Dorothy
Alexander is a poet, storyteller and
editor/publisher of a small independent press. Author of four poetry
collections, and a memoir in prose and poetry, Dorothy is a founding member of
the Woody Guthrie Poetry Readings in Okemah, Oklahoma. Inspired by the agrarian
literary tradition and the populist political movements in the rural United
States. She embraces primarily the narrative form, what she calls
“narcissistic” narrative, and “selfie” poetry. The Oklahoma Center for the Book
selected Dorothy as recipient of the Carlile Distinguished Service Award for
her services to the Oklahoma literary community in 2013.
Rilla Askew received
a 2009 Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Her essays and short fiction have appeared in a variety of journals, and her
story "The Killing Blanket" was selected for Prize Stories 1993: The
O. Henry Awards. Askew's first novel, The
Mercy Seat, was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Dublin IMPAC
Prize, was a Boston Globe Notable Book, and received the Oklahoma Book Award
and the Western Heritage Award in 1998. Fire
in Beulah, her novel about the Tulsa Race Riot, received the American Book
Award and the Myers Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of
Bigotry and Human Rights. She was a 2004 fellow at Civiella Ranieri in
Umbertide, Italy, and in 2008 her novel Harpsong
received the Oklahoma Book Award, the Western Heritage Award, the WILLA Award
from Women Writing the West, and the Violet Crown Award from the Writers League
of Texas. Askew received the 2011 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from
the Oklahoma Center for the Book. Her latest novel is Kind of Kin (Ecco Press, 2013 and in the UK by Atlantic Books).
Paul Austin has acted and
directed On and Off Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, summer stock, and regional
theatres around the nation, as well as acting for television and film,
including roles on West Wing, Law and
Order, Cosby, and the films, Palookaville,
Thirteen Conversations, Tune in Tomorrow, and Sommersby. Among recent stage
appearances were Neil's Bohr in Copenhagen,
the title role in Krapp’s Last Tape,
the Foreman in Vaclav Havel’s Audience
and Late Night Conspiracies, a
collection of his own writings at New York’s Ensemble Studio Theatre, where he
is a long time member. Mr. Austin has
directed first productions of a number of new plays, including Percy Granger’s Eminent Domain at the Circle in the
Square on Broadway. He has written for and about the theatre in essays, poetry,
plays, and Spontaneous Behavior, a
book on acting. Dreaming Angel, was included in More
Monologues for Men by Men and was also published as a prose poem in Newport Review. A poem, chet baker’s return, will be published
by This Land Press. He was for many years the Artistic Director of The Image Theatre
in New York, where he produced plays and taught acting. In addition to teaching privately in NY, he
has also taught at Rutgers University, the University of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma
Summer Arts Institute and was a tenured faculty member at Sarah Lawrence
College for twenty years. He recently received the Teachers who Make a
Difference award from the Creative Coalition. Mr. Austin is currently Artistic
Director of The Liberty Free Theatre in upstate New York.
Walter Bargen has published
eighteen books of poetry. His most recent books are: Days Like This Are Necessary: New & Selected Poems (2009), Endearing Ruins (2012), Trouble Behind Glass Doors (2013), Quixotic (2014), and Gone West (2014). He was appointed the
first poet laureate of Missouri (2008-2009). He was awarded a National
Endowment of the Arts Fellowship (1991), the Hanks Prize (1996), The William
Rockhill Nelson Award (2005), and others. His poems, essays, and stories have
appeared in over 100 magazines. www.walterbargen.com
Alan Berecka is a librarian at Del Mar
College in Corpus Christi. He has published poetry in such places as the Red River Review, Concho River Review and
the Texas Review. He has published
three collections of poetry. He has been a regular presenter at the Scissortail
since its second year and is grateful to have had a front row seat to watch the
growth of this wonderful annual event, and for all the deep friendships this
event has brought him. In appreciation of one of those friendships he would
like to dedicate his reading to the memory of the Late-Great Jim Spurr.
Jerry Bradley is University Professor of
English at Lamar University. He is the author of 6 books including 3 books of
poetry: Simple Versions of Disaster, The
Importance of Elsewhere, and most recently Crownfeathers and Effigies. A member of the Texas Institute of
Letters, Bradley was selected as a 2014 Piper Professor by the Minnie Stevens
Piper Foundation. He was also named Outstanding Alumnus from Midwestern State
University’s College of Liberal Arts in 2002. His poetry has appeared in many
literary magazines including New England
Review, Modern Poetry Studies, Poetry Magazine, and Southern Humanities Review.
He is poetry editor of Concho
River Review.
