Lawrence Applebaum, a native of New York City, is a poet collagist whose material is generated from found objects and life experience. He has been nominated for three Pushcart prizes. A widely published photographer, his work has been used on covers of several books, most recently The New York Post Card Sonnets: A Midwesterner Moves to Manhattan, by Philip Dacey.
Renée Ashley is the author of three volumes of poetry: Salt (Brittingham Prize in Poetry), The Various Reasons of Light, and The Revisionist's Dream, as well as a novel, Someplace Like This, and a chapbook, The Museum of Lost Wings. She has received fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is co-poetry editor to The Literary Review, and on the faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University's low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing.
Lisa Alexander Baron's new chapbook is Reading the Alphabet of Trees (Finishing Line, 2007). Her poetry has appeared in Paterson Literary Review, Lips, Philadelphia Poets, Mad Poets Review, and The Comstock Review. She is a mom who teaches journalism and is a fox terrier lover. She is married to poet Bill Vanbuskirk.
Amy Barone lives in New York where she works as director of communications for HealthCorps. She participates in monthly readings at the Cornelia Street Café as a member of the Italian American Writers Association. Her poetry has appeared in Gradiva, Wild Violet, Philadelphia Poets, The Pink Chameleon, and several PoetWorks Press anthologies. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Villanova University and a Masters in International Management from the Thunderbird School in Glendale, Arizona.
Louie Crew is an emeritus professor at Rutgers and the author of numerous poems and essays. His work has been published in several anthologies and in such journals as New Verse News, Witness, Poet Lore, and Exit 13. He provides many resources for poets at his website. He lives in East Orange with his long-time partner.
Cat Doty is the author of Momentum, published by CavanKerry in 2004. She is the recipient of the 2003 Marjorie J. Wilson Award, an Academy of American Poets Award, and fellowships from the NJ State Council on the Arts. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, among them Margie, Hanging Loose, Heliotrope, and Mudfish.
Tony Gruenewald's poems have been seen in Edison Literary Review, English Journal, The New York Times, Adbusters, Exit 13, IdentityTheory, Slow Trains, and many other publications across this great big world. He lives in Edison and works in the greater Princeton metropolitan area for the NJ Unit of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic.
Jim Gwyn began writing poetry and fiction in the Sixties. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies. His recent work appears in such journals as Lips, Paterson Literary Review, and the Edison Literary Review. His poems have also appeared in the anthologies Paterson: The Poet's City, Poetry of Place, Spindrift, and Seventh Quarry.
Wendy Hoffman has done performance art and shown multi media art exhibits in NYC and on tour in the 1980s and 1990s, and in Chicago before then. Her poetry has been published in Mudfish, Passager, Skidrow Penthouse, Appearances, and other journals. She has been living in Baltimore for the past seven years and works as a psychotherapist.
Charles H. Johnson is a Geraldine R. Dodge poet, a poetry instructor for the Monmouth County and Middlesex County arts high schools, visiting poet for the Paterson schools, and workshop leader for the Middlesex County Youth Shelter and the Hunterdon County Youth Facility. His second book, Sam’s Place, received a 2007 Paterson Poetry Prize for Literary Excellence. His first book, Tunnel Vision, was a finalist for the 2004 Paterson Poetry Prize. He is poetry editor for the online literary magazine Identity Theory, and poetry reviewer for the Home News Tribune in East Brunswick, N.J.
Laine Johnson, a retired NJ Drama and English teacher, is currently teaching with the NJ Arts in the Schools program. She has had poetry published in such journals as the Edison Literary Review, Paterson Literary Review, Lips, Identity Theory, and in the anthologies Paterson: The Poet's City, Voices Rising from the Grove, and Spindrift. One of her poems was an editor’s choice in the 2007 Ginsberg Poetry Contest. She lives in Hillsborough with her husband, poet Charles H. Johnson.
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.
Teresa Leo ’s The Halo Rule won the Elixir Press Editor's Prize. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Women's Review of Books, New Orleans Review, Barrow Street, and elsewhere. She has been a resident at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Blue Mountain Center, and the Vermont Studio Center, and has received fellowships from the Pew Fellowships in the Arts, the Leeway Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She works at the University of Pennsylvania.
