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Annette Allen is the author of two books of poetry, Country of Light, winner of the Witte Award, and What Vanishes. A recipient of three state and local arts council awards and most recently, a Kentucky Arts Council Fellowship and an International Poetry Residency in Germany, she has published both scholarship and poetry. A MacDowell Colony Fellow, Allen is an Associate Professor of Humanities and Director of the Humanities Doctoral Program at the University of Louisville, where she teaches. |
| Emma Aprile's poems have appeared in such journals as Italian Americana, The Louisville Review, and Center. She also works as a bookseller at Carmichael's Bookstore, Louisville's oldest independent bookstore. |
| Casey Aud is a 2007 Brescia University graduate with a B.A. in psychology, and he received Brescia 's 2007 Award for Achievement in Fiction Writing. He is published in literary journal Open 24 Hours, he performs his writing at 3rd Tuesday Writers Coffeehouse in Owensboro, and he intends to power bomb the literary world. |
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Merle Bachman was born reading and writing (a very unusual case). Some of her favorite literary journals have published her work (including
Five Fingers Review, Chain, bark darkened by rain, and Talisman).
Etherdome Press published her chapbook, "The Opposite of Vanishing," in
2000. Syracuse University Press published her book, "Recovering
'Yiddishland': Threshold Moments in American Literature" (based on her
dissertation; January 08). Shearsman Books is publishing her collection
of poems, "Diorama with Fleeing Figures" in 2009. The Kentucky
Foundation for Women granted her an Artist Enrichment grant in 2006.
Last summer MB was a Writing Fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts;
in September she will be a Writing Fellow at Hawthornden Castle,
Midlothian, Scotland. (No wonder she's laughing!)
She's had a great time co-organizing THOUSAND POETS with Jessica
Farquhar. Last but not least, MB directs the Bachelor of Fine Arts
program in Creative writing at Spalding University. |
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Jeffrey Bean is the 2006-2008 Axton Fellow in Poetry at the University of Louisville. His poems have appeared in the journals Slate.com, Quarterly West, The Laurel Review, and Willow Springs, among others, and in 2005 he won first prize for poetry in the Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Contest. His first collection, Diminished Fifth, will be published by David Robert Books in 2009. |
| Emily Bonden is an essayist and recent graduate of Spalding University's MFA in Creative Writing Program. She currently lives in Louisville and teaches English at Ivy Tech Community College in Sellersburg, IN |
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Nickole Brown is a poet and fiction writer. Her debut collection of poetry, Sister, was published by Red Hen Press in September 2007. Most recently, her work has been featured in the Starcherone Press anthology PP / FF , Florida Review, and Chautauqua Literary Journal. Nickole has worked at a nonprofit, independent, literary press, Sarabande Books for eight years as Director of Marketing and Development. Nickole currently lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with a fuzzy mutt named Billie Holiday, a light-chasing collie named Oscar Wild, and a flying ninja cat, Mister Miagi. |
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Adam Day was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and earned his MFA at New York University. He helps coordinate the Sarabande Reading Series and the Baltic Writing Residency in Latvia. He was a finalist for the 2005 and 2007 “Discovery”/The Nation contest, and for Colgate University’s 2007 and 2008 Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship. Most recently his work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in the Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Notre Dame Review, and others. |
Laurie Duesing is a recent transplant to Louisville, having moved here a year and a half ago from the Bay Area in California, where she taught composition, literature and creative writing at Solano Community College. She has published one chapbook with Swan Scythe Press (UC Davis), Hard Kisses, and is a recipient of an NEA grant in poetry. |
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Lynnell Major Edwards is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, *The Highwayman's Wife * and *The Farmer's Daughter*, (Red Hen Press, 2007, 2003). Her work has appeared on *Verse Daily *and in numerous literary journals including: *Poems & Plays*, *Southern Poetry Review*, *TheLos Angeles Review,* *Poetry East*, and *Dos Passos Review*. She is a regular reviewer for *The Georgia Review*, *Pleiades*, and *Rain Taxi*. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky where she teaches writing and literature courses at the University of Louisville. She received her doctorate in English at the University of Louisville, her undergraduate degree at Centre College in Kentucky, and is the recipient of a 2007 Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council. She is also associate director of InKY, inc. a non-profit literary arts organization which sponsors the monthly InKY reading series in Louisville, Ky.
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Misha Feigin emigrated from Moscow to the US in 1990. He is an author of two books, a novel Searching for Irina and a book of poetry, The Last Word in Astronomy, Fluer Publishing, 2003, 2004. Misha has M.A in electronics. He won Thomas Merton Poetry Prize in 2000. Currently he works as a musician. Misha released 14 albums in Russia, U.S., Germany and England.
