Heather McNaugher is an American poet.
She has been an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Chatham University since 2006 and poetry editor of The Fourth River .
McNaugher has published poems in many literary magazines and earned her PhD at Binghamton University.
Stephanie Bolster is a Canadian poet and professor of creative writing at Concordia University, Montreal.
A chapbook is a small publication of up to about 40 pages, sometimes bound with a saddle stitch.
Campbell McGrath is an American poet. He is the author of nine full-length collections of poetry, including Seven Notebooks, Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys, and XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century, for which McGrath was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
Lewis Putnam Turco is an American poet, teacher, and writer of fiction and non-fiction. Turco is an advocate for Formalist poetry in the United States.
Kwame Senu Neville Dawes is a Ghanaian poet, actor, editor, critic, musician, and former Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina. He is now Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and editor-in-chief at Prairie Schooner magazine.
Bryan Thao Worra is a Laotian American writer. His books include On The Other Side Of The Eye, Touching Detonations, Winter Ink, Barrow and The Tuk Tuk Diaries: My Dinner With Cluster Bombs. He is the first Laotian American to receive a Fellowship in Literature from the United States government's National Endowment for the Arts. He received the Asian Pacific Leadership Award from the State Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans for Leadership in the Arts in 2009. He received the Science Fiction Poetry Association Elgin Award for Book of the Year in 2014. He was selected as a Cultural Olympian representing Laos during the 2012 London Summer Olympics. He is the first Asian American president of the international Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, and the first Laotian American member of the professional Horror Writers Association.
Medbh McGuckian is a poet from Northern Ireland.
Sandra Alland is a Glasgow-based Scottish-Canadian writer, interdisciplinary artist, small press publisher, performer, filmmaker, and curator. Alland's work focuses on social justice, language, humour, and experimental forms.
Ken Bolton is an Australian poet. He was born in Sydney and studied fine arts at the University of Sydney, where he also tutored. In the late 70s he edited the poetry magazine Magic Sam and began the small press Sea Cruise Books with Anna Couani. His first book of poems, Four Poems, was published in 1977. In 1982 he moved to Adelaide to work at the Experimental Art Foundation.
Rattle is a quarterly poetry magazine founded in 1994, published in Los Angeles in the United States.
Elizabeth Treadwell is an American poet. Her works include LILYFOIL + 3, Chantry, Birds & Fancies, Wardolly, Virginia or the mud-flap girl, and Posy: a charm almanack & atlas.
Adrian Blevins is an American poet. Author of three collections of poetry, her most recent is Appalachians Run Amok, winner of the 2016 Wilder Prize. Her other full-length poetry collections are Live from the Homesick Jamboree and The Brass Girl Brouhaha. With Karen McElmurray, Blevins recently co-edited Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean: Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia, a collection of essays of new and emerging Appalachian poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. Her chapbooks are Bloodline and The Man Who Went Out for Cigarettes, which won the first of Bright Hill Press's chapbook contests..
Mary Jo Bang is an American poet.
William Stobb is an American poet and professor. He is the author of the National Poetry Series selection, Nervous Systems, Absentia, and You Are Still Alive as well as three chapbooks.
Larry D. Thomas is an American poet. He was the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate, and in 2009 was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters.
Pamela Harrison is an American poet and educator. She is the author of six poetry collections, most recently, What to Make of It. Her poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including Poetry, Beloit Poetry Journal, Georgia Review, Green Mountains Review, Cimarron Review, and Yankee Magazine. Her honors include fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Vermont Studio Center, as well as the PEN Northern New England Discovery Poet Award.
Michael Brennan is an Australian poet. He is editor of the Australian sector of Poetry International Web and is the co-founder of publisher Vagabond Press.
Katie Farris is an American poet, fiction writer, translator, academic and editor.
Maureen Seaton is an American LGBTQ poet, activist, and professor of English/Creative Writing at the University of Miami. She is the author of fourteen solo books of poetry, thirteen co-authored books of poetry, and her memoir, Sex Talks to Girls. Throughout her writing career, Seaton has often collaborated with fellow poets Denise Duhamel, Neil de la Flor, Kristine Snodgrass, and Samuel Ace.
John Mee is a Canadian-Irish poet and law academic currently lecturing at University College Cork. In 2015, Mee won the Patrick Kavanaugh award and the Fool for Poetry Chapbook in 2016. His work has been published in magazines such as Magma, The London Magazine, The North, The Cork Literary Review, Big Wide Words, Poetry on the Buses (London), THE SHOp, Cyphers, Southword, The Rialto and Prelude. Mee has also been published by the Irish Examiner and The Quarryman.
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