Amy Holman is the author of the poetry collections, Wrens Fly Through This Opened Window (Somondoco Press, 2010) and Wait For Me, I’m Gone (Dream Horse Press, 2005), which won the 2004 annual chapbook prize. Her guide to colonies, residencies, grants, fellowships and graduate writing programs, An Insider’s Guide to Creative Writing Programs was published … Continued
Mars Hill was born in Arkansas, and grew up in a church that his grandfather founded. At 16, he moved to Chicago, Illinois. He earned a B.S. degree in Architectural Engineering from the University of Illinois, an M.A. in African, and African-American Studies and a D.A. in Humanistic Studies from the State University of New … Continued
(1936-2021) Poet. Robert Hershon published more than a dozen books of poems and his work appeared in such publications as The Nation, The New York Times, American Poetry Review, and New American Writing, as well as many anthologies. Mr. Hershon won two writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and three from the … Continued
Janet Hamill was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. She received her B.A. in English from Rowan University and spent many years living in New York City and travelling in the United States, Europe and Africa before moving with her husband to Orange County, New York. She is a full-time writer and recipient of the … 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
Akua Lezli Hope has won two Artists Fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (1987, 2003), a Ragdale United States-Africa Fellowship (1993), and a Creative Writing Fellowship from The National Endowment For The Arts (1990). She received an Artists Crossroads grant (2003) from The Arts of the Southern Finger Lakes for her project … Continued
(1889-1968) Writer, novelist, lecturer. Fannie Hurst was born in Hamilton, Ohio, and educated at Washington University. She lived in Manhattan, New York, at the Hotel des Artistes.
(1891-1960) African American fiction writer, novelist. Born in Alabama in 1891, Zora Neale Hurston was educated at Howard University and at Barnard College, specializing in folklore and anthropology, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1936. She co-founded the magazine “Fire” with Langston Hughes. She lived in Manhattan, New York. In 2003 the United States … Continued
(1755 or 1757-1804) Writer, politician. Alexander Hamilton lived in Manhattan, New York. Along with John Jay and James Madison, Mr. Hamilton wrote a collection of 85 essays called “The Federalist Papers” (1787-88), which were published under the pseudonym “Publius.” Mr. Hamilton initiated the series of essays with the intention of persuading New York to approve … Continued