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Alice Owens Johnson
Alice Owens Johnson was born in New Orleans in the 1940s. She has published short stories and nonfiction in such publications as the The Lyricist, Pembroke Magazine, The Guilford Review, and the O. Henry Festival of Stories. Her stories have appeared in two other anthologies: The National Story Project entitled…
Gerald Cooperman
Gerald is a former educator and engineer, who has cloaked himself in the the pseudonym “Gramps” since 2000. Located about 80 miles west of the Nation's Capitol, Gerald with his wife Kathryn own and operate the Peaceful Valley Farm, producing chemical-free beef and lamb. The couple's retirement plan is to…
Judith Sanders
Judith Sanders, PhD, teaches English at the Winchester Thurston School in Pittsburgh, PA. Her poems have appeared here and there; one recently won the Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Contest. Her shopping sprees remain largely imaginary.
Claudia Ware
I believe I was born to write. My first experience, at age eleven, was writing a play for my Sunday School class, which was performed for the church. In high school, I won an essay contest sponsored by a civic association. As a young mother, I wrote a weekly sports…
Elaine Slater
Elaine Slater has written many short murder mysteries over the years. Although most of her stories are based on actual events, this is not to suggest that Elaine Slater is a serial killer. Adept at turning murderous thoughts into laughter and life experience into a form of wisdom, her stories…
Stephen J. Kudless
Stephen J. Kudless is a poet and playwright whose whose work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Two of his plays, “Beds” and “How Fish Breathe”, were staged in off-off Broadway venues in NYC. Mr. Kudless writes and lives in New York City.
Alexandria Gilbert
Alexandria Gilbert writes and studies in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. As a poet, she focuses on such topics as Zeitgeist, the Generation Y experience, and the deeper implications of Taylor Swift songs. Her work has been featured at The Southern Letterpress in Northport.
JoAnn DeLuna
JoAnn DeLuna is a bilingual journalist and poet originally from Texas, a self-described Texican. Her journalistic work has been published throughout the US, UK, Netherlands and India, while her poetry has been published in anthologies in Texas and New York. She received her journalism master's from City University London.
Carole Davis
A native Texan, Carole is an avid fantasy reader and a dog lover, and loves to travel. Her writing has appeared in The Whimsic Alley Book of Spells, The Innocence of Children, Pawsitively Awesome Pet Poems, Wisdom of Our Mothers: Stories and poems by daughters and sons (Volume 1), Best…
Tracy Davidson
Tracy Davidson lives in Warwickshire, England, and enjoys writing poetry and flash fiction. Her work has appeared in various publications and anthologies including: Atlas Poetica, Mslexia, Modern Haiku, Simply Haiku, A Hundred Gourds, Roundyhouse, The Right-Eyed Deer and Notes from the Gean. Apart from writing, Tracy enjoys reading crime fiction…
Pat Coulter
Pat Coulter has only recently begun to put his thoughts to paper in the form of creative writing—although unpublished in his chosen fields of narrative fiction and poetry, being a finalist in the Wergle Flomp poetry contest is a strong indicator that his writing isn't complete rubbish. He was born…
Marcy Campbell
Marcy Campbell's work is published most recently in McSweeney's, The Millions and The Writer. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Marcy is currently shopping her debut novel, whose opening chapter was selected as a finalist in the 2012 Summer Literary Seminars Contest, judged by Mary Gaitskill. She…
Luke Archer
I am a self-employed builder from Derbyshire with a degree in Applied Psychology and a passion for comic poetry. I have recently branched out into performing my poetry on the stand-up comedy circuit and have acquired a following. Get the latest on Twitter.
Andrew Weaver
Andrew Weaver is an aspiring writer currently attending Middlebury College in Vermont. His interests include reading, writing, and the banjo. He divides his time between his typewriter and the kitchen.
