BIO Born in the island of Cyprus and living in Western Australia, poet and writer Athina Merkouris is a graduate from Bentley College in Perth. She is a freelance writer and a blogger featured in many online magazines and print media. She is also a film critic at Film and Festival Reviews magazine and an…
BIO Mariano Zaro is the author of four poetry books: Where From/Desde Donde, Poems of Erosion/Poemas de la erosión, The House of Mae Rim/La casa de Mae Rim and Tres letras/Three Letters. Originally from Spain he has been living in Santa Monica, California, since 1994. He teaches Spanish at Rio Hondo College (Whittier, California). More…
BIO . Christopher Merrill has published six collections of poetry, including Watch Fire, for which he received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; many edited volumes and books of translations; and five works of nonfiction, among them, Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars and Things of…
BIO . Lee Upton is the author of the The Tao of Humiliation: Stories; the essay collection Swallowing the Sea: On Writing & Ambition Boredom Purity & Secrecy; the novella The Guide to the Flying Island; and a fifth collection of poetry, Undid in the Land of Undone, among other books. . . Ode on “Ode on…
