distinguished and longstanding non-profit literary organizations. Ms Shunway enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter, and occasionally finds time to goof around on the bass Kate Jones was born and bred in Sheffield, South York- guitar. shire, England, where she still lives with herhusband Jon and daughters Eleanor and Holly. Emma McKervey They currently own their own family ceramics has been writing poetry since her own childhood, business, but are in the process of moving although she did neglect her writing for some away from this to enable Ms Jones’ husband to time as she pursued a career in music. She has teach while she continues her work with a local worked in Community Arts and as a teacher, and women’s charity, as well as her writing. She is is currently working towards a PhD in Ethnomusicurrently working towards a BA (Hons) in Eng- cology. Her poems have been published in Relish Literature through the Open University, as flexion, the University of Ulster anthology, and A part of which she has taken courses in creative New Ulster, a poetry journal published by Lapwriting, and had small successes in local mag- wing Press. She is also a regular reader on the azines, and in a recent anthology of life writing Belfast poetry scene. ‘Firebird’ was written after about her home city. She enjoy yoga and the death of her mother who was an avid Walter de la Mare fan and read his poems to Emma as walking in the lovely green spaces around her a child. She hopes 'Firebird' evokes the same home. spirit as de la Mare’s work for children.
Poetry
A.J. Huffman has published seven solo chapbooks and one joint chapbook through various small presses. Her eighth solo chapbook, Drippings from a Painted Mind, won the 2013 Two Wolves Chapbook Contest. She also has a full-length poetry collection scheduled for release in June 2005, titled, A Few Bullets Short of Home. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and her poetry, fiction, and haiku have appeared in hundreds of national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, Bone Orchard, EgoPHobia, Kritya, and Offerta Speciale, in which her work appeared in both English and Italian translation. She is also the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press.
Robert Hrdina was born in Altomuenster, Germany, in 1967. He served as a mountain infantry officer (1986-1992) and studied at Regensburg University and Trinity College, Dublin. Currently, he is a secretary at the U of R. To make ends meet, he does a bit of freelancing as Personal English Trainer. A frequent visitor to the British Isles, Robert is constantly looking for local banter and atmosphere to weave into his poetry and prose, often writing about Edinburgh, Manchester, London and Dublin. Publications include (AUS) New England Review, Redoubt, (ÉIRE) Books Ireland, (UK) Orbis, Poetry Manchester, Psychopoetica, Retort, Roadworks, Stand, Unhinged, (USA) Aura, Luna Negra, Verse and (CDN) Minus Tides! His collected Harry Miller Trevis stories have recently Bronmin Shumway appeared on Kindle Digital Publishing as Live is a poet and writer living in Austin, Texas. In and Die the Irish Way. 2012, she founded a business which was acquired by a lager organisation In February Lorraine C. Brooks 2014. Sheis now heading up the content mar- is a native of New York, where she resides and, keting division of the agency that acquired her where she holds a BA in Communication Arts business. Bronmin’s literary work has appeared and a Masters in Public Health. She is a founding in After Hours, The Aurora Review, VOX, Illya’s member of ‘Red Round Group’, a collaborative of Honey, LanguageandCulture.net, and various poets and artists producing documentary and art other publications. She has won a number of films and videos. Her current film in progress is literary awards, including The Austin Poetry Passion – Inside the Hearts of Women. Lorraine Society Award, judged by Naomi Shihab Nye. is a performance poet whose work has appeared Ms Shumway now serves as president of the in the UK anthology And Again Last Night, by Austin Poetry Society, one of Austin’s most Indigo Dreams Publishing. She is resident poet
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