Catherine Doty is a poet, artist, and teacher born and raised near Garrett Mountain in Paterson, New Jersey. She is the author of Wonderama (2021), a forthcoming volume of poems from CavanKerry Press; Momentum (2005), a volume of poems; and Just Kidding (1999), a collection of cartoons. She is the recipient of a Marjorie J. Wilson Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her poetry has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, among them Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems for Hard Times (2006) and Billy Collins’ 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (2005). She has worked as a visiting artist for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Frost Place, Murphy Writing, and schools throughout New Jersey.
More than 90 of Jack Ridl’s former students are publishing. He has authored or co-authored/edited 14 books. Four collections were named Poetry Book of the Year by The Center of Book Arts, Independent and University book Publishers, The Society of Midland Authors, and the Institute for International Sport. He was named by the The Carnegie Foundation “Michigan Professor of the Year.”
Dinty W. Moore is author of the award-winning memoir Between Panic & Desire, the writing guides The Story Cure and Crafting the Personal Essay, and many other books. He has published essays and stories in The Georgia Review, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, The Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Creative Nonfiction, and elsewhere. He is founding editor of Brevity, the journal of flash nonfiction.
Elizabeth A.I. Powell is the author of three books of poems, most recently “Atomizer” (LSU Press). Her second book of poems, “Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter: Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances” was a Small Press Bestseller and named a “Books We Love 2016” byThe New Yorker. Her novel, “Concerning the Holy Ghost's Interpretation of JCrew Catalogues” was published in 2019 in the U.K. Her work has appeared in the Pushcart Prize Anthology, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Missouri Review, Ploughshares, West Branch, and elsewhere. She is Editor of Green Mountains Review, and Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Northern Vermont University. She also serves on the faculty of the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.