Volume 1, Issue 3 & 4 - Diverse Voices Quarterly

CONTRIBUTOR NOTES
Maia Akiva is a self-help fiction writer. She’s originally from Israel. Her plays had
readings all over the USA. Her plays “life” and “I hate love” are published by Brooklyn
Publishers. Her play “me” won the St. Tammany National One-Act Play Festival. Her
short stories are published in The LN Magazine, Ascent Aspirations Magazine, and
Bewildering Stories. This year she is working on her first novel “Life U,” which is a
story about a university that gives degrees in being a human being. You can find her
and her writing at http://www.myspace.com/maiaakiva.
Kristy Athens’s nonfiction and fiction have been published in a number of magazines,
newspapers, and literary journals, most recently Tonopah Review, Stone’s Throw
Magazine, and High Desert Journal, and forthcoming in Eclectic Flash. Her textinfused,
repurposed collage greeting cards appear in 1,000 Ideas for Creative Reuse
and are available at http://ithaka.etsy.com.
Kimberly L. Becker, a member of Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers,
is of Cherokee/Celtic/Teutonic descent. Her poetry appears in many literary journals
and anthologies, most recently, Future Earth Magazine, I Was Indian (FootHills), and
Redheaded Stepchild. She studied Cherokee language, history, and culture at the
Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee, North Carolina, on a grant from the Arts
and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Maryland. Current projects include
adapting Cherokee myths into plays for production by Cherokee Youth in Radio.
DeMisty D. Bellinger has an MFA in creative writing from Southampton College on
Long Island, New York. She currently lives in Nebraska with her husband and twin
daughters. She is a regular contributor to Lincoln’s Star City Blog.
Debi Blankenship lives in the Chattanooga, Tennessee area. She believes an artist
should bring awareness of unique insights out of the most ordinary of views and
objects. The simple becomes complex and the mundane, exciting. Her work has been
published in The Arkansas Review, Stillwater Living, Prick of the Spindle, and
Anderbo.com.
Natasha Carthew is an accomplished country poet from Cornwall in the UK and has
been published in numerous national and international magazines. She has garnered
awards for poetry and has had three books of poetry published; the latest being Flash
Reckless published by internationally acclaimed lesbian/feminist publisher
Onlywomen Press. Natasha lives in the country and is currently working on her next
book. All correspondence through http://natashacarthew.tripod.com.
Jessie Carty’s poems and nonfiction have appeared in publications such as The Main
Street Rag, Iodine Poetry Journal, and The Northville Review. Jessie is the author of two
chapbooks At the A & P Meridiem (Pudding House) and The Wait of Atom (Folded
Word). Her first full-length collection Paper House will be released by Folded Word
Press in March 2010. You can find her around the Web but most often at her blog
http://jessiecarty.wordpress.com.
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