(1922-2006) Screenwriter. Joseph Stefano was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1922 and moved in the 1940s to New York where he was an entertainer and later was the screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” (1960). His other works include “Eye of the Cat” (1969). Stefano died in Thousand Oaks, California in 2006.
Poet, novelist and essayist, Terese Svoboda’s most recent book is Trailer Girl (Counterpoint Press, 2001), a novel and a collection of short stories. “A full world, fierce, devastate and ultimately exhilerating,” wrote Robert Polito, author of Savage Art. She has also published three books of poetry, one book of translation from the African language, Nuer, … Continued
Elaine Terranova is a winner of the Walt Whitman award, an NEA Fellowship in literature, the Anna Rosenberg Davidson Award, and two Pennsylvania State Council on the Arts grants. Her work has appeared in anthologies (Blood to Remember, The Gift of Tongues) and magazines including The New Yorker, the American Poetry Review, and Prairie Schooner. … Continued
Antonio Vallone is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Penn State DuBois and a member of the Pennsylvania State University graduate faculty. At Penn State DuBois, he’s won Delta Mu Sigma’s Professor of the Year. In 1999, he won the Pennsylvania State University’s George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching. In … Continued
Michael Waters teaches at Salisbury State University on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. His six books include Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum (BOA Editions) & Bountiful (Carnegie Mellon, 1992). BOA will publish New & Selected Poems in 2000. He has edited the 7th Edition of Contemporary American Poetry, due next year from Houghton Mifflin. … Continued
Various pieces by Anne Wilson have appeared in The Bitter Oleander, South Dakota Review, Evansville Review, Oxford Magazine, Weber Studies, Osiris, The Owen Wister Review, Hiram Poetry Review, Runes, The Comstock Review, Rattle, New Millenium Writings, Spillway, The Rio Grande Review, Manzanita, Weber: The Contemporary West, and many others (400 poems and counting.) Anthologies include … Continued
Michele Wolf is the author of Conversations During Sleep (Anhinga Press, 1998, Anhinga Prize for Poetry), which Yusef Komunyakaa called “a logbook of gutsy revelations, transporting us to a territory both ethereal and earthy. We care about the lives that nudge us awake in this dark luminosity, a heartfelt journey we don’t want to miss.” … Continued
Wendy Mnookin’s most recent book of poems is The Moon Makes Its Own Plea, published by BOA Editions in 2008. Her other books are What He Took, To Get Here, and Guenever Speaks. The recipient of an NEA fellowship, Mnookin lives in Newton, Massachusetts, and teaches poetry at Emerson College and at Grub Street, a … Continued
Dick Lourie’s most recent collection (2009), If the Delta Was the Sea, was published by Hanging Loose Press. Lourie is a blues musician as well as a poet, and this book of poems about the Mississippi Delta is the result of his experiences playing music, interviewing local people, and researching history in the small Mississippi … Continued
Larnette Phillips has been self-employed as a full-time author and novelist since 1991. She is also a screenwriter and the owner of her own entertainment company. Larnette has published the novel ‘Seasons’ (love story/romance; published in print and audio); ‘Faces–The Sacred Journey’ (spiritual; print); ‘Sully and Me’ (print) – ‘Sully and Me’ was the winner … Continued