Jill Kelly Koren’s ‘s answer to Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s question: “What is the most important thing you teach your students?” Clip from Accents radio show on 09/09/2013. Complete show can be heard here.

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Barbara Leff’s answer to Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s question: “What is the most important thing you teach your students?” Clip from Accents radio show on 30-Dec-2011. Complete show can be heard here.

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Barbara Leff is a recovering New Yorker who resides in San Francisco and the Russian River Valley. She discovered poetry at the age of 12 and has been exploring the genre ever since. In addition to poetry, Barbara has had a number of incarnations, including health education and management/organizational development. She lives with her partner of more than 30 years, Arlene Singer, and her brood of four-legged, furry ones. AND GOD SAID… is her first collection.

Scott Whiddon’s answer to Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s question: “What is the most important thing you teach your students?” Clip from Accents radio show on 1-Mar-2013. Complete show can be heard here.

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Scott Whiddon wears many hats at Transylvania University. He teaches a number of first-year and special topics courses, including such student favorites as Reading the Election and Rhetoric of American Prisons. He is also director of the university’s Writing Center. But no matter which hat he’s wearing or with whom he’s working, Whiddon is, in the end, a writing coach. Outside the classroom—and inside, too—Whiddon has a strong interest in music. He has been an advisor to the university’s student-run radio station, Radio TLX, and continues to support its endeavors.

Sallie Bingham’s answer to Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s question: “What is the most important thing you teach your students?” Clip from Accents radio show on 16-Sep-2011. Complete show can be heard here.

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Sallie Bingham is an author and playwrite.

Pauletta Hansel’s answer to Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s question: “What is the most important thing you teach your students?” Clip from Accents radio show on 14-Dec-2012. Complete show can be heard here.

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Poet, Memoirist, Teacher and Editor Pauletta Hansel is author of four poetry collections, most recently The Lives We Live in Houses  (Wind Publications, 2011) and What I Did There (Dos Madres Press, 2011). Pauletta’s poetry has been featured recently in journals including Atlanta Review, ABZ Journal, Postcard Poems and Prose, Still: The Journal, The Mom Egg, Penwood Review and Appalachian Journal and anthologized in A Gathering at the Forks; Old Wounds, New Words; A Kentucky Christmas; Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia; Motif: Come What May; Motif: All the Livelong Day and Boomtown: the Queens MFA Tenth Anniversary Celebratory Anthology.  Work is forthcoming in Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine, Her Limestone Bones: Selections from Lexington Poetry Month 2013, Kudzu Literary Journal, For A Better World: Poems and Drawings on Peace and Justice andAmerican Life in Poetry.

Pauletta currently serves as Thomas More College’s Writer in Residence as part of its Creative Writing Vision Program,  offering both on- and off-campus writing experiences for TMC students and the community-at-large. She leads community writing programs including the Practice of Poetry workshops, facilitating writing as a spiritual practice.  She’s led writing groups throughout greater Cincinnati, often working with communities whose voices are least likely to be to be listened to, and most need to be heard. She is a current editor of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, the literary publication of the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative. Pauletta received her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte.  Originally from southeastern Kentucky, Pauletta lives in Cincinnati with her husband, Owen Cramer.

Nancy Jensen’s answer to Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s question: “What is the most important thing you teach your students?” Clip from Accents radio show on 16-Dec-2011. Complete show can be heard here.

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NANCY JENSEN’s work has appeared in numerous literary journals, and her first book, Window, a collection of short stories and essays, was published by Fleur-de-Lis Press in 2009.  She has been awarded an Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council.

Nancy shares her home with eight rescued cats and her dog Gordy, who is her partner on a pet therapy team with Pawsibilities Unleashed of Kentucky, visiting hospitals, nursing homes, assisted-living facilities, and daycare centers.

When she isn’t writing or enjoying the company of her furred family, she teaches in the Bluegrass Writers Studio MFA in Writing program. The Sisters is her first novel.

Nancy’s collection of essays and short stories, Window, is available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.