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The Poets:
Bredt Bredthauer lives in Denton, TX where he teaches composition at the University of North Texas as a graduate student in creative writing. He received the 2005 Andrew Gutow Poetry Prize, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, and was nominated for 2008 Best New Poets. He also won the University of North Texas prize for poetry and currently holds the position of Editor-in-Chief for the North Texas Review.
Adam Henry Carriere is a poet, teacher, and broadcaster. His writing has recently appeared in Tonopah Review, Zygote in My Coffee, Popular Culture Review, Tattoo Highway, and North Texas Review. Born on the South Side of Chicago, Adam resides in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he won the 2006 Nevada Arts Council Literary Arts Fellowship in Poetry and is a member of the NAC's Tumblewords Touring Initiative. He also publishes Danse Macabre (http://thedansemacabre.blogspot.com), Nevada's first online literary magazine. He is currently working on his doctorate in Creative Writing at the University of North Texas.
Ed Casey is a Masters student in Poetry at the University of North Texas. He has been published in the North Texas Review, Danse Macabre, and Cause and Effect. He has three ferrets which he loves more than almost anything.
Elizabeth Neely Clauser enjoys writing poetry when she is not chasing her toddler, William, or taking Ph.D. classes in English at University of North Texas. Beth has two Master’s degrees in Education and English from the University of Rochester, NY, and the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury, VT, respectively. She grew up in western New York State and lived in São Paulo, Brasil (twice); Salzburg, Austria; and Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C. before moving to Fort Worth, TX with her husband, Karl four years ago. Her poetry has been published in Colere: A Journal of Culture Experience and Amarillo Bay.
Colin Gilbert is the Editor of Lamplighter Review and winner of the 2006 Chicago State University Hughes, Diop, Knight Literary Award. He has conducted readings at over 300 venues and universities across the United States and has poems appearing in upcoming publications including Waterways, Flutter, Poet’s Ink and Love's Chance Magazine. A native of Overton, Texas, Colin currently lives and works in Dallas.
Chelsea Hill, the only child of a single parent, started writing when she discovered that she couldn't draw. Raised in Central Florida, she tries to reflect the experiences of small town life riddled with dreams of the world. Although she began her adult life in Chicago, she is currently residing in Austin with her charming boyfriend and two tanks of fish. She is finishing her degree at UT Austin in English and American Studies.
Min Kang is a senior English major at Texas A&M University. She was born in Busan, South Korea, then immigrated to the United States in 1996. Min has been previously published in Brazos Gumbo. She is currently working to get accepted into an MFA program next fall.
David Knape lives in Plano Texas. He loves the sound of words and the way they play upon a page. David has been writing for the past 5 years. He is President of the Mockingbird chapter of the Texas Poetry Society
Karla K. Morton is a board member of the Greater Denton Arts Council, Dos Gatos Press, and Denton Poet's Assembly. morton has been published in descant, AmarilloBay, the Austin International Poetry Anthology, Concho River Review, the Southwestern American Literature , Wichita Falls Literary and Art Review, The Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, the Texas Poetry Calendar,and the upcoming Illya's Honey, New Texas, Denton Writer's League Anthology and ARDENT. Morton, nominated for the 2009-2010 Texas State Poet Laureate, is also author of the book/CD titled Wee Cowrin' Timorous Beastie, (a North Texas Book Festival Awards Finalist), which is a unique blend of poetry, story and celtic music.
A native Texan, Kristina Rogers was born and raised in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. She has been a lover of the arts her whole life - from dancing, studying architecture, reading, and playing the piano to choreographing, drafting, writing, and composing. At the moment she is finishing her pursuit of a degree in creative writing at Southern Methodist University.
Joseph R. Trombatore is a Texas Poet and Outsider Artist whose work has appeared in Right Hand Pointing, Foliate Oak, Prose Toad, FRiGG, Underground Window, Pyramid Arts & Poetry Journal, Ithuriel's Spear, Lunarosity, Word Riot, Clean Sheets, The Panhandler, & Origami Condom, & JASAT. He is a Pushcart nominee for 2006 and winner of the Joanie Whitebird Chapbook Contest, "Screaming at Adam" Wings Press, 2007. Joseph is Editor/Publisher of Radiant Turnstile.
Jena Walker is a graduate student of Public Administration. She is originally from Virginia, and has lived in Texas for three years. She's been writing all her life, and enjoys writing poetry the most. She would like to dedicate this work to all of her family who has supported her for all these years, but especially to her Grandfather, Vernon Davis.
Bret Wooten, originally from Bellingham WA, is very happily married to Michelle. They are the proud parents of Joslyn (the cute little pumpkin pictured here). Bret and his family currently live in Lewisville Texas where he owns a commercial equipment company. He has enjoyed writing for years but has only recently begun to submit for publishing under Michelle’s influence with good results.