BIO Farouk Banjar is a Saudi poet, writer and educator. He was born in the holy city of Makka in 1949. He has a bachelor’s degree in Arabic Language literature and a master’s degree in Education Management from the University of Oklahoma in the US. In 1998 he made his debut with a collection of…
BIO Amal Awwad Radwan is a Palestinian poet, musician, writer, essayist, journalist, educator and social activist. She was born in the town of I’billin in the north of Palestine. She made her debut in 20005 with a poetry book titled An Almondy Flower Glowing. Since then she has published four poetry collections and seven…
BIO Abdulla Issa is an award-winning Palestinian poet, academic, translator, journalist, political analyst, and film producer living in Moscow. He was born in 1964 in the refugee camp of Bebela, near Damascus, Syria, where his parents had migrated, following the 1948 Palestinian Nakba. Abdulla graduated from The Maxim Gorky Institute of Literature and Creative Writing. He received his PhD from…
Nizar Sartawi is a poet, translator, essayist, and columnist. He was born in Sarta, Palestine, in 1951. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of Jordan, Amman, and a Master’s degree in Human Resources Development from the University of Minnesota, U.S. Sartawi is a member of the Jordanian Writers Association, General…
BIO Amy Small-McKinney won The Kithara Book Prize 2016 (Glass Lyre Press) for her second full-length collection of poems, Walking Toward Cranes. She is also the author of, Life is Perfect (BookArts Press, 2014) and two chapbooks of poetry, Body of Surrender (2004) and Clear Moon, Frost (2009), both with Finishing Line Press. Small-McKinney…
BIO Michael J. Whelan is an Irish soldier-poet & historian. He served as UN Peacekeeper in Lebanon and Kosovo in the early 1990s. 2nd in the Patrick Kavanagh and 3rd in the Jonathon Swift Creative Writing Awards and selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions, Michael’s Debut collection PEACEKEEPER was published in 2016 by Doire Press. More…
BIO Deema K Shehabi is a poet, writer, and editor. The daughter of Palestinian parents, she grew up in the Arab world and moved to the United States in 1988. Her poems have appeared widely in journals and anthologies such as The Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination, New Letters, Callaloo, Massachusetts Review, Perihelion, Drunken Boat,…
BIO Beirut-born, Southern California-raised Armine Iknadossian is the author of United States of Love & Other Poems (2016). She has been published in Margie, Pearl, Rhino, Split This Rock, Alabama Literary Review, The Nervous Breakdown and elsewhere. Armine has an MFA in Poetry from Antioch and has worked as a teacher, as assistant editor to Arianna Huffington, Robert Scheer and Molly…
BIO Joseph O’Brien lives on a homestead with his wife Cecilia and their nine children in rural Soldiers Grove, WI. He is Managing Editor of Adoremus Bulletin, a correspondent for the Catholic Business journal, and Poetry Editor and cocktail reviewer for The San Diego Reader. He also teaches at Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI. His…
BIO Jesse White, Founder of the School for Wonder, has responded to invitations throughout the United States as a singer/songwriter, poet, storyteller, teacher, trainer, motivational speaker, and advocate for social justice. Her publications include two books of contemplative poetry, three CD’s of original music, a literary review, 20 spoken-word artists on her label, Authentic Voicework…
BIO Sonia Greenfield was born and raised in Peekskill, New York. Her poems, essays, and fiction have appeared widely, including in 2010 Best American Poetry, The Bellevue Literary Review, Cimarron Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Rattle. Her book, Boy with a Halo at the Farmer’s Market, recently won the 2014 Codhill Poetry Prize. She lives…
. BIO Carolyn Raphael retired from the English Department at Queensborough Community College, CUNY, after more than thirty years of teaching. Her poems have appeared in journals including The Lyric, Measure, Orbis, and Rattapallax. Her chapbook, Diagrams of Bittersweet, was published by Somers Rocks Press in 1997, and her poetry collection, The Most Beautiful Room…
