Issue No. 1, 2007-08. Contributors’ Notes

W.M. Akers is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Science. His work has been published in “Struggle” magazine. Of the books he’s read lately, his favorite is Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me.

Colette Becker is a senior in the College of Arts and Science. She majors in English and American Literature with a minor in Italian.

Patrick Blagrave (finalist, Geometry of Hope) is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Science. His favorite book is Ulysses by James Joyce.

Joseph B. Calavenna is a junior in the Stern School of Business. His favorite book is Digger’s Blues, by Jim Daniels.

Jodi Chao is a junior in the College of Arts and Science. On her poem, “Central Park on a Sunday Afternoon,” Jodi writes: “After an afternoon on the Great Lawn, I walked away with a poem…and 15 bug bites (both from lying on the grass).”

Karen Chien is a freshman in the College of Arts and Science. Though she didn’t set out to write two pieces about growing up, a line in a song by The Go! Team says it best: “Learning to be you is what hurts most.”

Catherine Cho is a senior in the College of Arts and Science. She scribbled her poem, “Some Other Yesterday,” on a night she heard about a childhood friend whose luck was finally spent.

Ileen Choi is a senior in the College of Arts and Science. Regarding her story, Mighty Morphin’, she writes: “The trick to flying is to think happy thoughts, and remember to take wind resistance into account.”

Galen DeKemper is a senior in the College of Arts and Science. He has been previously published in the Tulip Literary Biennial, and his favorite book is The Grass Harp by Truman Capote.

Natalie Dupêcher is a junior in the College of Arts and Science. She has been previously published in “Flashquake,” an online journal for flash fiction. Her favorite book is The History of Love by Nicole Krauss.

Leah Evans is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Science. Her favorite book is A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway.

Julia Fincher is a junior in the College of Arts and Science. Her work has been published in the NYU in Prague webzine, “The Prague Wanderer.” She got the idea for her poem, “Doubt,” after a guy lied to her, for no reason, about his boss having four fingers on his left hand.

Miriam R. Haier is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Science. One day, she hopes to write a novel about Jimmy Kittrell.

Lauren Amelia Hart is a senior in the Tisch School of the Arts. Her favorite book is Venus in Furs by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch.

Chelsea Adelaine Hassler is a senior in the Tisch School of the Arts. She’s crossing her fingers that after graduation, she’ll be accepted into Columbia University’s M.F.A. program in Fiction; if not, she’s moving to the U.K. to write sitcoms.

Sarah M. Henderson is a senior in the Tisch School of the Arts. After graduation, she plans to meander around the world, writing and photographing the night sky.

Emily Kropp is a senior in the College of Arts and Science. She has been previously published in “Make This Magazine,” and her favorite book is House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewsky.

John Kultgen is a senior in the College of Arts and Science. On his inspiration for “(Time)lines,” he writes, “A person hardly ever thinks about his genealogy beyond his or her grandparents, but we have roots that go back thousands of years.”

Harry Leeds is a junior in the Tisch School of the Arts. His favorite book is Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme.

Marley Lynch is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Science. She is currently studying abroad in Paris.

Nick Micheletti (winner, Geometry of Hope) is a senior in the College of Arts and Science. For his story, he drew inspiration from Jesús Rafael Soto’s Vibración - Escritura Neumann (1964) and Carlos Cruz-Diez’s Physichromie 500 (1970) and created caricatures of the artists that reflect the moods of the respective pieces.

Jessamine Molli (finalist, Geometry of Hope) is a sophomore in the General Studies Program. On her poem, she writes, “The appealing thing about writing about a piece of art is that it allows you to share your experience of the work. . . . I loved that through writing I was able to express what I saw in the painting, and where it took my imagination.”

Megan W. Moore is a senior in the College of Arts and Science. Her poem “Visions of Skeeter Boxberger” was published in NYU’s Minetta Review. The Stateline Virtues was inspired by separation anxiety she experienced after leaving the ocean in New Mexico.

Lee Patterson is a junior in the College of Arts and Science. His work has been previously published in the Columbia Review. His ode to Miami, Fl. was inspired by a drive through a category 1 hurricane on the way back from Moon, a great restaurant that’s open for business despite most natural disasters.

Agnes Petrucione is a senior in the College of Arts and Science. Her favorite book is God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut.

Lex Evan Schoenfeld is a junior in the College of Arts and Science. On his poem “Lasagna (The Boy at the Monkey Bars),” Schoenfeld says he was never much good on the monkey bars, and he doesn’t care for lasagna.

Alexa Wejko (finalist, Geometry of Hope) is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Science. Her novel is Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

Kat Yakubov is a junior in the Tisch School of the Arts. She eats Kundera up like potato chips.