Poetry

Alan Cheuse

Alan Cheuse

Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio's longtime "voice of books," is the author of four novels, three collections of short fiction, and the memoir Fall Out of Heaven. As a book commentator, Cheuse is a regular contributor to National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, New Letters, The Idaho Review, and The Southern Review, among other places. He teaches in the Writing Program at George Mason University and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.

Alan Cheuse

Alan Cheuse

Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio's longtime "voice of books," is the author of four novels, three collections of short fiction, and the memoir Fall Out of Heaven. As a book commentator, Cheuse is a regular contributor to National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, New Letters, The Idaho Review, and The Southern Review, among other places. He teaches in the Writing Program at George Mason University and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.

Alan
Cheuse

Barbara Crooker

Barbara Crooker

Barbara Crooker's poems have appeared in many journals such as Yankee, The Christian Science Monitor, Smartish Pace, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Nimrod, The Denver Quarterly, The Tampa Review, Poetry International, The Christian Century, and America. She is the recipient of the 2007 Pen and Brush Poetry Prize, the 2006 Ekphrastic Poetry Award from Rosebud, the 2004 WB Yeats Society of New York Award, and others, including three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, twelve residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a prize from the NEA. A twenty-six time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, she was nominated for the 1997 Grammy Awards for her part in the audio version of the popular anthology, Grow Old Along With Me—The Best is Yet to Be (Papier Mache Press). Radiance, her first full-length book, won the 2005 Word Press First Book competition, and was a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize.

Barbara Crooker

Barbara Crooker

Barbara Crooker's poems have appeared in many journals such as Yankee, The Christian Science Monitor, Smartish Pace, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Nimrod, The Denver Quarterly, The Tampa Review, Poetry International, The Christian Century, and America. She is the recipient of the 2007 Pen and Brush Poetry Prize, the 2006 Ekphrastic Poetry Award from Rosebud, the 2004 WB Yeats Society of New York Award, and others, including three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, twelve residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a prize from the NEA. A twenty-six time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, she was nominated for the 1997 Grammy Awards for her part in the audio version of the popular anthology, Grow Old Along With Me—The Best is Yet to Be (Papier Mache Press). Radiance, her first full-length book, won the 2005 Word Press First Book competition, and was a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize.

Barbara
Crooker

Bob Hicok

Bob Hicok

Bob Hicok teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech University. His books include The Legend of Light, (1995) Plus Shipping (1998), and Animal Soul (2001), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has published two other books — Insomnia Diary (2004) and This Clumsy Living (2007), both with the University of Pittsburgh Press. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review and The American Poetry Review, as well as four volumes of The Best American Poetry. Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008 and an NEA Fellowship in 1999, his work has also been reprinted three times in the Pushcart Anthology.

Bob Hicok

Bob Hicok

Bob Hicok teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech University. His books include The Legend of Light, (1995) Plus Shipping (1998), and Animal Soul (2001), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has published two other books — Insomnia Diary (2004) and This Clumsy Living (2007), both with the University of Pittsburgh Press. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review and The American Poetry Review, as well as four volumes of The Best American Poetry. Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008 and an NEA Fellowship in 1999, his work has also been reprinted three times in the Pushcart Anthology.

Bob
Hicok

Claire McQuerry

Claire McQuerry

Claire McQuerry writes and translates poetry. Recent publications include Double Change, Comstock Review, and Damselfly. Claire teaches writing at Arizona State University.

Claire McQuerry

Claire McQuerry

Claire McQuerry writes and translates poetry. Recent publications include Double Change, Comstock Review, and Damselfly. Claire teaches writing at Arizona State University.

Claire
McQuerry

Dara Wier

Dara Wier

Dara Wier's books include Remnants of Hannah, Reverse Rapture, Hat On a Pond, and Voyages in English. Among her works are the limited editions (X In Fix) in Rain Taxi's Brainstorm Series, Fly on the Wall (Oat City Press), and The Lost Epic, co-written with James Tate (Waiting for Godot Books in 1999). Her poetry has been supported by fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the American Poetry Review. Her work appears in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Conduit, Denver Quarterly, The Fairytale Review, Hollins Critic, and jubilat, among others.

Dara Wier

Dara Wier

Dara Wier's books include Remnants of Hannah, Reverse Rapture, Hat On a Pond, and Voyages in English. Among her works are the limited editions (X In Fix) in Rain Taxi's Brainstorm Series, Fly on the Wall (Oat City Press), and The Lost Epic, co-written with James Tate (Waiting for Godot Books in 1999). Her poetry has been supported by fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the American Poetry Review. Her work appears in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Conduit, Denver Quarterly, The Fairytale Review, Hollins Critic, and jubilat, among others.

