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Nancy Breen
Nancy Breen has published widely and won many awards for her poems through Ohio Poetry Day and the National Federation of State Poetry Societies.  Her most recent publication was in The Meridian Anthology of Literature.  Pudding House recently published her chapbook, How Time Got Away, and Finishing Line Press published Rites and Observances in 2004.  She's about to edit her sixth annual edition of Poet's Market.

Annie Finch
Annie Finch is an Associate Professor and member of the graduate faculty of the Creative Writing program at Miami University.  Her books of poetry include Calendars (Tupelo Press - 2003) and Eve (Story Line Press - 1997).  Her translation of the complete poems of French Renaissance poet Louise Labe will be published by the University of Chicago Press.  Annie's poems have appeared in Yale Review, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, Partisan Review, and Paris Review, and in anthologies including Norton's Anthology of World Poetry and the new Penguin Book of the Sonnet.  She has also written, edited, or co-edited five books on poetics, most recently with Kathrine Varnes, An Exhalation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art (Michigan - 2002).

Norman Finkelstein
Dr. Norman Finkelstein has written three books on literary criticism and has written a series of three books of poetry, each called Track.  The poetry in these books is a formalized approach to writing in an arithmetical style with certain numbers determining the phraseology.  Dr. Finkelstein says the work is both "archeological and religious: in content and includes two voices.

David Lee Garrison
David Lee Garrison teaches Spanish and Portuguese at Wright State Univeristy.  His poetry, criticism, fiction, and translations have appeared in journals such as Colorado Review, The Literary Review, and The Nation.  He has two books of poems in print:  Blue Oboe (Wyndham Hall Press) and Inside the Sound of Rain (Vincent Brothers Review Press).  His translation of a book by Spanish poet Pedro Salinas, Certain Chance, was published by Bucknell University Press.

Richard Hague
Richard Hague, originally from Steubenville, Ohio, teaches writing, literature, and the Interdisciplinary Course of the River at Purcell Marian High School.  He is a graduate of Xavier University and has studied at Oxford.  He has been a Scholar in Creative Nonfiction at Bread Loaf.  He received two Individual Artist Fellowships in Poetry from the Ohio Arts Council.  He was twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize.  His eight books include the poetry collections Ripening (Ohio State University Press), Possible Debris (Cleveland State University Poetry Center), and  A Bestiary (Pudding House Publications).  Milltown Natural: Essays and Stories from a Life (Bottom Dog Press) was nominated for a National Book Award.

Mike Henson
Mike Henson lives in Cincinnati and works for the Urban Appalachian Council  He is the author of a novel, Ransack, and a book of short stories entitled A Small Room with Trouble on My Mind.  Both were published through the West End Press.  His poetry has been published in Illinois Quarterly, Ohio Journal, Street Vibes, and The Appalachian Connection. Mike Henson's most recent work is The Tao of Longing through Dos Madres Press.  Crow Call, a book of poems on the death of Buddy Gray, is due out in 2006.  He is the winner of the 2002 Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize.  He teaches part time at Xavier University.  His poems have appeared in Threepenny Review, Friends Journal, Red Crow Poetry Journal, Blue Collar Review, Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, Wind, and in the anthology - Smaller Than God: Poems of Spiritual Search.

Jeff Hilliard
Jeff Hillard has written four collections of poetry. He is currently Associate Professor of English at the College of Mount St. Joseph, where he has taught since 1987 when he replaced Nikki Giovanni. Jeff won the Post-Corbett Award for Literary Artistry in 1993 and the Clifford Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1998 at the Mount. In 2000, Jeff was the Ohio Arts Council Writer-in-Residence at the Fine Arts Work Center in Providence, Mass. Jeff is a journalist, fiction writer, essayist, and poet..

