Author Index

A complete list of the authors and artists published in

The Font – A Literary Journal for Language Teachers. 

Creative Non-Fiction

Essays

  • Adams, Cathy This I Believe (2020 Vol. 1)
  • Ang, Timothy What’s in a Name? (2022 Vol. 1)
  • Cassidy, Bridget: Exactly Where I Should Be (2020, Vol. 2)
  • Clark, Nola: Wearing the Other Hat (2016 Vol. 1)
  • Drier, Brian Seth: Barack and A Hard Place (2014 Vol. 1)
  • Escudero, Ruben D. Jr. Teaching Transcends Boundaries (2020 Vol. 2)
  • Ewing, Kathy:Better than the Browns (2016 Vol. 1)and Dental Floss(2019 Vol. 1) 
  • Fachal Coreira, Maria: A Quick Fix for Burnt-Out English Teachers (2020 Vol. 2)
  • Foster, Jackie: From Chair to Instructor: Reflecting on a Transition (2018 Vol. 1)
  • Greco, Michael: What is holding us back from becoming better writers? (2015 Vol. 2)
  • Gregory, David L.: Fish Tales and Tips: Hillel Wright’s Life, Stories, and Advice (2022 Vol. 1)
  • Guest, Mike: The Seminar (2019 Vol. 1)
  • Hakala, Marjorie: What It Is Like Here (2014 Vol. 2)
  • Igawa, Jennifer: De Zoet Does Japan (2021 Vol.2)
  • Issacs, Layton: Studying the Public and Private in France (2014 Vol. 2)
  • Innes, Andrew: L’espirit de l’escalier: A Mancunian in Japan (2021 Vol.2)
  • Jenson, Jim: The How and Why of Me Becoming a Teacher (2014 Vol. 2)
  • Juraszek, Dawid: The World We are Sending Them Off To (2018 Vol. 2)
  • Kharchenko, Nataliya: Teaching and the Art of Compassion (2019 Vol. 2)
  • Legault Kurihara, Danielle: Francesca and Stevick (2019 Vol. 1) and Seasonal Reminiscences (2019 Vol. 2)
  • Li, Wan: Hybrid Identities: Teaching While Learning (2021 Vol. 2)
  • Lin, Michael: The Joy of Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Japan (2021 Vol.2)
  • McGraw, Mark: The Roundabout Way (2019 Vol. 1)
  • Mallet, Heather; Unfunny (2019 Vol. 1)
  • Mulhern, James: Teaching at Fifty-Six (2019 Vol. 1)
  • Nash, Lindsay: Teaching English in Korea (2014 Vol. 2)
  • Parr, Patrick: English as a Second Life: Juggling Cultures in the Age of Globalization (2015 Vol. 1)
  • Perchik, Simon: On Magic, Illusions and Other Realities (2019 Vol. 1)
  • Prasad Bashyal, Gopal: The Life of a Nepalese Teacher (2018 Vol. 2)
  • Ramirez-Avila, Maria Rosanna: Is Free Education the Answer? ( 2018 Vol. 2)
  • Ries, Brendan Joseph: Gourmet Teaching (2015 Vol. 2)
  • Romero, Brenda: Practicing Spanish with Students in China (2018 Vol. 1)
  • Rossiter, Paul: Language Acquisition (2014 Vol. 1)
  • Sigdel, Bharat: Reclaiming Vedic Education (2020 Vol. 2)
  • Somerset, Sarah: My New Job as Translator (2019 Vol. 1), Weeding in Wakayama (2020 Vol. 2)
  • Stephens, Meredith: Escaping from Osaka on the Dreamy Sea Bream Train (2020 Vol. 1)
  • Tanaka, Kathryn M: Thoughts on Poetry in the EFL Classroom (2016 Vol. 1)

Fiction

Interviews

  • Edmonds, Glen: From English Teacher to Art Curator – or, How one man was seduced by a Japanese nun. An interview with John Walker. (2014 Vol. 1)
  • The Font: Interview with Susan Laura Sullivan (2016 Vol. 2) and Interview with Steve Redford (2019 Vol. 2) 

