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H A M I L T O N S T O N E E D I T I O N S
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Our Authors
Initially trained
as a cellist, James Cervantes began
writing poetry while serving in the U.S. Air Force Orchestra
in Washington, D.C. between 1963-1967. He
has published three books of poetry: The Year is Approaching
Snow and The Headlong Future, which was selected
for the 1987 Capricorn Poetry Prize, and Changing the Subject,
co-authored with Halvard Johnson. He has appeared in dozens
of print and electronic magazines, and in 1997 he founded The
Salt River Review, an online publication. Cervantes
earned his B.A. in English/Writing at the University of Washington,
and his M.F.A. at the University of Iowa. He has also studied
and taught in Vermont, California, and Arizona, and has been
Professor of English at Mesa Community College since 1992. Cervantes
can often be found hiking in the mountains of northern Arizona.
Halvard
Johnson was born in Newburgh, New York, and grew
up in New York City and the Hudson Valley. He has received grants
from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maryland State
Arts Council, and Baltimore City Arts. He has had several residency
grants at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and a poetry
fellowship at the Ragdale Foundation.  He
has published four collections of poetry—Transparencies and
Projections, The Dance of the Red Swan, Eclipse,
and Winter Journey—all from New Rivers Press and, now
out of print, archived at the Contemporary American Poetry Archives
. His poetry and fiction have appeared in Puerto del Sol,
Wisconsin Review, Mudfish, Poetry: New York, For Poetry, CrossConnect,
Salt River Review, Blue Moon Review, Crania, Gulf Stream, The
Florida Review and Synaesthetic. He has lived and
worked in Chicago, Illinois; El Paso, Texas; Cayey, Puerto Rico;
Washington, D.C.; Baltimore, Maryland, and New York City. For
many years he taught overseas in the European and Far East divisions
of the University of Maryland. Currently, he resides in New
York City with his wife, the prize-winning fiction writer and
painter Lynda Schor. He teaches from time to time at the Eugene
Lang College of the New School University.
Rebecca Kavaler a
Southerner by birth, has resided in New York City for more than
two decades. During that time, her 
short fiction has won various awards, including two National
Endowment of the Arts fellowships, and is available in three
collections: A Little More Than Kin, Tigers in the
Wood, and The Further Adventures of Brunhild. Doubting
Castle, originally published by Shocken Books,was her first
venture into full-length fiction. Her short stories have
appeared in Antioch Review, Shenandoah, Yale Review, American
Short Fiction, Carolina Quarterly, Other Voices, Mid-American
Review, Perspective, Nimrod, Phoenix, Confrontation, etc.
She won the AWP award in 1978 and has had stories in Best of
Nimrod, and Best American Short Stories. Her
poetry has been published in Prairie Schooner, Atlanta Review,
(including its 10th anniversary issue) and Fantasy and Science
Fiction. For more information, visit her website at www.rebeccakavaler.com.
Eva Kollisch is a professor emerita at Sarah Lawrence College where she taught Germ an, Comparative Literature and Women's Literature for many years. She is the author of Girl in Movement, a memoir. Her new book is a collection of stories and personal essays dealing with the themes of anti-Semitism, uprooting and outsiderdom. She came to the US as a Jewish refugee during World War II and has been politically active at various times in her life as a Trotskyist, anti-war protester, feminist and lesbian. She has joined a small international group that engages in “dialogue with the enemy” and is interested in all efforts promoting non-violence.
Edith Konecky candidly acknowledges that her insight into the lives she
depicts in her novels comes from personal experience. Like
her heroine, Konecky was born in Brooklyn. Like her heroines,
she has a brother who is sixteen months older than she. And
like both Allegra and Rachel, she is the daughter of a well-to-do
dress manufacturer. Konecky has said that Jewish
custom made her a feminist before she had a word for it. She
frames her work with that feminist perspective, rejecting
the models of female types available to her: the baleboosteh
grandmother, the mother tamed by social expectations to comply
with the values of her husband. But the biographical data
of her life suggest that the rejection was gradual, keeping
pace with the social movements of her day. Like Allegra, she
began her writing career while still in high school, winning
a short story contest for which she was paid a penny a word.
She enrolled at New York University when she was seventeen,
married when she was twenty-one, lived a suburban life for
twenty years, raising her two sons , the customary housewife/mother
role, and writing occasional short stories. At the age of
thirty-seven, she returned to college, this time to Columbia.
