WHISTLING SHADE


Contributors

Sharon Chmielarz’s latest two books are Calling (Loonfeather Press) which was a finalist for the INDIE Book Awards, 2011, and The Sky Is Great, the Sky Is Blue (Whistling Shade Press). You can hear her read on www.sharonchmielarz.com. She’s the happy recipient of the 2012 Jane Kenyon Prize.

Kate Hallett Dayton is a poet and fiction writer. She published her poetry collection, Salt Heart, and a poetry chapbook, Catalpa, in 2013.

Andrew Dayton is an artist living in Brooklyn and a member of the Notion Collective.

Writing by Richard Donnelly has appeared in Queen's Quarterly and Rattle. He works in a huge building in downtown Minneapolis where people drink coffee and place silent anonymous bets on who will be around next week and who won't. His first book, The Melancholy MBA (www.themelancholymba.com), is published by Brick Road Poetry Press of Columbus, Georgia.

Alixa Doom has published in numerous magazines including Milkweed Chronicle, Third Wednesday, Minnetonka Review, Skidrow Penthouse, Red River Review, Verse Wisconsin, and Rufous City Review. Her poems have also been published in anthologies such as This Sporting Life and County Lines. Her chapbook manuscript, Cedar Crossings, was awarded the 2009 Blue Light Poetry Prize and was published in the spring of 2010. A new book of poems, A Slow Dissolve of Egrets, will be published by Red Dragonfly Press this year. She moved in 2011 from her home of many years in the Minnesota River Valley to the Uptown area of South Minneapolis.

Phillip A. Ellis is a freelance critic, poet and scholar. His chapbooks, The Flayed Man and Symptoms Positive and Negative, are available. He is working on a collection for Diminuendo Press. Another has been accepted by Hippocampus Press. He is the editor of Melaleuca.

Besides being published in bathroom stalls across the country, Tyler Gates is also the author of the novel Unhinged as well as the chapbook On The Pitfalls of Being a Cockroach in Love.

Naomi Ruth Lowinsky’s fourth poetry collection is The Faust Woman Poems. Her memoir, The Sister from Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way tells stories about her pushy muse. She blogs about poetry and life at sisterfrombelow.com.

John-Ivan Palmer’s literary work has been widely anthologized and has appeared in Pushcart Prizes, Fortean Times, Exquisite Corpse, Nth Position, Book Happy and others. His journalism and interviews have appeared in large circulation newspapers like the San Francisco Examiner and Milwaukee Journal as well as underground shock culture publications. He is author of the novel Motels of Burning Madness. John-IvanPalmer.com.

Lauren Raheja has a BA in anthropology from Reed College, works for a food justice organization in the Twin Cities, and edits poetry for Whistling Shade. Her nonfiction has appeared in City Limits, Brooklyn The Borough and Grist, and her poetry in Keep This Bag Away From Children.

Tony Rauch is an Architect and Urban Designer living in Minneapolis. He has three collections of funky, jazzy, dreamy stories published, most recently Eyeballs Growing All Over Me ... Again. He’s been interviewed by the Prague Post and reviewed in the MIT paper The Tech, among many other venues.

Thomas R. Smith lives in River Falls, Wisconsin and teaches poetry at the Loft Literary Center, where he also serves as a poetry advisor in the Foreword Program. His most recent book of poems is The Foot of the Rainbow (Red Dragonfly Press), and a new collection is forthcoming. He is the editor Airmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Thomas Transtromer (Graywolf Press) and posts poems and blogs at www.thomasrsmithpoet.com.

Justin Teerlinck is an occupational therapy graduate student in the Portland, Oregon area, where he is learning how to place his writing skills and sense of the absurd in service to people with disabilities. His response to most standardized test questions is, "Meow don't know this theoretical construct. Meow try again please?"

Joel Van Valin is the publisher of Whistling Shade. His poetry most recently appeared in The Avalon Review. He does not normally wear a top hat.

Paul Watsky is author of the poetry collection Telling The Difference (Fisher King Press, 2010). He has recent and forthcoming work in The Carolina Quarterly, Interim, Smartish Pace, Permafrost, Atlanta Review, Word Riot, and others.

Greg Watson’s work has appeared in various literary reviews, including Whistling Shade, Poetry East, and Tulane Review, and has been featured on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. His most recent collection is What Music Remains, published by Nodin Press.