Authors Supporting Critique Mania

The following is a list of the authors who are supporting the 2010 Critique Mania fundraiser. The list is alphabetical and includes information at the end of the bio as to basic genre (fiction, poetry, nonfiction) and any additional information. You can look up most of these writers for more details if you want to consider your choice more fully.

Have fun – This is a fantastic selection of authors!

Kelli Russell Agodon is the winner of the 2009 White Pine Press Poetry Prize judged by Carl Dennis. Her manuscript, Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room, will be published by White Pine Press in the fall of 2010. She is also the author of Small Knots (2004) and Geography, winner of the 2003 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. Currently, Kelli lives in the Northwest with her family. She is the co-editor of the literary journal, Crab Creek Review. Visit her website at:  www.agodon.com or her blog at www.ofkells.blogspot.com  -- Poetry

Malaika King Albrecht’s chapbook Lessons in Forgetting was recently published by Main Street Rag http://www.mainstreetrag.com/MAlbrecht.html. Her poems have been published in many literary magazines and anthologies and have recently won awards at Salem College and Press 53. She’s the founding editor of Redheaded Stepchild, an online magazine that only accepts poems that have been rejected elsewhere http://redheadedmag.com/poetry/. She lives in Pinehurst, N.C. with her family and is a therapeutic riding instructor -- Poetry

Candace Allen, associate editor of Soundings Review and retired principal from Mercer Human Resources Consulting, established the company's Pacific Northwest communication practice and served as its national Communication Practice Leader. She has received numerous awards for client publications and communication programs, most notably Crain Publications’ National Award of Excellence. Now a freelance writer and editor, Candace's features about log homes have appeared in Log Home Living, Log Home Design and LogKnowledge. A worldwide sailor, her sea stories have been published nationally in Sail, Cruising World, Sea and in a variety of regional publications such as 48 Degrees North, Nor'westing and Burgee. She has written for newspapers, magazines, and trade publications about the diverse topics of gardening, books, travel, bridge, marine propulsion systems, pensions, health care, and employee communication. A founder of the Whidbey Island Writers Association Conference, Candace established WIWA's newsletter and served as its editor for three years. She is also the former Webmaster and content manager for WIWA's Web site and she served on the Association's board of directors for nearly four years. Some of Candace's features can be read online at http://www.jcarch.com/pdfs/Montana-Living-10-02.pdf,  http://www.logknowledge.com/pelicanpublication.html, and http://www.48north.com/mar_2008/still_cruising.htm -- Prose nonfiction

Anne C. Barnhill’s second book, What You Long For (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, May, 2009) is a short story collection, which writer Julianna Baggott calls “a cause for celebration.”  Fred Chappell says “Barnhill finds material for her strong stories in ordinary places among unexceptional people. . . Yet What You Long For is surprising at every turn … serious and humorous by turns—and always sympathetic.”  The Winston Salem Journal calls her “a writer who has the gifts to convey her insights with a deft touch.”  One of the stories recently was named first runner-up in the Thomas Wolf Fiction Contest. Her first book, At Home in the Land of Oz: Autism, My Sister and Me (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007), tells what it was like growing up with an autistic sister before anyone knew much about autism. Stephen Smith in The Pilot, calls is “a beautiful story about autism.” Robert Morgan says, “it’s the story of kinship, intimacy and affection.” Clyde Edgerton states, “Ms. Barnhill has demonstrated how humans can love each other in unspeakable ways, learning languages as well as contours of certain rooms of the heart that some of us are never fortunate enough to know.” Barnhill’s work has appeared in a number of literary magazines and anthologies including, most recently, The Antietam Review, and Racing Home:  New Stories from Award-Winning North Carolina Writers.  Other publications include the story, “Washing Helen’s Hair,” from the Grammy-nominated anthology, Grow Old Along With Me, and “The Swing,” from Generation to Generation.  She has received an Emerging Artist Grant, a Regional Artist Grant and a writer’s residency at the Syvenna Foundation in Texas. She has been selected as a Blumenthal Reader twice and her stories have won several awards, including the Porter Fleming Fiction Award from the Augusta, Georgia Arts Council. Barnhill has published nonfiction with a variety of newspapers and magazines including  Our State Magazine: Down Home In North Carolina.  Her book reviews have appeared in The Notre Dame Review and Main Street Rag, as well as the Winston Salem Journal, the Greensboro News and Record and the Raleigh News and Observer. Ms. Barnhill has been the keynote speaker at meetings of Episcopal Church Women in North Carolina and South Carolina. She has also presented programs about memoir writing at Converse College in Spartanburg, SC, the Kernersville Moravian Church and the Kernersville Library Book Club, the Wilkesboro Friends of the Library and other book clubs; she has taught memoir writing and fiction writing in a variety of places including Guilford College, Greensboro, NC; University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Guilford Technical Community College, the Phoenix Festival at High Point University and the Greensboro YMCA for Seniors.  She has taught courses in creativity for the faculty and staff at Guilford College and the Center for Creative Leadership, both in Greensboro.  This fall, she will teach a fiction workshop at Central Carolina Community College in Pittsboro, NC. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from UNC-Wilmington and has recently signed a 2-book deal with St. Martin's Press for her historical novel based on an ancestor, set in Tudor England. The first novel will appear in 2011 – Fiction, either literary or historical, up to 1000 words.

