Volume 32 Article 2 Issue 1 Winter 12-15-2016 Contributors Westview Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/westview Part of the Fiction Commons, Nonfiction Commons, Photography Commons, and the Poetry Commons Recommended Citation Westview Staff (2016) C" ontributors," Westview: Vol. 32 : Iss. 1 , Article 2. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/westview/vol32/iss1/2 This Contributors is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at SWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Westview by an authorized administrator of SWOSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Maura Gage Cavell is Professor of English and Director of the Honors Program at Louisiana State Contributors University Eunice. She resides in Crowley, LA, with After receiving his bachelor’s in English from her family. She’s recently published in journals and Fairleigh Dickinson University, Bruce Bagnell magazines including Abbey, Louisiana Literature, went on to earn his master’s from John F. Iconoclast, Ship of Fools, Clark Street Review, The Kennedy University. Throughout the years, he Louisiana Review, an d California Quarterly. has worked as a cook, mechanic, and college professor; held various management positions; and was a USAF captain in Vietnam. Now Born and raised in New York City, Clio Contogenis retired, Bagnell focuses wholeheartedly on his has always been fascinated by the written word. writing and has been published in OmniVerse, A voracious reader as a child, she soon began The Scribbler, The Round, and several online writing her own work, eventually turning to events magazines. He also hosts at Poetry Express in her life for inspiration. She has been published Berkeley and the East Bay Writer’s Drop-In in Stuyvesant Literary Magazine, Yale Daily News workshop. Bagnell is a member of the Bay Area Magazine, Vita Bella Magazine, Assisi Journal, Poets Coalition and was awarded honorable Superstition Review, EDGE, RipRap Journal, and mention in their 2013 Maggi H. Meyer several anthologies. She has won multiple Gold Memorial Poetry Contest. and Silver Key Scholastic Art and Writing awards. Contogenis is a recent graduate of Yale University and has studied with Cynthia Zarin and David S. Guy R. Beining’s work has recently appeared Kastan. She is also an actor, singer, and pianist. in The Iowa Review, The South Carolina Review, Fiction International, Cairn, Skidrow/ Penthouse, The Bitter Oleander, an d Creosote. Tim Cremin’s poems have appeared or are This year Placing Stones in the Right Spots will forthcoming in Albatross, Crack the Spine, Forge, be out via Marimbo Press, and Unarmed will Pennsylvania English, Poetry Pacific, Schuylkill Valley p rin t Heisting Hesse 1-18. Journal, an d Westward Quarterly. Additionally, several of his poems are included in the anthology Songs from the Castles Remains. Elizabeth Anne Bradshaw was born and raised in Norman, Oklahoma. She is currently a sophomore at Norman North High School. John DeBon is a Bronx-born writer whose fiction She is a musician and plays the clarinet, guitar, and essays have appeared in The MacGuffin, Hawaii and saxophone. One of her most memorable Review, Concho River Review, Amoskeag Journal, experiences was the time she visited the harbor and elsewhere. His essay, “It’s Like W hen Your Mom at Monterey, California. She peered under a Dies,” earned a listing as notable in Best American dock and was nearly attacked by an 800-pound Essays 2013. He is a contributing editor for Calliope, sea lion. Seriously, those things are dangerous! the quarterly publication of the Writers’ Special Interest Group of American Mensa, Ltd, and for its online extension, Calliope on the Web, w hich John Bradshaw was born in Colorado and together act as a writer’s workshop and forum. An ostensibly raised in California. After a tour avid reader who enjoys skiing, hiking and camping, in the Navy (where he served as a mop- DeBon has traveled extensively throughout North technician in the Aleutian Islands), he turned America and Europe and has lived in California, his calloused hand and jaded eye to academia Colorado, and currently resides in New York. (a small country hidden in the Alps). He has He attended San Diego State University and for attended universities in Louisiana, Iowa, and over a decade has been employed by a nonprofit Oklahoma (and has yet to be apprehended). organization involved in afforestation and water Bradshaw is currently teaching English and conservation. Philosophy at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. He winters in Weatherford and summers in Norman. But he poems wherever Emily Eddins has been a professional writer for he can. twenty years. Her career includes time spent as a 96 Westview speechwriter, a journalist, a grant writer, and an Journal; Corium Magazine; Existere; Foliate editor. The author holds a BA in English from Oak; Folly; Grey Sparrow; Meridian Anthology; Vanderbilt University, an MA in liberal studies Our Town, North Canton; The Portland