Joey Brown is a poet and prose writer
whose work has appeared in a number of literary journals and magazines, most
recently Cybersoliel, Oklahoma Review, and Louisiana Review. She has published one
collection of poems, Oklahomaography
(2010), and recently completed a second titled Feral Love. Her most recent projects include a collection of
humorous essays about her misadventures in home
renovations,
and a nonfiction essay/blogging project on what it means to live well which she
is coauthoring with her husband, prose writer Michael Howarth. In 2014, Joey
founded the Celebration of Ozarks Literature at Missouri Southern State
University, where she teaches professional, technical, and creative writing.
Julie Chappell’s creative writing has
appeared in several anthologies and journals including Revival: Spoken
Word from Lollapalooza 94; For Jayhawk Fans Only; Agave: A Celebration of Tequila in Story, Song, Poetry, Essay, and
Graphic Art; Elegant Rage: A Poetic Tribute to Woody Guthrie; Cybersoleil: A
Literary Journal; Malpaïs Review; Voices de la Luna, and Dragon Poet Review & Quarterly. Her first poetry
collection, Faultlines: One Woman’s Shifting Boundaries, was published by
Village Books Press in October 2013. She also co-edited an anthology of
creative works, entitled Writing Texas, published in March 2014 by Lamar University Press. She is
currently working on a second volume of poetry, Mad Habits of a
Life, and a memoir of her years as the sheriff’s daughter, The Jail/House
Rocked.
Jerry Craven has published 25 books; the
most recent is a 2014 novel, Women of Thunder from TCU Press: http://womenofthunder.com/
. Currently Craven lives in Jasper, Texas and commutes to Lamar University
where he is press director for Lamar University Press. He also serves as
director for Ink Brush Press and as editor-in-chief of the literary journal Amarillo
Bay. He has taught for five universities in three countries and has
lived for extended periods of time in South America, South-East Asia, the
Middle East and Europe. www.jerrycraven.com
Terry Dalrymple's publications include
four books of fiction, including the forthcoming collection Love Stories (Sort Of); thirty or so stories published in anthologies and literary
journals; and a collection he edited called Texas Soundtrack. He founded the
long-running literary journal Concho River Review as well as the Fort Concho Museum Press Literary Festival held in
San Angelo, TX, for ten years. He is a member of the Texas Institute of
Letters. He has taught literature and writing at Angelo State University for
the past thirty-five years.
Michael Dooley (aka Woodstok Farley) is an
assistant professor at Tarleton State University. He has taught in the
Department of English and Languages for nearly fourteen years now. Michael also
is a long time sponsor of Sigma Tau Delta and a founding advisor of TSU’s
Academic Advising Center. Having submitted regularly to faculty chapbooks,
Michael has branched out and began attending local and regional conferences to
present original creative short stories in such venues as SCMLA, Langdon
Review, SWPCAC, and Scissortail. Recently, Michael had his first short story,
“As the Wave Rose,” published in the online literary journal Cybersoleil. His latest creation is the
third chapter of an episodic work entitled Surf, Swamp and Stone.
Third
generation Oklahoman Maureen Oehler
DuRant is dead set on becoming a poet. So, she writes, reads, wanders the
Wichitas, and goes to Scissortail where she finds inspiration and
encouragement. She teaches at Cameron University and presents writing workshops
for Oklahoma teachers and students as an Oklahoma Writing Project Teacher
Consultant. Her publications include poetry in Red River Review, Crosstimbers, poetry and fiction in The Oklahoma Writing Project 2011 and
2013 anthologies, and a postcard
history of the United States Military Academy at West Point published by
Arcadia Press.
Alan Gann, a retired
electrical engineer in the midst of his second career as a teaching artist,
facilitates creative writing workshops at Texans Can Academy and wrote DaVerse Works, Big Thought’s poetry
curriculum for secondary schools. A longtime member and current president of
the Dallas Poets Community, he has helped edit their literary journal, Illya’s Honey, and has become the
guiding force behind their peer workshop series. A multiple Pushcart Prize and
Best of the Net Award nominee, Alan co-edits the online journal Red River Review. Some of the journals
that have published his work are Red Fez,
Main Street Rag, The Texas Poetry Calendar, and Cybersoleil
(forthcoming). What’s left of Alan’s time is filled with folk music, bike
riding, bird walks, and photographing dragonflies.
