Meet the Authors

Noah Ashenhurst

     Noah Ashenhurst will be receiving his MFA from Rainier Writing Workshop (PLU) 8/09/09.  His first novel, Comfort Food, won the 2006 Independent Publisher Book Award (Best Regional Fiction—West-Pacific).

Antonio Carvalho

Darren C. Demaree

    Darren C. Demaree has been published most recently in the South Carolina Review, Meridian, Prick of the Spindle, California Quarterly, and Caffeine Destiny.  He is currently embracing Summer in Ohio, and finishing his Masters in Creative Writingat Miami University. 

Josh Durkin

    Josh Durkin is an emerging writer.  He enjoys the grapefruit, a delicious and awesome fruit.

Katherine L. Holmes

    Katherine L. Holmes’s creative work has appeared in The South Dakota Review, Cider Press Review, Phantasmagoria, WordWrights, Marginalia, Minnesota Poetry Calendar, Porcupine - more than 25 print journals.   On the internet, she has been published at Amarillo Bay, Barnwood, Denver Syntax, Eclectica, Fringe, The King’s English, Literary Bird Journal, Perigee, Review Americana, Shadowtrain, Stirring, Word Riot, and others.  Her website is: http://home.earthlink.net/~klouholmes/

Sean Jackson

     From 1996 to 2007, Jackson wrote more than 4,000 newspaper stories while working for Cox Newspapers in northeastern North Carolina, winning four press awards. He had a number of poems published in little magazines in the late 1980s/early 1990s. After the dozen years of journalism, he's resuming fiction writing.

Daniel Ravizza

Raymond Storez

    Raymond Storez is a senior at Western Connecticut State University. He is majoring in Professional Writing with a journalism and freelance option. He currently writes and works with several on-campus publications, including The Echo, Black & White, and Red All Over. He also manages and writes a music blog, I'll Eat Your iPod! (www.eatingipods.blogspot.com).

Alison Terjek

    Alison Terjek is a senior attending Western Connecticut State University and seeking a B.A. in Creative Writing.

Illes Terjek

     Illes Terjek, 25 is a junior majoring in psychology.  He was born in Hungary and immigrated to the United States at age five.  His late father Sandor Terjek (1944-2005), himself a poet, left Illes the book he translated from.  Sandor became deeply religious in midlife, giving up poetry and burning all his work.  His son once asked him why and he said, “because poetry is pretty, but it leads you astray.”  Illes selected this poem and dedicates it to him not because it contains his views, but because it’s suggestive of what his poetry might have been like.