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Elaine Zimmerman
Elaine Zimmerman is a policy leader for children, an essayist and a poet. Recent publications include poetry in Lilith, Caduceus, The Peralta Press, Visions International, Urban Spaghetti, New Millennium, Dreamworks, Long River Run, The Medulla Review, and three anthologies, Everybody Says Hello, Sleeping With One Eye Open: Women Writers and…
Franke Varca
Franke Varca has received a Lannan Foundation Poetry Fellowship from the Folger Library of Washington, DC; an Academy of American Poets A.E. Claeyssens, Jr. Poetry Prize; the Bryan Lawrence Award in Poetry from the University of Houston; and Second Prize from Hollins University's Lex Allen National Poetry Contest. Most recently,…
David Allen Sullivan
I was first alerted to the power of poetry when my mom taught me Ogden Nash's “Isabel, Isabel, met a bear…” The line “cruel and cavernous” chilled and thrilled me, and I'm still working on exorcising bogeymen and exercising my imagination. My first book, Strong-Armed Angels, is available through Hummingbird…
Ted Stein
Born in NYC 5/6/1930, grew up in suburbs (New Rochelle, Westchester). 2 B.A.s (Yale 1951, Cambridge 1958), M.D. (Case Western Reserve 1969), Ph.D. in English (Yale 1984), L.M.P.(Licensed Massage Practitioner 1990); taught in France (1952-53); U.S. Army, stationed in Japan (1954-56; was then fluent in Japanese & French, now speaks…
Anne Moffa
Anne Moffa grew up in the forests of southwestern Pennsylvania. She spent much of her childhood playing in castles of hemlock and spruce, reading under cathedral vaults of wild grapevines, and drawing on every available surface. The nearby Fort Ligonier peaked her interest in history at an early age. Eventually,…
Lucia May
Lucia May is a poet and violinist who teaches and plays in St. Paul, MN. She is a longtime arts advocate for various major arts and educational institutions. Lucia's work has appeared or will appear in Main Channel Voices and the Evening Street Review. She was a finalist in the…
Christina Ginfrida
Christina Ginfrida is currently working on her MFA in creative writing at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. She recently finished her undergraduate studies in English at Lynn University. She graduated Summa Cum Laude. Her poems “Suicidal Cats and Ketchup Covered Brains” and “Disease” were in the 2006 literary and…
Jan Gerling
Jan Gerling recently graduated from Texas Tech University with a B.A. in English. He studied under the award-winning poet John Poch and inspiring writers like Patrick Whitfill and Jacqueline Kolosov. He currently lives in Lubbock, Texas and is interested in escaping.
Jacqueline Dickey
Jacqueline Dickey received an M. Div. from Notre Dame and is currently an award winning visual artist and world percussionist. Her book of poems, When the Believer's Chin Points Toward the Moon, was published by Rose Hill Books in 2000. Her poetry and visual art have appeared in various newspapers,…
Wayne Christensen
I am 56, Florida born of Danish descent. My wife, two daughters and I operate a zenvironmentally friendly tilapia and mangrove farm on the edge of the Everglades swamp. I am an Associate Professor of English at Florida Memorial University, the southernmost HBCU in the US, and co-edit the school's…
Rob Wright
Rob Wright is a writer living and working in Philadelphia. He was awarded Fellowships in Literature from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in 2005 and 2007. His poetry has been published by Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, Headwater Press, and the magazines Big City Lit and Siren's Silence.…
JL Williams
JL Williams was born in New Jersey and studied at Wellesley College with the poet Frank Bidart and on the MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. Her poetry has been published in journals including The Wolf, Poetry Salzburg Review, Brand and Poetry Wales and is scheduled to…
Lynn Shoemaker
Yes, I grew up by a river. Yes, I've done my share of peace marching, seldom by any river, and some witnessing too (Nicaragua, Chiapas, Cuba, Iraq). Yes, I've got a daughter Erica and a grandson named Gabe, but they live close to the ocean. But to them I make…
Jon E. Seaman
Jon E. Seaman is a poet, healthcare activist, and grateful kidney transplant recipient. Jon was the winner of the 2010 Portland Pen Award and appears in 2010 issues of The Ledge Magazine and The Naugatuck River Review. He received an Honorable Mention in the 2009 War Poetry Contest sponsored by…
Brenda Roper
After over 20 years of living in Anchorage, Brenda recently relocated to Santa Fe, NM. She is currently an artist in residence at El Zaguan on Canyon Road where she hopes to eventually learn Spanish and contemplates spending part of the winter south of the border. Her poetry has been…
Veronica Golos
Veronica Golos is the author of A Bell Buried Deep, co-winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize (Story Line Press) and nominated for a 2004 Pushcart Prize by Edward Hirsch. Most recently, Ms. Golos was awarded a Creative Woman Scholarship by A Room Of Her Own Foundation and a fellowship…
Frank Gaik
Frank Gaik is currently a Professor of Creative Writing at Cerritos College in Norwalk, California, where he has taught since 1989. Born in Chicago and schooled in southern Wisconsin, Gaik received his MFA in Poetry at the University of Arkansas and his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. He…