Carol Feiser Laque
Carol Feiser Laque was born in San Francisco and has lived coast-to-coast.  She graduated from Wittenberg college with an A.B. in English and Humanities, touring the world with the Wittenberg choir.  She received both her Master of Arts and Interdisciplinary Doctorate from the University of Cincinnati, where she taught as Associate Professor in the English Department.  Carol was the first recipient of the Post Corbett Award in Literary Arts (1981).  The City of Cincinnati Recreation Commission named her Poet Laureate of Hyde Park (1984-85).  Among her many volumes of poetry are Snow Angels and Midnight Noon.  She founded the Poetry Workshop for the Cincinnati Writers' Project, as well as a poetry workshop for the Tender Mercies shelter.

Leah Maines
The poetry of Leah Maines has appeared in numerous national and international publications, including KALEIDOSCOPE, California Quarterly, Flyway, New Observer, Owen Wister Review, Nebo, Pig Iron Press, Frontiers, Licking River Review, and other literary quarterlies and anthologies.  Her poetry chapbook, Looking to the East with Western Eyes, launched the "New Women's Voice Series" (Finishing Line Press) and was nominated for a 1999 Pushcart Prize.  In the year 2000, she was Poiet-in-Residence at Northern Kentucky University.

Cate Marvin
Cate Marvin was born in Washington, D.C. and holds two MFA degrees, one from the University of Houston in poetry, the other from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in fiction writing.  Robert Pinsky selected her manuscript as the winner of the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize, sponsored by Sarabande Books, Inc.  Her poems have appeared in the New England Review, the Paris Review, and Ploughshares, among other magazines.  Her first book of poetry, World's Tallest Disaster ,was published in August, 2001.

Juanita Mays
Juanita Mays is an Appalachian-born poet who takes pride in her heritage.  Her simplistic upbringing shows in a great many of her works.  She belongs to the Ohio and Kentucky State Poetry Societies, the Phoenix Writers in Portsmouth, Ohio, and the Rimfire Writers locally.  Her work has been published in numerous journals and newspapers, and she has won several awards from contest entries.  She has authored a chapbook titled Dog Dreams by the Fire, and is co-author with her daughter Lillie Teeters of a chapbook titled Pickles, Prozac and Watermelon Ice Cream.

Anne McCarty
Ann McCarty's work was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2000.  She received an M.F.A. from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Reveiw and other publications.  She teaches writing and literature at Xavier University and Northern Kentucky University. Ann McCarty is one of the Poetry Editors of Post Road literary journal.  She teaches at Xavier University, has two daugters, and is working on a manuscript MFA from Bennington in Vermont, a writer's residency project.  She is one of three poetry editors of Post Road.  When they accept a poet for the publication, they print two poems by the writer.  They publish six poets an issue and there are two issues per year.  The publication is for new writers and contains fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.  They also include some "known name" writers in each issue.  They are a "non-profit" group and the editors fund the publication themselves; they are not connected to any university.  The journal is distributed by Ingram's but is not currently available in Cincinnati bookstores.  It can be bought on the internet.

Robert Murphy
Robert Murphy is a poet whose work is both lush and musical as well as clear sighted. Poet and critic Norman Finkelstein says of Murphy's poetry: "These are poems of great courtesy, of hospitality: they invite us in. We find ourselves in a world where the natural surround yields almost imperceptibly to the precincts of the householder, and vice versa. The gardener, the naturalist, the quiet but acute observer of the local flora and fauna, intimate with what lives and grows within a few hundred feet of his door, returns in these poems to the mythic realm that has always belonged to him by right. And just as the line between the natural and the domestic gracefully wavers here, so too does the border between mythic truth and immediate observation." "Not For You Alone" a chapbook of Murphy poems was published in the fall of 2004. His poems have also appeared in the literary periodical Smartish Pace, as well as the Colorado Review, The Notre Dame Review and the Chicago based journal LVNG. He is a 2000 winner of the William Bronk Foundation award for poetry.
More of his poetry can be found at: http://www.robertmurphy.net
Robert Murphy is founder and executive editor of Dos Madres Press.http://www.dosmadres.com)

Rhonda Pettit
Rhonda Pettit's 18-poem sequence, The Expedition of Hamilton Love, was published in Grand Lake Review, and other poems have appeared in Vermont Literary Review, Licking River Review, Poetry Motel, and Through the Gap: An Anthology of Contemporary Kentucky Poetry, among others. She is currently working on a poetry manuscript tentatively titled, "My Mother's Rune." She also has written a critical study about the poetry and fiction of Dorothy Parker, and edited a collection of critical essays about her work due out this year. Rhonda teaches creative writing and literature at UC Raymond Walters College, where she was recently granted tenure.

