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Ande's Instructions for Walking on Water won the 2000 Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize. Her second book, Reliquary, won the 2002 X.J. Kennedy Prize from Texas Review Press. Her poems appear in New Letters, Image, Notre Dame Review, Mississippi Review, Nimrod, Bellevue Literary Review, and Poetry International. Ande is from the Pacific Northwest and teaches at Union Institute & University. |
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Nathalie Anderson, co-winner of The 2005 Robert McGovern Publications Prize, is also the winner of the 1998 Washington Prize from The Word Words for her first book, Following Fred Astair. She published a chapbook, My Hand, My Only Map, in 1978 with House of Keys Press; her poems have appeared in APR's Philly Edition, Cimmaron Review, Natural Bridge, Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, and other journals. She has authored libretti for the operas The Black Swan and Sukey in the Dark. A 1993 Pew Fellow, she serves currently as Poet in Residence at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, and she teaches at Swarthmore College, where she is a Professor in the Department of English Literature and directs the Program in Creative Writing. |
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Carol Barrett's Calling in the Bones is the 2002 winner of the Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize. Her chapbook, Drawing Lessons, appeared in 2002 from Finishing Line Press. Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Barrett is both a Core Professor and administrator with the Union Institute & University. |
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Battin's first book, In the Solar Wind, was a National Poetry Series selection from Doubleday. Winner of the Discovery, The Nation Award, grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, she lives in Mystic, CT, where she teaches at Connecticut College and serves as director of the Contemporary American Poetry Archive. |
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Lorna Knowles Blake was born in Havana and lived in Cuba, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela and Puerto Rico before moving to the United States to attend college. She was educated at Trinity College (B.A.), New York University (M.B.A.) and Sarah Lawrence College (M.F.A.). Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, The Bellingham Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Hudson Review and other journals, as well as in several anthologies. In addition to her position as Executive Director of New York State’s Interest on Lawyer Account Fund, she has taught creative writing at the 92nd Street Y and served as Senior Poetry Editor at the journal Rattapallax. She and her family live in New York City and Cape Cod. |
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Brady's first book, Forged Correspondences, was chosen for Ploughshares' "Editor's Shelf" by Maxine Kumin. Winner of a Thayer Fellowship in the Arts from New York State, three Ohio Arts Council Fellowships, and residencies in Spain, Scotland, Ireland, and the Czech Republic, Brady has taught at University College Cork and the National University of Zaire. He is a Professor of English at Youngstown State University. |
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A native of Brooklyn, Ken Brown achieved oustanding success with the off-Broadway production of his brutally realistic play, The Brig, by the Living Theatre while he was still in his twenties. He has had successes with other plays, with short fiction, a novel, and with poetry. |
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Although born into a literary family—her parents edited and published The Writer magazine and The Writer’s Handbook—Elizabeth Biller Chapman did not write her first poem until she was forty-three. Since then, however, her work has appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Bellevue Literary Review, Image and The Texas Observer. Her poem “On the Screened Porch” was included in Best American Poetry, 2002. Creekwalker, her 1995 chapbook, won the (M)other Tongue Press international competition, and her collection, Candlefish, was published in 2004 by University of Arkansas Press. It was one of four manuscripts chosen by Enid Shomer as part of their Poetry Series. Chapman earned her B.A. from Smith College, her M.A. from the Shakespeare Institute, and her Ph.D. from Columbia University.; spent 17 years as a psychotherapist; and has taught at Claremont McKenna, Radcliffe, Scripps and Smith Colleges. She lives in Palo Alto, California. |
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A.V. Christie, co-winner of the 2004 Robert McGovern Publication Prize, is also the winner of the 1996 National Poetry Series for her book Nine Skies. She has won Individual Artist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the Maryland and Pennsylvania State Arts Councils as well as from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. |
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Elledge is a native of Illinois and earned his Ph.D. in creative writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he received the Otis Dante Award for Outstanding Graduate Students. He earned his B.A. in English and M.S. in library science from Eastern Illinois University. A former assistant editor of Poetry and the current editor of Illinois Review, Jim is published at Illinois State University where he is associate professor of English in the creative writing program. His books include two previous collections of poetry. |
