Linda Arntzenius is a freelance magazine writer with a background in philosophy. A native of Scotland, she lived in London, Los Angeles, Cambridge (MA), and Pittsburgh before coming to Princeton in 1998. She has a Master of Science in Logic and Scientific Method from the L.S.E. and a Master of Professional Writing from the University of Southern California. Her poems have appeared in US1 Worksheets, Paterson Literary Review, Exit 13, Journal of New Jersey Poets, and elsewhere.
Stacey Balkun is a recent Rutgers University graduate with a double major in English and American Studies. She is on the editorial board of Objet d'Art, an art and literary magazine. Stacey was recently awarded the Mitchell Adelman Memorial Award for Creative Writing. Past publications include Edison Literary Review, US 1 Poets, and UPitt's Collision.
Stanley H. Barkan, as the editor/publisher of Cross-Cultural Communications, has produced some 350 titles. His own work has been published in 15 collections, several of them bilingual (Bulgarian, Italian, Polish, Russian). The latest are Strange Seasons, a poetry and photoart collaboration with Russian artist, Mark Plyakov (Sofia, Bulgarian: AngoBoy, 2007), and The Sacrifice: A Midrash of Origins (Birch Brook, 2009).
Ellen Bihler is a registered nurse working in pediatric long-term care. Her poetry has appeared in Cream City Review, American Journal of Nursing, Square Lake, International Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She received an Honorable Mention for poetry in the New Millenium Writing contest (Winter '07-'08) and is the author of the chapbooks, An Avalanche of Blue Sky and Late Summer Confessions.
Amanda J. Bradley is a poet and essayist living in Brooklyn. She recently completed her Ph.D. in English and American Literature, specializing in twentieth-century poetry. She teaches Composition & Rhetoric and tutors in the Writing Center at Yeshiva University in Washington Heights.
Robert Carnevale’s poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Alaska Quarterly, The Literary Review, and other magazines, and several have been anthologized. He worked in several capacities on the Voices & Visions film series on American poets and served as Assistant Coordinator of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Poetry Program. He currently teaches writing and literature at Drew University and at Kean University.
Anna Evans is the author of two chapbooks, Swimming and Selected Sonnets (Maverick Duck Press). Her poems have appeared in the Harvard Review, Atlanta Review, Rattle and Measure. She has been nominated several times for a Pushcart Prize and was a finalist for both the 2005 and 2007 Howard Nemerov sonnet award, and for the 2007 Willis Barnstone Translation Award. She is Editor of the Raintown Review and the formal poetry e-zine The Barefoot Muse.
R.G. Evans's poems, fiction, and reviews have appeared in Margie, Paterson Literary Review, Best of PIF Magazine Offline, and Weird Tales, among other publications. He teaches English and Creative Writing at Cumberland Regional High School, Cumberland County College, and Rowan University. R.G. Evans's greatest creative work to date is his daughter Julianna.
Martin Jude Farawell is the author of a chapbook, Genesis: A Sequence of Poems, and his work has appeared in Lips, Paterson Literary Review, Southern Review, Tiferet and other journals. His plays have been performed off-off-Broadway and elsewhere. A graduate of NYU’s Creative Writing Program, he has been the recipient of a writing fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the arts and a frequent Pushcart Prize nominee. After many years as Associate Director, he was recently named Director of the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Program.
Peter D. Goodwin lived in England until the age of eighteen; has travelled through Europe and Asia; taught at university in Thailand, and worked as a playwright. He now divides his time between New York City and the remnants of the natural world along Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. His poems have been published in several anthologies, including September Eleven and Listening to the Water: The Susquehanna Water Anthology, as well as in various journals, such as Rattle, River Poets Journal, Delaware Poetry Review, and Prints.
Leslie Heywood has an MFA from the University of Arizona and a Ph.D. from UC-Irvine, and teaches creative writing and cultural studies at SUNY-Binghamton. An authority on women’s sports and a poet and creative non-fiction writer, she is the author of Pretty Good for a Girl: A Memoir (Free Press); Natural Selection: Poems (Louisiana Literature Press); and The Proving Grounds: Poems (Red Hen Press), as well as the author of several books on body image and women in sports.
