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Jason Bellipanni
Jason Bellipanni was born and raised on a ranch in Colorado. After graduating from the College of the Holy Cross, he studied culinary arts in Florence, Italy and began to write fiction. From 1998 through 2006 he received an M.A. in English from the University of Colorado, Boulder, a fellowship…
Candace Jaffe
Candace Jaffe is a recent graduate of Lesley University's MFA Program in Nonfiction. She has been coaching and mentoring young athletes in track and field and cross country running for eighteen years. Through sport, she is inspired to write about the camaraderie, emotion, and personal achievement that competition has to…
Scott Winkler
Scott Winkler's fiction, poetry, and academic work have appeared in journals ranging from Elysian Fields Quarterly to Aethlon to the Journal of Popular Culture. His book The Wide Turn Toward Home was published in 2008 by Pocol Press and collects seven baseball-themed short stories and the title novella. In his…
Michael Woods
Michael Woods teaches English and Drama in Malvern, Worcestershire. His work has appeared in several magazines and anthologies. His first collection, Absence Notes, was published by Templar Poetry in 2011. He has researched the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins and written on several poets including Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy…
Sarah Sala
Sarah Sala currently lives in Manhattan and serves as a varsity assistant coach at Row New York. She earned her MFA in Poetry from New York University. Her honors and awards include: an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Marjorie Rapport Award for poetry, an Avery Hopwood Award for nonfiction,…
Dale Ritterbusch
Dale Ritterbusch is the author of two collections of poetry, Lessons Learned (1995) and Far From the Temple of Heaven (2005). He is a Professor of Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater where he teaches creative writing and literature. Currently he is the Distinguished Visiting Professor in the…
Michael Levan
Michael Levan received his MFA in poetry from Western Michigan University and PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Currently he is an Instructor of Writing at California University of Pennsylvania. His work can be found in recent or forthcoming issues of Natural Bridge, Mid-American…
Chris Joyner
Infatuated with weightlifting and chewy words, Chris Joyner considers himself a “meathead poet”. He is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Miami, but his heart resides in Virginia. In 2011 he was recipient of the Alfred Boas Poetry Prize and performed movie-telling at O, Miami. His work has…
Harry Bauld
Harry Bauld was twice first-team All-Ivy League shortstop at Columbia University. As a freelance journalist he has written articles about sports, the arts, wine, and other topics for various magazines. His poems have won the New Millennium Writings Award and the Milton Kessler Poetry Prize and appeared in Nimrod, Southern…
Starkey Flythe
Starkey Flythe served with the army in the Middle East and Africa, has three books of poetry, two of fiction (Furman University's '96' Press, University of lowa Press and Snake Nation Press). He won the 2010 Inkwell Poetry Prize from Manhattanville College, was co-winner of Shenandoah's 2011 short story award,…
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Guy Kettelhack
Guy Kettelhack is the author or co-author of more than 30 nonfiction books. His poetry has been featured in Outstretch, Van Gogh's Ear, Melic Review, New Pleiades, Triplopia (in whose July 2004 “laughter contest” his poem “Log On” won first prize), David Taub e-motion (“Harp Strings” was selected to be…
Jacqueline Cooke
Jacqueline Cooke is a member of the Australian Society of Authors and the Fellowship of Australian Writers Tasmania—the island state of Australia. Her work has been broadcast on the BBC World Service and the ABC. She has been successful in intrastate, interstate and international short story and poetry awards and…
Gretchen Fletcher
Gretchen Fletcher's poetry has been published in journals including The Chattahoochee Review, Pacific Coast Journal, Northeast Corridor, Inkwell, Pudding Magazine, Upstreet, Canada's lichen, and online at Poetry Southeast and A Prairie Home Companion. Her poems have also been anthologized in Gival Press's Poetic Voices Without Borders, Ghost Road Press's Open…
Cynthia Rausch Allar
Cynthia Rausch Allar received her MFA in Writing from Spalding University in 2004. She has had poems published in Paper Street, Bloom, The Underwood Review, New Millennium Writings, Aethlon, and The Mad Poets Review, among others. Her essay, “'A Snake Lies Hid:' Aphra Behn's Poetry and the War Between the…
Sally Odgers
Tasmanian Sally Odgers has been writing poetry for forty years. In high school, she studied mostly modern poetry, (which she didn't much like), but fortunately the textbooks also contained metrical verse from earlier times, which she loved. She has been a full-time writer for many years, and enjoys writing fantasy.…
Tim Napier
Tim Napier was born in Philadephia, PA. He attended Germantown Friends School, Williams College (BA, Honors in English), and Connecticut College (MA in English with Distinction). At Connecticut College, Tim had the good fortune of studying under William Meredith for three years. Tim has recently retired from a teaching career…
Sam McCarver
Author of six novels in John Darnell Mystery Series, published by Penguin Putnam or Five Star. Has self-published writing books: Novel Writing for Wanna-be's and Poetry Writing for Wanna-be's. Has written and performed his poetry and has taught writing for 10 years.
