About Us
Staff
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Foldes
Mike Foldes, Founder/Managing Editor. Mike has published poetry chapbooks, alternative newspapers, and has worked as columnist, editor and contributor to newspapers and magazines since the late 1960s. He edited the first edition of the Power Sources Manufacturers Association’s “Handbook for Standardized Terminology of the Power Sources Industry”, and in his other life is a sales engineer. Mike is married, has three children, and lives in the Binghamton area, in upstate New York. (e-mail: editor@ragazine.cc)
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years, then became a university poetry instructor in 2006. He has played piano professionally, and read with such poets as Allen Ginsberg, Gerald Stern, Patricia Smith, Jan Beatty, and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn. Weil’s next book, The Plumber’s Apprentice, recently was published by New York Quarterly press. Joe moderates a popular poetry show on Facebook, and is very active in promoting poetry and poetry events whenever and wherever, it seems, that there’s demand. (e-mail: Subject Line: Poetry, Send to: editor@ragazine.cc)
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Metta Sama
Metta Sama, Fiction. Metta lives in Brooklyn, NY and Plainfield, VT. She is a poet, visual artist, story maker and scholar, and is the current blogger for Zora via Torch: poetry, prose and short stories by African American women. (e-mail: m_sama@mac.com)
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Leslie Heywood
Leslie Heywood, Creative Non-Fiction. Leslie Heywood is the author of Pretty Good for a Girl: A Memoir (The Free Press/Simon & Schuster), Natural Selection: Poems (Louisiana Literature Press); The Proving Grounds: Poems (Red Hen Press), and many shorter works of creative non-fiction as well as academic writing. She is Professor of English & Creative Writing at Binghamton University, and has particular interests in nature and science writing. She is working on High Wolf Content, a book of creative non-fiction about a woman at a crossroads who travels the country with her wolf to make a choice, writing that includes personal narrative as well as an account of the history of the human/wolf relationship and the theory of human/wolf co-evolution. (e-mail: leslie.heywood@gmail.com)
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Molly Kat
Molly Goldblatt, Poetry Out Loud. Molly graduated from Binghamton University in May 2010, majoring in English Literature and Creative writing. She ran the off campus reading series at the Belmar and published the chapbooks that came out once a month at the readings. She is the 2010 recipient of BU’s prestigious Dunham Award for poetry. In 2008 she was on the Bowery Poetry club’s intercollegiate slam team, and in 2009 she went to college nationals on the Binghamton University slam team. Her work has appeared in several magazines, ezines, and online poetry sites, and she is working on publishing her second chapbook. Check out her fanpage on Facebook and at http://www.myspace.com/mollykatslam.
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Mark Levy & Friend
Mark Levy, Legal/Casual Observer.
Levy (left) is an attorney with the Binghamton-based law firm of Hinman Howard and Kattell. He is a contributing editor to ragazine.cc with Ryan Miosek (Feeding the Starving Artist), and an occasional contributor to NPR, where his comments can be heard some Saturdays at noon. email: creative@stny.rr.com and mlevy@hhk.com
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Ryan Miosek is an associate at Hinman, Howard & Kattell, LLP. He attended 
Fairfield University for his undergrad studies where he majored in Art History with a concentration in Studio Art, and earned his Juris Doctor from New England School of Law in Boston. Throughout his studies and work, Miosek has kept a keen eye on the art world with a desire to assist artists in their endeavors with the legal skills he has developed. Through his development of a new art management department, with the assistance of Mark Levy at Hinman, Howard & Kattell, this dream has become a reality. e-mail: rmiosek@hhk.com
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Jeff Katz
Jeff Katz, Music. Born in Brooklyn, Jeff Katz now writes about music, baseball and whatever else he’s obsessing on from his new home base in Cooperstown, New York. Jeff’s “what if” history of rock and roll, Maybe Baby (or, You Know That It Would Be Untrue), has garnered worldwide readership, with a new story posted on backbeat Fridays (the 2nd and 4th of every month). Jeff’s Maybe Baby columns appear occasionally in the music section, along with music reviews, interviews and outtakes. His latest book, The Kansas City A’s & The Wrong Half of the Yankees, was published in 2006. http://maybebabyoryouknowthatitwouldbeuntrue.blogspot.com/
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Chuck Haupt, Photography. Chuck Haupt is based in upstate New York. His award-winning work during a 30-year career at the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin is recognized throughout the region for its impact and excellence. Chuck is known for his captivating images of residents of New York’s Southern Tier, images that reveal character and evoke a powerful response. His work as a photojournalist has taken him to a wide variety of places, from hospital operating rooms to professional golf tournaments, to lower Manhattan in the hours after the 9/11 attacks, and into the homes of ordinary people with extraordinary stories to tell.
