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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…
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…
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