Luna Negra

We are pleased to announce the contributors for our Fall 2006 issue, available for pre-order for only $5 with free shipping. This is a limited offer. Those who pre-order will get their thoughtfully designed magazine before everyone else.

This isn't your mama's lit mag.

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Luna Negra
101 Taylor Hall,KSU
Kent, Ohio 44242

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Features are as follows:

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Leslie and the LY's front girl, Leslie Hall who shares some inside information on her Mobile Museum of Gem Sweaters.

Feature on writer Tiff Holland and how her battle with Meniere's disease has influenced her writing.

And our contributors:

Zoe Trope - Zoe Trope is the pseudonym of a redheaded girl born in 1986. She published a memoir of her high school years, Please Don’t Kill the Freshman, in 2003. Since then, Zoe has been published in anthologies, magazines and newspapers. She currently studies art history at Oberlin College where she knits, works three jobs and takes too many classes.

Tao Lin - Lin is the author of This Emotion was a Little E-Book (Bear Parade), Today The Sky is Blue and White with Bright Blue Spots and a Small Pale Moon and I Will Destroy Our Relationship Today (Bear Parade), You Are a Little Bit Happier than I Am (Action Books), Bed (Spring 2007, Melville House), and Eeeee Eee Eeee (Spring 2007, Melville House).

Claudia Smith - Smith’s stories have appeared in several literary journals and anthologies, including Failbetter, the Mississippi Review Online, Night Train, and elimae. She is also a contributing Web editor for Hobart magazine. Her story, “My Lawrence” will appear in the forthcoming anthology The New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond.

Tiff Holland - Holland earned her Ph.D. in Creative Writing at The Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her work has most recently appeared in Ghoti and elimae. She was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize in fiction.

Shellie Zacharia - Zacharia’s fiction has appeared in a number of journals, including Hobart, Swivel, Backwards City Review, The Pinch, and Washington Square. She teaches in Gainesville, Florida.

Ellen Kennedy - Kennedy lives in Pennsylvania. Her e-book, yesterday i was talking to myself and i told myself that i was going to write a book and give it to you, so i put paper in my bag and put a pen in my bag and rode my bike to the river bank and then sat down and thought, ‘i will never write a book’ and watched ducks swim away from me, is available from Bear Parade.

Gail Giewont - Giewont lives in Culpeper, Virginia. She was a 2006 finalist for the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, and her poems have appeared in Indiana Review, 5 AM, The Cafe Review and Natural Bridge. She teaches eighth grade English.

Nikki Lentz - Lentz is a junior at Kent State University studying English and writing. Her favorite writers are dead, and she grew up thinking her grandfather was Indiana Jones. She is the winner of the 2006 Luna Negra Fiction Prize. This is her third time appearing in Luna Negra.

Susan H. Case - Case is from New York City, New York. She is a professor at the New York Institute of Technology and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has recently appeared in Eclipse, Georgetown Review, Pebble Lake Review and other journals. Her most recent book is Anthropologist In Ohio (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2005).

Stephen St. Francis Decky - Decky lives in Northampton,
Massachusetts. His paintings and photographs have appeared in galleries throughout the area.

Photo contributors: Leslie Cusano, Katie Roupe, Jameson Campbell, David Anthony Ranucci and Jessica Naples