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J. V. Brummels’ poems have been widely published in journals and magazines and have been recognized with a number of awards, including a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Mildred Bennett Award for contributions to the state’s literature from the Nebraska Center for the Book. A new collection, his fourth, A Book of Grass is due out this year. Raised first on a farm and later on a ranch, he was educated at the University of Nebraska. After college, he went east to Syracuse University to pursue a graduate degree in creative writing. In 1984 he and his wife Lin fulfilled a lifelong dream and began a horseback cattle ranch, which they still operate.

A longtime professor at Wayne State College, he has also written and published short fiction and a novel. For the last twelve years he’s been the publisher of Logan House, which specializes in contemporary American poetry and short fiction. In 2006 he was named editor of the newly created WSC Press. http://www.loganhousepress.com

Eddie Elfers, Editor

Director of Teaching and Learning Technology

Wayne State College

Eddie Elfers was born in El Paso, Texas, where his grandfather (Edmund Burke Elfers), was a respected judge, and his father (Edmund Burke Elfers Jr.) was a U.S. Customs inspector. As a first career, not consciously intended to counter the legal and law-enforcement careers of his forebears, he (Edmund Burke Elfers III) was a professional musician for a number of years. At some point, when the road began to get in the way of spending time with a growing family, he made the decision to get a "real job," a decision that led him to take the obvious step and go back to school. He earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Texas at El Paso, at the same time working as a copy editor at the El Paso Herald-Post, and a master's degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, at the same time working as a copy editor at the Austin American-Statesman. The "real job" turned out to be teaching journalism at Wayne State College for seven years, until a one-year stint as interim Humanities Division head segued into his current position (still at Wayne State College) as director of Teaching & Learning Technology. Somewhere along the line he learned how to do computer-based design and layout. He still plays the guitar and is still trying to figure out why he left Austin.

Lisa Sandlin, Editor

Professor of English

Wayne State College

Lisa Sandlin has spent most of her life in Texas and New Mexico. She earned a B.A. at Rice University and an M.F.A. at Vermont College. She has taught for sixteen years, the last ten at Wayne State College, where she is now a professor.

She is the author of two collections of short fiction from Cinco Puntos Press: "The Famous Thing About Death" and "Message to the Nurse of Dreams." The latter book won both the Violet Crown Award from the Austin Writers League and the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for Best Book of Fiction 1997. Ms. Sandlin's third collection, "In the River Province," was published by Sothern Methodist University Press in 2004. She is a co-editor of "Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace" from Backwaters Press. Her fiction has appeared in Shenandoah, Southwest Review, Story Quarterly, Crazyhorse, Best of the West and other literary magazines. Ms. Sandlin is the recipient of an NEA fellowship, a Dobie Paisano fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and has had the great pleasure of listening to Broadway actor Julie White read her work read at the Dallas Museum of Art and the Alley Theatre in Houston.

Cynthia Black,

Grad Assistant to the Press, 2006, 2007, 2008

Wayne State College

Cynthia Black graduated Wayne State College in May of 2006 with a degree in English Writing and a minor in Editing and Publishing. She currently is the Graduate Assistant with the WSC Press and an adjunct instructor of English at Western Iowa Tech. She holds an Associate in Applied Science degree in Nondestructive Testing and served her country for six years overseas and the states in the United States Army. She will graduate Wayne State College again in May 2008 with a Masters of Science in English Education.