spring2015

Artists and Authorsin this issueYuan ChangmingYuan Changming is an eight-time Pushcart nominee and theauthor of four chapbooks, including Mindscaping(2014); he isthe world’s most widely published poet who speaks Mandarin butwrites in English. Growing up in a remote village, Yuan beganto learn English at nineteen and published several monographsbefore leaving China. With a PhD in English, Yuan currentlytutors and co-edits Poetry Pacific (submissions: editors.pp@gmail.com) with Allen Qing Yuan in Vancouver. His poetry appears in979 literary publications across thirty-one countries, including Best Canadian Poetry,BestNewPoemsOnline, Cincinnati Review and Threepenny Review.Louie Crew ClayLouie Clay, professor emeritus at Rutgers, has written four poetryvolumes. By the end of 2014, editors had published 2,387 of hismanuscripts. In 2015, Seabury Press will release Letters fromSamaria: The Prose and Poetry of Louie Crew Clay.Oiswarya DasOiswarya Das is a mechanical engineer by day and an artist bynight! He was born in an Indian village where his art was inspiredby his grandfather at an early age. He enjoys directing films,painting, photography, and writing poems when he is not rollingsteel sheets!