Gail Radley writes for children from preschool age through young adult. Mainly fiction, her work includes several novels, picture books, short stories and a poetry anthology. Several have received recognition: Odd Man Out, a novel, (Macmillan, 1995): Junior Library Guild selection, Young Hoosier Award nominee. The Golden Days, a novel,(Macmillan 1991, Penguin 1992): Highest Honor … Continued
Diane Lindsey Reeves is an author whose work focuses on helping people of all ages figure out what they want to be when they grow up. She is the author of over 50 books including the award-winning Career Ideas for Kids series (published by Facts on File). Her company, Bright Futures Press, offers Career Day … Continued
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.
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.”
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
(1854-1931) Political cartoonist, writer, children’s book illustrator. “Toby Tyler,” lived in Saint George in the late 1800s.