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Eloise Klein Healy is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Passing and The Islands Project: Poems for Sappho (Red Hen Press). Her work has been widely anthologized, and she has received many awards, including the grants from the California Arts Council and residencies at The MacDowell Colony. She is the Founding Chair of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles, where she is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing Emerita. She is the co-founder of ECO-ARTS, an ecotourism/arts venture, and her imprint with Red Hen Press, Arktoi Books, was established in 2006 and specializes in publishing the work of lesbian authors. 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, author of three chapbooks of poetry– Moon Country (Pudding House 2006), The House My Father Could Not Build (Pudding House, 2007) and Mantra of the Born-free (Pudding House, 2007). He is an associate editor of international poetry anthology, Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami (Rupa Publication, India and Bayeux Arts, Canada). Sankar's poems have appeared or forthcoming in over forty literary journals including Bitter Oleander, Crab Orchard Review, Connecticut Review, Harpur Palate, Icon, Runes, Rhino and Poetry Magazine. His recent project is creating a multimedia website (www.writersalliance.net ) against the genocide in Darfur. He is a co-founder of Poets for Humanity (www.poetsforhumanity.com ).
R.D. Coleman is a writer and photographer and lives in New York City. He has recently published poetry in Envoi, poetrymonthly, Acumen, Pemmican, Midwestern University Quarterly, and Freedomways. He has taught English at San Francisco State College and Malcolm/King College. He has been a union organizer, a welfare worker, a gang worker, and a director of homeless shelters. Naomi Glassman writes from New Jersey, mainly in the company of her cat. Rachel Kellum's poems have appeared in Barnwood Magazine, The Nieve Roja Review and Greyrock Review. Two of her creative non-fiction pieces--childbirth narratives that resist and revise the technocratic language of birth-- are featured in the book, Journey into Motherhood. An Illinois native, Kellum has lived in Colorado for fourteen years and currently teaches writing, literature, humanities, and oil painting at Morgan Community College where the plains have curiously claimed her again. Jackie Bernardo is a Journalism student from California. Her work has most recently appeared in Farmhouse Magazine, Flask and Pen and the Gnostic Mag. Jennifer Campbell is an English professor in Buffalo, NY. Her poems have appeared in Feile- Festa, Literary House, Hudson View Poetry Digest, and Skyline Magazine. Her work also appears in two anthologies titled Mourning Sickness and Letterhead. She is co-editor of Earth’s Daughters feminist literary journal, and in 2007 she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Skyline Magazine. Glenn Sheldon is the author of the critical monograph, South of Our Selves (McFarland). Originally from Salem, Massachusetts, Sheldon considers the Midwest his adoptive home. Currently, he lives in Toledo, Ohio, where he is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary and Special Programs at The University of Toledo. His favorite course to teach is “Food and Eating in U.S. Culture”; and, his favorite critical subject is North Dakota poet Thomas McGrath. His first full-length poetry book, Bird Scarer, was published by Cervena Barva Press in early 2008. He is the co-founder of New Sins Press, and independent poetry press. Although he lives in the city, there is the occasional hawk who covets the many birds he feeds. Thus, it’s not surprising, even in winter, to find Sheldon clapping his hands in his driveway to scare away a hungry hawk that failed to migrate south. |
