Up until now, Alex Panasenko has been a slave laborer in Nazi Germany, a factory worker, a soldier in the US Army during the Korean War, a graduate student in Entomology at UC Berkeley, a science instructor at Berkeley High School, and a bartender. In only a few more years, he will be one hundred, … Read more about Alex Panasenko.
Linda Parsons coordinates WordStream, WDVX-FM’s weekly reading series, with Stellasue Lee and is the reviews editor at Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel. She has contributed poems to The Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Baltimore Review, Shenandoah, among many fine journals and anthologies. Parsons is the copyeditor/proofreader for Chapter … Read more about Linda Parsons.
Andrea Potos is the author of six poetry collections, including An Ink Like Early Twilight and We Lit the Lamps Ourselves, both from Salmon Poetry, and Yaya’s Cloth from Iris Press. She received the William Stafford Prize for Poetry from Rosebud Magazine, the James Hearst Poetry Prize from the North American Review, and three Outstanding … Read more about Andrea Potos.
Michele Poulos is an award-winning poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. Her chapbook, A Disturbance in the Air, won the 2012 Slapering Hol Press competition, and her poetry has been anthologized in Best New Poets 2012 (chosen by Matthew Dickman) as well as The Southern Poetry Anthology. She has published poetry and fiction in such journals as … Read more about Michele Poulos.
Rita Quillen’s full-length poetry collection, The Mad Farmer’s Wife, was published in 2016 by Texas Review Press (a Texas A&M affiliation) and was a finalist for the Weatherford Award in Appalachian Literature from Berea College. Her novel, Hiding Ezra (Little Creek Books), was a finalist for the 2005 DANA Awards. One of six semi-finalists for … Read more about Rita Sims Quillen.
Ron Rash is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Finalist and New York Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to five other novels, including One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, The World Made Straight, and Above the Waterfall; five collections of poems; and six collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won … Read more about Ron Rash.
Janisse Ray is an American author whose work often grapples with the beauty, intricacy, and heartbreak of the biosphere. Red Lanterns is her second book of eco-poetry. She has published five books of literary nonfiction, including the acclaimed Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and The Seed Underground. Ray lives and works in coastal Georgia. For … Read more about Janisse Ray.
Tony Reevy is a graduate of North Carolina State University, UNC-Chapel Hill and Miami University. His previous publications include poetry, non-fiction, essays and short fiction, including the non-fiction books Ghost Train!, O. Winston Link: Life Along the Line, The Railroad Photography of Jack Delano and The Railroad Photography of Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg; the … Read more about Tony Reevy.
Meira Rosenberg began Indiana Bamboo while completing her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Manhattanville College, where it grew from her memories and imaginings of the small town where she was raised in Indiana and her early childhood in Ohio. Prior to publication, Indiana Bamboo was the winner of the Tennessee Mountain Writers … Read more about Meira Rosenberg.
Jane Sasser was born and raised on a farm in Fairview, NC. She grew up in a family of storytellers and began writing her own stories at the age of six. Her poetry has appeared in JAMA, North American Review, The Sun, and other publications. She has published two poetry chapbooks, Recollecting the Snow and … Read more about Jane Sasser.
