Svea Barrett’s work has appeared in Samsara Quarterly, Paterson Literary Review, Lips, Edison Literary Review, Journal of New Jersey Poets, and other journals. Her chapbook, Why I Collect Moose, won the 2005 Poets Corner Press Poetry Chapbook Contest. Svea teaches high school creative writing in Allendale, NJ.
Norma Ketzis Bernstock lives in Milford, Pennsylvania where she is a member of the Upper Delaware Writers Collective and an exhibiting fine art photographer at the Highlands Photographic Guild. Her poetry has appeared in many literary journals including the Connecticut River Review, Paterson Literary Review, Lips, and in the anthology, Paterson, the Poets' City, and the forthcoming anthology, Pennsylvania Seasons.
Broeck Wahl Blumberg works as a correspondent for a Japanese economic/political journal based in Tokyo. Her poems have appeared in Snow Monkey and at Poets Online. She was one of the winners of the 2004 Very, Very Short Fiction contest sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Inlander. A resident of Montclair, she has taught writing in New York for the World Trade Institute and for Cornell University's Off-Campus College Program.
Laura Boss, founder and editor of Lips, is a first prize poetry contest winner of PSA's Gordon Barber Award. She is the recipient of three New Jersey State Council on the Arts poetry fellowships. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times as well as in numerous journals. Her six books include Reports from the Front (CCC) and Arms: New and Selected Poems (Guernica).
Teresa Carson grew up in Jersey City, the youngest of ten in a blue-collar family. At the age of eighteen, she was one of the first women hired by the local phone company to work in a non-traditional-for-women technical job. For the next thirty-one years she worked in various positions for the phone company before retiring in 2003. In 2004 she earned an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. Her collection, Elegy for a Floater, was recently released by CavanKerry Press.
Lauren Cerruto is a freelance medical writer whose real passion is for poetry. She studied poetry at the University of Virginia and has participated in various workshops and readings in northern NJ. Her poems have appeared in Journal of New Jersey Poets, Paterson Literary Review, and Margie and online at Poets Online.
Barbara Crooker’s Radiance won the 2005 Word Press First Book award and was a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize. Her new book, Line Dance, is also from Word Press. Recent work appears in Apalachee Review, Rattle, Louisiana Literature, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Poetry International, and elsewhere. Her work has also appeared on Verse Daily and been read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac.
Jessica deKoninck’s first collection, Repairs, was published by Finishing Line Press in December 2006. Repairs was a finalist in the Ledge 2005 poetry competition, a semi-finalist in the 2005 Black River Chapbook Contest, and an Honorable Mention in the 2005 Juniper Creek Chapbook Contest. Her poems appear in many journals and anthologies. A long-time Montclair resident, she is the Director of Legislative Services for the New Jersey Department of Education.
Ann M. DeVenezia is the author of three books of poetry: Grave Rubbings (2004), Riding My Tricycle (2006), and Telling Abuse (2008). She is a former teacher of high school English with a B.A. from the College of Saint Elizabeth (1956) and an M.Litt. (1990) and D.Litt. (2000) from Drew. Her work appears in many journals, such as Italian Americana, Lips, Paterson Literary Review, Poet Lore, and Rattle.
Sandra Duguid is Assistant Director of the Academic Support Center at Caldwell College. Her poetry has appeared in anthologies, on-line journals, and magazines such as the Journal of New Jersey Poets, America, Anglican Theological Review, Earth’s Daughters, and West Branch. She was awarded a Fellowship in Poetry from the NJ State Council on the Arts and has read at a Dodge Poetry Festival.
Sondra Gash’s collection of poems, Silk Elegy (CavanKerry Press) was a Finalist for the 2003 Paterson Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times, Calyx, Paterson Literary Review, and U.S. 1 Worksheets. She is a recipient of fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (for fiction and poetry), Yaddo, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Penny Harter’s recent books include Lizard Light: Poems from the Earth, Buried in the Sky, and Along River Road. Published widely in journals and anthologies, she has won fellowships and awards from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Dodge Foundation, and the Poetry Society of America. A new collection, The Night Marsh, will be out from WordTech Editions in early 2008. She works as a teaching-artist.
Gloria Healy's poems appear in such journals as Connecticut Literary Review, Edison Literary Review, Journal of New Jersey Poets, Lips, and Paterson Literary Review, and in the anthology Poets of New Jersey: From Colonial to Contemporary Times. She is the editor of Monmouth County: A Poetic Portrait; Poetic Reflections of Monmouth County; and Spindrift. Her second book, Caught in the Undertow, will appear in 2007. She was co-host and consultant to both the Long Branch and Walt Whitman Poetry Festivals.
Susan Jackson’s first collection of poems, Through a Gate of Trees, was published by Cavan Kerry Press in spring 2007. Her work has appeared in literary journals including the Paterson Literary Review, Nimrod International Journal, and Eleventh Hour Stories. She received a fellowship grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and serves on the board of Poets & Writers.
