Current Issue Authors.

Judy Cassidy  <amancara@aol.com>: and her husband, Jim, share a family of 3 now grown children on a small lake just over the dunes from Lake Michigan. Jobs have included training trainers, supervisors, and plant workers at a nuclear plant in safety, multisensory learning, and communication; and being a court recorder in the criminal justice system. Other poems have been published in Muse of Fire, Starnose, and the Winter Park Manifest; as well as numerous haiku in Haiku Headlines. Volunteer work has included facilitative mediation, and a performing arts approach to seeing conflict different ways with inner-city teens. "signal from pilgrim to pilgrim" in Kudzu 98.1

C.E. Chaffin  <cechaffin@earthlink.net>: In 1997, C.E. Chaffin had over eighty poems accepted for publication both here and abroad, including print-zines and e-zines such as Agnieszka's Dowry, Beauty for Ashes, The Blue Penny Quarterly, Byline, Envoi, Free Cuisenart, Gray's Sporting Journal, Moonshade, Pearl, Poetry Cafe, RealPoetik, The Rockford Review, Solitary Harvest, Slumgullion, Sparks, 2River View, and Zuzu's Petals, among others. He also published his first book of poems, Elementary, through Mellen Poetry Press. A second-generation native Californian and a family physician, Dr. Chaffin lives in a high rise on the Pacific with his wife and three daughters. He strives to make his poetry spare and intelligible, believing a poem should not just "be" but also "mean." His favorite subject is the natural world, or the interaction between the natural and unnatural (technological) world. He generally avoids poetry about relationships. His favorite poets include T.S. Eliot, Robinson Jeffers, Theodore Roethke, and Mark Strand. "Eastern Sierra" in Kudzu 98.1

Arielle Greenberg  <KGArielle@aol.com >: Arielle Greenberg's poems have been previously published in Calyx and Clarendon, among other journals, and she was recently the featured poet, selected by Lyn Lifshin, in Free Lunch's Mentor Series; Kudzu is the first online journal which has published her work. She was a featured poet in the Albany, New York "Poets in the Park" series in 1991. She plans to attend a graduate program in poetry in 1998, if all goes well. "Walk" and "Embarrass" in Kudzu 98.1

Bradley Earle Hoge  <hoge@ruf.rice.edu>:  is an at-home dad and global change scientist who writes to keep everything in perspective. His work has appeared in Minimus, Kimera, Arrowsmith, Sophomore Jinx, Musing Magazine, Beyond Doggeral, and others. He is one of eleven poets featured in the collaborative anthology Everywhere Is Someplace Else from Plain View Press. "Renga in a demin jacket" "Renga in a pickup truck" and "I Pray Through the Eyes of My Dog" in Kudzu 98.1

Alyssa A. Lappen  <TarSmith@aol.com>:  currently covers money management for Institutional Investor, where she has been a senior editor since May, 1993. Her standard-setting piece, Fidelity Grapples with Gigantism, in September, 1995, was widely emulated. Lappen has also worked as a senior editor for Working Woman and Corporate Finance, and covered business, finance and industry at Forbes from 1978 through 1991, the last five years as an associate editor. Ms. Lappen began writing poetry in 1963. She won the Harvard Summer Poetry Prize in 1971 and was published in the Harvard Crimson. Lappen returned to writing poetry in 1991 after a 15-year hiatus. This is her first recent publication and her first submission to Kudzu. "Illlustrations" "Jepson Island" in Kudzu 98.1

Cheri Litwinovich  <cheri@inforum.net>:  lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in Placerville, CA and works for the local social services office. She has been teaching herself bookbinding and has printed and bound books of poetry and photographs to give away. "Destroyer" in Kudzu 98.1

Sharon McKenna  <sharonmc@earthlink.net>:  has published fiction in the Mississippi Review (digital) and the Raven Chroncicles' digital magazine, Babette's Gift. She a graduate of the University of Washington Fiction Writer's program. "We Used to Live Here" in Kudzu 98.1

Sean Nighbert  <stn02@itouch.net>:  is an MFA student at Southwest Texas State University, where he teaches writing to incoming freshmen. His fiction and poetry has appeared in Inscape, Discount, Sou'wester Review and most recently online in Eclectica. "Where Lost Things End Up" in Kudzu 98.1

Victoria Pynchon  <VAPynchon@hrblaw.com>: has published poetry in journals such as Poet Lore and The Ledge. "Dangerous Places" is Pynchon's first fiction publication. Although her "day job" is lawyering, her B.A. is from U.C. San Diego in English Literature and her fiction training is from U.C.L.A. where she studied with, among others, Bernard Cooper. "Dangerous Places" in Kudzu 98.1

Doug Tanoury  <dtanoury@ix.netcom.com>: grew up in Detroit and still lives in the area with his wife and three children. Doug has been published in Writer's Digest, Ego Flights Alura Quarterly and A Year On The Avenue (Two Dog Press). Online he has been published by The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Eclectica, Poetry Magazine, Agnieszka's Dowry, Recursive Angel, The Free Zone and others. The greatest influence on Doug and his work was the 7th grade poetry anthology used in Sister Debra's English class: Reflections On A Gift Of Watermelon Pickle And Other Modern Verse, Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders and Hugh Smith. "Scott Fountain" in Kudzu 98.1

Previous Issue Authors. Authors and poets from previous issues of Kudzu will be listed as soon as we can get them up. Most of the library pieces have author information at the bottom of the piece, so you might check there if you're looking for a particular writer.