Natalie Diaz
Natalie Diaz grew up in the Fort Mojave Indian Village and is Mojave and Pima. She played professional basketball in Europe and Asia for a few years before deciding that she had a better chance of improving her writing than she did her three-point shot. In 2007, she completed an…
Silvia Curbelo
Silvia Curbelo is the author of a full-length collection of poems, The Secret History of Water (Anhinga Press, 1997), and two chapbooks, Ambush, winner of the 2004 Main Street Rag chapbook contest, and The Geography of Leaving (Silverfish Review Press). She has received poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for…
Paul Christensen
Paul Christensen is a poet and essayist, and coordinator of creative writing at Texas A&M University. His poems have appeared in journals and reviews throughout the United States and Europe, and are collected in seven books of poetry, two of which won the Violet Crown Award for best work of…
Amy Wentworth Bueno
Amy Wentworth Bueno received her MFA from NYU & her M.A. from UVa. She is a poet teaching at Duke University. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with her husband & son. Her poems have appeared in Barbaric Yawp, Icon, Louis Liard Magazine, _volutions Magazine, & Washington Square Literary…
Susan McCabe
Susan McCabe was born on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, has taught in Oregon and Arizona, and received her PhD at UCLA. She also taught and conducted research in her mother's country of Sweden. She directed the PhD in Literature and Creative Writing Program (2006-2009) at University of Southern California,…
Timothy Tebeau
I received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan in 2005, where I was the recipient of an Avery Hopwood Award in Graduate Poetry. I currently serve as Associate Director of the University of Michigan's Bear River Writers' Conference which takes place annually at Camp Michigania on Walloon…
John Spaulding
John Spaulding's poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, APR, Rattle, Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, The Iowa Review, Boston Review, Hunger Mountain, and many other places. His published titles include Walking in Stone (Wesleyan, 1989), The Roses of Starvation (Riverstone, 1987), and The White Train (LSU, 2004). The…
Emily Ruch
Emily was raised in the mountains of southern New Mexico. Her formal education has been diverse, including fine arts, interior design and ranch management, and she recently graduated from The Evergreen State College with a focus in writing. Her work has been published in Crab Creek Review. As an Army…
Vivian Faith Prescott
Vivian Faith Prescott was born and raised in Wrangell, Alaska and lives in Sitka, Alaska and Puerto Rico at the U.S.C.G. Air Station Borinquen. Vivian is married to LT Howie Martindale, an Aeromedical Physician Assistant with the U.S. Coast Guard. Vivian co-facilitates a writers group for teenagers and adults at…
Jenny Overman
Jenny Overman's work reflects her commitment to social justice issues, race, class and Judaism. She is a part of Writing on Whiteness, a collective of writers. A poet and performer, Jenny was a participant in The Squaw Valley summer writing program. She is the author of I'm so White in…
Radha Marcum
Radha Marcum is the granddaughter of a Manhattan Project physicist who worked in Los Alamos during World War II. Much about her grandfather's work remains classified, even to his family. Her poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Chelsea, Bellingham Review, Pleiades, Field, and other journals, and her manuscript Oppenheimer's Dog…
Robin Coste Lewis
Robin Coste Lewis writes poetry and essays. Her writing has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Callaloo, GCN, The Pocket Myth Series (Orpheus & The Odyssey) and anthologized in Black Silk and The Encyclopedia Project, F-K (forthcoming). A Cave Canem Fellow, in 2004, she was…
Boman Desai
Boman Desai grew up in Bombay (now Mumbai), but has lived his adult life mostly in Chicago. After studying Architecture and Philosophy, and getting degrees in Psychology and English, he was set to become a market analyst when a chance encounter with Sir Edmund Hillary, his earliest hero (who had…
David Arnett
David L. Arnett retired from the U.S. Department of State on November 30, 2005. He was a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister Counselor. Born in Indiana in 1943 as the son of a career Army officer, he lived in both Austria and Japan…
Stephen Scott Whitaker
In 2008 Stephen Scott Whitaker was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for fiction. His stories, essays, reviews, and poetry have appeared in dozens of journals including two anthologies, Ride: Poems About Bicycles, and Dream in the Clouds: Poetry Commemorating Obama's Election. He is the author of two chapbooks of poetry,…
Peter Taylor
I received my MA in English from the University of Waterloo after receiving three awards for scholarship as an undergraduate at the University of Guelph. I have always been interested in military history and Antietam was inspired by the battlefields of Robert E. Lee's 1862 Maryland Campaign. Critics have referred…
Nishan Swais
