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Renée Ashley is the author of three volumes of poetry: Salt, Brittingham Prize in Poetry, The Various Reasons of Light, The Revisionist's Dream, and a chapbook, The Museum of Lost Wings, as well as a novel, Someplace Like This. She has received fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is co-poetry editor of The Literary Review, and is on the faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University's low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing. Her essays on craft have been published in Studies in American Humor, Fulcrum: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics, and AWP's The Writer's Chronicle.

Laure-Anne Bosselaar is the author and of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, and of Small Gods of Grief which won the Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry for 2001. Her third poetry collection, A New Hunger, was published by Ausable Press in early 2007. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, Bosselaar’s poems have appeared in reviews such as The Washington Post, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, AGNI, Harvard Review, and many others. She is the editor of four anthologies: Night Out: Poems about Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Bars, Outsiders: Poems about Rebels, Exiles and Renegades, Urban Nature: Poems about Wildlife in the Cities, and Never Before: Poems About First Experiences. She translates American poetry into French and Flemish poetry into English. With her husband, poet Kurt Brown, she translated a selection of poems entitled The Plural of Happiness, by the Flemish poet, critic and essayist Herman de Coninck.

Kurt Brown is the founding director of the Aspen Writers’ Conference, now in its 30th year, and of Writers' Conferences & Centers (a national association of directors) now in its 16th year. He is the author of several full-length collections of poems, including Return of the Prodigals, More Things in Heaven and Earth, and Fables from the Ark, which won the 2003 Custom Words Prize. His poems have appeared in many literary periodicals, including The Ontario Review, The Berkeley Poetry Review, The Southern Poetry Review, The Harvard Review, and Ploughshares; he is also the author of six chapbooks and the editor of three annuals: The True Subject, Writing it Down for James, and Facing the Lion. He teaches poetry workshops and craft classes at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY and was recently the McEver Visiting Chair in Writing at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia.

Toni Brown's poems have most recently been published in the journals: Fireweed, American Poetry Review, Philadelphia Poets, Mad Poet's Review, Prairie Schooner and the anthologies: Gathering Ground and Bed. She is a senior editor for the Painted Bride Quarterly journal, a Cave Canem Fellow; Leeway Foundation Poetry Grant recipient and a 2006 PEW Fellowship in the Arts finalist.

Barbara Daniels' book, Rose Fever, will be published by WordTech Press in 2008. She received two Individual Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, earned an MFA in poetry at Vermont College, and teaches at Camden County College in New Jersey. Her chapbook, The Woman Who Tries to Believe, won the Quentin R. Howard Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Louisville Review, Natural Bridge, Blueline, and many other journals.

Catherine Doty is the author of Momentum, a volume of poems from CavanKerry Press in 2004, and Just Kidding, a collection of cartoons published by Avocet Press. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, among them Garrison Keillor's More Good Poems for Hard Times and Billy Collins' 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day. She is the recipient of the 2003 Marjorie J. Wilson Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and other grants and honors. Ms. Doty has worked as a visiting artist for the Frost Place, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the New York Public Library, and other organizations.

Karen Zaborowski Duffy is the recipient of two Poetry Writing Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown . Her poems have appeared in Calyx, Birmingham Poetry Review, Many MountainsMoving, Journal of New JerseyPoets, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Giving in to the Smoke, received the Starting Gate Award by Finishing Line Press and was chosen as its Book of the Month for November 2007. Zaborowski Duffy teaches English at Atlantic City High School and serves as a poetry consultant for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. Her poem, “ World Series, Game 5” was featured on The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer in October 2007.

Stephen Dunn has published fourteen volumes of poetry, including Different Hours, which was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and the recently released Everything Else in the World (Norton, 2006). He has received awards and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine, an Academy Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts & Letters, as well as Fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, three NEA Creative Writing Fellowships, a Distinguished Artist Fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts, the Theodore Roethke Prize from Poetry Northwest, the James Wright Prize from Mid-American Review, and many others. A new and expanded edition of his book of essays, Walking Light, was published in 2001. He is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, but spends most of his time these days in Frostburg, Maryland with his wife, the writer Barbara Hurd.

Douglas Goetsch is the author of six books of poetry, most recently, Your Whole Life (Slipstream, 2007). His work has appeared in Poetry, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, The American Scholar, The Threepenny Review, The New England Review, online at PoetryDaily and Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, on the air at NPR, and in many anthologies. He has been on the writing faculty at The Frost Place, The Dodge Poetry Festival, The Iowa Summer Writing Festival, and numerous other conferences and university programs. He’s also been a long time New York City public school teacher, and is founding editor of Jane Street Press.

Kathleen Graber's first collection Correspondence was the winner of the 2005 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. She is a graduate of New York University's Creative Writing Program. She has received fellowships from The Rona Jaffe Foundation and The New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She will be a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University in 2007-8. She has new poems forthcoming in The Literary Review, The American Poetry Review and The Georgia Review.

Lois Marie Harrod is the author of seven books of poetry, including Every Twinge a Verdict, Crazy Alice, and most recently, Put Your Sorry Side Out. More than 300 of her poems have appeared in journals, including American Poetry Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Southern Poetry Review, American Pen, Prairie Schooner, The Literary Review, and online in Verse Daily. Harrod has received three fellowships from the NJ Council of the Arts and five Pushcart Prize nominations. She has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Rider University, The College of NJ, Voorhees High School, and the New Jersey Governor’s School of the Arts.

