaus taught English and theatre for thirty years at Warren Wilson, the first college in the South to be integrated. He's retired and lives on campus where he swims in the mornings, walks the dog at mid day, writes in the afternoons, and celebrates Mass on Fridays. He's an Episcopal priest.
	Ilmars Birznieks is a native of Latvia. He holds a doctorate from Tulane University. In addition to teaching German and English at institutions in the United States and abroad, he is the author of numerous professional articles and book reviews. His short stories Return to Duty, My American Soldier, The Power of Prayer have appeared in the Christian, Thought Magazine, and the Standard. His first novel, The Forgotten Promise, was published in 2002, and his second novel, The Invisible Hand, in 2005. He resides with his wife in South Carolina.
	Sara Bukin was born and raised in Russia and came to the United States at the age of 19. Her short stories and essays have been published in several Russian-language magazines and anthologies. She also has relationship advice and politics/culture columns in the Russian NY magazine Metro. She has recently started translating some of her works into English.
	Gladys Justin Carr is the author of Augustine's Brain - The Remix, and coauthor of the volume Edge by Edge, published in 2007. She has recently received two nominations for the Pushcart Prize, and her work has been featured in Literary Magazine Review. Publications carrying her work include The New York Times, Potomac Review, North Atlantic Review, South Carolina Review, KNOCK, California Quarterly, Borderlands:Texas Poetry Review, Salamander, Worcester Review, and International Poetry Review, among many others.
	Renée E. D'Aoust was awarded a 2008 National Endowment for the Arts Journalism Institute for Dance Criticism Fellowship at the American Dance Festival. She has numerous journal publications to her credit, including Open Face Sandwich, Redwood Coast Review, and Rhino, and an essay will be included in the forthcoming anthology Reading Dance, edited by Robert Gottlieb (Pantheon 2008). "Theatrical Release" is an excerpt from her book project Body of a Dancer.
	Lucille Lang Day has published creative nonfiction in The Hudson Review, Istanbul Literature Review, River Oak Review, and other journals. She is also the author of a children's book and seven poetry collections and chapbooks, most recently God of the Jellyfish (Cervena Barva, 2007). Her first poetry collection, Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope (BPW&P, 1982), received the Joseph Henry Jackson Award. She received her M.F.A. in creative writing at SF State University, and her Ph.D. in science and mathematics education at UC Berkeley. The founder and director of a small press, Scarlet Tanager Books, she is also the director of the Hall of Health, an interactive children's museum in Berkeley.
	Mark Dwortzan is a Boston-based writer and editor focused on technological innovation and its transformative impact on how we live and work. Contributing to national magazines, websites, and university publications, he reports on advances in science, technology, business and the environment. His work has appeared in Technology Review, Environmental News Network, Harvard Public Health Review and other venues. "The Penalty Box" is his first published short story; another is forthcoming in Westview. For more information, visit www.dwortzan.com.
	Hal Fleming has been a senior official with the Peace Corps, the Department of State, and UNICEF. He has spent ten years managing development programs in West and North Africa; has been a US Delegate to the United Nations in Geneva and New York, and has intervened in major humanitarian crises in Sudan and elsewhere. Early on he worked at Forbes Inc. in New York where he also taught at the university level. These activities have provided him with a rich foundation for his poems, short stories and essays, as well as a novel, The Brides' Fair, set in Morocco, which is being published this summer. He holds degrees from Brown and Columbia Universities, and is married to the former Arlene Krimgold, an expert in the preservation of cultural property.
	Nan Fink Gefen is the publisher/editor of Persimmon Tree: An Online Literary Magazine by Women Over Sixty. She's the author of two nonfiction books: Stranger in the Midst (1997) and Discovering Jewish Meditation (1999). A long-time resident of Berkeley, CA, she currently is working on a collection of short stories.
	Andrey Gritsman is a poet and essayist, originally from Moscow, Russia, who writes in English and in his native Russian. His works have appeared in many magazines including Richmond Review (UK), Notre Dame Review, Manhattan Review, New Orleans Review, Denver Quarterly, Hawaii Review, Hunger Mountain, Poet Lore and were anthologized. His book of poetry and essays Long Fall was published in 2005 and the new collection Pisces in 2008. H is work was nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize and was short-listed for the American PEN Center Osterweil Prize for Poetry in 2005.Andrey runs Intercultural Poetry Series at Cornelia Street Café and edits international poetry magazine INTERPOEZIA ( www.interpoezia.net ). He lives in New York City and works as a physician.
