Poetry

Benjamin S. Grossberg's books are Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath (Ashland Poetry Press, 2007) and Sweet Core Orchard (University of Tampa, 2009). A chapbook, The Auctioneer Bangs His Gavel, was published by Kent State in 2006. Other 'space traveler' poems are forthcoming in New England Review, The Missouri Review, Bellingham Review, and American Literary Review. He teaches at the University of Hartford.

Brad Johnson is an associate professor at Palm Beach State College, FL, and has two chapbooks Void Where Prohibited and The Happiness Theory available at puddinghouse.com. Work of his has recently been accepted by Flyway, The Madison Review, The Modern Review, The New York Quarterly, Steam Ticket and Willow Springs, among others. Poems of his have been nominated for Best of the Net and for a Pushcart Prize. He currently serves as Poetry Editor of Magnolia: A Florida Journal of Literary and Fine Arts (www.magnoliafloridajournal.com).

Bruce Cohen’s poems and essays have appeared in AGNI, The Georgia Review, The Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner & The Southern Review as well as being featured on Poetry Daily & Verse Daily. He has published three volumes of poetry: Disloyal Yo-Yo (Dream Horse Press), which was awarded the 2007 Orphic Poetry Prize, Swerve (Black Lawrence Press) and Placebo Junkies Conspiring with the Half-Asleep (Black Lawrence Press). A new collection, No Soap, Radio, is forthcoming in 2015. A recipient of an individual artist grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, he joined the Creative Writing faculty at the University of Connecticut in 2012.

Caroline Knox's seventh collection, Nine Worthies, will appear from Wave Books (www.wavepoetry.com) in September 2010. Her sixth, Quaker Guns (Wave 2008), received a Recommended Reading Award 2009 from the Massachusetts Center for the Book. The term in the poem "Singing in Yoghurt" refers to the global pop-rock phenomenon of introducing foreign and perhaps not understood words into one's poetry and song (Henry Hitchings, The Secret Life of Words, Farrar Straus 2008, 337).

Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of Approaching Ice (Persea, 2010), which was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Interpretive Work (Arktoi, 2008), which won the 2009 Audre Lorde Prize and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Believer, Orion as well as many anthologies, and she is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow. Founder and editor of the grassroots-distributed and guerilla-art-inspired Broadsided Press (broadsidedpress.org), she works as a naturalist and lives on Cape Cod.

Eric Gansworth (Onondaga) is Lowery Writer-in-Residence and Professor of English at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY. The author of eight books, including the PEN Oakland Award winning MENDING SKINS, and A HALF-LIFE OF CARDIO-PULMONARY FUNCTION, (National Book Critics Circle's “Good Reads List” for Spring 2008), Gansworth is also a visual artist. His play, RE-CREATION STORY, was part of the Public Theater's Native Theater Festival, in NYC. His work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, the Boston Review, Provicetown Arts, Poetry International, Third Coast, and the Yellow Medicine Review, among others. His next novel, EXTRA INDIANS will appear in 2010.

Jesse Lee Kercheval's most recent books are Brazil (CSU Poetry Center, 2010), winner of the Ruthanne Wiley Memorial Novella Prize, and the poetry collection Cinema Muto (SIU Press, 2009), winner of a Crab Orchard Open Series Award. She is the author of 9 other books of fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Currently, she is the Sally Mead Hands Professor of English and the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.

Kelle Groom's memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (Simon & Schuster), is a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, Library Journal Best Memoir, Oprah O Magazine selection, and Oxford American Editor's Pick. The author of three poetry collections, most recently, Five Kingdoms (Anhinga), her work has appeared in Agni, The New Yorker, New York Times, Ploughshares, and Best American Poetry. A 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in Prose, Groom is on faculty of the low-residency MFA Program at Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe.

Linwood Rumney's poetry has appeared in Quercus Review, Cold Mountain Review, and The Aurorean, among others. He teaches writing in Boston, where he is an MFA candidate at Emerson College. He recently completed a stint as the poetry editor of Redivider and is the 2010 recipient of the fellowship in poetry from the Writers' Room of Boston.

Marcia Golub has published two novels and a book on writing (Secret Correspondence, Wishbone; I'd Rather Be Writing), as well as poems and stories that have appeared in Narrative Design (anthology), Contemporary Rhyme, Blueline, Ars Medica, and Caution Horse. Her unpublished novel TALE OF THE FORGOTTEN WOMAN was nominated twice for a Pushcart Press/Editor's Award as well as a PEN/Nelson Algren Award. She teaches at Writer's Voice.

Michael G. Smith teaches Mathematics at Santa Fe Community College. During the summer he conducts chemistry research at Montana State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry. His poetry has been published in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Matter, Nimrod, Sulphur River Literary Review, the Kerf, the Santa Fe Literary Review and other journals. In addition to writing poetry he enjoys backpacking and skiing, and has an active Zen practice. He can be reached at michael.smith@sfcc.edu.

Nin Andrews' poems and stories have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies including Ploughshares, The Paris Review, Best American Poetry (1997, 2001, 2003), and Great American Prose Poems. She is the author of several books including Spontaneous Breasts, Any Kind of Excuse, The Book of Orgasms, The Book of Orgasms and Other Tales, Why They Grow Wings, Midlife Crisis with Dick and Jane, and Sleeping with Houdini. Her chapbook, Dear Professor, Do You Live in a Vacuum, was published by Subito Press in December of 2007. Her next book, Southern Comfort, is just out from CavanKerry Press.

Rachel Malis will be graduating with her Master of Fine Arts in poetry from ASU this spring. She won an Academy of American Poets Prize in 2007 and was a runner up in last year's Slapering Hol chapbook contest via the Hudson Valley Writers' Center. Rachel has been published in Oberon Poetry, Modoc Forum, Willows Wept Review and Damselfly Press. While completing her masters degree, Rachel received awards and a grant to travel to Ukraine, the Czech Republic, and Australia. She has poetry forthcoming in the New Mexico Poetry Review.

Scott Bade lives in Kalamazoo, MI with his wife Lori and sons, August and Stuart. In addition to working as a fulltime technical writer, Scott Bade is pursuing a doctoral degree at Western Michigan University. He is a former poetry editor for Third Coast and is currently an editorial assistant at New Issue Press. In 2010, he received a Gwen Frostic Creative Writing scholarship at WMU. His poems have appeared in Fugue, Poetry International, H_NGM_N, Night Train, and others.

Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The Nation, Poetry, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. His most recent collection is Almost Rain, published by River Otter Press (2013). For more information, free e-books, and his essay titled “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com. 

Steve De France is a widely published poet, playwright and essayist both in America and in Great Britain. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry in both 2002 and 2003. A few recent publications include The Wallace Stevens Journal, The Mid-American Poetry Review, Ambit, Atlantic, and The Sun. In England he won a Reader's Award in Orbis Magazine for his poem "Hawks." In the United States he won the Josh Samuels' Annual Poetry Competition (2003) for his poem: "The Man Who Loved Mermaids." In 1999, he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Chapman University for his writing.