Dante's Heart
Contributors

Katherine Ayres
Katherine Ayres teaches writing in the MFA Program at Chatham
University.  She is the author of ten books for children and teens.  Her
picture book,
Up, Down, and Around was selected as the Pennsylvania
One Book (Every Young Child) in 2008 and her newest novel,
Macaroni
Boy
, is being adapted as a musical for the stage.  Her poems have
appeared in
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette and one is included in the
anthology,
Along These Rivers.  She lives in Pittsburgh and
Massachusetts.

George Berguño
http://www.richmond.ac.uk/faculty/dr-george-berguno.aspx
George Berguño is Associate Professor of Psychology at Richmond, the
American International University in London. He has published
extensively in psychology and philosophy, and has lived and worked in
several countries, including Chile, France, Austria and Russia.

Donna Burgess
Donna Burgess lives on the South Carolina coast with her husband and
two children. When she is not writing, she can usually be found in the water
with a big, pink surfboard or behind a textbook pursuing her MFA in
creative writing.

Harry Calhoun
Harry Calhoun is a frequent contributor of poems and essays to
magazines such as
Abbey and Thunder Sandwich. He has recent
publications in
Chiron Review, Still Crazy and Word Catalyst, for whom
he writes a monthly column. He also has poetry forthcoming in
Abbey,
LiteraryMary, Nefarious Ballerina
and &c. You can also read his online
column about quality affordable wines called
Ten Dollar Tastings.

Erika Hanson
Erika Hanson writes poetry and is currently working on her MFA at the
University of San Francisco. She has worked for a number of years in
the field of social work and lives in the Bay Area with her seven year old
son.

Jen McClung
Jen McClung is a writer of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. She is also a
singer-songwriter, a collector of old furniture, and an artist of every kind of
media she can get her hands on. Currently, Jen lives in Ames, IA.

George Moore
George Moore’s poetry has appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, North
American Review, Colorado Review, Orion, Meridian, Chelsea, Nimrod
, and
elsewhere. He was a finalist for the Richard Snyder Memorial Prize from
Ashland Poetry Press in 2007, and earlier for The National Poetry Series,
The Brittingham Poetry Award, and The Anhinga Poetry Prize.  His most
recent poetry collections are
Headhunting (Edwin Mellen, 2002), a travelogue
of ancient rituals about love and possession, and
All Night Card Game in the
Back Room of Time
(Pulpbits.com, 2006), an eBook on the New Physics as
metaphor for life's paradoxes.  He teaches with the University of Colorado,
Boulder.


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