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John Bargowski is the author of Driving West on the Pulaski Skyway, which won the Bordighera Prize and was published in an English/Italian edition in 2012. By day, Julia Bonadies is an 8th-grade English teacher at Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Middle, and by night she is a professional writing tutor at Manchester Community College. Her most recent work can be found in Halfway Down the Stairs, NEATE’s The Leaflet, and The Amethyst Review. Courtney Botteron is a quadruplet and one of seven children. She is a recent graduate of Eastern Connecticut State University. Daniel P. Carey Jr. studied English and Poetry at Eastern Connecticut State University. He contributed work to the second issue of Here. Eliza Carey was born and raised in Bozrah, CT. She spent her spare time growing up on the docks of New Haven and the beaches of Niantic. Barbara Crooker is a poetry editor for Italian Americana, and author of nine fulllength books of poetry. The Book of Kells won the Best Poetry Book 2018 Award from Poetry by the Sea. Some Glad Morning was published in 2019 in the Pitt Poetry Series. Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author or editor of eighteen books. He works as a care giver and Med Tech for various disabled populations and lives with the poet Lisa M. Dougherty and their two daughters in Erie, Pennsylvania. More info on Sean can be found at seanthomasdoughertypoet.com Kate Foran is from the Connecticut River Watershed, where she was formed by bluecollar poets, walkers, tobacco pickers, and Catholic Workers. Charles Fort is the author of six books of poetry and ten chapbooks including The Town Clock Burning and We Did Not Fear the Father: New and Selected Poems. Natasha S. Garnett lives in Connecticut and writes fiction and poetry for adults and children. Her poems have appeared in River Walk Journal, Oak Bend Review, The McNeese Review, Dash, and the previous edition of Here: a poetry journal. Margaret Gibson is the author of twelve books of poems, most recently, Not Hearing the Wood Thrush (Finalist, 2019 Poets’ Prize), as well as a memoir, The Prodigal Daughter: Reclaiming an Unfinished Childhood. Her debut poetry volume, Long Walks in the Afternoon, was awarded the Lamont Selection from the Academy of American Poets. She is the Poet Laureate of Connecticut. Maria Mazziotti Gillan, American Book Award recipient for All That Lies Between Us and author of twenty-three books, founded the Poetry Center in Paterson, NJ, is Editor of the Paterson Literary Review, and has been appointed a Bartle Professor and Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing at Binghamton University-SUNY. Sitara Gnanaguru is an Indian-American writer and a proud alumna of the University of Connecticut. Robert Sparrow Jones received his BFA from Kutztown University and MFA from the Hoffberger School of Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art. His work has been reviewed in Oxford American Magazine, Athens Food and Culture, Seattle Magazine, and Baltimore Magazine, featured in New American Paintings, and exhibited from New York City to Hong Kong. https://robertsparrowjones.com Frederick-Douglass Knowles II is the inaugural Poet Laureate for the City of Hartford
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