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Deborah Burghardt - 1 post
writes creative nonfiction after two decades of directing Women and Gender Studies. Her essays have appeared in Intima: Journal of Medical Narrative, The Sun, Sabal, The Watershed Journal, and The Bridge Literary Arts Journal. “Spared” was anthologized in Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability, and Medicine. She enjoys the salt life of Fort Myers, Florida, and the wilds of northwestern Pennsylvania.
Debra Solomon Baker - 1 post
is a graduate of The University of Michigan and Harvard Graduate School of Education and has been an English teacher in Saint Louis for more than 20 years. Her children, Max, age 17, and Sarah, age 15, are among the best teachers she knows and are the inspiration for much of her prose. They remind her to laugh, to imagine, and to never lose hope.
Derek Sheffield - 1 post
’s book of poems, Through the Second Skin (Orchises, 2013), was the runner-up for the 2012 Emily Dickinson First Book Award and a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. His work has also appeared in Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, and Orion. He has received fellowships from Artist Trust, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and the Seattle Music & Arts Foundation. He teaches poetry and nature writing at Wenatchee Valley College where he also works as an advocate for sustainability. Since 2013, he has served as poetry editor of Terrain.org. He lives with his family in the eastern foothills of the Cascades near Leavenworth, Washington.
Diane Lechleitner - 1 post
's publishing credits include fiction and poetry in Ferry Tales, Messing About In Boats, The Pebble Lake Review, The Mast Head, and The North Atlantic Review, Euphony, Canary, and Sierra Nevada Review.
Diane Lefer - 1 post
’s novels consider scientists who become suspects (Out of Place) and baboons with broken hearts (Confessions of a Carnivore). Her story collection, California Transit, received the Mary McCarthy Prize. Diane works with survivors of violent persecution as they seek asylum and begin to rebuild their lives in Southern California. More at dianelefer.weebly.com/
Don Noel - 1 post
retired after four decades of prizewinning print and broadcast journalism in Hartford CT. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Fairfield University in 2013. His work has been published by Calliope and Indian River Review.
Donna Isaac - 3 posts
is a teaching artist and organizer of community readings (Literary Lights) and workshops through the League of MN Poets. She holds degrees from James Madison University, the University of Minnesota, and Hamline University. Published poetry work includes Footfalls (Pocahontas Press); Tommy (Red Dragonfly Press); Holy Comforter (Red Bird Chapbooks); and Persistence of Vision (Finishing Line Press). Her work also appears in journals such as The Saint Paul Almanac and The Penn Review
Dorothy Trogdon - 1 post
was born in Maine, has degrees in art history from Wheaton College in Massachusetts and has a Master of Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. She and her husband lived for 25 years in Spokane raising three sons. Since 1985, they have lived on Orcas Island. She has published two chapbooks – Tributaries and 31 Poems. Her first full-length collection, Tall Woman Looking, has just been published by Blue Begonia Press in Selah, Washington.
Drew Attana - 1 post
spent over a decade getting into trouble from Tijuana to Portland, before heading South. His fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry has appeared in Cargo Literary Magazine, Pathos Literary Journal, Eunoia Review, Yellow Chair Review, Drunk Monkeys Magazine, HIV Here and Now Project and is forthcoming in Phoebe Literary Journal, Common Ground Review, HelloHorror Magazine, Merrimack Review, Gulf Stream Literary Journal, West Trade Review, and Apeiron Review. Originally from Las Angeles, he is currently living and writing in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Dwight Livingstone Curtis - 1 post
is a candidate in the Fiction MFA program at the University of Montana. Before entering the program he taught high-school English and coached sailing. His stories have appeared in Pangyrus (2015, 2014), Yolk Magazine (2013), Explosion-Proof Magazine (2013, 2011, 2010), Tuesday Magazine (2010), and the Harvard Advocate (2010, 2009) and he has received several prizes and awards for his short fiction.