Issue No. 3, 2009-10. Contributors’ Notes

Kayla Atherton is in her final year in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies. She was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and she currently lives and writes in Brooklyn. Her favorite book is The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.

Tara Bedi is a senior in the College of Arts and Science. She loves reading Jhumpa Lahiri’s work. “A Temporary Matter” from Interpreter of Maladies is probably one of her favorite stories.

Katie Blakely is a senior in the College of Arts and Science. Her favorite book is The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder.

Aaron Abbott Brown is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Science majoring in English. His favorite books, for now, are Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger and Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (R.I.P.).

Keith Cagney is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Science. He writes stories and poems about relativity and faulty brainboxes, and he is not above self-promotion. His favorite book is If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, for its strong objectivist overtones and its hard life lessons.

Michelle Chen is a freshman in the College of Arts and Science. “Enthogen” is her first poem officially published beyond the realm of high school literary magazines. The poem was in part the result of an assignment for a seminar class that required her to respond to the poetry of T.S. Eliot. Eliot, coincidentally, is Michelle’s favorite poet.

Andrew Colarusso is a junior in the College of Arts and Science studying Comparative Literature. His favorite book is the first edition run of Hooper Humperdink...? Not Him! by Theodor Seuss Geisel.

Jake Fournier is a third-year senior in the College of Arts and Science majoring in English. He has a website, www.swashbookler.com, and he is currently working on a chapbook that will be available in June 2010.

Stephanie Gallagher is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Science majoring in English. Her work has appeared in The Minetta Review. In high school, she had a poem published in a collection entitled “The Colors of Life.” Her favorite book is The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien.

Sam Goldsmith is a senior in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development majoring in Jazz Composition and History. He has an essay forthcoming in the Historian. After graduation, he plans to teach English to middle-schoolers in Istanbul.

Amy Greenberg is a sophomore in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study. “Pinus Pinaster” is her first published work.

Ashley Imery-Garcia is a freshman in the College of Arts and Science. Her work has previously appeared in Voices of Art Magazine. She hasn’t read her favorite book yet, but in the meantime she likes Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan.

Jason Jiang is a senior in the College of Arts and Science. His poem “Striving for Heaven” appeared in the second issue of West 10th (2008-2009). He was born Niles, Ohio. His father made his living in the nearby steel mills of Youngstown, Ohio. Growing up, Jason had a strict Jesuit education at the Colegio del Salvador in Zaragoza until he was expelled. He began writing poetry at an early age, discovering the work of Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Koch and the films of Luis Bunuel in his teenage years. After graduation, he plans to find a way to bring clean water to developing countries.

Amanda J. Killian is a senior in the College of Arts and Science. Her poem “Huis” appeared in the second issue of West 10th (2008-2009). Her work has also appeared in The Broome Street Review. After graduation, she has plans to fear the unknown.

Mallory Locke is a senior in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development English Education program. When she’s not reading the books she’s teaching to her students, she spends her time relishing the Southern Gothic wisdom of Flannery O’Connor. After graduation, she plans to continue writing—both stories about Ernest Gale and daily lesson plans.

Marcine Miller is a junior in the Tisch School of the Arts. She is a cinephile currently studying in Paris. When she is not buried in celluloid, she often may be found stuffing secret notes into overdue library books. At all other times, she is engaged in her great search for worthwhile literary beards.

Tom Mooseker is a senior in the Tisch School of the Arts. He has written some music video reviews for a local music blog. On his poem “Haiku #19,” Tom writes, “I’d like to point out that dolphins are the most intelligent animals on earth next to human beings. Smarter than chimps, in fact.”

Christy Tomecek is a senior in the College of Arts and Science. Her work has previously appeared in Mannequin Envy, an online literary journal. After graduation, she will attend Queens College to earn a graduate degree in Library Sciences.

Vanessa Victoria Volpe is a junior in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She is studying Applied Psychology. Her favorite books are The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera and anything by John Ashbery or Elizabeth Bishop.

Andrew James Weatherhead (Winner, 2009-2010 West 10th Editors’ Award in Poetry) is a senior in the College of Arts and Science. His work has previously appeared in Her Royal Majesty (www.heroyalmajesty.ca) and Paris/Atlantic.

Steff Yotka (Winner, 2009-2010 Westh 10th Editors’ Award in Prose) is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Science. Her favorite book is Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.