Dara
Wier

Darren Dillman

Darren Dillman

Darren Dillman grew up in the New Mexico desert and earned an MFA in creative writing from McNeese State University. His short story "Cloudcroft" appeared in the fall 2008 issue of Shenandoah and has been selected for the anthology Best of the West: Stories West of the Missouri. He won the Washington Square Review's poetry contest and his novel The Preacher is forthcoming from David C. Cook. He resides in Yuma, Arizona, where he teaches English for Arizona Western College.

Darren Dillman

Darren Dillman

Darren Dillman grew up in the New Mexico desert and earned an MFA in creative writing from McNeese State University. His short story "Cloudcroft" appeared in the fall 2008 issue of Shenandoah and has been selected for the anthology Best of the West: Stories West of the Missouri. He won the Washington Square Review's poetry contest and his novel The Preacher is forthcoming from David C. Cook. He resides in Yuma, Arizona, where he teaches English for Arizona Western College.

Darren
Dillman

Erica Maria Litz

Erica Maria Litz

Erica Maria Litz is the author of Lightning Forest, Lava Root, her first poetry collection, to be published in the coming year by Plain View Press. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in the journals Brink Magazine, Oranges & Sardines, Superstition Review, Literary Mama, Americanisado, Moondance, The Caribbean Writer and quiet Shorts. Of Colombian heritage, her poetry has been influenced by the culture and the musical roots of Latin America. She teaches English for Paradise Valley Community College and she is a volunteer poetry mentor with PEN Prison Writing Mentorship Program.

Erica Maria Litz

Erica Maria Litz

Erica Maria Litz is the author of Lightning Forest, Lava Root, her first poetry collection, to be published in the coming year by Plain View Press. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in the journals Brink Magazine, Oranges & Sardines, Superstition Review, Literary Mama, Americanisado, Moondance, The Caribbean Writer and quiet Shorts. Of Colombian heritage, her poetry has been influenced by the culture and the musical roots of Latin America. She teaches English for Paradise Valley Community College and she is a volunteer poetry mentor with PEN Prison Writing Mentorship Program.

Erica Maria
Litz

Floyd Skloot

Floyd Skloot

Floyd Skloot is a creative nonfiction writer, poet, novelist, and critic. He has published fifteen books and won three Pushcart Prizes, a PEN USA Literary Award, a Pacific NW Booksellers Association Book Award, two Oregon Book Awards, the Emily Clark Balch Prize from Virginia Quarterly Review, and a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner. He was a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award in 2003, for his memoir In the Shadow of Memory, which was also a finalist for the PEN Award for the Art of the Essay. His work has been included in The Best American Essays, Best American Science Writing, Best Spiritual Writing, Best Food Writing, The Art of the Essay, and In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction, among other anthologies.

Floyd Skloot

Floyd Skloot

Floyd Skloot is a creative nonfiction writer, poet, novelist, and critic. He has published fifteen books and won three Pushcart Prizes, a PEN USA Literary Award, a Pacific NW Booksellers Association Book Award, two Oregon Book Awards, the Emily Clark Balch Prize from Virginia Quarterly Review, and a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner. He was a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award in 2003, for his memoir In the Shadow of Memory, which was also a finalist for the PEN Award for the Art of the Essay. His work has been included in The Best American Essays, Best American Science Writing, Best Spiritual Writing, Best Food Writing, The Art of the Essay, and In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction, among other anthologies.

Floyd
Skloot

Jenn Blair

Jenn Blair

Jenn Blair is from Yakima, WA. She received her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Georgia where she is currently a Park Hall Fellow. Her interests include Victorian and Arab Literature, and she has published in MELUS, The Tusculum Review, and Copper Nickel.

Jenn Blair

Jenn Blair

Jenn Blair is from Yakima, WA. She received her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Georgia where she is currently a Park Hall Fellow. Her interests include Victorian and Arab Literature, and she has published in MELUS, The Tusculum Review, and Copper Nickel.

Jenn
Blair

Jessica Harris

Jessica Harris

Jessica Harris is in her third year of graduate school at Columbia University. She is working toward her MFA in Writing with a poetry concentration.

