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Kurt Brown (poetry),
Mr. Brown is the author of six chapbooks and five
full-length collections of poetry, including Return of the Prodigals, More
Things in Heaven and Earth, Fables
from the Ark, Future Ship, and a
new collection, No Other Paradise,
due out in 2008 from Red Hen Press. His poems have appeared in many literary
periodicals, and he is the editor of several anthologies including: Verse
and Universe: Poems about Science and Mathematics; Night Out:
Poems About Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Bars (with Laure-Anne
Bosselaar); Blues for Bill,
for the late William Matthews; and his newest (with Harold Schechter), Conversation Pieces: Poems that Talk to
Other Poems from Alfred A. Knopf, Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
Series. Additionally, a collection of the poems of Flemish poet Herman de
Coninck entitled The Plural of Happiness,
which he and his wife translated, was released in the Field Translation Series
in 2006. Kurt Brown founded the Aspen Writers' Conference, and Writers'
Conferences & Centers (a national association of directors). He
teaches poetry workshops and craft classes at
Teresa (T) Stores (fiction)
T. (Teresa) Stores is the author of three
novels, Getting to the Point (Naiad,
1995), SideTracks (Naiad, 1996), and Backslide (Spinster’s Ink, 2008). Her
short fiction and essays have appeared in Sinister
Wisdom, Harrington Lesbian Literary Quarterly, Rock & Sling, Cicada, Out
Magazine, MotherVerse Magazine, Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly, Blithe
House Quarterly, and The Oregon
Literary Review. Poems have been published in The
Cate Marvin (poetry)
Cate Marvin's first book, World's
Tallest Disaster, was chosen by Robert Pinksy for the 2000
Kathryn A. Morton Prize and published by Sarabande Books in 2001. In 2002, she
received the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. Her poems have appeared in The New England Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Fence,
The Paris Review, The Cincinnati Review, Slate, Verse, Boston Review, and
Ninth Letter. She is co-editor with
poet Michael Dumanis of the anthology Legitimate
Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books,
2006). Her second book of poems, Fragment of the Head of a Queen, was
published by Sarabande in August 2007. A recent Whiting Award
recipient and 2007 NYFA Gregory Millard Fellow, she teaches poetry writing in Lesley
University's Low-Residency M.F.A. Program and is an associate
professor in creative writing at the College of
Staten Island, City University of New York.