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is a Registered Nurse, poet, freelance writer, and Publishing Editor of Oak Bend Review. She lives with a houseful of teens, animals, and Jack

her poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Birmingham Poetry Review, Eclipse, Smartish Pace, Cimarron Review, roger, Atlanta

has published eight collections of poetry, most recently Ghost Pain (Sarabande, 2005); two collections of nonfiction, the latest A Little

is the author of nine books of poems, most recently, Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (Autumn House, 2004), Unauthorized Autobiography: New and

is a physician in international public health, commended by President Bill Clinton as an “American Health Hero.” He lives in London and Beirut.

“I knew Jack Myers for years. I’ve also been writing poems for a good while — and if I’ve had any success with it, much of the credit is

was born in 1956 in County Louth, Ireland. In 1997, he received a scholarship for a summer workshop at the Poet’s House in Donegal. In 2002, he

earned an MFA from Vermont College. Jack Myers was one of his four advisors. A poem he began while working with Jack won an AWP Intro Journal

professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, has received many prominent honors and awards. He is the author

his latest book of poems, On Being Human, is due from Wings Press this spring. He has published seven other collections, and the memoirs, West

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