KEVIN CAHILL lives in Cork, Ireland. He divides his time between writing poetry and practising reiki. His work was published in The SHOp, Southword, Poetry Nottingham, Pennine Platform, Poetry Monthly, and Envoi and broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1's The Poetry Programme.
STUART B. CAMPBELL's poetry has been previously published in many magazines, e.g. The Rialto, Chapman, Ambit. He edited Things Not Seen - An Anthology of Contemporary Scottish Mountain Poetry (Aberdeenshire Council, 1999). His first collection, Navigation for Innocents, was published in 2002 by Dionysia.
VAHNI CAPILDEO was born in 1973, in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. She came to England in 1991. Her work has appeared in Agenda, Fire, Poetry Wales, Pulsar, Rain Dog, Southfields, Stand, Terrible Work, The Oxford Magazine, and Weyfarers. Her first volume, No Traveller Returns, was published by Salt in 2003 and her prose poem pamphlet, Person Animal Figure, by Landfill Press in 2005.
LUCINDA CAREY is a member of Poets Torbay and The Plymouth Language Group. Recent work was published in Poetry Scotland and THE SHOp.
VUYELWA CARLIN was born in South Africa in 1949 and brought up in Uganda. She has lived for many years in Shropshire. Collections to date: Midas' Daughter (1991), How We Dream of the Dead (1996), Marble Sky (2002), and The Solitary (2008, all Seren).
PATRICK CARRINGTON is the author of Hard Blessings (2008), Rise, Fall and Acceptance (2006, both MSR Publishing), and Thirst (Codhill, 2007). His poems have appeared in journals like The National Poetry Review, American Literary Review, Agenda, Poetry Ireland Review, and Poetry New Zealand.
JEFFREY CARSON was born in 1944, and raised in NYC. Since 1970 he has lived with his wife, the photographer Elizabeth Carson, on the island of Paros, where he teaches at the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts. Among his books are Poems 1974-1996 (Salzburg UP, 1997), Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis (Johns Hopkins UP, 1997), The Temple and the Dolphin (Lycabettus Press, 1995), 49 Scholia on the Poems of Odysseus Elytis (Ypsilon, 1983), and Paros (Lycabettus Press, 1977). His poems also appeared in the anthology Kindled Terraces: American Poets in Greece (ed. Don Schofield; Truman UP, 2004).
JENNIFER CARTER-ZIELIŃSKA is an American freelance translator who makes her home in Sopot, Poland. In addition to numerous commercial and scientific translations, her published work includes translations of the poetry of Kazimierz Wierzyński (PSR 11), Katyń by Andrzej Wajda (Prószyński i S-ka, 2008), and Muse by Zbigniew Rossa (Grafikon, 2008).
MARK CASSIDY grew up on the Isle of Wight. Returning to his birthplace of Birmingham to study Biochemistry, he found many diversions, including punk music & politics. A few of his poems have appeared online in The Electric Acorn and Bonfire. He now lectures in Radiography at the University of Portsmouth.
CRAIG CAUDILL is a freelance writer and video installation artist. His chapbook four am writings was published by One-Legged Cow Press in 2005. He is currently working on his first novel.
PAULO CAVALCANTE was born in Rio de Janeiro, in December 1961. His art-works were published in several newspapers and magazines in Brazil. He participated in exhibitions of design and painting in Brazil and other countries. Now, he is working for O Globo, one of the most important newspapers in Brazil. In 2000, with three other artists, he launched Papel Brasil, an art magazine. He twice received the prize "The Best Newspaper Design" (Individual Porfolio and Award of Excellence) from the Society of Newspaper Design (SND).
