by Jill Lundquist, Renata Zrust, Claudia Brewington, Cheri Johnson
An anthology containing poems and short stories from four women writers living in the Mid-West.
Jill Lundquist is 36 years old. She was born in Minneapolis. Her father, who celebrated his 80th birthday in April, 2003, published his first book of poetry, The Journey Begins, in 2001. Jill's poems are cameos, an apt and sometime haunting response to a precisely constructed situation.
Renata Zrust was born in 1980 into a family of artists and musicians. She grew up in a small town in southern Minnesota and was educated in Mankato until she dropped out of high school when she was seventeen and ran away to Minneapolis. Her stories relate a continuous conflict between having fun and being responsible, and move relentlessly toward a conclusion that neither is quite satisfying.
Claudia Brewington was born in 1953 in St. Paul, Minnesota.she is a lobbyist for health and human service programs in Minnesota and is back at the University of Minnesota, working on a master's degree in clinical social work. Her poems revel in metaphor.
Cheri Johnson was raised in Lake of the Woods County in northern Minnesota. She has a B.A. in English from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, an M.A. in English and creative writing from Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, and is currently working on an MFA at the University of Minnesota. Her fiction has been published in Pif, Nidus, and Clare, her poetry in The Rio Grande Review, and her nonfiction in The Hollins Critic, The Minnesota Women's Press, and a Breakaway Books anthology. Her stories excel in subtlety and humor.
