Bread and Circus Magazine

EDITORS

Erin Dionne
Kimberlee Cloutier-Blazzard
G. Arnold

POETRY EDITOR

January Gill O’Neil

CONTRIBUTORS

To contact a Bread and Circus contributor, please use the contact information listed in the entry below, or send us an email.

• Erin Dionne, editor & contributing writer, received her B.A. in English and Communications from Boston College and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Emerson College in 1999. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, and The HornBook Guide. Her short fiction has appeared in Slow Trains Literary Journal, The Beacon Street Review, and the Rose Metal Press anthology Brevity & Echo. In March of 2006, she was named one of PEN/New England’s Children’s Book Caucus Discovery Night honorees. Erin’s novel for 9-12 year olds, Models Don’t Eat Chocolate Cookies, was released by Penguin Books for Young Readers in spring 2009. Erin explores the writing life, literary scandals, and her passion for pop culture for Bread and Circus.

• Kimberlee A. Cloutier-Blazzard, editor & contributing writer, received her Ph.D. in Art History, with specialization in Northern European Art of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. She teaches at various colleges in the Boston area. Her latest academic publications include: “Presence in Absence as an Artistic Mode,” Review of M. Mochizuki, “The Netherlandish Image after Iconoclasm, 1566-1672,” Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art, vol. X, 11/2009; and, “The Wise Man has Two Tongues: Images of the ‘Satyr and Peasant’ by Jordaens and Steen,” Myth in History, History in Myth, volume 182 in Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History series (2009). Her professional interests include art, history, culture, philosophy, religion and pedagogy. Send an email to Kimberlee.

• G. Arnold is editor & contributing writer at Bread and Circus Magazine and also an author and college professor focusing on film, politics, and popular culture. His books include Conspiracy Theory in Film, Television, and Politics and The Afterlife of America’s War in Vietnam. Contact him here.

• January Gill O’Neil is poetry editor of Bread and Circus and a contributing writer. Her poems and articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Creek Review, Ouroboros Review, Drunken Boat, Crab Orchard Review, Callaloo, Babel Fruit, Edible Phoenix, Literary Mama, Field, Seattle Review, Stuff Magazine, Can We Have Our Ball Back, Read Write Poem, and Cave Canem anthologies II and IV. A Cave Canem fellow, her first poetry collection, titled Underlife, will be published by CavanKerry Press in November 2009. She is a senior writer/editor at Babson College, runs a popular blog called Poet Mom, and lives with her two children in Beverly, MA.

• Stanley Baran, senior contributing writer, is Professor of Communication at Bryant University. A Fulbright Scholar, he is the author of Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture and Mass Communication Theories: Foundations, Ferment, and Future. He writes frequently on the media, popular culture, and our understanding of ourselves and our world.

• Sarah Katherine Mergel, senior contributing writer, received her Ph.D. in American History from The George Washington University. She specializes in American political and intellectual history since the end of the Civil War. She is author of the forthcoming book Conservative Intellectuals and Richard Nixon (Palgrave 2010).

• Colleen Michaels, contributing writer, earned a B.A. in English from the University of Buffalo and an M.A. in English from SUNY College at Fredonia. In addition to writing, she teaches and tutors writing at Montserrat College of Art.

• Priscilla Serafin, contributing artist, is a landscape painter and graphic designer. Her award-winning paintings are in numerous private collections have been shown at various galleries in Massachusetts. She earned her MFA from
  Yale University and her BFA from West Virginia University. Visit her Serafin Studio website here.

• Kathleen Ginder-Vogel, contributing writer, holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in English from Stanford University and a teaching credential in English (with Cross-Cultural Language and Development certification) in the state of California. She runs her own freelance writing business, PoppyCommunications.

• Frank J. Colagiovanni, contributing writer, is an award-winning freelance copywriter. Visit his web-site here.

• Brian Bicknell is a Bread and Circus Magazine contributing writer.

NEW VOICES CONTRIBUTORS

• Jessica Miles, contributing writer, attends Bryant University, majoring in Communication. She is Assistant News Editor for the Bryant University newspaper, The Archway. Jessica is working toward a future in the Journalism field.

• Kristine Williams, contributing writer and artist, is a student at Montserrat College of Art and is interested in making and writing about art, among other things. See her blog here.

• Judith Shimer, contributing writer, fronts Ohio indie rock band The Alphabet.  She received her BFA from Montserrat College of Art, and currently provides tech support for high speed Internet users.