Bernard Jankowski’s first book, The Bullfrog Does Not Imagine New Towns, won the Washington Writers Publishing House contest. His poems have been published in The Atlanta Review, Baltimore Review, Potomac Review, and Sycamore Review, and online in Poetry Daily. He is currently working with Boston-based blues pianist Bruce Bears on a recording of his “Shamokin […]

Anne Sheldon lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with Charles, a black cat who thinks he’s a dog, four generations of books, and way too much wool. A children’s librarian retired from the DC Public Library, she’s soon to be a part-time school librarian. She learned to tell stories to kids from Miss Van Winkle (no […]

Katherine Smith’s work has been published in a number of journals, among them Missouri Review, Cincinnati Review, Ploughshares, Gargoyle, The Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, Poetry, Shenandoah, and The Southern Review. Her first book, Argument by Design (Washington Writers’ Publishing House), appeared in 2003. Her second book Woman Alone on the Mountain appeared with Iris […]

Moira Egan’s poetry collections are Cleave (WWPH 2004); Bar Napkin Sonnets (The Ledge 2009); La Seta della Cravatta/The Silk of the Tie (Edizioni l’Obliquo 2009); and Spin (Entasis Press, 2010, for whom she also co-edited Hot Sonnets, 2011). She lives in Rome and translates with her husband, Damiano Abeni. Recent translations into Italian include Ferlinghetti’s […]

Born on Long Island, Ned Balbo earned an BA from Vassar College, an MA from Johns Hopkins, and an MFA from the University of Iowa. He has published six books of poetry: Galileo’s Banquet (1998), which shared the Towson University Prize for Literature; Lives of the Sleepers (2005), awarded the Ernest Sandeen Prize; The Trials […]

Elaine Magarrell, teacher, artist, and writer, is the author of two books of poetry: On Hogback Mountain (1985, winner of the Washington Writers’ Publishing House Prize), and Blameless Lives (1991, winner of the Word Works Prize). A selection of her poems appeared, most recently, along with poems by Cicely Angleton and Reed Whittemore in Inventory […]

Jean Nordhaus earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Barnard College and a PhD in German literature from Yale University. She is the author of The Music of Being (Broadstone Books, 2023), Memos from the Broken World (2016), Innocence (2006), The Porcelain Apes of Moses Mendelssohn (2002), A Bracelet of Lies (1987), and the poetry […]

Elisavietta Ritchie is a writer, editor and translator whose poems have been widely published and translated into a dozen languages. She has received the 1976 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award and the 2006 Anamnesis Press Poetry Chapbook Award, among other honors.

Hastings Wyman, Jr.’s poetry has appeared in a number of publications, including Southern Poetry Review, the New York Quarterly and The Washingtonian. He has written two stage presentations using his poetry–St. Barstow’s Canticles (with music by Charles Sens), produced in Washington in 1981, and Southern Gothic, produced by the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop in 1982. […]

Mary Ann Larkin is the author of The Coil of the Skin (Washington Writers Publishing House), White Clapboard (Carol Allen Press), The DNA of the Heart (Pond Road Press), and A Shimmering That Goes With Us (Finishing Line Press). Her poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, New Letters, Poetry Greece, and the anthology America […]