Doris Ferlerger Awarded Fall 2011 Orlando Creative Nonfiction Prize
DORIS FERLERGER is the author of three volumes of poetry, Big Silences in a Year of Rain, When You Become Snow, and As the Moon Has Breath. Winner of the New Letters Poetry Prize, among others, her work has been published in numerous journals including Cimarron Review, the L.A. Review, and the South Carolina Review. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a Ph.D. in psychology from Temple University. Her winning essay,...
Kathleen Savino Awarded Fall 2011 Orlando Poetry Prize
KATHLEEN SAVINO holds an M.F.A. in Fiction from Columbia University. Currently, she is an assistant director of Columbia University’s Writing Center and a writing consultant at Baruch College. She is working on a book, How To Sleep Jackknife, that combines queer history, Goethe’s light theories and a love story, among other things. An excerpt was published in DIAGRAM’s All Essay Spectacular issue. Her winning poem,...
Jamie Amos
Jamie Amos currently studies fiction at the University of New Orleans MFA program. She is the Associate Editor for Bayou Magazine, a regular columnist for NolaFemmes.com, and her work has received honorable mentions in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers and the Orlando Prize in fiction. LAM Fellow.
Martha Andrews Donovan
Martha Andrews Donovan, educated at Williams College (B.A.) and the Bread Loaf School of English (M.A.), has been teaching for twenty-eight years. Her poetry chapbook Dress Her in Silk was published by Finishing Line Press in 2009. A founding member of the Stone Bridge Poetry Project and a professor of writing at New England College, she is currently working on a mixed-genre memoir tentatively titled Dangerous Archaeology: A...
Erin Bad Hand
Poet Erin Bad Hand, Lakota and Eastern Cherokee, deals with issues of multi-cultural identity in her poetry. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in May of 2006. Since then, she has worked with and for not-for-profit organizations in Taos, New Mexico and has taught introductory creative writing courses at UNM-Taos. Erin’s published poems include “Could You Be The Perfect Wife?”...
Does the sea remember everything? I wonder.
Does she absorb everything? Does she keep it safe?
Virginia Woolf
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The Q: Can you fathom the spectacle that would be created if we moved together, arms outstretched, close enough to touch?
The Q: What echoes through you that longs to take form—a poem, an image, a mark, a whisper of becoming?
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