Andrew Geyer’s latest book project is the hybrid story cycle Texas 5X5, a collection of twenty-five interconnected fictional narratives by five Texas writers that was published in 2014 by Stephen F. Austin University Press. He is the co-editor of the composite anthology A Shared Voice, published by Lamar University Press in 2013. His individually authored works are Dixie Fish (2011), a novel; Siren Songs from the Heart of Austin (2010), a story cycle; Meeting the Dead (2007), a novel; and Whispers in Dust and Bone (2003), a story cycle that won the silver medal for short fiction in the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Awards and the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, and recently recognized as a Breakthrough Rising Star by the USC system, he currently serves as Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina Aiken and as fiction editor for Concho River Review.
Andrew Geyer’s latest book project is the hybrid story cycle Texas 5X5, a collection of twenty-five interconnected fictional narratives by five Texas writers that was published in 2014 by Stephen F. Austin University Press. He is the co-editor of the composite anthology A Shared Voice, published by Lamar University Press in 2013. His individually authored works are Dixie Fish (2011), a novel; Siren Songs from the Heart of Austin (2010), a story cycle; Meeting the Dead (2007), a novel; and Whispers in Dust and Bone (2003), a story cycle that won the silver medal for short fiction in the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Awards and the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, and recently recognized as a Breakthrough Rising Star by the USC system, he currently serves as Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina Aiken and as fiction editor for Concho River Review.
Jessica Glover teaches for the
English department and the Gender and Women’s Studies program at Oklahoma State
University. She graduated from Missouri State University in 2009 with her MA in
English. Currently, she is working on her first book as a PhD candidate. Her latest
work has appeared in American Literary
Review, Aesthetica, Magma Poetry, Reed Magazine, So to Speak, and MuseWrite's Shifts: An Anthology of Women's
Growth Through Change. She won the 2013 Rash Awards and the 2013 Edwin
Markham Prize for Poetry. Her work is forthcoming in Slippery Elm and Oklahoma
Humanities.
Bayard Godsave is the author of two short
story collections: Lesser Apocalypses
and Torture Tree. His work has appeared
in the Cream City Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Pleiades, among other places. He teaches
writing at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma.
As
a lifelong student of history and lover of alternative historical fiction,
William Peter Grasso’s novels explore the concept change one thing…and watch what happens. The results are works of
fiction in which actual people and historical events are weaved into a seamless
and entertaining narrative with the imagined. Grasso’s six novels—East Wind Returns, Unpunished, Long Walk To
The Sun, Operation Long Jump, Operation Easy Street, and Operation Blind Spot—have spent many
months in the Amazon Top 100 for Alternative History and War. Retired from the
aircraft maintenance industry, he is a veteran of the US Army and served in
Operation Desert Storm as a flight crew member with the Civil Reserve Air
Fleet. These days, he confines his aviation activities to building and flying
radio controlled model aircraft.
Gail Henderson has been published in Byline
and Creations 2012, Creations 2013, Creations 2014, and Blackbirds:
First Flight. She has published two books of poetry. Red Bird Woman
is a collection of poems published under the name Gail Wood. Bare is a
collaboration with Oklahoma photographer Mike Duncan which features poems
written specifically for nude photographs. She holds a Masters of Education in
English and Social Studies from East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, and
currently sits on the board for the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and
Substance Abuse Services.
Carol
Hamilton has upcoming and recent publications in Louisiana Review, Tribeca Poetry Review, Boston Literary Review,
Atlanta Review, I-70 Review, U.S.1 Worksheet, Colere, A Narrow Fellow, Lilliput, Bluestem, Flint Hills Review, Hubbub,
Blue Unicorn, Sow’s Ear Poetry and
others. She has published 17 books: children's novels, legends and poetry. She
is a former Poet Laureate of Oklahoma and has been nominated five times for a
Pushcart Prize. Her most recent volume of poetry is Such Deaths.
Michelle Hartman’s work was recently featured in the Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, and also appears in over 70
journals and 20 anthologies as well as multiple countries overseas. Her second
book of poetry, Irony and Irreverence
from Lamar University Press is due out soon and will be available on Amazon
along with her first book, Disenchanted
and Disgruntled. She is the editor for the online journal, Red River Review and holds a BS in
Political Science-Pre Law from Texas Wesleyan University.
