Grace Bauer has published six books of poems—most recently Unholy Heart: New and Selected Poems (Backwaters Press/University of Nebraska, 2021). She also co-edited (with Julie Kane) the anthology Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse. Her poems, essays, stories and reviews have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals. After living and teaching in Lincoln, NE for more than 25 years, she has recently returned to her native Pennsylvania. She lives in Philadelphia.
Hilary Biehl's poems have appeared in Able Muse, THINK, Blue Unicorn, The Road Not Taken, and elsewhere. She lives in New Mexico with her husband and son.
Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas is the author of several poetry collections. She is an eleven-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a seven-time Best of the Net nominee. In 2012 she won the Red Ochre Chapbook Contest with her manuscript Before I Go to Sleep. In 2019, her chapbook An Ode to Hope in the Midst of Pandemonium was a finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards, and in 2021, her latest collection of poems, Alice in Ruby Slippers, was short-listed for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize. She has served as the Editor-in-Chief for the Orchards Poetry Journal and Tule Review and is currently a member of the Board of Directors for Women’s Wisdom Art, an organization in Sacramento that supports women’s wellness through creativity in all forms. Carol Lynn is a recent graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts, MFA in Writing program. Her website is www.clgrellaspoetry.com.
Julia Griffin lives in south-east Georgia with a slightly famous basset hound named Jack. She has published in a few online journals; this will be her third outing in Mezzo Cammin.
A. A. Gunther is a Manhattan legal writer by day and a Long Island poet by night. She has a Master’s degree in Creative Writing and Literature from the Harvard University Extension School. Her short fiction can be found in Dappled Things, while her poetry appears in The Friday Poem and ONE ART and is forthcoming in Ekstasis and elsewhere. She has eight younger siblings, at least two of whom can vouch for her character.
Anna Lee Hafer is a studio artist in the Philadelphia area who graduated from Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, New York, in 2019. Her art includes studio exhibitions at Davison Art Gallery, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, MacFadden Gallery, Lycoming Arts Gallery, Gmeiner Art and Cultural Center, and Wayne Art Center as well as published images or broadsides in Still Point Arts Quarterly, The Westchester Review, The Penn Review, The Pine Cone Review, and elsewhere. With her mother, poet Marjorie Maddox, she collaborated on the book In the Museum of My Daughter’s Mind, for which she won the 2023 Royal Dragonfly Book Award for Fine Arts/Photography.
Katie Hartsock's second poetry collection, Wolf Trees (Able Muse Press), was listed as one of Kirkus Review's Best Indie Books of 2023. Her work has recently appeared in Threepenny Review, Oxford Poetry, Plume, The New Criterion, Tupelo Quarterly, Image, and elsewhere. She teaches at Oakland University in Michigan.
Ruth Hoberman lives in Newtonville, Massachusetts with her extended family. Since her 2015 retirement from Eastern Illinois University, she has published poetry in such journals as (most recently) Nixes Mate, RHINO, Connecticut River Review, Ibbetson Street, and SWWIM Every Day.
As a dual citizen Babo Kamel splits her time between Montreal, Quebec and Gorham, Maine. Her work has appeared in the Greensboro Review, Lily, CV2, Poet Lore, and Best Canadian Poetry 2020 among others. She is a Best of Net nominee, and a seven time Pushcart nominee. Her chapbook, After, is published with Finishing Line Press. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson’s Program For Writers. Her book, What The Days Wanted is published with Broadstone Books.
Jean L. Kreiling is the author of three collections of poems; a fourth, On the Cusp, will be published by Able Muse Press in late 2024. Her work has been awarded the Kim Bridgford Memorial Sonnet Prize, the Rhina Espaillat Poetry Prize, the Frost Farm Prize, the Able Muse Write Prize, and three New England Poetry Club prizes, among other honors; she lives on the coast of Massachusetts.