Nishan Swais lives with his wife and two children in Toronto, Canada, where he currently works as a lawyer. He is the author of several books on the law and holds a Master's degree in Philosophy from Carleton University in Ottawa. When not working, he coaches youth baseball, studies classical…
Aliene Pylant
Aliene Pylant recently moved to Austin, TX, to be closer to family. While she is still engaged in the writing process, her five-year-old grandson garners most of her attention. Past Winning Writers honors include third prize in the 2007 War Poetry Contest, a High Distinction Award in the 2008 Margaret…
Jennifer Morales
Jennifer Morales is a freelance writer, editor, and activist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Jennifer holds a B.A. in Modern Languages and Literatures from Beloit College and is currently enrolled in the Creative Writing program at Antioch University-Los Angeles, pursuing an M.F.A. in fiction. Her poetry has been published in Between the…
Jason Kappel
Jason Kappel is a wanderer. He has been a sous chef, a roustabout, a sign-maker, and a textbook editor. One day around 8 years ago on a nice October day in Portland, Oregon, he put down his red pen, walked out the door of his publishing house, had a sandwich,…
Susan Gubernat
Susan Gubernat's first book of poems, Flesh, won the Marianne Moore Prize and was published by Helicon Nine Press. Her poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Cortland Review, Michigan Quarterly, and Pleiades, among others. Her second book manuscript, Shaggy Parasol, has been a runner-up or finalist in such contests…
Matthew Finlay
Matt Finlay is an 18-year-old freshman student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, attempting to major in creative writing. Shiny résumés tend to intimidate him because he's still working on one. He has lived in San Antonio, Texas for most of the last decade, and perhaps still lives there…
Charles Elliott
Charles Elliott's poems have been published in the Potomac Review, Chiron Review, Midday Moon, Aethlon, New York Times, and elsewhere, including two anthologies. A book of poems, Be Patient with Me: I am Trapped in the American Sickness System, is forthcoming later this year from the Osler Institute (Terre Haute,…
J. David Cummings
Poems by J. David Cummings have appeared in the Slapering Hol Newsletter, Poetry Flash, Bellowing Ark, Convergence, and in several issues of The Sand Hill Review. His full length manuscript, Envoy, was a finalist in several national contests, including the National Poetry Series Open Competition and the Red Hen Press…
Anna Scotti
Anna Scotti is a poet, writer, and teacher living in Southern California. She has been the recipient of a number of prizes and honors, including third prize in the Winning Writers War Poetry Contest back in 2010. Anna's first collection of poetry, Bewildered by All This Broken Sky, won the…
Gerardo Mena
My name is Gerardo Mena. I am 28 years old and I'm a decorated Iraqi Freedom Veteran. I was in Special Operations with the Reconnaissance Marines for six years and I was awarded a Navy Achievement Medal with a V for valor for multiple acts of heroism while under enemy…
Les Wicks
Les Wicks' eighth book of poetry is The Ambrosiacs (Island, 2009). Wicks has been a guest at most of Australia's literary festivals, toured widely and been published in over 200 newspapers, anthologies and magazines across 15 countries in 9 languages. He runs Meuse Press, which focuses on poetry outreach projects.
Steven Sparks
Steven Sparks separated from the United States Marine Corps in 2005 after 10 years of service in the signals intelligence field. He served two tours in Iraq. He lives in York, PA with his wife, two boys, and a dog.
Frank Ortega
Frank Ortega has had work published by The Madison Review, Colorado Review, Ferro-Botanica, Seneca Review, Z Miscellaneous, Downtown, Amicus Journal, Paragraph, and most recently in the latest issue of Oberon, as well as by Lost Horse Press in I Go to the Ruined Place, an anthology of human rights poetry.…
Hugh Martin
Hugh Martin is a veteran of the Iraq war and now attends the MFA program at Arizona State. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Narrative, Crazyhorse, Mid-American Review, American Poetry Review, and The Kenyon Review. His chapbook So, How Was the War? (Kent State…
Adrie Kusserow
Adrie Kusserow lives in Underhill Center, Vermont with her husband and two children. She is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at St. Michael's College in Colchester, VT where she teaches courses on Refugees, Poverty, and Culture, Illness and Healing. She and her husband and some of the Lost Boys of Sudan…
Danielle Kessinger
Danielle Kessinger had just graduated with a bachelor's in Literature and a minor in Nonviolence when her twin brother enlisted in the army. She taught in three countries over the course of his enlistment and two deployments in Afghanistan, the second the result of stop loss. In Japan, when they…
Danielle Jones-Pruett
Danielle Jones-Pruett is an MFA candidate at UMass Boston, where she also teaches creative writing. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Abject Press, Breakwater Review, Cider Press Review, First Inkling, Poets Against War, Southern Women's Review, and others. Danielle recently curated a collaborative art project, “The Poetry Dress,”…
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