Archaeopteryx 2012 Contributors
Ned Balboreceived the 2010 Donald Justice Prize for The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems (Story Line Press). His previous books include Lives of the Sleepers (Ernest Sandeen Prize, ForeWord Book of the Year Gold Medal) and Galileo’s Banquet (Towson University Prize). Something Must Happen, a chapbook, appeared from Finishing Line Press. He has received three Maryland Arts Council grants, the Robert Frost Foundation Award, and the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize. He was featured poet in the Fall 2011/Winter 2012 Valparaiso Poetry Review; other recent poems appear in Iowa Review, River Styx, Sou’Wester, and elsewhere.
William Coleman teaches literature and composition at Northfield School of the Liberal Arts, in Wichita, KS. A former teaching fellow at Harvard University, he has worked as managing editor of Image and executive editor of nonfiction of DoubleTake. His poems have been published in Poetry, The Paris Review, The New Criterion, Image, and other publications. His book and music reviews have been published in Image and The Martha’s Vineyard Times, respectively.
Christopher Coppolais a seasoned film and television director who is also founder and chairman of Project Accessible Hollywood (PAH), a non-profit organization that brings digital empowerment to underserved communities and individuals worldwide. To date, Coppola has held 38 digital media festivals, called PAH-FESTS, across the U.S. and abroad. He is also known as Biker Chef and the DigiVangelist. His cat Otto is the world famous BIKER CAT.
Matthew Eck's debut novel The Farther Shore was the winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, and won the Fiction Award from the Society of Midland Authors. He is Fiction Editor at Pleiades and lives in Kansas City.
Jim Fox is aLos Angeles-based composer. His music—usually quiet, slow, unassuming, and often described by critics as "austere" and "sensuous"—has been commissioned and performed by ensembles and soloists throughout the United States and released on a half-dozen different record labels, including Cold Blue Music, a new music label which he directs.
Lise Goettis the winner of the 2012 Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America for her manuscript-in-progress, Leprosarium. She received the Pen Southwest Book Award in Poetry in 2005 and the 2001 Barnard New Women Poets Prize for her first collection, Waiting for the Paraclete (Beacon 2002). Her other awards include the James D. Phelan Award in Literature, the Capricorn Prize from the Writer’s Voice of the West Side Y, postgraduate fellowships from The Milton Center and from the Creative Writing Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and The Paris Review Discovery Award.
Merrick Rees Hamer, born August 29th, 1950, is a native Californian who has spent much of his creative life as a dramatic and musical storyteller. A formal education in music and an introspective nature led to an early fascination with legend and with ideas that “were not,” but that “could be.” This background, with a speculative perseverance and the library settings in which he has spent a portion of his professional life, ultimately has seen him embrace metaphysical doctrine, and he has more than occasionally lifted the pen to jot down his own ideas as a mystical Christian.
Wes Jackson, President of The Land Institute, holds a B.A Biology, an M.A. in botany, and a Ph.D. in genetics. His most recent works, Nature as Measure (2011) andConsulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture (2010), were both published by Counterpoint Press. Author of many books, Jackson has published inThe Atlantic Monthly, Audubon, National Geographic, and Time Magazine. Named by Life magazine as one of 18 individuals they predict will be among the 100 “important Americans of the 20th century,” Jackson is also a recipient of the Pew Conservation Scholars award, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Right Livelihood Award, and the Louis Bromfield Award. He has received four honorary doctorates. In 2007 he received the University of Kansas Distinguished Service Award and was one of the 2011 recipients of the University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts & Sciences’ Distinguished Alumni Awards.
Laura Kopchick is a graduate of the MFA program in Fiction at the University of Michigan, where she was a Colby Fellow and where she received the Roy W. Cowden Award in short fiction as well as the Hopwood Award in short fiction. She is also the recipient of the 1998 First Place National Award (with a $10,000 prize) in short Fiction from the National Society of Arts and Letters. Her stories have appeared in the Santa Monica Review, Ascent, Pleiades, and others. Currently she teaches creative writing at The University of Texas at Arlington. She is also General Editor of the Katherine Anne Porter Award in short fiction from the University of North Texas Press.
David Lunde is a poet and translator whose work has appeared in such journals as Poetry, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, Kansas Quarterly, Chelsea, Confrontation, Hawai’i Review, Chicago Review, Seneca Review, Cottonwood, The Literary Review, Renditions, and Northwest Review. His work has been included in 40 anthologies, and he is the author of 11 books of poems and translations, the most recent being: Nightfishing in Great Sky River (1999); The Carving of Insects (2006), Bian Zhilin’s collected poems co-translated with Mary M.Y. Fung, which won the 2007 PEN USA Translation Award; Instead (2007), a collection of poems; Breaking the Willow (2008), and 300 Tang Poems (2011), translations of classical Chinese poetry.
