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Jenny Barber's poems have appeared or
are forthcoming in Marlboro Review, Four Way Reader #2, the Massachusetts
Review, Agni, Partisan Review, 96 Inc., Poetry,
and Orion. She received a Bruce Rossley New Voices award in 1998, and a
selection of her poetry appeared in Take Three: 3, published by Graywolf
Press. She is founding and current editor of Salamander, a magazine for poetry,
fiction, and memoirs.
Genre bender CD Collins presents work
spiced with acerbic wit and unmistakable southern charm. With ever-shifting personae, her narratives
and pyrotechnic poetics transport the listener from the hills of Kentucky,
along the boulevard Champs-Elysees and on to the urban landscape she now calls
home. Collins has performed in various Boston area venues including The Charles
Playhouse, The Lansdowne Playhouse, and Club Passim, as well as appearing in
poetry venues and academic settings along the East Coast, South and Midwest. Ms. Collins' poetry and
short fiction has appeared in numerous
publications,
including StoryQuarterly, The Pennsylvania Review, Imagine, and The South
Dakota Review. When accompanied by her band, Pincurl, CD Collins presents a
captivating blend of Chamber Rock with Spoken Word that one reviewer described
as "pure magic.' Initially funded
by a grant from St. Botolph Club Foundation, CD and Pincurl released a compact disc, "Kentucky
Stories" in March 1999. This disc
won Best Spoken Word CD at the Boston Poetry awards in March 2000.
Linda Katherine Cutting is
currently working on a novel entitled “Lost Girl,” and a book of essays
entitled “Notes Without a Piano.” Her memoir Memory Slips (Harper Perennial,
1998) won the 1998 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publisher’s
“Deems Taylor” Award for books on music chosen for their excellence. Linda
received the award at Lincoln Center in December of 1998. The audio book
(Harper Audio), which includes her performances on the piano, was chosen by
Audiophile as audio book of the year.
Memory Slips, which has been translated into six different languages, will be
translated into Japanese in 1000 by Ayoyama.
Carol Dine has published two books of
poems: Trying to Understand the Lunar Eclipse (Erie Street, 1992) and Naming
the Sky (Golden Quill, 1988). Her poetry has appeared in literary magazines
such as Women’s Review of Books, Prairie Schooner, Blue Mesa Review, Madison
Review and The Bitter Oleander. Her work is included in the anthology Living on
the Margins: Women Writers on Breast Cancer (Hilda Raz, ed., Persea Books,
1999); and A Map of Hope: Women’s Writing on Human Rights (Marjorie Agosin,
ed., Rutgers University Press, 1999). Poems from her bilingual manuscript Light
and Bone/Luz y hueso were presented in a multi-media performance by acclaimed
choreographer Paula Josa-Jones at the Boston Conservatory Theatre (1997), and
at Boston University for Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky’s “Favorite Poem Project”
(1999). Dine has been a resident at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Ragdale, the
Wurlitzer Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She
received teh Sword of Hope Award from the American Caner Society for
Treatments: A Journal which appeared in the Boston Herald Magazine. She
recently completed a memoir, Places in the Bone, represented by Perkins, Rubie
Assoc., NYC. Dine teaches English at Suffolk University, Boston.
Kathleen M. Henry, writer, singer,
community ordained priest and liturgist makes her home in Boston,
Massachusetts. Henry is the Artistic
Director of CREDO Liturgical Dance Company of Boston (www.credoliturgicaldance.org).
She leads workshops in the Enneagram and sacred dance and performs as vocal
soloist in local concerts (www.alabasterjarliturgicalarts.com). She serves on the Board of the Writers' Room
of Boston, Inc. Currently Henry is at work on her third novel, The Mikado
Principle. "The Emily Jean
Series," a fable in trilogy for adults may be forthcoming in the Fall of
2000 from Wovenword Press. Her
non-fiction works, The Book of Enneagram Prayers, The Book of Ours: Liturgies
for Feminist People, and "Jesus Was the Goddess" are available from
Wovenword Press (books@wovenword.com).
Nancy Hurlbut taught
high school students how to read and write for thirty years and dabbled in
radio production, and finally decided to test my own mettle as a dedicated
fiction writer. She writes, “I am surely the oldest novice the Writers' Room
has sheltered, and I am very grateful for the silent company and space to
work.”
Robert K. Johnson has
just retired after teaching in college for forty years (and being delighted to
be paid to read and talk about Chaucer, Shakespeare, Swift, Keats, and Wallace
Stevens). Even before he started teaching, he wrote poems—and plans to continue
doing so as long as breath allows. A good number of his poems have been
published in a wide variety of little magazines. Four collections of his poetry
have seen the light of day, the most recent being Out of the Ordinary. He is at
present assembling another collection of poems (what poet isn’t?). In addition,
he has seen many critical pieces of his appear in print and is the author of
two full-length critical studies—of Neil Simon and Francis Ford Coppola.
Nancy Kassell escaped
from academia to writer her nonfiction book, The Pythia on Ellis Island:
Rethinking the Greco-Roman Legacy in America (University Press of America,
1998), in The Writers’ Room. Now a poet and librettist, her work has been
published in Feminist Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Southern Poetry
Review, Salamander, and in two anthologies.
Tehila Lieberman lives in Cambridge, Mass. and is currently working on a collection of short stories and a novella. Her recent work has appeared in the Colorado Review, Salon Magazine, Literal Latté, SideShow and A Woman's Path, a Travelers' Tales Guides anthology. Upcoming work will appear in Nimrod. She has won the Colorado Review's Stanley Elkin Memorial Prize for fiction, and has been a finalist for numerous awards, including, most recently, Nimrod's Katherine Anne Porter Prize and the American Literary Review's fiction prize.
Michael Meeske’s
short story, Tears, will appear in the July 2000 issue of Space & Time, a
biannual magazine of fantasy and science fiction. In the room, Michael is
working on the second draft of his third novel, Poe's Mother. Currently, he has
ideas for five more novels, which should keep him working in the room for at
least the next 25 years.
Robin Pelzman is as a poet and a
parent. She strives toward publication
in small journals and magazines, toward a first book of poems, and toward time
with family and friends. She spent twelve years as a human resources and
organizational development specialist in a Fortune 15 company. She lives in Brookline, MA with her husband
and son.
Ricco Villanueva Siasoco's
fiction has appeared in Flyway Literary Review, The Boston Phoenix,
and is forthcoming in Take Out: Gay and Asian Writings in America (Asian
American Writers' Workshop, 2000) and Screaming Monkeys (Coffee House
Press, 2000). He has written articles and reviews for The Boston Globe, 96
Inc., A. Magazine, Culturefinder.com, Infoplease.com, and numerous
anthologies. Ricco is an MFA candidate in the Bennington Writing Seminars.
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