LeAnne Howe is the author of
novels, plays, poetry, screenplays, and scholarship that deal with Native
experiences. An enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, her first
novel Shell Shaker, received an
American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation 2002; Evidence of Red, poetry, won the
Oklahoma Book Award, 2006, and Choctalking
on Other Realities, memoir, won the 2014 MLA Prize for Studies in Native American
Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. Other awards
include a Fulbright scholarship 2010-2011; 2012 Lifetime Achievement
Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas; and a 2012 United States
Artists Ford Fellowship. Howe’s current project is a
new play co-authored with playwright and actress Monique Mojica titled, Sideshow Freaks and Circus Injuns. She is the Eidson Distinguished Professor of
American Literature at the University of Georgia. For more info see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWDVttYrMJo&feature=youtu.be
Jessica Isaacs is an English professor at
Seminole State College, where she serves as the director of SSC’s annual
Howlers & Yawpers Creativity Symposium. Her first full-length book of
poems, Deep August, was released by
Village Books Press in December, 2014. She has presented her writing at several
regional and national conferences, and she has published her poems in various
journals and anthologies, including Cybersoleil
Literary Journal, All Roads Lead Home Poetry Blog, SugarMule’s Women Writing
Nature, The Muse, Elegant Rage, an audio book – Spare Ashes (in production with KevyD Records), and a chapbook – smoldering embers. She is a member of
the coordinating committee for the Woody Guthrie Poets, and she is also the
founder and co-editor of Dragon Poet
Review, an online literary journal. She makes her home in Prague, Oklahoma
with her husband, kids, dog, and cat.
Mark Allen Jenkins is a PhD student in Humanities
with a Creative Writing Focus at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the
former Editor-in-Chief for Reunion: The
Dallas Review. His poetry has appeared in Memorious, minnesota review, South Dakota Review, Sycamore Review,
and is forthcoming in Every River on
Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio.
Hank Jones has taught English composition
and literature at Tarleton State University for the past fourteen years, as
well as serving a four-year stint as Assistant Director in the International
Office, and has found none of this conducive to writing poetry. But he has
started writing again anyway. He has read his poetry and creative non-fiction
at various venues including Woody Guthrie Festival stages in Oklahoma City and
Okemah, Oklahoma; The Langdon Review Weekend in Granbury, Texas; The Winter
Gathering Festival in Stephenville, Texas; South Central MLA in Fort Worth;
PCA/ACA in San Antonio; and Southwest PCA/ACA in Albuquerque (for three
consecutive years). His poetry and creative non-fiction have also appeared in Cybersoleil:
A Literary Journal (2013, 2014), Voices de la Luna (2014), and Dragon
Poet Review (2014). This past April he reached a pinnacle when he was
accepted to read at the Scissortail Creative Writing Festival in Ada, Oklahoma.
Hardy Jones is author of the novel Every Bitter Thing (Black Lawrence Press, 2010)
and the memoir People
of the Good God (Mongrel
Empire Press, 2015). His essay “Dry Gumbo” and short story “A New Bike for
Little Mike” are nominated for 2015 Pushcart Prizes. His creative nonfiction
has been awarded two grants. His fiction and nonfiction has appeared in
journals such as the Red Truck Review, Louisiana Folklife Journal,
Litterbox Magazine, The Straitjackets, Driftless Review, Dark Sky Magazine, The
Furnace Review, and The Jabberwock Review. His short stories were
anthologized in the 2009 Dogzplot Flash Fiction Anthology, The Best
of Clapboard House Literary Journal, Southern Gothic: New Tales of the
South, and Summer Shorts II. He is the co-founder and Executive
Editor of the online journal Cybersoleil (www.cybersoleiljournal.com), and he is the Flash
Fiction Editor for Sugar Mule Hardy Jones is an Associate Professor of
English and the Director of Creative Writing at Cameron University (hjones@cameron.edu). His website is www.hardyjoneswriting.com
and he is on Twitter @HardyJonesWrite. Hardy splits his time between Lawton,
Oklahoma and Si Sa Ket Province Thailand.
Jennifer Kidney is a freelance scholar and
adjunct assistant professor for the College of Liberal Studies at the University
of Oklahoma. She is the author of six books of poetry; her most recent
collection, Road Work Ahead, was published by Village Books Press in
2012. She hopes to have a new book, The Road to the River, out soon. Her
poetry has also appeared in numerous journals and little magazines, including Sugar
Mule, Crosstimbers, Picking Up the Tempo, Kudzu, The Seattle Review, Malpais
Review, and The Bellingham Review. She has done poetry readings all
across Oklahoma as well as in Texas, Wyoming, Ohio, Michigan, and at the
Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2005. She has twice been nominated for Oklahoma
Poet Laureate—by the Oklahoma Library Association in 2006 and by the Jim
Lucas-Checotah Public Library in 2008, when she was one of three finalists for
the distinction. She has a B.A. with
Highest Honors in English from Oberlin College and a M.Phil. and Ph.D. in
English from Yale University and more than twenty years of university level
teaching experience. She has also worked as a technical writer,
poet-in-the-schools, and arts administrator.
