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MARGO STEVER

  • Founder and co-editor of Slapering Hol Press
  • Frozen Spring (2002), was the winner of the Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry.
  • Her chapbook, Reading the Night Sky, won the 1996 Riverstone Poetry Chapbook Competition. Introduction by Denise Levertov.
  • She is the founder and past Board Member of The Hudson Valley Writers' Center.
  • www.margostever.com

MARTIN MITCHELL

  • Co-editor of Slapering Hol Press
  • Editor of Pivot from 1983 to 1998 and of Rattapallax from 2000 to 2006
  • Film critic for After Dark (1968-81) and for Downtown Manhattan (1981-85)
  • Consulting Editor and Contributing Editor for Home Planet News, for which he has reviewed poetry books for almost 25 years
  • Contributing editor of Big City Lit
  • On the board of Bright Hill Press, for which he judged the 2003 Poetry Book Contest

CINDY BEER-FOUHY

  • Former Director and Founder of the Literary Arts Department and the Creative Arts Café poetry Series at the Northern Westchester Center for the Arts 1995-2005. Recipient of the Michael and Helen Schaffer Foundation Honorable Award for work in the Arts, 1996.
  • She is a member of Kappa Delta Pi, the International Honor Society in Education. Taught in public and private schools in NYC for 20 years.
  • Initiated and coordinated literature and creative writing programs and festivals for the Bedford Central School District, North Salem High School, The Bedford Correctional Prison and the NYC Chancellor's Writers Initiative.
  • Currently, as President of The Public Eye Publicity and Advertising Company (www.thepubliceye.info), she is a freelance writer and publicist and is the in-house publicist for Femme Fatale Production Company and Marketing Works Now. She is the recipient of twelve "Big W" awards from the Advertising Club of Westchester.

LORNA KNOWLES BLAKE

  • Executive Director of the New York State IOLA Fund, she is also a creative writing teacher and an editor at Barrow Street.
  • Her first collection of poems, Permanent Address, won the Richard Snyder Memorial Prize (Ashland Poetry Press, May 2008).
  • Educated at Trinity College (B.A.), New York University (M.B.A.) and Sarah Lawrence College (M.F.A.).
  • Born in Havana and lived in Cuba, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela and Puerto Rico before moving to the United States.

PATRICIA CARLIN

Patricia Carlin's new poetry collection Quantum Jitters is forthcoming in 2009 (Marsh Hawk Press). Previous books include another poetry collection, Original Green (2003), as well as Shakespeare's Mortal Men, a critical study of selected plays. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies such as Verse, Boulevard, Rattapallax, POOL, Pleiades, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, American Letters & Commentary, The Manhattan Review, and BOMB. Recent awards include fellowships at The MacDowell Colony and VCCA and two Pushcart Prize nominations. She holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University in Renaissance and medieval literature, Shakespeare studies, and poetry and poetics, and is an Associate Professor at New School University where she teaches literature and poetry writing in the Writing Program. She co-edits the poetry journal Barrow Street, and is a co-founder of the book arm of Barrow Street Press.

SUSANA H. CASE

  • College professor at the New York Institute of Technology, New York.
  • The Scottish Cafe (Slapering Hol Press, 2002).
  • Anthropologist in Ohio (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2005).
  • http://iris.nyit.edu/~shcase/

J. CLARK ZAFRIN

J. Clark Zafrin is a poet whose work has appeared in publications such as Link, The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, The Western Humanities Review and Reactions4: an Anthology of the UK's Best Young Poets. Her translations of the Russian poet, Anna Akhmatova, have been featured in The Paris Review. In 2008 she was a finalist for the Hudson Prize of the Black Lawrence Press and recently was both a finalist and semi-finalist in the annual chapbook competition of The Slapering Hol Press. She is a past fellow of the Thomas J. Watson Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has taught literature and writing at Bank Street College, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at international schools in Italy. She recently completed a three-year tenure as Director of CITYterm at The Masters School ; she currently directs the New York office of St. Stephen's School in Rome. She earned an MFA from Columbia University. With her husband and son, J.Clark Zafrin makes her home in Sleepy Hollow.

SUZANNE CLEARY

  • Co-editor Emerita of Slapering Hol Press
  • Pushcart Prize in Poetry, Poetry Society of America's Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, residencies at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony
  • Keeping Time (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002)
  • Trick Pear (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2007)
  • Beauty Mark (Carnegie Melllon, 2011)
  • Professor of English at SUNY Rockland, also teaching at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center, The Frost Place

BRENDA CONNOR-BEY

  • Thoughts of an Everyday Woman/An Unfinished Urban Folktale (Blind Beggar Press, 1995).
  • Founder of MenWem Writers Workshop.
  • A member of the Harlem Writers' Workshop and the Poetry Caravan.
  • Outstanding Arts Educator Award from the Westchester Fund for Women and Girls.
  • Grants/Fellowships: NYS CAPS award (poetry), four PEN awards (non-fiction), a NYFA (fiction). MacDowell, YADDO and Cave Canem Regional Fellow.
  • An instructor of creative writing: The Hudson Valley Writers' Center, The Kids' Short Story Connection, Hawthorne Cedar Knolls/Linden Hills Middle and High Schools, Pierre Van Cortlandt Middle School and Highview Elementary School.

BARBARA FISCHER

  • Author of a critical study, Museum Mediations: Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry (Routledge, 2006)
  • Frequent contributor of review essays to Boston Review.
  • Her essay "Noisy Brides, Suspicious Kisses: Revising Ravishment in Experimental Ekphrasis by Women" is forthcoming in In the Frame: Women's Ekphrastic Poetry from Marianne Moore to Susan Wheeler (U of Delaware P, 2008).
  • She holds an M.F.A. in poetry from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from New York University
  • Has taught writing and literature at Columbia, NYU, and Marymount College.

ANN LAUINGER

  • Persuasions of Fall (University of Utah, 2004), won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry.
  • She is on the Literature faculty of Sarah Lawrence College.
  • Former (2004-2006) co-editor of Slapering Hol Press.

MEREDITH TREDE

  • Out of the Book was published by toadlily press in Desire Path, the first in the Quartet Series of Chapbooks.
  • Awarded residencies by Ragdale, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Virginia and Auvillar, France.
  • Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
  • She and her husband are partners in Kenyon-Trede Associates, Ltd. The practice specializes in customized programs in organizational leadership, client relationship management, strategic planning, and team building.

ESTHA WEINER

  • Co-editor and contributor to Blues for Bill: A Tribute to William Mathews (Akron Poetry Series, 2005).
  • Winner of 2005 Paterson Poetry Prize.
  • Founder and director of The N.Y. Writers Nights Series for Sarah Lawrence College, and the Marymount Writers Nights.
  • Speaker on Shakespeare for New York Council on the Humanities and an actor/reader for The National Library Series/Library of Congress.
  • Member of English faculties at City College of New York and Marymount Manhattan College, and poetry faculties of The Writers Voice, The Frost Place, and Stonecoast Writers Conference.

 

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