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
Tabetha Dunn is a poet, writer, editor, and film maker. Her poetry has appeared in several dozen literary magazines including Gypsy, The Black Buzzard Review, Soundings East, Voices International, Synaesthetic, Asylum Annual, WomanWise, and The Black Bear Review. Her work has been most recently anthologized in Will Work for Peace: New Political Poems (Zeropanik Press, … Continued
Doug Paugh was born in Binghamton, NY, where he now lives with his wife, Karen and their Siberian Husky, Breaker. He served in the US Navy from 1978 to 1985, working as an SH-3H Helicopter Plane Captain and mechanic on Ground Support Equipment until 1987. He also worked for more than 30 years in the … Continued
Carole Bernstein is the author of Familiar (Hanging Loose Press, 1997) which J. D. McClatchy called “an exhilarating book.” Her chapbook, And Stepped Away from the Circle, won the 1994 Sow’s Ear Chapbook Competition. Bernstein’s poems have appeared in the anthology Unsettling America (Viking, 1994) and in magazines including Antioch Review, Bridges, Chelsea, Poetry, Shenandoah, … Continued
Various pieces by RD Armstrong (Raindog) have appeared in Spillway, Pearl, Unwound, Haight Ashbury Review, Drinking With Bukowski, Art/Life, Genre, The Lummox Journal, bender, Pitchfork, Poetry Motel, Chiron Review, Momentum Magazine and others. His poems are anthologized in “Das Ist Alles,” Pearl Editions 1995; “Last Call: A Legacy of Madness” (also editor), Vinegar Hill Press … Continued