Michael Macklin
makes poems and cabinets in Portland, Maine. He serves as one of The Café Review’s poetry editors. He is out in the woods now turning over rocks looking for the next good poem. He is assisted by his able yellow dog, Murphy.
Izhar Patkin
Izhar Patkin: is an Israeli artist who has lived in New York since the late 1970s. His body of work, including “Black Paintings” and more recently “Veiled Threats,” draws on European, American, and Israeli cultural traditions for a vision that is uniquely his own. He intentionally ceased participating in “the gallery system” after the death of his dealer in 2002, but this self – imposed absence hasn’t mitigated demand for his narrative pieces. To view more artwork by Patkin and to learn more about his “Veiled Threats” collaboration with poet Agha Shahid Ali, go to www.izharpatkin.com.
Stacey Chase
Stacey Chase: is a poetry editor at The Café Review and the editor of this issue. An award – winning journalist, Chase has published in The Boston Globe Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, Green Mountains Review, Newsweek, Poets & Writers, Vermont Life, and elsewhere. She was a contributor to the book Leap of the Heart: André Dubus Talking. Chase has been the Bernard J. O’Keefe Scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, where she met Shahid, and the Judith Davidson Moyers Scholar at her alma mater, Middlebury College. She is currently at work on a book – length memoir.
Victoria Zak
is a writer, painter, and sculptor living in Holliston, Massachusetts. She met Shahid on a path at night at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, where they stopped and talked about fairy tales for hours. She admits to feeling enchanted by Shahid when she wrote her tribute to him.