responsive-lightbox domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/sundre5/ducts.sundresspublications.com/content/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114* * * <\/strong><\/p>\n Fred Abrahams <\/strong><\/p>\n memoir<\/p>\n has had an interesting life. Fleeing Germany just before the Holocaust he spent his childhood on the upper west side of Manhattan. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School and the University of Pennsylvania before serving a tour of duty with the US Army in Germany. A career in marketing grew into a stint as a writer\/producer of TV infomercials.\u00a0 A quad bypass started him writing about his experiences, including: travels in post-war Europe; partying with the abstract expressionist painters of the Chelsea school; his 270 minutes of fame as a champion on a TV Quiz show; visits to the original Studio 54; co-founding The Improv comedy club; and all the interesting people he’s met along the way. An avid skier and amateur photographer, he now lives in Brattleboro, Vermont.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Derek Alger<\/strong><\/p>\n fiction<\/p>\n Derek is a graduate of the Columbia University MFA fiction writing program, and serves as a Contributing Editor to PIF Magazine.\u00a0 His fiction has appeared in Confrontation, Del So Review, and The Literary Journal, to name a few.\u00a0 He has worked as an editor and reporter for newspapers in the Bronx for over 20 years.<\/p>\n Michael Andreoni<\/strong><\/p>\n humor<\/p>\n Michael Andreoni’s stories have appeared in Iconoclast, Fogged Clarity, Unlikely Stories, Allegory<\/em>, and other publications. He lives near Ann Arbor, Michigan.<\/p>\n Devyani Borade<\/strong><\/p>\n fiction<\/p>\n Devyani Borade is a professional writer. Several of her articles and stories have been published in magazines in the US, UK, Australia and Canada, and her essay ‘The Ties That Bind’ (http:\/\/ducts.sundresspublications.com\/content\/the-ties-that-bind\/) has previously appeared in Ducts 25. Devyani writes on topics ranging from the ordinary to the extraordinary with a light, personal and refreshingly different voice. Her other two great loves are chocolate and trying her husband’s patience. Visit her unique blog Verbolatry at http:\/\/devyaniborade.blogspot.com to enjoy the adventures of Debora, her alter ego!<\/p>\n Robert E. Bowen III (1965-2010) <\/strong><\/p>\n poetry<\/p>\n Robert was a gifted jazz and classical bassist, composer, visual artist, educator, and devoted father.\u00a0 Born in Massachusetts and raised in Ohio, he moved to New York City in 1996. He died on August 30, 2010, as a result of injuries sustained in a hit-and-run accident while riding his bicycle in Manhattan. Bob was devoted to poetry; several tributes to him are available on The Best American Poetry Blog: http:\/\/blog.bestamericanpoetry.com\/the_best_american_poetry\/2010\/08\/this-just-in-amy-lemmon.html; http:\/\/blog.bestamericanpoetry.com\/the_best_american_poetry\/2010\/10\/there-is-not-more-than-one-by-jerry-williams.html.<\/p>\n Alec Bryan <\/strong><\/p>\n memoir<\/p>\n Alec lives in Utah and doesn\u2019t even have one wife.\u00a0 His first novel has been serialized by Prick of the Spindle, which after the third installment will now be published as a book via Aqueous Books this November, and is titled Night on the Invisible Sun. Short stories can be read at Oddville Press, Dogzplot, LITnIMAGE, Corium Magazine, The Waccamaw Journal, and forthcoming in Pank and Mudluscious. Visit him at www.alecbryan.com to see further information about the author and his projects.<\/p>\n Peter Dobill<\/strong><\/p>\n art gallery<\/p>\n Born in New Zealand, Peter Dobill is a Brooklyn, NY based actionist. He received his BFA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2004 in addition to the 2008-2009 Franklin Furnace Fund For Performance Art Grant. Dobill co-founded and has curated the Maximum Perception Performance Festival in Brooklyn, NY since 2008. He has performed and exhibited internationally in galleries\/venues including Exit Art, NY, NY; English Kills Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY; Open Realization Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing, China; and Rockefeller University, NY, NY as well as being artist in residence at Ox Bow, Saugatuck, MI in 2007. www.peterdobillactionist.com<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Stacey Py Flynn<\/strong><\/p>\n fiction<\/p>\n Stacey is a graduate student at the University of Maryland where she is studying to become a library media specialist. She lives and roams the regions around Washington DC with her teenage son.