Right Hand Pointing

C o n t r i b u t o r s

Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
-- JOHN WAYNE

Jeremy Benson studied writing at a conservative liberal arts school in Holland, Michigan. He currently lives in Saginaw, where he writes, drives a junky van and advises woodworkers about the differences between shellack and laquer, a subject he knows almost nothing about. He is a cofounding member of the Student Writers Series of the Alive and Living Poets Society or SWS:ALPS, a multi-lingual, highly privatized and auto-elitist literary group a la Bloomsbury.

F.J. Bergmann frequents Wisconsin and fibitz.com. Her work has recently appeared in elimae, Farrago's Wainscot, Opium, Otoliths, six little things, and in her third chapbook, Constellation of the Dragonfly (Plan B Press, 2008). One of her pseudopodia can reach all the way from the bed to the refrigerator.

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal works in the mental health field. He was born in Mexico. His recent chapbook, Overcome, was published by Kendra Steiner Editions. Overcome is a collaborated chapbook with photographer, Cynthia Etheridge.

Mel Bosworth lives and breathes in Western Massachusetts. Read more at eddisocko.blogspot.com.

Eric Burke works as an IT manager in Columbus, Ohio. More of his work can be found in elimae, Right Hand Pointing, Alba, Spillway Review, JMWW, Tipton Poetry Journal, Otoliths,nibble, Haibun Today and miller's pond. Work is forthcoming in The Driftwood Review.

J. Bradley is based out of Orlando, FL. His work recently appeared in decomP,Dash Literary Journal, Pure Francis, and Poor Mojo's Almanac(k). His first collection, Dodging Traffic, comes out this fall through Ampersand Books. Check out J. Bradley's official blog, Failure Loves Company, at iheartfailure.wordpress.com.

Yael Degany, a native Israeli, has lived in the United States since
1999. She holds 2 B.A.s from Columbia University, one in Visual Arts
and one in Mathematics. Her works on paper, the majority of which are
abstract, are created using oil-pastels, ink, watercolor, graphite,
and food color. She makes many of the works by directly responding to
music. You can see more of her work at yaeldegany.com.

Winner of the 2009 Spire Press Prose Chapbook Contest for his manuscript FABLES OF THE DECONSTRUCTION, Damian Dressick’s stories have appeared in nearly forty literary journals, including failbetter.com, New Delta Review, McSweeney’s (online) and Alimentum. Finishing a stint of teaching creative writing at Pennsylvania State University, Damian starts the PhD program in creative writing at the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi this fall. He can be found online at www.damiandressick.com.

Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of eight poetry chapbooks. He has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and twice for the Best of the Net anthology. His first full-length poetry book, LOVESICK, is forthcoming from The Poetry Press. He is a regular contributor to this website.

John Grey is an Australian born poet, US resident since late seventies. Works as financial systems analyst. Recently published in Connecticut Review, Georgetown Review and REAL with work upcoming in Poetry East, Cape Rock and the Pinch.

Kenneth P. Gurney lives in Albuquerque, NM. To learn more about Kenneth, visit www.kpgurney.me

Greta Igl’s short fiction has been published by an assortment of literary magazines and anthologies, including Every Day Fiction, Boston Literary Magazine, and Word Riot. Her short story, “In Limbo” was nominated for the 2009 storySouth Million Writers award. She is currently at work on her novel, Jamieson’s Folly.

J. Joseph Kane is a writer, editor, and student living in Michigan. His work has previously appeared in Central Review, Elimae, and Temenos.

Helen Losse is the Poetry Editor of The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature and the author of Better With Friends, published by Rank Stranger Press in 2009. Her recent poetry publications include The Wild Goose Poetry Review, Shape of a Box, and Blue Fifth Review. She has two chapbooks, Gathering the Broken Pieces and Paper Snowflakes. Educated at Missouri Southern State and Wake Forest Universities, she lives in Winston-Salem,NC.

As long as she pays her dues, Anna Bellamy Lucas is an upstanding member of the Kentucky State Poetry Society (KSPS) and Green River Writers, based in Louisville, KY. Her poetry has been previously published in RHP (issues #7, #10 and #14). More recently her work has appeared in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, an online publication, and The National Catholic Reporter. Just yesterday she received notice that she's a finalist in the 2009 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Contest, Elizabethtown Community College, KY (which means her name is listed way down on the page, below the honorable mentions.)

