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	*About Our Contributors*


	*Hannah Ashley* teaches composition at Temple University, where she also coordinates a service learning in composition program called Project WRITE (Writing and Reading through Intergenerational Teaching Experiences). *Laura Bardwell* is in her second year of Temple's Graduate Creative Writing Program. *Thom Brucie* is a single father with four children, two sons and two daughters, a distribution of equality which allows him to maintain a perfect balance between sanity and its evil twin, boredom. He earned a B.A. from Hobart College, an M.A. from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and is completing a Ph.D.at Binghamton University. He writes whenever the mood strikes him or whenever all his children and all his friends are simultaneously asleep. *Isaac Cates* is a Ph.D. student in English at Yale University who recently took a year's leave to study poetry at Johns Hopkins. Other products of that year are forthcoming in The Southwest Review. Matthew Desideriois a former free-lance photographer who is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Literature from Temple University. He lives in South Philly. *Donald P. Gagnon* is a Ph. D. candidate in English/Literature at the University of Southern Florida. He has a Master's in English/Creative Writing from U. of Central Florida, and B.A. in Public Relations from the University of Florida. He is anxious to leave Florida. His fiction has been published in The Sleeping Bear Review and Omnibus. He is working on a novel. Life Begins at 40! *Deborah Karr, formerly a full-time housewife and "stay at home mom" (mother of Aria, 20 and John Michael, 18) is now in her 5th year of graduate school in Temple's TESOL department Deborah's doctoral work focuses on the relationships between social contexts, ideology, identity and the literacy learning processes of international students in American universities. Fall 2000* Schuylkill



	*About Our Contributors*

	*James L. Maynard* is a second year MA student in Temple's graduate poetry program with hopes to enter a Ph. D. program next fall. *Bob Mulligan* is a Doctoral student in Educational Psychology at Temple University. *Andrew Rentschler* is currently enrolled in the Creative Writing Program at Temple University. He will graduate in May 2001. Among his hobbies he lists having his photograph taken with Peter Liacouros, the outgoing Chief Executive of Temple. Andrew lives in Philadelphia. *Nicole Ross* is a poetry candidate in the MFA program at Penn State University as well as a freelance writer. Her favorite poets are Rilke and Jon Anderson because they contend with themselves relentlessly. *Gaurav Shah* has a BA in English from Temple University (summa cum laude) and a MA in English from University of Delaware where he was a Presidential Fellow. *Ian Verstegen* is a Ph.D. candidate in the Art History department and just spent a Fulbright year in Italy. He has been trying unsuccessfully for many years to reconcile his staid academic interests in Renaissance art and his personal enthusiasm for rap music. *Yolanda Wisher* recently received her M.A. in Creative Writing/Poetry from Temple University. She is currently a highschool English teacher at Germantown Friends School, as well as a fellow at Cave Canem, a retreat for black poets. Yolanda is co-founder of the community arts collective Poetry for the People. v

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	*Staff* Managing Editor Marc Schuster Senior Editor Dawn Streufert Fiction Editor Keith Gumery Poetry Editor Holly Bittner Critical Editors Annalisa Castaldo Susan Levasseur Elizabeth Lofgren Nutting Art Editor Matthew Desiderio Conference Coordinator Rachel Bright Publicity Director Jeff Hibbert Treasurer Melissa Joarder Community Service Chair Vanessa Ramussen Founding Editor Elizabeth Abele Academic Advisor Dr. Eli Goldblatt Siobhan Broderick Nathan Knispel Elizabeth Mosimann Virginia Nalencz Bruce Plourde Special thanks to all who submitted and reviewed work for this issue. v *Sponsors* Schuylkill is sincerely indebted to the individuals and organizations associated with Temple University whose support has made this publication possible. Anonymous (2) College of Liberal Arts Department of English Department of Religion Graduate School Student Government University Writing Program Fall 2000 Schuylkill