Terese Coe's
poems and translations have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review,
Agenda, The Cincinnati Review, Metamorphoses, Mezzo Cammin, The Moth,
New American Writing, New Scotland Writing, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry
Review, Threepenny Review, and the TLS, among other international
journals. Her collection Shot Silk was short-listed for the 2017 Poets
Prize, and she has received several grants from Giorno Poetry Systems.
Copies of her poem "More" were heli-dropped across London as part of the
2012 Olympics Rain of Poems. Her most recent collection of poems is Why
You Can’t Go Home Again from Kelsay Books, 2018.
Mary DeCoste is an associate professor of Italian Studies at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario. She has published a book on Boiardo and Ariosto (Hopeless Love, University of Toronto Press, 2009), and articles and book chapters on Dante, Boccaccio, and other topics in Italian studies. Her poems "The Bathroom Door" and "The Stingy Carver" appeared in the Fall 2014 and Summer 2016 issues, respectively, of The Lyric. In 2016, she was a General Contributor in Poetry at The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
Julia
Griffin Julia Griffin teaches Renaissance English literature at
Georgia Southern University. Together with her family, partner, and
dog, poetry is the love of her life.
Kathryn Jacobs is poet, professor, medievalist, and editor of The Road Not Taken. Her fifth volume of poetry, Wedged Elephant, was published by Kelsay Books. In between that and sundry publications in Mezzo Cammin and Measure (among others), the University Press of Florida published Marriage Contracts from Chaucer to the Renaissance Stage. She sometimes appears in The Chaucer Review.
Lucy Mihajlich lives in Portland, Oregon. Her first book, Interface, was chosen for the
Multnomah County Library Writers Project, where it appeared on the list for Best of the Library
Writer’s Project 2017. Her website is lmihajlich.wixsite.com/lucymihajlich.
Sally Nacker resides in Connecticut with her husband and their two cats, and works at the library. She has her MFA in Poetry from Fairfield University (2013). Her two collections—Vireo (2015), and Night Snow (2017)—were both published by Kelsay Books. Journal publications include Mezzo Cammin, The Orchards, The Fourth River, Grey Sparrow Journal, Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine, and The Wayfarer. Amherst, MA may well be her most favorite place on earth.
Theresa Rodriguez is the author of six books, including Jesus and Eros: Sonnets, Poems and Songs (Bardsinger Books, 2015) and Longer Thoughts (Shanti Arts, 2020). Her work has appeared in the Midwest Poetry Review, The Journal of Religion and Intellectual Life, The Leaf (an Anabaptist journal), The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, and the Society of Classical Poets. Theresa is a retired classical singer who has been a contributing writer for Classical Singer magazine. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in vocal music performance from Skidmore College and a Master of Music from Westminster Choir College. She is also a retired therapeutic musician who provided musical services to institutionalized and senior citizen populations. She founded the Christian Poetry Fellowship of Bethel, Pennsylvania and is a contributing member of the Society of Classical Poets. A native Manhattanite, she lived among the Amish and Mennonites for twenty-five years in rural Pennsylvania but now makes her home outside of Philadelphia. Her website is www.bardsinger.com.
Jane Satterfield is the author of five books, most recently Apocalypse Mix, winner of the 2016 Autumn House Poetry Prize selected by David St. John. Her previous books include Her Familiars (finalist for the 2013 Julie Suk Award for best poetry book on an independent press); Assignation at Vanishing Point (Elixir Press Book Award), and Shepherdess with an Automatic (Towson University Prize).
Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond featured selections that received Florida Review’s Editors’ Prize, the Faulkner Society/Pirate’s Alley Essay Award, and more. With Laurie Kruk, she co-edited the multi-genre anthology Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing the Motherland.
An Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate, Satterfield has received a National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowship, the 49th Parallel Poetry Prize from Bellingham Review, the Ledbury Festival Poetry Prize, the Mslexia women’s poetry prize, and more. She has been a Walter E. Dakin fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and received residency fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Leslie Schultz (Northfield, Minnesota) is the author of three collections of poetry, Still Life with Poppies: Elegies (Kelsay Books, 2016), Cloud Song (Kelsay Books, 2018)., and Concertina (Kelsay Books, 2019) Her poetry has appeared most recently in Able Muse, Blue Unicorn Journal, Light, Mezzo Cammin, Swamp Lily Review, Poetic Strokes Anthology, Third Wednesday, The Madison Review, The Midwest Quarterly, The Orchards Poetry Journal, and The Wayfarer; in the sidewalks of Northfield; and in a chapbook, Living Room (Midwestern Writers’ Publishing House). She received a Pushcart Prize nomination in 2017 and has had three winning poems in the Maria W. Faust sonnet contest (2013, 2016, 2019). Schultz posts poems, photographs, and essays on her website: www.winonamedia.net.
Janice D. Soderling is a previous contributor to Mezzo Cammin. She is the author of four chapbooks, one in Swedish and three in English. Recent translations of Folke Isaksson's poetry were published by Better than Starbucks and several poems poems recently appeared in New Verse News.
Theresa Rodriguez is the author of six books, including Jesus and Eros: Sonnets, Poems and Songs (Bardsinger Books, 2015) and Longer Thoughts (Shanti Arts, 2020). Her work has appeared in the Midwest Poetry Review, The Journal of Religion and Intellectual Life, The Leaf (an Anabaptist journal), The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, and the Society of Classical Poets. Theresa is a retired classical singer who has been a contributing writer for Classical Singer magazine. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in vocal music performance from Skidmore College and a Master of Music from Westminster Choir College. She is also a retired therapeutic musician who provided musical services to institutionalized and senior citizen populations. She founded the Christian Poetry Fellowship of Bethel, Pennsylvania and is a contributing member of the Society of Classical Poets. A native Manhattanite, she lived among the Amish and Mennonites for twenty-five years in rural Pennsylvania but now makes her home outside of Philadelphia. Her website is www.bardsinger.com.
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