John McCormickis an Associate Professor of Theology at Newman University in Wichita KS. Research interests include peacemaking, community sustainability, and developing practical applications of Catholic social theory along the line of the distributism and the personalism of the Catholic Worker Movement.
Maureen McCoyis the author of four novels: Walking After Midnight, Summertime, Divining Blood, and Junebug. Recent short fiction and personal essays are included in Antioch Review, Epoch, Mississippi Review, and forthcoming elsewhere. Antioch's "Vickie's Pour House: A Soldier's Peace" was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. Maureen is a professor at Cornell University.
John Henry Cardinal Newman(1801-1890) was a writer, educator, and theologian in England and Ireland during the nineteenth century. Newman began his career as an Anglican priest and a fellow of Oxford’s Oriel College. In 1845, he converted to Catholicism and was ordained to the Catholic priesthood. As the first rector of the Catholic University of Dublin, Newman wrote and published The Idea of a University (1854) which outlines his influential theory of liberal education and intellectual development. His book Apologia Pro Vita Sua was read widely in Great Britain and America and was instrumental in decreasing anti-Catholic prejudices throughout the English-speaking world. Pope Leo XIII made Newman a cardinal in 1879. In 2010, Pope Benedict XVI beatified Cardinal Newman in a ceremony in Birmingham, England.
Timothy Richardson’spoetry has appeared in The Paris Review, Western Humanities Review, and The North American Review (among others). He is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he directs the Creative Writing Minor and teaches in poetry, rhetoric, and critical theory. He has always wanted to be a DJ, but has no skills.
Vicky Santiestebangrew up on the outskirts of the Florida Everglades where she learned to ride a horse, catch reptiles, and suck sugar from cane. Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, River Styx, and The Best of Writers at Work.
Curtis Scott Shumakerwas born in Oklahoma, received his B.A. from the liberal arts college of USAO, and earned his Masters and Doctorate in English at Iowa State University and Texas A&M Commerce, respectively. He now lives in Hollywood California and teaches at California Polytechnical University. He is a 32 Degree Freemanson, a member of various esoteric and Hermetic orders, and has publications in various scholarly, Masonic, and creative venues.
C. Jason Smithis Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York and the co-author, with Ximena Gallardo C., of Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley (Continuum 2004). He lives and writes in The Twilight Zone, Astoria, Queens, New York.
Sonya Taaffe’spoems and short stories have won the Rhysling Award, been shortlisted for the SLF Fountain Award and the Dwarf Stars Award, and appeared in anthologies such as The Moment of Change: An Anthology of Feminist Speculative Poetry, People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction & Fantasy, Last Drink Bird Head, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase, The Best of Not One of Us, and Trochu divné kusy 3. Her work can be found in the collections Postcards from the Province of Hyphens and Singing Innocence and Experience (Prime Books) and A Mayse-Bikhl (Papaveria Press). She is currently on the editorial staff of Strange Horizons. She holds master’s degrees in Classics from Brandeis and Yale and once named a Kuiper belt object.
Frederick Turner, Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas, was educated at Oxford University. Poet, critic, translator, philosopher, and former editor of The Kenyon Review, he has authored 30 books, including Natural Classicism, The
Culture of Hope, Genesis: An Epic Poem, April Wind, Hadean Eclogues, The New World, Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century Economics, Paradise, Natural Religion, and Two Ghost Poems. With his colleague Zsuzsanna Ozsváth he won Hungary’s highest literary honor for their translations of Miklós Radnóti’s poetry. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature internationally over 40 times.
Albert Wendland is Director of the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University. He has written on science fiction, graphic novels, popular fiction, and the sublime in literature. His interests include Romanticism, science fiction of the 50s, astronomy, the history of landscape painting, writing poetry, geology, and film studies. He has completed a science-fiction novel and he is currently working on a book about descriptive writing in popular fiction.
Mary Jane Whiteis a poet and translator who practices law at her home, the O. J. Hager House in Waukon, Iowa. Her poetry and translations have received NEA, Bread Loaf, and Squaw Valley awards. She taught briefly at the University of Iowa and Luther College, and has practiced law for the last 33 years. Her work has appeared in AGNI,The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, Crazyhorse, The Black Warrior Review, The Louisville Review, Nimrod, The New England Review, and many others. Her first book Starry Sky to Starry Sky (1988) is still available from Holy Cow! Press.