Jessica Harris

Jessica Harris

Jessica Harris is in her third year of graduate school at Columbia University. She is working toward her MFA in Writing with a poetry concentration.

Jessica
Harris

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Judith Ortiz Cofer has poems, essays, and stories in recent issues of the Southern Review, Blackbird, Image, and the North American Review. Her books include: A Love Story Beginning in Spanish, poems, Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer, a collection of essays, (both from the University of Georgia Press), The Meaning of Consuelo, a novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and others. She teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia.

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Judith Ortiz Cofer has poems, essays, and stories in recent issues of the Southern Review, Blackbird, Image, and the North American Review. Her books include: A Love Story Beginning in Spanish, poems, Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer, a collection of essays, (both from the University of Georgia Press), The Meaning of Consuelo, a novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and others. She teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia.

Judith Ortiz
Cofer

Kevin Clark

Kevin Clark

Kevin Clark's book of poems In the Evening of No Warning earned a grant from the Academy of American Poets, and his poetry has appeared widely in such journals as The Georgia Review, Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, and Black Warrior Review. Clark's criticism has appeared in many venues, including The Iowa Review, Papers on Language and Literature, and Contemporary Literary Criticism. Clark teaches American literature and creative writing at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, and during the summers he teaches at The Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program in Tacoma.

Kevin Clark

Kevin Clark

Kevin Clark's book of poems In the Evening of No Warning earned a grant from the Academy of American Poets, and his poetry has appeared widely in such journals as The Georgia Review, Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, and Black Warrior Review. Clark's criticism has appeared in many venues, including The Iowa Review, Papers on Language and Literature, and Contemporary Literary Criticism. Clark teaches American literature and creative writing at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, and during the summers he teaches at The Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program in Tacoma.

Kevin
Clark

Lori Lamothe

Lori Lamothe

Lori Lamothe's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 42opus, Barn Owl Review, Cream City Review, Linebreak, Notre Dame Review, Seattle Review, SHAMPOO and other magazines. Her chapbook, Camera Obscura, is available from Finishing Line Press. She lives in Massachusetts with her eight-year-old daughter.

Lori Lamothe

Lori Lamothe

Lori Lamothe's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 42opus, Barn Owl Review, Cream City Review, Linebreak, Notre Dame Review, Seattle Review, SHAMPOO and other magazines. Her chapbook, Camera Obscura, is available from Finishing Line Press. She lives in Massachusetts with her eight-year-old daughter.

Lori
Lamothe

Luisa Villani

Luisa Villani

Luisa Villani is the recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in poetry, an AWP Intro Journals Award, and an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work has appeared in The New England Review, The Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Hayden's Ferry Review and other literary journals. Her book, Running Away from Russia, was chosen for the Bordighera Prize by W.S. Di Piero, and selections from her forthcoming book, Highway of the Mayan Sky, recently appeared in the Random House anthology Poetry 180. She currently is a University Diversity Fellow at the University of Southern California.

Luisa Villani

Luisa Villani

Luisa Villani is the recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in poetry, an AWP Intro Journals Award, and an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work has appeared in The New England Review, The Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Hayden's Ferry Review and other literary journals. Her book, Running Away from Russia, was chosen for the Bordighera Prize by W.S. Di Piero, and selections from her forthcoming book, Highway of the Mayan Sky, recently appeared in the Random House anthology Poetry 180. She currently is a University Diversity Fellow at the University of Southern California.

Luisa
Villani

Mark Irwin

Mark Irwin

Mark Irwin is the author of six collections of poetry; the last three include White City (BOA, 2000), Bright Hunger (BOA, 2004), and Tall If (New Issues, 2008). Recognition for his work includes four Pushcart Prizes, and fellowships from the Fulbright, Lilly, NEA, and Wurlitzer Foundations. He teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at the University of Southern California.

Mark Irwin

Mark Irwin

Mark Irwin is the author of six collections of poetry; the last three include White City (BOA, 2000), Bright Hunger (BOA, 2004), and Tall If (New Issues, 2008). Recognition for his work includes four Pushcart Prizes, and fellowships from the Fulbright, Lilly, NEA, and Wurlitzer Foundations. He teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at the University of Southern California.

Mark
Irwin

Peter Shippy

Peter Shippy

Peter Jay Shippy is the author of Thieves' Latin (University of Iowa Press), Alphaville (BlazeVOX Books) and a novella-in-verse, How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic (Rose Metal Press). His poems have recently appeared in The American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, and Shenandoah, among others. He teaches literature at Emerson College in Boston.

