Contributor Notes
Chad Abushanab holds a degree in English literature and creative writing from the College of Charleston. He currently lives and writes in Charleston, South Carolina.
Luke Bloomfield has poems in Glitterpony, Invisible Ear, So and So Magazine, Sir!, Strange Machine, and has been featured in Wolf in a Field. He's a co-editor of notnostrums and a member of the Robert Walser Society of Western Massachusetts.
Caroline Cabrera is from South Florida, but currently lives in Amherst, Massachusetts where she attends the MFA for Poets and Writers at UMass-Amherst. She is managing editor of Slope Editions.
Francesca Chabrier is the assistant editor of jubilat. Her work appears or is forthcoming in places like notnostrums, Sixth Finch, Invisible Ear, Forklift, Ohio and Wolf in a Field. Her collaborations with Christopher Cheney can be found in GlitterPony. She lives in a valley on Orchard St.
Kyle Crawford is from a small town in central Nebraska, but currently lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. He is the poetry editor of a magazine based out of Portland, Oregon called The Benefactor. Recent poems of his are forthcoming from Microfilme Magazine.
P. Edward Cunningham co-edits Radioactive Moat and currently serves as Asst. Managing Editor of SLAB. He's a contributing writer to the Open Thread Blog and his work will be seen/can be seen in places like Writer's Bloc, H_NGM_N, Dogzplot, Haha Clever Dot Com, WTF PWM, Pinstripe Fedora, decomP, and Read Some Words. His first book of essays, This Boy, This Broom, is forthcoming from BatCat Press.
Miranda Dennis writes poems, recipes, grocery lists, screenplays, love letters, and newsletters for other people's families. She can be found in Amherst, teaching 24 college students how to out-write her.
Kristen A. Evans is 2/7ths of the way through her doctoral degree in English at The University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where she also teaches composition. An assistant at Small Beer Press, she harbors ambitions for seven different careers at any given time. Massachusetts is great and all, but her heart belongs to Pennsylvania.
Anne Cecelia Holmes & Lily Ladewig are natural wonders living in Western Massachusetts.
Seth Landman lives in Denver. He edits the magazine Invisible Ear and a website of video poetry readings called Divine Magnet. His chapbook, Parker's Band, is available from Laminated Cats Ltd., and he has poems appearing or forthcoming in Skein, Glitterpony, Model Homes, Coconut, notnostrums and the Boston Review.
Jessica Dylan Miele is an MFA student at UMass Amherst. She is currently working on a novel with a constantly evolving title. She has an infatuation with Ada Lovelace and the history of inventions.
Philip Muller grew up in Florida. He is on hiatus from his MFA in redsockscity, usa. His poems also appear in H_NGM_N.
Samantha Nataro watches detective shows and eats a lot of ice cream. Although she wrote her first poem, called "Dear Mr. God," in the back of a Precious Moments bible quite a number of years ago, this is her first time being published. She lives in Amherst, MA.
Hilary Plum & Zach Savich know what they are and are not.
Jade Ramsey graduated in 2008 from Stephen F. Austin State University with a B.F.A. in Creative Writing. She is currently earning an M.F.A in poetry from Bowling Green State University.
Zach Savich's first book, Full Catastrophe Living, won the Iowa Poetry Prize. His second collection, Annulments, which these poems are from, won the Colorado Prize for Poetry and will be published in November 2010.
Zachary Schomburg is the author of The Man Suit (Black Ocean 2007), Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean 2009), and several chapbooks including, most recently, Team Sad (Cinematheque Press 2010), a collaboration with Emily Kendal Frey. His poetry translations from the Russian of Andrei Sen-Senkov are in The Agriculture Reader, Aufgabe, Harp & Altar, Circumference and others. He has co-edited Octopus Books and Octopus Magazine since 2003. He was born in Omaha in 1977, the year of the snake, but he now lives in Portland, OR.
Andy Stallings lives in New Orleans with Melissa and Esme, his wife and daughter. He teaches creative writing at Tulane University, co-edits THERMOS Magazine, and is a co-founder of Exploding Swan Operations. Recent poems have been published at Clementine Magazine and I Thought I Was New Here.
About Jellyfish
This is the second issue of Jellyfish Magazine, an online poetry magazine founded in Amherst, MA in 2009.
Creator, Editor, Web Designer: Gale Marie Thompson