Fringe Magazine - Contributors

Dr. N.S.R. Ayengar
Dr. N.S.R. Ayengar works as a professor in the department of English at Berhampur University, Berhampur, Orissa, India. He has been teaching English Literature for the last thirty-seven years and has published several books on English Literature and more than twenty research papers and popular articles. Ayengar has also translated Gitagovindam, a Sanskrit classic into English with a long critical introduction. Additionally, as a visiting professor Ayengar has lectured in the Department of Oriental Studies, University of Rome, Italy.

Wendy Taylor Carlisle
Wendy Taylor Carlisle lives in Texas. Her second book, Discount Fireworks, winner of the 2008 Bernice Blackgrove Award, is forthcoming from Jacaranda Press. She is also the author of Reading Berryman to the Dog (Jacaranda, 2000), and After Happily Ever After, #15 in the 2River Chapbook series.

Barbara Crooker
Barbara Crooker has published poems in magazines such as Yankee, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Denver Quarterly; anthologies including Worlds in their Words: An Anthology of Contemporary American Women Writers (Prentice Hall) and Boomer Girls (University of Iowa Press); eleven chapbooks; and two full-length collections: Radiance, which won the Word Press First Book Award and was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize, and Line Dance, recently out from Word Press. She has received three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships in Literature, the W. B. Yeats Society of NY Prize (Grace Schulman, judge) and the Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award (Stanley Kunitz, judge).

Noël Dunn
Noël Dunn is an Emerson College graduate and just returned to the states after backpacking in Southeast Asia. She is currently setting down her roots in Brooklyn, New York.

Melissa Fiorentino
Melissa Fiorentino's artwork is based on the side of life where we are learning, discovering and living through the feeling that moves through our veins during the process. Her work has appeared in exhibitions across Florida and in New York. She is currently steadily working in her studio in Ocala, Florida showing her work in local and international art competitions and exhibitions. You can see more of her work at www.melissafiorentino.com, http://fiorentino.myexpose.com, www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/a/artbymf.

Nina Mamikunian
Nina Mamikunian hails from Los Angeles, California. She is an MFA candidate in fiction writing at Indiana University where she teaches creative writing and is the associate editor of the Indiana Review.

Kathy L. Nguyen
Kathy L. Nguyen was born in Viet Nam and raised in the U.S. She has studied at the Viet Nam National University and the Sorbonne, and received fellowships and awards from the East-West Center, the Rotary Foundation, the Nation Institute, the Asian American Journalists Association, and the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Fourteen Hills, Women's World, AsianWeek, Nhà, and the anthology Asian Americans Remember U.S. Wars in Asia. She is co-editor of a forthcoming anthology, Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora: Troubling Borders in Literature and Art. She lives in San Francisco and is at work on a novel set in Viet Nam in the early 1900s.

Anna Shapiro
Anna Shapiro graduated from Skidmore College in 2004 with a BA in classical piano. She lives with her boyfriend in Portland, Oregon where she enjoys cooking, book-making and drinking good beer. This is her first fiction publication.