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Garret Schuelke
Garret Schuelke Garret Schuelke is a writer hailing from Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author of a short story collection, Whup Jamboree (2017, Elmblad Media Group,) a novel, Anamakee (2016, Riot Forge) and three poetry ebooks: Blind Grave Robber/Agnostic Eggs, Wotan, and The Bakunin Incorporated Reader. Garret will have copies of Whup Jamboree and …
Krista Cox
Krista Cox Krista Cox is a paralegal, an associate poetry editor at Stirring: A Literary Collection, and the Program Director of Lit Literary Collective, a Michiana-based non-profit dedicated to serving the local literary community (check facebook.com/litmichiana for more info). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Antiphon, Whale Road Review, and Pittsburgh Poetry Review, …
Lily Rex
Lily Rex The first official poet laureate of her hometown, Highland, Indiana, Lily Rex is a ‘region’ writer and always will be. Her life may or may not be a never-ending quest to find the perfect thrift store leather jacket. Non-literary hobbies include beating yellow lights, photographing her dog, and fishing. So far the quest …
Joe Gianotti
Joe Gianotti Joe Gianotti grew up in Whiting, Indiana, an industrial city five minutes from Chicago. He currently teaches English at Lowell High School. He is a proud contributor to Volume II of This is Poetry: The Midwest Poets. Among other poets, he represented Northwest Indiana in the 2014 Five Corners Poetry Readings. His work …
Janine Harrison
Janine Harrison Janine Harrison teaches creative writing at Purdue University Northwest and is the 2017 Highland (IN) Poet Laureate. She wrote If We Were Birds (Moria, 2017). Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Veils, Halos, and Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women, A&U, Not Like the Rest of …
Lennart Lundh
Lennart Lundh Lennart Lundh has worked as a poet, short-fictionist, historian, and photographer since 1965. He’s been a regular at several Chicago-area venues for the past five years, and reads in Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania as opportunities arise. Among his twelve poetry chapbooks and collections are the Poems Against Cancer series, written to raise funds …
NightBallet Press
NightBallet Press is an independent small press, interested in the musicality of language and originality of expression in poetry, with a commitment to excellence. NBP’s handcrafted books are displayed each year at Poets House in NYC, and are archived in the Ohioana and Lockwood, University at Buffalo, Libraries. Founded in 2011 by editor/publisher Dianne Borsenik, NBP has just published its 100th …
Dianne Borsenik
Dianne Borsenik is active in the northern Ohio poetry scene and regional reading circuit. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Offbeat, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Rosebud, and Slipstream; new work is forthcoming in Chiron Review and Poets Speak “Survival” and “Water” anthologies. Her first full-length collection, Age of Aquarius, was published …
Mark James Andrews
Mark James Andrews Mark James Andrews has had a full and checkered career as a gravedigger, inspector at a defunct auto plant, and jail librarian only to crash and burn as a library director. He is author of several chapbooks of poetry including Burning Trash (Pudding House), Compendium 20/20 (Deadly Chaps) and a poetry CD, …
Juliet Cook
Juliet Cook Juliet Cook is a grotesque glitter witch medusa hybrid brimming with black, grey, silver, purple, and dark red explosions. Her poetry has appeared in a peculiar multitude of literary publications. She is the author of numerous poetry chapbooks, recently including POISONOUS BEAUTYSKULL LOLLIPOP (Grey Book Press, 2013), RED DEMOLITION (Shirt Pocket Press, 2014), …