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Cover: Winter 2006. Lampost Dreams by Dawn M. Donahue.
Dawn Donahue is an amateur photographer living in Bucks County with her husband, Steven Donahue, author of Amanda Rio, and her daughter, Amy.

Art

Francis Raven is a graduate student in philosophy at Temple University. His first novel, Inverted Curvatures (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005), and book of poems, Taste: Gastronomic Poems (Blazevox 2005), were recently published. Poems of his have been published in Mudlark, Conundrum, Chain, Big Bridge, Bird Dog, Caffeine Destiny, and Can We Have Our Ball Back? His critical work can be found in Jacket, Clamor, The Electronic Book Review, The Emergency Almanac, The Morning News, The Brooklyn Rail, Media and Culture, In These Times, The Fulcrum Annual, Rain Taxi, and Pavement Saw.

Clara Pfefferkorn was born and raised in West Philadelphia. She has had her worked published in the Central High School literary magazine The Mirror, as well as in the Purdue University student newspaper The Exponent. She is currently pursuing her Masters of Liberal Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.

Gary Koenitzer is a prolific artist, whom likes to explore the human face and figure as a window to the ever-tenacious curious human mind. He searches for high visual and emotional impact with more complex emotions such as wonderment, curiosity, adventure and intrigue. Also likes to tantalize towards themes of wide universal appeal using panoramic, ethereal vista like evolutions.

B.J. Burton is the recipient of two fellowships from PA Council on the Arts in playwriting and won the PA Playwriting Award. her plays have been produced at Philadelphia area theatres including InterAct Theatre Company. Recent photography won first place in Potomac Review's Photo Contest. She received her M.F.A. from Rosemont College.

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