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Maryam Hand is a poet, mother of four, and owner of Hearts and Hands
consulting, (a home organizing business with a healing touch.) Maryam loves to read and write poetry that captures the essence of the
soul's experiential relationship with God as Beloved. Trained in the Sufi
tradition, Maryam seeks to bring a feminine touch to classical sufi style
sacred poetry. Maryam has published three poems to date: "Heart Child" (Moon
Journal Press, 2007,) "My Complicated Father," (Calliope, 2008,) and "Spearchucka," (Moon Journal Press, 2008). She is working on her first full
length manuscript of sacred poetry entitled, "Ruminations." Her poem, "My
Complicated Father," won second place in the Women Who Write, 2007 Poetry
and Prose Contest. She has been awarded artist residencies through the
Kentucky Foundation for Women for both the summers of 2006 and 2007 and is a
frequent participant in the Louisville Writers Workshop.
Maryam has also organized and emceed coffeehouses in Louisville and Chicago and has performed at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. She hopes to use
her poetry to heal and open hearts, and to help people awaken to their love
of the Divine. |
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Erin Keane is the author of The Gravity Soundtrack, a full-length collection of poems (WordFarm, 2007), and The One-Hit Wonders (Snark Publishing), a chapbook of poems about and inspired by rock & roll. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in or are forthcoming in many magazines, including Nimrod, Phoebe, Spoon River Poetry Review, Sou'wester, Poems & Plays, New Southerner, Now & Then and Louisville Magazine.
A recipient of a fellowship from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and the Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council, she directs the InKY Reading Series in Louisville, Ky. Keane also writes a blog for Velocity and serves on the editorial boards of New Southerner and The Heartland Review.
She teaches sophomores about Pop Music in American Literature at Bellarmine University and high school creative writing workshops for the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts.
Keane earned her MFA in creative writing at Spalding University and won the 2003 National Society of Arts and Letters Kentucky Chapter prize for literature. |
| Maureen Morehead has published three books of poetry: In a Yellow Room (Sulgrave Press, 1990), Our Brothers’ War (Sulgrave Press, 1993), and A Sense of Time Left (Larkspur Press, 2003). Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The American Voice, The Black Warrior Review, California Quarterly, The Greensboro Review, The Iowa Review, The Louisville Review, Poet and Critic, Poetry Magazine, and other literary journals. She is featured in The Kentucky Anthology: Two Hundred Years of Writing in the Bluegrass State (University of Kentucky Press, 2005), Conversations with Kentucky Writers II (University of Kentucky Press, 1999) and Kentucky Voices: A Bicentennial Celebration of Kentucky Writing (Kentucky Arts Council, 1992). She won fellowships for her poetry from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. She has taught at Western Kentucky University, the University of Louisville, and for the Jefferson County Public Schools, and is presently on the faculty of Spalding University's MFA program in Creative Writing. For several years, she served on the faculty of the Kentucky Institute for the Arts in Education, a program designed to help educators integrate the arts into their curricula. |
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Michael Penman writes under the pseudonym Makalani Bandele. He is a Louisville native and long time member of the Affrilachian Poets who has recently returned to the city and writing poetry professionally. His poetry has been anthologized in My Brother’s Keeper and The Storytellers as well as the upcoming anthology, Broadside Speaks Hip Hop; and has appeared or is forthcoming in Notre Dame Review, Brilliant Corners, and Pluck!. Michael is a winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize for Poetry. He has recently self-published a chapbook called The Cadence of Echoes. |
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Brett Eugene Ralph grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, playing football and singing in punk rock bands. His work has appeared in journals such as Conduit, Mudfish, Willow Springs, and The American Poetry Review; it has been anthologized in The McSweeney’s Book of Poets Picking Poets and Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader. His first full-length collection, Black Sabbatical, will be published by Sarabande Books in 2009. Brett has taught at the University of Massachusetts, Missouri State University, and the Central Institute of Buddhist Studies in the Himalayas of northern India. Currently, he is English discipline coordinator at Hopkinsville Community College in rural western Kentucky. His revolving country-rock ensemble, Brett Eugene Ralph’s Kentucky Chrome Revue, can be heard in seedy dives throughout the South. |
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Kathy Skaggs is the author of two poetry chapbooks, The Poet Laureate of People Who Hate Poetry (Time Barn Books, 2007) and The Place I Come From (Alliance Press, 1998). Her work has been included in two volumes of the Kentucky Feminist Writers Series and in many literary journals. She has been a recipient of grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and the Kentucky Arts Council. Kathy Skaggs lives in the Maple community of Taylor County, Kentucky.
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Kyle Thompson was recently a George Bennett Fellow at Phillips Exeter Academy. (This is not as impressive as it sounds.) |
| Kate Welsh recieved her MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the current treasurer of The Society for Extinct and Mythical Animals. |
| Cia White is a long-time teacher of high-school English and Creative Writing. She is also a writer, the recipient of two Kentucky Foundation for Women grants and two Al Smith Fellowships, a fellowship at the Edward Albee Foundation colony in Montauk, and Hedgebrook in Seattle. She has published poems, fiction and creative non-fiction in journals, and continues to work at a book-length manuscript about a life of teaching. |
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