Bruce Spang
is the Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine, and recently retired from teaching English at nearby Scarborough High School. He is the editor of the recent anthology Passion and Pride: Poets In Support of Equality, and author of a poetry collection, To the Promised Land Grocery. He is working on a new book, Putting the Art Back in Language Arts. He lives in Falmouth, Maine, with his partner and son.
Christopher Hoffmann
teaches the interdisciplinary courses Nature and Culture and The Natural History of the Casco Bay Bioregion — as well as biology and environmental science — at Southern Maine Community College, where he is a faculty member of the life sciences department. He is also an actor with the Naked Shakespeare ensemble.
Michael Tronzo
Michael Tronzo: is an American painter born in 1953 in Rochester, New York. In the 1970s, he attended the Art Students League in New York City. He lives and works in Eliot, Maine, with his wife, painter Adeline Goldminc–Tronzo. For more about him and his work, www.michaeltronzo.com.
Adeline Goldminc-Tronzo
Adeline Goldminc-Tronzo: was born and educated in Paris, France. In the mid –1970s, she studied at the Art Students League in New York City with artists Marshall Glasier, Joseph Hirsch, Robert Beverly Hale, and Norman Lewis. Over the past 30 years, she has frequently exhibited her work — held in numerous private collections — throughout America and Europe. She lives and works in Eliot, Maine, with her husband, painter Michael Tronzo. For more about her and her work, www.adelinette.com.
