Boria Sax holds a doctorate in German and Intellectual History from SUNY Buffalo. His publications include books of scholarship, poetry, reference, translation, memoirs, and other genres. Two of the scholarly books have been named to list of “outstanding academic titles of the year” compiled by the journal Choice: Animals and the Third Reich: Pets, Scapegoats, … 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.”
Shirley Powell was born in Ohio and moved to New York City in 1971, during the Women’s Movement. She coordinated a feminist reading group at New York University in the early 70’s and compiled an anthology of their poetry: Womansong, published by The Poet’s Press. After her novel Running Wild was published by Avon Books … Continued
Marty Podskoch is a retired teacher and the author of three fire tower books: Fire Towers of the Catskills: Their History and Lore, Adirondack Fire Towers: Their History and Lore, the Southern Districts, and Adirondack Fire Towers: Their History and Lore, the Northern Districts and Adirondack Stories. Marty also writes a weekly newspaper column, “Adirondack … Continued
An NEA literature grant recipient for his short fiction, Pelton has been a fixture on the Buffalo, New York, literary scene for over a decade, where his readings — funny, scandalous, and always entertaining — are the stuff of local legend. His stories have appeared in Fiction International, Gulf Coast, New Delta Review, and numerous … Continued
Lynn Domina is the author of a collection of poetry, Corporal Works, which won the Intro Series Prize from Four Way Books. The book was selected for the prize by Stephen Dobyns. She is also the author of a reference book, Understanding A Raisin in the Sun, from Greenwood Press. Her more recent poems appear … Continued
George Drew was born in Mississippi and raised there and in New York State, where he currently lives. Toads in a Poisoned Tank, his first book, was published in 1986, and a chapbook, So Many Bones (Poems of Russia), in 1997 by a Russian press, in a bilingual edition. A second collection, The Horse’s Name … Continued
Martin Willitts Jr is a retired Librarian living in Syracuse, New York. He currently evaluates Prior Learning Evaluations for SUNY Empire State College. He is a visual artist of Victorian and Chinese paper cutouts. He was nominated for 11 Pushcart and 12 Best of the Net awards. He provided his hands-on workshop “How to Make … Continued