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© 2004 Wild Thoughts.

Ryan Newhouse

Toni Holland
Toni Holland is a Doctoral student at the University of Texas at Arlington

Lorianne DiSabato
Lorianne is an English instructor at Keene State College. In the spring of 2004, Lorianne received her doctorate in English literature from Northeastern University, where she completed a PhD dissertation on spirituality of place in 19th and 20th century nature writing.

Lorianne enjoys hiking, birding, and amateur botanical studies. A long-time journal-keeper, she also likes to write short essays, including her online nature column, Pedestrian Thoughts, and her weblog, Hoarded Ordinaries. Lorianne currently lives in Keene, NH with her dog, Reggie.

Alan Girling

Lynn Edge
Lynn Edge lives in Texas and enjoys the RV lifestyle which provides material for her writing. Her haibun have appeared in Rose and Thorn, Kaleidowhirl, Flashquake, and on the Haibun Journal resource page. She is currently working on a chapbook entitled New Mexico Missives.

Jeri Pollock
Jeri Pollock teaches eco-comp and eco-lit at Moorpark College in Southern California, but has also taught at the secondary level both in this country and in Brazil.

Peggy Duffy
Peggy Duffy's short stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Newsweek, The Washington Post, Brevity, Octavo, Drexel Online Journal, and Smokelong Quarterly. Her fiction was recognized by the Virginia Commission for the Arts as a finalist in the Individual Artist Fellowship program for literary artists. Her short story, "First Thing in the Morning," was selected by storySouth for the Million Writers Award, Notable Online Short Stories for 2004, and two of her stories were selected by storySouth as Notable Online Short Stories for 2003. She maintains a website Here

Allison Holt
Allison Holt is a soon-to-be graduate of the Master's program in Environmental Studies at The University of Montana. Originally from middle Tennessee, she grew up quietly exploring her backyard and the animals that happened upon it. She fell in love with the deserts and mountains of New Mexico after college, and she plans to return there this summer to teach and live with her dog, Frankie, amongst the red rock and junipers.

Miguel Arboleda
I am a German/ Filipino born in Germany to a father who is half Filipino, half black American. My mother is German and Danish. I grew up in Germany, the US, and Japan, and still can't make up my mind where I belong, though I feel most culturally at home in Japan. I studied English literature and ecology as an undergrad at the University of Oregon, and architecture for my masters, also at the U of O. Right now I live in Tokyo with my Japanese-Brazilian wife and a red-eared slider terrapin named Pepe. You can find me most weekends climbing the Japan Alps and nosing among bushes for tiger beetles and tree mantids.

Margo Tamez
Margo Tamez is a Lipan-Apache poet, author, scholar, and activist.

Publications include Naked Wanting, a book-length collection of poetry; and a chapbook, Alleys & Allies. A second collection of poetry, Raven Eye, is in review at the University of Arizona Press.

She currently designs and teaches undergraduate courses, in poetry, creative non-fiction, Native literatures, Chicana literatures, the environment, gender, class and race at the University of Arizona—South and Pima Community College—West Campus, in Tucson, Arizona, known for its ethnically and culturally diverse population.

Ellen Ridyard

Kay Sexton
Kay Sexton spent more than a decade as a house writer for charitable/environmental organisations worldwide. Her publication credits range from H&E International to France Today to the World Water Forum Annual Report and Green Futures. She is also a Jerry Jazz Fiction Award winner with columns at www.moondance.org and www.facsimilation.com. Her short story Domestic Violence was runner up in the Guardian fiction contest judged by Dave Eggars, Tats earned an honourable mention in the Desdemona's Erotic Fiction contest, Sarah Hall has just picked Acorns and Conkers as the runner up in the ESSP contest and Kay's work appeared in seven anthologies in 2004.

J.A. White
Jared White is from New Hampshire, but he secretly thinks he was born in Montana. He enjoys smoking from a tobacco pipe in the mountains and debating whether to get a dog. Currently he is working towards a Master's degree and teaching biology.

Bernard Quetchenbach
Bernard Quetchenbach teaches at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida. He is the author of a poetry chapbook, entitled The Hermit's Act (Finishing Line Press 2004) and of a book about contemporary poetry, Back from the Far Field (U of Virginia P 2000). His poems, essays, and articles have appeared in various magazines including Rosebud, Organization and Environment, ISLE, Sycamore Review, Albatross, and New Laurel Review.

Beth
Beth is the author of a daily blog, TheCassandraPages, and her essays on place and on religion have appeared in various publications. She's currently working on a book, and in a former life was a naturalist with the NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation. She lives with her husband in Vermont and in Montreal.

Genevieve Jessop Marsh
Genevieve Jessop Marsh graduated in 2001 with a degree in both English and Environmental Studies. She is currently pursuing her MS in environmental writing and community organizing around agricultural issues at the University of Montana and teaching college composition in the English Department.

Stefan Catona

Ponce and Wright
Ponce and Wright are the talented duo behind Rustle the Leaf.

Linda White

Janine DeBaise
Janine DeBaise’s chapbook of poetry Of a Feather was published in 2003 by Finishing Line Press as part of their New Women’s Voices Series. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including the minnesota review, Phoebe, 13th Moon, Frontiers, Kalliope and the Seattle Review.

Charles Goodrich
Charles Goodrich is the author of a volume of poems, Insects of South Corvallis (Cloudbank Books, 2003), and a newly-released collection of essays about nature, parenting, and building his own house, The Practice of Home (Lyons Press, 2004). He has also edited two poetry anthologies, Let Us Drink to the River: Poems for the Willamette River, and T'cha teemanwi: Poems for Marys Peak. His essays and poetry have appeared in many magazines including Orion, Open Spaces, Willow Springs, Zyzzyva, The Sun, and Best Essays Northwest. A number of his poems have been read by Garrison Keillor on the National Public Radio program, "The Writer's Almanac." For twenty-five years Goodrich worked as a professional gardener. He is presently an instructor for the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature and the Written Word at Oregon State University, a program that brings together creative writers, philosophers and environmental scientists. He lives with his family near the confluence of the Marys and Willamette Rivers in south Corvallis.

Jesslyn Shields
Jesslyn Shields is a student at the University of Montana where she is working towards a master's degree in Environmental Studies with an emphasis on writing.

Theresa Kishkan
Theresa Kishkan lives with her husband John Pass on the Sechelt Peninsula in British Columbia where they operate High Ground Press. Her books include Red Laredo Boots (1996), Sisters of Grass (2000) and A Man in a Distant Field (2004).

Dave Bonta
Dave Bonta lives and writes in a 150-year-old tenant house on his parent's mountaintop property near Tyrone, Pennsylvania, in theupper Juniata watershed. His prose, poetry, and cartoons are available daily at Via Negativa

Becca Hall
Becca Hall is currently studying nature writing at the University of Montana. She has been writing poetry since she learned enough letters, and environmental essays since September. Besides writing, she likes the way rain smells, climbing trees, and riding her bike while singing.

Hank Green
Hank Green is a biochemist who hates laboratores, and so became a professional writer and web designer. He designs and codes for the University of Montana, writes a weekly column for the Boulder Dirt, and runs a small internet consulting firm. Also a full time student, Hank is not nearly as busy as this makes him sound.