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Lita Kurth - 3 posts
MFA- Rainier Writers Workshop (PLU), has published in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. She has received multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net nominations for fiction and Creative Nonfiction. “This is the Way We Wash the Clothes,” (CNF) won the Diana Woods Memorial Award (Lunchticket). She is co-founder of San Jose’s literary reading series, Flash Fiction Forum and teaches at De Anza College and in private workshops. A member of the Working Class Studies Association, she frequently presents at their conferences.
Liz Shine - 1 post
writes fiction and has since she and her best friend conceived of The Wacky Fruit Gang comic series in 1983. A mere child then with loads of time to imagine, she still manages to write daily in spite of her active life and being a high school English teacher and single mother to a teenage son. Her website is lizshine.blogspot.com.
Liza Franzoni - 3 posts
lives with the Salish Sea, eats seaweed, and makes medicine from land plants. She has a son, Miles, and a daughter, Alaria.
Lorna Reese - 8 posts
is a founder and was managing editor of SHARK REEF for most of its first eighteen years and is now editor emerita. In the past, she worked with different co-editors for each issue of the magazine, loving the collaboration with other writers. Lorna lives on Lopez Island, WA and continues at SHARK REEF, working mostly behind the scenes. Her memoir essays and fiction have been published in SHARK REEF, The Sun Magazine and The Islands Weekly. She delights in acting as a sort of midwife for other writers and has made the acknowledgements page of at least 16 books.
Lou Gaglia - 1 post
is the author of Poor Advice, which will be published by Aqueous Books in early 2014. His work has appeared in Eclectica, The Cortland Review, JMWW, Waccamaw Journal, FRiGG, and others. He teaches in upstate New York.
Louisa Muniz - 1 post
She holds a Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction from Kean University. Her work has appeared in Tinderbox Journal, Palette Poetry, Menacing Hedge, Poetry Quarterly, PANK Magazine, Jabberwock Review and elsewhere. She won the Sheila-Na-Gig 2019 Spring Contest for her poem Stone Turned Sand. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net & recently her poem, Elegy for a Butterfly, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her debut chapbook, After Heavy Rains by Finishing Line Press was released in December, 2020. She lives in New Jersey.
Loukia M. Janavaras - 3 posts
is back home in Minneapolis, MN., after a world tour of 13 years, including living in Athens, Greece, and the UAE. A recent bride, she enjoys spending time with her husband, Andrew and their Russian Blue kitty, Mr. Blu. Loukia seeks to put poetry back in her life, after not having written or published in some time.
Lowell Jaeger - 2 posts
(Montana Poet Laureate 2017-2019) is author of eight collection of poems, most recently Earth-blood & Star-shine (Shabda Press in 2016). He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Montana Arts Council and winner of the Grolier Poetry Peace Prize. Most recently Jaeger was awarded the Montana Governor’s Humanities Award for his work in promoting thoughtful civic discourse.
Luanne Castle - 1 post
's Kin Types (Finishing Line Press), a chapbook of poetry and flash nonfiction, was a finalist for the 2018 Eric Hoffer Award. Her first collection of poetry, Doll God, winner of the 2015 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, was published by Aldrich Press. Luanne has been a Fellow at the Center for Ideas and Society at the University of California, Riverside. She studied English and Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside (PhD); Western Michigan University (MFA); and Stanford University. Her Pushcart-nominated poetry and prose have appeared in Copper Nickel, TAB, American Journal of Poetry, Verse Daily, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Lunch Ticket, River Teeth, The Review Review, Broad Street, and other journals. An avid blogger, she can be found at luannecastle.com. She divides her time between California and Arizona, where she shares land with a herd of javelina.
Lynn Aliya - 1 post
lives in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, and is a frequent visitor to Lopez Island. This play was the winner of the Colorado Women's Playwrighting Festival and was also chosen by the LA Weekly as the Performance Pick of the Week. The play has been performed in LA, NYC and Denver by Aliya. It was also performed at SUNY, Stony Brook. She is currently working on a novel.