	Karen Hildebrand is a Colorado native, and now lives in New York City, where she blogs about the post-beat/new-millennium life of a poet in Greenwich Village (www.karenhildebrand.com). Her writing has appeared in numerous literary journals as well as in One Foot Out the Door, a chapbook (Three Rooms Press). As her day job, she is vice president of a performing arts publishing company.
	Marc Elihu Hofstadter was born in New York City and earned his Ph.D. degree in literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He has taught American literature at Santa Cruz, the Universite d'Orleans (on a Fulbright grant) and Tel Aviv University. His poems, translations and essays have appeared in over sixty magazines and he has published three books of poetry: House of Peace, Visions, and Shark's Tooth. The latter two are available from amazon.com. His next book, Luck, will appear in October 2008
	Robert Bruce Kelsey has authored four books and several dozen articles on topics ranging from astronomy to complexity theory to software engineering. He is co-publisher of the literary journal Argestes. He lives in rural Iowa.
	Robert C Knox is a correspondent for The Boston Globe newspaper, and a fiction writer. He has been named a Finalist in the Massachusetts Artist Grant Program in fiction. His short stories, poems and book reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including The Rambler, unglycousin.com, Dark Horse, The Potomac Review, Wising Up Press's anthology Illness and Grace, Glamour, The Daily Star (published in Beirut), MPG Newspapers, The Cape Cod Times, and The Providence Journal, among others. He was recently awarded an artist's residency by the Hidden River Arts Association for his manuscript "The Beautiful Idea" from which his story Dolly's Hero appears in this issue of Cadillac Cicatrix.
	Susan Lewis' chapbook, "Animal Husbandry," is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Her poetry and fiction has appeared in numerous journals, including The Raritan Review, The New Orleans Review, Seneca Review, The Journal, The Berkeley Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, and Phoebe. Her collaborations with composer Jonathan Golove have been recorded as well as performed at the Kennedy Center and Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall.
	John O'Brien started life as a trumpet player (he still is) and later became involved with After Effects and short-form video. His early on-line piece Life at Night (free CD download) was nominated at Cannes in 2001. John has received generous support from the NEA, McKnight and Jerome Foundations. His interactive piece, The Citizen, won "Best of Show" honors at Gallery RFD's show, "Growing up and Looking Back."
	Matt Perron lives in Brooklyn, New York where he teaches in a downtown middle school. This is his first published story. He has another short story forthcoming in The Ledge.
	William Petrick's short fiction has appeared in a variety of literary journals including Confrontation, Worcester Review, Palo Alto Review and The Distillery. His novel, The Five Lost Days is due out in bookstores in Fall 2008 from Pearhouse Press. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.
	Pedro Ponce has had fiction published previously in Ploughshares, The Beacon Best of 2001, DIAGRAM, 3rd bed, Sleepingfish, and other publications. Superstitions of Apartment Life, his chapbook of short fictions, is forthcoming from Burnside Review Press.
	Gregory W Randall majored in English and Latin at St.Olaf College and spent innumerable hours in the music library. Classical music by composers such as Sibelius and Brahms continue to inform both the structure and pacing of his poetry. In 2006, Gregory was a finalist for the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize through Kent State University and received an award for his poetry from juror Daniel Coshnear at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. His work appears or is forthcoming in The Bitter Oleander, CQ, GW Review, The Louisville Review, Osiris, Portland Review, River Oak Review, Rosebud, Soundings East, South Carolina Review, Stand, Willard and Maple, and Wisconsin Review.
	Richard Rose has retired from several careers, including teaching, science supervision, and teaching science and science teaching methods as a university adjunct professor. After growing up "on the road" with a military family, he settled in Northern Virginia with his wife, Susan, to raise two sons. Since retiring, he has produced several chamber operas, The Books of Daniel, Amber, and The People's Voice. He's currently completing the sequel to a book, Problems With Authority, and the score to another opera, The Profit of Doom, based on his earlier book of poems. In his spare time, he collects rejection slips
	Zoli Rozen is the author of two novels, A Consequence of Ordinary, and Alice and The Moon Go Dancing. He lives in New York City.
