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.
Iris Marble Cushing was born in Tarzana, California in 1983. A former resident of Arizona, she has been a writer-in-residence at Grand Canyon National Park. She has received grants and awards for her work from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Frederick and Frances Sommer Foundation, and her poems have appeared in the Boston Review, Two Serious Ladies, Paperbag and other journals. Iris holds an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. She currently lives in New York, and works as a writing tutor and editor for Argos Books.
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.
Thomas Devaney is the author of four poetry collections, including The Picture that Remains (The Print Center, 2014), A Series of Small Boxes (Fish Drum, 2007) and The American Pragmatist Fell in Love (Banshee Press, 1999), and a nonfiction book, Letters to Ernesto Neto (Germ Folios, 2005). Devaney teaches creative writing at Haverford College where his collaborative projects with faculty and staff include the poetry tree tour “Under An Oak” and “INSIDE,” a meditation on space and confinement. He is the editor of the e-journal ONandOnScreen. Devaney’s poems have been included in several anthologies, including EMERGENCY INDEX (Ugly Duckling Presse), A BEST OF FENCE: THE FIRST NINE YEARS, VOLUME 1 (Fence Books), POEM: Poets On (an) Exchange Mission (Fish Drum/Double Change, bilingual French-English edition), WALT WHITMAN, Hom(m)age, 2005/1855 (Turtle Point Press and Editions Joca Seria), and AMERICAN POETRY: THE NEXT GENEARTION (Carnegie Mellon). From 2001 to 2005 he was program coordinator of the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. Projects with the Institute of Contemporary Art include “Tales from the 215” for “Philadelphia Freedom” with Zoe Strauss and the “The Empty House” at the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site for “The Big Nothing.” Other projects include poems written for “Common Ground: Eight Philadelphia Photographers in the 1960s and 1970s” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2009). Devaney earned his MFA in Creative Writing at Brooklyn College, CUNY.
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.
Deborah is the author of the poetry collections the last will be stone, too(Stockport Flats), Elements (Stockport Flats), and Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords), as well as a novella in verse, Hélène (Furniture Press). In addition, Deborah co-edited Between Worlds: An Anthology of Fiction and Criticism(Peter Lang).
Deborah’s poetry is forthcoming or has recently appeared in journals such as Court Green, The Feminist Wire,Handsome, Eccolinguistics, Coconut, Shampoo, and Denver Quarterly. Her fiction has appeared in Conversations Across Borders, Fact-Simile Magazine, Night Train, Sidebrow, A Picture’s Worth, Vibrant Gray, and Midway Journal. Deborah’s work is forthcoming or has also appeared in the anthologies Somewhere Else But Here: A Contemporary Anthology of Women and Place (Sundress Publications), In/Filtration: An Anthology of Innovative Hudson Valley Poetics (Station Hill Press), The Lake Rises (Stockport Flats), The Women’s Anthology (Codhill Press), In Our Own Words (MWE), A Sing Economy (Flim Forum) and Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS From the Black Diaspora(Third World Press).
Her visual work—including video and handmade books—has appeared with Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here(New York City), University of Arizona Poetry Center’s Poetry Off the Page Symposium (Tucson), the Handmade/Homemade Sister Exhibit at Brodsky Gallery (Philadelphia), and ONN/OF “a light festival” (Seattle). Online exhibits of her visual and text work include Lex-ICON, Yew Journal, PEEP/SHOW, Elective Affinities, The Volta’s Medium, and Trickhouse.
Deborah Poe is assistant professor of English at Pace University and founder and curator of the annualHandmade/Homemade Exhibit. She has also taught at Western Washington University, Binghamton University, SUNY, the Port Townsend Writer’s Workshop in Washington, and Casa Libre en La Solana in Tucson.
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 is author of Jane & Paige or Sister Goose (2011), Grammar (2012), and Idylliad (2015), all from Furniture Press Books. The spring 2015 issue of Verse features her dossier-chapbook of twenty-six poems, titled Woman Looking at a Vase of Flowers. Her poetry reviews appear in FIELD, Jacket2 and in Kestrel: A Journal of Literature & Art, for which she serves as poetry editor. She lives and teaches in West Virginia.
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.