Letter: R

FRAZIER RUSSELL is Assistant Director and a core faculty member of The Writers Studio, a private school for writers located in Manhattan, and recently profiled in Poets & Writers Magazine. He has given readings, and conducted workshops, at numerous venues, including Lincoln Center, Cleveland State University, The Knitting Factory, and the St. Mark’s Poetry Project. … Continued

Ellen Rocco has organized and produced the station’s Readers & Writers on the Air series since its inception in 1993. She also serves as on-air host. Ellen has been station manager since 1980. During the past 20 years, she has served as a NYSCA panelist, as a New York Council for the Humanities Board member, … Continued

Carol Rosenfeld is a New York City-based poet, writer, and aspiring performance artist. She is the author of two self-published chapbooks, Poems I Can’t Show My Mother and Poems That Will Never Make the Norton Anthology. Her poem “Dyke-otomy” will appear in the forthcoming Poetry Nation, edited by Regie Cabico. She is currently working on … Continued

Vittoria Repetto is the Vice-President/ Co-Founder of the Italian American Writers Association, Inc.. She has been published in Mudfish, The Paterson Literary Review, Italian Americana, VIA (Voices in Italian Americana),Gertude, Amethyst, Lips, Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry, Curaggia: Writings by Women of Italian Descent, Identity Lessons: Learning American Style and Hey Paesan! … Continued

THAD RUTKOWSKI: Thad’s fiction was nominated for a 1998 Pushcart Prize. His novel, Roughouse, will be published in the spring of 1999 by Kaya Productions in New York.

J. D. Rage is a self-published poet and novelist. She is also an editor of Venom Press and the magazine Curare.

Barbara Raab, Co-chair and co-curator of In Our Own Write, is a network news television producer and a freelance contributor to entertainment television shows. She also contributes articles and short book reviews to magazines including OUT, USA Today, and Chicago Magazine. She is a past board member and chapter president of the National Lesbian and … Continued