Tina Kelley is a reporter for the Metropolitan section of the New York Times. Her first poetry book, The Gospel of Galore (Word Press), won a 2003 Washington State Book Award. She contributed to the Times reporting on the September 11 attacks, and wrote 121 “Portraits of Grief,” small obituaries about the victims. She lives in Maplewood, N.J. with her husband and their two children. Her poems have appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Poetry Northwest, and Prairie Schooner.
Adele Kenny is the author of 21 books of poetry and nonfiction and the recipient of various awards, including poetry fellowships from the New Jersey State Arts Council. She is the founding director of the Carriage House Poetry Reading Series, poetry editor of Tiferet, and is currently completing her Ph.D in theology.
Gina Larkin’s poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies. She has been a featured reader at several local venues. She is the chairperson of the Literature Committee of the Edison Arts Society and is editor of the Edison Literary Review.
Donna J. Gelagotis Lee's book, On the Altar of Greece, received the Seventh Annual Gival Press Poetry Award and a 2007 Eric Hoffer Book Award: Notable for Art Category. The collection was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. Donna’s poetry has appeared in numerous literary and scholarly journals.
Diane Lockward’s second collection, What Feeds Us (Wind Publications), received the 2006 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize. Her poems appear in Garrison Keillor's Good Poems for Hard Times and in such journals as The Beloit Poetry Journal, Seattle Review, and Prairie Schooner. A former high school English teacher, Diane now works as a poet-in-the-schools.
Julie Maloney has worked in the arts as a performer and educator her entire life. She was artistic director, choreographer and principal dancer of the Julie Maloney Dance Company. Julie is the founder/director of the not-for-profit organization, "Women Reading Aloud," dedicated to promoting writers through special events and workshops. Her new book, Private Landscape, was released in the fall, 2007.
Charlotte Mandel’s six books of poetry include Sight Lines and two poem-novellas of feminist biblical revision—The Life of Mary and The Marriages of Jacob. An independent scholar, she has published essays on the role of cinema in the life and work of poet H.D. She teaches poetry writing at Barnard College Center for Research on Women. Her new poetry collection, ROCK VEIN SKY, is forthcoming from Midmarch Arts Press.
Jean Meyers helped found HillPoets, a twelve-year-old offshoot of the Dodge Spring and Fountain sessions. Her poems have been publishd in Lips, Paterson Literary Review, Journal of New Jersey Poets, U.S. 1 Worksheets, English Journal, and two HillPoets chapbooks. She lives in Montclair, where she reads, quilts, paints, and volunteers as a writing coach.
Marilyn Mohr is the author of two volumes of poetry, Satchel
(Cross Cultural Communications Press, 1992), and Running the Track (Aesopus Press, 1981). She has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, and has performed her work on radio and television. She was co-editor of The Woodstock Poetry Review and The Catskill Poets’ Series. For many years she was the coordinator of The Poets’ Forum at the JCC of Metropolitan New Jersey.
Priscilla Orr's first book, Jugglers & Tides, was published by Hannacroix Creek Books in 1997. A recipient of fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and Yaddo and twice a Pushcart Prize nominee, Orr’s poems have appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Nimrod, Worcester Review, and other journals. She earned her MFA from Warren Wilson and is an Associate Professor at Sussex County Community College.
Susanna Rich is a prize-winning poet, writer, and photographer with numerous national and international credits. She tours one-woman, audience-interactive, staged poetry productions including Television Daddy, Surfing for Jesus, and After the Ball. Cited in The Best American Essays: 2004, she was awarded the first joint Fulbright and Collegium Budapest Fellowships in Creative Writing, for “Still Hungary: A Memoir.” She is Professor of English and Distinguished Teacher at Kean University in New Jersey.
Susan Rothbard teaches English and creative writing at Livingston High School in Livingston, New Jersey. Her poems have appeared in the Paterson Literary Review, The Comstock Review, English Journal, Dogwood, and Spindrift. She was awarded second place in the 2005 Fanny Woods Poetry Contest and third place in The Heartland Review short short fiction contest. She is completing her MFA degree in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Carole Stone, English Professor Emerita, Montclair State University has published five poetry chapbooks, and a poety book, Lime and Salt. Her most recent poetry book is Traveling with the Dead, Backwaters Press, 2007. She has received Fellowships from Hawthornden Writers Retreat, Scotland and Le Chateau de Lavigny, Switzerland.
Maxine Susman’s chapbook Gogama (2006) was a finalist in the Sheltering Pines and Black River Competitions. She has published in the Paterson Literary Review, Journal of New Jersey Poets, Exit 13, Earth’s Daughters, US 1 Worksheets, and many other journals. She teaches English at Caldwell College.
Madeline Tiger’s ninth collection is The Earth Which Is All. She is a teaching artist for the state and for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. Recent poems appear in the Edison Review, Rhino, Tiferet, and US 1 Worksheets; recent reviews appear in the Journal of NJ Poets, Sidereality, Jacket, and American Book Review.
