Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is a writer, editor, small press publisher, and Turtle Islander. His poems and essays have been published online and in print. He is resident poet at axis of logic.com. He teaches haiku, brush calligraphy, and balancing East-West. Mankh edits the yearly Haiku Calendar and is author/editor of the book Haiku … Continued
A former actress, prolific short-story writer M. M. DeVoe has won, made finalist, or been shortlisted for the following awards: •The 1997 Raymond Carver Short Fiction Competition •PRISM: international 1999 Short Fiction Competition •Phoebe’s 2001 Short Story Contest •The Lyric’s 1990 National Poetry Contest •nowCulture.com’s 1998 Annual Poetry Contest •H. E. Francis Short Story Competition … Continued
(1931-2011) Author. Budd Hopkins was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, and died in Manhattan, New York.
(1947-2011) Author. Michael Hart was born in Tacoma, Washington, and died in Urbana, Illinois. He is credited with creating the first e-book and the founder of Project Gutenberg.
Karen Malpede (playwright/director/co-producer) is author of 15 plays produced in the United States, Europe and Australia, as well as short fiction, and essays and articles on theater and human rights. Her newest play “Another Life” will be published in The Kenyon Review, Fall 2010; she will direct a staged reading at Dixon Place September 21, … Continued
Gloria Vando’s most recent collection, Woven Voices: Three Generations of Puertorriqueña Poets Look at Their American Lives with Anita Velez-Mitchell and Anika Paris (2012, Scapegoat Press). Shadows & Supposes (Arte Público Press), won the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award and the Latino Literary Hall of Fame’s Poetry Book Award. She is … Continued
Djelloul Marbrook’s first poetry book, Far from Algiers (2008, Kent State University Press) won the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and the 2010 International Book Award in poetry and has been reviewed by Prairie Schooner, Literal Latté, Rattle, The Linchpin, and Boxcar Poetry. His second book of poems, Brushstrokes and Glances (2010, Deerbrook … Continued
Lesley retired from her life as a professor of psychology and reclaimed her country roots by moving to a small cottage in the Butternut River Valley in upstate New York. In the winter she migrates to old Florida—cowboys, scrub palmetto, and open fields of grazing cattle, a place where spurs still jingle in the post … Continued
(1908-2010) Writer. Jane Sherman was born in Beloit, Wisconsin, and died in Englewood, New Jersey. She was known as a dancer and a writer of American dance. She and her family moved to New York City when she was a child.
Richard Reinhardt is a journalist and novelist. He is a long-time resident of San Francisco, California, and author of many articles and books on California history, state and local politics, and environmental issues.