Gently Read Literature August 2011
David S. Atkinson is a Nebraska-born writer currently living in Denver. He holds an MFA from the University of Nebraska. His stories and book reviews have appeared in (and/or will soon be appearing in) "Gray Sparrow Press," ―Children Churches and Daddies,‖ ―C4: The Chamber Four Lit Mag,‖ ―Split Quarterly,‖ ―Cannoli Pie,‖ "Fine Lines," "Gently Read Literature," and "The Rumpus." The web site dedicated to his writing can be found at http:// davidsatkinsonwriting.com/. He currently serves as a reader for "Gray Sparrow Press" and in his non-literary time he works as a patent attorney in Denver.
Glenda Burgess is a winner of The Rupert Hughes Fiction Award, and a short story finalist for the New Century Writer Award. She has published two novels, an academic reference work, and most recently a memoir, The Geography of Love, Broadway Books, August 2008, named a Top Ten Books of 2008 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and a finalist for the Books for a Better Life Award. She lives in Spokane, Washington.
Michael McCarthy, who had his first poems published recently in Poetry East, will soon complete an MFA in poetry at Seattle Pacific University. A former feature writer for the Wall Street Journal, he is also the author of the nonfiction book The Sun Farmer (Ivan R. Dee 2007).
Stephen is the author of The Timbre of Sand and Still Dandelions. He holds a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from Bennington College. He is the recipient of The Jess Cloud Memorial Prize for Poetry, a Writer-inResidence with stipend from the Montana Artists Refuge, a full Writer Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, an Imagination Grant from Cleveland State University, and an Arvon Foundation Ltd. Grant.
Diane Simmons is the author of numerous stories, articles and books. Her short story collection, Little America, won the Ohio State University Award for Short Fiction and was published by OSU Press, June 2011.
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