Richard Peabody
Richard Peabody, a prolific poet, fiction writer and editor, is an experienced teacher and important activist in the Washington, D.C., community of letters. He is editor of Gargoyle Magazine (founded in 1976), and has published a novella, two books of short stories, six books of poems, plus an e-book, and edited (or co-edited) sixteen anthologies including Mondo Barbie, Mondo Elvis, Conversations with Gore Vidal, A Different Beat: Writings by Women of the Beat Generation, and Kiss the Sky: Fiction and Poetry Starring Jimi Hendrix. Peabody teaches fiction writing for the Johns Hopkins Advanced Studies Program. You can find out more about him at www.gargoylemagazine.com or www.wikipedia.org.
Roger Mitchell
Roger Mitchell's most recent book, Half/Mask, was published in 2007 by The University of Akron Press in 2007. His previous book, Delicate Bait, won the Akron Prize in Poetry. New poems have appeared recently in Poetry and The Paris Review. A volume of new and selected poems will come out this year from Ausable Press.
Sarah DeCorla-Souza
Sarah DeCorla-Souza's poetry has appeared in JMWW, Conte, Visions International, Dappled Things, and Angel Face. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia with her husband and daughter.
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Franz Baskett
A graduate of the University of Arkansas, Franz Baskett's poems have appeared in the Southern Review, The New Orleans Review, Poem, and The Pacific Review among others. He resides in Fayetteville, AR.
Oliver Rice
Oliver Rice has received the Theodore Roethke Prize, twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and twice featured on Poetry Daily. His poems have been published widely in the United States, as well as in Canada, England, Austria, Turkey, and India. His book, On Consenting to Be a Man, will come out from Cyberwit, a diversified publishing house in the cultural capital, Allahabad, India, and will be available soon on Amazon.
Steven Pelcman
Steven Pelcman is a writer of poetry and short stories who has spent the past few years completing a first novel titled "Riverbed." He has been published in a number of magazines including: The Windsor Review, Paris/Atlantic, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, Salzburg Poetry Review, Wings, Caffeine Magazine and many others. He has spent the last ten years residing in Germany where he is a language communications trainer and has had the opportunity to continue his writing, travel the world, and enjoy the challenges cross cultural experiences provide.
Janice D. Soderling
Janice D. Soderling lives in Sweden. Her fiction was published by Glimmer Train (USA), The Fiddlehead (Canada) and Acumen (England) and is on-line at 42opus, Our Stories, Word Riot. Her poetry is online at Apple Valley Review, Autumn Sky Poetry, Babel Fruit, The Barefoot Muse, Beloit Poetry Journal (PDF), The Chimaera, Lucid Rhythms, The Shit Creek Review, Umbrella. Poems are forthcoming at Other Poetry (UK); Blue Unicorn (USA); Right Hand Pointing (online).
Colette Thomas
Colette Thomas has presented her poetry in Washington, DC, and elsewhere since the early 1980s, in settings including the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and Harvard University. She is the recipient of several poetry awards from Harvard, where she studied with Seamus Heaney. Her poems have appeared in Grand Street, Poet Lore, WordWrights, and other magazines, and in anthologies of Washington-area poets. She also teaches Daoist meditation and is a long-time student of the I Ching.
William McCue
William McCue is a lifelong New Yorker who lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY. By day he is a senior account supervisor at Dukas Public Relations in New York City. By night he is the lead singer in the psychedelic rock cover band The Marvin Barnes Time Machine. He's also been known to pour a tasty pint of Guinness when bartending at The Gate bar in Park Slope.
Martin Galvin
Martin Galvin's work has won numerous awards, including First Prize for "Hilda and Me and Hazel" in Poet Lore's narrative poetry contest in 1992, First Prize in Potomac Review's Best Poem Competition in 1999 for "Freight Yard at Night," and First Prize from Sow's Ear Poetry Journal for "Cream" in a 2007 national competition. He was awarded a writer's residency at Yaddo for August of 2007. He will have poems early in 2008 in The New Republic and in Sub-Tropics, as well as in Innisfree. In addition to his 2007 chapbook Circling Out and his book Wild Card, he has two other chapbooks: Making Beds (Sedwick Books) and Appetites (Bogg Publications).
John Grey
John Grey is an Australian-born poet, playwright, musician. His latest book is What Else Is There from Main Street Rag. His work has appeared recently in The English Journal, The Pedestal, Pearl and The Journal of the American Medical Association.
George Bishop
Born in Philadelphia, George Bishop was raised on the Jersey Shore and attended Rutgers University. He relocated to Florida in 1985. Recent poems have appeared in The Comstock Review, White Pelican Review and will be forthcoming in Boston Literary Magazine.
Nancy Kenney Connolly
Nancy Kenney Connolly's work appears in the Asheville Poetry Review, Borderlands, Cider Press Review, Concho River Review, The Lyric, Mankato Poetry Review, Pembroke, Softblow, Sycamore Review, Wisconsin Review, as well as in anthologies and her three books. Her manuscript, I Take This World, won the Main Street Rag Chapbook Contest and her poems took first place at the Austin International Poetry Festival and the Houston Poetry Fest.
