Elaine Bentley Baughn, a Kentucky-born poet living in Norwich, CT, is a psychotherapist, Feng Shui consultant, and believer in magic. She has read her work at Arts Cafe ~ Mystic, the Poet's Asylum, and the Green Mill as well as sundry other art galleries, back rooms, and street corners. She has been published in several journals, among them are Coal: a poetry anthology, High Street, Gone, Thru Spider’s Eyes, Moon Journal, and the Ballard Street Poetry Journal and has had the joy of facilitating poetry workshops for BSPJ. She has no sense of humor whatsoever.
Samuel Biagetti grew up in Maryland. He studied poetry with Peter Gale Nelson and Robert Creeley at Brown University, where he graduated with a degree in history. He currently lives in Providence and is enrolling in the History PhD program at Columbia in the New York.
Kellie Cannon is a writer living in North Carolina with her husband and dog, Wilma. She received her MFA in Creative Writing at Emerson College in Boston, MA. She teaches composition and literature at Coastal Carolina Community College. Her poetry has previously appeared in Tapestry, Kennesaw Review, and WordRiot.
Inara Cedrins is an American artist, writer and translator who went to China in 1998 to learn to paint on silk, and remained for five years to teach writing and lecture on art at universities including Tsinghua University and Peking University in Beijing, as well as to the People's Liberation Army and students at the Central Academy of Fine Art. In 2003 she went to Nepal to study the technique of thangka painting. After the king’s coup d’etat in 2005, she relocated to Riga, Latvia, started a literary agency called The Baltic Edge, and taught Creative Writing at the University of Latvia. Her poems, stories and translations from the Latvian have appeared in The North American Review, Chelsea, Prairie Schooner, The Monongahela Review, The Ledge, The Minnesota Review, xchanges/The University of Iowa, the Massachusetts Review, Kansas Quarterly, The Atlanta Review, New Letters, Circumference, Arabesques, The Antioch Review, Absinthe, Rhino, Beacons and The Chariton Review, among others.
Antonia Clark works for a medical software company in Burlington, Vermont. She has taught creative writing and is currently co-administrator of an online poetry forum, The Waters. Recent poems have appeared in The 2River View, Loch Raven Review, Mannequin Envy, The Pedestal Magazine, Rattle, Stirring, and elsewhere. She loves French food and wine, and plays French café music on a sparkly purple accordion.
Glenn D’Alessio, is a carpenter and adjunct professor at Worcester State College in Worcester, MA. His Natural Science classes are about energy conservation, renewable energy, and more sustainable building. In addition he is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CEEP) at the University of Delaware. His poems have appeared in the Sahara, Sparrow Grass anthologies, Cellar Roots, The Servant Song, Post Road Expressions of the Richard Sugden Library Writers Workshop, and in the Worcester State College newspaper.
Lea C. Deschenes resides in Worcester, MA and holds an MFA in Poetry from New England College. Her poetry has appeared online, on stage and in print (Spillway, Snakeskin, So Luminous the Wildflowers, Ballard Street Poetry Journal, et al.) A former member of four National Poetry Slam teams and a coach to two more, she also dusts off her BA in Theater to perform. She has received a Jacob Knight Award, been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and represented Worcester in the 2005 Individual World Poetry Slam.She is the author of thirteen chapbooks. Her first full-length collection The Constant Velocity of Trains is available through Write Bloody Publishing.
Kristina England was born and raised in Worcester, where she works as a Communications Specialist for a local college. She received an M.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts at Boston in 2005.
Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of four poetry chapbooks, Death of the Frog Prince (2004) and Heartland (2007) from FootHills Publishing, Strangers & Angels (2007) from Scintillating Publications, and the forthcoming The News at 11 from Right Hand Pointing. His poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals. He has been nominated for the Best of the Web anthology and twice for a Pushcart Prize.
Diane Halstead is a graduate of the University of California, David, and of the College of William and Mary. She also has taught numerous college writing courses as well as poetry workshops. Her work has appeared in Chrysalis Reader, Mochila Review, Ride!, The Journal, Elementary, My Dear Watson among others. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Lynx Eye, Carquinez Poetry Review, Gargoyle, Aethlon, The Cape Rock, Drumvoices Review, English Journal, Louisville Review, 13th Moon, and Revisions.
M.J.Iuppa lives on a small farm near the shores of Lake Ontario. Poems forthcoming in The Comstock Review, The Puckerbrush Review, The Hurricane Review, miller’s pond and The Centrifugal Eye; in the upcoming anthologies: From the Other World: Poems in Memory of James Wright, edited by Bruce Hendricksen and Robert Johnson, Lost Hills Books (12/07); Eating the Pure Light, Poems honoring Thomas McGrath, edited by John Bradley, Backwaters Press (2008); The Poets Guide to The Birds, edited by Judith Kitchen and Ted Kooser, Anhinga Press (2008); Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease, edited by Holly Hughes, Kent State UP (2008); a lyrical essay forthcoming in Gulf Coast and a poetry review in Tar River Poetry. In November 2007, she presented a workshop, “Wonder and the Lyric Essay” at Winter Wheat Festival of Writing, at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. She is Writer-in-Residence and Director of the Arts Minor Program at St. John Fisher College.
Cindy Lens was born and raised in the Worcester area, and currently lives in New Hampshire with her husband, her son, and her chocolate lab. She earned a BA in English from University of New Hampshire.
Emily E. Schulten is currently a graduate student in poetry at Georgia State University, and teaches English at Griffin Technical College. She received her BA and MA in creative writing from Western Kentucky University in 2002 and 2004, respectively.
Ann Walters lives in the Pacific Northwest. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Poet Lore, Cider Press Review, Poetry International, Ballard Street Poetry Journal, Orbis, and many others. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was a shortlist finalist in the 2007 LICHEN Tracking, a Serial Poet competition.
Christian Ward is a 27 year old London based poet who has just finished a degree in English Literature & Creative Writing from Roehampton University, London. His poetry has appeared in journals such as Cider Press Review, Poetry Salzburg Review and is forthcoming in the Kenyon Review.
Angela Veronica Wong has appeared in Barrow Street, Court Green, and Women Studies Quarterly.
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