Bonny Becker is the author of 12 children’s books including picture books and novels. Her book, A Visitor for Bear was a New York Times Bestseller, Amazon’s 2008 Picture Book of the year, and winner of the E.B. White Read Aloud Award and the Golden Kite Award. Her latest Mouse and Bear book, A Bedtime for Bear, just received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly. She’s a frequent speaker at conferences and events with an expertise in story structure, and an instructor for the Whidbey Writers MFA in Writing program – picture books and early readers up to 2500 words

Carmen T. Bernier-Grand is the author of eight books for children and young adults. Her César: Yes, We Can! ¡Sí, se puede! and Diego: Bigger Than Life  have been Oregon Book Award finalists. Those biographies and her Frida: ¡Viva la vida! Long Live Life  have received Pura Belpré Author Honor Awards. Bernier-Grand teaches writing in the Whidbey Island Writers MFA program and for Writers in the Schools.  In 2008, the Oregon Library Association's Children's Division gave her the Evelyn Sibley Lampman Award for her significant contributions to the children of Oregon in the field of children's literature. In 2010, she received an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship.   Her latest book is Sonia Sotomayor: Supreme Court Justice --  Children/young adult – 1200 words maximum

Sheila Bender  is the author of a prose memoir, A New Theology: Turning to Poetry in a Time of Grief, a poetry collection entitled Sustenance, and many books on writing including Writing and Publishing Personal Essays, in a new edition from Silver Threads Press and Creative Writing Demystified from McGraw-Hill. She publishes Writing It Real at www.writingitreal.com, an instructional magazine for those who write from personal experience and teaches online writing classes at writingitreal.com, writers.com and the International Association of Journal Writing (iajw.org) Poetry & personal essay – 1200 words max prose

Wendy Call is a recent Writer in Residence at Harborview Medical Center, New College of Florida and Seattle University She is author of the narrative nonfiction book No Word for Welcome, (University of Nebraska Press, 2011) and co-editor of Telling True Stories (Plume/Penguin, 2007). Read more at www.wendycall.com -- Nonfiction, any genre – up to 3600 words

Mary Clearman Blew has written or edited thirteen books. A novel, Jackalope Dreams, appeared in 2008 and won the Western Heritage Center’s prize for fiction. Her memoir All But the Waltz:  Essays on a Montana Family, won a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, as did her short story collection, Runaway. Other awards include the Mahan Award for contributions to Montana literature, the Idaho Humanities Council’s 2001 Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities, a Handcart Award for Biography, and the Western Literature Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award.  She has taught creative writing at the University of Idaho since 1994 -- Fiction or nonfiction – not “picky” about length (but be reasonable!)