In 2007, the Oklahoma Library Association presented her with a Special
Project Award for Let's Talk About It, Oklahoma, a statewide reading and
discussion project that Kidney oversaw for twenty-two years. Kidney has won
awards for her poetry, technical writing, and brownie baking, and lately she
has been presenting a series of programs on Herbs and Spices at the Ada and Jim
Lucas-Checotah Public Libraries. She lives in Norman with two cats, Princess
Freddy and Marvin Gaye, and her dog Lizzie.
Former NEA Fellow Donald Levering’s 12th poetry book,
The Water Leveling With Us, was published in 2014 by Red Mountain Press.
He has worked as a groundskeeper, teacher on the Navajo reservation, and human
services administrator. Featured in the Academy of American Poets Forum, the Ad
Astra Poetry Project, and the Duende Series, he won the 2015 Literal Latté
Award. His poems have appeared in The Alembic, Atlanta Review, Blue Rock
Review, Bloomsbury Review, Columbia, Commonweal, Harpur Palate, Hiram Poetry
Review, Hunger Mountain, Notre Dame Review, Poet & Critic, Poet Lore,
Quiddity, Southern Poetry Review, Water~Stone, and Yemassee. He is
married to the artist Jane Shoenfeld and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Visit
donaldlevering.com.
Johnie Catfish
Mahan is a performance street poet. He loves to engage his audience
with currently nostalgic ideas and thought provoking poems. With six
self-published chap books and the seventh, Posthumorously,
in the works JC is busy getting his poetry out to the people. He has featured
at Shawnee, Full Circle, Wayward Poets, and soon at the Norman Train Depot. His
poems have been published in Blood and
Thunder, Dragon Poet, and many of the Oklahoma/Woody Guthrie Journals. One
of his favorite venues is Scissortail. As a hair stylist and owner of JC"s
funky Hair Ranch Salon in Edmond, he has hosted many poetry readings, wine
tastings, art shows and concerts. Be sure to like the salon face book page.
Catfish also enjoys cooking, pottery, painting, photography, raising poultry
and bees.
George McCormick has published stories
most recently in Epoch, This Land, Santa Monica Review,
and arcadia. His story collection, Salton Sea, was published by
Noemi Press in 2013, and his story "The Mexican" won a 2013 O. Henry
Prize. In 2015 Queen's Ferry Press will publish his novel Inland Empire.
McCormick lives with his wife and daughter in Lawton, Oklahoma, where he
teaches in the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Cameron
University.
Gary Worth Moody's first collection of poems, Hazards of Grace was published by Red
Mountain Press in 2012. His second collection, Occoquan, also by Red Mountain Press (forthcoming in March 2015)
depicts the struggles of women for emancipation and suffrage in the environs of
Virginia's piedmont region and the infamous Occoquan Workhouse. Of Hazards of Grace, Stephen Bodio, author
of Eagle Dreams and Querencia writes: “In a time when so
much poetry is weak tea, Gary Worth Moody’s comes on like a rare old bourbon,
rich and complex and burning like fire”. About Occoquan, Denise Low, former Kansas Poet Laureate (2007-2009) and
author of Mélange Block, states: “In
reading Occoquan I enter timeless
conflagrations of events. This poet is a live ember.” A graduate of St. John's
College and of the George Mason University MFA Program, Gary has worked as a
forest fire fighter, a farrier, a cowboy, and building a town for coal miners
in Siberia’s Kuzbass Region. His poems have appeared in myriad journals on both
sides of the Atlantic, and in the anthology Cabin
Fever: Poets at Joaquin Miller’s Cabin, 1984-2001 (Word Works Press). A
falconer, Gary lives in Santa Fe with the artist and writer, Oriana Rodman, two
dogs and a red-tail hawk.
Dr. Phil Morgan is a poet, a painter, a songwriter, a biographer and historian, a literary critic and novelist. Four of the six books he has published since 2006 have won regional, national or international awards. His most recent work, a novel titled Anompolichi the Wordmaster, a story set in 1399 in America, was published in October by White Dog Press.
John Graves Morris, Professor of English at
Cameron University, is a naturalized Okie, having lived in the state nearly
three times as long as he has ever lived anywhere else (Belleville, Illinois,
his original hometown; Johnson Air Base in Tokyo, Japan; three cities in New
Mexico; three cities in Wisconsin; Tempe, AZ; and for twenty-six years and
counting, Lawton). At Cameron, he teaches courses in freshman English, American
literature, film, and creative writing--poetry. He is the author of Noise
and Stories (Plain View Press, 2008) and is still attempting to finish a
second collection to be entitled Unwritten Histories. His poems
have appeared recently or will appear in The Great Plains Journal, The
Red Earth Review, The Red River Review, Volume One, and Westview.
