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Charlotte Muse
Charlotte Muse received both her M.A. and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, where she has taught Creative Writing and Poetry Writing. She also taught for some years as Instructor in Poetry for U.C. Berkeley Extension, for the Lifelines Project, and for many other organizations. Now…
Tim Mayo
Tim Mayo's poems have appeared in The Atlanta Review, Arbutus, Del Sol Review, The Rose & Thorn, The Cold River Review, Paris/Atlantic, Four Corners, Mannequin Envy, Poet Lore, 5 A.M. and The Chrysalis Reader. Two of his poems have garnered “International Merit Awards” from The Atlanta Review, and in 2000,…
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Kate Duva
Kate Duva is a storyteller, schoolmarm, dancer and performance poet from Chicago. One day while she was online researching poetry competitions, her husband walked in the door with a mourning dove in one hand and a nest in the other, and the work “Wings of a Boy” was born. For…
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Chella Courington
Chella Courington holds a Doctorate in Literature from the University of South Carolina and pursues an MFA in Poetry from New England College. Her poetry appears in over thirty journals. Recipient of the Jimmy Santiago Baca Scholarship, Courington teaches poetry, fiction, creative writing, and composition at Santa Barbara City College.…
Peter Neil Carroll
Peter Neil Carroll was born in New York City in 1943. He has written and edited numerous books, including the memoir Keeping Time: Memory, Nostalgia, & the Art of History. He has taught creative writing at the University of San Francisco, hosted “Booktalk” on Pacifica Radio, and edited the San…
Patricia Barone
Patricia Barone has poetry in To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present (New Rivers Press, 2006). She has published a book of poetry, Handmade Paper, and a novella, The Wind, with New Rivers Press. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in periodicals…
John-Noel Attard
John-Noel Attard is a musician. He was born in Accra, Ghana and was brought up in Malta. He studied piano performance at the Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg and at the Frankfurt University of Music and the Performing Arts where he now also teaches. He has performed widely in Europe playing…
Brenda Tate
Brenda Tate lives on the shores of the Annis River in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia. Having taught secondary English and Drama for many years, she left the classroom to spend more time on writing, gardening, fossil-collecting and photography. Shortly after retiring, Brenda was granted a Writers' Federation of NS mentorship…
Patricia Smith
Patricia Smith is the author of four books of poetry, including Teahouse of the Almighty, a 2005 National Poetry Series selection, winner of the 2007 Paterson Poetry Prize and finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award in Poetry. Blood Dazzler, a book of poems chronicling the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, will…
Ian Schwartz
Ian Schwartz was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 6th, 1987, and he moved to Mount Desert Island, Maine, when he was six years old. He is currently a third-year student studying literature at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He will be in Bali teaching English from January to…
Noel Paladin Tripp
Noel Paladin Tripp resides in Brooklyn, New York and works as an attorney on Long Island. At the risk of presumption, he apologizes on behalf of the field to Wilfred Owen. He would also like to acknowledge the recent military service of a friend, and former classmate and teammate, Sergeant…
Pan Morigan
Pan Morigan is a Canadian/American singer and songwriter who inhabits numerous worlds and speaks in many tongues. In 2007 she won the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Music Composition for her genre-bending songs. She performs hither and yon as a solo vocalist/multi-instrumentalist. She has worked as a singer for other…
David Lloyd
David Lloyd teaches for the Creative Writing Program at Le Moyne College. His articles, interviews, poems, and stories have appeared in magazines in the US, Canada, and Britain, including Crab Orchard Review, Denver Quarterly, DoubleTake, and TriQuarterly. His poetry collection The Everyday Apocalypse won the 2002 Maryland State Poetry &…
Mark Hart
A native of eastern Washington State, Mark Hart lives in western Massachusetts where he is a psychotherapist, the guiding teacher for a Buddhist community, and an adjunct religious advisor at Amherst College. His poetry has appeared recently or is forthcoming in RATTLE, Poetry East, Runes, The Midwest Quarterly, The Berkshire…
Corrinne Clegg Hales
Corrinne Clegg Hales' most recent book is Separate Escapes, winner of the Richard Snyder Poetry Prize (Ashland Poetry Press, 2002). Her poems have appeared in The Hudson Review, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, and many other journals. She lives in Fresno, CA where she teaches in the MFA…
Susan Deer Cloud
Susan Deer Cloud is a writer of Blackfoot, Mohawk, Seneca heritage (Métis) who grew up in the Catskill Mountains but for many years has sojourned in many places. She is an alumna of Binghamton University where she has occasionally taught Creative Writing. Deer Cloud's books of poetry are The Broken…
Lollie Butler
Lollie Butler holds a fellowship in literature from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and has received a literary award from The Presidential Library at Texas A & M University, where her poem, “The One Free Woman in America”, dedicated to civil rights activist Rosa Parks, remains on display. She…
Julian Damanas
Julian Damanas lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a fugitive from academia where she studied attentional mechanisms and their correlational relationships to human intelligence under the rubric of the visual phenomenon known as Inattentional Blindness. I have always been an adventurer, for whom experience speaks in unintelligible and archaic tongues.…
Kyle McDonald
Kyle McDonald, born in Saskatchewan in 1980, has lived most of his life in Ontario and attended the University of Toronto and Sheridan College for Theatre and Drama Studies: he is currently a professional actor. Having always been interested in writing, he has composed several plays (most of which are…
James Tyner
James Tyner was born and raised in Los Angeles. As a teen, he came with his family to Fresno, in San Joaquin Valley. He considers both places home. Tyner grew up in neighborhoods filled with violence, but strives for the life of a pacifist, generally failing. Poetry is his way…
