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 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 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 Marilyn L. Taylor, former Poet Laureate of Wisconsin (2009 and 2010) and the city of Milwaukee (2004 and 2005) is the author of six poetry collections. Her award-winning poems and essays have appeared in many anthologies and journals, including Poetry, American Scholar, Measure, and Able Muse. Marilyn taught poetry and poetics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,…
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…
BIO Jason Phillip Reeser is the author of a non-fiction memoir, Room with Paris View, The Lazaretto trilogy and three other novels. On any given day, a visitor to New Orleans will see, on display in the windows of the French Quarter shops, his collection of short stories, “Cities of the Dead,” a collection reviewed…
BIO Maryann Corbett’s third book, Mid Evil, won the Richard Wilbur Poetry Award and is forthcoming from the University of Evansville Press. Her poems, essays, and translations have appeared in Southwest Review, Barrow Street, Rattle, River Styx, Measure, Literary Imagination, The Dark Horse, Subtropics, Verse Daily, American Life in Poetry, The Poetry Foundation, The Writer’s Almanac,…
BIO Fatemeh Shams born in 1983 in Mashhad, Iran, won the silver medal in the national Literature Olympiad in 2000. After graduating in sociology from Tehran University, Fatemeh pursued post-graduate studies in London and then in Oxford University where she taught Persian language and literature. She is currently teaching classical Persian literature at the Courtauld Gallery of Art in Somerset…
BIO P & J Poetics, LLC, published Mike Alexander‘s first full-length collection, RETROgrade. His chapbook, We Internet in Different Voices (Modern Metrics), is available through EXOT books. His poems have appeared in River Styx, Borderlands, Bateau, Abridged, Measure, Shit Creek Review, Raintown Review & other journals Stay Dry Before the storm, a flood…
BIO . If Epstein told you how long he has been writing poems, you wouldn’t believe him, but they have appeared in a vast, though motley, array of academic quarterlies, little magazines, e-zines, and the like. If the poems here pique your interest, you can find many more at – RHEpoems.blogspot.com . http://rhepoems.blogspot.com, or you…
BIO Catharine Savage Brosman, who lives in Houston, is Professor Emerita of French at Tulane University and Honorary Research Professor at the University of Sheffield. She is the author or editor of nineteen scholarly volumes, two volumes of personal essays, and ten collections of poetry, including Range of Light, devoted to the American west; Under…
