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Contributors to this Issue Contributors Lauren K. Alleyne hails from the twin island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. She received her MFA in Poetry at Cornell University, where she currently lectures. She was the 2003 winner of the Atlantic Monthly Student Poetry Prize, the Robert Chasen Graduate Poetry Prize at Cornell, and has been published in Black Arts Quarterly, The Caribbean Writer, Sexing the Political, Cave Canem Anthologies and the Hampden-Sydney Review. She is co-editor of From the Heart of Brooklyn, a collection of undergraduate prose, poetry and drama. Bob Bradshaw is a programmer living in Redwood City, California. Recent work of his has appeared in Eclectica, Paumanok Review and Subtle Tea. Clay Carpenter is a journalist in Corpus Christi, Texas. Margaux Fragoso is a PhD student at Binghamton University with a concentration in creative writing. She has been published in Barrow Street and in the Indian journal Families. She was recently an AWP Intro Award finalist for fiction; her short story “Careen” will compete in the national contest. “Let Me Tell You About Fish” was written during a poetry workshop hosted by Carole Maso last spring. Aditi Gupta is a senior at Boston University studying English and Japanese and anything else interesting that crosses her path. While she has only been writing for a few years, her poetry has been published in Susquehanna University’s The Apprentice Writer and Beginnings Magazine. Some awards include Washington University’s Howard Nemerov Creative Writing Awards for Poetry and the Claudia Ann Seaman Poetry Award. David Martin’s poems have appeared in over forty literary magazines, including The North American Review, Red Cedar Review, Sou'wester, Slant and Cream City Review as well as College English. He teaches writing and humanities classes at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Rumit Pancholi is a 21-year-old English major with a concentration in poetry at the University of Maryland, College Park. He enjoys reading poetry by Charles Simic, Ted Kooser, and Jack Gilbert in his free time. In the next few months, he plans to pick up his fluency in Spanish so that he can attempt poetry in Spanish. He loves dachshunds, warm summers, big cities, and traveling. He hails from Olney, Maryland, a small town 40 minutes north of Washington, D.C.
Elizabeth Varadan is a retired teacher living in Sacramento with her husband and their loveable mutt, Cezar. Previous stories and flash fiction have appeared in The Rockford Review, Word Riot, Art Times, Long Story Short, Flash Me Magazine, Epiphany, Melic Review, Whim's Place and Laughter Loaf. Mark Wekander has been a resident of Puerto Rico since 1985, except for three years in Louisiana where he did a Ph.D. in creative writing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He has had poems published or accepted for publication in the Atlanta Review, Cottonwood, Salt RiverReview, Fire, The Southwestern Review, The Stickman Review and The Caribbean Writer. His novel The New Corn Goddess was a finalist in the 2000 Great American Book contest. In 2000 his book of poetry Partial Places was published by Canopus Press. He has also published translations from Danish and Spanish. Links Poetry in the Arts: See our Poet & Writer Resources for extensive, freely accessible meta indexes of publishers, literary competitions, workshops and learning resources among many others, and join us in Musings, a critique group forum. PITA also welcomes unsolicited submissions of poetry and art to its online journal, Ardent! 
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