Brenda Mann Hammack
Brenda Mann Hammack teaches creative writing, children’s literature, and Victorian literature at Fayetteville State University. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in a variety of journals, including Mudlark, Word Riot, Heliotrope, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Arsenic Lobster, and The Hurricane Review.
Vanessa Gebbie
A writer, creative writing teacher and editor, Vanessa Gebbie lives in East Sussex, UK. Her short fiction has been widely published and has won many awards including prizes at both Fish and Bridport 2007. Her debut collection of short fiction Words From A Glass Bubble is forthcoming from Salt Publishing, Cambridge UK. "To Not Be Water" was her first extremely tentative poetry submission. www.vanessagebbie.com
Joseph Somoza
Joseph Somoza has lived in Las Cruces, New Mexico, for 35 years, where he used to teach at New Mexico State University. He lives with his wife, Jill, a painter. He has published several books of poetry over the years, most recently Shock of White Hair (Sin Fronteras Press, 2007).
Barbara J. Orton
Barbara J. Orton's work appears widely in such journals as Ploughshares, Pleiades, The Laurel Review, Sou'wester, and The Yale Review, as well as in four anthologies (The New Young American Poets, New Voices, Under the Rock Umbrella, and volume 7 of In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself). Her chapbook can be accessed online at The Literary Review (theliteraryreview.org/Featured_P&W/Barbara_Orton/). She received her MFA in writing from Washington University in St. Louis and is pursuing a PhD in English at Tufts University.
Sheila Black
Sheila Black received her MFA in Poetry in 1998 from the University of Montana. Her poems have appeared in numerous print and on-line journals, including Diode, Copper Nickel, LitPot Review, DMQ Review, Willow Springs, Poet Lore, Ellipsis, Blackbird, the Pedestal and Puerto Del Sol. In 2000 she was the U.S. co-winner of the Frost-Pellicer Frontera Prize, given to one U.S. and one Mexican poet living along the U.S. Mexico Border. Her first book, House of Bone, was published by CustomWords Press in March 2007. A chapbook How to be a Maquiladora appeared from Main Street Rag in January 2007. A second book, Love/Iraq is forthcoming from CustomWords Press in late 2008. She is currently the Visiting Poet at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Kathi Wolfe
Kathi Wolfe is a poet and writer in Falls Church, VA. Her poetry has appeared in Innisfree Poetry Journal, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Potomac Review, Gargoyle, Not Just Air, Breath & Shadow and other publications. She has appeared on the public radio show The Poet and the Poem and read in the Library of Congress Poetry at Noon Series. Wolfe has been awarded poetry residencies at Vermont Studio Center and a Puffin Foundation grant. She was awarded Honorable Mention in the 2007 Passager Magazine poetry contest and was a finalist in the 2007 Pudding House Press Chapbook competition. Her chapbook Helen Takes the Stage: The Helen Keller Poems is just out from Pudding House Press.
Gretchen Primack
Gretchen Primack's chapbook, The Slow Creaking of Planets, came out from Finishing Line Press in 2007. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, FIELD, Best New Poets 2006, and elsewhere. Her full-length manuscript, Fiery Cake, has been shortlisted for several prizes. She lives in New York's Hudson Valley and teaches at Bard College and at two prisons through the Bard Prison Initiative. Her website is www.gretchenprimack.com.
Patric Pepper
Patric Pepper lives in Washington D.C. He published a chapbook in 2000, Zoned Industrial, and a full length collection in 2005, Temporary Apprehensions, which was a 2004 co-winner of the Washington Writers' Publishing House Poetry Prize. His work has most recently appeared in Confrontation Magazine, The Distillery, and Minimus.
Bruce Bennett
Bruce Bennett is the author of seven books of poetry and more than twenty poetry chapbooks. His most recent chapbooks are Coyote's Interlude With Little Miss Darling (FootHills Publishing, 2006) and Examined Life (Scienter, 2006). These rhymed fables are part of a full-length, unpublished manuscript of such poems entitled Ephemerae. Bruce Bennett teaches literature and creative writing at Wells College, where he is Professor and Chair of English and Director of Creative Writing.
Kate Bernadette Benedict
Kate Bernadette Benedict lives in New York City where she edits the online journal Umbrella. Her poetry collection Here from Away (CustomWords 2003) was an Editor's Pick in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Ben Berman
Ben Berman won the 2002 Erika Mumford Prize from the New England Poetry Club, has been a finalist in a few chapbook competitions and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has poems published in Natural Bridge, The Cimarron Review, Cream City Review, Cutthroat Journal, The Connecticut Review, Inkwell, and others. He currently teaches in Boston.
Jeremy Byars
Jeremy Byars has recent or forthcoming publications in such journals as Gihon River Review, Poetry Midwest, storySouth, Ariel, I-70 Review, and New Madrid. The first ever graduate of the MFA program at Murray State University, Byars now works at a book company while completing his first poetry collection and an annotated bibliography of the Towneley plays.