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Christine Gelineau's first full-length collection, Remorseless Loyalty, won the Richard Snyder Publication Prize and was published by Ashland Poetry Press in 2006.The book was subsequently nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award by David St. John. Gelineau is also the author of two chapbooks of poetry, North American Song Line and In the Greenwood World (both from Foothills Publishing). Her poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared widely. Gelineau is the associate director of the Binghamton Center for Writers, State University of New York. She teaches literature and creative writing at Binghamton University and also teaches in the low-residency MA/MFA in Writing Program at Wilkes University. She and her husband raise Morgan horses under the Hartland prefix on a farm in upstate New York. |
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Andrew M. Greeley, a priest ordained in the diocese of Chicago nearly four decades ago, has been for many years a noted scholar (a professor of social science at the University of Chicago and the author of scores of books in sociology) and has been a constant best-selling fiction writer since the publication of his first novel, The Cardinal Sins. He has also extended his fiction to include detective stories - his mystery solver, Father Blacky, is reminiscent of G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown - and science fiction. |
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Benjamin S. Grossberg is Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Hartford, where he teaches poetry writing and English Renaissance literature. His poetry has appeared in such journals as Paris Review, North American Review, and Southern Review. His work also appears in The Pushcart Book of Poetry: The Best Poems From the First 30 Years of the Pushcart Prize. A chapbook, The Auctioneer Bangs His Gavel, was published by Kent State in 2006. Grossberg's second collection of poetry won the Tampa Review Prize for poetry. He has received grants from the Ohio Arts Council, Culture Works of Montgomery County, and the Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County. |
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Corrinne Clegg Hales was born in Tooele, Utah, earned her BA and MA at the University of Utah, and completed a PhD at SUNY-Binghamton. Hales won the 2001 Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize for Separate Escapes. She is the author of one prior book of poetry, Underground (Ahsahta Press), and two chapbooks, Out of This Place (March Street Press) and January Fire, winner of the Devil's Millhopper Chapbook Prize. Other awards include two NEA Fellowship Grants and the River Styx International Poetry Prize. She lives in Fresno, California, where she is co-coordinator of the MFA Program at California State University, Fresno. |
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Jerry Harp, co-winner of the 2004 Robert McGovern Publication Prize, grew up in Mt. Vernon, Indiana. He has degrees from Saint Meinrad College, Saint Louis University, the University of Florida, and the University of Iowa. His other books of poems are Creature (Salt Publishing, 2003), and Urban Flowers,Concrete Plains (Salt Publishing, 2006). He teaches at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. |
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Richard Jackson is the author of nine previous books of poetry, two books of criticism, a translation from Slovene, and several chapbooks. He is a winner of Guggenheim, Fulbright, NEA, NEH and Witter-Bynner Fellowships, five Pushcart appearances, as well as prizes from Prairie Schooner, Rattle and Crazyhorse. He was a recipient of the Slovene Order of Freedom Award for Humanitarian and Literary work in the Balkans. He has taught at the Iowa Summer Festival, Prague Summer Program, Bread Loaf and other venues, and teaches at UT-Chattanooga and the Vermont College of Fine Arts low residency program, winning teaching awards at both schools. |
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Born in Philadelphia, Jeffrey Loo (a.k.a. Jeffrey Lee) completed his PhD and his MFA at New York University, where he was nominated for the Lilly Fellowship in Poetry. He has published over 100 poems in journals such as American Poetry Review, African American Review, Barrow Street, Crab Orchard Review, Crosscurrents, CrossConnect, and many others. He is currently working as a professor at the Community College of Philadelphia. He won the tenth annual City Paper writing award for poetry in 1994 and the Palanquin Press Pamphlet competition in 1997, as well as many other awards and honors. |
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Robert Lunday grew up on Army posts, mainly in the South. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, he received an MA and PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. He has received two fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, a Writer-in-Residence Fellowship from St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, a PEN/Brazos Bookstore Prize, and a Barthelme/lnprint Fellowship for nonfiction. He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and English at Houston Community College. |
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Rebecca McClanahan is the author of nine books, most recently Deep Light: New and Selected Poems 1987-2007 (Iris Press), The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings (University of Georgia Press) , which won the 2005 Glasgow prize in Nonfiction, and Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively (Writer's Digest Books). Her poems, essays, and stories have appeared in Ms. Magazine, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Boulevard, Seventeen, and numerous literary magazines and anthologies throughout the country. McClanahan has received a Pushcart Prize in Fiction, the Wood Prize from Poetry magazine, and the Carter Prize for the essay from Shenandoah. Her work appears in The Best American Essays 2001, The Best American Poetry 1998, and has been aired on NPR's "The Writer's Almanac," "The Sound of Writing," and "Living on Earth." McClanahan, who earned a PhD and MAT from University of Sourth Carolina and a BA from California State University, currently teaches in the MFA program of Queens University (Charlotte, NC), the Kenyon Review Writers' Workshop, and the Hudson Valley Writers' Center. |
