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is one of Nicaragua’s most distinguished poets. She has received several literary awards, among them the Mariano Fiallos Gil National Poetry

grew up in Oberlin, Ohio, and studied at Yale University and the University of California at Davis. She won a 2005 Individual Artist Grant from

is an architectural wood carver and has authored three dozen articles and three books on architectural and decorative woodcarving. His poems have

shipped out of San Francisco as a deck engineer machinist to Asia, Europe, and North Africa, where he studied and spent time with Paul Bowles in

has published two books of poems, Rags of Prayer and Ordinary Time, both from Moon Pie Press. He received a master’s of fine arts from the

lives in California where he writes poetry and teaches Zen. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in Post Road, Quiddity, Hotel

was a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Poetry (1999 –2000). His poems have appeared in numerous publications, among them: Threepenny

has had her work featured in magazines and journals like First Intensity, Golden Handcuffs, and The Iowa Review. Her latest books are Triptych

earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of California–Davis after an injury forced him to leave a career as a classical guitarist. He

is an organic gardener, a southern Californian, and a Syracuse University Graduate Writing Fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Stone Canoe,

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