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the co-author of Global Ethics in Practice: Historical Developments, Current
Issues and Future Prospects (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), co-editor of
Earth and Faith: A Book of Reflection for Action (UN Environment Programme,
2000), and edited a special issue of the journal CrossCurrents on “Asceticism
Today” (2008). She has also compiled and edited two librettos for works by
Philip Glass, Symphony No. 5: Bardo, Requiem and Nirmāṇa-kāya (2000) and
The Passion of Ramakrishna (2006). She has been involved in the global
interfaith movement for over thirty years and is Co-Chair of the Interfaith Center
of New York. She is also a Trustee of the Council for a Parliament of the World’s
Religions and Chair of its UN Task Force. She has been a student of Sri Chinmoy
(1931-2007) since 1971 and has published a number of essays on his philosophy
and poetry.
John Repp’s latest collection of poetry, Fat Jersey Blues, won the 2013 Akron
Poetry Prize from the University of Akron Press. Alice Greene & Co. published
Music Over the Water, his most recent chapbook, in October, 2013. Information
about these and other publications can be found at www.johnreppwriter.com.
Sabrina Roberts lives in Bothell, Washington. Her photographs have appeared
in Trickhouse, Shots Magazine, Washington English Journal, and Press. Group
exhibitions include: Photographic Center Northwest, 10thAnnual Photographic
Competition Exhibition, Opus, Maine, University of Maine at Augusta, and the
Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, Maine. www.sabrinaroberts.com
Mark SaFranko’s novels – which include Hating Olivia (Harper Perennial, 13e
Note Editions), Lounge Lizard (13e Note Editions, Murder Slim Press), God Bless
America (13e Note Editions, Murder Slim Press) and Dirty Work (13e Note
Editions) – have collected rave reviews and a cult following in Europe, especially
in France. His stories have appeared in 70 magazines and journals
internationally, including the renowned Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. In
2005 he won the Frank O’Connor Award from descant magazine for his short
fiction. He was cited in Best American Mystery Stories 2000 and has been
nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize.
Recently nominated for two Pushcart prizes, April Salzano teaches college
writing in Pennsylvania where she lives with her husband and two sons. She is
currently working on a memoir on raising a child with autism, and several
collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in journals such as Convergence,
Ascent Aspirations, The Camel Saloon, Centrifugal Eye, Deadsnakes, Visceral
Uterus, Salome, Poetry Quarterly, Writing Tomorrow and Rattle. The author
also serves as co-editor at Kind of a Hurricane Press
(www.kindofahurricanepress.com).

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