Lana Austin

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Lana K. W. Austin’s poems and short stories have recently been featured in Mid-American Review, Sou’wester, The Chariton Review, Columbia Journal, Zone 3, Appalachian Heritage, The Pinch, The New Guard, Switchback, Bloodroot, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Southern Women’s Review, and others. Born and raised in rural Kentucky, Austin studied creative writing at both Hollins … Read more about Lana Austin.

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KB Ballentine

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KB Ballentine received her MFA in Poetry from Lesley University, Cambridge, MA. She has participated in writing academies in the United States and Europe, and she holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in English. She currently teaches high school theatre and English and adjuncts for a local college. She also conducts writing workshops throughout the United … Read more about KB Ballentine.

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Aliki Barnstone

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Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, critic, and editor. Her books of poems are Wild With It (2002), a National Books Critics Circle Notable Book, Madly in Love (1997), Windows in Providence (1981), and The Real Tin Flower (which was introduced by Anne Sexton and was published in 1968, when she was twelve years old). … Read more about Aliki Barnstone.

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Tina Barr

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Tina Barr’s books include Green Target (2018), winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the Brockman-Campbell Award, Kaleidoscope (Iris Press, 2015), The Gathering Eye (Tupelo Press Editor’s Prize), & 3 award-winning chapbooks. Her fellowships include the National Endowment for the Arts, The Tennessee Arts Commission, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and The MacDowell Colony. Her … Read more about Tina Barr.

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J.P. Dancing Bear

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J.P. Dancing Bear is the author of nine other collections of poetry, most recently, Inner Cities of Gulls (2010) winner of a PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles National Literary Award, and Conflicted Light (2008) both published by Salmon Poetry and the award winning, What Language (Slipstream, 2002). His poems have been published in over a thousand publications … Read more about J.P. Dancing Bear.

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Gaylord Brewer

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Gaylord Brewer is author of 15 books of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and literary criticism, including the novella Octavius the 1st (Red Hen, 2008), the poetry collection Country of Ghost (Red Hen Press, 2015), the cookbook-memoir The Poet’s Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire (Stephen F. Austin UP, 2015), and most recently a 10th volume … Read more about Gaylord Brewer.

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Bill Brown

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Bill Brown is the author of twelve poetry collections and a writing textbook, Important Words, on which he collaborated with Malcolm Glass. In 1999 Brown wrote and co-produced the Instructional Television Series, Student Centered Learning, for Nashville Public Television. Brown directed the writing program at Hume-Fogg Academic High School in Nashville for 19 years. His … Read more about Bill Brown.

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Karen Carissimo

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Karen Carissimo was born in Berkeley, California, and educated at Mills College and The University of Southern California. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Western Humanities Review, American Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Puerto del Sol. Her fiction has appeared in Green Mountains … Read more about Karen Carissimo.

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Rhea “RheaSunshine” Carmon

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Award-winning wordsmith Rhea “RheaSunshine” Carmon is a force that weaves passion, purpose, and power into poetry. For twenty years, RheaSunshine has traveled the nation, sharing her gift of the spoken word and facilitating self-expression, liberation, and healing. This art form has led her to touch lives at universities and educational institutions as well as civic … Read more about Rhea “RheaSunshine” Carmon.

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Lisa Coffman

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Lisa Coffman grew up in East Tennessee and currently lives on California’s Central Coast—two locales that inspire and color her work. She has received fellowships for her poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry. Her first collection of … Read more about Lisa Coffman.

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