Jim Reidel
Jim Reidel is a poet, translator and the biographer of the poet Weldon Kees.  Jim's
poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Conjunctions, TriQuarterly, the New Criterion, Ploughshares, Verse, and other journals.  Jim attended the University of Cincinnati; Columbia University, where he earned an MFA in creative writing; and Rutgers, where he earned a Masters in English.

David Schloss
David Schloss is a Professor of English at Miami University,where he has taught since 1974. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., attended Columbia University, University of Southern California Film School, Brooklyn College, and received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. His books include The Beloved, Sex Lives of the Poor and Obscure, a chapbook called Legends, Greatest Hits 1967-2004, and a new manuscript titled Group Portrait from Hell. David's work has been published in roughly 200 literary journals and anthologies.

Kevin Walzer
Kevin Walzer is an Editor at Word Press, a Cincinnati-based publisher.  He is also author of Greater Circles, a poetry collection released by Word Press in 2001.  He authored Living in Cincinnati, a poetry collection published by the Cincinnati Writer's Project in 1995.  His critical texts include The Ghost of Tradition: Expansive Poetry and Postmodernism, published in 1998 and The Wilderness of Vision: On the Poetry of John Haines, a work co-authored with Kevin Bezner.  Kevin Walzer holds a doctoral degree in English from the University of Cincinnati.

Carolyn Whitesel
Carolyn Whitesel, a landscape artist and horticulturalist, is the owner of Yellow Bird Editions and is a poet, illustrator, bookbinder, and book artist.  Her poetry collection, A Mute Circle of Shine, was co-published by Larkspur Press and Yellow Bird Editions.  Her book showcases her poetry, handbinding, illustrations, and custom paste-papers.  Carolyn is also the author and illustrator of In Late March, a Snowfall - a broadside published by Larkspur Press in 1992.  For 20+ years Carolyn has been binding special editions for Larkspur Press.  She hand sews and binds editions of fine art and poetry.  Carolyn's articles have appeared in Personal Journaling magazine, published by F & W Publications, and in selected journals on book arts and book binding.  Her works are included in local, regional, and national exhibits, including Stone Eye, an exhibition catalog produced by the Midwest Chapter of the Guild of Bookworkers.

Tyrone Williams
Tyrone Williams teaches literature, literary theory and creative writing at Xavier University in Cincinnati.  Born in 1954 in Detroit, he is a graduate of Wayne State University and completed a PhD in 1990.  The third edition of his chapbook, Convalescence, was published in 1994 by Ridgeway Press.  His manuscript, The Adventures of Pi, was a finalist in the 1992 National Poetry Series.  Tyrone was a Grand Prize winner of the Philosopher's Stone Poetry Competition in 1993.  His manuscript, Figure: Chalk on Asphalt, was a finalist in the 1996 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry.  In 1999, he was a participant in the Djerassi Resident Artist Program near Santa Cruz, California, and the outside screener for the Academy of American Poet's 2000 Walt Whitman Poetry Award.  His poetry has been published in Callaloo, The Denver Quarterly, River Styx, The Kenyon Review, The World, Dispatch, Long News, and other national magazines. Tyrone has published a book of poems, C.C.; a chapbook of poetry, CONVALESCENCE; and co-edited a collection of writings by the homeless in Cincinnati.  He is completing two books on 1) quotation in modern art and 2) rap music and the public.