Biographies



Thomas Lux's books of poetry include The Cradle Place (2004); The Street of Clocks (2001); New and Selected Poems, 1975-1995 (1997), which was a finalist for the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Split Horizon (1994), for which he received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Pecked to Death by Swans (1993); A Boat in the Forest (1992); The Drowned River: New Poems (1990); Half Promised Land (1986); Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy (1983); Massachusetts (1981); Like a Wide Anvil from the Moon the Light (1980); Sunday (1979); Madrigal on the Way Home (1977); The Glassblower's Breath (1976); Memory's Handgrenade (1972); and The Land Sighted (1970). He has been the poet in residence at Emerson College (1972-1975) and a member of the Writing Faculty at Sarah Lawrence College and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. He has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry and has received three National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Guggenheim Fellowship.









John Amen is the author of two collections of poetry: Christening the Dancer (Uccelli Press 2003) and More of Me Disappears (Cross-Cultural Communications 2005), and has released one folk/folk rock CD, All I'll Never Need (Cool Midget 2004). His second CD, Ridiculous Empire, will be released by Cool Midget in Fall 2007. His poetry and fiction have been published in various magazines and journals, and he is featured in the 2007 Poet's Market. He is also an artist, working primarily with acrylics on canvas. Amen travels widely giving readings, doing musical performances, and conducting workshops. Further information is available on his website: www.johnamen.com/ and www.myspace.com/johnamen.







Slovenian-born Mary Grabar earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia. Her fiction and poetry have been published in Ballyhoo Stories and Saint Ann's Review, respectively. She was invited to read a chapter of her first novel manuscript, Dancing with Derrida, at the 2005 Art and Soul Festival at Baylor University, where the theme was humor. She is at work on her second novel, a literary mystery, The Secret of Little Sister. She lives in the Atlanta area.









Christopher Bundy lives in Atlanta, GA, where he works as an editor, teacher, and writer. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Glimmer Train Stories, The Dos Passos Review, The Rambler, The Sunday Reader, Creative Loafing, and other magazines, as well as in the anthology, Where Love is Found: 24 Tales of Connection.







Khadijah Queen's work has appeared in various publications, including, most recently, The Paumanok Review, Pierian Springs, Samsara Quarterly, and The Adirondack Review, which nominated one of her poems for a Pushcart Prize.







James Scott Iredell lives in Atlanta with his cat, Jules. Poetry, fiction, and nonfiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Descant, The Chattahoochee Review, Zone 3, GSU Review, ISLE, and others. He's currently finishing Burnout, a novel.







L. Ward Abel has written and recorded music for Abel & Rawls (now Abel, Rawls & Hayes), as Max Able (his former alter-ego) and with spoken-word pioneers Scapeweavel. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in numerous publications, including White Pelican Review, VLQ, Texas Poetry Journal, Poems Niederngasse, Southern Gothic, Dead Drunk Dublin, Poetry Super Highway, and Gold Dust. His chapbook, Peach Box and Verge, has been published by Little Poem Press. His new book of poems, Jonesing for Byzantium, will be published soon at UK Authors Press (Bristol, UK). He lives in rural Georgia, cultivating his latifundia. For additional information, visit http://www.universecanoe.com









Jon Goode has performed at colleges and universities all over the nation, and venues both domestic and abroad. He has been a repeat featured act on Russell Simmons' HBO Def Poetry and had his work published in print ads by Nike and in several magazines and periodicals nationwide. His work has also been featured in radio commercials and in television commercials and interstitials for TVLand/Nick@Nite, for which he earned an Emmy nomination. He was ranked third in the nation in 2006 by poetry slam incorporated. As a performance artist he has been privileged to share the stage with various artists, including Jamie Foxx, Mos Def, Tommy Davidson, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Kim Fields, and The Last Poets.