GLEN CAVALIERO was born in 1927 of mixed Italian and north country English descent. Educated at Tonbridge School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. In 1965 he moved to Cambridge where he read for a degree in English, obtaining his doctorate in 1972. He now lives and teaches there as a member of the Faculty of English and a Fellow Commoner of St. Catharine's College. He is the author of six collections of poems, including Ancestral Haunt (Poetry Salzburg, 2002) and, his latest, The Justice of the Night (Tartarus Press, 2007). A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has contributed to numerous journals and periodicals, including The New Yorker, PN Review, Stand, and The TLS.
Born in 1949 in the United States, ALFRED CELESTINE emigrated to England in 1972 to concentrate on his poetry. To date, he has published two collections, Confessions of Nat Turner (Many Press, 1978) and Passing Eliot in the Street (Nettles Press, 2003). Currently he is planning to revive enRoute Press.
SRINJAY CHAKRAVARTI is a 31-year-old journalist, economist and poet based in Salt Lake City, Calcutta, India. His first book of poems, Occam's Razor (Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1994), received the SALT literary award from a literary trust in Melbourne, Australia in 1995.
ANTHONY CHALK has been published in Mind Matters Review, Psychopoetica, Paris Atlantic, among others. He is best-known for writing parody and satirical poetry. He is currently the poetry section editor for Open Minds Quarterly.
MELANIE CHALLENGER graduated from Oxford University in 2000. Her work has been published variously in magazines and anthologies, including Fulcrum, Scintilla and Poetry Review. Her first libretto was published in July 2004 by Chester Music, and premiered by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
AVIK CHANDA is a painter, freelance journalist and poet, writing in both English, and his native tongue, Bengali. Originally coming from India, he currently lives in the US, where he works as a management consultant. Work has appeared in Borderlines, Orbis, Envoi, and Stride Magazine, among others. His first collection in English, Footnotes, has been published by Shearsman in 2008.
MICHAEL CHEVAL was born in 1966 in Kotelnikovo, a small town of southern Russia. His family moved to Germany in 1980 and in 1986 he moved to Turkmenistan and graduated from Ashgabad school of Fine Art. In 1997 he emigrated to the USA. In 1998 Cheval became a member of the prestigious National Arts Club where he was distinguished with the Exhibition Committee Award in 2000. Cheval has specialized in Absurdist paintings, drawings and portraits. He has published two full-colored art albums - Lullabies (2004) and Nature of Absurdity (2007).
ADAM CHILES' work has appeared in numerous journals including Barrow Street, Beloit Poetry Journal, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Magma, The Malahat Review, Other Poetry, and Painted Bride Quarterly. His first book Evening Land was published by Cinnamon Press in 2008. He teaches English and Creative Writing at the Northern Virginia Community College.
WILLIAM CIROCCO lives in San Francisco with his wife, the painter Louise Victor and their son, Billy. His most recent book of poems is aerolith (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007). A small booklet, Three Psalms for Robert Lax, was published by Kater Murr's Press in 2002. He is also the printer of fine art letterpress publications from hawkhaven press, which include works by Robert Lax, David Miller, Frank Samperi, and Thomas A. Clark.
ADRIAN CLARKE's publications include Ghost Measures (Actual Size Press, 1987), Obscure Disasters (1993), Paradise Gardens (2000), and Skeleton Sonnets (2002, all Writers Forum). His most recent collections from Veer Books are Former Haunts (2004) and Possession (2007). He co-edited Angel Exhaust magazine with Stephen Pereira in the 1980s and 1990s. He co-edited the anthology Floating Capital: New Poets from London (Potes & Poets Press, 1991) with Robert Sheppard and five issues of AND magazine with the late Bob Cobbing. A frequent performer of his poetry, he was also part of the performance duo StrèsS with the poet and composer Virginia Firnberg. He lives in Whitstable, Kent in the South of England.
R. D. COLEMAN is a writer and photographer who lives in New York. He has worked as an investigator, a welfare department caseworker, a union organizer, a gang worker on the city's Lower East Side, a union bureaucrat, a director of homeless shelters, and even a city commissioner. His work has appeared in Acumen, Envoi, Poetry Review, and Midwestern University Quarterly.
