Amy German

Amy German lives in Sydney, Australia and studies maths and science at the University of Sydney. She likes browsing street art, riding the Subway A-Line in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and drawing chairs. An addict to her Lomographic Fisheye camera, she also likes to experiment with toy cameras found at garage sales and opshops. Her work La Perouse was taken at one of her favourite thinking places, and more of her photography can be found here.

Andrew Allingham

Andrew Allingham plays music under the moniker Assault Sqaud Safety Scissors. He is a sophomore studying English at the University of Mary Washington. Daniel Helm is The Rosa Parks of music. He is attending the University of Oklahoma. The Guitar and vocals were recorded by Andrew in his gloomy dorm room, while the electronic boops, beeps and what have you were added later by Dan as he was off gallavanting in Bordeax, France. Find out and listen: here and here.

Antonio Felaco

Brad Efford

Charmagne Coe

Charmagne Coe is an artist who lives in Flagstaff, AZ with her husband and two sons. She works in mixed media painting using watercolor, India ink and pastel. Charmagne also creates pen and ink drawings. She blogs her works in progress and artistic process here. Her finished collection can be viewed at CharmagneCoe.com. Several of her paintings have been featured online at Drawn!, Juxtapoz and Carpaccio Magazine. Her work is concerned with the dialogue of love, nature and spirit.

Diana Scott

Dresden Glover

Dresden Glover has never been to Fort Wayne, Indiana, but she has been to Indianapolis, Indiana, and Hillsboro, Indiana, where her mother grew up. Glover’s father grew up in Kenbridge, Virginia. Soon after they first met, Glover’s parents spent a summer out in Virginia City, Montana.

Perhaps Glover will visit Fort Wayne, Indiana and Virginia City, Montana on her drive out to Yellowstone, where she plans to spend her summer after graduating from the University of Mary Washington in order to delay the time until she must decide what to do with her life.

Elizabeth Rabin

Elizabeth Rabin is in her final semester at UMW. When she tells people she is an English major, they immediately ask her if she will teach. She will not. Since the other alternative is writing, her co-workers tease Rabin by coming up with pen names for her. The best one so far is E. S. Reuben, which is appropriate, because her husband is Jewish and loves Reuben sandwiches as much as his wife. In the future, when Rabin eventually publishes under E. S. Reuben, please remember to pick up a copy.

Gwyn McVay

Gwyn McVay is the author of two chapbooks of poems and one full-length collection, Ordinary Beans (Pecan Grove Press, 2007). Her work appears in numerous journals and several anthologies, most recently Letters to the World (Red Hen Press, 2008). She currently teaches writing and literature at Millersville University and the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design.

James Ruppert

James E. Ruppert is a sculptor from Catonsville, MD. He has had two solo shows at the Casa de la Cultura in Nogales and Hermosilla, Sonora, Mexico. He won the Museum Award for Sculpture at the Washington County Museum of Fine Art, MD. His sculptures have been accepted into a number of others exhibitions in the US. James has published a poem in the Cold Spring Journal Issue 5.

Jay Davis

Jennifer Ramsey

Jennifer Ramsey is a junior Historic Preservation major at the University of Mary Washington. After graduation she looks to pursue a career in architectural conservation or attend law school and practice cultural property law. Art is her most enjoyable pastime and gives her a means to express herself. Her favorite mediums are charcoal and chalk pastels, but she loves experimenting with different aspects of art, from painting to pottery and jewelry making.

Jessica Eadie

Jessica Eadie is a senior at the University of Mary Washington. She loves writing fiction and poetry and has discovered a new found love for non-fiction. She is currently working on graduating in Fall ‘10 with a degree in English, with a concentration in creative writing.

John Haggerty

Julia Thalen

Julia Thalen is from Long Island and will graduate from the University of Mary Washington this May. She aims to blend whimsy into the nautical, and can’t ever really get her imagination off the beach.

Louis-Philippe Grenier

Mandy May

Max Eber

Max Eber is a nineteen year old college student from Baltimore County, Maryland, who enjoys sticking words, images, and songs together with soap.

Megan Lambert

Megan Lambert is a Linguistics major with a minor in Japan studies. She is currently enrolled in Somerset Community College but will transfer to University of Kentucky by fall. She from Dayton, Ohio. She likes to write, has numerous other interests but not a lot of hobbies – writing is the only one.

Molly Schaeffer

Molly Schaeffer is a writing major at Bard College.

Nicole Kappatos

Nicole Kappatos is a sophomore at the University of Mary Washington. For the last few years she has focused on painting, but has most recently become fascinated by photography. Her favorite place to photograph these days has been around Fredericksburg, VA.

Rachel Newnam

Rachel Newnam is 19 yrs old and currently attending George Mason University. Art had never been a strong point as she have very unsteady hands, but she has found working with pictures to be much more satisfying. She believes that there is nothing better than a lazy morning and a cup of hot coffee, or sitting on the beach with an icy cold diet coke. Life is what you make it and her theory is that seizing every day can never prove anything but pure satisfaction. So live it up.

Ren Powell

Ren Powell is the author of two books of poetry and ten books of translations. Her third collection Thanks for the Cornflakes is forthcoming in 2009. Her poetry has been translated and published in several languages and has appeared in journals such as International PEN’s Magazine, Poeticdiversity, and Yalobusha Review.

Sam Johnston

Sarah Barat

Sarah Rocklin

Sarah Rocklin is an employee of the Federal government and lives in Maryland. She has previously had a short work of nonfiction published in the now-defunct Readerville Journal.

Sean Baker

Shannon Venker

Shannon Venker creates masks and costumes with transformation in mind. She feels that the work is not only sculptural, but also interactive, and isn’t really complete unless it’s being worn. She finds that while wearing a costume, and especially a mask, a person generally undergoes a radical change, sometimes adopting a completely different personality instantly and automatically. It’s as though the mask takes over. This change in people is, to her, the most fascinating element of her work; its true essence.

Sonya Spaziani

Strictly self-taught, WildWind Art artist Sonya Spaziani enjoys the challenge of capturing the intimate details of both western and wildlife art. Sonya believes the Soul of the old west still lives as evidenced on working ranches, and felt through quiet shivers when in old ghost towns where dust, wind whispers, and tumbleweeds are the only inhabitants. Through her art she attempts to capture the inner essence of what once was, though now just a whisper on the wind.

Sonya primarily uses fine point mechanical pencils, and has found that black and white or sepia tones do not distract the eye, but rather the contrasting tones illuminate the detailed beauty of the subject. Recently incorporated into her artwork in 2005, is the use of authentic wild horse mane-hairs to detail through paint, the structures of horsehair.

Stephen Andrews

Stephen Andrews is a political science and English double major at the University of Mary Washington.

Taryn Tashner

Taryn Tashner found this exotic flower was found in Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens and aroused a great deal of curiosity. It reminded her of something that would be seen on Men In Black, like something from another world, hence the name “Alien.”

Warren Rochelle

Warren Rochelle has taught English at the University of Mary Washington since 2000. Dr. Rochelle’s creative works have appeared in various journals such as The North Carolina Literary Review, Forbidden Lines, Aboriginal Science Fiction, Colonnades, and Graffiti, as well as the Asheville Poetry Review, GW Magazine, Crucible, The Charlotte Poetry Review, and Romance and Beyond. Dr. Rochelle also is the author of two novels: The Wild Boy (2001) and Harvest of Changelings (2007). His third novel, The Called, is forthcoming in 2010. He also published a critical work on Le Guin and academic articles in various journals and in two essay collections.