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from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was the Joseph and Ursil
Callan Scholar, and he is a two-time winner of the John Mackay Shaw
Academy of American Poets Prize.
Elizabeth Langemak lives in Columbia, Missouri. Her poems have
been published or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Meridian, MARGIE,
Ninth Letter, and The Journal.
Lance Larsen’s second poetry collection, In All Their Animal Brilliance
(University of Tampa Press), won the Tampa Review Prize. Recent
poems have appeared in Antioch Review, Southwestern Review, Orion,
Georgia Review, and The Pushcart Book of Poetry: the Best Poems from
the First 30 Years. A professor at Brigham Young University, he received
a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry.
Donna J. Gelagotis Lee’s book, On the Altar of Greece (Gival Press),
is the winner of the Seventh Annual Gival Press Poetry Award. The
collection received a 2007 Eric Hoffer Book Award: Notable for Art
Category. Her poems have appeared in Calyx, Crab Orchard Review,
Feminist Studies, Massachusetts Review, and Midwest Quarterly. Her
poetry has also been published in various anthologies, including
Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses (Yarroway Mountain
Press).
Joseph O. Legaspi was born in the Philippines and currently resides
in New York, New York. Imago, his debut poetry collection, is
forthcoming in fall 2007 from CavanKerry Press. A past recipient of
a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, he is
a founding member of Kundiman, a non-profit organization serving
Asian American poets.
Julia B. Levine’s third poetry collection, Ditch-tender, is forthcoming
from University of Tampa Press this fall. She has won numerous
awards, including the “Discovery”/The Nation award, the Tampa
Review prize for her second collection, Ask, and the Anhinga Prize
for her first collection, Practicing for Heaven. She works as a clinical
psychologist in Northern California.
Angie Macri was born and raised in southern Illinois. In 1996 she
received her MFA from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
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