\u00a0 She’s been writing fiction and memoir since she was a child, takes classes at Gotham Writers Workshop and is surprised every day at how well she functions in the real world.”<\/p>\n Heather Fowler <\/strong><\/p>\n fiction<\/p>\n Heather received her M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Hollins University in May of 1997.\u00a0\u00a0 She has taught composition, literature, and writing-related courses at UCSD, California State University at Stanislaus, and Modesto Junior College.\u00a0 Among other venues, she has recently published stories in the following journals and anthologies: Prick of the Spindle (Issue 4.3, Fall 2010); Up the Staircase\u00a0 (Spring 2010); Dark Sky Magazine (Featuring Mel Bosworth reading her micro-fiction on video, May 2010); Necessary Fiction (April 2010); Back in 5 Minutes ~ an expression of depression (print, volume 1. Little Episodes, London. February 2010, UK.) ; and the stark electric space\u2026an international anthology of indie writers (print, Graffiti Kolkata, India. Winter 2010).\u00a0 Her book SUSPENDED HEART is due out from Aqueous Books in December of 2010.\u00a0 Please visit her at www.heatherfowlerwrites.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mindy Greenstein<\/strong><\/p>\n essays<\/p>\n Mindy is a clinical psychologist and psycho-oncologist, as well as a writer.\u00a0 She lives with her husband and two sons in New York City.<\/p>\n Jake Kalish<\/strong><\/p>\n humor<\/p>\n Jake has written for Details, Maxim, Playboy, and Men’s Fitness<\/em>, and Ducts<\/em>, among other publications. He is the author of Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium Of Imaginary Fights<\/em> and the proud father of Una and Esme.<\/p>\n Laura Keeble <\/strong><\/p>\n art gallery<\/p>\n Laura is a London-based artist who produces traditional works as well as street art interventions. More about her projects can be found at: www.laurakeeble.net<\/p>\n Melissa Larson<\/strong><\/p>\n memoir<\/p>\n Melissa is a proud New Jersey resident with a husband, three dogs, and an overused vacuum cleaner.\u00a0 She teaches high school English, coaches Track and Field, and runs the occasional marathon.<\/p>\n Katrinka Moore<\/strong><\/p>\n poetry<\/p>\n Katrinka’s poetry collection Thief was published by BlazeVOX in 2009. Pudding House will release her new chapbook, Falling off horses, in 2011. She lives in New York City.<\/p>\n Patrick Okell<\/strong><\/p>\n essays<\/p>\n Patrick lives in Seattle, and is an ex-lawyer turned stay-at-home father to four-year-old twins.\u00a0 He finds the hours and the demands of the clients to be surprisingly similar in both jobs.\u00a0 In his spare time he likes to pretend he is a writer.\u00a0 This is his second essay to be published in Ducts.\u00a0 You can read more of his writing at http:\/\/slokell.com.<\/p>\n Joelle Renstrom<\/strong><\/p>\n essays<\/p>\n Joelle lives in Boston where she teaches writing and literature. Her work has appeared \u00a0in Carousel, the Sycamore Review, Briarpatch, Guernica and others, and she is a recipient of the CBC Television Jim Burt Prize in Creative Writing, the Hopwood Award for Poetry, and the Virginia Voss Writing Award. She is currently working on a collection of essays about the intersection of literature and life.<\/p>\n Rafael Sanchez<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n art gallery Rafael (b. Newark, New Jersey, 1978) is a performance artist who often takes his work to the streets and other unconventional spaces. In his performances, Sanchez frequently subjects his body to extreme stress and pain to materialize ideas of memory, spirituality and endurance.<\/p>\n Dale Seever<\/strong><\/p>\n humor<\/p>\n Entertainer Dale is the host of the whiskey-fueled podcast, Dale Radio, broadcasting on a semi-regular basis from the foul banks of Brooklyn\u2019s Gowanus Canal. He\u2019s appeared in venues large and small, deploying his skills as storyteller and master of ceremonies from the tar pits of LA to the dive bars of NY. During the day he can be found in Times Square. Handing out flyers. For comedy shows and musicals. For more from Dale please visit www.daleradio.com or follow him on twitter, @daleradio.<\/p>\n Madelyn Sergel <\/strong><\/p>\n essays<\/p>\n Madelyn is a freelance writer, playwright, and Co-Artistic Director of Clockwise Theatre, where the world premiere of her play Special Needs will open this winter.