Seth AbramsonA trial attorney for the New Hampshire Public Defender, Seth Abramson is a 2001 graduate of Harvard Law School. His poems have appeared in a number of journals, including Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, Texas Review, New Orleans Review, Denver Quarterly, Antietam Review and Pleiades. Email: Seth Abramson
Kim Addonizio
Kim Addonizio is the author of three collections of poetry from BOA Editions: The Philosopher's Club, Jimmy & Rita, and Tell Me, which was a Finalist for the 2000 National Book Award.
Her collection of stories, In the Box Called Pleasure, was published by Fiction Collective 2. With Dorianne Laux, she co-authored The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures ofWriting Poetry (W.W. Norton). She recently co-edited an anthology of writing about tattoos, Dorothy Parker's Elbow, coming in October 2002 from Warner Books. Her work has received two NEA Fellowships and other awards, and has appeared in various zines, literary journals, and anthologies. Her work may be accessed online at http://addonizio.home.mindspring.com.
Kelli Russell Agodon
Kelli Russell Agodon is the author of Geography, winner of the 2003 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Prize. Her poems have appeared in the North American Review, Seattle Review, Crab Creek Review, Calyx, Rattapallax, River Oak Review, Parnassus, Byline, blink, the print version of Poets Against the War edited by Sam Hamill (Nation Books) and other national literary journals and anthologies.
She is a graduate of the University of Washington and lives in a small seaside community with her husband and daughter. Her first full collection of poems entitled &147;Small Knots&148; will be published in the summer of 2004 by Cherry Grove Collections.
To read more of her work, visit her website or write to Kelli Russell Agodon
Karen Alkalay-Gut
Karen Alkalay-Gut teaches poetry at Tel Aviv University. She has also launched her career as an artist with an installation about body sculpture that coincides with the completion of her tenth book of poetry, "The Love of Clothes and Nakedness." Living in Israel and publishing in a language foreign to most of the inhabitants, she has found various strategies of coping – founding the Israel Association of Writers in English, making friends with Hebrew translators (who are responsible for the publication of three books), working with other media such as music and art, and enjoying the Internet as a window to the world.
A variation of "Love Soup" appeared originally in Prairie Schooner where it won the Readers’ Choice Award in 1994. It was also published in Recipes: Love Soup and Other Poems (Tel Aviv: Golan, 1994). "Ways to Love" won a commendation at the Arvon Competition in 1994 and appeared in Harmonies/Disharmonies (Tel Aviv: Etc, 1994). "Sleeves" appeared in The American Voice. "Cover Me," which was first published in Recipes: Love Soup and Other Poems (Tel Aviv: Golan, 1994} is also available as a t-shirt from Flying Camel Press in Toronto, "Slipper" was published in Lips. "Summer 1990" first appeared in Home Planet News Recipes: Love Soup and Other Poems (Tel Aviv: Golan, 1994)
Email: Karen Alkalay-Gut Web Site: Karen Alkalay-Gut
George Amabile
George Amabile has published in The USA, Canada, Europe, South America, Australia and New Zealand in over a hundred anthologies, magazines, journals and periodicals including The Young American Poets, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, The New Yorker Book of Poems, Saturday Night, The New Yorker, Harper's, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Poetry Australia, Sur (Buenos Aires), Poetry Canada Review, Canadian Literature, and Margin (England). He has edited The Far Point, Northern Light and has published seven books.
The Presence of Fire (McClelland & Stewart, 1982), won the CAA National Prize for literature, his long poem, Durée, placed third in the CBC Literary Competition for 1991, "Popular Crime" won first prize in the Sidney Booktown International Poetry Contest in February, 2000 and he is the subject of a special issue of Prairie Fire, (Vol.21, No.1, May 2000). His most recent publication is Rumours of Paradise / Rumours of War (McClelland and Stewart, 1995).
