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Introduction

Author Bios

Fiction

They Come to Me
by Pamela Schoenewaldt

From Gideon Jones' Journal
by Allen Wier

Poetry

Sunsphere Shots
by Daniel Roop

Flamboyans
by Marilyn Kallet

Drunk in the Orchard
by Steve Sparks

'now is the drinking'
by Patricia Waters

Marilyn Kallet received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University. She is Professor of English at UT, where she holds the Hodges Chair for Distinguished Teaching and directs the Creative Writing Program. She is the author of nine books, including three volumes of poetry, translations, anthologies, essays, and children's literature. Her poems have been published in Prairie Schooner, New Letters, Tar River Poetry, and hundreds of other magazines. In 2000, the Knoxville YWCA named her Outstanding Woman in the Arts. Dr. Kallet is the poetry editor for New Millenium Writings. Her latest book, One For Each Night: Chanukah Tales and Recipes (Celtic Cat Publishing) has just been published.

Daniel Roop is the only performance poet in the country to place in the Top 10 at the National Poetry Slam every year from 1997-1999. He has numerous publication credits, and was nominated for a 1999 Pushcart Prize. His first one-man show, Sunsphere Shots, opened February 2003 at the Black Box Theatre.

Pamela Schoenewaldt lives in Knoxville, teaches fiction and professional writing at UT and was the 2001-3 UT Libraries Writer in Residence. Her short stories have appeared in such literary magazines as Belletrist Review, Bianco su Nero (Italy), Carve, Cascando (U.K.), Crescent Review (winning the Chekhov Prize for Short Fiction), New Letters, New Millennium Writings, Paris Transcontinental, The Sun and Women's Words. She is working on a novel about a 12th Century Sicilian empress. Pamela is on the board of the Knoxville Writers Guild and lives with her husband, Maurizio, and daughter, Emilia. "They Come to Me" originally appeared as "Ministrations of Women" in Mediphors, the literary magazine of the medical profession.

Originally from North Alabama, Steve Sparks has lived in the Knoxville area for almost 10 years. He received his BA from UT, where he is currently enrolled in graduate school. His poetry has appeared in the Knoxville Writers' Guild anthologies Breathing the Same Air and Literary Lunch, national journals, such as The North American Review, Potpourri, Now & Then and Number One, and online at various internet sites. He is currently at work on a series of poems about the moon.

Patricia Waters was born and reared in Nashville, took her BA at Memphis State University, her MA and Ph.D. at UT-Knoxville. She has published in little magazines. She is the writer in residence at the library at UT and an adjunct lecturer in the English department.

Allen Wier has published three novels: A Place for Outlaws, Departing as Air, and Blanco, and a collection of stories, Things About to Disappear. He's edited Walking on Water and other stories, and co-edited Voicelust, a collection of essays. In 1997, Wier received the Robert Penn Warren Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He's the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Dobie-Paisano Fellowship from the Texas Institute of Letters. Wier recently completed two new novels, Tehano, and Skin For Skin. This year he was elected to membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers and will be inducted in April of 2003. He holds the Hodges' Chair for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Tennessee.