Sandra Kasturi
Sandra Kasturi is a poet, writer and editor, as well as co-creator of a kids' animated TV series. In 2005 she won ARC magazine's annual Poem of the Year award. She is the poetry editor of ChiZine and the Senior Editor of ChiZine Publications. Sandra has written three poetry chapbooks…
Joseph Gorman
Joe Gorman is a surgeon and cardiovascular scientist at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in a suburb of Philadelphia with his wife Patti and their five children. The family enjoys the beach in summer and skiing/snowboarding in winter. He writes poetry as a hobby.
Judith Ford
Judith Ford is a psychotherapist and writer whose fiction and poetry have appeared in many literary journals. She has been nominated twice for Pushcart prizes, for poetry in 2000 and for fiction in 2001. She won the 2005 Willow Review Award for Prose. She is currently working on a memoir,…
George Carle
I am a family doctor who lives in a small highland village called Tighnabruaich on the west coast of Scotland. I have published poems in a number of magazines and written four poetry books. I believe like Thomas Hardy that poetry should be written “charged with emotion”.
Joyce M Shepherd
Joyce is a writer, artist and photographer. She has five poems that have been published, with four more poems and two short stories that have been accepted for publication. She has been writing actively for the past five years, and often writes poetry to coincide with her poetry works.
Bernard Mann
Bernard Mann is drawn to the terrain and seascape of words and their inherent rhythms, secrets, and powers. A poet, he is also a writer and author of work on landscape and environment and lives in Austin, Texas.
Reena Ribalow
Reena Ribalow is a poet and writer living in Jerusalem. She was born in New York City and educated at Hunter College High School and Queens College. She attended the University of Iowa Ph.D Program and Writer's Workshop on a Danforth Foundation Fellowship, after which she traveled through Africa and…
Jeanie Mercer
Jeanie Mercer, ever a lover of words, is an author, essayist and poet. She writes columns regularly for the Waco Tribune-Herald, where she has been on the Board of Contributors for about 25 years. Currently she focuses mostly on writing a collection of haiku for her children and grandchildren. A…
Alys Jackson
Alys Jackson spent 12 years teaching throughout Asia and the Middle East before settling in Australia. She began writing poetry in 2008 and won a first and a second prize in the 2009 Henry Lawson Festival of Arts Poetry Contest. She is currently working on her first book.
Christine Hemp
Christine Hemp is featured periodically on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition reading her commentary and poetry. Hemp has also been a poet-in-residence at three of our National Parks, and her work is now available in the cosmos—a poem of hers blasted off on a NASA mission to monitor pre-natal activity…
Rosmarie Epaminondas-Bohm
From starting my professional life as a cub reporter, travelling extensively and learning five languages, I graduated to psychiatrist, nurse, rocket scientist and cleaning lady in my first marriage, which produced two wonderful kids. In London I worked amongst other things as a freelance journalist for a German film trade…
Samuel Tan
Samuel is a student majoring in Accountancy, Economics and Mathematics, and lives in Singapore, a city-state surrounded by beautiful ocean. He has written numerous poems since discovering a passion for poetry as a teenager, and the 2009 Margaret Reid Poetry Contest was the first poetry contest he entered. Samuel's varied…
Judith Goldhaber
Judith Goldhaber is a poet, playwright, and journalist. As a poet, she has been addicted to the sonnet since the age of 14. She grew up in a 100-year-old farmhouse in New Jersey without electricity or indoor plumbing, but now lives in Berkeley, CA (with both). A collection of 100…
Gregory Loselle
Since publishing his first work, a play, at the age of eighteen, Gregory Loselle has won four Hopwood Awards at the University of Michigan, where he earned an MFA. He has also won the Academy of American Poets Prize, the William van Wert Fiction Award from Hidden River Arts, and…
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