Marian Blue, editor of Soundings Review, has also edited newspapers, magazines, online publications and books, such as the Southeast Writers Handbook and the anthology Sea of Voices, Isle of Story. Her essays, interviews, fiction and poetry have appeared in US and overseas newspapers, magazines, online, and books (such as A Hundred White Daffodils Graywolf Press, Raven Chronicles, Lynx Eye, Cruising World). Marian teaches writing, literature and communication classes for Skagit Valley Community College, South Whidbey Center. Whidbey Island inspires her work with its myriad educational, artistic and recreational activities, thriving wildlife, and zeal of many volunteers who keep the writing community thriving, especially within NILA (Northwest Institute of Literary Arts). She lives deep in the woods with her husband, Wayne Ude, five dogs adopted from shelters and whatever critters drop by. Adult fiction, nonfiction, poetry – up to 2,000 words prose or 2 pages poetry

John Calderazzo's stories, essays and poems have appeared in dozens of magazines and literary reviews, including Audubon, Bellevue Literary Review, Georgia Review, North American Review, Orion, The Runner, Witness, and elsewhere. His books include an over-the-shoulder nonfiction writing guide, Writing from Scratch: Freelancing; a children science book, 101 Questions about Volcanoes; and Rising Fire: Volcanoes and Our Inner Lives, a personal travelogue which looks at ways in which volcanoes around the world have affected human culture.  A former fulltime freelance writer and now an award-winning creative writing teacher at Colorado State University, he has had his work cited in both Best American Essays and Best American Stories. He’s presently finishing a book of poems. With his wife SueEllen Campbell, he recently founded and now runs an innovative teaching-climate-change-across-the-curriculum program at CSU -- Nonfiction – up to ten pages

Lawrence Cheek has a journalism degree from Texas Tech University, a graduate-level browse through architecture history at the University of Arizona, and 17 years of reporting and editing experience in daily newspapers. Since he escaped salaried labor in 1987, he has written about 600 magazine articles for publications such as the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Arizona Highways, Orion, Sunset, American Heritage, and Architecture. He still maintains an inky foothold in print newspapers—an institution that he fiercely believes in—with occasional pieces in The New York Times and the Seattle Times. He has written 15 nonfiction books, most recently The Year of the Boat: Beauty, Imperfection, and the Art of Doing It Yourself (Sasquatch Books 2008). He has taught creative nonfiction at the University of Washington since 1998 and in the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts since 2008 – Nonfiction -- will consider slightly longer pieces, up to 3,000 words

Brian Doyle is the editor of Portland Magazine at the University of Portland, in Oregon - "the finest spiritual magazine in the United States," says Annie Dillard. Portland Magazine has won five national gold medals as the finest small-circulation university magazine in America (from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education), and won the 2005 Robert Sibley Award as the finest American university magazine of any size (from the editors of Newsweek). Doyle’s new book, Mink River, will be out from Oregon State University Press in October. He is the author of seven other books, including The Grail: a year ambling & shambling through an Oregon vineyard in pursuit of the best pinot noir wine in the whole wild world (May 2006), by Oregon State University Press, and October 2006, by One Day Hill Publishers in Australia). Among his other books are The Wet Engine (Paraclete Press), about "the muddle & mangle & miracle & music" of hearts; Spirited Men, essays about writers and musicians, and Leaping, essays about everything else. Both latter collections were finalists for the Oregon Book Award. His first collection of poems, Epiphanies & Elegies, will be published in 2007 by Sheed & Ward. Doyle's essays have appeared in The Best American Essays collections of 1998, 1999, 2003, and 2005, and in The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Orion, The American Scholar, and magazines and newspapers in Australia, Ireland, France, England, and New Zealand. His work has also appeared in Best Spiritual Writing, Best Essays Northwest, and many anthologies. He is a columnist for The Age newspaper and Eureka Street magazine, both in Melbourne, Australia -- Essays & poetry, any length.

Molly Dwyer has been a transformational educator for twenty years, facilitating workshops and teaching English composition, creative writing, and literature in community college. Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein, Molly's debut novel, was nominated for the 2009 Northern California Book of the Year Award for Fiction, and in 2010 Molly was recognized by the National Women's Political Caucus of Mendocino County for "Writing Women Back into History." Molly's second novel, The Appassionata, continues her exploration of woman and Romanticism. It's set in 19th century Paris and is nearing completion. She's also a co-author of Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation between Women and Men. Molly has studied fiction writing with Seamus Heaney; at Ireland's Galway University; and with England's Arvon Project. She's trained with the National Writing Project and studied literature in an Oxford University summer program. Molly earned her Masters in at Sonoma State University and completed a PhD at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. www.mollydwyer.com -- Fiction and nonfiction up to 1,000 words.