Email: George Amabile
Jan Lee Ande
Jan Lee Ande comes from a long line of Anglican clergy, was initiated into Tibetan Buddhism by Kalu Rinpoche, and later joined a Roman Catholic community. Besides an M.A. in Asian Studies and a Ph.D. in history of consciousness, she has an M.F.A. in poetry from San Diego State University. Ande’s first book, Instructions for Walking on Water, won the 2000 Snyder Prize from Ashland Poetry Press. Her second book, Reliquary, won the 2002 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize from Texas Review Press. Pigs & Fishes, sixty-four poems inspired by the ancient Chinese I Ching, is in submission. Her poems appear in New Letters, Image, Nimrod, Notre Dame Review, Mississippi Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Poetry International and the anthologies Place of Passage (Story Line Press) and Jubilation (Beat Books). She teaches poetry, poetics, and history of religions at Union Institute & University. Ande is from the Pacific Northwest. You can view more of her work here
from Instructions for Walking on Water (Ashland Poetry Press, 2001)
from Reliquary, (Texas Review Press, 2003)
from Pigs & Fishes (ms in submission)
Tim BellowsTim Bellows is a poet, writer, and teacher – devoted to wildland and the simplicity of inner travel and Mozart’s notion about “Love, love, love” as “the soul of genius." Tim has taught college writing for over sixteen years. He graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has seen publication of poems in many journals – and in A Racing Up the Sky (Eclectic Press), Wild Stars (Starry Puddle Press), and Desert Wood (University of Nevada Press). *** If you’d like Tim’s free Lightship E-Newsletter of tips for creative writers contact him at Email: Tim Bellows
Janet Bernichon
A registered nurse on Long Island, NY, Janet Bernichon's poetry and short stories have appeared in Blue Unicorn, Potpourri, The Lyric, Olympia Review, Bogg, Amelia, and others. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Janet has published two chapbooks with God's Bar Press: Part of the Scenery and It's a Man's World and is anthologized in Between the Heartbeats: Poetry and Prose by Nurses (University of Iowa Press).
More of her work can be found on her home page, Portraits.
Cindy BosleyCindy Bosley teaches literature and writing at Owens Community College in Toledo, Ohio. She has published poems in North American Review, American Literary Review, Willow Springs, Flyway Literary Review, Midwest Quarterly, South Florida Poetry Review, Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry, and Passages North. She was born and raised in southeast Iowa. Email: Cindy Bosley
Julie Carter
"I live in Ohio with my husband, who is the unwilling inspiration for much of my poetry.
As a network administrator for a small company, I spend most of my time staring at computer screens; I’ve dedicated myself to filling them with sonnets. When not writing, I am involved in home restoration and cat rescue."
Han-hua ChangA researcher in the field of educational technology, Han-hua Chang is also a member of the Overlook Terrace Poets, a group of poets in the New York Metropolitan area. He has a certificate that states: "He already has the ability to write, but he must put this to work. The main idea is for him to sit down and treat his skill as something recreational and not as a chore." It was issued by his daughter, Beverly. More of Mr. Chang's work can be found at his home page.
Sylvia Chong
Sylvia Chong is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Stanford University (Bachelor's and Master's respectively) and until June 1997, was a high school English teacher in a public school in San Francisco.
She plans to go back to graduate school soon in Literature and get re-inspired by great works of art.
More of Ms. Chong's poetry can be found at Sylvia Chong: Another Woman's Love Story.
Terese Coe
Terese Coe's poems and translations from Ronsard and Rilke have appeared or will soon appear in The Formalist, Verse Daily, Leviathan Quarterly (UK), The Edge City Review, The New Formalist, The HyperTexts, Electric Acorn and other journals and e-zines.
She has received two grants from Giorno Poetry Systems, and more of her work is on long-term exhibit at The New Formalist and The Hypertexts.
Anne Agnes Colwell
Anne Agnes Colwell has received the Delaware State Arts Council's Experienced Artist Fellowship.
Her work has appeared in many journals including, most recently Kalliope, Connecticut Review, Branches Quarterly, Central California Quarterly, Eclectic Literary Forum, California Quarterly, The Evansville Review, Phoebe, Midwest Quarterly, Dominion Review, and Southern Poetry Review. Her book, Inscrutable Houses: Metaphors of the Body in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop, was published by the University of Alabama Press in 1997. She is currently an Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware.
Email: Anne Agnes Colwell
Alison Croggon
Alison Croggon's first book of poems, This is the Stone, was published in 1991 by Penguin Books and won the Anne Elder and Dame Mary Gilmore Prizes for best first collection that year. Her first novel Navigatio was highly commended in the 1995 Australian/Vogel national literary awards and was published by Black Pepper Press in 1996. Her second book of poems, The Blue Gate, was released in 1997 and was shortlisted for the 1998 C.J. Dennis Prize for Poetry in the Victorian Premier¹s Literary Awards. Her third collection will be published by Black Pepper in 2000 and a selected volume of her work will be released by Arc Books in the UK in 2001.
She has written two operas, The Burrow and Gauguin, with the highly regarded Sydney composer Michael Smetanin, and has received funding for their third, The White Army. Her performed work for theatre includes The Burrow (Perth Festival, Sydney, Melbourne 1994-95 and broadcast by ABC Radio), Lenz (Melbourne Festival 1996), Rules of Thumb (Red Shed Company, Adelaide 1997 and ABC Radio 1998) and Confidentially Yours (Playbox Theatre 1998). She was poetry editor for Overland Extra (1992), Modern Writing (1992-1994) and Voices (1996). Her critical work has appeared in The Bulletin, The Age, Quadrant, Voices and on ABC radio and television. She is founding editor of Masthead literary arts magazine. Email: Alison Croggon
