Issue #20 (2011) PDF - myweb - Long Island University

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Ana Almurani is an alumna (2011) of the English Department‘s undergraduate major program
(concentration: Creative Writing). / Rudy Baron earned his master‘s degree in English/Creative
Writing at the Brooklyn Campus & then taught in the English Department for many years as an
adjunct professor. He is a co-founder & former editor of Downtown Brooklyn. / Alicia Berbenick is
working toward her MFA in the English Department‘s graduate creative writing program. / Wayne
Berninger is an alumnus (MA, 1992) of the Brooklyn Campus English Department, where he now
works as an administrator. He manages the Department‘s website & blog, serves as Registration
Advisor for all undergraduate English majors, & teaches freshman writing & sophomore literature
courses. With Barbara Henning & Rudy Baron, he co-founded Downtown Brooklyn in 1992 & has
served as Editor since 1999. / An alumnus (B.A., English) of Florida Atlantic University, John
Casquarelli is pursuing his MFA in the English Department‘s graduate creative writing program.
Prior to attending LIU, he was employed by Health Communications, Inc., where he did editorial
work in their book & magazine departments. He received the Esther Hyneman Award in 2010 for
poetry. / Alane Celeste is an alumna (2010) of the English Department‘s undergraduate program
in Creative Writing. Her thesis was a collection of poetry & fiction entitled When the Dust Settles. She
is currently a graduate student in Long Island University‘s School of Business, working toward her
master‘s degree in Public Administration with an Advanced Certificate in Nonprofit Management. /
Nik Conklin is working toward his undergraduate degree with a double major in English & Media
Arts. / Cynthia Maris Dantzic has been teaching in the Art Department at the Brooklyn Campus
for many years. She was recently among the first group to be promoted to the University‘s newlycreated
faculty rank of Senior Professor. Her most recent book is Alphabet City: Signs of New York.
Following the successes of 100 New York Photographers & 100 New York Painters, she is now
completing 100 New York Calligraphers for Schiffer Publishers. She is also at work on a textbook
entitled Seeing Color, which will present the classic Josef Albers color studies to the current generation
of art students. / Julián del Casal (1863-1893) was a Cuban poet whose early romanticism yielded
to the influence of prevailing French aesthetics. He died young of tuberculosis, having published
only two collections in his lifetime, Hojas al viento (1890) & Nieve (1892). Bustos y rimas (1893)
appeared posthumously. / Wendy Eng is working toward her master‘s degree in the School of
Education‘s Department of Teaching & Learning. / Christine Francavilla is an alumna (MA,
Liberal Studies) of New York University & is currently pursuing a second master‘s degree in the
Brooklyn Campus English Department‘s Creative Writing MFA program. Her work has appeared
in The Tablet, Here‟s Brooklyn, BQE Magazine & Downtown Brooklyn. / An alumna (MFA, 2010) of the
Brooklyn Campus English Department‘s Creative Writing program, Stephanie Gray is a poet & an
experimental filmmaker whose Super-8 films have screened internationally, including at the Black
Maria, Ann Arbor, Oberhausen, Chicago Underground, & Viennale fests. Her first poetry collection,
Heart Stoner Bingo, was published by Straw Gate Books in 2007. Her poems have appeared in
several publications, including Aufgabe, Sentence, The Brooklyn Rail, EOAGH, 2ndAvenuePoetry, Boog City
Reader, & The Recluse. She‘s read her work with films in NYC at the Projections, Segue,
Lungful!@Zinc, & Poetry Project Friday series. / Mary Kennan Herbert teaches literature &
writing in the English Department at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University, where she is
an adjunct professor in the English Department. She is a widely published poet & serves as an
Editorial Advisor for Downtown Brooklyn. / Aimee Herman is working toward her graduate degree
in the English Department‘s Creative Writing MFA program. A performance poet, she has been
featured at various poetry festivals, salons, & on radio. Her work can be found in Cliterature Journal,
Pregnant Moon Review, InStereo Press, and/or journal, & Uphook Press‘s latest poetry anthology, hell strung
and crooked. She currently works as sections editor of erotica for Oysters & Chocolate. / Katherine
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