Carol Frischmann has been a professional writer for seven years and is the author of four books of nonfiction, one book of poetry, and hundreds of articles in print and online. Although she writes nonfiction for a living, she writes novels by night and will be graduated from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts in August, 2010. Her friends tell her that her fiction critiques are better than her fiction writing. Harrumph.  After receiving her degree in science education from Duke University, Carol used her storytelling skills as a way of teaching science, nature, pets, and of all things--business management-- before writing took over her life – Nonfiction and fiction, up to eight pages.

Elizabeth Engstrom is the author of eleven books and over 250 short stories, articles and essays. She has been a freelance writer since 1984 and has been teaching fiction and giving specialized writing seminars and holding writing retreats since 1989. Her latest novel of dark fantasy is The Northwoods Chronicles. Look for York's Moon, coming in February, 2011 -- Fiction, any genre, up to 1000 words.

Lola Haskins's eighth book of poems -- Still, the Mountain – is just out from Paper Kite Press (www.wordpainting.com). Ms. Haskins'  prose works include Solutions Beginning with A, original fables illustrated by Maggie Taylor (Modernbook), Not Feathers Yet: A Beginner's Guide to the Poetic Life (Backwaters), and Fifteen Florida Cemeteries: Strange Tales Unearthed (not her favorite title),  forthcoming from the U. Press of Florida. Ms. Haskins teaches for the Rainier Writer's Workshop (www.plu.edu/~mfa). For more information, please visit her at www.lolahaskins.com -- Poetry up to two pages.

Lorraine Healy is an award-winning Argentinean poet who has been published extensively. Nominated for a Pushcart in 2004, she has a MFA from the New England College and a post-MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles. She is the first poet to have received a green card solely on the merits of her work. The most recent winner of the Patricia Libby First Book Award, her book The Habit of Buenos Aires has just been published by Tebot Bach. She has two previous chapbooks published, The Farthest South by New American Press, and The Archipelago  by Finishing Line. Lorraine has long made her home on Whidbey Island, where she teaches advanced poetry seminars and works as a fine arts photographer – Poetry up to two pages.

Susan Lefler lives in Brevard, North Carolina. Her poems have appeared in many journals including Icarus, Appalachian Heritage, Asheville Poetry Review, Wind, Passager, Kakalak,  Main Street Rag, and Mourning Katrina, a poetry anthology and CD produced by the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University. Arcadia Press published her photographic history Brevard in their Images of America series in 2004. She is a contributing editor for Smoky Mountain Living magazine. A short story The Spirit Tree appears in Echoes Across the Blue Ridge, an anthology of work by writers from the Southern Appalachians published in July, 2010 – Poetry up to two pages.

Lori A. May is a part-time writing instructor and a frequent presenter at writers' conferences and graduate programs. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Writer, Rattle, Writer's Digest, and anthologies such as Van Gogh's Ear. May is the author of two novels and a poetry book, stains: early poems. Her next book is The Low-Residency MFA Handbook: A Guide for Prospective Creative Writing Students (Continuum Books, December 2010). She is the founding editor of Poets' Quarterly and an associate editor with Northern Poetry Review. More information is available online at www.loriamay.com -- Poetry, literary fiction, popular fiction, literary non-fiction – up to five pages for each submission, any genre.

Renée Olander: Daughter of a career Navy officer and a WAVE, Renée Olander was born on base in Corpus Christi, Texas, spent formative years in Detroit, Michigan, Honolulu, Hawai’i, and Portsmouth, Virginia, and has lived in Virginia for most of her adult life. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. in English from Mary Baldwin College and Old Dominion University, respectively, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from University of Southern Maine. Renée Olander’s chapbook, A Few Spells, is now available from Finishing Line Press (http://finishinglinepress.com/NewReleasesandForthcomingTitles.htm).  Olander’s poems have appeared widely in journals and anthologies; she is recipient of the Kate Smith Award from Amelia Magazine and a Pushcart Prize nomination from Sistersong – Women Across Cultures. She has taught English and creative writing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, as well as in many community-based venues and K-12 schools in the Hampton Roads region, for 24 years, and she currently directs the Virginia Beach Higher Education Center. For more information, contact her at rolander@odu.edu or 368-4108.        