She began to publish her stories, writing many of them at
Yaddo, where she won fellowships from 1964 through 1969. After
twenty years of marriage , she was divorced.
Konecky dramatizes some of the
details of her transformations in the second novel, in which
the heroine, Rachel, reflects on the traumas and triumphs
of her life, marriage, divorce, motherhood, grandmotherhood,
her love of women, and her relationship to her work. The novelist's
own work, writing, occupies a primary place in her current
life. She began writing Allegra Maud Goldman at the MacDowell
colony in 1972, winning frequent fellowships to work there
in succeeding years. The book, in print most of the years
since its first publication, was reissued by The Feminist
Press in 1990 (and is still available from them) with an introduction
by Tillie Olsen and an afterword by Bella Brodzki that pay tribute to the complexity and depth of Konecky's work. A
Place at the Table, widely hailed critically, was recently
re-issued by Hamilton Stone Editions. A collection of Konecky's
short stories, Past Sorrows & Coming Attractions,
was published in 2001. Her newest novel is View from the
North (2004).
(Excerpted from
Jewish Women in America, An Historical Encyclopedia,
Routledge, 1997)
Nathan
Leslie 
has published two prior collections of short fiction, most
recently A Cold Glass of Milk. Aside from being nominated
for the 2002 Pushcart Prize, Leslie's stories, essays, and
poetry have been published or are forthcoming in over one
hundred literary magazines including North American Review,
Cimarron Review, Del Sol Review, Chattahoochee Review, Sou'wester,
Southern Indiana Review, Fiction International, Gulf Stream,
Tulane Review, Baltimore Review, and Orchid. He
is currently the fiction editor for The Pedestal Magazine
and has also written book reviews and articles for newspapers
such as The Washington Post, The Orange County Weekly,
The Kansas City Star, The Orlando Sentinel, Rain Taxi, and
many others. Leslie received his MFA from The University of
Maryland in 2000 and currently teaches at NVCC/Loudoun. See his web page at http://www.nathanleslie.com.
 Carole
Rosenthal is the author of It Doesn't Have To Be Me, a collection
of short stories (Hamilton Stone), and her fiction appears in
a wide variety of periodicals, ranging from literary magazines
like Transatlantic Review, Confrontation, Other Voices,
and The Cream City Review, to Mother Jones, and
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Her frequently anthologized
short stories have been dramatized for radio and television,
translated into eleven languages, and her articles and reviews
published in newspapers and with presses including Dell, Arbor
House, and the Modern Language Association. She teaches at Pratt
Institute, in Brooklyn, where she is a Distinguished Professor.
She lives part-time in New York City and part-time in the Catskills.
To see her website, click here.
Lynda
Schor is the recipient
of a Baltimore CityArts grant, and a Maryland State Arts Council
grant for fiction, among many other awards. 
She is the author of a collection of short fiction called True
Love & Real Romance. Her stories have appeared
in Redbook, Ms., Mademoiselle, Playboy, GQ, The Village Voice,
and many other publications. She lives in New York with
her husband, the poet Halvard Johnson, and teaches fiction
writing at the New School University.
To see her personal website, click here.
Meredith
Sue Willis is the author
of fourteen books including the Blair Morgan trilogy published by Hamilton Stone Editions (Higher
Ground, Only Great Changes, and Trespassers). To learn more about the Blair Morgan trilogy, see the Hamilton
Stone Editions catalog. Her collection of short stories,Dwight's House and Other Storiesis also published by Hamilton Stone. She has published several
best selling books for teachers with Teachers
& Writers Collaborative. Other recent fiction includes
Oradell at Sea ( West
Virginia University Press) and  The City Built of Starships
(Montemayor Press).
She has won many prizes for her writing, including
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the
New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Her writing about the
Appalachian Region, particularly her collection of short
stories, In the Mountains of America, was the subject
of the Fourteenth Annual Emory & Henry Literary Festival
in Emory, Virginia, and she was the featured author in the Fall 2006 issue of Appalachian Heritage. Her novels for children include The
Secret Super Powers of Marco and Marco's Monster.
She
teaches novel writing at New York University and also works with children as a writer-in-the-schools. She lives
in New Jersey with her husband, Andrew B. Weinberger, a physician
with a specialty in rheumatology. She is
active in the Ethical Culture Society of Essex County, and in
work against racism. To read more about Meredith Sue Willis,
visit her
website.
To read an online short story by Meredith Sue Willis, click here.
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