His poem "This Patched Town, This Home," which appeared in the August
2014 issue of The Red River Review has been nominated by the editors of
the journal for a Pushcart Prize.
karla k. morton, the 2010 Texas Poet Laureate,
is a Councilor of the Texas Institute of Letters and a graduate of Texas
A&M University. Described as “one of
the most adventurous voices in American poetry,” she is a Betsy Colquitt Award
Winner, twice an Indie National Book Award Winner, the recipient of the
Writer-in-Residency E2C Grant, and the author of ten collections of
poetry. Morton has been nominated for
the Pushcart Prize, is a nominee for the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame, and established
an ekphrastic collaborative touring exhibit titled: No End
of Vision: Texas as Seen By Two Laureates, pairing photography with
poetry. Morton’s work has been used by
many students in their UIL Contemporary Poetry contests, and was recently
featured with seven other prominent authors in 8 Voices: Contemporary Poetry of the American Southwest.
Thomas
“Tom” Murphy
grew up in Barron Park, an unincorporated section of Palo Alto, CA. Murphy
first published poems and fiction in 1986. Winner of the Charles Gordone award
in both fiction and poetry 2000 and 2001 respectively, Murphy has had work
recently published in Beatitude: Golden Anniversary Edition, Windward Review,
Nebula, Strike, Switchgrass Review and forthcoming in Voices de la Luna. He has been an
editor of three different literary journals. He continues to pen visceral
poems, fiction, personal essays, literary articles, and interviews and has
expanded his art in the mediums of photography, video, multimedia and
sculpture. He lives with his wife and their three daughters and teaches at
Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi.
Benjamin Myers is the 2015/2016
Oklahoma Poet Laureate and the author of two books of poetry: Lapse Americana (New York Quarterly
Books 2013) and Elegy for Trains (Village Books Press 2010). His poems have appeared in The Yale Review, Nimrod, 32 Poems, Poetry Northwest, Tar River
Poetry, Salamander, The New York Quarterly, The Christian Century, and many other journals, as well as online at the Verse Daily
website. His reviews and essays may be read in World Literature Today, Books and Culture, and several academic journals. He is the recipient of a 2014
Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and of a
2011 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry. Myers teaches creative writing and
literature at Oklahoma Baptist University, where he is the Crouch-Mathis
Associate Professor of Literature.
Brent Newsom is the author of the poetry
collection Love’s Labors (CavanKerry
Press, 2015). His poetry and prose have appeared in This Land, The Southern
Review, Cave Wall, PANK, Pleiades, The Oklahoma Review,
and elsewhere. A native of Louisiana, he holds a PhD in English from Texas Tech
University and teaches creative writing and literature at Oklahoma Baptist
University.
Brady Peterson was born in Ft. Sill, Oklahoma and currently lives near Belton, Texas where for
much of the past twenty-nine years he worked building homes and teaching
rhetoric. His poems have appeared in New Texas, Windhover, Nerve Cowboy,
Boston Literary Magazine, Heartlodge, The Journal of Military Experience, Texas
Poetry Calendar, Enigmatist, all roads will lead you home, Blue Hole and San
Antonio Express-News. He has published a chapbook, Glued to the
Earth and a full length volume of poetry, Between Stations.
Jason Poudrier is currently an instructor at
Cameron University and is serving as an executive council board member of
Military Experience & the Arts. His poems have recently appeared in World
Literature Today and Blue Streak. He is currently working on his
first novel Holding Midnight. He has authored two poetry collections, Red
Fields (Mongrel Empire Press, 2012) and a chapbook, In the Rubble at Our
Feet (Rose Rock Press, 2011). In 2013 Red Fields was awarded the Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal,
short-listed for the Hoffer Grand Prize, and awarded an honorable mention in
the poetry category.
Elizabeth Raby is the author of a
memoir, Ransomed Voices (Red Mountain
Press, 2013), three full-length poetry collections, This Woman, Ink on Snow, and The
Year the Pears Bloomed Twice, all published by Virtual Artists Collective,
and four chapbooks. She was one of eight poets selected for the anthology, 8 Voices: Contemporary Poetry of the
American Southwest (Baskerville Publishers, 2012). She and her husband live
in Santa Fe, NM where they conduct a monthly open poetry reading.
Charlotte Renk settled in rural Athens, Texas
to teach, raise a family, and write after earning her Ph.D. from L.S.U..
