Authors
Anne Ashbaugh
Edmund Berrigan
Emily Carr is one of four poets featured in Toadlily Press’s 2009 Quartet Series, By the Way Of. She has also received awards from Writers at Work, So To Speak, Elixir Press, and Poets Out Loud and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Cole Swensen chose Emily’s book of poetry, 13 ways of happily: books 1 & 2, as the winner of the New Measures Poetry Prize 2009. It is forthcoming in 2010 from Parlor Press. Her poetry has been published most recently or is forthcoming in Bombay Gin, Interim, The Black Warrior Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Gargoyle, Margie, Phoebe, Matrix, The Capilano Review, Dusie, ISLE, So To Speak, Caketrain, CV2, The Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review and Versal. Emily has also published scholarly work on poetics, performance, and pedagogy in Jacket, HOW2, ISLE, and English Studies in Canada.
Catherine Daly’s furniture press publications are COCKTAILS and SKANK. She’s the author of eight books, most recently VAUXHALL (Shearsman, 2008). The sequel to DADADA (Salt, 2003), OOD: Object-Oriented Design, is forthcoming from Cracked Slab. Publisher of i.e. Press, she lives in Los Angeles with author Ron Burch.
Catherine has reviewed poetry for The Chicago Review, American Book Review, The Boston Review, and Rain Taxi and taught creative and critical writing, media, and literature at colleges and universities. Her MFA is as useful as her twenty years’ experience in software development.
Ryan Eckes was born in Northeast Philadelphia in 1979. He wrote Old News from the spring of 2008 to the spring of 2009 in South Philadelphia, where he continues to reside. More of his poetry can be found in the book when i come here (Plan B Press, 2007), on his blog, ryaneckes.blogspot.com, and in various journals. Along with Stan Mir, he organizes the Chapter & Verse Reading Series. He works as an adjunct English professor at Temple University and other colleges.
Jennifer Hill
Natalie Knight
Donna Kuhn
Magus Magnus lives in the D.C. metro area. Ten years in the making, Heraclitean Pride is Magnus’ re-creation / recreation of Heraclitus’lost book, based on the extant fragments and ancient testimonia. His Idylls for a Bare Stage is forthcoming in 2011 from twentythreebooks.
The “poetic” informs Magnus’ approach to philosophy in the former title and to theater in the latter, while he approaches poetry directly with his book Verb Sap (Narrow House 2008). Two poems from Verb Sap – “Radical Crumb” and “Empirical / Imperial Demonstration” – have been selected for the 10th edition of Pearson Longman’s English anthology, Literature.
Nicole Mauro
Chris McCreary is the author of two previous full-length collections, The Effacements (Singing Horse Press) and Dismembers (ixnay press), in addition to several chapbooks, including Sansom Agonistease (Potes & Poets Press). Along with his wife Jenn McCreary, he has co-edited ixnay press for over a decade, pub-lishing numerous chapbooks, eight issues of ixnay magazine, and four installments of a “mini-anthology” entitled the ixnay reader. (Much of the press’s output is now available as free pdf files at ixnaypress.com.)
Chris has reviewed fiction, poetry, and poetics for venues such as Rain Taxi, The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Review of Contemporary Fiction, and he has published his own short fiction in New Review of Literature and elsewhere. He holds an MA in Creative Writing from Temple University, and he teaches at a private high school outside of Philadelphia, where he lives with Jenn and their twin sons.
Elizabeth Robinson
Elizabeth Robinson is the author of 10 collections of poetry, most recently The Orphan & its Relations from Fence Books, and Also Known As from Apogee Press. A new poetry collection, Three Novels, will be out from Omnidawn in 2011. Robinson has been the winner of the National Poetry Series (for Pure Descent, Sun & Moon Press) and the Fence Modern Poets Prize (for Apprehend). She has also been the winner of the Baxter Hathaway Prize for a long poem from Epoch Magazine and the recipient of grants from the Fund for Poetry and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Robinson’s work has been anthologized in such places as The Best American Poetry, 2002, Not for Mothers Only, American Hybrid, The Best of Fence, The Grand Permission, and Radical Vernacular. She has taught widely and is a co-editor with Colleen Lookingbill of EtherDome Chapbooks which publishes first chapbooks by otherwise unpublished women. She also co-edits Instance Press with Beth Anderson and Laura Sims. Instance publishes innovative poetry. Robinson lives with her family in Boulder, Colorado.
Elizabeth Savage
lives and teaches in Fairmont, West Virginia. In 2011, Furniture Press published her chapbook, Jane & Paige or Sister Goose. In 2012, FPB will release Grammar, her first published, full-length collection. Critical essays on others’ writing appear in Contemporary Women’s Writing, Feminist Teacher, HOW2, Journal of Modern Literature, and elsewhere. She is poetry editor for Kestrel: A Journal of Literature & Art.
Dan Waber
Joshua Ware lives in Lincoln, Nebraska where he is finishing his doctorate in poetry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of the chapbooks Excavations (Further Adventures Press) and A Series of Ad Hoc Permutations (Scantily Clad Press), as well as the co-author of I, NE: Iterations of the Junco (Small Fires Press). His writing and collages have appeared in many journals, such as American Letters & Commentary, Colorado Review, New American Writing, New Orleans Review, and Quarterly West.