GAIL THOMAS has published four books of poetry: Odd Mercy (2016), Waving Back (2015), No Simple Wilderness: An Elegy for Swift River Valley (2001) and Finding the Bear (1997). Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The Beloit Poetry Journal, Calyx, The North American Review, Hanging Loose, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. She was awarded residencies at The McDowell Colony in New Hampshire and Ucross in Wyoming. As one of the original teaching artists for the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Elder Arts Initiative, Thomas led workshops and collaborated with dancers, musicians and storytellers in schools, nursing homes, hospitals and libraries across the state. You may read more about her work at www.gailthomaspoet.com.
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Ruth Sanderson is an author and illustrator with over 85 published children’s books. She is a graduate of the Paier College of Art. Among her many picture books for children are A Castle Full of Cats, The Enchanted Wood (winner of the Bank Street College Award and the Young Hoosiers Award), The Snow Princess, and The Golden Mare, the Firebird, and the Magic Ring (winner of the Texas Bluebonnet Award). She is currently working on writing and illustrating a picture book biography of nineteenth century artist Rosa Bonheur, and a retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves for young adults. Ruth teaches in the summer MFA program in Writing and Illustrating for Children at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. She lives with her husband in Easthampton, MA. Her website is www.ruthsanderson.com
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CAROLYN ZAIKOWSKI is the author of the novels In a Dream, I Dance by Myself, and I Collapse (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016) and A Child Is Being Killed (Aqueous Books, 2013.) Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared widely, in such publications as The Washington Post, Denver Quarterly, The Rumpus, PANK, Dusie, Huffington Post, and Everyday Feminism. She holds an MFA from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and is currently an English professor. Find her online at www.carolynzaikowski.com.
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KATE SENECAL received an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2013. She is the Assistant Director of Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop, and a workshop facilitator for Writers for Recovery in Vermont. Her fiction has been published in The Laurel Review, The Foundling Review, and in Storychord.com, where she was the fiction editor for two years before it stopped publication. |
SARA RAUCH is the author of the story collection WHAT SHINES FROM IT (Alternating Current, 2019). She has worked as an editor for an independent book publisher, a literary magazine, and currently as a freelancer. She holds an MFA from Pacific University and lives with her family in Holyoke, MA. Find her online at www.sararauch.com. www.sararauch.com. |
JOY BAGLIO is the founder and director of Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop. In additional to her role at PVWW, she serves as Associate Fiction Editor at the literary magazine West Branch and teaches writing at Grub Street in Boston. Her short fiction has appeared recently in Tin House, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, New Ohio Review, PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from The New School and has received grants and scholarships from The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, The Elizabeth George Foundation, and The Speculative Literature Foundation. She's at work on a collection of short stories and a novel. Find her online at www.joybaglio.com
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