2015—The Authors

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Barbara Goldberg is the author of four prize-winning books of poetry, including The Royal Baker’s Daughter, winner of the Felix Pollak Poetry Award. She is the translator of Scorched by the Sun, poems by the Israeli poet Moshe Dor. The two selected and translated four anthologies of contemporary Israeli poetry. Goldberg received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as awards in translation, fiction and speechwriting. Her poems appear in Best American Poetry, Paris Review, Poetry and elsewhere, Goldberg is the series editor of the Word Works’ International Imprint.

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Curtis L. Crisler’s forthcoming poetry book, “This” Ameri-can-ah, will be released in 2015 (Cherry Castle Publishing). His books are Pulling Scabs (nominated for a Pushcart), Tough Boy Sonatas (YA), andDreamist: a mixed-genre novel (YA), and his poetry chapbooks areWonderkind, Soundtrack to Latchkey Boy, andSpill. He’s been published in many magazines, journals, and anthologies. He is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, and a Cave Canem Fellow.

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Roberta Beary is the haibun editor of Modern Haiku; she tweets her photoku @shortpoemz. Her book The Unworn Necklace was named a William Carlos Williams finalist by the Poetry Society of Americain 2008, the first such honor for a book of haiku. A frequent judge of haiku and haibun contests, she travels worldwide to give workshops on the art of the short poem. Her poetry is featured in the reference work A Companion to Poetic Genre (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) and in the anthologyHaiku In English The First Hundred Years (Norton, 2013). www.robertabeary.com.

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Bianca Bargo was born to a loving family in Knox County, Kentucky. She earned her B.A. in English from the University of Kentucky, where she discovered and honed her poetic voice, winning UK’s Farquhar Poetry Award and serving as Managing Editor of Limestone: A Journal of Art and Literature in 2009. From 2010-2014 as she spent her time working in retail and public education and obtaining her MA. Ed. from Eastern Kentucky University, Bianca continued to write and enjoy poetry with the inspiration and support of Lexington’s poetry scene. Her work has been published in Accents Publishing’s Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems. She currently resides in Lexington, Kentucky with her husband Micah and their pets. She has yet to figure everything out, but continues to work on it while trusting kindness and curiosity to lead the way.

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Patty Paine is the author of The Sounding Machine (Accents Publishing), Feral (Imaginary Friend Press), Elegy & Collapse(Finishing Line Press), and co-editor of Gathering the Tide: An Anthology of Contemporary Arabian Gulf Poetry (Garnet Publishing & Ithaca Press) and The Donkey Lady and Other Tales from the Arabian Gulf (Berkshire). Her poems, reviews, and interviews have appeared in Blackbird, The Louisville Review, Gulf Stream, The Journal and other publications. She is the founding editor ofDiode Poetry Journal, and Diode Editions, and is an assistant professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar where she teaches writing and literature, and is interim director of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

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Multidisciplinary artist and Danville, Kentucky native, Frank X Walker, is the former Poet Laureate of Kentucky, and Professor in the department of English and the African American and AfricanaStudies Program at the University of Kentucky. The founding editor of Pluck! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture is a Cave Canem Fellow, co-founder of the Affrilachian Poets, and the author of seven collections of poetry including Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers, winner of the 2014 NAACP Image Award for best poetry collection. The Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry recipient is the originator of the word, Affrilachia, and wholly committed to deconstructing and forging a new definition of a pluralistic Appalachia.

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Andrew Merton is a journalist, essayist, and poet. Publications in which his nonfiction has appeared includeEsquire, Ms. Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Boston Magazine, and The Boston Globe.His bookEnemies of Choice: The Right-To-Life Movement and Its Threat to Abortion, was published by Beacon Press in 1980. His poetry has appeared inBellevue Literary Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Rialto (U.K.), Comstock Review, Louisville Review, Vine Leaves, the American Journal of Nursing,and elsewhere. His book of poetry, Evidence that We Are Descended from Chairs?, with a foreword by Charles Simic (Accents Publishing, 2012) was named Outstanding Book of Poetry for 2013–2014 by the New Hampshire Writers’ Project. He is a professor emeritus of English at the University of New Hampshire. His website is available here.

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Jay McCoy is a Lexington-based poet and visual artist with deep roots in Eastern Kentucky. Currently, he fills his days working as general manager for the Morris Book Shop and a writing instructor. Jay holds degrees from Transylvania University, the University of Akron, and earned his MFA in creative writing from the Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University. He co-founded the Teen Howl Poetry Series as a venue for young poets to discover their own voice. Jay’s poetry has appeared in several anthologies and journals including Blue Fifth Review, Kentucky Monthly, Kudzu, Naugatuck River Review, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, and Still: The Journal.

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And we can’t forget about everyone who contributed to Circe’s Lament: Anthology of Wild Women Poetry:

tina andry	Britt Ashley
Stacey Balkun	Makalani Bandele
Bianca Bargo	Ellen Bass
Roberta Beary	Elizabeth Beck
Lauren Boisvert	Roger Bonair-Agard
Nickole Brown	Elizabeth Burton
Greg Candela	Linda Casebeer
Sherry Chandler	Sharon L. Charde
Lucia Cherciu	Elizabeth Cohen
Star Coulbrooke	Barbara Crooker
Lucille Lang Day	Nancy Diedrichs
Joanie DiMartino	Laurel Dixon
Teneice Durrant	Meg Eden
Lynnell Edwards	Marta Ferguson
Ruth Foley	Sarah Freligh
Karen L. George	Kate Hadfield
Ellen Hagan	Gwen Hart
Lisa Hartz	Sheryl Holmberg
Karen Paul Holmes	Hope Johnson
Julia Johnson	Susan Johnson
Amanda Johnston	Marilyn Kallet
Penelope Karageorge	Diane Kendig
Karen Kovacik	Shayla Lawson
Emily Leider	Marsha Mathews
Andrew Merton	Teresa Milbrodt
Pamela Miller	Holly Mitchell
Maria Nazos	Sheryl Nelms
Jeremy Paden	Julia Paganelli
Tina Parker	Catherine Perkins
Kiki Petrosino	Sosha Pinson
Carol Quinn	Hila Ratzabi
Nicholas Samaras	Leona Sevick
Hilary Sheers	Dan Sicoli
Joan Jobe Smith	Bianca Spriggs
Alison Stone	Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
Victoria Sullivan	Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
Sheree Renée Thomas	Jessica D. Thompson
Alison Townsend	Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Elsa Valmidiano	Frank X Walker
Amy Watkins	Patricia Wellingham-Jones
July Westhale	K. Nicole Wilson
Laura Madeline Wiseman	Debra Woolley
Jessica Wright	Katy Yocom