Alice Osborn offers editing and writing services to small businesses and creative writers. Alice is the author of Right Lane Ends (Catawba, 2006), is a former English teacher at Raleigh Charter High School, and works with the United Arts Council to bring writing and creativity to grades 4-12 in area schools. Alice offers creative writing and business seminars throughout the Triangle and teaches at Meredith College, Raleigh Parks and Recreation, Apex Community Center, Duke Continuing Studies and other learning centers. She is a regular guest contributor to the Raleigh News and Observer, The Pedestal Magazine and Wake Living and blogs weekly about networking and writing. In addition, her poetry has appeared in Main Street Rag, the 2008 and 2009 Kakalak Poetry Anthologies, the Raleigh Quarterly, and more. She serves as the Raleigh Regional Representative for the North Carolina Writers' Network and is the VP of Public Relations for the Cardinal Club Toastmasters. Alice grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and earned a B.S in Finance from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA and her MA in English from NC State. She now lives in Raleigh, NC with her husband, son and daughter. For more info, please visit www.aliceosborn.com -- Poetry, creative nonfiction and fiction up to two pages for poetry and 1000 words for prose.

Kathryn Renner is a Washington-based freelance writer and contributing editor to Seattle Homes & Lifestyles magazine whose career has run the gamut of the writing field:  from advertising copywriting, video scripts, magazine writing and personal essays published in numerous national publications, newspapers and anthologies. Her most recent essays have appeared in Womens' Best Friend and Cat Women, both published by Avalon and Seal Press  -- Essays and articles up to 1000 words.

Richard Robbins grew up in Southern California and Montana. He studied with Richard Hugo and Madeline DeFrees at the University of Montana, where he earned his MFA. He has published five books of poems, most recently Radioactive City and Other Americas. He has received awards from The Loft, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America. He directs the creative writing program and Good Thunder Reading Series at Minnesota State University, Mankato –Poetry up to two pages.

Bruce Holland Rogers teaches fiction writing at the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts. His short stories have won national and international awards including two Nebula Awards, a Pushcart Prize, and two World Fantasy Awards. He has taught creative writing as a Fulbright professor in Hungary and Finland  -- Fiction, any genre, up to 30 pages.

R.A. Rycraft has published stories, essays, reviews, and interviews in a number of journals and anthologies, including PIF Magazine, VerbSap, Perigee, The MacGuffin, and Calyx.  Winner of the Eric Hoffer Best New Writing Editor’s Choice Award for 2008 and a Special Mention for the 2010 Pushcart Prize, Rycraft is chair of the English department at Mt. San Jacinto College in Menifee, California and non-fiction editor at Serving House: a Journal of Literary Arts. Fiction or Nonfiction – 1200 – 2000 words

Maureen Sherbondy received a B.A. degree from Rutgers University. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including European Judaism, Calyx, Feminist Studies, 13^th Moon, Cairn, Comstock Review, Crucible, The Roanoke Review and the Raleigh News & Observer. Her poems have won first place in: The Deane Ritch Lomax Poetry Prize, The Lyricist Statewide Poetry Contest, the Carrie McCray Poetry Award, and the Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Award (Kent State University). Maureen’s fiction has won the Piccolo Spoleto Fiction Open. A short story was selected as a runner-up in the William Faulkner–William Wisdom Creative Writing Contest.

Main Street Rag published her first book, After the Fairy Tale, in 2007. Praying at Coffee Shops was published in 2008. Her short story collection, The Slow Vanishing, was released in 2009. Weary Blues will be published by Big Table Publishing in 2010. www.maureensherbondy.com/bio --  Poetry & flash fiction up to 2 pages for either

Wayne Ude is the author of three published books of fiction: a novel, Becoming Coyote; a collection of stories; Buffalo & Other Stories; and a Storyteller's Choice Award-winning children's book, Maybe I will Do Something: Seven Tales of Coyote. His short fiction and essays have appeared in North American Review, Ploughshares, Margins, and Aspen Anthology. Currently he serves as Director of the Whidbey Writers Workshop low-residency MFA, a program of the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts, which is also the home of the Whidbey Island Writers Association, the Whidbey Island Writers Conference, and Soundings Review literary magazine -- Adult prose up to 1000 words.

