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Adrienne Su is the author of two books of poems, Sanctuary (Manic D
Press) and Middle Kingdom (Alice James Books). In 2007 she received
a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She
is an associate professor of English and poet-in-residence at Dickinson
College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Alison Townsend is the author of two previous books of poetry, The
Blue Dress (White Pine Press) and What the Body Knows (Parallel
Press). Her poetry and creative nonfiction appear in the Southern
Review, Arts & Letters, Fourth Genre, Gulf Coast, MARGIE, Michigan
Quarterly Review, and in the anthologies Best American Poetry
2006, Flash Fiction Forward, Kiss Me Goodnight: Poems and Stories
by Women Who Were Girls When Their Mothers Died, and Boomer
Girls. She has won many awards, including a 2007 literary fellowship
from the Wisconsin Arts Board and the 2007 Flume Press Chapbook
Contest for And Still the Music. She teaches English and creative
writing at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and lives with her
husband on four acres of prairie and oak savanna in the farm country
outside Madison, Wisconsin.
R. A. Villanueva’s poetry has appeared in RATTLE and other journals.
He holds graduate and undergraduate degrees from Rutgers University,
and he is currently a MFA candidate at New York University, where he
serves as poetry editor of Washington Square. A Kundiman fellow and
a semi-finalist for the 2007 “Discovery”/The Nation prize, he has twice
been awarded a Geraldine R. Dodge Educator Scholarship to the Fine
Arts Work Center and he is involved with literary outreach programs
throughout New York City.
Davi Walders developed and directs the Vital Signs Poetry Project
at NIH (National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland), which
was funded for three years by The Witter Bynner Foundation for
Poetry. Her third collection of poetry, Gifts, was commissioned by
the Milton Murray Foundation for Philanthropy and presented to
the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy recipients. Her awards
include a Maryland State Artist’s Grant in Poetry, Hadassah of Greater
Washington’s Myrtle Wreath Award, an Alden B. Dow Creativity
Fellowship, and fellowships at Ragdale Foundation, Blue Mountain
Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
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