Kim Roberts is the author of six books of poems, most recently Corona/Crown (WordTech Editions, 2023), a cross-disciplinary collaboration with photographer Robert Revere, and The Scientific Method (WordTech, 2017). She is editor of the anthology By Broad Potomac’s Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of our Nation’s Capital (University of Virginia Press, 2020), selected […]

Paul R. Haenel is a Pittsburgh native who has lived in Northern Virginia since 1981. He graduated from Penn State University in 1975 and subsequently spent four years as a German linguist/voice intercept operator for the US Army Security Agency ((ASA)––later INSCOM––attaining the exalted rank of buck sergeant. His service included sixteen months in West […]

Jane Schapiro’s work has appeared in numerous journals. Her first book Tapping This Stone was published by WWPH in 1995. She is the author of two other volumes of poetry: Warbler, which won a 2020 Nautilus Award, and Let The Wind Push Us Across. Her chapbook, Mrs. Cave’s House, won the Sow’s Ear Poetry Chapbook […]

Nancy Naomi Carlson’s translation of Khal Torabully’s Cargo Hold of Stars: Coolitude (Seagull Books, 2021) won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and is shortlisted for the Sarah Maguire Prize (winner TBD). A poet and essayist, she has authored twelve titles (eight translated), including An Infusion of Violets (Seagull Books, 2019), her second full-length poetry collection, which […]

Ramola D studied Physics and Business Administration in Madras, India. In 1991, she received an MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University. A first book of poetry, Invisible Season was published by Washington Writers Publishing House in 1998. Her poetry has appeared in Agni, Prairie Schooner, Green Mountains Review, Phoebe, The Asian Pacific American […]

Catherine Harnett (Shaw) is a poet and fiction author from Fairfax, Virginia. Her poetry collections, Still Life and Evidence, were published by WWPH. Catherine’s poetry has appeared in numerous magazines, most recently: Gargoyle, 100 Words, Six Sentences, Danse Macabre, upstreet 5, and Alimentum. Her fiction appeared in the Hudson Review, Assisi, and Matchbook. The short […]

The daughter of an American Air Force reservist and a British mother, Jane Satterfield grew up near Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Maryland. She is a poet, essayist, professor, and mother. She is also a fan of The Clash, The Smiths, P. J. Harvey, and more. Her literary idols include the Brontës, Sylvia Plath, […]

Dean Smith’s poems have appeared in Poetry East, Open City, The Pearl, The Virginia Literary Review, The Charlotte Review, and Gulf Stream, among others. His first book, American Boy won the 2000 Washington Writers’ Prize and was also awarded the Maryland Prize for Literature in 2001 for the best book published by a Maryland writer […]