Ruth Thompson
Aug01

Ruth Thompson

I grew up near Berkeley, California; went to Stanford and then to Indiana University for a PhD in American literature. I was a university professor, librarian, editor, yoga teacher, and college dean in Los Angeles. After a long hiatus I began writing poetry again in 2001. Today I write and teach yoga and meditation near Buffalo, New York and in Hilo, Hawaii, where I live with writer-anthropologist Don MItchell. My book manuscript,...

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Leslie Ullman
Aug01

Leslie Ullman

Leslie Ullman is the author of three poetry collections, and her awards include The Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, The Iowa Poetry Prize, and two NEA Fellowships. She has taught in the low-residency MFA Program at Vermont College of the Fine Arts since 1981, and for 27 years she also taught in and directed the Creative Writing Program at University of Texas-El Paso. Now, in addition to her Vermont teaching, she works as a...

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Bethany Vaccaro
Aug01

Bethany Vaccaro

A Rhode Island native, Bethany Vaccarospends her days juggling roles as a philosophy instructor at the University of Rhode Island, a residential counselor at a women’s homeless shelter, and a potter crafting ceramic flower pots and vases to sell at local farmers markets.  With a wide pool of inspiration to draw from, Bethany writes primarily creative nonfiction essays and short magazine pieces.  Her publications run an unusual...

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Susie Verkamp

I am a 63 year old lesbian grandmother who has lived in Northern New Mexico for 22 years. I was born and raised on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, a circumstance that has marked me for life. I have a BA in English Literature and another in Environmental Science. I have done many things to earn my living, but music and writing have keep me alive. I have written a journal for much of my life, and have participated in writing...

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Carolyne Whelan
Aug01

Carolyne Whelan

Carolyne Whelan received her MFA in cross-genre at Chatham University, where she won first finalist for Best Thesis. She was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Sacramento Poetry Center Prize for a Single Poem, and a partial scholarship to the Vermont Studio Center. Her first chapbook, The Glossary of Tania Aebi, will be published by Finishing Line Press in August, 2011. Her work has appeared or is forth-coming in Eclectica, Poetry...

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