Catie Rosemurgy’s work has appeared in such places as Ploughshares, Michigan Quarterly Review, Verse, Poetry Northwest, and Cream City Review. Her poems have also been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 1997 and American Poetry the Next Generation, from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her first poetry collection, My Favorite Apocalypse, was published in June 2001 … Continued
(1931-2006) Patricia Robinson was born Patricia Ann McKenna, in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1931. She taught in the writing program of Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York. Robinson died in Missoula, Montana, in 2006.
Thaddeus Rutkowski grew up in central Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Cornell University and The Johns Hopkins University. He has been the fiction and nonfiction editor of the literary journal Many Mountains Moving since 2007. He teaches literature at City University of New York and fiction writing at the Writer’s Voice of the West … Continued
Liz Rosenberg was born in Glen Cove, New York, and has lived in Binghamton, New York, for the past 25 years, where she is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Binghamton University. She earned her B.A. from Bennington, M.A. from Johns Hopkins, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Binghamton. Her first book … Continued
Bertha Rogers’s poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Nimrod, Pivot, Barrow Street, Confluence, Calapooya Collage, Midwest Quarterly Review, Many Mountains Moving, Negative Capability, and Yankee. Her awards include residence fellowships from the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers (Scotland); the MacDowell Colony, Inc; the Millay Colony for Artists, two Pushcart … Continued
Larry Rapant is a mentor at Empire State College, has published four books of poetry to date and has published in many American literary magazines. He lives in Voorheesville, New York, and often performs his poetry with musical accompaniment or “soundscapes.”
(1854-1931) Political cartoonist, writer, children’s book illustrator. “Toby Tyler,” lived in Saint George in the late 1800s.
(1807-1861) Writer, educator, editor. “The Anglo African,” was an abolitionist instrumental in establishing a weekly black newspaper and a school for black children in Jamaica; he lived on Douglas Avenue.
(1879-1935) Journalist. Will Rogers wrote for “The New York Times,” and lived on Austin Street, Forest Hills, in the early 1920s. Many of his writings have been collected in several books.