	Elizabeth Sachs is a teacher and writer deeply affected, and sometimes afflicted, by the diverse array of places she's lived. Western New York inspires much of her work, including her novel House of Winter Dreams, about the years young F. Scott Fitzgerald spent in her current, Buffalo residence. She also teaches regularly in Singapore, where she is privileged to try and compute that place where Chinese customs and traditions lurk just beneath the surface of what looks like the San Fernando Valley.
	Andrew Schultz has had stories published in Big Muddy, The Briar Cliff Review, and Jewish Quarterly, as well as in the anthology, "The Literature of Work." He is a past winner of a Steiner Prize in Short Fiction, a member of the Zoetrope Hall of Fame, and has been nominated for an O. Henry Prize and a New Millennium Award. He has 25 years experience in magazine and book publishing and currently resides in Westchester Country, New York.
	Jim Sienkiewicz creates dimensional mixed media collages affine art photographic sculptures that incorporate traditional prints, metal and other materials used in industrial fabrication. He is a writer and teacher for the online curriculum of the masters photography program at Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
	Barbara Cunliffe Singleton has written for THE BOSTON REVIEW, blue (letter), THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, ENGLISH TODAY (Cambridge University Press), COLERE, a Journal of Cultural Exploration, FOCUS (The American Geographical Society), GAMUT, THE GIHON RIVER REVIEW, INDIA CURRENTS, INTERNATIONAL QUARTERLY, THE KOREA TIMES, THE NATION (Kenya), THE NEW YORK TIMES, OUT OF LINE, Writings on Peace and Justice, SO TO SPEAK, a Feminist Journal (George Mason University), SPEAKEASY, VISIBLE LANGUAGE (Rhode Island School of Design), YUAN YANG, The Journal of Hong Kong and International Writing, and others.
	John Surowiecki is the author of Watching Cartoons before Attending a Funeral [White Pine Press, 2003], The Hat City after Men Stopped Wearing Hats, [The Word Works, 2007] and five chapbooks. He is also the author of My Nose and Me [A TragedyLite or TragiDelight in 33 Scenes] which was awarded the first Poetry Foundation Pegasus Award for Verse Drama and was produced at the 2008 AWP convention in New York. The play is scheduled for production in Chicago, Washington and Storrs, Connecticut, in 2008. He teaches poetry courses at Manchester Community College.
	Eric Tallberg writes fiction and narrative non-fiction. A Key In The Dust is his first published work. Born and raised in Massachusetts, he is a Viet Nam veteran who served aboard river patrol boats in the U.S. Navy. He lives in New Hampshire with his partner and her daughter, two dogs, three cats, and various pets-in-waiting.
	Duane Vorhees has a PhD in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University. Working for the University of Maryland, he teaches American history, government, and literature to US military personnel stationed in Korea. He is also part of an ever-evolving poetry band which, as The Kimchee Cowboys, is currently in its rockabilly phase; "The Don Comes After The Knight. And Juanita? She Stays In Bed." was originally conceived as accompaniment to "Malaguena."
	Paul Watsky lives in San Francisco, where he earns his living as a Jungian analyst. He is co-translator with Emiko Miyashita of Santoka (Tokyo, PIE Books, 2006), and has work forthcoming in Confrontation, Fugue, and The Spoon River Poetry Review.
	Cornelia Wells is short for Cornelia "Corri" Elizabeth Vander Hoek Wells, who admits she is a victim of what Thorstein Veblen called "trained incapacity," and of a long name. Trained as an academic, Corri has turned to memoir, fiction, and poetry as more rewarding ways of knowing the world. Her writing has appeared in The MacGuffin, North Dakota Quarterly, Eclipse, descant, Philosophy and Rhetoric, TIFERET: A Journal of Spiritual Literature, Drumvoices Revue, 13 th Moon, Xavier Review, California Quarterly, Distillery: Artistic Voices of the South, Phoebe: Gender & Cultural Critiques, and elsewhere. She teaches at Arizona State University.
	Yuvi Zalkow's writing has been published in Carve Magazine, Rosebud, Open Spaces, The Clackamas Literary Review, Storyglossia, and other magazines. He is in the MFA program at Antioch University and is currently trying to trick someone into publishing his collection of short stories, as well as his novel (about a guy who can't write a novel). Yuvi enjoys spending his time with (a woman he just recently started calling) his wife and with his (sushi-loving) stepson in Portland, Oregon. You can reach him at www.yuvizalkow.com.