BIO . .Ralph Angel’s latest collection, Your Moon, was awarded the 2013 Green Rose Poetry Prize. Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006 received the 2007 PEN USA Poetry Award, and his Neither World won the James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets. In addition to five books of poetry, he also has published…
Michelle Chung
BIO Michelle Chung is a poet, critic, editor, and translator. She grew up in Seoul, Korea. She graduated Hanyang University, taught in high school, and immigrated to the U.S. She earned a Master’s degree in Christian Psychology at Emmanuel University in Los Angeles. She worked for Dong-A Daily USA and Christian Herald as a reporter….
Khursheed Hayat
BIO Kursheed Hayat is an eminent story writer, novelist and poet of Urdu literature from Gaya, Bihar, India, now living in Bilaspur, working for the Indian Railway. Khursheed has been writing since 1974, and has received several acclaims for his works, including honor from the Governor of Bihar, India, for the year 1985 & 1986…
Marie Lecrivain
BIO Marie Lecrivain is the editor-publisher of poetic diversity: the litzine of Los Angeles, a photographer, and a writer-in-residence at her apartment. Her work has appeared in various journals, including Edgar Allen Poet Journal, The Kentucky Review, Maitenant, A New Ulster, Spillway, The Los Angeles Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, and others. She’s the author of…
Dennis Maloney
BIO . Dennis Maloney is the editor and publisher of the widely respected White Pine Press in Buffalo, NY. He is also a poet and translator. His works of translation include: The Stones of Chile by Pablo Neruda, The Landscape of Castile by Antonio Machado, Between the Floating Mist:Poems of Ryokan, and The Poet…
Abrar Ahmed: Translations by Salma Jilani
BIO Renowned poet Abrar Ahmed was born in Lahore, Pakistan, on February 6th, 1954. He is a medical doctor by profession. His poems have been published in several leading magazines and periodicals. Dr. Ahmad has been the Editor of “Muntakhab Shairi” (Selected Poetry Magazine), and the Guest Editor of Adabiyat (Literary Magazine). He writes columns…
Hélène Cardona
BIO . Hélène Cardona is a poet, linguist, literary translator and actress (Chocolat, X-Men: Days of Future Past). She is the author of Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry, 2013), winner of the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for Best Bilingual Poetry Book, The Astonished Universe (Red Hen, 2006), and Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry, 2016). She…
Satyapal Anand
BIO Satyapal Anand born on April 24, 1931, is an Indian poet, writer and critic living in the United States. His creative and research works include over 40 books (novels, collections of short stories, poetry, history, biography and comparative literature) in Urdu, English, Hindi and Punjabi. His first book of short stories was published in…
Michelle Bitting
BIO Michelle Bitting has work published in The American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Narrative, diode, the L.A. Weekly, Manor House Quarterly and others. Poems have appeared on Poetry Daily and as the Weekly Feature on Verse Daily. Essays are forthcoming in The Enchanting Literary Verses. Her book Good Friday Kiss won the DeNovo First Book…
John FitzGerald
BIO John FitzGerald is a poet, writer, editor and attorney for the disabled in Los Angeles. A dual citizen of the United States and Ireland, he attended the University of West Los Angeles School of Law, where he was editor of the Law Review. His newest collection Favorite Bedtime Stories is forthcoming from Salmon…
Kim Dower
BIO . Kim Dower’s first collection of poetry, Air Kissing on Mars, (Red Hen Press, 2010) was on the Poetry Foundation’s Contemporary Best Sellers list, and was described by the Los Angeles Times as, “sensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combining humor and heartache.” Slice of Moon, her second collection, (Red Hen Press,…
Sarah Maclay
BIO Sarah Maclay is the author of Music for the Black Room, The White Bride and Whore (all, U of Tampa), as well as three limited edition chapbooks. In 2013, The Huffington Post shortlisted her as one of five American poets to watch. Her poems and criticism have appeared in APR, Ploughshares, FIELD, The Writer’s…