Besides journals such as Kalliope, Concho
River, Mochila Review, Sow’s Ear, and
Southwest Review, Eakin Press published her prizewinning These Holy Hungers: Secret Yearnings from an
Empty Cup, Poetry in the Arts published, Solidago, An Altar to Weeds, and Blue Horse Press selected The
Tenderest Petal Hears, co-winner of the 2014 chapbook contest. She walks
the woods behind her cabin to find inspiration in the natural world and sort
thoughts about the unnatural one.
The
poems and essays of Carol Coffee Reposa
have appeared or are forthcoming in The
Atlanta Review, The Formalist, The
Texas Observer, Coal City Review, The Valparaiso Review, and others. She
has published four collections of poetry: At
the Border: Winter Lights, The Green Room, Facts of Life and Underground Musicians. Thrice nominated
for the Pushcart Prize and twice a finalist for Texas State Poet Laureate, she
also has received three Fulbright-Hays Fellowships for study in Russia, Peru,
Ecuador and Mexico. She now works as nonfiction editor for Concho River Review and as poetry editor for Voices de la Luna, having
become a professor emerita of English at San Antonio College in 2010
Sally Rhoades, a North Country
artist, is a poet, playwright and performer. She has been published in UpThe
River, an anthology of the Hudson Valley, Elegant Rage, an Anthology on
Woody Gutherie’s centennial, the Highwatermark Salo[o]n Series of
Stockport flats, Peer Glass, an anthology of Hudson valley and on 8T3 at
swankwriting.com. Her first play, Cradle
Arms, was invited to the New York State University Playwriting Festival at
Brockport, NY. Tina Howe, the keynote speaker, called it, "...a brave new
work." It had a twentieth anniversary performance in 2012. Her other play,
Moon Over Manhattan, was produced at the Johnstown Colonial Theatre in 2007 and
brought to the Philadelphia Fringe Festival in 2008. Performance work includes:
“I am Wing,” she said. “I am Wing”, presented at the Yes! Poetry and
Performance series, Albany, NY(2014), ReWind, shown in NYC(2013), Howl,
a Poet Dances, performed at the Arts Center of the Capital Region(2013), Beyond
the Birch, the BirchBeyond, NYC(2011) Pomegranates and Roses, a Love Story,
shown at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival(2008).She has performed in Luis
Lara Malvacias’, Sooner than you think at the 92nd street Y's Harkness
Festival, NYC(2009). She received an MA in Creative Writing (1995) from the
University of Albany, Albany, N.Y.
R. Flowers Rivera is a native of Mississippi. She
completed a Ph.D. in English at Binghamton University, and an M.A. in English
at Hollins University, in addition to an M.S. at Georgia State University and a
B.S. at the University of Georgia. Her work has been anthologized in Mischief,
Caprice & Other Poetic Strategies and published in journals such
as African American Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Columbia,
Feminist Studies, Obsidian, and The Southern Review. Her short
story, “The Iron Bars,” won the 1999 Peregrine Prize. Rivera was awarded the
2009 Leo Love Merit Scholarship in Poetry in association with the Taos Summer
Writers Conference. Rivera was a finalist for the May Swenson Award, the
Journal Intro Award, the Naomi Long Madgett Award, the Gary Snyder Memorial
Award, and the Paumanok Poetry Award, as well as a nominee for The Pushcart
Prize. Her first collection of poetry, Troubling
Accents (July 2013), received a
nomination from Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and the 2014 Poetry
Book of the Year Award by the Texas Association of Authors. She has been most
recently named recipient of the prestigious 2015 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry
award for her second collection, Heathen. She currently resides in McKinney,
Texas.
Rob Roensch is an Assistant
Professor of English at Oklahoma City University. His book of short
stories, The Wildflowers of Baltimore,
was published by Salt in 2012. He has published short fiction recently in Epoch, American Short Fiction and Wigleaf.
Mary Stone is the author of the poetry
collections One Last Cigarette and Mythology of Touch and the chapbooks The Dopamine Letters, Aching Buttons, and
Blink Finch. Her poetry and prose has
appeared in Mid-American Review,
Gargoyle, Arts & Letters, Stirring and many other fine journals. She is
the recipient of the Langston Hughes Award in Poetry and the 2012 AWP Intro
Journals Award. After earning her BA in English Literature from Missouri
Western State University, She her MFA in Poetry from the University of Kansas.
Stone serves as a poetry editor for Sundress Publications, where she is
currently co-editing an anthology of poetry on the politics of identity, and
she is the co-editor of Stone Highway
Review. Currently, she lives in St. Joseph, MO, where she teaches English
and coordinates the First Thursdays Open Mic Reading Series.