Poetry

  • Acuff, Gale: Simple (2017 Vol. 2); Transposed (2018 Vol. 1); Scram (2018 Vol. 2); Last Word (2019 Vol. 1), One Nation, Under & Counting (2020 Vol. 2), Education (2022 Vol. 1)
  • Adams, Roy J.: FewDeL (2019 Vol. 1)
  • Barbare, Danny: Mopping the Tiles (2016 Vol. 2)
  • Bedetti, Gaby: Inspired by Responses to The Beet Queen (2017 Vol. 2); Four Student Responses to ‘For That He Looked Not Upon Her’ (2018 Vol. 1)
  • Bell, Jennifer: ‘I am not a thief’ (2017 Vol. 2)
  • Bennett, Martin: Old Teacher (2014 Vol. 2)
  • Blanchard, Jane: Wash and Wear (2017 Vol. 2)
  • Briand, Casey: Wedged Underneath a Heavy Desk  (2021 Vol.1)
  • Cashen, Norene: When a Child Writes a Poem – for Terry BlackHawk (2018 Vol. 2)
  • Courington, Chella: Creative Writing Class (2015 Vol. 2)
  • Dapanas, Alton Melvar M: The Five Senses (2017 Vol. 1)
  • Dougherty, Patrick: On Teaching (2018 Vol. 2), Vespers, Hue (2021 Vol.2) 
  • Elkin, Roger:  Ironies More than Orange (2014 Vol. 2)
  • Gallagher, Harry: Shirleen, sixteen (2015 Vol. 2)
  • Girling, Alan: A Learner of English as a Second Language Describes a Photograph (2019 Vol. 1)
  • Goh, Ian: The Monster Manual (2021 Vol.1)
  • Goodfellow, Jessica:  shadow: dwelling: (2014 Vol. 2); Defining I (2017 Vol. 1)
  • Graham, Floyd H. III: chasing the rIsing sun (2021 Vol.2)
  • Green, Eimile Máiréad: Language Encounters in Three Movements (2014 Vol. 1)
  • Grover, Jaipreet: The Magic Words (2021 Vol.2), The Alphabet Family (2022 Vol. 1)
  • Harris, Aled: On a Pickle, Very Very Very & Figurative Language is Useless (2020 Vol. 2)
  • Hope, Akua Lezli:  Resignation (2016 Vol. 2)
  • Jackman, Diane:  Love Letter (2015 Vol. 1)
  • Johnson, Julie Allyn: Early Lightning (2021 Vol.2)
  • Jones, Hardy: Teaching is a Woman’s Job? (2021 Vol.2)
  • Kirzane, Jessica: Heritage Language (2021 Vol.1), Perfect (2021 Vol.2)
  • Kjeldgaard, Maria:  Design Combines Typography and Art (2014 Vol. 1)
  • Klauer, Cesar:  Return to the infant (2014 Vol. 2)
  • Klein, Kate: Three Poems: (Language Barrier, The Rules, and Did You Hear?) (2022 Vol. 1)
  • Kubokawa, Jared: Three Poems:(The Wild Boar and the Dodgeball Game, The English Teacher and My Students) (2021 Vol.2)
  • Levinson, Edward: Enlightened Alphabet (2020 Vol. 2)
  • Lukas, Krista:  Gifted and Talented (2014 Vol. 2)
  • Lynde, Molly: Lament, and Things that I would not like to forget (2021 Vol.1)
  • Matthew, Rini: The Eternal Thought, The Day She Spoke (2020 Vol. 2)
  • McEvoy, Gill:  Irregular Verb (2015 Vol. 1)
  • McMurray, David:  Teapot (2014 Vol. 2)
  • McRae, Bruce:  Dirty Word (2014 Vol. 2)
  • Mignon, Taylor:  Haiku, Hacky Sack and Fluxus Synathesia (2013 Vol. 1)
  • Mulhern, James: Simply Silly  (2021 Vol.1), Word of the Day (2021 Vol.2) 
  • Mullineaux, Pete: Making Rain – A report on a poetry lesson delivered as part of the Writers in School Scheme (2015 Vol. 1); Feeling our way in Friesland (2018 Vol. 1)
  • O’Sullivan, Sarah:  Fibs (2015 Vol.1)
  • Or, Olivia: A Mother in Six Tones (2018 Vol. 2)
  • Owen, Terry: The Sounds of English (2021 Vol.1)
  • Piponides, Zoe:  Books (2014 Vol. 1)
  • Quinn, Kelly: blackboard and white chalk (2014 Vol. 1)
  • Reid Green, Emily: A Language learning Adventure with Wrecked Haiku (2021 Vol.1)
  • Rossiter, Paul:  The Question of Palestine (2017 Vol. 1)
  • Ryan, Eugene: The Wow! signal, This is home now, and Gaps (2021 Vol.1)
  • Salovaara, Michael:  am I your rival (2014 Vol. 2);  the contract teacher knows (2016 Vol. 2)
  • Schiff, Jeff: A Paradigm for Effective Instruction (2015 Vol. 2)
  • Shaffer, Eric Paul: ‘Ka ‘Okina: Ka Leokanipū ‘Ewalu I Ka ‘Ōlelo Hawai’i’ [‘The ‘Okina: the Eighth Consonant in the Hawaiian Language’] (2018 Vol. 1)
  • Sigriddaughter, Beate: The Poet (2018 Vol. 2)
  • Sullivan, Leah Ann:  Saturday Kids (2014 Vol. 1)
  • Tabor-Farjani, Noeme Grace C.: Overnight (2021 Vol.1)
  • Taylor, Peter: Hell-box (2021 Vol.1)
  • Wagenheim, Elizabeth Holden: Other Tongue (2018 Vol. 1)
  • Watson Owen, Linda: Adverbity, So What Do Poets Do?, Alchemy of Ink (2021 Vol.1)
  • Wiygul, Mary Roberson: Flat Line(s): Death of an English Teacher’s Psyche (2019 Vol. 1)
  • Yang, Shizhou: Find a Friend in English (2017 Vol. 2)
  • Yuan, Changming: Heart Renditions, Etymological Insights, and Eight Chinese Trio Characters (2021 Vol.1)

Column – In Love with Language

Loyet, Dianne E: Why I Teach (2018 Vol. 1), Nauseated or Nauseous? (2018 Vol. 2),     I Love Language, But I Need to Love People More (2019 Vol. 1) , How I learned to Stop Hating on and Embrace Emoji (2019 Vol. 2), Y Can’t I Haz Grammar? (2021 Vol.1), A Brief Primer on Russian, Belorusian, and Ukrainian (2022 Vol. 1)

Reviews

  • Hartse, Joel Heng: English in China: A Miraculous and Conflicted Encounter (2013 Vol. 1)

Visual Arts