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Sunsh Stein <\/strong><\/p>\n memoir<\/p>\n Sunsh has lived in New York City for more years than she thought possible. She has a master’s degree in journalism and has written for JazzTimes and Jazz Notes. She’s the author of the unpublished Sibling Rivalry: The Road to Love Is Paved with Medication and is currently working on Reality — What a Concept. Sunsh also works as a patient advocate\/educator\/navigator. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Joshua Willey<\/strong><\/p>\n fiction<\/p>\n After growing up in Oakland and studying literature in Portland, Joshua Willey moved to China and commenced working a perennial series of day jobs including firefighting and commercial fishing. He\u2019s published a book on film with Verlag as well as poems, photographs, short fiction, and literary criticism. He is currently writing Hydrogen, a novel about hitch hiking, and seeking a publisher for Frostwork, a manuscript of poetry and black and white photography. Some his work can be found at joshuawilley.com. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Jack Willis <\/strong><\/p>\n memoir<\/p>\n Jack is President of the Willis Group, a television and documentary film Production Company. He has been a producer and executive in commercial, cable and public television. He created and executive produced the EMMY award-winning innovative news show, THE 51st STATE, for WNET\/13. He was Co-Executive Producer of PBS\u2019 groundbreaking, EMMY award-winning, The Great American Dream Machine, and Willis\u2019 series, CITY WITHIN A CITY,\u00a0 which also won an EMMY, and was widely credited with helping to achieve passage of\u00a0 Milwaukee\u2019s\u00a0 Open Housing law in 1967. Willis has produced and directed numerous award winning documentaries and has also produced films for CBS News as well as THE HUMAN ANIMAL series (1986,) with Phil Donahue, for NBC.\u00a0 With his wife, Mary, he has written several highly rated network movies of the week and co-authored the book, BUT THERE ARE ALWAYS MIRACLES. He has a BA and LLB from UCLA and an Honorary Doctor of Law from St. Johns University in Minnesota. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Bonnie ZoBell<\/strong><\/p>\n fiction<\/p>\n Bonnie has received an NEA, a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, the Capricorn Novel Award, and was included on Wigleaf’s 2009 Top 50 list for very short fiction. Her work has been included or is forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, Night Train, Storyglossia, Necessary Fiction, The Greensboro Review, Blip, and Pank. She received an MFA from Columbia, teaches at San Diego Mesa College, and can be reached at www.bonniezobell.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n STAFF<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Jonathan Kravetz<\/strong><\/p>\n editor-in-chief<\/p>\n Jonathan is best known for his ability to scratch his forehead and squint his eyes simultaneously .\u00a0 He is a writer, editor and some time trumpet player who spends too much time reading long feature stories on the world wide web.\u00a0 He is a co-founder of ducts and founder of the New York based reading series, Trumpet Fiction, held each month at KGB Bar in the east village.\u00a0 He has studied writing with a number of teachers in New York, including Alice Eliot Dark (fiction), the late Fred Hudson (screenwriting) and Alison Estes (children\u2019s fiction) and has held a number of odd jobs, including news reporter, taxi cab driver, projectionist and ducts installer (hmmmm).\u00a0 He currently works as a computer consultant.\u00a0 He has recently taken up improv comedy classes with the Upright Citizen\u2019s Brigade Theater of NYC as a way to discover finer and more glorious ways of embarrassing himself on a weekly basis.<\/p>\n Sharon Gurwitz<\/strong><\/p>\n treasurer<\/p>\n Sharon\u2019s careers as psychology professor, banker, and management consultant all come in handy for managing the business side of ducts. When she\u2019s not working on a consulting project or writing her novel, she enjoys going to the theater, ballet, and classical music concerts.