Coe Review

Contributor's Notes
Alonso Avila is a Mexican ninja who enjoys a good headrub and giggle.
He is a 4th year student hailing from Chicago with a double major in English
and Spanish. He also has a minor in bad ass-ery.
Adam Berlin has two novels published. Belmondo Style (St. Martin's
Press) came out in 2004 and won the The Publishing Triangle's 2005 Ferro-Grumley
award. Headlock (2000) was published by Algonquin Books of
Chapel Hill. He has also published numerous stories and poems in literary
journals. He is an Assistant Professor of English at John Jay College of
Criminal Justice in New York City.
Bradley Bosma is a English Major & Creative Writing Minor from Newton,
IA. Bradley intends, one day, to write something, and, perhaps, given
the correct conditions, even more than that.
Thomas Boulan is a social worker and belongs to a writing group that
meets in a pathology library. His work has appeared in a number of print
and online journals, including Natural Bridge, jerseyworks, Pindeldyboz,
The MacGuffin, Thieves Jargon, Word Riot, keepgoing, Taj Mahal Review
and Southern Ocean Review.
Ben Brooks has published over seventy short stories in literary journals,
including Sewanee Review, Chicago Review, Virginia Quarterly Review,
Epoch, Alaska Quarterly Review, Other Voices, Confrontation, and elsewhere.
His stories have been awarded the O. Henry Prize and the Nelson
Algren Award. His novel, The Icebox, was published in 1987. Currently
he is writer-in-residence at Emerson College, where he teaches fiction writing
and literature.
Karin Carter hails from the small town of Castle Rock, Colorado. She
dearly misses the mountain sunsets and generally more interesting topogra­
phy of Colorado, not to mention the convenience of always knowing which
way west is.
Swagato Chakravorty is a junior from Calcutta, India. He is majoring in
Business Administration with a minor in English. When not listening to
beautiful music from Bristol, England, he fantasizes about Dagny Taggart.