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Carleton Mabee

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(1914-2014) Biographer. Carleton Mabee was born in Shanghai, China, and died in Gardiner, New York. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Samuel F. B. Morse.

Shirley Walton Fischler

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(1940-2014) Writer. Shirley Walton Fischler was born in Fernandina Beach, Florida, and died in Manhattan, New York. Her husband was Stan Fischler, a sportswriter, with whom she wrote many books. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Columbia University and then worked at New York University.

Mildred Marie Barker

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(1916-2011) Writer. Mildred Marie Barker was born in Pasadena, California, and died in Lake Katrine, New York. She was widely-published, her work having appeared in many magazines, including Ms., Nimrod, and The International Journal of Prose and Poetry, and in such anthologies as, If I Had A Hammer (Papier Mache Press). She was the fiction … Continued

Janine Pommy Vega

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(1942-2010) Poet. Janine Pommy Vega was a poet associated with the Beats. She lived in Willow, New York. She was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and died in Willow, New York.

Donald Lev

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Donald Lev, born 1936, lives in High Falls, New York, where he continues to publish HOME PLANET NEWS, the newsprint literary review he & his late wife the poet Enid Dame, founded in 1979. He worked in the wire rooms of the DAILY NEWS & the NEW YORK TIMES, drove a taxi cab for 20 … Continued

Will Nixon

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Will Nixon is the author of “Love in the City of Grudges” and “My Late Mother as a Ruffed Grouse,” two full length poetry collections from FootHills Publishing. http://foothillspublishing.com/2010/id53.htm) His earlier chapbooks are “When I Had It Made” from Pudding House Publications and “The Fish Are Laughing” from Pavement Saw Press. Together with Michael Perkins, … Continued

Matthew J Spireng

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Matthew J. Spireng’s book, Out of Body, won the 2004 Bluestem Poetry Award and was published in 2006 by Bluestem Press at Emporia State University. His chapbooks are: Young Farmer; Encounters; Inspiration Point, winner of the 2000 Bright Hill Press Poetry Chapbook Competition; and Just This. His book, What Focus Is, is forthcoming in 2011 … Continued