Review; from Georgetown University, and she has studied St. Anns Review; Schuylkill Valley Journal; an d creative writing at both Georgetown University Viral Cat. and Stanford University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cape Rock, Forge, Front Donna Emerson is a recently retired college Porch, Toad Suck Review, RiverSedge, Willow instructor, licensed clinical social worker, Review, The Louisville Review, Rio Grande Review, photographer, and writer of poetry and prose. and other publications. This summer, her essay Some of her publications include Alembic, collection Altitude Adjustment hit the Top Five in Assisi, Broad River Review, CQ (California Kindle Hot New Releases in 90-minute memoirs Quarterly), CALYX, The Chaffin, Clare, Crack and short biographies. the Spine, Crone, Dos Passos Review, Eclipse, Edison Literary Review, Embers and Flames, D Ferrara’s work has appeared or is forthcoming Euphony, Forge, Fourth River, Fox Cry Review, in East Meets West American Writers Review The Los Angeles Review, LUX, New Ohio (2014 Holiday Edition), Penmen Review, Review, Organs of Vision and Speech Magazine, Adanna, Amarillo Bay, Law Studies Forum (a Paterson Literary Review, Pennsylvania English, literary magazine), Green Prints, The MacGuffn, Passager, Persimmon Tree, Praxis: Gender & r.kv.r.y., The Evans\’ille Review, the Main Street Cultural Critiques (formerly Phoebe), Quiddity, Rag Anthology, a n d Crack The Spine. F errara s Rougarou, The Round, Sanskrit, The Schuykill screenplay, Arvin Lindemeyer Takes Canarsie, was Valley Journal, Slipstream, Soundings East, So a Top Finalist in the 2013 A.S.U. Screenwriting To Speak, The South Carolina Review, Sow’s Contest, and Ferrara’s play, Favor, won the New Ear Poetry Review, Spillway, Stone Canoe, an d Jersey ACT Award for Outstanding Production The Tower Journal. Her work has received Of An Original Play. Three other screenplays numerous prizes and awards including the have been optioned, and two other short plays Labyrinth Society (2005), California State produced Ferraras essays and short stories Poetry Society (2008), Tiny Lights (flash prizes, have been published in several magazines and 2007, 2010), Naugatuck River Review (2010), journals, and over 200 of Ferraras articles have a n d th e Redwood Writers (2010). Her second been published in legal, technological, and other ch ap b o o k , Body Rhymes, which was nominated business publications. D Ferrara received an for a California Book Award, and third and M.A. in creative writing from Wilkes University, fourth chapbooks, Wild Mercy a n d Following J.D. from NY Law, an LL.M. from New York Hay, have been published by Finishing Line University, and a B.A. in theatre from Roger Press in June 2009, September 2011, and Fall W illiam s. 2013. Emerson’s work can also be seen in anthologies such as Echoes (2012), Keeping Terry W. Ford is now semi-retired from four Time: 150 Years of Journal Writing (Passager decades of full-time teaching for Kent State Press), A Bird in the Hand: Risk and Flight and University at Stark. In that time, she served as Deep Waters (Outrider Press), The Mountain English department coordinator, spoke and (Outrider Press), Chopin with Cherries, A presented at numerous academic conferences, was Tribute in Verse (Moonrise Press), Music In featured in campus literary publications, earned The Air (Outrider Press), The Phoenix Risitig a distinguished teaching award, and was honored From The Ashes (Adonis Press), The Place That as a distinguished woman of the university. A Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay longtime supporter of Ohio and Midwest writing, Watershed (Sixteen Rivers), Bearers Of Distance Ford was a perennial organizer and grant writer (Eastern Point Press), and Songs for a Passbook for the Midwest W riter’s Conference. Now Torch (Cherry Castle Publishing). teaching only a few classes, she enjoys reading, writing, gardening, and grandmothering. Her Born and raised in Mississippi, Sybil Estess work has recently appeared in The Chaffin attended Baylor University, University of VOLUME 32, NUMBER 1 97 Kentucky, and Syracuse University. She Points (Red Bird Press), Ascent (Finishing has studied with Denise Levertov, Donald Line Press), and The Strait (Homebound Barthelme, Patti Ann Rogers, Maxine Publications). His poems have appeared in Kumin, and Richard Howard, as well as with Appalachian Heritage, Measure: A Review of W.D. Snodgrass. Phillip Booth directed her Formal Poetry, Evansville Review, Valparaiso dissertation. Estess s work has appeared or is Poetry Review, Tulane Review, a n d m an y forthcoming in over fifty journals, including other magazines. He was a Finalist for the The Paris Review, Shenandoah, Western 2014 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize. Humanities Review, Manhattan Review, He also judges poetry contests and edits Whiskey Island, Borderlands, The Texas anthologies for Red Dashboard LLC. Andrew Review, The Texas Observer, a n d Windhover, holds an M.A.