Contributors to August AE-Extra
[Issue 3/2009]

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.

Dan Lukiv, M.Ed., teaches English and creative writing at McNaughton Education Centre, Quesnel, BC. He is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and an independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His writing has been published in 19 countries. His formal apprenticeship as a writer includes intensive personal direction from masters such as Canada's Professor Robert Harlow and England's D. M. Thomas. He also studied under USA's novelist Paul Bagdon. Since 1978, he has edited the literary journal CHALLENGER international, which focuses attention on young, up-and-coming Canadian poets, and since 2001, he has edited The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education. He is married and has four daughters, and serves as an elder in a congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in Quesnel. 

Asha Choubey, Ph.D., is a Reader in English and Head of the Department of Humanities at MJP Rohilkhand University, Bareilly. Dr. Choubey is also the Founder General Secretary of Jijiwisha, an association of Women Managers in Higher Education from U.P., Bihar, and Uttarakhand. Her book The Fictional Milieu of Nayantara Sahgal has gotten much critical acclaim. She is a contributor to the Dictionary of Literary Characters, edited by Michael Sollars of Texas University, and a reviewer for Postcolonial Text and Novitas-Royal, both online refereed journals. Dr. Choubey is also an annotator for the Postcolonial section of Routledge’s Annotated Bibliography. She is editing an anthology on Women in Indian Women’s Writing and another on Dalit Literature.

J. Karen Reynolds, PhD., is currently working as an assistant professor of educational psychology at Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada. She is in her twenty-first year of recovery with bipolar disorder.

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.

Angela M. Velez is a doctoral candidate for her Ph.D. in Adult Education. She is the Coordinator of Learning Technologies at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, Illinois and teaches online for Kaplan University as an adjunct. Her background is in education, and has her Master's degree in English from Purdue. She has taught English and humanities courses at several midwest colleges and universities since 1998, and has taught online at several different institutions since 2005. She has a great deal of interest in distance teaching and learning, faculty support and development, diversity in higher education, and developmental studies. Personally, she has four young children and enjoys writing poetry, reading historical fiction, and photography.

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