<\/p>\n Dana Benningfield<\/strong><\/p>\n memoir editor<\/p>\n Dana comes to her role of writer and editor with a breadth of experience in several disciplines. She started out as an advertising account executive on Madison Avenue before moving over to work behind the scenes in film production for Walt Disney Pictures. She then expanded to theatre arts, where she worked to develop new plays as literary manager, director and actor. Since moving into the publishing world, Dana has enjoyed working with numerous writers, both fiction and non-fiction, taking on editing and ghostwriting projects, as well as evaluating manuscripts for writers, publishers and agents. In addition to many notable writers, she credits her parents for her editing and story-telling abilities. As an English teacher, her mother emphasized the importance of sound writing and proper grammar; her father would often spin a tall bedtime tale, thereby instilling in her the power of a story well told. Dana holds a B.S. with honors in Advertising and Communications from The University of Texas at Austin, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and an M.F.A. from the Alabama Shakespeare Festival\/UA.\u00a0 www.benningfield-editor.com<\/p>\n Anne Mironchik<\/strong><\/p>\n assistant<\/p>\n Anne, although a fine treasurer, is much more renowned for her songwriting, which reaches back to capture the classic brilliance of favorite hits by Carole King and Laura Nyro.\u00a0 She blurs the lines between jazz, country, rock and R&B, weaving melody and rhythm together in masterful ways. Her rich alto voice leads listeners from one genre to another as she explores the struggles, loves, fears and joys of everyday heroes.\u00a0 When she\u2019s not writing great music, Anne is busy crunching numbers for ducts!\u00a0 Anne\u2019s new CD “Find Me” is now available and can be found at www.annemironchik.com.\u00a0 4newsongs@earthlink.net<\/p>\n Kat Rodies<\/strong><\/p>\n humor editor<\/p>\n Kat Rodies is a nurse practitioner, medical writer, and short fiction enthusiast who has been called the ideal person to have with you in a POW camp.<\/p>\n Elizabeth Rosen<\/strong><\/p>\n essays editor<\/p>\n Elizabeth is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College. In previous incarnations, she has also been a writer for Nickelodeon, an associate producer for the news, and the editor of two academic journals. She has published her nonfiction and fiction in various publications.<\/p>\n Cindy Stockton Moore<\/strong><\/p>\n art gallery editor and illustrator<\/p>\n Cindy <\/strong><\/strong>is a Philadelphia-based artist. Her two person exhibition ‘An Island Now Peopled’ is on view at Chashama Chelsea Project Space (New York, NY) until January 2011. Outside of the studio, Cindy works as adjunct professor of studio art and theory. Her essays have appeared in ArtNews, New York Arts Magazine, NY Sun, in addition to on-line and university publications. A listing of her current exhibitions and projects can be found at:\u00a0www.cindystocktonmoore.com<\/a><\/p>\n Tim Tomlinson<\/strong><\/p>\n fiction editor<\/p>\n Tim\u2019s fiction has appeared in The Missouri Review, North American Review, Libido, and elsewhere.\u00a0 He’s published haiku in Modern Haiku, Time Haiku, and Black Bough.\u00a0 He’s an occasional journalist, and a full time teacher, working at both NYU and the New York Writers Workshop.<\/p>\n Illustrators<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Chris Frost (humor section<\/strong>)<\/p>\n When not reminiscing about life in the old New York, Chris Frost designs and crafts handbags. His illustrations have appeared in Ducts and Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium Of Imaginary Fights. He currently resides in Bushwick, but dreams of a move to Puerto Varas.<\/p>\n Natalie Lerario<\/strong><\/p>\n Natalie has been working as a graphic artist since 2005 and has recently completed a web design certificate program in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Along with graphic design, Natalie also enjoys creating digital illustrations. www.NatalieLerario.com<\/a><\/p>\n Steve Tarantino<\/strong><\/p>\n Steve attended FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology ) in New York for Illustration.\u00a0 He graduated in 1991 with a BFA in Illustration.\u00a0 www.stevetarantino.com.<\/p>\n * * *<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" * * * Fred Abrahams memoir has had an interesting life. Fleeing Germany just before the Holocaust he spent his childhood on the upper west side of Manhattan. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School and the University of Pennsylvania before serving a tour of duty with the US Army in Germany. 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