William Upjohn
William Upjohn recently retired from speech-language pathology following an extended sabbatical, having been fervently detained by poetry during the last decade or so. In 2010 he completed the Loft Master Track—Poetry mentorship program (now called Foreword: A Writing Mentorship) under Jude Nutter at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.…
Sabine Sur
Sabine Sur is a writer, a knitter and a translator, which means she writes from one language into another, knits narratives and translates patterns into things. She also just got married and wore a blue dress for the occasion. No ghosts were sighted at the wedding nor was there any…
Peter Schmitt
Peter Schmitt is the author of six books of poems, including four full-length collections: Goodbye, Apostrophe (Regal House), Renewing the Vows (David Robert Books), Hazard Duty, and Country Airport (Copper Beech). Two chapbooks, To Disappear and Incident in an Apartment Complex: A Suite of Voices, are with Pudding House. He…
Bruce McCandless
Bruce McCandless lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and two daughters, neither of whom (ahem!) resemble IN ANY WAY the eponymous Hillary Snow. Bruce has published poems in Pleiades, Natural Bridge, The Seattle Review, and The New Delta Review, and is also the author of the science fiction novel…
Cassandra Kemper
Cassandra writes from Keizer, Oregon. She is currently enrolled at Chemeketa Community College to complete her prerequisite courses before moving on to the University of Oregon. She is majoring in Cinema Studies. She has two short stories published: “Painter Girl” and “The Anklet”. The former story is in the 2012…
Logan Ellis
Logan is currently working on a creative writing degree at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, during which he hopes to finally decide if he should write poetry or fiction or a Frankenstein concoction of both, or if he should just stop complaining and drink his coffee. In his…
Keith Casto
Keith Casto is a freelance writer who lives in Akron (Ogden Nash rhymed it with “saccharine”), Ohio, with his wife Barbara (whom most poets would have trouble rhyming anything with). He considers just about anything fair game for a send-up, except possibly the neighbors, with whom he has to continue…
Scott Benner
Scott Benner, a scoundrel with a strong heart, lives a double life in the Somerset Hills of New Jersey. By day he creates beauty and value as a General Contractor and Woodworker. But when the light grows dim, he can be found hacking away at the English language with nothing…
Josh Lefkowitz
Josh Lefkowitz is a graduate from the University of Michigan, where he received the Hopwood Award for Poetry. His stories and poems have been published in numerous journals online and in print, including Conduit, The Rumpus, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, Freerange Nonfiction, Ohio Edit, and Open Letters Monthly. He has performed…
Remica L. Bingham
Remica Bingham, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Writing and Literature from the Writing Seminars at Bennington College. She has attended the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshops and is a Cave Canem fellow. Currently, she is working on a series of essays on the…
Nicholas Moore
Nicholas Moore is festering in poverty in Bloomington, Indiana, as a security guard at a refrigerator factory (seriously). His phone was recently turned off. His first love is comedy. You can enjoy his comedic writings at Size Matters and more Size Matters. He has three poems published in Fine Wine…
Reggie Marra
Reggie Marra's books include Living Poems, Writing Lives: Spirit, Self and the Art of Poetry (2004); Who Lives Better Than We Do? (2001); and The Quality of Effort (1991). “The Eyes of the Beholder” will be included in the forthcoming This Open Eye: Seeing What We Do (March 2006), a…
Dinah Kudatsky
Dinah Kudatsky was born and raised in New York City. As a child, she dreamed of living on a country lane, riding a horse to school, and falling into piles of leaves, none of which was possible in Spanish Harlem. Perhaps that was where fantasy and literature took over, and…
Walter Bargen
Walter Bargen has published nine books and two chapbooks of poems: Fields of Thenar (Singing Wind Press, 1980), Mysteries in the Public Domain (BkMk Press, UMKC, 1990), Yet Other Waters (Timberline Press, 1990), and The Vertical River (Timberline Press, 1995), Rising Water: Reflections on the Year of the Great Flood…
T.P. Perrin
T. P. Perrin, trained in classical music (composition), has worked as an editor, art critic, school administrator, producer of concerts and — probably his happiest job — giver away of money for a government arts agency. His poems have been published in The Wallace Stevens Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Sow's…
Colleen Williams
Colleen Williams was born in South Dakota, home of the Lakota Nation. She has lived in Minneapolis, Boulder (CO), and New York City and lives now in San Francisco. She is a composer whose work has been recorded by the Paul Winter Consort, and performed by various orchestras, singers and…
Dennis Arlo Voorhees
Unafraid of the generic darkness or sugary sunlight that laces his twenty-first century breath, Arlo Voorhees is dragging the moon back to modern poetry, stuffing star-filled metaphors down the throats of old poets. His poems and stories have appeared in Humdinger, Ephemeris, Make More Love, Hot Metal Press, and a…
Paula V. Smith
As the oldest of four children in a US Foreign Service family, Paula Smith lived in Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Peru and Romania. After earning degrees from Swarthmore College and Cornell University, she accepted a faculty position at Grinnell College in Iowa, where she eventually chaired the English department, served four…
Christopher Leland
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1951, Christopher Leland is the author of five novels, as well as translations and a book of Argentine literary history. He lives in Detroit and teaches at Wayne State University.