Hosho McCreesh is currently writing & painting in the gypsum & caliche badlands of New Mexico. Work appearing in both English & in translation, in print, audio, & online, most recently CHIRON REVIEW, QUERCUS REVIEW, LILLIPUT REVIEW, MICROBE (Belgium), BOTTLE #5, NOUVEAUX DELITS (France), & ORANGE PULP (audio). Chapbooks available from Bottle of Smoke Press & sunnyoutside. Work coming soon from Hemispherical Press (~2008), OA Press (20 Jan 2009), & Propaganda Press(2009).

Doug Mathewson is an editor, writer of short fiction, and environmental artist. He day dreams and time travels from his home in eastern Connecticut. Most recently his work has appeared in Full Of Crow, riverbabble, The Boston Literary Magazine, and Battered Suitcase. See his on-going projects at www.little2say.org

MaryAnn Franta Moenck lives and writes just east of St Paul, Minnesota. She enjoys small poems and small natural wonders; five-lined skinks and ebony jewel-wing damselflies. Her poems, large and small, have appeared in Three Candles, The Pedestal, and previously in Right Hand Pointing, and in print journals, includingSnowy Egret, Cimarron Review, Natural Bridge, and forthcoming in Water~Stone Review.

Jim Murdoch is a Scottish writer living just outside Glasgow. His poetry appeared regularly in small press magazines during the seventies and eighties. In the nineties he turned to prose-writing and has completed four novels and a collection of short stories. His second novel, Stranger than Fiction will be published later this year. You can find out more about him on his blog, The Truth About Lies.

Jim Parks is a co-founder of the on-line magazine, "The Legendary." He is a newsman, deckhand, farm hand, truck driver and Texan published in Eclectica, Hackwriter, Fried Chicken and Coffee, and numerous newspapers from California to Florida. Don't mess with his food or his woman and keep him away from the firewater.

Gordon Purkis is the publisher of Nefarious Ballerina, and Mastodon Dentist, two damn fine poetry sites on the world wide web. He also paints, draws, plays the clarinet, bowls, and smokes not-so-fine cigars.

Kimberly Ruth is a recent graduate from SUNY New Paltz where she received a BFA in photography and a BA in journalism. She plans to attend graduate school in the fall, where she will work towards an MFA degree in fine art. She has been published in a number of online journals including Gloom Cupboard, Ditch Poetry, Bijou Poetry and Shoots and Vines. You can view samples of her art work at kimberlyruth.blogspot.com.

Mather Schneider is a cab driver in Tucson. His work has appeared in the small press since 1995.

Janice D. Soderling's fiction, poetry and translations appear regularly online and in print. She won a 2006 Glimmer Train Stories short fiction competition (#64) and was a runner-up in a 2007 Emerging Writer contest at Our Stories, soon forthcoming in an anthology. Her work is included in other anthologies in Swedish and English. Recent publication includes a sonnet at 14 by 14, free verse at Umbrella, Shit Creek Review, and Centrifugal Eye, surrealist poetry at ditch, translation at Frostwriting, prose at Literary Bohemian and Soundzine. Janice hails from the United States, but lives in a small village in Sweden where cheesemaking, ironworking, and a sawmill are the main trades.

A.g. Synclair is a rather unprolific writer of poetry, an occasional blogger, frequent writer of letters to the editor, and road warrior in the Sales game in order to pay the bills. His work has appeared in numerous literary publications, anthologies, and 'zines. He drink's way too much coffee, suffers from long bouts of writers block, and greatly admires the work of Charles Bukowski and Billy Collins. He resides in Western Massachusetts with his extremely patient wife and 4 brilliant children.

Rory Waterman was born in Belfast in 1981 and, apart from a year in
Boston, MA and two in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, has lived most of
his life in various parts of England. He is currently studying for a
PhD. Poems have appeared or are scheduled to appear in Stand, Agenda,
PN Review, Staple and Obsessed with Pipework. He is working towards a
first collection.

Tim Scannell has over 1,300 publishing credits and lives in the woods, hard against the boundary of Olympic National Park, WA.

J. A. Tyler is founding editor of mud luscious and the author of SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE (ghost road press, 2009), IN LOVE WITH A GHOST (willows wept press, 2010), and INCONCEIVABLE WILSON (vox press, 2010) as well as the chapbooks OUR US & WE (greying ghost), ZOO: THE TROPIC HOUSE (sunnyoutside), EVERYONE IN THIS IS EITHER DYING OR WILL DIE OR IS THINKING OF DEATH (achilles), and THE GIRL IN THE BLACK SWEATER (trainwreck press). Visit: www.aboutjatyler.com.

James Wilk is a practicing physician in Denver, specializing in medical disorders complicating pregnancy. His poems have recently appeared in The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, The Salt Flats Annual, The Raintown Review, Measure, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review and others. His 2007 chapbook, Shoulders, Fibs and Lies, is available through Pudding House Press.