Jim Berkheiser is director of Sussex County’s Writer’s Roundtable and a board member of the Betty June Silconas Poetry Center at Sussex County Community College. His poems have appeared in the Paterson Literary Review, Journal of New Jersey Poets with an Honorable Mention for the 2011 New Jersey Poets Prize, and other publications and anthologies. He is a graduate of Bloomsburg University and has taught drama, public speaking, and English at Kittatinny Regional H.S.
Anthony Buccino’s most recent collections are American Boy: Pushing Sixty and CANNED. He has received a nomination for a Pushcart Prize and earned Honorable Mention in the 2010 Allen Ginsberg awards. Since May 2008, he has produced the New Jersey Poets and Poetry blog.
Theresa Burns’s poems, reviews, and non-fiction have appeared in The New York Times, Prairie Schooner, The Women’s Review of Books, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. A long time book editor, she holds an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. She teaches writing at F.I.T. and at Seton Hall University, and is the author of The Quickening, a chapbook of poems.
Judith A. Christian is president of South Mountain Poets and leads their bi-monthly workshops. She has edited three anthologies of NJ poets, the most recent being Off Line. Since leaving a career in technical publishing over 20 years ago, she has held a series of part-time jobs and has studied at a Tibetan Buddhist center whenever her schedule allows.
John Foy's first book of poetry is Techne’s Clearinghouse. His work is featured in The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets and in many magazines and journals, including Parnassus, The New Criterion, The Raintown Review, and The New Yorker. His work has also been featured at Poetry Daily. He works as a senior financial editor at Itaú Securities and lives in New York City with his wife, son, and daughter.
Gail Fishman Gerwin’s poetry has appeared in Paterson Literary Review, Lips, U.S. 1 Worksheets, Edison Literary Review, and yourdailypoem.com. Her memoir, Sugar and Sand, was named a 2010 Paterson Poetry Prize finalist, and she earned 2008, 2009, and 2010 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards honorable mentions. A Paterson native, Gail is principal of the communications firm inedit in Morristown, where she lives with her husband.
Jim Haba, a retired educator, created the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Program in 1986 and designed and produced the first twelve biennial Dodge Poetry Festivals and the Dodge Poetry-in-the-Schools Program. He was Poetry Consultant for 23 hours of PBS television programming and edited the best-selling 1995 anthology, The Language of Life. In 2006 he published two chapbooks, Thirty-One Poems and Love Poems. He continues to work as a visual artist, designing and constructing painted paper collages.
Laine Sutton Johnson currently teaches for the NJ Arts in Education Program. She has worked professionally in theatre, holds her MA in this field, and taught high school in NJ for 37 years. For her work in educational theatre, she received the NJ Governor’s Award in ’98. Her poetry has been published in the Edison Literary Review, Paterson Literary Review, Lips, and elsewhere. She lives with her husband in Hillsborough, NJ.
Tina Kelley is on the staff of Covenant House, where she is co-writing a book about homeless teenagers to be published by Wiley in 2012. Her first book of poems, The Gospel of Galore (Word Press, 2003), won a Washington State Book Award, and her second book, Precise, will be published by Word Press in 2012. A reporter at The New York Times for ten years, she won a fraction of a Pulitzer Prize for being a part of the Times’ coverage of the September 11 attacks, and wrote 121 “Portraits of Grief,” short descriptions of the victims. She lives with her husband and two children in Maplewood.
Adele Kenny is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction. Her poems, reviews, and articles have been published in journals as well as in books and anthologies. The recipient of two poetry fellowships from the NJ State Arts Council, she is founding director of the Carriage House Poetry Series and poetry editor of Tiferet. Her new collection of poems, What Matters, will be published by Welcome Rain (NYC) in 2011.
Joel Lewis is the author of Learning From New Jersey, Vertical’s Currency, and House Rent Boogie. Kishka King is forthcoming in 2012 from Hanging Loose Press. He has taught creative writing at the Poetry Project, The Writer’s Voice, and Rutgers University.
Matt Longabucco’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in With+Stand, Conduit, Pleiades, and Washington Square. He is a founding member of the Brooklyn Writers’ Collaborative and the co-curator of a reading series called POD. He teaches writing and literature in the Liberal Studies Program at New York University, and lives with his wife and daughter in Brooklyn.
Dorothy McLaughlin taught social studies and then worked part time as a substitute teacher. Currently a member of the Haiku Society of America and Tanka Society of America, she was haiku editor of the Piedmont Literary Review for ten years before it ceased publication and was also facilitator of a haiku workshop at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Rutgers University for several years.
Carley Moore’s poetry has appeared in Coconut, Conduit, Fence, and Painted Bride Quarterly. She recently completed her first young adult novel, The Stalker Chronicles, which is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. She is a full-time faculty member in the Liberal Studies Program at New York University, where she teaches writing. She lives with her husband and daughter in Brooklyn, New York.
Peter E. Murphy is the author of Stubborn Child, a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize, and a chapbook of poems, Thorough & Efficient, both from Jane Street Press. Recipient of a 2009 Poetry Fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts, he teaches at Richard Stockton College and directs the annual Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway in Cape May, NJ.
Eric Norris works as a law librarian in New York City. He also studies Japanese in his spare time. His work has appeared in The Raintown Review, The Barefoot Muse, Ganymede, and the anthology, This New Breed: Gents, Badboys & Barbarians, published by Windstorm Creative Press. He is the author of a chapbook, Terence, a comic translation of A.E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad.
Michelle Ovalle’s work has been published in the Edison Literary Review and is forthcoming in the anthology Dear Sister. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Drew University. When she's not writing poetry, Michelle enjoys photography and blogging.
R.G. Rader is an award-winning poet and playwright, actor, director and a professor of English and Theater. He is the founding publisher and editor of Muse-Pie Press. His poetry has been published in journals and anthologies throughout the US and abroad, and he is the author of three poetry collections: Neon Shapes (Merit Book Award winner), Raising the Blade: Collected Haiku and Tanka 1980-2000, and Kicking the Rain (Finishing Line Press, 2010).
Edwin Romond has been awarded poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and from both the New Jersey and Pennsylvania State Arts Councils. An English teacher for 32 years, he now works in the poetry program of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. Grayson Books will release his new book of poems, Alone with Love Songs, later this year.
Susan Rothbard’s poetry has appeared in The Literary Review, Poet Lore, Paterson Literary Review, and other journals and has been featured on Verse Daily. She earned her MFA degree in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University and teaches English and creative writing at Livingston High School.
Shelley Stenhouse was a finalist for the 2009 National Poetry Series. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and an Allen Ginsberg Award. Her poetry and fiction have been published in New York Quarterly, The Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, and Quarterly West, and she has read her work on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” NYQ Books published her new poetry collection, Impunity.
Douglas Treem lives and works in N.Y.C. His book of poems, Everything So Seriously, is published by NYQ Books, which will also be bringing out his collection of plays, The Price of Admission Alone.
Joe Weil is a lecturer in the graduate creative writing program at Binghamton University-State University of New York. His book, Painting the Christmas Trees, was published in 2008 by from Texas Review Press. His latest book, The Plumber's Apprentice, was published by NYQ Books. Recently married, he makes his home in Vestal, New York.
Dave Worrell's poems have appeared in U.S. 1 Worksheets, Mad Poets Review, Fox Chase Review, and Wild River Review. Several of his poems incorporate musical accompaniment, and he has performed those pieces at Chris’ Jazz Café in Philadelphia, Café Improv in Princeton, and The Cornelia Street Café in New York.
