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

Hogan holds a Ph.D. in English from St. John‘s University, Queens & teaches as an adjunct
professor in the Brooklyn Campus English Department. Her poems, stories & plays have enjoyed
many prizes, performances & publications, including Lunch with the Muse, Scribes of Ozymandias, Mad
Poets Review & Downtown Brooklyn. / Daphne Horton is working toward her bachelor‘s degree
(Literature) in the English Department. She works as the secretary for both the Department of
Foreign Languages & Literatures & the Department of Communications Studies, Performance
Studies, & Theatre. / Tony Iantosca is working toward his MFA in Creative Writing in the
Brooklyn Campus English Department. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Talisman,
EOAGH, Zen Monster, Brooklyn Paramount, & Downtown Brooklyn. Tony also helps to edit the poetry
journal Sun‟s Skeleton (http://www.sunsskeleton.com/). / An alumnus (BA, 2010) of the English
Department‘s undergraduate English major program (Creative Writing), Giuseppe Infante is now
working toward his graduate degree in the English Department‘s Creative Writing MFA program.
He is a co-editor of By the Overpass: A Journal of Writing and Art. / Gülay Işık is working toward her
graduate degree in the English Department‘s Creative Writing MFA program. / An alumna (2005)
of the English Department‘s undergraduate major program, Belynda Jones currently performs with
the soul/funk band Soul Understated. / Jamey Jones lives in Pensacola, Fl., where he teaches
Creative Writing, Language Arts, & Intensive Reading. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from
Long Island University in 2011. His most recent chapbooks are the notebook troubled the sleep door
(brown boke press, 2008), & Twelve Windows (brown boke press, 2009). His first full-length book,
Blue Rain Morning (Farfalla, McMillan and Parrish) appeared in 2011. His poems have recently
appeared in Fell Swoop, The Mundane Egg, Big Bridge, Eaogh, With + Stand, The Tsatsawassins, The Portable
Boog Reader #5, & Zen Monster. / Kate is the pseudonym of a Brooklyn Campus undergraduate. /
Anna Lindwasser is working toward her MSED in Adolescent English Education at the Brooklyn
Campus. / Formerly a fabric designer, Montessori preschool teacher, ESL teacher, & choral singer,
Elspeth Woodcock Macdonald is working toward her graduate degree in the Brooklyn Campus
English Department‘s Creative Writing MFA program. / Brady Nash works as an Academic
Advisor for Sophomore Programs in the Brooklyn Campus Office of Student Development &
Retention. In addition to advising & helping to develop program materials, he works with the
Scholarship Assistance Program, helping students research, identify & apply for outside
scholarships. He is working toward a master‘s degree in media theory & aesthetics in the Brooklyn
Campus Media Arts Department. / Uche Nduka is working toward his graduate degree in the
English Department‘s Creative Writing MFA program at the Brooklyn Campus. / Steve Newton
taught from 1992 to 1999 as Assistant Professor in the English Department at the Brooklyn Campus
of Long Island University, where he also served as the Director of the Writing Center. He currently
teaches English as an Associate Professor at William Paterson University, where he directs the
Writing Center. / Jon L. Peacock is a Brooklyn based artist, with a current focus on prose writing
& theatrical acting. He earned his bachelor's degree in Theatre Studies, with an Acting
concentration, from Arizona State University, studying under Marshall W. Mason, co-founder of
off-Broadway's Circle Repertory Theater. He is an alumnus (2010) of the Creative Writing MFA
program at the Brooklyn Campus English Department, where he worked as a Writing Center tutor,
a Graduate Teaching Fellow, Research Assistant (under several different professors), & Adjunct
Assistant Professor (Fall 2010). His master‘s thesis (a novel-in-progress) was entitled Wayward. /
Formerly an Adjunct Professor in the English Department, Howard Pflanzer is a playwright,
lyricist, & poet. On the Border, his play about Walter Benjamin, winner of the 2007 Jump-Start
competition, had its world premiere at Medicine Show Theatre, in November 2007. Medicine Show
presented his play Living With History: Camus Sartre De Beauvoir in the spring of 2011. The Terrorist was
presented (US premiere: 2006) by the Unofficial New York Yale Cabaret (UNYYC) at the Laurie
Beechman Theatre, NYC. He was a Fulbright Scholar in theatre (spring 2003) in India where he
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