, and other magazines and anthologies. With scholar Carol Ueland, he has been translating the much loved and honored Russian poet Aleksandr Kushner. A selection of these translations, to be called Apollo in the Grass, is slated for publication in 2013. Carnevale is a member of the graduate faculty at Drew University where he has taught for fifteen years.
Grant Clauser holds an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University where he was the 1993 Richard Devine Fellow. His book, The Trouble with Rivers, was published this year. His poems have appeared in various journals including The Literary Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and Painted Bride Quarterly. He runs a workshop at Philadelphia's Musehouse Center. He was selected by Robert Bly to be the 2010 Montgomery County Poet Laureate.
David Crews has poems published or forthcoming in The Greensboro Review, The Southeast Review, The Carolina Quarterly, and others. Most recently, he has been nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize. He is a high school English teacher in NJ.
Linda A. Cronin’s first book of poems is Dream Bones (WordTech Editions). A member of the editorial staff of Wordgathering and Breath & Shadow, she currently works as a freelance writer and editor. She has received a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in a number of literary magazines including Paterson Literary Review and Journal of New Jersey Poets.
Jessica deKoninck is the author of Repairs (Finishing Line Press). Her poems appear in various publications including Paterson Literary Review, The Ledge, Edison Literary Review, and Lips. She has an M.F.A. from Stonecoast, a B.A. from Brandeis and a J.D. from Boston University. An attorney, she was twice elected to the Montclair, NJ, township council.
Jim Gwyn’s work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including Lips, Paterson Literary Review, and Seventh Quarry. He has appeared as a featured reader in many venues throughout New Jersey and across the US. In June 2011, he was invited to read at the Dylan Thomas Poetry Theatre as part of the First International Poetry Festival in Swansea, Wales. He was the 2008 First Prize winner of the Allen Ginsberg Poetry contest and has received six Pushcart Prize nominations.
Miriam R. Haier earned her BA and MA in English from New York University. Her work has appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal and West 10th, where she later served as managing editor for two years. She reads submissions for Painted Bride Quarterly.
Mark Hillringhouse is a published poet, essayist, and photographer. His photo-essay on the Passaic River was published in the American Poetry Review. His work has also been published in The New York Times, New Jersey Monthly, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. He was the founding editor of the American Book Review, and a contributing editor for The New York Arts Journal. His book of photography and poetry, Between Frames, was recently published by Serving House Books.
David M. Katz is the author of two books of poems: Claims of Home, Poems 1984-2010 (Dos Madres Press) and The Warrior in the Forest (House of Keys). His work has appeared in Poetry, The New Criterion, The Paris Review, The Raintown Review, and other publications.
Tina Kelley is on the staff of Covenant House, where she co-wrote Almost Home, a book about homeless teenagers to be published by Wiley in October 2012. Her first book of poems, The Gospel of Galore (Word Press, 2003), won a Washington State Book Award, and her second book, Precise, will be published by Word Press. A reporter at The New York Times for ten years, her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Southwest Review, and The Best American Poetry 2009 as well as on the buses of Seattle.
Adele Kenny is the author of several books. Her poems, reviews, and articles have been published in journals throughout the US and abroad, as well as in books and anthologies. The recipient of various awards, including poetry fellowships from the NJ State Arts Council, she is founding director of the Carriage House Poetry Series and poetry editor of Tiferet. Her most recent poetry collection is What Matters (Welcome Rain Publishers, 2011).
Deborah LaVeglia is poetry director of PoetsWednesday at the Barron Arts Center in Woodbridge, NJ. She studied poetry at Kean University and NYU. She is a workshop leader in Woodbridge, Rahway, and Cranford, and has served as poet-in-residence in several NJ schools. Her poems have appeared in publications such as Edison Literary Review, Lips, Paterson Literary Review, and College English Notes.
Charlotte Mandel is winner of the 2012 New Jersey Poets Prize, awarded by the Journal of New Jersey Poets. She has published seven books of poetry, the most recent Rock Vein Sky from Midmarch Arts Press. Other titles include two poem-novellas of feminist biblical re-vision. Her verse play, The Gardener’s Wife, appears in the print and online journal Verse Wisconsin. She recently retired from teaching poetry writing at Barnard College Center for Research on Women.
Francesca Maxime is a poet and broadcast journalist in New York City. She graduated from Harvard with an English degree and later began writing poetry at SUNY Binghamton. Her work is forthcoming in Lips and New York Quarterly. Her first book of poetry, Rooted, will be published by NYQ Books in 2012.
John McDermott teaches English as a Second Language at Union County College and lives in Cranford. He has also taught two years in Nanjing, China and two years in Osaka, Japan. He is a Dodge poet and the former editor of US 1 Worksheets. His poetry has appeared in magazines in the US and Japan. His book, The Long Way Home, was published in 2005 and a CD version in 2010.
Lynne McEniry has poems published in Adanna, 5 AM, The Stillwater Review, and Paterson Literary Review. Her poem, "Sunday Sauce," received Honorable Mention in the 2011 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. She presents poetry talks, workshops, and readings in collaboration with visual artists and art galleries, including the Maloney Art Gallery at the College of Saint Elizabeth and the Visual Arts Center of NJ. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Drew University and works at the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown, NJ.
Rick Mullin’s poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Raintown Review, American Arts Quarterly, and Epiphany. His epic poem, Soutine, on the life of the painter Chaïm Soutine, was published this year by Dos Madres Press. His book-length poem, Huncke, was published by Seven Towers, Dublin, in 2010. Aquinas Flinched, a chapbook, was published by Modern Metrics in 2008.
Sharon Olson is a native-born Californian who worked as a librarian for the Palo Alto City Library for 29 years until she retired in 2007. After four years in Connecticut, she moved to Lawrenceville, NJ. Her book of poems, The Long Night of Flying, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2006. Her work has appeared in such journals as The Arroyo Literary Review, U.S. 1 Worksheets, and Cider Press Review which nominated one of her poems for a Pushcart Prize.
Linda Radice is poet and essayist, and has had her work published in Paterson Literary Review, Exit 13, Tiferet, Edison Literary Review, and other anthologies and journals. She was the second place recipient of the 2007 Allen Ginsberg Award, and is a member of the Fanwood Arts Council. She works as a paralegal.
Susanna Rich is an Emmy Award nominee, Fulbright Fellow in Creative Writing, and author of two Finishing Line Press chapbooks: Television Daddy and The Drive Home. She founded Wild Nights Productions through which she tours her audience-interactive poetry experiences, including A Wild Night with Emily Dickinson. Susanna is Professor of English at Kean University and was awarded the Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Madeline Tiger’s most recent collections of poems are The Earth Which Is All (2008), The Atheist’s Prayer (2010), and From the Viewing Stand (2011). Her work appears in such journals as The Stillwater Review, Lips, and Edison Literary Review. She has been teaching in state programs and private workshops since 1973 and has been a Dodge Poet since 1986.
David Vincenti is a father, husband, poet, engineer, and accordionist. His poems have appeared in Edison Literary Review, Paterson Literary Review, and Journal of New Jersey Poets, and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His first chapbook, To the Ones Who Must Be Loved, was published in 2010. He curates the Spoken Word Series at The Theater Company in Hoboken, NJ.
Before moving to Philadelphia in 2002, Sean Webb was a lifelong westerner. He received an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop and has been recipient of numerous honors and awards, including fellowships from The Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Utah Arts Council. In 2005 he was selected as Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in such publications as Schuylkill Valley Journal, North American Review, and Prairie Schooner.