Peter Shippy

Peter Shippy

Peter Jay Shippy is the author of Thieves' Latin (University of Iowa Press), Alphaville (BlazeVOX Books) and a novella-in-verse, How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic (Rose Metal Press). His poems have recently appeared in The American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, and Shenandoah, among others. He teaches literature at Emerson College in Boston.

Peter
Shippy

Rachel Patterson

Rachel Patterson

Rachel Marie Patterson completed her undergraduate degrees in Comparative Literature and Spanish at the Pennsylvania State University in May, 2008. She now lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, and attends the MFA program at UNC Greensboro.

Rachel Patterson

Rachel Patterson

Rachel Marie Patterson completed her undergraduate degrees in Comparative Literature and Spanish at the Pennsylvania State University in May, 2008. She now lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, and attends the MFA program at UNC Greensboro.

Rachel
Patterson

Richard Jackson

Richard Jackson

Richard Jackson is the author of 9 books of poems, most recently Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (Autumn House, 2004) Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems (Ashland Poetry Press, 2003), Heartwall (UMass, 2000 Juniper Prize), Svetovi Narazen ( Slovenia , 2001). He is also the author of a book of criticism, Dismantling Time in Contemporary American Poetry (Agee Prize), and Acts of Mind: Interviews With Contemporary American Poets (Choice Award). His several dozen essays and reviews have appeared in Georgia Review, Verse, Contemporary Literature, Boundary 2, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner and numerous other journals, as well as anthologies.

Richard Jackson

Richard Jackson

Richard Jackson is the author of 9 books of poems, most recently Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (Autumn House, 2004) Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems (Ashland Poetry Press, 2003), Heartwall (UMass, 2000 Juniper Prize), Svetovi Narazen ( Slovenia , 2001). He is also the author of a book of criticism, Dismantling Time in Contemporary American Poetry (Agee Prize), and Acts of Mind: Interviews With Contemporary American Poets (Choice Award). His several dozen essays and reviews have appeared in Georgia Review, Verse, Contemporary Literature, Boundary 2, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner and numerous other journals, as well as anthologies.

Richard
Jackson

Rick Marlatt

Rick Marlatt

Rick Marlatt teaches English in Nebraska. He has English and Philosophy BAs and a Creative Writing MA from the University of Nebraska, and he is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California Riverside. Marlatt is the author of one poetry collection, Firecracker Swallow, and his work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, most recently, Barnwood International Magazine, and Amarillo Bay. Marlatt performs as an actor, poet, and writer, most recently winning the University of Nebraska Sigma Tau Delta Short Fiction Slam.

Rick Marlatt

Rick Marlatt

Rick Marlatt teaches English in Nebraska. He has English and Philosophy BAs and a Creative Writing MA from the University of Nebraska, and he is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California Riverside. Marlatt is the author of one poetry collection, Firecracker Swallow, and his work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, most recently, Barnwood International Magazine, and Amarillo Bay. Marlatt performs as an actor, poet, and writer, most recently winning the University of Nebraska Sigma Tau Delta Short Fiction Slam.

Rick
Marlatt

Sankar Roy

Sankar Roy

Sankar Roy, originally from India, is a poet, translator, activist and multimedia artist living near Pittsburgh, PA. He is a winner of PEN USA Emerging Voices, a Rosenthal Fellow, a finalist for Benjamin Franklin Award, winner of Skipping Stone Award, a finalist for University of Arkansas Open Book Competition and three-times semi-finalist for Crab Orchard Review Competition, author of three chapbooks of poetry- Moon Country, The House My Father Could Not Build and Mantra of the Born-free (all from Pudding House, 2006, 2007). Sankar's poems have appeared or forthcoming in over sixty literary journals and ten national anthologies.

Sankar Roy

Sankar Roy

Sankar Roy, originally from India, is a poet, translator, activist and multimedia artist living near Pittsburgh, PA. He is a winner of PEN USA Emerging Voices, a Rosenthal Fellow, a finalist for Benjamin Franklin Award, winner of Skipping Stone Award, a finalist for University of Arkansas Open Book Competition and three-times semi-finalist for Crab Orchard Review Competition, author of three chapbooks of poetry- Moon Country, The House My Father Could Not Build and Mantra of the Born-free (all from Pudding House, 2006, 2007). Sankar's poems have appeared or forthcoming in over sixty literary journals and ten national anthologies.

Sankar
Roy