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Meagan Rose Signoriello is a student in the MA English program at Hunter College. She graduated from Fordham University, Rose Hill in 1997 with a double major in English and Communications. Her literary areas of particular interest are early women's literature and the counter-culture literature of the 1950s and 60s; she also has a particular fondness for the poetry of Walt Whitman. Meagan has been teaching English literature at Nazareth Regional High School for the past two years.

Deborah Goss is a student in the MA program in British and American Literature. Her research interests include gender politics and depictions of sexuality and desire in 18th and 19th Century literature. Deborah graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with a degree in Comparative Literature and a minor in French.

Octavio R. Gonzalez is a first-generation Dominican-American poet raised in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and the streets of Greenwich Village. He studied at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, where he took his BA in Literature. Currently in the Master of Arts program in English Literature at Hunter College, he will escape from New York in the fall 2005 to attend Pennsylvania State University, where he will teach freshman composition en route to a Master's in English. Octavio’s work appears in The Richmond Review, The Morpo Review, The Compendium: Tadzio’s Muse, and Small Craft Warnings, among other journals. He is currently at work on his first chapbook. He has studied poetry with Nicole Lieberman, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Deborah Landau, Susan Wheeler, and Marie Ponsot. You may find some of his musings on the Web at http://ruintheimage.net.

Mary DePoalo is a graduate student in the Masters' Program in English Literature at Hunter College. She is currently beginning her thesis project, which will be a feminist/postcolonial analysis of D.H. Lawrence. Mary's major areas of literary interest are the Victorian and Modernist British novel. A native of Brooklyn, New York, she is presently employed by NYCE Corporation, where her professional activities have included technical writing, editing and employee technical education responsibilities.

Mary earned her BA in Humanities summa cum laude from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 2000. She intends to pursue a doctoral degree in English Literature after completing her Masters' work, and eventually teach at the college level.

Susan Arnett is a first year student in Hunter's MFA for poetry. She received her Associates degree in 1999, and spent a summer studying at Vassar college. She came to NYC in 1999 and earned her BA in creative writing at The New School in 2001. Susan has taught and tutored English and writing at BMCC, Vassar College, SUNY Brooklyn Educational Opportunity Center, and Hunter College. As a poet, she has appeared at The Nuyorican Poets' Cafe, The Pink Pony West reading series, and Bowery Poetry Club.

Jason Riffaterre is student in the MA in English Literature program, and wants to be a high school English teacher.

Consuela Marie Sanchez is the founder and editor of Perspectives. She holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Chicago, where she earned
honors on her Harlem Renaissance thesis paper. Currently, she is completing her English Literature MA thesis paper at Hunter, which focuses on John Milton, William Blake, and the issue of inter-textuality. She also teaches special education to adolescent students at a private school in New York City. Her favorite poets for leisure reading are Robert Browning, Sylvia
Plath, and Kenneth Koch. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking and reinvigorating the art of the handwritten letter.

Sue Nacey entered Hunter’s MFA program in 2004. A former non-profit arts administrator, she currently works as a writing tutor at Hunter’s Reading & Writing Center, and will being teaching undergraduate creative writing in the fall. Her poem “Life Without P”, included in this issue, was also included in the 2005 CUNYarts Gala. Her poetry has appeared in Conduit.

Chelsea Bunn studied Creative Writing at Hunter College and received a BA in English in 2003. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Poetry at Hunter, where she will be teaching next fall. She admires the work of Lousie Gluck, Elizabeth Bishop, Hopkins, Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Li-Young Lee, among many others. She lives in Staten Island.

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Perspectives: A Journal of Critical and Creative
Writing

Executive Editor and Founder:
Consuela Marie Sanchez

Managing Editors:
Susan Arnett
Jeremy Drucker
Jason Riffaterre

Faculty Advisor:
Sarah Chinn

Editorial Review Board:
Sarah Antine
Andrew Doba
Greg Gipson
Naghma Khan
Lindy Marie Kosmitis
Marina Rabinovich
Brianna Viele

Production:
Kessel L. Nelson

Special Thanks:
Hunter Auxilliary Enterprise Board, Student Activities
Office (official name?), All faculty and staff in the
Dept. of English, Dept of Fine Arts (official name?)

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