Lavinia Kumar's latest book is an Amazon re-publication of the chapbook, Beauty. Salon, Art. Her Spirited American Women: Early Writers, Artists, & Activists is a book of short prose biographies of near 90 remarkable women writers, poets, publishers, artists, abolitionists, early suffragettes, and activists. Recent poems appear in journals or sites such as Schuylkill Valley Journal, MacQueen's Quinterly, New Verse News, New Jersey Journal of Poetry, Poetry Breakfast, The Examined Life, Silver Birch Press, & US1 Worksheets; and three anthologies. She is author of 3 poetry books, 4 chapbooks. Website: laviniakumar.net.
Jenna Le (jennalewriting.com) is the author of Six Rivers (NYQ Books, 2011), A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora (Indolent Books, 2017), an Elgin Awards Second Place winner, voted on by the international membership of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, and Manatee Lagoon (Acre Books, 2022). She was selected by Marilyn Nelson as winner of Poetry By The Sea’s inaugural sonnet competition. Her poems appear in AGNI, Denver Quarterly, Los Angeles Review, Massachusetts Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Pleiades, Poet Lore, Verse Daily, West Branch, and elsewhere. A daughter of Vietnamese refugees, she has a B.A. in math and an M.D. and works as a physician and educator in New York City.
Commonwealth University English Professor Marjorie Maddox has published 16 collections of poetry—including How Can I Look It Up When I Don't Know How It's Spelled? Spelling Mnemonics and Grammar Tricks and Seeing Things (2024), as well as the ekphrastic collaborations Heart Speaks, Is Spoken For (with Karen Elias) and In the Museum of My Daughter's Mind (with daughter Anna Lee Hafer, 2023 Royal Dragonfly Book Award in photography/fine arts) and others. Maddox also has published a story collection, 4 children's books, and the anthologies Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania and the forthcoming Small Earthly Space (with Karen Elias, Shanti Arts, 2025) and Keystone (co-editor with Jerry Wemple, PSU Press). Assistant editor of Presence, she hosts WPSU's NPR Poetry Moment. www.marjoriemaddox.com.
Mary Grace Mangano is a poet, writer, and professor. Her work has been published in Plough, Comment, Church Life Journal, America,The Windhover, and others. She lives in New Jersey.
Kathleen McClung’s fifth book, Questions of Buoyancy, is forthcoming from Longship Press in fall of 2024. Previous collections include Temporary Kin and A Juror Must Fold in on Herself, winner of the 2020 Rattle Chapbook Prize. Her work appears in a variety of journals and anthologies. From 2021-23 she guest edited The MacGuffin; she continues to serve on the poetry staff. Kathleen lives in San Francisco and teaches at Skyline College, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, and privately. Visit her website at www.kathleenmcclung.com.
Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, PhD is a professor, poet, scholar, and writer at Fordham University in New York City, and serves as Associate Director of Fordham's Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. Her publications include two chapbooks and nine full-length collections of poems. Her book Holy Land (2022) won the Paraclete Press Poetry Prize. In addition, O'Donnell has published a memoir about caring for her dying mother, Mortal Blessings: A Sacramental Farewell; a book of hours based on the practical theology of Flannery O'Connor, The Province of Joy; and a biography Flannery O'Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith. Her ground-breaking critical book on Flannery O'Connor Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O'Connor was published by Fordham University Press in 2020. Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Able Muse, Alabama Literary Review, America, The Bedford Introduction to Literature (anthology), Christian Century, Christian Poetry in America Since 1940 (anthology), Christianity & Literature, Contemporary Catholic Poetry (anthology), Flannery O'Connor Review, Italian Americana, Italian Poetry Review, Literary Matters, Mezzo Cammin, Peacock Journal, Presence, Reformed Journal, and Taking Root in the Heart (anthology), among others. O'Donnell's eleventh book of poems, Dear Dante, was published in Spring 2024.
