was awarded the 2009 Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Poetry for her first full–length poetry book, The Last Island (Deerbrook Editions). Her most recent publication, Memory Won’t Save Me: a haibun, (Deerbrook Editions), was nominated for a Pushcart Award. She lives in Rye, New Hampshire.

her poems have appeared in Poetry International, The Café Review, Christian Century, and The Hartford Current. She taught poetry at the University of Hartford and the University of Connecticut. She co–authored a play with Karen Douglass which was produced by The Portland Stage Company 15 years ago and is slated for production with a Brunswick, Maine theater company this June.

lives in central Maine and teaches composition at Thomas College in Waterville. He also works as a farm hand for local businesses. His poems have appeared in Quiddity, The Fourth River, and Midwestern Gothic. An article that investigates Henry Beston’s Northern Farm is forthcoming in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.

has published poetry and book reviews in literary magazines such as the Birmingham Poetry Review, The Southern Review, and The Sun. She has two chapbooks, Throat (Igneus Press) and What the News Seemed to Say (Pudding House). She has a master’s of fine arts degree from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is an adjunct in composition and poetry at the New Hampshire Institute of Art.