Tiel Aisha Ansari is a Sufi, martial artist, and
computer programmer
living in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared or
is forthcoming in
several print and online venues including Islamica
Magazine, Shit Creek
Review, The Lyric, and the VoiceCatcher anthology from
Portland Women Writers. She is the author of the poetry collection
Knocking from Inside,
published by Ecstatic Exchange. Visit her online.
Kim Bridgford is a professor of English at Fairfield University, the editor of Dogwood and Mezzo Cammin, and a resident faculty member of Fairfield's new M.F.A. program on Enders Island, off the coast of Mystic, Connecticut. The recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, she is the author of three collections of poetry: Undone, Instead of Maps, and In the Extreme: Sonnets about World Records. She is currently working on a three-book poetry and photography project with visual artist Jo Yarrington, focusing on journey and sacred space in Iceland, Venezuela, and Bhutan. She was the 2007 Connecticut Touring Poet.
B. J. Buckley is a Wyoming/Montana poet and writer who has
worked in Arts in Schools programs throughout the West for
over thirty years. She lives with her sweetheart, a blacksmith,
three dogs, and a cat, in the woods of the northern Bitterroot
Valley of Montana, in a cabin with no running water or
electricity. Her most recent book, with co-author Dawn
Senior-Trask, is Moon Horses and the Red Bull, from
Pronghorn Press in Greybull, Wyoming. Her prizes and awards
include a Wyoming Arts Council Literature Fellowship; The
Cumberland Poetry Review's Robert Penn Warren Narrative
Poetry Prize; Poets & Writers Writers Exchange Award in
Poetry; The Rita Dove Poetry Prize from the Center for Women
Writers at Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC; and the Joy
Harjo Prize from CutThroat: A Journal of Arts and
Literature. She has poems in the new or forthcoming issues
of Epiphany, Pilgrimage, and the online magazine HoboEye.
Terese Coe's poems and translations have appeared in
Poetry, Agenda, The Cincinnati Review, Smartish Pace, New American
Writing, 32 Poems, Nimrod, Measure, Threepenny
Review, Orbis, and Poetry Nottingham, among numerous others, and her first collection of poems, The Everyday Uncommon,
won a Word Press
publication prize and was published in 2005.
Carol Dorf's poems have appeared in Fringe, The Midway,
Poemeleon, Heresies, Edgz, Runes, Feminist Studies, New Verse
News,
Coracle, Poetica,
Responsa, The NeoVictorian, Caprice and elsewhere. She
is a former
editor of Five Fingers Review and the Barnard Literary
Magazine. As an
undergraduate, she studied with Marilyn Hacker, Kenneth Koch,
and David
Ignatow. She has taught in a variety of venues including
Berkeley City College,
a science museum, and as a California Poet in the Schools.
She now teaches at
Berkeley High School.
Jehanne Dubrow received her Ph.D. in English from the
University of
Nebraska-Lincoln. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The
Hudson Review, The New England Review, Shenandoah, and Gulf Coast. She is the
author of a chapbook, The Promised Bride (Finishing Line Press). Her full-length collection won the 2007 Three Candles Press First Book Prize and will be published in 2008.
Nicole Caruso Garcia was born in New Jersey in 1972. She earned her B.A. in English from Fairfield University, and after seven years in corporate industry, she left to earn her M.S. in Education from The University of Bridgeport. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in literary journals such as Soundings East, The Ledge, and Small Pond Magazine of Literature. She and her husband live in Connecticut, where she now teaches literature and creative writing at Trumbull High School.
Ona Gritz's poetry has been published in
numerous
online and print literary journals. In 2007, she won
the
Inglis House poetry contest, the Late Blooms Poetry
Postcard competition, and was nominated for two
Pushcart
prizes. Her chapbook of poems, Left Standing, was
published
by Finishing Line Press in 2005. Ona is also a
children's
author and columnist for the online journal, Literary
Mama.