Michael Dylan Welch is editor of Tundra: The Journal of the Short Poem. In addition to publishing longer poetry, he has also published thousands of his haiku, senryu, and tanka (as well as book reviews and essay) in hundreds of journals in more than a dozen languages. You can read many of them online at his site, Graceguts, http://sites.google.com/site/graceguts/. His poetry appears in two Norton poetry anthologies, as well as in many dozens of other anthologies. He is also a contributing editor to Spring, the journal of the E. E. Cummings Society, editor/publisher of Press Here haiku and tanka books, board member of the Washington Poets Association, and vice president of the Haiku Society of America. He founded the Tanka Society of America in 2000 (serving as its president for five years), cofounded the American Haiku Archives in 1996 (for which he currently serves as webmaster), and in 1991 he cofounded the Haiku North America conference, a nonprofit corporation of which he is a director. Michael excels at short, primarily imagistic poetry. His most recent books include For a Moment, a chapbook from Quebec's King's Road Press, and 100 Poets: Passions of the Imperial Court, from PIE Books in Tokyo, a 400-page art book (with photographs) presenting translations of 13th-century Japanese waka poems (co-translated with Emiko Miyashita) – Poetry – up to two pages.

Leslie What is the Nebula Award-winning author of Crazy Love, a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and winner in the Short Story/Fiction category of the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Award. Her short essays and fiction have been finalists in contests from Oregon Quarterly and Story magazine. Leslie's work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Bending the Landscape (Overlook Press), The Mammoth Book of Tales from the Road (Mammoth Books), and Best New Horror (Carroll & Graf), and in journals and magazines including Asimov's Science Fiction, Calyx, LA Review, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Midstream, Clackamas Literary Review, The Infinite Matrix, Lilith, and SciFiction. She earned her MFA in fiction from Pacific University and is an instructor in The Writers' Program at UCLA -- Fiction or nonfiction up to 1000 words.

Carolyne Wright has published eight books and chapbooks of poetry, four collections of poetry in translation from Spanish and Bengali; and a volume of essays. Her most recent collection, A Change of Maps (Lost Horse Press, 2006), nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Awards, and finalist for the Idaho Prize and the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, won the 2007 Independent Book Publishers Bronze Award for Poetry. Her previous book, Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire (Eastern Washington UP / Lynx House Books, 2nd edition 2005), won the Blue Lynx Prize and the American Book Award. Most recently published is an anthology of her translations, Majestic Nights: Love Poems of Bengali Women (White Pine Press, 2008).  Forthcoming in 2011 is Mania Klepto: the Book of Eulene, a sequence of poems featuring a culturally subversive alter-ego. Wright lived for a year in Chile on a Fulbright Study Grant during the presidency of Salvador Allende, and has returned several times, most recently in 2008, on a Partners of the Americas Education and Culture travel grant, to read, speak and direct workshops around the country. She is completing an investigative memoir about her experiences, The Road to Isla Negra, portions of which have received the PEN/Jerard Fund and the Crossing Boundaries Awards. She also spent four years on Indo-U.S. Subcommission and Fulbright Senior Research fellowships in Kolkata, India, and Dhaka, Bangladesh, translating the work of Bengali women poets and writers.  For this work, she has received Witter Bynner Foundation grants, an NEA Fellowship, and a Fellowship from the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College.

A poem of hers appears in The Best American Poetry 2009 (ed. David Wagoner), and in the Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses (2010). She is a contributing editor for the Pushcart Prize XXXV. Wright is an associate editor for poetry and translation for Artful Dodge, served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) for 2004-2008, and in 2005 returned to her native Seattle, where she is on the faculty of the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts' Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA Program – Poetry of any length and short creative nonfiction up to 1,000 words.

Andrena Zawinski is a widely published poet both in print and online. Her latest collection is Something About (2010, Blue Light Press, San Francisco). Others include Taking the Road Where It Leads, Greates Hits 1991- 2001, Traveling In Reflected Light (Kenneth Patchen Prize, Pig Iron Press, Youngstown). She is also a long time teacher of writing and Features Editor at 

www.PoetryMagazine.com -- Poetry up to two pages.