Contributors to February-March AE-Extra
[Issue 2/2009]

Lynne Fukuda, an instructor of Psychology at Leeward Community College.  Fukuda has worked previously as an instructor of Anthropology at Windward Community College, a part-time instructor of Biology at Hawaii Pacific University, and an instructor at Central Texas College, based in Hawaii at Schofield Barracks.  She is a regular contributor to this journal in her monthly column, “The View from Here.”  Her previous column, "Fukuda's Chalkboard," can be found in the January-August 2002 editions of this journal, as well as various other writings in the 2001 editions.

Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal, PhD, is a enior Lecturer in English at Feroze Gandhi College, Rae Bareli, (U.P.), India. He has his doctorate on T.S. Eliot from Allahabad University. Dr. Agarwal is interested mostly in Indian Aesthetics, Diaspora and Contemporary Critical Theory. His interviews with a number of contemporary literary figures, as well as his research papers, book reviews, articles and poems have appeared in several publications, including South Asian Review, Kavya Bharati, The Vedic Path, IJPCL, Quest, and Hyphen.  His poem “To Lord Krishna” is in the celebrated anthology, The Pagan’s Muse.  Several of his literary pieces have been included in The People’s Poet: Summer Community Magazine of 2004.   He has also edited a critical book on Stephen Gill and currently edits Parnassus: An Innovative Journal of Literary Criticism.

Michael J. Frasciello is a doctoral student in the Composition and Cultural Rhetoric program at Syracuse University and an adjunct college instructor. He designs and develops online courses for universities, community colleges, and industry as Director of Information and Learning Systems at University College of Syracuse University.  Frasciello has worked as an instructional designer for information technology and software development companies. His articles and technology reviews have appeared in Integrated Online Systems, Catalyst, Information Today, and Windows NT Magazine.

Nicholas Daniel Hartlep, a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, pursuing a degree in Urban Education and Multicultural Studies. His research focuses on urban educational reform as it relates to race, equity, and the improvement of education, especially at the collegiate level.  He is a teacher in the Milwaukee Public Schools. Hartlep currently holds a B.S. degree in teaching and an M.S.Ed. in K-12 education.

Matilda Naputi Rivera, PhD, Language Studies.  While a junior in high school, Dr. Rivera wrote an anthology of poems titled, Teen-Age Pros and Cons, published in 1990 by Carlton Press, Inc.  She has received numerous awards, including the Governor’s Arts Award and Legislative Resolutions, for her anthology publication and various inspirational poems in other professional poetry publications.  She is an ESL Teacher/Coordinator with the Guam Public School System and an Adjunct Professor for the University of Guam’s Language and Literacy Master’s Program.  She is married and has three young children who continue to give her inspiration.

Paula Sergi, BSN, MFA, is the author of Family Business, a collection of poems from Finishing Line Press, and co-editor of Boomer Girls: Poems by Women from the Baby Boom Generation, University of Iowa Press. She holds a BSN from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College, and has taught composition, fiction writing and poetry as adjunct and lecturer at Ripon College, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and Marian College.  The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, along with the Hessen Literary Society selected her as the 2005 cultural ambassador to Germany, which included a three month residency in Wiesbaden. She received a Wisconsin Arts Board Artist Fellowship in 2001. Her poetry is published regularly in such journals as The Bellevue Literary Review, Primavera, Crab Orchard Review, Spoon River Poetry Review and The American Journal of Nursing

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