T. R. Poulson, a University of Nevada alum and proud Wolf Pack fan, supports her writing habit by delivering for UPS in Woodside, California. A previous Mezzo Cammin contributor, she has also appeared in various other publications, including Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, and Booth. She is currently seeking a publisher for her first poetry collection, tentatively titled At Starvation Falls. Find her at www.trpoulson.com and on social media as @trpoulson.
Richelle Lee Slota (formerly known as Richard) is the author of the poetry chapbook, Famous Michael, a novel, Stray Son, and a non-fiction book, Captive Market: Commercial Kidnapping Stories from Nigeria. Her poems have appeared in such publications as Caveat Lector, Quercus, Rogue Agent, Pratik, One Act, Blue Buildings, engine(idling, Yellow Mama, and Yellow Silk. She lives in San Francisco. She is a Meter Mentor to women learning meter on Annie Finch’s online community, Poetry Witchery Community. She is an Army vet. Her first poetry collection, Letters to My Dead Name, is forthcoming in 2024 from Blue Cedar Press.
Linda Stern’s poems have appeared in American Arts Quarterly, Big City Lit, The Classical Outlook, Kin Poetry Journal, Mezzo Cammin, Minyan magazine, The New Criterion, The Raintown Review, and other publications. Her book, Why We Go by Twos, is available from Barefoot Muse Press. She co-published the poetry magazine Endymion and was associate editor of the online poetry journal Umbrella. She is a co-host of the Morningside Poetry Series in Manhattan and serves on the Board of Directors of Poetry by the Sea, an annual literary conference.
Myrna Stone is the author of six full-length books of poetry, most recently The Resurrectionist’s Diary (Dos Madres Press, 2021). Her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, and Every Day Poems, and have appeared in such journals as Poetry, Ploughshares, Boston Review, TriQuarterly, The Massachusetts Review, Nimrod, River Styx and Southwest Review, among many others. Her work has also appeared in thirteen anthologies, including Flora Poetica: The Chatto Book of Botanical Verse. Stone is a founding member of The Greenville Poets, a well-published group established in 1985, and lives in Greenville, Ohio.
Gail White has been writing formal poetry ever since she could do cursive writing. She is a contributing editor to Light Poetry Magazine & a contributor to journals such as Lighten-Up Online, Pulsebeat, Alabama Literary Review, and Asses of Parnassus. Her latest Chapbook, Paper Cuts, contains her recent light verse. She can also be found on Facebook at the sign of the baby rabbit.
Amanda Williamsen's work has appeared in Midwestern Gothic, New Ohio Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, The MacGuffin, and other literary journals. She earned her M.A. from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and is a past Poet Laureate of Cupertino, California. Currently, she is working on a collection of triolets about a tiny school district in rural Ohio in the late 1980s.
Joyce Wilson is editor of The Poetry Porch, a literary magazine on the Internet since 1997. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, among them Alabama Literary Review, The Hudson Review, and Poetry Ireland. Her chapbook The Need for a Bridge and a full-length collection Take and Receive were both published in 2019. A sequence of poems "The Octagonal Schoolhouse" won the Samuel Washington Allen Honorable Mention Prize from the New England Poetry Club in 2023.
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| Anna Lee Hafer is a studio artist based in the Philadelphia area whose work is heavily influenced by such famous surrealist painters as René Magritte, Salvador Dali, and Pablo Picasso, all of whom strove to build their own realities through small glimpses into a particularly confusing, but utterly unique worldview that dictates its own specific set of instructions. With references to the laws and physics of Alice's Wonderland, the artist challenges the audience's inherent understanding of perspective, reality, and universal order.
In her work, Hafer pours and layers paint to create dimension and texture, mixing different styles and colors onto each other until they produce a 3D effect. Through marker and pencil that create shadow, she further enhances these forms and separates them from the background. Heavier layers and thicker brushstrokes in the foreground of her work push the painting toward the viewer, whereas the thinner layers and small brushstrokes in the background, elongate the space and push away from the viewer. By juxtaposing interior and exterior elements, Hafer makes the audience question whether they are looking at something inside or outside.
For additional information, please visit www.hafer.work.
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