Jeffrey Alfier’s most recent book is Gone This Long: Southern Poems (Main
Street Rag Publishing Company, 2019). The
Shadow Field, a collection of fresh poems set overseas, is forthcoming from
Louisiana Literature Press (January, 2020). The
Wolf Yearling, (Silver Birch, 2013), Idyll
for a Vanishing River (Glass
Lyre, 2013), and Fugue for a Desert
Mountain (Flutter Press, 2017) are collections of poems set in the American
Southwest. In 2016, Cowboy Buddha Publishing published Anthem for Pacific Avenue,
a collection of California poems, and Aldrich Press came out with The Red Stag at Carrbridge: Scotland Poems. His journal publication
credits include The Carolina Quarterly,
Chiron Review, Copper Nickel, Midwest
Quarterly, Permafrost, Red Earth Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Texas Review. He is founder and
co-editor of Blue Horse Press and San
Pedro River Review.
Dorothy Alexander is a poet, memoirist, storyteller, author of four poetry collections,
two multi-genre memoirs, and two volumes of oral history. Her work has appeared
in a number of journals and anthologies, including Malpais Review; Sugar
Mule Literary Review; Blood & Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine;
Oklahoma Humanities Journal; Missing Persons, (Beatlick Press of
Albuquerque); Weaving
the Terrain (Dos Gatos Press
of ABQ). She curated poetry readings at the annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival
in Oklahoma for 15 years, and is a recipient of the Carlile Award for
Distinguished Service to the Oklahoma literary community. She currently curates
a monthly poetry reading at the Santa Fe Convention Center under the auspices
of the City of Santa Fe NM and its Bureau of Tourism and is co-owner with Devey
Napier of Village Books Press, Cheyenne OK, and Santa Fe NM. In another life,
Dorothy was a lawyer and municipal judge for 45 years.
Rilla Askew is the author of
four novels, a book of stories, and a collection of creative nonfiction, Most
American: Notes from a Wounded Place. She’s a PEN/Faulkner finalist,
recipient of the Western Heritage Award, Oklahoma Book Award, and a 2009 Arts
and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Askew’s
essays, poems, and short fiction have appeared in Tin House, Fish
Drum, Nimrod, AGNI, Green Country: Writing from Northeastern Oklahoma, and
elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at the University of Oklahoma.
