An Irish native living in Massachusetts, Aine Greaney has published books, short stories and non-fiction essays. In 2000, she was the grand prize winner of the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award. Her work has also been placed, shortlisted or awarded by the Irish News International Short Fiction Awards, the Hennessy New Irish Writers Award, and … Continued
Penny Harter has published sixteen books of poems, six in the last decade. Her work appears in numerous anthologies and magazines worldwide, and her autobiographical essay appears in Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Volume 28 (1998) as well as in Contemporary Authors, Volume 172 (1999). Her essays on the teaching of writing and related subjects have … Continued
(1938-2008) Bill Higginson authored or edited: The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku, which Booklist called “the standard work in the field”, and some 20 other books of poems and other literary works. While best known for his translations from Japanese and commentary on haiku as nature poems, he published three collections … Continued
Diane Lockward is the author of three poetry books, most recently, Temptation by Water. Her previous books are What Feeds Us, which received the 2006 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize, and Eve’s Red Dress. Her poems have been included in such anthologies as Poetry Daily: 360 Poems from the World’s Most Popular Poetry Website and … Continued
Patricia Eakins’s second work of fiction and first novel,The Marvelous Adventures of Pierre Baptiste,Father and Mother, First and Last, was published in 1999 by New York University Press, which awarded it the NYU Press Prize for Fiction. The novel has also been awarded the Capricorn Prize of the Writer’s Voice. Shehas been awarded two creative … Continued
Douglas A. Martin’s first novel, Outline of My Lover, was nominated for the American Library Association’s GLBT Book Award, selected as one of the Top 10 of 2000 on Planet Out, a finalist for a Lambda literary award, and named an International book of the year in the Times Literary Supplement. It has been adapted … Continued
Alice B. Fogel’s most recent book, Be That Empty, was a national poetry bestseller in 2008. Other poetry collections include Elemental and I Love This Dark World. Her manuscript of poems, Interval, based on Bach’s Goldberg Variations, has been a finalist at numerous competitions, including the National Poetry Society, Tupelo, and Copper Canyon. Her poems … Continued
Richard Levine, a retired New York City school teacher, is the author of Richard Levine: Selected Poems (FutureCycle Press, 2019), Contiguous States (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and five chapbooks: The Cadence of Mercy (FLP, 2014) A Tide of a Hundred Mountains (2012 Bright Hill Press Chapbooks Award), That Country’s Soul (FLP, 2010), A Language Full … Continued
Estelle Gilson is a New York based writer and translator. (Member of PEN’s Translation Committee). Her interest as a circuit writer is to read from her translations, to transmit an interest in the art of translation and to encourage readers who may have favorite literary works in foreign languages to think seriously of translating those … Continued
In 1997-98, Michael Czarnecki worked in 18 schools as a poet-in-residence, New York and Iowa. Workshops – In 1995-97, Czarnecki conducted various workshops for youth and adults at libraries, literary centers, art galleries and museums with such topics as: “Poetry From the Visual Arts,” “Writing From the Heart Out,” “Your Indigenous Voice,” “Spontaneous Creativity,” among … Continued