inaugural

David Alpaugh

David Alpaugh has lived in California for 45 years but has yet to lose his New Jersey accent. His collection, Counterpoint, won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize from Story Line Press. He has been a finalist for Poet Laureate of California. His poems have appeared in Evergreen Review, The Formalist, The Hypertexts, Light, Raintown Review, Poetry, and many other journals.

 

Steven Winn

Steven Winn’s work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Florida Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, ZYZZYVA and elsewhere. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and spent 28 years as a critic of arts and culture at the San Francisco Chronicle.

 

 

Heather Hallberg Yanda

Heather Hallberg Yanda teaches in the English Department at Alfred University in the hills of upstate New York. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Sojourners, The White Pelican Review, and The Yale Journal of Medical Humanities among others. Her first collection of poems, The Neighbors’ Beautiful Daughters, is currently looking for a publisher.

 

 

Trina L. Drota

Trina L. Drotar, a San Francisco native currently residing in Sacramento, comes to poetry through prose, art, music, and design. She is working on a collection of prose and poetry, Night Garden, for her MA thesis. She is the current editor of Poetry Now and former editor of Calaveras Station. Her work has appeared on Medusa’s Kitchen and Ophidian, and in WTF, Word Riot, Rattle, and Brevities.

 

 

Peter Austin

Peter Austin lives with his wife and three daughters in Toronto, where he teaches English at Seneca College. He is a New Formalist poet. Over 200 of his poems have appeared in magazines/anthologies in the USA, Canada, the UK, Germany, South Africa, Australia, Israel and New Zealand. As well as poetry, he writes plays, and his musical adaptation of The Wind in the Willows has been produced four times, most recently in Worcester, Massachusetts. His first collection of poems, A Many-Splendored Thing, was published in July 2010.

 

 

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