Charles Lynch has published poetry and prose in Before Columbus Review, Black American Literature Forum, The Black Scholar, Chelsea, Ms. Magazine, Crab Orchard Review, Rattapallax, Orison, The Saint Ann's Review, The Ledge, and other periodicals and anthologies. He is an Assistant Professor of English at New Jersey City University and was a Cave Canem fellow in June 2005.

Laura McCullough’s holds an MFA in fiction from Goddard College and has been awarded two NJ State Arts Council Fellowships, one in prose and one, in 2007, in poetry. She's been a Prairie Schooner Merit Scholar in Poetry and won a Dodge Scholarship to attend the FAWC. Her second collection of poems, WHAT MEN WANT, is forthcoming from XOXOX Press in 08, and her first, THE DANCING BEAR, came out in 2006 from Open Book Press. Her chapbook of 25 prose poems, ELEPHANT ANGER, was published online at Mudlark in 2007. Her poetry and fiction have appeared recently in places such as Nimrod, Slab, Gulf Coast, Hotel Amerika, The Portland Review, etc. She's completed a first novel, FINDING ONG'S HAT, and is at work on a second one, LITTLE WOLF. She is also working on a series of linked short first person narratives in the voices of women from around the globe.

Peter E. Murphy is the founder/director of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway.

Priscilla Orr a recipient of fellowships from New Jersey State Council on the Arts and Yaddo is the author of Juglers & Tides. Orr’s poems have appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Nimrod, Worcester Review and other journals, and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A Geraldine R. Dodge poet, Orr resides in Hamburg, NJ, and is an Associate Professor of English at Sussex County Community College.

Benjamin Paloff's poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Antioch Review, Fulcrum, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. He is poetry co-editor of Boston Review and a frequent contributor to The Nation and Harvard Review. A literary translator of Dorota Maslowska's Snow White and Russian Red (Grove Press, 2005) and most recently, Marek Bienczyk’s Tworki (Northwestern University Press, 2008), he received his MFA from the University of Michigan, where he taught creative writing and was honored with two Hopwood Awards. He has been a Fulbright-Hays Fellow in Eastern Europe and a Mellon Fellow at Harvard where he recently completed a Ph.D. in Slavic literature. He is currently an Assistant Professor/Post Doctorial Fellow of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan.

James Richardson's most recent books are Interglacial: New and Selected Poems and Aphorisms, which was a finalist for the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award, and Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays. Winner of an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Richardson has work in Best American Poetry 2001 and 2005, The New Yorker, Slate, Paris Review, Science News, Poetry Daily, and Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present. He is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Princeton University.

Christine E. Salvatore received her MFA from The University of New Orleans. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Writing at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and teaches English and Creative Writing at Egg Harbor Township High School. Her poetry has appeared in The Cortland Review, The Edison Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2005 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council of the Arts.

Madeline Tiger's eighth collection, Birds of Sorrow and Joy: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000, was published by Marsh Hawk Press in April 2003. Her recent work has appeared in Bridges, Marlboro Review, Runes, George Washington Review, Harrisburg Review, Home Planet News, Journal of NJ Poets, Poetry New York, One Trick Pony, and US 1. She teaches in the NJ State Council on the Arts/Writers-in-the-Schools programs. As a "Dodge Poet," she is a visiting artist in schools and festivals, and has been a facilitator for the "Clearing the Spring, Tending the Fountain" series for teachers.

J.C. Toddis author of What Space This Body, just published by Wind, and two chapbooks, Nightshade and Entering Pisces, both from Pine Press. Her poems have appeared in APR, Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Shade (2004) and Verse Daily. Awards include a Leeway Award for Poetry, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Poetry Fellowship, a New Jersey Governor's Award for Arts Education, an international exchange fellowship to Schloss Wiepersdorf arts colony in Germany and a scholarship to the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators in Sweden. She has edited translation features for Frigate and The Drunken Boat.

Angelo Verga’s poems have appeared in Rattle, Manhattan Review, Massachusetts Review, New Orleans Poetry Forum, Blue Mesa Review, Saint Ann's Review, Paterson Literary Review, New York Quarterly, The Temple, Connecticut Poetry Review, and numerous other journals. A Hurricane Is (Jane Street Press, 2003) is currently in a third printing. His most recent collection, 33 New York City Poems (2005) is published by Booklyn. Verga curates The Cornelia Street Cafe readings in NYC and leads peer group workshops as well tutoring individual poets.

Paul-Victor Winters has published poems in a number of national journals, including The Cimarron Review, The GW Review, and smartish pace. His chapbook, Muscle & Bone (Slapering Hol Press) won the 1995 Hudson Valley Writers' Center Poetry Chapbook Competition, judged by Billy Collins. He holds an MFA in Poetry from Indiana University. He currently teaches English at Egg Harbor Township High School and writing at Richard Stockton College.



Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway • 18 N. Richards Avenue • Ventnor, NJ 08406
609-823-5076 • 888-887-2105
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