BIO Strider Marcus Jones – is a poet, law graduate and ex civil servant from Salford/Hinckley, England with proud Celtic roots in Ireland and Wales. A member of The Poetry Society, his five published books of poetry are modern, traditional, mythical, sometimes erotic, surreal and metaphysical. Learn more at http//www.lulu.com/spotlight/stridermarcusjones1. He is a maverick, moving…
BIO Annabelle Moseley is an award-winning American poet and writer, born and raised on the North Shore of Long Island. Author of nine books, first Walt Whitman Birthplace Writer-in-Residence, and 2014 Long Island Poet of the Year, Moseley is a Lecturer at St. Joseph’s College in New York. Her newest collection is a double volume…
BIO . William Logan is the author of ten volumes of poetry, most recently Madame X (2012). He has published six books of essays and reviews, including The Undiscovered Country, which received the National Book Critics Circle award in criticism. A new book of criticism, Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure, was published early this year. Among…
BIO Karen Kelsay lives in Los Angeles County, and is the founder and editor of the poetry magazine Victorian Violet Press. She has authored several books and chapbooks: Lavender Song (Fortunate Childe Publications 2011), In Spite of Her (Flutter Press 2010), Song of the Bluebell Fairy (Pudding House Publications 2010), A Fist of Roots (Pudding…
BIO Melissa Studdard is the author of the bestselling novel, Six Weeks to Yehidah and other books. Her works have received numerous awards, including the Forward National Literature Award and the International Book Award. Her first poetry collection, I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast, is forthcoming fall 2014. She currently serves as a reviewer-at-large for The National Poetry Review, an interviewer for American Microreviews…
BIO . Cally Conan-Davies hails from the island of Tasmania, famous for apples and wilderness. She moved, for love, to the United States in 2012. Her poems can be read, now or soon, in such places as The Hudson Review, Subtropics, Poetry, Quadrant, The New Criterion, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Sewanee Review, The…
BIO Victor Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers. BIO Gregory Dowling is Associate Professor of American Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His academic publications include a study of American narrative poetry, a guide to Byron’s…
BIO Born in Harnathpur village of Baksar, Bihar, India, Bimlesh Tripathi is a new age Hindi poet and storywriter. He received his education at the Presidency college, Calcutta, and enrolled in a research there. He is known for his poetry collections – “Ek Desh Aur Mare Hue Log”, “Ham Bache Rahenge” , “Kavita Se Lambi…
BIO David Mason is a professor of English at The Colorado College and Poet Laureate of Colorado. His books include Ludlow: A Verse Novel, The Country I Remember, Arrivals, News from the Village, The Scarlet Libretto and Sea Salt: Poems of a Decade, 2004-2014. Co-editor of several textbooks and anthologies, he has also published two…
BIO Jennifer Reeser is the author of four full-length poetry collections. Former editor of The Paris Review, X. J. Kennedy, wrote that her debut collection, An Alabaster Flask, (winner of the Word Press First Book Prize), “ought to have been a candidate for a Pulitzer.” Her third book, Sonnets from the Dark Lady and…
BIO Rhina P. Espaillat has published nine full-length books and three chapbooks, comprising poetry, essays and short stories, in both English and her native Spanish. Her original work, and her translations from and into both languages, appear in numerous journals, over seventy anthologies and dozens of websites. Espaillat has earned many national and international awards,…
BIO Catherine Chandler is an American poet, teacher and translator. She is the author of Lines of Flight (Able Muse Press, 2011), shortlisted for the 2013 Poets’ Prize, This Sweet Order (White Violet Press/Kelsay Books, 2012) and Glad and Sorry Seasons (Biblioasis, 2014), as well as two chapbooks from The Olive Press, For No Good…
