Slapering Hol Press Advisory Committee

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 current Board Member of The Hudson Valley Writers' Center.
www.margostever.com

SUZANNE CLEARY

Co-editor of Slapering Hol Press.
Pushcart Prize in Poetry, Poetry Society of America's Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, and a Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Keeping Time (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002).
Blue Cloth, chosen by Marilyn Nelson & Robert Cording as winner of 2004 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize.
Trick Pear (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2007).
Associate Professor of English at SUNY Rockland, also teaching at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center.

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.

SUSANA H. CASE

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.

MARTIN MITCHELL

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.

LIZ NICKLES

Author of eleven books, including a tennis mystery series with Martina Navratilova, three novels, and two nonfiction books.
She has been an editor of children's books at Scott, Foresman & Co. and for fifteen years was an Executive Creative Director at major global advertising agencies and a senior marketing executive at Fortune 500 companies such as Mattel and Credit Suisse First Boston.
Currently she is President of Liz Nickles & Associates and Black Label Brand Development, specializing in branding, marketing, advertising and strategic vision.
Ms. Nickles is a national board member of the National Organization for Rare Disorders. She has been awarded top marketing industry honors including the EFFIE; ADDIE; CLIO; and CLARION; Advertising Woman of the Year; Glamour Magazine's Top 10 Women of the Year and decade; and the U.S. Council of Women's Outstanding Woman in Business.

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.