Reading by Editors of Rhino Magazine Celebrating issue #99

The editors of RHINO, a literary annual, read their own work and celebrate the release of RHINO 99, the current issue. RHINO publishes poetry and short fiction. Poets in the audience are invited to enter the readers contest announced in the magazine, which will be on sale at the event!

Kathleen Kirk, an associate editor of RHINO, teaches literature and writing at DePaul University. Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in Puerto Del Sol, Privavera, Farmer?s Market, Belles lettres and elsewhere. She was the featured Illinois Poet in Spoon River Reiveiw, and her poems have won first place awards from Rambunctious Review and Mangrove. Her fiction has twice been cited on the Distinguished List in Best American Short Stories.

Widely published, Helen Degen Cohen (Halina Degenfisz), is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, First Prize in British Stand Magazine?s world wide fiction competition for an excerpt from her autobiographical novel, The Edge of the Field, two Illinois Arts Council Awards, and Illinois Arts council Fellowship, and an Indiana Writers Conference award in poetry, among other honors, including fellowships to the four major art colonies in the United States. She co-founded RHINO magazine as well as its adjunct, the Poetry Forum, a monthly drop-in workshop. She is now a coeditor at the magazine. She teaches Humanities at Roosevelt University.

Bill Gartner is a published writer and composer who has been an FM radio disk jockey, the lead singer with a Pacific Northwest rock and roll band, and the Reviews Section editor for a local magazine. He is currently a visiting lecturer at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an adjunct professor at DePaul University, an associate editor and production manager for RHINO: the Poetry Forum, and a senior technical communications consultant for Renaissance Worldwide,Inc.

Deborah Nodler Rosen has won First Place in the 1998 Connecticut Poetry Society Contest and Second Place in the 1998 Illinois State Poetry Society Contest. Co-Editor of RHINO, she also serves as a board member of the Poetry Center of Chicago and donates her time conducting writing workshops in schools and community centers. Her Poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Yankee Magazine, Spoon River Review, Cream City Review, Whetstone, and A Taste of Poetry?Chicago Style, 1996. Ms. Rosen has written a biography of Anwar el-Sadat, and is co-author of a textbook, A Proud Nation.

Originally from Kentucky, Alice George earned her B.A. from Oberlin College then moved to the Chicago area. She is pursuing her MFA in Writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is the Co-Editor of RHINO, a literary annual and writer resource, and is a member of The Divas. She has work forthcoming in Quarter After Eight, West Branch, Fish Stories: Collective 3, F Magazine, King Log: A Journal of Poetry, Farmer?s Market, and Rambunctious Review. She was the featured Illinois writer in the fall of 1997 Spoon River Poetry Review, which included 11 of her poems. She was a Ragdale Foundation fellow in the summer of 1998.