Anindita Sengupta
Anindita Sengupta grew up in Bombay and now lives in Bangalore, India. Her poetry has appeared in Pratilipi, Kritya, Asian Cha, Quay Journal, Muse India, Talking Poetry, and in several anthologies. In 2008, she received the Toto Funds the Arts Award for Creative Writing. A writer, journalist and communications consultant,…
Jay Rogoff
Jay Rogoff's third book of poems, The Long Fault, appeared from LSU Press in 2008. His earlier books include The Cutoff (Word Works, 1995) and How We Came to Stand on That Shore (River City, 2003). LSU will publish his next book, The Code of Terpsichore, in 2011. His poetry…
Carrie Preston
Carrie Preston is an Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies at Boston University. She is married to a Marine who was deployed to Iraq from January through August 2007 and is currently stationed at the Marine Corps Recruiting Depot, San Diego. Her poetry records the joys and contradictions of…
Kevin C. Peters
After five years of unforgiving winters in Alaska, where he was a grants researcher and teacher of technical writing, Kevin Peters packed up his clothes and traveled with his woman overseas seeking warmer lands. After a mostly relaxing three-month European vacation, he headed to Indonesia to teach English. He someday…
Kelly Michels
Kelly Michels was born in Chicago, Illinois. She received her BA and MA in English Literature from George Mason University and her MFA from North Carolina State University. She won the Academy of American Poets Award for NC State in 2007. She also wrote poetry for the documentary “The Making…
Paul Handley
Paul Handley spent a career as a student and a student of odd jobs. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois and then lived in Madison, Wisconsin for five years, Rhode Island for a year, and then lived in another suburb of Chicago until moving out of the house after…
Glenn Buttkus
I am a Rehabilitation Specialist, working at the Department of Veteran's Affairs Blind Rehab Center, VA American Lake, in Tacoma, Washington. I think that I was born a movie buff. I had young parents, and as a family we went to the movies weekly. Movie palaces of the 50's were…
H. Lee Barnes
H. Lee Barnes lives in Las Vegas, Nevada where he teaches English and creative writing at the College of Southern Nevada. He has published three collections of short fiction—Gunning for Ho; Talk to Me, James Dean; and Minimal Damage. He has also published a novel, The Lucky, and book of…
EP Allan
Currently I am working on a Ph.D in Creative Mis-spelling. Part of this process is a translation project of Yosa Buson, an 18th century or Edo Era poet. The other part is a return to the older works I've written as well as new. A reworking and discovery process of…
Curt Snodgrass
I published the first short story I ever wrote, in Temple University's literary magazine. That was circa 1958. Life's imperatives and a business career ensued—during which I wrote stuff for money in every imaginable medium—except, come to think of it, the sky, the earth and water. I began to write…
Flo St. Jean
Flo St. Jean is well known in the New England vocal arts community as a teacher of voice and performance skills for classical, musical theatre, and popular music singers. She has taught at the Boston Conservatory and is currently on the faculty at Rhode Island College and Bryant University, where…
Jerry Neren
Jerry Neren began writing poetry 25 years ago. Over the years, Mr. Neren has received numerous awards for his poetry, and his poetry appears in many literary publications. In addition, Mr. Neren has recently completed a novel in verse, Once Upon A Time In Vietnam. Mr. Neren resides in Bloomington,…
Lynne Knight
Lynne Knight's previous collections are Dissolving Borders, a Quarterly Review of Literature prize winner (1996); The Book of Common Betrayals, winner of the Dorothy Brunsman Award from Bear Star Press in 2002; and Night in the Shape of a Mirror (David Robert Books, 2006). She has also published three prize-winning…
Michael Joyce
Michael Joyce lives along the Hudson River and teaches at Vassar College, His poems have been published in nor/, The Iowa Review, Parthenon West, and elsewhere. and his most recent novel Was: Annales Nomadique, a novel of internet, was published by Fiction Collective2 in 2007.
Alice Irvin
At the time of her birth on base at Fort Stewart, Georgia, Alice Irvin's father was a U.S. Army intelligence officer in an armor battalion. He, in turn, is the son of a naval aviator who flew for his country in World War II and the Korean War. This is…
Elizabeth Hoover
Elizabeth Hoover is a feminist poet who enjoys working on projects with a conceptual or research element. Her project, Some Poems About Pictures, is a hybrid text that offers art as a space for resistance to and transformation of dominant gender narratives. A portion of that project was awarded the…
Atar Hadari
His translation of the Hebrew national poet, Songs from Bialik: Selected Poems of Hayim Nahman Bialik (Syracuse University Press 2000) was a finalist for the American Literary Translators' Association Award 2001 and poems from it appeared widely. In 2007 his poems won the Tricinium prize from McDowell Arts Colony, the…
Michael Fredson
I am a disabled veteran who served in Tay Ninh, Vietnam 1969-70. I have a BA from Central Washington University and I received an MFA from the University of Arizona in 1978. I published poems in magazines and anthologies two decades ago. I have served as president of the Mason…
M.C. Allan
M.C. Allan grew up as a foreign service kid (some would say “brat”) and has lived in Pakistan, Taiwan, Holland, Australia, and the U.K. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR), Tar River Poetry, Delaware Poetry Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, and others. She works…
Jude Nutter
Jude Nutter was born in North Yorkshire, England, and grew up near Hannover, in northern Germany. She currently lives and works in the twin cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. Her poems have appeared in numerous national and international journals and have received over 30 awards and grants, including three fellowships…
David Brendan Hopes
David Brendan Hopes is professor of literature and language at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, an actor, painter, and widely produced playwright. He is the author of the Juniper Prize- and Saxifrage Prize-winning book, The Glacier's Daughters, and of Blood Rose (Urthona Press, 1997), the Pulitzer- and National…
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