Contributor Notes L aura Apol
is a professor at Michigan State University and the author of five full-length collections, most recently, A Fine Yellow Dust. She is a two-time winner of the Oklahoma Book Award and silver-medal winner of the Independent Publishers Book Award, and from 2019-2021, she served as the poet laureate of the Lansing area in mid-Michigan. Her current work focuses on the therapeutic uses of writing and literature in response to trauma.
R ichard Baldo
has been a clinical psychologist in private practice and only recently started developing his craft in poetry. He was raised in New Jersey and attended Trenton State College, University of Idaho, and University of Nevada Reno. He has returned to study at the creative writing program at UNR. He met his wife in Minsk, and their first date included an English/ Russian dictionary. He believes he has been blessed in his career and life.
Carol
Barrett
coordinates the Creative Writing Certificate Program at Union Institute & University. Her poetry books include Calling in the Bones (winner of the Snyder Award from Ashland Poetry Press) and Drawing Lessons. Her creative nonfiction book Pansies (Sonder Press) was a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards last year. Carol is a former NEA fellow whose work appears in JAMA, Poetry International, The Women’s Review of Books and elsewhere.
D e v o n B o h m ’s
work has been featured in publications such as Labrys, Spry, Necessary Fiction, Hole in the Head Review, Horse Egg Literary, The Graveyard Zine, and Sunday Mornings at the River’s 365 Days of Covid anthology. Her first book, Careful Cartography, was released in 2021 by Cornerstone Press. Follow her on Instagram @devonpoem or @devonbohm, or visit her website www.devonbohm.com to learn more.
Bill Cushing
lived in several states and the Caribbean before moving to California after earning an MFA from Goddard College. A retired college instructor, he lives in Glendale with his wife and their son. Nominated for two Pushcart prizes, Bill has two award-winning poetry collections, A Former Life (KopsFeatherling International Book Award) and Music Speaks (New York City Book Award). His new poetry chapbook, . . .this just in. . ., became available July 2021.
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