Melissa Broder is a literary publicist and poet. The recipient of the 2008 Stark Poetry Prize and The 2008 Jerome Lowell Dejur Award, Broder's work most recently appears in Opium Magazine, Del Sol Review, and Shampoo. She curates the Polestar Poetry Series (www.polestarpoetry.com) and is currently getting her MFA at CCNY.
Ramesh Dohan is a poet hailing from Vancouver, Canada. His works have previously appeared in South Ocean Review, Attic Magazine, and Word Salad, among others.
Clint Frakes was selected by former American poet laureate Mark Strand as one of the Best New Poets of 2008. He also received the annual Pudding House Poetry Prize and the Josephine Darner Distinguished Poet Award. His chapbook, The Aching Unrest of Spheres, is forthcoming from Pudding House, as well as a collection of poems from Poet Works Press. Another chapbook, Unreal Cities, is forthcoming through Trainwreck Press in St. Johns Newfoundland. He is a graduate of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute and the Northern Arizona University writing program. He received his Ph.D. with emphasis in creative writing from the University of Hawaii in 2006. He has appeared in over seventy-five journals in North America, England, Australia and Argentina since 1987. His extensive interview with Allen Ginsberg, "Don’t Fuck up Your Revolution," was printed by Elik Press in 2001.
Anthony Frame is a poet, teacher and insect exterminator who lives in Toledo, Ohio with his wife and their spoiled cat. His work has been published in, or is forthcoming from, Heliotrope, Perigee, Neon Literary Journal, and The Toledo Review, among others. This is his second appearance in Conte. He is also co-editor of the online journal, Glass: A Journal of Poetry. He likes bad TV and even worse music. You can Google him, but God only knows what you'll find.
Bonnie Furlong Bonnie Furlong was the winner of a plagiarism contest sponsored by The Morning News, an online magazine. It happened several years ago, but she is still proud. She lives in the Shenandoah Valley where she is working on a novel called "Flowbeard's Parrot," a ghostly caper set on the campus of a small community college.
Paul Hostovsky's poems have won a Pushcart Prize, the Muriel Craft Bailey Award from the Comstock Review, and chapbook contests from Grayson Books, Riverstone Press, and the Frank Cat Press. His first full-length collection, Bending the Notes, is available from Main Street Rag. This is his third appearance in Conte. More at www.paulhostovsky.com.
Roger Jones currently teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University in San Marcos. He has published three books, and has poems out or forthcoming in Cortland Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Hawaii Pacific Review. In the spring, he will succeed Robert Phillips as poetry editor of the Texas Review.
Yung Seoul Kim is a former Michener Fellow at the MFA Creative Writing program in Poetry/Fiction/Screenwriting at the University of Texas, Austin. Recent poetry has been published in Borderlands, Washington Square, Lake Effect, The Briar Cliff Review, Sulphur River Literary Review, Cricket Online Review, Seattle Review, and Cranky. Artistic honors include two Pushcart Prize XXXI nominations in poetry and in short fiction and the Van Lier Prize in Poetry (2001-02). These days, Kim is at work on final, seemingly never-ending, revisions for a book-length collection of poetry titled Internal Wild.
Jeff Lacy received his MFA from the University of Nebraska. His previous work appeared in Timber Creek Review. He writes and practices law in Georgia.
Joy Ladin holds the Gottesman Chair in English at Stern College of Yeshiva University. Her third book of poetry, Transmigration, is due out from Sheep Meadow Press in February. Her poems and essays have been widely published, and her work is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Terrain, and At-Large, among other publications.
Alex Myerslives and teaches in Rhode Island. His fiction has been published or is forthcoming in a variety of journals including Apple Valley Review, Word Riot, Ghoti and Johnny America. Stories of his have also been a finalist in a GlimmerTrain short fiction competition and a semi-finalist in the 2008 Faulkner-Wisdom contest. He also writes nonfiction and, in addition to winning the 2008 Tiny Lights personal narrative competition, his essays have been published in flashquake, 13th Warrior Review, and Independent School among other markets.
Justin Rigamonti is a 3rd year MFA student at UC Irvine. His poems have been published in the Orange Coast Review and The Cortland Review. After being on waitstaff at the Breadloaf Writer's Conference this past summer, he became the 2008-2009 Poetry Editor for UC Irvine's pushcart prize-winning journal, Faultline.
Claudia Serea was born in Romania and moved to the U.S. in 1995. Her poems and translations are published in literary journals such as Oberon, The Comstock Review, Harpur Palate, Respiro, Languageandculture.net, and Exquisite Corpse, as well as various Romanian publications. Her first chapbook, Eternity’s Orthography, was chosen as a finalist and was published in September 2007 by Finishing Line Press.
More of Marika Stokset Staff's poetry appears in the online publication Trout. She currently lives in San Francisco with her fiancé, their cat and her many projects.
Garth Wolkoff teaches English at High School for Public Service in Brooklyn, New York. He has published in Indiana Review, Downtown Brooklyn, Kerem, San Francisco Examiner, and other newspapers and magazines. He is working on a book of stories about the Billys.
Richard Wolkomir is a long-time contributor of award-winning articles and essays to major magazines, ranging from Reader's Digest and Smithsonian to Geo (in Europe), Playboy, and National Geographic. Now he is turning to a long-time interest in writing fiction, particularly speculative fiction, with stories appearing recently in MindFlights and Reflection's Edge.
Conte is:
Adam Tavel, Editor
Robert Lieberman, Editor
Andy Hefner, Producer
Brian Safdie, Producer
issue design by Andy Hefner
Volume 4, Issue 2
©2008 the Conte Online staff
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
All original works are Copyrighted (©2008) by their respective authors. Authors retain all rights and privileges associated with their work as delineated in our blanket copyright policy, and reprinting, copying, or reproducing in any fashion any of the works contained in this issue without the creator's express consent is strictly prohibited. For information on contacting any of the authors featured in this issue, please email poetry@conteonline.net or prose@conteonline.net.
Get cozy, it looks like a long winter ahead.