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Michael Carey
(MFA, University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop) is a
farmer and the author of The Noise the Earth Makes, Honest
Effort, Nishnabotna, Carpenter of Songs, and Poetry:
Starting from Scratch. He edited Voices on the Landscape:
Contemporary Iowa Poets, is cofounder and editor of Loess Hill Books
(subsidiary of Mid-Prairie Books), and is the host for Voices from the
Prairie, a radio show highlighting Iowa writers.
(Frances W. Phillips Award)
Jim Kacian
is a poet, publisher, and tennis professional living in
the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. He is author of nearly a dozen books of
haiku poetry and other forms; editor of Frogpond, the international
membership journal of the Haiku Society of America; cofounder of the World
Haiku Association; and owner of Red Moon Press, the largest press
dedicated to English-language haiku publication in the world.
(Lyman Haiku Award)
Diane Lockward
taught high school English for 25 years, and now
works in the Artist-in-Education program for the New Jersey State Council
on the Arts. Her poems have appeared in Spoon River, Rattle,
Poet Lore, Cumberland Poetry Review, and Beloit Poetry
Journal. Poets Forum Press published her chapbook, Against
Perfection, in 1998. Lockward’s poems have been featured on Poetry
Daily’s web site and Garrison Keillor read one of her poems on NPR.
(Marie Barringer Rogers Award)
Dawn McDuffie
majored in literature at Wayne State University,
where she studied contemporary poetry with W.D. Snodgrass. She has
published poems in The MacGuffin, Graffiti Rag, Armadillo,
Blue Unicorn Review, The Distillery, The Heartlands Today,
and Plainsongs. After teaching English and creative writing for 25
years at Detroit's Mumford High School, she retired in June, and is
currently working on an MFA in Poetry at Vermont College.
(Travis Tuck Jordan Award)
Susan Roney-O’Brien
(MFA, Warren Wilson) has published poems in Yankee,
Beloit Poetry Journal, Prairie Schooner, Worcester Review,
Potato Hill, and Potpourri. She teaches middle school
English in Princeton, MA, coordinates "Art is Fundamental" and
helps students publish a literary magazine, The Morrigann. Her
chapbook, Farmwife (Nightshade, 2000), won the Potato Hill
competition. Mary Oliver chose her manuscript to receive the William &
Kingman Page Award.
(Mary Chilton Award)
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