Bios

Carol Lynn Grellas

Carol Lynn Grellas is a three-time Pushcart nominee and the author of A Thousand Tiny Sorrows, soon to be released from March Street Press and two chapbooks: Litany of Finger Prayers,  Pudding House Press and Object of Desire, Finishing Line Press.

Brenda Morris

Brenda Morris is a poet living in the District of Columbia.  Her poems have appeared in a number of literary journals, including The Formalist, Iambs and Trochees, Edge City Review, Blue Unicorn, and The Lyric.  In 2007, she won grand prize in the annual poetry contest sponsored by Presence, An International Journal of Spiritual Direction.  She is now at work on a poem series titled "Palimpsest," using recurring images to explore the way experience is layered in mind, memory, and dream.

Bertha Rogers

More than 250 of Bertha Rogers's poems appear in journals and anthologies, including Barrow Street, The MacGuffin, Nimrod International Journal, The Louisville Review, Cimarron Review, Green Mountains Review, ONTHEBUS, The Same, Rattapallax, Pivot, BigCityLit, and others. Her collections include Even the Hemlock: Poe(chapbook, Snark Press, IL, 2004); A House of Corners (Three Conditions Press, Maryland Poetry Review Chapbook Contest Winner, 2000); and  Sleeper, You Wake (Mellen, NY 1991).

Barbara Westwood Diehl

Barbara Westwood Diehl is founding editor of the Baltimore Review and a Master of Arts in Writing student at Johns Hopkins University. She works for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Richard Schiffman

Richard Schiffman is a writer based in New York, and a former journalist for National Public Radio. He is the author of two biographies. His work has appeared, or is upcoming in Poetry East, Potomac Review, Southern Poetry Review, 32 Poems, Rosebud, Valparaiso Poetry Review and many other journals.

Helen Pinkerton Trimpi

Helen Pinkerton Trimpi (born in 1927 in Butte, Montana) ) is a poet, essayist, and scholar of American literature and history. She has taught at Stanford, College of Notre Dame, University of Alberta and Michigan State University. She has published five volumes of poetry, including her selected poems, Taken In Faith, in 2001. Her critical essays include studies of Edgar Bowers, Yvor Winters, Janet Lewis, John Finley, and Catherine Davis. In American studies, she published Melville's Confidence Men and American Politics In the 1850s, in 1987.

Chris Childers

Chris Childers teaches Classics and Creative Writing and coaches squash and tennis at St. Andrew's School in Middletown, DE.

Suzanne J. Doyle

Suzanne J. Doyle was born in St. Charles, Missouri in 1953. She graduated in 1975 with honors in English from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she studied under the poet Edgar Bowers. Accepted in Stanford University’s Creative Writing Program, she received her MA in 1978. She has published the following slim volumes of verse: Sweeter for the Dark (1982), Domestic Passions (1984), Dangerous Beauties (1990), and Calypso (2003).

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