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DRIFTWOOD 10 "WATER" CONTRIBUTORS NOTES (in their own words)
Paul Bancel
Steven Matthew Brown was born in Flint and raised near Detroit. He holds a Master's of Fine Art from the Bauhaus-University Weimar in Germany. A list of honors and awards accompanies over 40 presentations of his sculpture, drawings, public art collaborations and performances in seven countries. He divides his time between Michigan and Germany.
Jennifer Clark’s poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in
Pain and Memory (Editions Bibliotekos), All Poetry is
Prayer, Raven Chronicles, Dogs Singing: A Tribute
Anthology (Salmon Press) and Astropoetica. In 2009, she was
nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives and writes in Kalamazoo,
Michigan where she also serves as director of school and community
relations for Communities In Schools. As one of the founding members of
the Kalamazoo River Cleanup Coalition, she volunteers to make sure that
PCBS are removed and properly disposed of from the Kalamazoo River.
Patricia Clark is Poet-in-Residence and Professor in the Department of Writing at Grand Valley State University. Author of three volumes of poetry, Patricia*s newest book is She Walks into the Sea; Patricia's work has been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily and her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Slate, Stand, The Gettysburg Review, and many other literary magazines.
Linda Nemec Foster is the author of nine collections of poetry
including Amber Necklace from Gdansk (a finalist for the Ohio
Book Award in Poetry) and Listen to the Landscape (short-listed
for the Michigan Notable Book Award). Her work has also appeared in
The Los Angeles Review, Connecticut Review, Nimrod,
The Georgia Review, New American Writing, and North
American Review. Her most recent book, Talking Diamonds, was
selected as a finalist for ForeWord Magazine's 2010 Book of the
Year in Poetry. She is the founder of the Contemporary Writers Series
at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids.
Mary Jo Firth Gillett's book of poetry, Soluble Fish, won the Crab Orchard Series First Book Award. Her three award-winning chapbooks are Not One (Detroit Writer's Voice), Tiger in a Hairnet (Small Poetry Press, Select Poets' Series), and Chandeliers of Fish (Poetry West). Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart and published widely in journals such as The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, Harvard Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Sycamore Review, Green Mountains Review, and Margie. She's won the N.Y. Open Voice Award and teaches poetry workshops for Springfed Arts, Metro Detroit Writers. Joy Gaines-Friedler's book, Like Vapor, was published by Mayapple Press, 2008. Her work is widely published in literary magazines such as, RATTLE, Margie, The New York Quarterly, The Pebble Lake Review, The Dunes Review, Controlled Burn and others. She is the recipient of numerous awards including, The Marjorie J. Wilson Award for Excellence in Poetry, 2008, a runner-up in The Paunamouk Poetry Prize and the 2010 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize. Currently, Joy teaches creative writing both privately and for Springfed Arts Detroit Working Writers. She is also a Writer-in-Residence for InsideOut Literary Arts Project, teaches at Common Ground, a core provider mental health organization, and runs workshops for The Henry Ford Hospital System. Joy's friend and mentor Peter Stine once told her that, "it is only through literature that we get to experience, without being insulted, what it means to be human." This in only one reason why she is grateful to the editors who have published her work. Learn more at www.joygainesfriedler.com. William Holm I am a writer living in Holland, MI. My poems, including “Something to Do” in this Water issue of Driftwood, are expressions of how I experience everyday events. I seek connections with the processes of nature as my life unfolds by the minute, and I try to harness the energy of everyday creation, hoping my inner changes mimic the course of the moon or the sea on the tide. “If I Were a Jazz Note,” “Life Still,” and “Trap,” were published in the Air, Earth, and Fire issues of Driftwood. Judith Kerman has published eight books or chapbooks of poetry. Her second book of translations of poetry,Praises & Offenses: Three Women Poets from the Dominican Republic, was published by BOA Editions in 2009. Jeanette Lee is a recent graduate of Kalamazoo College. She is taking her liberal arts degree and running amok expanding her vocabulary and gaining life experience. Her favorite word is "pillow." Susan Morris teaches Philosophy, Eastern Religions, Film, and Race & Gender Theory at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, MI. She sings jazz with various musicians at Schuberg' s and is a member of Susan Morris and Bluemonk Jazz, performing across the state. Miriam Pederson lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan where she is a Professor of English at Aquinas College. She earned an MFA degree in Creative Writing from Western Michigan University.
Christine Rhein is the author of Wild Flight (Walt
McDonald First Book Prize in Poetry, Texas Tech University Press, 2008).
Her work has appeared in journals including The Gettysburg Review,
Michigan Quarterly Review, and The Southern Review and has
been selected for Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Best New Poets,
and The Writer’s Almanac program. Visit her website at
www.ChristineRhein.com.
Lucinda Sabino is a Michigan poet whose work treats longing and loss with humor and hope. Her chapbook We’re Coming Close was published last year by Pudding House Press. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared inDriftwood, The Bridge and PrePress: New Michigan Writers.
Barbara Saunier - Though the porch roof
leaks and the old dog, too, retirement is bliss. When a poem finds a
new home up the road, so much the better.
Jeanne Sirotkin Writes mainly fiction these days. Lives outside Detroit with husband and an elegant poodle named Gracie, grew up inside Detroit. Former editor San Francisco Gallery lit mag out of North Beach. Author of An Unzipped Dress (poetry), Exit Wounds (novel), Wrestling the Bear (collected short stories). website: www.jeannespage.com Holly Wren Spaulding studied creative writing at University of Michigan and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland . Her chapbook, The Grass Impossibly, won the 2008 Michigan Writers Cooperative Press award for poetry. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Wake: Great Lakes Thought & Culture, Barrier Islands Review and Michigan Quarterly Review. She is literary editor of Dunes Review and teaches at Northwestern Michigan College. Cristina Trapani-Scott's poems have been published in Hip Mama Magazine, Mamazine.com, Public-Republic, Writers Reading at Sweetwaters Anthology and Sweet Lemons 2: International Writings with a Sicilian Accent. She studied poetry and fiction at Spalding University and along with teaching and freelance writing she is co-owner of a food cart specializing in Spanish cuisine. Jessica L. Walsh was born and raised in Ludington. Although she confesses to residing in the Chicago suburbs these days, she quotes poet Ander Monson: “Everyone from here is still from here / Regardless of where they are or where they end.” Her first chapbook, Knocked Around, was released in 2009 by Pudding House Press. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals. Most recently, her poem “Infant Crying” won the 2011 poetry contest held by Third Wednesday. John Wolff |