Contributors

Caleb Barber earned an MFA in poetry from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts, based off of Whidbey Island.  He currently lives in Bellingham, WA, where he works at an aerospace machine shop. His poems have been most recently published in Rattle, Portland Review, Los Angeles Review, Makeout Creek, and Forge, as well as a feature in Poet Lore. His book, Beasts and Violins, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press, and the title poem will appear in Best American Poetry 2009.

Frank T. Byrne lives with his two young children outside of Victor, Montana. He works as a general contractor and part-time euphonium teacher in the Bitterroot Valley. He is attempting, whenever the mood strikes him, to write his first full-length book of poems.

Phil Condon is the author of River Street (stories), Clay Center (novel), and Montana Surround (essays).  "Dogs and Dogs" is one of a collection of stories, Nine Ten Again, which received the 2008 Elixir Press Fiction Award and is forthcoming in June 2009.

Julia Corbett is a communication professor at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City where she also teaches environmental studies.  She is the author of Communicating Nature (2006, Island Press) and creative non-fiction essays in Orion, Weber Studies and in three anthologies. She summers with the owls in western Wyoming.

Jessica Crowley graduated from the College of Forestry and Conservation at U of M.  Since then, she has spent much of her free time looking for owls and working with the Owl Research Institute of Charlo, MT.  She lives in Missoula.

Laura Dunn is a second year poet in the MFA program at the University of Montana.  Her work has also appeared in Touchstone, Zero Ducats and Juniper Alligator.

Darren M. Edwards teaches English composition at Utah State University where he also works as an editorial assistant at Isotope: a Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing. His essays and poetry have appeared in a number of journals including Edgz, Urban Climber, and Irreantum.

Claire Engleson, a proud Montana native has always had her feet in the arts somewhere.  Be it dance, music, photography, graphic design or animation, anything to keep the artistic blood flowing.  She is a 2007 graduate or The Rocky Mountain School of Photography and is currently pursuing a degree in Media Arts at the University of Montana. 

Lucas Farrell's writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Jubilat, Boston Review, Mid-Atlantic Review, and Outside. He received an MFA in poetry from the University of Montana. Currently, he lives in Vermont and teaches creative writing at Middlebury College.

Marie Garrison is a 2006 graduate of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Montana.  Her freelance photography includes portraits, weddings and fine art, but her passions are travel photography and the rural west

Marie Garrison is a 2006 graduate of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Montana.  Her freelance photography includes portraits, weddings and fine art, but her passions are travel photography and the rural west.

Katie Knight is a Helena artist who fuses art and activisim while participating in the movement for earth justice. See samples of her work at www.katieknight.net.

Michelle Lanzoni comes to Montana from New England, but her heart resides in the desert Southwest. Before committing herself to writing, she made a decent living in Boston; she doesn't expect to ever again. Her current interest and passion is water.

Mike Lommler is an itinerant photographer, writer and biologist. Much of his work is focussed on the American Southwest, which is not where he is from, but is where he feels at home.

Nathaniel Mohatt lives in Fairbanks, Alaska, where he works at the Cold Climate Housing Research Center while completing a PhD in Psychology and Creative Writing.  He is co-founder of the Pirate Pig Press, and his poems have appeared in Big Bridge, A Hudson View, and Jack Magazine and are forthcoming in Strange Alaska.

Greta Rybus is a University of Montana photojournalism student and local freelance photographer. She first began making photographs at the age while living in Japan, though she calls the sagebrush hills of Idaho home. Contact Greta at gretarybus@gmail.com.

Magda Sokolowski is an MFA candidate at Indiana University through which she recently received a summer fellowship to Nepal, where she will focus on the impacts of cultural dislocation on writers in exile.  Her poetry and reviews have appeared in Indiana Review, Pebble Lake Review, The King's English, Moria Poetry and elsewhere.  She and her partner make their home in Western Montana.

Bethany Shilling photojournalist from Salem OR. Currently going to school and working, while spending the Summers doing photography as part of trio of photographers known as Terzetto Photography.

Noelle Sullivan writes from the western edge of the Yellowstone ecosystem. Her poems have appeared in Crannóg, Poetry Northwest, The Bloomsbury Review, the High Plains Literary Review, and other places.

Bethany Taylor is a New Hampshire native briefly transported to Missoula, Montana for graduate school. Before deciding that writing was what she really wanted to do she worked as a nurse's assistant, a back-country construction worker, and a White Mountain sherpa.

Kristen Theiler moved to Missoula, Montana to attend the University of Montana in the fall of 2007. She is currently in her junior year, in Media Arts and Photojournalism. Kristen was awed by the beauty of the Montana area, and developed a passion for photography because of it. Kristen also works as a graphic designer for Exact Image, a promotional solutions company in Missoula. Her website www.theilerdesign.com will be completed June 2009, and there her prints or work can be requested.   

Pepper Trail is a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Ashland, Oregon.  His poetry has been published in Open Spaces, Borderlands, Atlanta Review, and other journals, and his essays appear in the Writers on the Range series of High Country News. 

Margo Whitmire is a former California music journalist turned environmental writing student at the University of Montana. She lives in Missoula and can't wait for her first Montana summer.

Jenae M. Zaharko is from Melstone, MT and is graduating from U of M in May with a photojournalism degree. Her future plans are to continue freelance work and hopefully one day start her own photography business.