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Kayleigh Wanzer
Kayleigh Wanzer, Book Reviews. Kayleigh Wanzer is a senior Creative Writing major at Binghamton University. She enjoys writing short fiction and non-fiction and hopes to pursue an MFA in fiction or non-fiction after completing her undergraduate degree. She lives in Syracuse, New York.
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Emily Vogel, Assistant Poetry Editor. Emily Vogel’s poetry has been 
published in the anthology Co-Evolution 2: Shivering Through the Details with Turtle Ink Press, published in the Salt Hill Journal, The Edison Review, Hotmetal Press, The Broome Review, Main Street Rag, The Chaffey Review, Slush Pile, First City Review, and on the WSKG website. She is the recipient of second prize for The Academy of American Poets competition at Binghamton University, 2008. Her first chapbook, Footnotes for a Love Letter was published in August 2009, by Foothills Press, her second collection of poetry, An Intimate Acquaintance was published in November 2009, by Pudding House Press, and her third collection, Elucidation Through Darkness, was published by Split Oak Press in May of 2010. She has been nominated for the AWP award in creative non-fiction, 2010.
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Valerie Brown
Valerie Brown, Washington. Valerie Brown studied photography at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel; Ohio State University; Parsons New School and School of Visual Arts in New York City. She gained additional skills working as an assistant to notable artists, including Ernst Haas, Salvador Dali, Igor Bacht, Philippe Halsman, W. Eugene Smith, and Helene Gaillet. Since 1977, Valerie has worked as a feelance photographer. Her client list includes Women’s Wear Daily, Washington Dossier, Interview Magazine, People Magazine, Time Magazine, Smithsonian Books, and the Kennedy Center. She presently lives and works in Washington, D.C.
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GinGer Liu
GinGer Liu, Los Angeles. Ginger Liu is a one-woman arts fest, who in addition to photographing events in Los Angeles, and writing about them, provides online public relations, promotions, publicity, social media marketing, and more. The British ex-pat has lived in LA for about two years. GinGer’s writing, and photography reflect her background as someone who has embraced two defining cultures (both UK and US). She has lived in Australia, New Zealand, Germany and China, the latter to complete her quest for culture and identity. Invariably traveling solo, you can find GinGer traveling on a train through the heart of China, hiking the Great Wall, or riding a bike in the middle of Amsterdam.
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Charlie Einhorn, Innerart, Columbus, Ohio. Charlie has been on the 
Columbus scene almost since anyone can remember. He’s a writer, photographer, publisher in his own right, and remains plugged into the city’s arts & culture network. His insider’s feed from the heart of the Buckeye State will keep you up to date with a few of the latest places to go and things to see from open house jazz concerts to the neighborhood street fests grown into some of Central Ohio’s largest gatherings.
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J. Scott Hardin, or Jeff, as we know him, graduated from San Jose State 
University (B.A. 1994, M.A. 1996) in Modern European History, before studying and teaching as a Doctoral Fellow at Tulane University and the Freie Universität Berlin. For the past ten years, he has been writing under the starry nights of the American Southwest. Now, we’re pleased to admit that his drawings and humor will be publicly revealed from issue to issue in ragazine.cc. His poetry, fiction and nonfiction appear or are forthcoming in The Café Review, The Houston Literary Review and Moon Milk Review.
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The Litchfields
Lynda Barreto. “What’s tragic is when there is no good story to be told.” Lynda Barreto’s thoughts on her own “Litchfields” stories and day to day life in general. Her own life so far reads somewhat like a ‘Forrest Gump’ rough draft: Born a mid-westerner, but the daughter of an eccentric Brasilian. Raised in Florida. Educated in Florida, North Carolina, Seattle, Barcelona and Interstate 40 near Gallup, New Mexico. (back in ’83). Track star, cowgirl, sailor, record holder in two trans-American ultra-distance running expeditions(’81 and ’83), waitress, business owner, tennis pro., artist. “Litchfields” is nothing more than what you see. And for those who open their eyes, it’s so much more than what you see. Lynda co-owns a family run international/local cafe’ in Old Naples, Florida where good stories are told spontaneously by the hour. Stop in the next time you’re there. Tell her you saw her work in ragazine.cc.
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HEADER Credits:
Steve Cartwright, Illustrator; sccart@aol.com, www.angelfire.com/sc2/cartoonsbycartwright
Ronald Davis, Hot Pink; upfromsumdirt@yahoo.com
Tokyo, Japan; Mike Foldes
Christiansted, US Virgin Island, Al Dorsa; aldorsa@gmail.com
Amsterdam, Lauren Curtis; http://laurencurtis@wordpress.com
Green Leaf, Chuck Haupt
Iceland; Chuck Haupt
Stones; Chuck Haupt
Beach; Spiro Panagyros
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History.
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