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A writer as well as a scholar, McGovern published two books of poems: A Feast of Flesh (Ashland Poetry Press, 1974) and Fool: Selected Poems (Ashland Poetry Press, 2001). McGovern was co-founder of the Ashland Poetry Press in 1969. With Richard Snyder, McGovern developed the creative writing major at Ashland University, one of the first programs in the country. He succeeded Snyder as chair of the English Department in 1986 and retired from teaching and administrative work on campus in 1999. His poems have appeared in The Nation, Kansas Quarterly, The Hollins Critic, Cleveland Magazine, Christian Century, and in many other journals. |
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Michael Miller's The Joyful Dark is the first book of poems by an accomplished American poet who is currently in the seventh decade of his life. His poems have appeared in such publications as The Kenyon Review, The Sewanee Review, The New Republic, The Southern Review, Ontario Review, and The Yale Review. His short stories have been published in Witness, Confrontation, Kansas Quarterly, and various other journals. His play "Transplants," which won the New England playwriting competition in 1985, was produced by Oldcastle Theatre Company in Bennington, Vermont. Born in New York City in 1940, Michael Miller lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. |
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Born in the state of Delaware, Robert Phillips took undergraduate and graduate degrees at Syracuse University. He has been a professional pianist, artist, and for thirty years was a copywriter and creative director in New York City and German advertising agencies. Phillips is the author or editor of some 30 volumes of poetry, fiction, criticism, and belles lettres and publishes in numerous journals. His honors include a 1996 Enron Teaching Excellence Award, a Pushcart Prize, an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, a New York State Council on the Arts CAPS Grant in Poetry, MacDowell Colony and Yaddo Fellowships, a National Public Radio Syndicated Fiction Project Award, a Syracuse University Arents Pioneer Medal, and Texas Institute of Letters membership. In 1998 he was named a John and Rebecca Moore Scholar at the University of Houston. More recently he has been Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston, where he still teaches. He has a wife, Judith, a son, Graham, and a grandson, Chase. |
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A resident of Tucson, Arizona, Ray is the author of several books of poetry, including Music of Time: Selected and New Poems (The Backwaters Press, 2006), The Death of Sardanapalus and Other Poems of the Iraq Wars (Howling Dog Press, 2004), One Thousand Years: Poems About the Holocaust (Timberline Press, 2004), The Maharani's New Wall (Wesleyan University Press) - nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and Wool Highways (Helicon Nine Editions) - the 1994 winner of the William Carlos Williams Prize from the Poetry Society of America. He is also the author of The Endless Search: A Memoir (Soft Skull Press, 2003). David has been a visiting professor in India, New Zealand and Australia, as well as a teacher of literature and creative writing at American universities and colleges. |
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Rutsala's The Moment's Equation, winner of the 2003 Richard Snyder Publication Prize, was a 2005 National Book Award Finalist. Rutsala is the author of twelve collections of poetry, including The Window, Laments, The Journey Begins, and Little-Known Sports. Among awards for his work are a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA grants, the Juniper Prize, an Oreqon Book Award, two Carolyn Kizer Poetry Prizes, the Duncan Lawrie Prize, a Pushcart Prize, the Akron Poetry Prize, the Northwest Poetry Prize, and a Masters Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission. |
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Marc J. Sheehan has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Council for the Arts (now the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs), and the Hopwood Foundation. His poems have appeared in anthologies from Fine Madness, Passages North, and Milkweed Editions, among others. As a writer for the Lansing Capital Times, he published interviews with such leading writers as Richard Ford, Jim Harrison, and Jane Smiley. His first book of poems, Greatest Hits, was published by New Issues Press (1998). He is communications officer for Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. http://www.marcsheehan.com/ |
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Poet, fiction writer, playwright and longtime professor of English at Ashland University, Snyder served for fifteen years as English department chair. In 1969, with Robert McGovern, he founded the Ashland Poetry Press. |
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Sylvester has published some dozen collections of poetry, including Curses Omens Prayers and War and Lechery-- The Poem (Ashland Poetry Press), and his poems have appeared in such magazines as Chelsea, Fragments, Poetry, Commonweal, and Western Humanities Review. He is a retired Professor of English and Comparative Literature at State University of New York in Buffalo, and has also published fiction, essays, and translations. Curses Omens Prayers |
