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and thoughtful family, traveling abroad, passionate readers and writers, the theater of complex and interesting playwrights, the music of good listeners. Her work is often completed in collaboration with Moulay Youness Elbousty, for whom she is exceedingly grateful.

R. W. Haynes, Professor of English at Texas A&M International University, Laredo, Texas, writes often of border issues of the body and spirit. Those interested in his verse can google it. Haynes is also a literary critic whose 2010 book The Major Plays of Horton Foote is one of the few detailed studies of this remarkable playwright’s best-known dramas.
Jonathan Highfield is professor of English at Rhode Island School of Design, where he teaches a range of courses in postcolonial literatures. He has published essays in Antipodes, Atlantic Studies, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, The Jonestown Report, Kunapipi, Passages, and Rupkatha. His poems have appeared in Hiram Poetry Review, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, and The New Review.

Mark Jackley Mark Jackley is the author of several chapbooks, most recently Every Green Word (Finishing Line Press), and a full-length collection, (Plain View Press). He lives in Sterling, VA.

Chris Jackson, a resident of Surrey, has had poetry and translations appear in, amongst other places, Ambit, Equinox, Poetry Salzburg Review, Assent, Fuselit, and Ink, Sweat & Tears.

Simon Jackson lives in Edinburgh. He has been a journalist, teacher, musician and director of Living Arts Space Theatre Company. He has had more than twenty plays performed and was British Gas Young Playwright of the Year (when he was still a young playwright) and his last play, Turning to the Camera was The Guardian’s Pick of the Week for Scottish theatre. His poetry has won several awards including The Grace Dieux Writers' Prize 2009, The Writers Bureau Poetry Award 2010 and The Segora Poetry
Prize 2011. A collection, Fragile Cargo will be published by BeWrite Books in 2012. His short films have been used by the BBC and shown international Film Festivals. He is currently filming music videos for Billy Bragg’s Jail Guitar Doors charity. He has composed soundtracks for a few films, plays and radio plays and an album of his music (with words) is available from http://torpedobuoy.weebly.com/ All profits go to support education in Kenya. You may purchase it, if you like that sort of thing.

Award-winning poet with seven Pushcart Prize nominations, National Park Artist-in-Residence, and assistant editor and book reviewer of The Centrifugal Eye, Karla Linn Merrifield has had work published in dozens of journals and anthologies. She has six books to her credit, including Godwit: Poems of Canada, which received the 2009 Andrew Eiseman Writers Award for Poetry, and her new chapbook, The Urn, from Finishing Line Press. Forthcoming from Salmon Press is her full-length collection Athabaskan Fractal and Other Poems of the Far North. And from Finishing Line Press Merrifield’s The Ice Decides: Poems of Antarctica. She is currently co-editing the forthcoming Liberty’s Vigil, The Occupy Anthology: 99 Poets among the 99%. You can read more about her and sample her poems and photographs at http://karlalinn.blogspot.com.

Joe Mills teaches at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts where he holds the Susan Burress Wall Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities. He has published four collections of poetry with Press 53, most recently, Sending Christmas Cards to Huck and Hamlet. He also has co-written two editions of A Guide to North Carolina’s Wineries with his wife, Danielle Tarmey and edited a collection of film criticism entitled A Century of the Marx Brothers.

Andy Myers is a seventh generation Alabamian with a pursuing interest in cedar trees, skinks, banjos, and the lunar cycle.

Patty Somlo has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times and was a finalist in the Tom Howard Short Story Contest. She is the author of From Here to There and Other Stories, published by Paraguas Books. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review, the Santa Clara Review, the Jackson Hole Review, WomenArts Quarterly, Guernica, Slow Trains and Fringe Magazine, among others, and in several anthologies.

Seth Trent currently lives in Dallas Texas as a first level graduate student in sculpture the University of Dallas. His style is minimal, surreal, and is structured as a constant flow of subconscious thought.

Jamie King is a graduate student at the University of Montevallo where she is pursuing a Masters degree in English. “Uncanny Plant Growth: The Effect of the Atomic Bomb on Plant Life in Masuji Ibuse’s Black Rain,” was her first endeavor into the world of Ecocriticism; however, it shall not be her last.

André Babyn lives in Canada. His work has appeared in Pank, Misunderstandings Magazine, HHR Online, and elsewhere.
Kudzu Staff

M. P. Jones IV: Editor-in-Chief
M.P., a working writer living in Alabama, begins a Graduate Teaching Assistantship in Literature at Auburn University this Fall. He edits, Kudzu Review, an online, southern literary-ecojournal in his little spare time. Recently, he received a B.A. in English from the University of Montevallo. He has poems forthcoming and appearing in Bolts of Silk, Avocet, Wilderness House Literary Review, InkTank, Centrifugal Eye, A Few Lines Magazine & elsewhere, and has a cycling memoir in the current issue of Sleet Magazine, fast-food fiction in decomP magazinE, and a book review forthcoming in the next issue of I.S.L.E. He lives in a cedar shack on the Cahaba River, spending days playing banjo in the pecans. -editor@kudzureview.com

Robin Conn Ward: Executive Design Editor
Robin is the mastermadmind of our website design, having achieved a degree in computer networking from Cochise College. He is currently pursuing a degree in web development from ASU. Robin’s interests lie in the hyper-real, the increasing development of an artificial world in the face of an eroding biosphere. That is to say, he’s beaten Mario over a thousand times. -robin@kudzureview.com

Arthur Wilke: Editor-in-a-Field
Arthur Wilke is a provocateur of environmental studies of the literary and socio-political realms. Known for undertaking such extended expeditions as the Appalachian Trail, the Northern Forest Canoe Trail, as well as many others without the privilege of a name, Arthur studies the real world relationships of humanity, wilderness, and the environment. When he can be torn away from the woods, he is most often found tinkering with old cameras in search of the big Other, reading the latest ´i¸ek, and agreeing way too much with Gore Vidal and Edward Abbey. -artwilke@kudzureview.com

Jane Alford: Nonfiction, Assistant Editor
Jane is our resident ecofeminist and strict grammatician (someone around here has to be). She’s always on call, reminding us of the right place for a direct object and when we’re describing women as such. Her main interest is high modernism, and she spends many sleepless nights pondering the “whatness of a thing.” On sunny days she can be found reading Bowen on Montevallo’s grassy quad. When not studying dusty authors, she works at a consignment boutique, a sustainable method of fashioning. She enjoys jewelry making, fat cats, and red wine. -jane@kudzureview.com

Ashley Sams: Visual Art, Assistant Editor
Ashley Sams is our Visual Art specialist, currently pursuing a degree in Art from Auburn University. She is a member of the Association of Visual Artists at AU and has participated in the community restoration project at Hickory Dickory Park. Her work appears in the office of the dean of the liberal arts college. She has worked with Drive by Press, and the first annual Jule Collins Smith Museum’s Art in the Garden. She loves collecting vintage things, repurposing old junk, because of the mystery an object acquires when it no longer reflects the maker or owner. -ashley@kudzureview.com

Powell Burke: Fiction, Assistant Editor
Powell is a graduate of Bennington College’s MFA fiction program. When he’s not noveling, he enjoys reading literature both serious and light, seeing films, wandering museums, and traveling. His secret shame is devouring pop culture minutiae and regurgitating it in trivia form. He’s lived for varying amounts of time in New York, Austin, and Italy, but currently calls the Southeast home. Short fiction has appeared in Cricket Online Review and Eclectica. -powell@kudzureview.com

HIGH ABOVE by Eleanor Leonne Bennett

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Publication Date: 06-23-2012

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