Kathryn Jacobs is a poet and medievalist at Texas A&M University--Commerce with a doctorate from Harvard University and a chapbook called Advice Column forthcoming with Finishing Line Press. She has published roughly four dozen poems in poetry journals here and in the U.K in journals
like The New Formalist, Measure, Acumen, Eclectic Muse, Barefoot Muse,
Slant, and Poetry Midwest. She also has a scholarly book and sixteen articles
in journals like Chaucer Review and Mediaevalia.
Allison Joseph lives, writes and teaches in Carbondale,
Illinois, where she's on the faculty at Southern
Illinois University Carbondale. She serves as editor and poetry
editor of Crab Orchard Review, director of the Young Writers Workshop, and moderator of CRWROPPS, an online listserv of literary contest information for writers.
Susan McLean is an English professor at Southwest Minnesota
State University in Marshall, Minnesota. Her poems and
translations of poetry from French and Latin have appeared
in Hunger Mountain, Arion, Measure, Literary
Imagination, The Lyric, and elsewhere. In 2004 she won a
McKnight Artist Fellowship/Loft Award in Poetry. In 2006,
her poetry chapbook, Holding Patterns, was published by
Finishing Line Press.
Marilyn Nelson's most recent book is a collaboration with Elizabeth
Alexander called Miss Crandall's School for Young
Ladies and Little Misses of Color. Forthcoming in
October 2008 is a new book called The Freedom Business. She is the author or translator of twelve books and three chapbooks. Nelson is a professor emerita of English at the University of Connecticut; founder and director of Soul Mountain Retreat, a small writers' colony; and the former (2001—2006) Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut.
Meg Schoerke is the author of Anatomical Venus (Word Press 2004). With Dana Gioia and David Mason, she co-edited Twentieth Century American Poetry and Twentieth Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry (McGraw-Hill 2003). A professor of English at San Francisco State University, she teaches courses on 19th and 20th century poetry.
Janice D. Soderling is an award-winning writer
whose poetry is scheduled at Anon, Other
Poetry; Blue Unicorn; and the
following online sites: Innisfree Poetry Journal, Right Hand Pointing, and Umbrella.
Other poems are available online at Apple Valley
Review, Autumn Sky Poetry, Babel Fruit, The Barefoot
Muse, Beloit Poetry Journal,
Loch Raven Review, and Lucid Rhythms. Her fiction has
appeared in print in Glimmer Train, The
Fiddlehead, and Acumen;
online at 42opus, Our Stories, Cezanne's Carrot and
Word Riot. Recent translations are in The Chimaera.
Jane Sutherland is a representational painter whose interest in the natural world and in art history is reflected in expressive works that convey a high regard for the enduring power of imagery.
Born in Cambridge MA, Jane Sutherland lives and works in Fairfield, CT. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and at age 19 attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Following these studies she moved to Mexico City and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the University of the Americas. After returning to the U.S. she began her teaching career at Fairfield University where she is now Associate Professor Emeritus. Since 1998 she has taught in the summer seminars at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation in Colorado Springs, CO. She is also the author of a monthly column, "Technical Q & A" in American Artist Magazine.
Shanna Powlus Wheeler studied poetry at the Pennsylvania State University, where she received her M.F.A. in 2007. Poems from her manuscript "Lo & Behold" have appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, North American Review, The Evansville Review, The Christian Century, Christianity and Literature, Relief: A Quarterly of Christian Expression, Watershed: The Journal of the Susquehanna, and other journals. Native to central Pennsylvania, she directs the writing center and teaches composition at Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA.
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Ellen Datlow |
Marly Youmans is the author of six books of fiction and a
collection of poetry. Her latest novel, Val/Orson,
satisfies her long-time desire to write a book set in
trees. The story also finds some of its inspiration in the
legendary account of twins, Valentine and his "wild
child" brother, Orson. It will appear in two limited
editions from P. S. Publishing (U. K.) in September, 2008.
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