Mermer Blakeslee has published two novels, Same Blood and In Dark Water. In Dark Water was selected by Barnes and Noble for its Discover Great New Writers series. Mermer was awarded three New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in fiction, the most recent in 2008. An excerpt from Digger’s God, her latest novel, won … Continued
Will Nixon is the author of “Love in the City of Grudges” and “My Late Mother as a Ruffed Grouse,” two full length poetry collections from FootHills Publishing. http://foothillspublishing.com/2010/id53.htm) His earlier chapbooks are “When I Had It Made” from Pudding House Publications and “The Fish Are Laughing” from Pavement Saw Press. Together with Michael Perkins, … Continued
Matthew J. Spireng’s book, Out of Body, won the 2004 Bluestem Poetry Award and was published in 2006 by Bluestem Press at Emporia State University. His chapbooks are: Young Farmer; Encounters; Inspiration Point, winner of the 2000 Bright Hill Press Poetry Chapbook Competition; and Just This. His book, What Focus Is, is forthcoming in 2011 … Continued
Margo Taft Stever’s collection of poetry, Frozen Spring (2002), was the winner of the Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry. Her chapbook, Reading the Night Sky (Introduction by Denise Levertov), won the 1996 Riverstone Poetry Chapbook Competition. She is the founder and current board member of The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center (www.writerscenter.org), and the … Continued
(1912-2010) Writer. Arnold Forster was born in New York City and died in the Bronx, New York.
(1926-2010) Author. James F. Masterson was born in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, and died in Greenwich, Connecticut. He lived in Rye, New York.
(1949-2009) Author. Richard Boes died at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Albany, New York, in 2009.
John F. Roche is an Associate Professor of English at Rochester Institute of Technology, and currently Associate Chair of his department. Dr. Roche advises the award-winning campus literary magazine, Signatures, and teaches a variety of literature and creative writing classes. He earned a PhD from SUNY Buffalo where he studied with Robert Creeley, and an … Continued
(1924-2010) Author. Alexander M. Haig Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a four-star general and had served as secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1982, and as chief of staff under President Richard Nixon.
(1923-2009) Author. Loren Singer was born in Buffalo, New York, and died in Valhalla, New York. He was the author of “The Parallax View.” He lived in Mamaroneck, New York. In the 1950s he began writing for the TV shows “Westinghouse Playhouse,” “Kraft Television Theater” and “Studio One” in New York City.