All told, Dan Gutstein is the author of eight books and chapbooks, including Metacarpalism (poems) and non/fiction (stories). In November 2023, the University Press of Mississippi published Dan Gutstein’s book Poor Gal: The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane as part of its American Made Music Series. Poor Gal chronicles the extraordinary journey of the “Liza […]

Jehanne Dubrow is the author of ten books of poems, including most recently, Civilians (Louisiana State University Press, 2025), and three books of creative nonfiction, throughsmoke: an essay in notes (New Rivers Press, 2019), Taste: A Book of Small Bites (Columbia University Press, 2022), and Exhibitions: Essays on Art & Atrocity (University of New Mexico […]

Bruce Mackinnon’s Mystery Schools won the Washington Writers’ Publishing House Prize in Poetry for 2007. He teaches creative writing at George Washington University.

Carly Sachs is the author of the steam sequence and Descendants of Eve. She is the editor of the why and later, a collection of poems about rape and assault. Her poems and stories have been included in The Best American Poetry series and read on NPR’s Selected Shorts. She currently works for The Jewish […]

Patric Pepper has published two collections of poetry: a chapbook, Zoned Industrial (Poet to Poet, 2000; 2nd edition, Banty, 2010), and a full length collection, Temporary Apprehensions, which was a 2004 winner of the Washington Writers’ Publishing House Poetry Prize (WWPH). From 2008 through 2013, Pepper was President of Washington Writers’ Publishing House. He continues […]

Piotr Gwiazda is a literary scholar, translator, and poet. He is the author of two critical studies, US Poetry in the Age of Empire, 1979-2012 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and James Merrill and W.H. Auden: Homosexuality and Poetic Influence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). He is the translator of three books by Polish writer Grzegorz Wróblewski, Dear Beloved […]

Nan Fry teaches in the Academic Studies Program at the Corcoran College of Art + Design and is the author of a book of poetry, Relearning the Dark (Washington Writers Publishing House) and a chapbook of translations, Say What I Am Called (Sibyl-Child). Her poems have recently appeared on posters in the transit systems of […]

Attourney Joseph Thackery, some years retired from the N.L.R.B., began writing poetry “seriously” upon being transferred to Washington, D.C. in 1960. His aim was “to sharpen my grasp of metaphor for the purposes of fiction.”

Naomi Thiers grew up in California and Pittsburgh, but her chosen home is Washington, DC area. In 1992, her first book of poetry Only The Raw Hands Are Heaven won the Washington Writers Publishing House competition. Her other books are In Yolo County and She Was a Cathedral (Finishing Line Press) and Made of Air […]

Elaine Maria Upton is the author of Children of Apartness.