Tim Leach
Tim Leach is a retired journalist, public relations and advertising writer who served with the 196 Light Infantry Brigade as an artillery surveyor, in fire direction control, and as artillery liason with Vietnamese Popular Forces in Viet Nam. He was a finalist in the 2003 Winning Writers War Poetry Contest,…
Heinz Kohler
Born in Berlin, Germany, 1934, Mr. Kohler lived in Berlin during most of World War II. From 1945 to 1952 he lived in rural East Germany. An historical novel (as yet unpublished), entitled My Name Was Five, is based on his wartime and post-war experiences in Nazi Germany and Communist…
Beth Ferris
Beth Ferris is a poet and film writer-producer with an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College, North Carolina. She has taught “Poetry as a Healing Art” for eleven years to people suffering from traumatic illness and chronic pain with Living Art and Healing™ and is a co-founder of the…
Christopher Buehlman
Christopher Buehlman is an actor and writer based in the Tampa Bay area. He makes most of his living playing Christophe the Insultor, a verbal mercenary whose wildly popular one-man comedy show can be found at renaissance festivals around the country. He enjoys the company of dogs but travels too…
Viktor Tichy
Viktor Tichy grew up in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and lives in Iowa. Father of four, architect-developer, and art teacher, he currently runs his child care center in Iowa City. He began to write poetry in Diane Frank's workshop 17 years ago, and has won prizes and publications in over 120 national…
Jeff Streeby
Jeff Streeby grew up in Sioux City, Iowa, an historic terminal market for Western beef, and worked for Waitt Cattle Company while he attended Morningside College. During the early 1970s he competed in amateur rodeo as a bull rider, bareback rider, and saddle-bronc rider without spectacular results. Later, he went…
Sean Joyce
I was born in Galway in the West of Ireland and emigrated in 1975. I am married to Vee (from Cork, Ireland) and we have two daughters. Apart from poetry my interests include psychology, history and public speaking. Among other things I am a member of the National Speakers Association…
Linda LeGarde Grover
Linda LeGarde Grover is a member of the Bois Forte Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe in northern Minnesota. She is on the American Indian Studies faculty at the University of Minnesota Duluth, and has published poetry, prose, historical research, and a children’s family history guide. As an Ojibwe grandmother…
Judson Blake
Judson Blake received his BA in Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. He grew up in New Mexico and has lived in Europe. He has worked in weapons research, art education, banking, counseling for the elderly and tutoring children. Some years ago he settled in New York, where…
William Pitt Root
William Root's poetry has received numerous honors, including three Pushcart Prizes, the Stanley Kunitz Prize from Columbia journal, the Guy Owen Prize from Southern Poetry Review, a Borestone Award, and several Pulitzer nominations. He has been awarded fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Stanford University’s…
Ed Frankel
Ed Frankel is on the faculty of the UCLA Writing Programs and the Antioch Los Angeles BA and MFA programs. His recent poetry has appeared in Fugue, Confluence, The Dogwood Journal of Poetry and Prose, Nimrod, The Kennesaw Review, The Litchfield Review, AmericaWest, Americas Review and In Our Own Words…
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Burlee Vang
Burlee Vang is the firstborn of Hmong refugees from Laos. He is the recipient of the Paj Ntaub Voice 2006 prize for poetry. Published in Paj Ntaub Voice journal, Random House's Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers: Best New Voices of 2006, Heyday Books' Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California's…
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