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A Year of Featured Writers: Sophia Argyris, Rachel Custer, Renata McCormish, Nanette Rayman Rivera
Sophia Argyris was born in Belguim, moved to Scotland at the age of 10 and is now living in London, breathing in the pollution and battling with the crowds, until she can move to the country again. Her poetry has been published in several print and online magazine including Inclement, Argotist Online, Pyramid, Volume Magazine, The Scruffy Dog Review, Silenced Press, Red Pulp Underground and Hecale amongst others.

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Renata McCormish is the author of Rimbaud’s Echo (The Bulldog Publishing Co., 2006), published under her pseudonym Renata Emther. Her work has also appeared in Shakespeare’s Monkey Revue, A Surreal Good Time, Up the Staircase (Summer 2008 Featured Writer), Urban Paradoxes, and on the Writers’ Alliance website raising awareness about the genocide in Darfur. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she is enrolled in the MFA Program in Creative Writing/Poetry at Carlow University. She has worked as an interpreter, and currently translates Czech poets into the English. Her native language is Czech.

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Rachel Custer is a senior at Indiana University - South Bend, majoring in English. Her poetry has previously been published in Prick of the Spindle and Flutter Poetry Journal. The St. Joseph River moves through her life and writing in sometimes unnerving ways. Rachel is fascinated by fainting goats.


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Nanette Rayman Rivera, two-time Pushcart nominee, is author of Project: Butterflies by Foothills Publishing. She’s winner of the Glass Woman Prize, was Greensilk Journal’s Editor’s Pick, and has poetry on Best of the Net 2007. Publications include Prick of the Spindle, ditch, Carve, Worcester Review, Wilderness House Review.


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