Contributors 2020
Esther Cohen
Esther Cohen is an activist, curator, teacher, writer, and bookdoctor. She’s published six books, and writes a poem a day at esthercohen.com.
Cheryl Clarke
Cheryl Clarke is the author of five books of poetry. Since 1979, her writings have appeared in numerous publications, including the iconic This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color (1980), and Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (1982). She has been a co-organizer of the annual Hobart N. Y. Festival of Women Writers since 2013. http://www.cherylclarkepoet.com
Breena Clarke
Breena Clarke is the author of Angels Make Their Hope Here (2014), Stand The Storm (2008), and her debut novel, River, Cross My Heart (1999). Breena Clarke is a member of the fiction faculty of The Stonecoast MFA Creative Writing program at The University of Southern Maine and is co-organizer of The Hobart Book Village Festival of Women Writers. www.BreenaClarke.com
Marina Antropow Cramer
Marina Antropow Cramer is the daughter of postwar refugees from the Soviet Union. She is the author of Roads:A Novel, set in Russia and Germany at the end of World War II. Her latest work, Anna Eva Mimi Adam, is a contemporary novel that explores the consequences of a single violent act on three generations of women.
Denise DAiley
Denise B. Dailey was born in Brazil of French and French-Chilean parents. She has traveled in tents and hammocks to the seven continents with her husband and children, and uses her observations and languages to inform her travel writing, Listening to Pakistan, memoir, Leaving Guanabara, and biography of a Czech painter, Riko: Seductions of an Artist. She lives on a farm with her husband in Walton, NY.
Julie R. Enszer
Julie R. Enszer, PhD, is a scholar and a poet.She is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Avowed (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2016). Enszer edits and publishes Sinister Wisdom, a multicultural lesbian literary and art journal.
Alexis De Veaux
Alexis De Veaux is a black queer feminist writer currently working toward new, literary definitions of black sermonic texts as secular engagements. The author of numerous works, including Warrior Poet, A Biography of Audre Lorde and the novel Yabo, De Veaux has written in and across multiple genres. For more information, go to www.alexisdeveaux.com
Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa is an Afro-Puerto Rican novelist whose books focus on the lives of 19th century Afro-descendants in plantation society. Her first novel, Daughters of the Stone, was selected as a finalist for the 2010 PEN America Bingham Literary Award. The publication of her second novel, A Woman of Endurance is slated for Fall 2021.
Áine Greaney
Áine Greaney is an Irish-born author living in Massachusetts. In addition to her five books, she leads creative and expressive writing workshops, and has published essays and stories in outlets such as Creative Nonfiction, The Boston Globe Magazine, The New York Times and Salon. Her website is at www.ainegreaney.com.
Maria Gillan
Maria Mazziotti Gillan, whose most recent publications include What Blooms in Winter and a poetry and photography collaboration with Mark Hillringhouse, Paterson Light and Shadow, is the 2008 recipient of the American Book Award for All That Lies Between Us. She is the founder and Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College, Paterson, NJ. and editor of the Paterson Literary Review. She has been appointed a Bartle Professor and Professor Emerita of English and creative writing at Binghamton University-SUNY.
Diane Gilliam
Diane Gilliam is the author of four collections of poetry: Dreadful Wind & Rain, Kettle Bottom, One of Everything and Recipe for Blackberry Cake (chapbook). She teaches as guest faculty in the low-residency MFA program at West Virginia Wesleyan College.
Linda Lowen
Linda Lowen is a book reviewer for Publishers Weekly. Linda Lowen's nonfiction has been published in the New York Times and is forthcoming in "Tiny Love Stories: True Tales of Love in 100 Words or Less" from Artisan Books in December. Her writing advice has appeared in The Writer and Writer's Digest magazines.
Stephanie Nikolpoulous
Stephanie Nikolopoulos (MFA, The New School; BA, Scripps College) coauthored Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" with Paul Maher Jr. Afar animated her flash travel story "Seeing the Light in Sweden" for their Travel Tales series in 2019, and the Albany International Airport Gallery selected her "Essay after Visiting the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Written from a Skyscraper" for their Landmarks exhibit in 2018. For more, visit www.StephanieNikolopoulos.com.
Ellen Meeropol
Ellen Meeropol is the author of the novels Her Sister’s Tattoo, Kinship of Clover, On Hurricane Island, and House Arrest, and recent essays and short stories published in Solstice, Lilith, Ms. Magazine, Guernica, Lit Hub, and Mom Egg Review. Her work has been honored by the Women’s National Book Association, the Massachusetts Center for the Book, PBS NewsHour, the American Book Fest, and Publishers Weekly. A founding member of Straw Dog Writers Guild, Ellen coordinates their Social Justice Writing project.
Bertha Rogers
Bertha Rogers’s poems have been published in journals and anthologies; and in several collections, among them Wild, Again; Heart Turned Back; and Sleeper, You Wake. Her translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf was published in 2000, and her translation and illuminations of the riddle-poems in the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book were published in 2019 as Uncommon Creatures.
Elena Schwolsky
ELENA SCHWOLSKY, RN, MPH, is a nurse, community health educator, activist, and writer from Brooklyn, New York. Elena serves as a workshop leader for the NY Writers Coalition, an organization that offers free writing workshops in community centers, libraries, youth programs, hospitals and prisons throughout New York City. Her award-winning book, Waking in Havana: A Memoir of AIDS and Healing in Cuba was published in November, 2019 by She Writes Press.
Elizabeth Searle
Elizabeth Searle is the author of five books of fiction, including A Four-Sided Bed which is in development for feature film and is the basis of a 2019 short film that screened at many Festivals. Elizabeth's show, Tonya & Nancy: the Rock Opera, has been widely produced and drawn national media. Elizabeth teaches fiction and scriptwriting at Stonecoast MFA.
Cheryl Boyce Taylor
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is a poet and teaching artist. She earned an MFA from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine and an MSW from Fordham University. Her collections of poetry include Raw Air (2000), Night When Moon Follows (2000), Convincing the Body (2005), and Arrival (2017), which was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize.
aRISA wHITE
Arisa White is a Cave Canem fellow and an assistant professor of creative writing at Colby College. She is the author of You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened and co-author of Biddy Mason Speaks Up. She serves on the board of directors for Foglifter and Nomadic Presses. arisawhite.com
Lisa Wujnovich
Lisa Wujnovich is a poet and farmer at Mountain Dell Farm in Hancock, NY. She has two published poetry chapbooks, Fieldwork, Finishing Line Press, and This Place Called Us, a collaboration with photos by Mark Dunau, Stockport Flats Press. Lisa’s poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and publications, including one she co-edited: The Lake Rises, poems to and for our bodies of water, Stockport Flats Press.
