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.
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.
Teresa Carson’s first book, Elegy for the Floater, was published by CavanKerry Press in 2008. She is currently putting the finishing touches on her second book, The Congress of Human Oddities, about a sideshow traveling through Ohio during the Civil War. Teresa, also a playwright, has adapted this second book into a full length play, Mister V.s Congress of Human Oddities, which will be produced at Sarah Lawrence College as part of the spring 2009 season. Teresa grew up in Hudson County, New Jersey and continues to live there with her husband, John.
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. She is a long-time Montclair resident.
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.
Mary Florio has been teaching English for 29 years and can't retire until she's almost 70 because she was a stay-at-home mom for awhile and even then she wasn't writing poetry, which didn't happen until she was very, very old. She has won some contests and once self-published a chapbook with her writing group, HillPoets. Most of the time her head is filled with a chaotic array of worrisome details, like what to make for supper or what shoes to wear with her new black skirt to the poetry reading.
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.
Deborah Gerrish’s poems have appeared in Ararat, Goldfinch, and the Paterson Literary Review. She was “Poet in Residence” at the Presbyterian Church of New Providence (2005-2008) and leads WWW monthly poetry sessions in her home. Her chapbook, The Language of Rain, was published in 2008, and her collection of poems, The Language of Paisley, will be forthcoming this year. As an English teacher in the New Milford, NJ Public Schools for over 30 years, she teaches reading and writing to middle school students.
Gail Fishman Gerwin’s poetry and fiction appears or will appear in Calyx, Lips, Thema, New Millennium Writings, and Paterson Literary Review,, where she earned 2008 and 2009 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award honorable mentions. Author of the poetic memoir Sugar and Sand and several plays, she holds an A.B. from Goucher College and an M.A. from NYU. A Paterson native, Gerwin is principal of the Morristown communications firm inedit.
Penny Harter’s recent books include Buried in the Sky, Along River Road, and The Night Marsh. 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. An illustrated rhyming alphabestiary for children, The Beastie Book, has just been published by Shenanigan Books. 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. She was co-host and consultant to both the Long Branch and Walt Whitman Poetry Festivals.
Susan Jackson lives in New Jersey and Nayarit, Mexico. Her book Through a Gate of Trees was published by Cavan Kerry Press in 2007. New work appears in the recently published anthology When the Muse Calls, Poems for the Creative Life, edited by Kathryn Ridall. She serves on the Board of Poets & Writers.
Adele Kenny is the author of 23 books of poetry and nonfiction. Her poems, reviews, and articles have been widely published, and her poems have appeared in books and anthologies published by Crown, Tuttle, Shambhala, and McGraw-Hill. She is the recipient of various awards, including poetry fellowships from the New Jersey State Arts Council. Founding director of the Carriage House Poetry Reading Series and poetry editor of Tiferet, she is currently completing her Ph.D in theology.
Denise La Neve’s poetry recently appeared in the Istanbul Literary Review, Sensations Magazine, and the Red Wheel Barrow Anthology (2008 and 2009). Several poems will appear in the upcoming anthology, Beyond the Rift (Poet’s Press). “Whoru,” her award-winning short story, was published in 2007 in Sensations Magazine.
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 third collection, Temptation by Water, will be released summer of 2010. Her 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 Harvard Review, Seattle Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her poems have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The Writer's Almanac
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. She is the founder/director of the not-for-profit organization, "Women Reading Aloud," dedicated to promoting writers through workshops, special events and retreats. She writes a column featuring women in the arts for SilkPurse Women Magazine and is a frequent speaker on writing as a life tool. She leads writing workshops at the Carol G. Simon Cancer Center at Morristown Hospital. Her book of poems, Private Landscape, was released in 2007.
Charlotte Mandel has published seven books of poetry, the most recent, Rock Vein Sky from Midmarch Arts Press. Other titles include Sight Lines and two poem-novellas of feminist biblical re-vision—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 edited the Eileen W. Barnes Award Anthology, Saturday’s Women. She recently retired from teaching poetry writing at Barnard College Center for Research on Women.
Elizabeth Marchitti has been a finalist in the Allen Ginsberg contest several times. Her poems have appeared in Breath and Shadow, Journal of New Jersey Poets, Lips, Paterson Literary Review, and Passagre. Her chapbook, Pause. . . And Begin Again, was published by Northwind of Redbank in 2006.
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 is the recipient of fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and Yaddo and is the author of Jugglers & Tides. Orr’s poems have appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Nimrod, Worcester Review, and other journals, and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A Geraldine R. Dodge poet, Orr resides in Hamburg, NJ, and is an Associate Professor of English at Sussex County Community College.
Wanda Praisner, a recipient of Poetry Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, is the author of A Fine and Bitter Snow (Palanquin Press, 2003) and On the Bittersweet Avenues of Pomona (winner of the Spire Press Poetry Chapbook Competition, 2005). Where the Dead Are will be published by CavanKerry Press. A four-time nominee for a Pushcart Prize, she is a Poet in Residence for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Linda Radice is poet and essayist, and has had her work published in Exit 13, Edison Literary Review, Tiferet, Paterson Literary Review, and elsewhere. She was the second place recipient of the 2007 Allen Ginsberg Award and received Honorable Mention in 2008. She is a member of the Fanwood Arts Council, and recently became co-director of the Baron Arts Center Poets Wednesday reading series. A lifelong New Jersey resident, she is a Paralegal and resides in North Plainfield.
Christine Redman-Waldeyer is the author of Frame by Frame (Muse-Pie Press, 2007) and Gravel (Muse-Pie Press, 2009). Her poetry has appeared in Exit 13, Lips, Paterson Literary Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, The Texas Review, and elsewhere. She was a finalist in the 2008 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. A graduate of Drew University’s d.litt program, she currently teaches in the English Department at Passaic County Community College.
Susanna Rich is a 2009 Emmy Award nominee for the poetry she wrote and voice-overed for Craig Lindvahl’s documentary Cobb Field: A Day at the Ballpark. She is the author of Television Daddy and The Drive Home (both from Finishing Line Press); the 2008 Featured Poet of Darkling Literary Magazine; a Fulbright Fellow in Creative Writing; Collegium Budapest fellow; and Pushcart Prize nominee. She tours the one-woman audience-interactive poetry experience Television Daddy, and will open The Drive Home in April 2010. She is Professor of English and Distinguished Teacher at Kean 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.
Madeline Tiger’s most recent collection is The Atheist’s Prayer (Dos Madres Press). 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.
Skye Van Saun received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2006 and was a Geraldine R. Dodge Festival Poet in 2008. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2008, Skye has also completed a chapbook, Versus Verses (River Rat Press, 2008) and an forthcoming memoir, Moving Violations. She is a freelance nonfiction writer, poet and editor and also runs poetry and personal essays/memoir classes to under-served groups.