Colleen S. Harris
Colleen S. Harris is an assistant professor and librarian at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where they don't mind her tattoo habit and poetry addiction, and is currently working on her MFA in creative writing at Spalding University. Her poetry has appeared in Creekwalker, Survivor's Review, Poetry Midwest, Ruminate and kaleidowhirl.
Margaret A. Robinson
Margaret A. Robinson teaches at Widener University. Her poems have appeared recently in Prairie Schooner.
Nellie Hill
Nellie Hill's work has appeared in various journals including Poetry East, American Poetry Review (with an introduction of her by Denise Levertov), The Harvard Magazine, Commonweal, The Alaska Quarterly Review, and The Snowy Egret, as well as in three chapbooks. For several years she taught creative writing in the Joint Medical and Humanities Program at UC Berkeley and now has a private acupressure practice in Berkeley.
Melanie Houle
Melanie Houle is a physician and former jeweler. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and The Raintown Review's first featured poet . Her poetry also appears in The Lyric, California Quarterly, The Aurorean, Mobius, The Barefoot Muse, The HyperTexts, ShatterColors, Contemporary Rhyme, Journal of the American Medical Association, and others.
Jason Irwin
Jason Irwin's first book of poems, Watering the Dead, won the 2006/2007 Transcontinental Poetry Award and will come out from Pavement Saw Press this spring. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Confrontation, The Sycamore Review, Blue Collar Review, Miller's Pond, Pearl, and elsewhere.
Lisa Kosow
Lisa Kosow has had poems published in journals including Gargoyle, The Connecticut River Review, Wordwrights, Potpourri, The Plastic Tower, Perceptions, and the first issue of Innisfree. Another poem appeared in the anthology, Cabin Fever, published by WordWorks. In 1995 her chapbook, Dawn is Moving, was published by the Argonne Hotel Press in Washington, D.C. She has a BA from Washington College in Chestertown, MD, and an MLS from the University of Maryland. She works as a librarian at the Department of Justice and lives in Takoma Park, MD.
Frederick Lord
Frederick (Rick) is the Assistant Dean of Liberal Arts at Southern New Hampshire University, where he also teaches English and serves as poetry editor for Amoskeag, SNHU's literary magazine. A finalist in 2007's Dogwood Poetry Prize and honorable mention in the Juked Poetry Prize, Lord has recently appeared in Blueline, Switched-on Gutenberg, kaleidowhirl, Main Channel Voices, caesura, Bent Pin Quarterly, Relief, and Bayou. He and his wife Heather, a painter, live in Bow, N.H.
Allan Peterson
Allan Peterson is the author of two books: All the Lavish in Common (2005 Juniper Prize) and Anonymous Or (Defined Providence Press Prize ) and four chapbooks. Recent print and online appearances include Bat City, Salamander, Iron Horse, Segue, Caesura, Laurel Review, The Pedestal, Runes. He has work forthcoming in Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, Swink, Compass Rose, Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry. See his Poetry/Art featured at www.uwf.edu/panhandler.
John Milbury-Steen
John Milbury-Steen's work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Beloit Poetry Journal, Blue Unicorn, The Centrifugal Eye, Chimaera, Dark Horse, Kayak, Hellas, The Listening Eye, The Deronda Review (Neovictorian/Cochlea), The Piedmont Literary Review, Scholia Satyrica, Shenandoah, Shattercolors, and Shit Creek Review. He served in the Peace Corps in Liberia, West Africa; earned a Master's in Creative Writing with Ruth Stone at Indiana University; worked as an artificial intelligence programmer in Computer Based Education at the University of Delaware; and currently teaches English as a Second Language at Temple University.
Micah Stack
Micah Stack received his Master's Degree in American Literature from the University of Southern Mississippi. His work has appeared in Product, Radiant Turnstile, and Word Riot, and it is forthcoming in Paradigm. He currently teaches English at The Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he lives.
Jennifer Sullivan
Jennifer Sullivan is a poet from Akron, Ohio. She has published poems in a variety of journals including Nimrod, DIAGRAM, Main Street Rag, Timber Creek Review, and Ohio Writer. Recently, she was a semi-finalist for the 2007 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and she was the first place winner for poetry in the Best of Ohio Writers Contest 2005. In spring of 2008 she will graduate from the NEOMFA program.
Barbara M. White
Barbara M. White's poetry has appeared in Lilith Magazine and Innisfree. She has been a featured reader in the Takoma Park Library in Washington, DC, and the Takoma Park Poetry Series in nearby Maryland. She is a retired copy editor and has also worked as a Jewish educator, a free-lance writer, and (many years ago) a piano teacher.
Anna Mills
Anna Mills' poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Salmagundi, Cimarron Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Lunarosity, Isotope, and the anthology Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes. She teaches English at City College of San Francisco and earned her MFA in nonfiction from Bennington College. She also maintains a blog of book reviews, "Anna Mills on Nature Writing" at http://onnaturewriting.blogspot.com/.
Howard Good
Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of three poetry chapbooks, Death of the Frog Prince (2004) and Heartland (2007), both from FootHills Publishing, and Strangers & Angels (2007) from Scintillating Publications. He was recently nominated for the second time for a Pushcart Prize.
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