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Mary Jo Firth Gillett’s
poems have appeared in many journals, including The Michigan Quarterly
Review, Harvard Review, Poetry Northwest, Nimrod,
Calyx, and Crab Orchard Review. She has won several awards for
her chapbooks, has been a poetry editor, and teaches advanced poetry workshops
for The Detroit Writer's Voice. Mary Jo is also an Artist in Residence with
the CWIS Program, and she has an MFA from Vermont College.
(Travis Tuck Jordan Award)
Bill Holshouser
was born in the mountains of western North Carolina and now lives in New England.
His poetry reflects both homes as well as a curiosity that wanders in a wider
geography of ideas and interests. His first collection of poetry, Naked Bread,
was published in 2001. He lives in Cambridge, MA, is married and is the father of
three children. Between poems he has worked as a public policy researcher and
a public housing administrator.
(Frances W. Phillips Award)
Ethna McKiernan
has published widely in anthologies and journals in the U.S. and in Ireland
for the past 25 years. Her books of poems are Caravan (Midwest Villages
& Voices) and The One Who Swears You Can't Start Over, published in 2002
by Salmon. In 1991 she received a Literature Fellowship from the Minnesota Arts
Commission. McKiernan is an MFA candidate at Warren Wilson College, and lives
in Minneapolis, where she manages Irish Books and Media.
(Marie Barringer Rogers Award)
Ann Silsbee’s
full-length book, Orioling, won the 2002 Benjamin Saltman Prize
and will be published by Red Hen Press. Her poems have appeared in
The Seneca Review, Atlanta Review, and Spoon River
Poetry Review; in other journals; and in a chapbook, Naming The
Disappeared. She is also a composer whose works have been performed
and recorded in the USA and in several countries abroad.
(Mary Chilton Award)
John Stevenson
is a former president of the Haiku Society of America whose writing has been
translated into more than thirty languages. His haiku collections, published
by Red Moon Press, include Something Unerasable (1995) and Some of
the Silence (1999). Among other places, his poems have appeared in
The Haiku Anthology (Norton, 1999), and How to Haiku (Tuttle,
2002). He recently became poetry editor of Frogpond, the journal of
the Haiku Society of America. The single parent of a nineteen-year-old son,
he lives near Albany, NY.
(Lyman Haiku Award)
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