BIO Robert Abbate teaches English composition, creative writing, and philosophy at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College in Concord, North Carolina. His most significant recognition in poetry came in 1982 when Carolyn Kizer selected five poems for the Katey Lehman Creative Writing Awards at Penn State University. His poems have appeared in such journals as Alehouse, Ruah, Sanskrit,…
BIO Wendy Chin-Tanner is the author of Turn (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014) and co-author of American Terrorist (A Wave Blue World). Her poetry has been nominated for the Best of the Net Prize and the Pushcart Prize, and has been featured or is forthcoming at a variety of venues including The Rumpus, Vinyl Poetry, Denver…
BIO Tami Haaland is the author of two books of poetry: When We Wake in the Night and Breath in Every Room. Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies and have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily, and American Life in Poetry. Haaland teaches creative writing and chairs the department of English,…
BIO Claudia Gary is author of Humor Me (David Robert Books, 2006) and several chapbooks. A 2014 finalist for the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award and a 2013 semifinalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, she writes, edits, sings, and composes (tonally) in the Washington D.C. area. Her poems appear in anthologies such as Forgetting Home…
BIO David Nelson Bradsher has a B.A. in English from UNC-Chapel Hill ’89, and resides in Raleigh, NC, a practitioner of metrical verse and fitness. He is the author of The Vampire Sonnets, a verse drama written in sequential Shakespearean sonnets. The Arsonist With oil, passion, alcohol and matches, You come consumed with fusing…
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 Other…
BIO Karel Hlaváček (1874 – 1898) was a Czech Symbolist and Decadent poet and artist. He published his poetic works and art criticisms in the journal Moderní revue (Modern review). He was also active as an artist, creating works that suggest his anxieties about sex, such as Exile. He was the founding member and the first president of the nationalist and athletic Sokol group in the Prague suburb of Libeň. He…
BIO Poet, scholar, editor, and critic R.S. Gwynn was born in Eden, North Carolina. He received a BA from Davidson College, where he twice won the Vereen Bell Award for Creative Writing, and he earned both an MA and an MFA from the University of Arkansas, where he won the John Gould Fletcher Award for…
BIO Frank Dullaghan is an Irish writer living in Dubai. Previously, Frank lived in the UK where he was a co-founder of the Essex Poetry Festival and editor of Seam Poetry Magazine. Frank’s poetry collections are – On the Back of the Wind, 2008, Enough Light to See the Dark, 2012, and The Same Roads…
BIO Meredith Bergmann is a sculptor. Her public monuments can be seen in Boston and New York, and she is currently creating the FDR Hope Memorial for Roosevelt Island, NYC. Her poetry and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, Contemporary Poetry Review, Hudson Review, The New Criterion, The Raintown Review, The Same, The…
BIO Amata Natasha Goldie is a poet, artist and a natural health practitioner from Australia, living in Portugal. Educated at Edith Cowan University in Perth and Central Metropolitan College of Arts, Amata is best know for her book “The Golden Thread”, that is a collection of practical and metaphysical wisdom, sourced from contemporary geniuses. It…
BIO The author of ten books of poetry and short fiction, Laurel Ann Bogen is a founding member of the celebrated poetry performance ensemble, Nearly Fatal Women. Since 1990 she has been an instructor in the Writers’ Program at UCLA Extension where she received the Outstanding Instructor of the Year of the Award in 2008. In 2016…
