BIO Rita Stanzione was born in the province of Salerno, Italy, and still lives there to date. After completing her studies in pedagogy, she has been teaching science. She discovered poetry relatively recently. Her poems are concerned with exploring inner worlds as well as external landscapes, and with nature as it shapes and…
BIO Richard Modiano is currently the executive director of the Beyond Baroque Foundation based in Venice, California. He’s a rank and file member of the Industrial Workers of the World and publisher of the Moon & Sun Review. At the Subway Station …………………………………………A young man approaching ………………………………………and a woman, turning her back …………………..on him without…
BIO Margaret Saine was born in Germany and currently lives in Southern California. She writes poetry, haiku, and short stories in five languages, also translating other poets in those languages. Her books are “Bodyscapes,” “Words of Art,” 5 haiku chapbooks, plus the mss. “Awkward Child” (in German, to be published), “The Five Senses,” “Lo efímero…
BIO Steve Sasaki is a traffic engineer by profession. He is also a writer, poet and an actor . He lives in Laguna Beach, California. NOTE: The poem “From the Inside Out” was written during the “Literature and Art of Cinema Workshop” held at the 2014 Silent River Film Festival. The poem was inspired by the feature…
BIO A native of Fullerton, California, Michael Miller is the co-founder of Moon Tide Press and the author of College Town (Tebot Bach, 2010) and The First Thing Mastered (Tebot Bach, 2013). A longtime journalist, he has written for the Los Angeles Times and other publications and won a 2014 Orange County Press Club award for his story on poets Lee…
BIO Naseer Ahmed Nasir, born on 1st April 1954 in a nondescript village Nagrian in Gujrat district of Punjab, Pakistan, is one of the most eminent, distinct, cultured and thought provoking poets from Pakistan. He is considered a trendsetter poet of modern Urdu poetry among his contemporaries. His poetry has been published in almost all…
BIO W.F. Lantry’s poetry collections are The Structure of Desire (Little Red Tree 2012), winner of a 2013 Nautilus Award in Poetry, The Language of Birds (Finishing Line 2011), and a forthcoming collection The Book of Maps. A native of San Diego, he received his Maîtrise from L’Université de Nice, M.A. from Boston University, and…
BIO Mani Suri is a veteran of the Poetic License crowd in L.A. He is the author of three chapbooks, “Poetry My Wife Hates and the Mistresses I Could Have Had Would Have Loved,” “Reflection: More Poetry My Wife Hates or the Mistresses I’ll Never Have Who Might Have Loved It,” and “Poetry My Wife Hates:…
BIO Stella Nesanovich is the author of four chapbooks of poems: A Brightness That Made My Soul Tremble: Poems on the Life of Hildegard of Bingen, My Mother’s Breath, My Father’s Voice, and Dance, O, Heart, Double Round: Poems on Mechthild of Magdeburg as well as a full-length collection, Vespers at Mount Angel. She is…
BIO Václav Z. J. Pinkava was born in 1958 in Prague (Czechoslovakia, as was then). He emigrated in 1969 to Britain, growing up there and completing his education at Oxford. He followed this with a career in IT management, latterly as a professional translator, having moved back to the Czech Republic in 1992 with his…
BIO Frederick Turner, Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas, was educated at Oxford University. A poet, critic, interdisciplinary scholar, public intellectual, translator, and former editor of The Kenyon Review, he has authored over 30 books, including The New World; Beauty: The Value of Values; The Culture of Hope;…
BIO Joseph S. Salemi teaches in the Department of Classical Languages at Hunter College, C.U.N.Y. He has published seven books of poetry, the latest of which is Steel Masks (White Violet Press, 2013). His poems, essays, translations, and scholarly articles have appeared in over one hundred publications world-wide. He is the editor of the poetry…
