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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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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…
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