Issue 3: Contributors

"Return to the Source" by featured artist Scott Starbuck

Terry Brix, a “green” chemical engineer, divides his time among Blue River, Oregon; Bozeman, Montana; Scandinavia; and South Africa. Inspired by his travels, a collection of his poetry Chiseled from the Heart was published in 2000 by Vigeland Museum, Norway. His poetry has appeared in many publications, including The Evansville Review, Fireweed, Exit 13, Rattlesnake Review, Curbside Review, Liberty Hill Poetry Review and The Antioch Review. New poetry will soon appear in Chiron Review and Falling Star Magazine.

Lauren Camp of Santa Fe, New Mexico is an artist and educator. Her poems appear in The New Verse News, J Journal, and Sin Fronteras. She is the author of a book of poems, This Business of Wisdom (West End Press, 2010).

Brittney Corrigan’s poems have appeared in The Texas Observer, Hayden's Ferry Review, Borderlands, The Blue Mesa Review, Oregon Review, Manzanita Quarterly, Stringtown, and Many Mountains Moving, among others. She is the poetry editor for the online literary journal Hyperlexia and lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and two children.

Lucia Galloway’s poems appear or are forthcoming in Comstock Review, Poemeleon, Her Mark 2009, Foundling Review, Redheaded Stepchild, Rufous City Review, Tilt-a-Whirl, and Untitled Country Review, to name the most recent.  The winner of several awards and prizes, she has two books to her credit: Venus and Other Losses (Plain View, 2010) and the chapbook Playing Outside (Finishing Line, 2005).  Galloway co-hosts a monthly poetry reading series in Claremont, California.

Melissa Madenski works for Multnomah County Library in Portland, Oregon as an Adult Literacy Coordinator.  She has taught in workshops throughout the northwest and at Lewis and Clark College’s Northwest Writing Institute.  Her essays, poems and stories have been in regional and national periodicals and anthologies.

Catherine McGuire has been widely published over the past two decades, more than 160 poems including in The New Verse News, The Smoking Poet, Tipton Poetry Journal, Poetry In Motion, Folio, and Main Street Rag. She has published a chapbook, Joy Into Stillness: Seasons of Lake Quinault.

Lex Runciman's fourth collection of poems, Starting from Anywhere, was published last year by Salmon Poetry, Ireland.  He has work new or forthcoming in Hubbub, Cloudbank, The Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Poetry East.  And a reproduction of John Keats’ life mask looks down on his writing desk.

Scot Siegel, Editor of Untitled Country Review, contributed photography; except photographs of ceramic art provided by Scott Starbuck.

Scott T. Starbuck is a Creative Writing Coordinator at San Diego Mesa College.  His next chapbook, Riverwalker, will be published by Mountains and Rivers Press, and his "Wild Salmon" essay will appear in the 2011/12 issue of The Trumpeter Journal of Ecosophy at Athabasca University regarding the theme of deep ecology across generations. Issue 3 features Starbuck's poetry and photographs of his ceramic art. His artwork is currently showing at the Columbia River Gallery in Troutdale, Oregon.

Ray Succre is an undergraduate currently living on the southern Oregon coast with his wife and son.  He has had poems published in Aesthetica, Poets and Artists, and Pank, as well as in numerous others across as many countries.  His novels Tatterdemalion (2008) and Amphisbaena (2009), both through Cauliay, are widely available in print.  Other Cruel Things (2009), an online collection of poetry, is available through Differentia Press.  

Laura Winter’s most recent poetry collection is Coming Here to be Alone (Mountains and Rivers Press 2008, English and German). The western landscape with all its hoodoos, headlands, basin and range, whitewater and rain are the foundation from which she works. Winter’s love for improvised music also informs how she approaches using the English language. Improvised music and its spaces create an interesting tension between sound, words and silence of landscape she uses in her poetry.




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