Larry D. Thomas (www.larrydthomas.com) is a member of the Texas Institute
of Letters and served as the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate. He has published several collections of
poetry, most recently The Goatherd (Mouthfeel
Press 2014) and Art Museums (Blue
Horse Press 2014). As If Light Actually Matters: New & Selected Poems, is
forthcoming from Texas Review Press
(Texas A&M University Press Consortium) in Spring 2015 (http://www.tamupress.com/product/As-If-Light-Actually-Matters,8115.aspx).
A. J. Tierney obtained an M.F.A. in
Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Ms. Tierney sits on the editorial board of
Nimrod Literary Journal. She has taught writing at Tulsa Community
College, Bacone College, and Oral Roberts University. Her work has appeared
in Foliate Oak, Narrative Magazine, River Lit,
The Wordsmith Journal, and The Dead Mule School of Southern
Literature. Currently, she works with the Carrera Program, an adolescent
pregnancy prevention program, as the 9th Grade Job Club
Coordinator.
Leslie Ullman is the author of three poetry
collections, most recently Progress on
the Subject of Immensity, issued from University of New Mexico Press in
2013 and co-winner of the 2014 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award in Poetry.
Previous collections have won the Yale Series of Younger Poets award (Natural Histories) and the Iowa Poetry
Prize (Slow Work Through Sand), and
she has received two NEA Creative Writing Fellowships. For twenty-seven years
Ullman taught at University of Texas-El Paso, where she established and
directed the Bilingual MFA Program. She remains on the faculty of the
low-residency MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of the Fine Arts, where
she has taught for over thirty years. In addition to poems published in
numerous journals, she also has reviewed books for the Kenyon Review and Poetry
Magazine, and she has published craft essays in the AWP Writer’s Chronicle. She now lives in
Taos, New Mexico, where among other things she teaches skiing every winter at
Taos Ski Valley.
Ron Wallace was born and raised in Durant,
Oklahoma. He is the author of seven
volumes of critically acclaimed poetry, all published by TJMF Publishing of
Clarksville, Indiana. His first book, Native
Son, was a finalist in the 2007 Oklahoma Book Awards. I Come from Cowboys … and Indians won the 2009 Oklahoma Writer’s
Federation Best Book of Poetry Award. Oklahoma
Cantos was again a finalist in the 2011 Oklahoma Book Awards, and won the
2011 Oklahoma Writer’s Federation Best Book of Poetry Award. His fifth volume
of poetry Hanging the Curveball a
collection of baseball-themed poems from his earlier volumes along with fifteen
new baseball poems, won the 2013 Oklahoma Writer’s Best Book of Poetry Award. Cowboys and Cantos, a volume of
reworked, collected and brand new poems made him a finalist for the third time
in the 2013 Oklahoma Book Awards. His work has been featured in Oklahoma Today, The Long Islander, Concho River Review, cybersoleiljournal, di-verse
city-Austin International Poetry,
“Cobalt, Red Earth Review, Dragon Poets Review, Sugar Mule, Cross-timbers,
and a number of other magazines and anthologies.
Retired from the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Sarah Webb edited poetry and fiction
for Crosstimbers. She now serves as co-editor for Just This, a
zen arts magazine from the Austin Zen Center, and is a member of the editorial
committee for All Roads Will Lead You Home. Her poetry collection Black
(virtual artists collective, 2013) was selected as a finalist for the Oklahoma
Book Award and the Writers' League of Texas Book Award.
Jim Wilson is an assistant professor of
English at Seminole State College, Seminole, Oklahoma. He has an MFA in
Creative Nonfiction from Spalding University, Louisville, Kentucky. His
personal essays are published in Platte
Valley Review; Seeing Red,
Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins; World of
Indigenous North America; The Muse;
and Dragon Poet Review. He will read
“Puxa Vida” a short selection from is
memoir-in-progress, Love in the Time of
Civil War; and “Koroviev and Behemoth” from his novel-in-progress, 18 Lives: Johnny Quest and Mitt Romney.
Clarence Wolfshohl is professor emeritus of
English at William Woods University. His poetry and creative non-fiction have
appeared in many small press journals both in print and online. He has
published several chapbooks and small collections of poetry, including Season
of Mangos, poems about Brazil (Adastra Press, 2009), In Harm’s Way: Poems of
Childhood in collaboration with Mark Vinz
(El Grito del Lobo Press, 2013), and most recently Chupacabra (El Grito del Lobo Press, 2015). In late 2014, his chapbook Equus Essence was published online by
Right Hand Pointing. Wolfshohl lives with his writing, two dogs and one cat in
a nine-acre woods outside of Fulton, Missouri
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