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Maria Terrone, author of The Bodies We Were Loaned (Word Works, 2002), is co-recipient of the McGovern Prize from Ashland Poetry Press for A Secret Room in Fall, 2006. Her work, which has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, has won several national prizes and has appeared in such magazines as Poetry, The Hudson Review, Crab Orchard Review, Atlanta Review, and Notre Dame Review. Her poetry also appears in several anthologies, including The Heart of Autumn (Beacon Press), The Poets’ Grimm: 20th Century Poems From Grimm Fairy Tales (Story Line Press), and The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture (The Feminist Press). Terrone recently received an Individual Artists Award from the Queens Council on the Arts. A life-long New Yorker, Terrone is Assistant Vice President for Communications at Queens College of the City University of New York. |
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Turco is a leading American poet and the author of what may be the definitive work on poetic form, The New Book of Forms (New England, 2000) . A professor of English and director of the Program in Writing Arts at State University of New York College at Oswego, the author published his first collection of poems in 1960 and has followed that with sixteen other volumes and chapbooks of poetry. He is also the author of six nonfiction books including a critical study of American poetry that includes, among other concerns, a definition of professional and amateur poetry, feminism, modernism, black poetry, and the influence of Walt Whitman. The Public Poet: Five Lectures on the Art and Craft of Poetry |
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Alberta Turner was born in New York City and graduated from Hunter College, Wellesley College, and the Ohio State University. She was a 1985 winner of the Cleveland Arts Prize. Turner was an editor at Field Magazine and the author of eight books of poetry. She also edited To Make a Poem and 50 Contemporary Poets: The Creative Process (New York: McCay). Over a period of thirty years, she published in Canadian, British, and American magazines. In 1990, Turner retired as a professor from Cleveland State University at the age of 70. Her last book of poems, Tomorrow Is a Tight Fist, was published in 2001. She died in 2003 at her home in Oberlin, Ohio. |
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Helen Pruitt Wallace's first collection of poems, Shimming the Glass House, was the winner of the 2007 Richard Snyder Prize and recipient of the 2008 Bronze Medal in the Florida Book Awards. Co-editor of the anthology Isle of Flowers published by Anhinga Press, Wallace has published poems in The Literary Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Cumberland Review, Nimrod International, Tampa Review, and other journals. She’s received a McKay Shaw Academy of American Poets Award, The dA Center for the Arts Poetry Award, a residency fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. |
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Kathryn Winograd's Air into Breath (Ashland Poetry Press, 2002) won the 2003 Colorado Book Award in Poetry. Kathryn Winograd holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Denver. She has been the recipient of a Colorado Artist Fellowship in Poetry and a Rocky Mountain Women's Institute Fellowship. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, among them The New Yorker, TriQuarterly, The Denver Quarterly, The Ohio Review, and The Journal. A previous version of Air into Breath was a runner-up for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Her work has been anthologized in the 1995/1996 Anthology of Magazine Verse, Yearbook of American Poetry and in Wild Song, an anthology by Wilderness magazine published by the University of Georgia Press. She also writes children's poetry, stories and creative nonfiction essays. Kathryn is a faculty member of Ashland University's low-residency MFA program. |
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Scott Withiam lives on Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. He teaches writing and literature at Vermont College's Adult Degree Program and at Western New England College. He formerly co-edited The Onset Review. His poems have appeared in such magazines as The Beloit Poetry Journal, Ploughshares, Field, The Sun, Massachusetts Review, Third Coast, Sycamore Review, Puerto Del Sol, Harvard Review, and The Notre Dame Review. He was the 1997 winner of The Sandhills Review's Ronald H. Bayes Poetry Prize, the 1998 winner of New England Writer's Robert Penn Warren Award, the 2001 winner of the Two Rivers Review Poetry Prize, and co-winner of Inkwell Magazine's 2002 Poetry Competition. |
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Harold Witt has been published in a wide variety of periodicals, anthologies, and texts and books of his own, among them the anthologies Some Haystacks Don't Even Have Any Needle, Erotic Poetry, The New Yorker Book of Poems, and Our Only Hope is Humor, published by this press. He is the winner of the Hopwood Award for Poetry, the James D. Phelan Award for narrative poetry, a San Francisco Poetry Center Award for poetic drama, and The Poetry Society of America's Emily Dickinson Award. |
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Wright was educated at Seattle University, Universidad de Chile, Universidad Catolica de Chile, University of Washington and Syracuse University, from which she holds the Doctor of Arts in English and Creative Writing. She is the author of three collections of poetry, four chapbooks, and three volumes of poetry in translation (from Spanish and Bengali). Her most recent collection, Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire (Lynx House Press, 2000), won the Blue Lynx Prize, the Oklahoma Book Award in Poetry, and an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. For the last several years, she has held visiting professorships of creative writing at Emory University, the University of Wyoming, the University of Miami, Oklahoma State University, the University of Central Oklahoma, the College of Wooster, and the University of Oklahoma. |
