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Contributors Notes
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 HoffbergerSchoolof PaintingatMarylandInstitute College of Art. His workhas 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
48 2 and author of a poetry collection, BlackRoseCity. He is an Associate Professor of English at Three Rivers Community College.
Alex MacConochie's poems have appeared in Tar River Poetry, The Summerset Review, Constellations, and elsewhere.
Alec Marsh is a Professor of English at Muhlenberg College and the author of Ezra Pound and Money and Modernity: Pound, Williams, and The Spirit of Jefferson. Paul Martin is the author of two poetry collections, River Scar and Closing Distances, and three award-winning chapbooks.
Robert Morgan is an award-winning author of over twenty books of poetry, fiction, history, and biography. His poetry titles include October Crossing, Topsoil Road, and The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems. Winner of the James G. Hanes Poetry Prize from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Eunice Tietjens Prize from Poetry, he has also received the Southern Book Award for his best-selling novel Gap Creek and the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His nonfictionbookBoone: A Biography wasafinalistfortheLosAngelesTimesBookAward and winner of the Kentucky Book Award. A native of western North Carolina, he is a 2010 inductee into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame. Since 1971, he has taught at Cornell University, where is he Kappa Alpha Professor of English. His most recent novel is Chasing the North Star.
Steve Myers has published a full-length collection, Memory’s Dog, and two chapbooks. A Pushcart Prize winner, he recently has had poems published in Callaloo, Hotel Amerika, Kestrel, Penn Review, The Southern Review, Stone Canoe, and Tar River Poetry. He heads the poetry track for the MFA in Creative Writing at DeSales University.
JuliaPaul,anelderlawattorneyinManchester,wasnamedthatcity'sfirstpoetlaureate in 2014. She is a the author of the poetry collection Shook and the forthcoming Staring Down the Tracks.
Rebecca Rubin is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Emerson College. Her work appeared in the previous issue of Here.
Pegi Deitz Shea teaches in the Creative Writing program at UCONN, is Poet Laureate of Vernon, CT, and has published hundreds of poems, essays and articles for adults as well as numerous books for young readers.
Joan Seliger Sidney is a writer of poetry and children's books who lives in Storrs, Connecticut. She has written three books of poetry and her work has appeared in numerous publications and anthologies. Her poems often bear witness to the Holocaust and her experiences with multiple sclerosis.
John L. Stanizzi is author of the collections Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall, After the Bell, Hallelujah Time!, High Tide–Ebb Tide, Four Bits, Chants, and Sundowning.
Steve Straight’s books include The Almanac and The Water Carrier. He is a professor of English and the poetry program director at Manchester (CT) Community College.
John Surowiecki is the authorof five books of poetryand seven chapbooks, including Missing Persons. He has received the Poetry Foundation Pegasus Award for verse drama, the Nimrod Pablo Neruda Prize, the Washington Prize, and a Connecticut Poetry Fellowship. His Pie Man won the 2017 Nilson Prize for a First Novel.
Kelly Talbot has edited books and digital content for more than twenty years for Wiley, Macmillan, Oxford, O’Reilly, Pearson Education, and other publishers. He divides his time between Timisoara, Romania, and Indianapolis, Indiana.
