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Darcy Cummings‘ poems have appeared in journals in the United States and England, including Poetry Northwest, Journal of New Jersey Poets, Carolina Quarterly, Negative Capability, Timber Creek Review, Natural Bridge, and Runes. A graduate of Glassboro State College (now Rowan University), the University of Pennsylvania and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, Cummings has received fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. She teaches writing for the Critical Writing Program at the University of
Pennsylvania, for the New Jersey Writers Project, and for the Visual Poetry Program of The Public Arts Project at Rutgers University, Camden. The poems in this issue are from her forthcoming poetry collection, The Artist as Alice: From a Photographer’s Life from Bright Hill Press.

Helen W.  Mallon received her MFA degree in fiction writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2005 and is currently working on a novel.  Her poetry chapbook, from Finishing Line Press, is titled Bone China. Her poems, essays and fiction have appeared in many publications, including Commonwealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania from Penn State U. Press.  Her story, “Astral Projection” is included in the Best of
Philadelphia Stories Anthology 2007.