Ted Jonathan is a poet and short story writer. Born and raised in the Bronx, he lives in Manhattan. His work has appeared in numerous literary magazines. His chapbook, Spiked Libido, was published by Neukeia Press. A full-length collection, Bones and Jokes, is forthcoming from NYQ Books. He is host and curator of The New York Quarterly Reading Series at Cornelia Street Cafe.
Adele Kenny is the author of numerous 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. The recipient of various awards, including poetry fellowships from the New Jersey State Arts Council, she is founding director of the Carriage House Poetry Reading Series and poetry editor of Tiferet.
Deborah LaVeglia holds an MA in Poetics from NYU and has been published in numerous poetry journals, including Lips, Paterson Literary Review, Exit 13, and Tiferet. Her chapbook, Vigil, was published in 2000. She has been co-director of the PoetsWednesday reading series at Barron Arts Center for 18 years, served as poetry editor of Black Swan Review, and was awarded first place in the 1999 Carriage House Poetry Contest (Fanny Wood Awards).
Teresa Leo’s The Halo Rule won the Elixir Press Editor's Prize. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Poetry,
Ploughshares, New Orleans Review, 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.
Zachary Lichtmann grew up 20 minutes west of Belmar, NJ. Presently he is working on his first book of poems while he teaches English in Tewksbury, NJ. In the summertime, he creates metal-arts and jewelry. After earning his BA at Penn State University and his certification at Arcadia University, Zach can now be spotted sneaking into university lecture halls from Harvard to Rutgers.
Priscilla Orr, a recipient of fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and Yaddo, 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 and Interim Dean of Liberal Arts, Social Science and Education at Sussex County Community College.
Gregory Pardlo has received fellowships from the New York Times and the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as a translation grant from the NEA. His poems, reviews and translations have appeared in Calalloo, Painted Bride Quarterly, Ploughshares, and Black Issues Book Review and on National Public Radio. He teaches creative writing at Medgar Evers College, CUNY, and lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. He is the author of Totem, winner of the American Poetry Review/ Honickman First Book Prize.
Linda Radice has had her work published in Exit 13, Edison Literary Review, Paterson Literary Review, Tiferet, and elsewhere. She was the second place recipient of the 2007 Allen Ginsberg Award, and received an honorable mention in the 2008 Awards. She has two children and a granddaughter, and resides in North Plainfield, NJ, with her husband Sam.
Dan Reynolds is Senior Editor with Risk & Insurance Magazine, based in Horsham, Pa. He is a former reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and the Pittsburgh Business Times. His poetry has appeared in the Taproot Literary Review, Point of Light, Wild Violet, and River Poets Journal. Dan moved in July 2007 from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia and lives in Jenkintown with his wife.
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 Review, Rhino, Tiferet, and US 1 Worksheets; recent reviews appear in the Journal of NJ Poets, Sidereality, Jacket, and American Book Review.
John J. Trause is Director of the Wood-Ridge Memorial Library. His poetry appears in Off the Coast, Sulphur River Review, Journal of New Jersey Poets, and Lips. He is the author of two chapbooks, Seriously Serial and Latter-Day Litany. In 2005 and 2006 he was chosen to participate in the Visible Word exhibition and poetry reading at Stevens Institute. In 2005 he co-founded the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative in Rutherford, where he serves as programmer and host.
Christine Waldeyer is the author of Frame by Frame (Muse-Pie Press, 2007). She is a full-time English Instructor at Passaic County Community College. Her poetry has appeared in Exit 13, Lips, Paterson Literary Review, and The Carriage House Poetry Series Tenth Anniversary Anthology. She received an award in the 2008 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, and her chapbook, Gravel, is scheduled for publication in 2009.
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, was published in 2008 by from Texas Review Press. A lifelong resident of New Jersey, he now makes his home in Vestal, New York.