Andrea Lockett grew up in East Orange and attended the Brookside School and Montclair Kimberley Academy. Her work has been published in a number of literary magazines and anthologies. For fifteen years she was an editor of Chelsea magazine, and she is the former publisher of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. Currently, she serves as an associate editor of The New York Quarterly and works as a poet, writer, editor, and lyricist in New York.
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 Beloit Poetry Journal, Seattle Review, and Prairie Schooner. She received a 2003 poetry fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts and was a reader at the 2006 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. A former high school English teacher, Diane now works as a poet-in-the-schools.
Matt Longabucco teaches Expository Writing at New York University, where he is pursuing a doctorate in English. His poems have appeared in Washington Square and Pleiades. He is an editor at Painted Bride Quarterly. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two freeloading cats.
Justin Marks' latest chapbook is Summer insular (Horse Less Press, 2007). His poems have recently appeared in Soft Targets, Tarpaulin Sky and the Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel–Second Floor, and are forthcoming in Handsome, New York Quarterly and the Outside Voices 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets. He is the founder and Editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City.
Linda Radice has had her work published in Exit 13, Little Book of Poems and Other Writings, Big Hammer, Bemused, Edison Literary Review, The Westfield Leader, and Paterson Literary Review. She was the second place recipient of the 2007 Allen Ginsberg Award. She has been a Paralegal for 30 years, and resides in her hometown, North Plainfield, with her husband Sam and a cat named Shakespeare.
Hal Sirowitz is the former Poet Laureate of Queens, New York. He has received poetry fellowships from the National Foundation of the Arts and the NY State Foundation of the Arts. His collections include Mother Said and My Therapist Said. He has performed on MTV’s “Spoken Word Unplugged,” PBS’s “Poetry Heaven,” and NPR’s “All Things Considered.” His poems have been published in Garrison Keillor’s anthologies, Good Poems and Good Poems for Hard Times. A special education teacher for the New York City public school for twenty-five years, he now lives in Mount Airy, Philadelphia.
Sampson Starkweather was born in Pittsboro, NC. He is the author of The Photograph from Horse Less Press. His poems and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky, jubilat, Poetry Daily, Octopus, New York Quarterly, MiPoesis, RealPoetik, LIT, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Chappaqua, NY, where he is an editor of physics and chemistry books.
Odarka Polanskyj Stockert is a New Jersey native and a member of South Mountain Poets. A long-time collaborator in the Yara Arts Group based at La Mama ETC. in New York City, she has performed in many Yara poetry and experimental theater events. She is a harpist and founding member of Glendalough's Muse and Slight Imperfection. Her poems have been published in Gathered on the Mountain, Lunatic Chameleon, and Literary Mama, and most recently in the anthology, A Walk Through My Garden.
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 Literary Review, Rhino, Tiferet, and US 1 Worksheets; recent reviews appear in the Journal of NJ Poets, Sidereality, Jacket, and American Book Review.
Douglas Treem lives and works in NYC. His plays have
been performed throughout that city, and his poems have appeared in New York Quarterly.
Joe Weil is a lecturer in the graduate creative writing program at Binghamton University-State University of New York. He is also a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation poet in the schools and has received an NFAA certificate of excellence for his work with award-winning students in both poetry and fiction. His book, Painting the Christmas Trees, is forthcoming from Texas Review Press. A life-long resident of New Jersey, he now makes his home in Vestal, New York.
Kelley White, a New Hampshire native, studied at Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School and has been a pediatrician in inner-city Philadelphia for more than twenty-five years. Mother of three, she is an active Quaker. Her poems have been widely published over the past decade, in journals including Exquisite Corpse, Nimrod, Poet Lore, Rattle, and the Journal of the American Medical Association and in several chapbook and full-length collections. She is the recipient of a 2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant in poetry.
Bill Wunder’s poems have twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and in 2004 he was named Poet Laureate of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His poems have been a finalist in the Robert Fraser Poetry Competition, the Mad Poet’s Society Competition, and the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. Recently, his work has appeared in The Manhattan Review, Lips, Paterson Literary Review, Mad Poet’s Review, Drexel University On-Line Journal, and Wild River Review His book, Pointing at the Moon, has just been released by WordTech.
