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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,”…
Sasha Pimentel Chacon
Born in Manila and raised in Atlanta, Saudi Arabia and the NYC tri-state region, Sasha Pimentel Chacón is a Filipina American poet and author of Insides She Swallowed (West End Press, 2011), winner of the 2011 American Book Award. Her work has appeared in journals such as The American Poetry…
J. Scott Brownlee
J. Scott Brownlee earned his BA in English from the University of Texas at Austin and his MS in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Hayden's Ferry Review, RATTLE, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Writers' Bloc…
Susan Brennan
Susan Brennan's poems appear in various publications. Her manuscript Sweet Demons has been nominated as a finalist for several book awards; her manuscript numinous was a semi-finalist for the 2011 Tupelo Press Award for a First or Second Book of Poetry. Her short script “Order & Accidents” won Bronze place…
Eliot Khalil Wilson
Eliot Khalil Wilson's poems have been published in dozens of journals. He has won a Pushcart Prize, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and awards from the Poetry Society of America and the Academy of American Poets. His first book of poems, The Saint of Letting Small…
Suzanne Roberts
Suzanne Roberts is the author of four collections of poetry: Shameless, Nothing to You, Three Hours to Burn a Body: Poems on Travel, and Plotting Temporality. Her memoir, Almost Somewhere: 28 Days on the John Muir Trail, was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2012. She holds a…
Eleanor Paynter
Eleanor Paynter has roots in Texas, Rome, and New York, and holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her brother and sister-in-law serve in the US Army. Eleanor's poems have recently appeared in elimae, Innisfree, New Madrid, Salamander, and Washington Square Review. A teacher and translator, she lives in the…
Nicole
Nicole was born in Stockton, CA, spent most of her life in San Francisco, CA and moved back to Stockton about 7 years ago. While in San Francisco, she produced a small newspaper for many years. Nicole stopped creative writing about 20 years ago, but began writing again 2 years…
Lynn McGee
Lynn McGee's poems are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Hawai'i Review, 2 Bridges Review, and Bluestem, and her work is in current issues of Tilt-a-Whirl, Big City Lit, and The New Guard, where one poem was a finalist and one a semi-finalist in the Knightville Poetry Contest judged by…
Robert Hill Long
Robert Hill Long is the author of four books of poems, most recently The Kilim Dreaming (Bear Star Press, Dorothy Brunsman Prize), and of the flash fiction collection The Effigies (Plinth Books). His book of war poems Walking Wounded, forthcoming in June 2012, will include work he has submitted to…
Bruce Lack
Bruce Lack, born and raised in Mid-Michigan, served honorably in the United States Marine Corps from 2003-2007. He deployed twice, spending twenty-one months in Fallujah, Iraq. Returning to his home state in 2007, he was thrilled to find his fiancée and a talent for relating his experiences in war to…
Marilyn Krysl
Marilyn Krysl's poetry has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic and the Pushcart Prize Anthology, her fiction in Best American Short Stories 2000 and O. Henry Prize Stories. Dinner with Osama won the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction and Foreword Magazine's 2008 Book of the Year…
Laurie Lee Didesch
My poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Comstock Review, The MacGuffin, Karamu, White Pelican Review, Third Wednesday, California Quarterly, Artword Quarterly, Artisan: A Journal of Craft, The Awakenings Review, Arts Alive! Literary Review, Blood and Thunder, Poetry Cram, Voices on the Wind, Jewish Women's Literary Annual, and Julien's…
Michael Estes
Michael Estes was a high-school teacher and is now in the business of raising daughters. His poems have appeared in Court Green, Margie, and The Southeast Review. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
David Cooke
Anti-bio Bio What has David Cooke done but watch a war turn into wars? Two times older than so many of the soldiers, and yet he struggles with this short biography. Frets over words while this past decade over 7,000 soldiers worry no more about biographies nor obituaries. Biography. Obituary.…
Pamela Uschuk
Pamela Uschuk is the author of five books of poems: the award-winning Finding Peaches in the Desert, One-Legged Dancer, Scattered Risks, Without the Comfort of Stars: New and Selected Poems (New Delhi & London: Sampark Press, 2007), and her latest, Crazy Love (Wings Press, 2010), winner of a 2010 American…
Nikki Schulak
Nikki Schulak jumps without a rope in Portland, Oregon. She used to pull pythons out of pillowcases in a world famous zoo. Currently, she writes essays. She's been published in the Bellevue Literary Review, Switched-on Gutenberg, The Yellow Ham, Errant Parent, VoiceCatcher vol. 3 and vol. 5, and hipMama. Nikki…
Marilyn Moriarty
Marilyn Moriarty has fenced individual foil in numerous divisional, regional, and state tournaments including two national championships. Over four decades she has fenced for the University of Florida, the University of California-Irvine, Edinburgh University (Scotland), the Scottish Universities Team, and Hollins University. She currently teaches English literature at Hollins University…
Christine Hennessey
Christine Hennessey is a native New Yorker who currently lives and writes in coastal North Carolina. She earned her MFA from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and currently works as the Manager of Writing & Content Strategy at a global fintech company. Her creative writing has appeared in Joyland,…
Glen Wood
Glen Wood's work has appeared in The Wisconsin Review, Memoir (and), Louisiana Literature, and several others. He was shortlisted in the Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. He has studied with Tom Jenks, Jill McCorkle, Randall Kenan, and many others. In his spare time he enjoys classic and modern literary fiction, hard-bop…
Nicole Nelson
Nicole Nelson is a fiction writer and poet who recently mustered the courage to send her work into the world. She lives in Virginia with her husband and three boys and is currently enrolled in the MFA program at National University for Creative Writing. While writing has always been her…
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