COLETTE CONNOR. Poet and Playwright. Born and lives in Dublin. Short-listed for a Hennessy Award 1994. Her work has appeared in various periodicals and anthologies including Poetry Ireland Review, Books Ireland, Cuirt 4, Chapman (Irish Issue), Writing Women etc. She was a participant in the 1999 National Writers' Workshop at NUI, Galway.
TREVOR CONWAY lives and studies in Galway. A writer of fiction, poetry, music, and film scripts, his work has appeared in magazines such as Ropes, Decanto, The Sharp Review, and The Gown.
CHRISTINA COOK has an MFA in Poetry and Translation. Most recently her poems have appeared in Sojourn: A Journal of the Arts and Inertia Magazine.
BELINDA COOKE's poems, translations and reviews have been published widely in journals and anthologies. Her first chapbook Resting Place was published by Flarestack in 2007 and Paths of the Beggarwoman: The Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva is forthcoming with Worple Press in Spring 2008.
DAVID COOKE was born in England in 1953 of Irish parents. He gained a first in Modern Languages from Nottingham University in 1977 and in the same year his poetry earned him a major E. C. Gregory Award. His first collection, Brueghel's Dancers, was published by Free Man's Press in 1984. After a silence which has lasted for twenty years he has now started writing again and has work published in Stand.
FLAVIA COSMA is a Romanian-born Canadian poet. She has a Master degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest. She is an award-winning independent television documentary producer, director, and writer, and has published seven books of poetry, a novel and a book of fairy tales. 47 Poems (Texas Tech UP, 1992) received the ALTA Richard Wilbur Poetry in Translation Prize.
T. ZACHARY COTLER teaches at Hartwick College in New York. Most recently his work has been published in The Antioch Review, FIELD, The London Magazine, Paris Review, Poetry, Post Road, Southern Review, and The Wolf.
ALISON CROGGON (born 1962) is an Australian poet, playwright, fantasy novelist, and librettist. Born in the Transvaal, South Africa, her family moved to England before settling in Australia. Collections: Theatre (Salt, 2008), November Burning (Vagabond, 2004), The Common Flesh: Poems 1980-2002 (Arc, 2003), Attempts at Being (Salt, 2002), Mnemosyne (Wild Honey Press, 2001), The Blue Gate (Black Pepper Press, 1997), and This is the Stone (Penguin Books Australia, 1991).
LISA M. CRONKHITE has published work among others in Clark Street Review, The Penwood Review, Soul Fountain, and Fighting Chance Magazine. She suffers from Bipolar Disorder and writes as a coping skill.
ANAMARÃA CROWE SERRANO is Irish and lives in Dublin with her family. She has worked as a freelance translator, reader for the blind, teacher of Spanish language and translation at Dublin City University and Trinity College Dublin. Femispheres (Shearsman, 2008) is her first collection.
CLAIRE CROWTHER lives in London and is just beginning a PhD in contemporary English poetry at Kingston University. Her work has appeared in many journals including The TLS, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales and Shearsman. Her pamphlet, The Glass Harmonica, was published by Flarestack in 2003.
JAMES CUMMINS was born in the Middle East but because of his pale colouring could never be mistaken for anything but Irish. He attended Dartington College of Arts in the UK and got a Degree in Performance Writing for his trouble. In 2005 he set up DEFAULT publishing in order to promote the kinds of poetry he enjoys to read.
MICHAEL CURTIS grew up in Liverpool and now lives in Kent and on the Isle of Man. He has performed at numerous venues across Europe, run creative writing workshops for all ages and works in literature development. His seventh poetry collection, Long Haul, was published by Redbeck Press in 2005 and his first children's book, The Black Hound, was published by The Manx Experience in 2006.
ALEXANDER J. CUTHBERT. Originally from the East Neuk of Fife he is currently at the University of Glasgow. In 2003 and 2004 he was short-listed for the RSAMD Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize.