Michelle Askin lives in Arlington, Virginia, and works in Special Education. Her poetry has appeared in Fogged Clarity, PANK, Counter Punch, Poet’s Basement, Oranges & Sardines, Plain Spoke, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from West Virginia University.
Gerald M. Berns is a long-time resident of Northern Virginia who has written about 50 memoir-stories. This is the second one he has submitted for publication; the first was published in The Northern Virginia Review, Issue 23. His other major interests include photography, family genealogy, computer graphics, game analysis, and enjoying the beach.
Anthony Copeland is an artist living in Falls Church, Virginia and Lost River, West Virginia. For the last 15 years his focus has been on the qualities of fused glass and its relationship to light and color. Recently, he has begun exploring digital photography and how the manipulation of images impacts our perceptions of everyday objects.
Jen Daniels, MA, is an MFA candidate in poetry, a Completion Fellow at George Mason University, and the recipient of the 2010 Joseph A. Lohman III Poetry Prize. She is an Assistant Professor of English at the Annandale Campus of Northern Virginia Community College, where she teaches creative writing and American literature.
Kevin D. Dohmen began taking black and white pictures with his grandfather’s SLR when he was ten years old. In 2000, after a hiatus of about 30 years, he rediscovered his passion for photography, this time in the digital medium. His fine art photography portfolio includes flowers and other botanicals, landscapes, and travel photography from Italy, Mexico, and various regions of the US. He also does commercial photography for interior designers, horticulturists, and architects. For more than 20 years Kevin has been self-employed as a training and learning consultant, working with children and adults with attentional disorders and learning disabilities in Alexandria, Virginia. More of Kevin’s images can be seen on his photo website at www.luminousview.net.
Amanda Duffy is an adjunct English instructor at NOVA’s Annandale Campus, and a published fiction writer. Her work has appeared in many magazines both in the US and the UK. Her second novel, I Know Where I Am When I’m Falling, is currently under consideration at Bloomsbury UK. Her website is: byamandaholmes.com
June Forte is a writer and photographer. She is an adjunct instructor of Communication and currently chairs the Woodbridge Campus Adjunct Faculty Council.
Rosemary Gallick is a Professor of Art and Art History at Northern Virginia Community College where she has taught since 1996. She holds a BA from the State University of Stony Brook in Art and an MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Ms. Gallick also has received a Master’s degree in Communication from Cornell University. She has published numerous articles and given various presentations on art and popular culture. Creating art since childhood has been an enduring passion. Ms. Gallick has created a series of portraits that focus on popular icons, ranging from rock and roll musicians, political figures and various celebrities that dominate mass media. Her mixed media portraits have been exhibited widely.
Brian Judge is a cataloger and librarian currently working onsite at the Smithsonian Museum. He graduated with a Master’s Degree in Library Science from Catholic University, enjoys old films, antiques, and is a passionate collector of early American clocks.
Allison Long Hardy received her BA from West Virginia Wesleyan College in 2006 and her MFA from Towson University in 2008. She currently works as an adjunct professor for Northern Virginia Community College and University of Mary Washington. When making art she is interested in the certain moments that communication or lack of communication occur and interpreting those moments through mark. Allison currently resides in Woodbridge, Virginia.
Matt Iden’s loves are writing, travel, and food, not necessarily in that order, and not in the same order all the time. While travel helps him live in the moment, writing enables him to step out of that moment and gives long-term definition to the things he’s experienced. He’s currently at work on his second unpublished novel and enjoys serving as the president of the Northern Virginia Chapter of the Virginia Writers Club.
Raul A. Jordan-Smith, a new adjunct English instructor at Northern Virginia Community College, is a longtime resident of the Northern Virginia area. His poetry has been described as metaphysical. Jordan-Smith graduated from NOVA’s Woodbridge Campus, where he now teaches. In addition, he earned his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts, both in English, from George Mason University.
Elaine Kessler is a former DC-based journalist. She has recently completed her first novel, from which an excerpt was published in The Northern Virginia Review in 2009.
Kate Lassman is currently an adjunct instructor at the Annandale campus of Northern Virginia Community College, and has been teaching English composition and literature there for about six years. She holds an MFA in poetry from George Mason University.
Jim McClellan is Dean of Liberal Arts at the Alexandria Campus.
Todd Messegee is a visual artist and adjunct instructor at Northern Virginia Community College. He was awarded a 2009 Strauss Fellowship in painting from the Arts Council of Fairfax County. Todd is honored to once again have his work included in The Northern Virginia Review.
Linda Mitchell is a wife and mother, volunteer for her kid’s schools, student of School Library Media, Sunday School Teacher, Cub Scout Mom…..and creative writer when she can get a word in edgewise.
Linda Morefield lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband, Chuck, and the felonious canine, Montoya. She writes whenever she is not traveling, cooking, or walking the dog.
Todd Morgan is a DC area native and self described “photography enthusiast.” Photography has been Todd’s means of documenting his interest in the outdoors and travel. His submitted photo is of a small lake in northern Michigan.
Raymond Orkwis teaches writing at the Annandale Campus of Northern Virginia Community College. Ever since youth, he has learned most about the edge of the world through visual references; photography is the kind neighbor that removes the plank from his eye.
Jack Powers, now 66 years old, found his passion at 8 years of age, when a Kodak Brownie came to him as a gift from his parents. He began using a Nikon F in 1974, and Nikon digital cameras since 1999. His photography is self-taught, with inspiration from Ansel Adams and Annie Leibowitz, and photographer-friends. He views photography as a means to interpret light and its interaction with our surroundings. He has resided in Alexandria, Virginia, since 1976. After retirement in 2007, he began selling his photographs locally and in the Shenandoah Valley.
Dr. Lawrence Rich grew up in Hong Kong, and went through various incarnations as a mathematician, a jazz and classical musician, and now a professor of Spanish at Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria Campus. The only thing he loves as much as music (and dancing) is poetry.
Greg Ruth is an illustrator from Delmar, New York. He can be contacted at greg@gregthings.com.
Rita Rubin a longtime journalist, graduated in May with an MA in writing from Johns Hopkins. Her personal essays and short stories have appeared in Brevity, Literary Mama, The Literary House Review, HealthAffairs.org, Prism Review, Six Sentences, and The Battered Suitcase. She lives in Bethesda with her husband and two daughters.
Kathy Smaltz is a fiction writer and poet. Her poem “Epidemic” was published in the Fall 2007 edition of Kalliope. She was awarded a grant from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation in Spring 2009, became a fellow with the VCCA, in Amherst, Virginia, and is currently revising the novel she wrote while at the art colony. Smaltz graduated with an MFA in fiction from George Mason University in 2002. She works as a writing teacher at both the high school and community college level. She and her husband, Mark, have been married for 13 years, and together they parent four young children, ages 8 and under: Yuri, Samuel, Elizabeth and Julianna. The family lives in Nokesville, Virginia.
Miriam St. Clair is an assistant professor of Biology at the Woodbridge Campus, where she has taught for 12 years. She has a Master’s in Molecular Biology from Johns Hopkins University and a Master’s in Forensic Toxicology from the University of Florida. Ms. St. Clair’s two passions are teaching and art and she never seems to have enough time in each day for either of them.
Michael C. Tims received his BA in English/Writing from George Mason University in 1983. A professional career followed in the herbal supplement industry including positions as managing partner of Cash Grocer Natural Foods, as a clinical herbalist in Alexandria, Virginia, and as an academic researcher focused on the chemical ecological role of medicinal plants. Mr. Tims has taught biology at the University of Maryland, Montgomery College and Northern Virginia Community College, and maintains a science education/writing blog, www.bardocalculus.com.
Sherry Trachtman has been teaching drawing, painting, design and collage at NOVA, Alexandria since 1985. Sherry finds birds beautiful, odd and interesting, and spends time watching and listening to them. In her recent series of collage constructions, Sherry personified birds and placed them in settings or situations that help the viewer imagine their “stories.”
Sarah Umberger teaches composition at NOVA’s Annandale Campus. Originally from New York City and parts of Putnam and Ulster Counties in New York’s mid-Hudson Valley, she later spent school and college years in Massachusetts and lived for a short time in Oregon before returning to New York. She now happily makes her home in Northern Virginia.
Christina Wells is an Associate Professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College who has served as faculty co-chair of Calliope, Annandale
