C&R Press has published books by:
Michelle Bitting grew up in Los
Angeles. She was educated at U.C. Berkeley and in 2009, will graduate with an M.F.A. in Poetry from Pacific University, Oregon. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Crab Orchard Review, ManyMountains Moving , Narrative, Prairie Schooner, and Rattle. Her work has been reprinted on Poetry Daily. Formerly a dancer and a chef, she devotes a portion of her time to outreach work in Los Angeles where she lives with her husband, the actor Phil Abrams, and their two children, Elijah and Vera Rose. www.michellebitting.com
Stacey Lynn Brown was born and raised in Atlanta and studied at Emory University, Oxford University, and The University of Oregon, where she received her M.F.A. in Poetry. A poet, playwright, and essayist, her work has appeared in various literary journals and anthologies. She teaches creative writing at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, where she lives with her husband, poet Adrian Matejka
, and their daughter. www.staceylynnbrown.com
Alvaro Cardona-Hine is an artist whose creativity spans three disciplines: musical composition, poetry and painting. In these last two, he is well-known internationally. Two of his books of poetry in Spanish were recently published by Catriel Publishing in Madrid, Spain. As a contemporary fine art painter, he is known in many parts of the world, with his oil and acrylic paintings in collections all over the US, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. He has been painting most of his life and is a modern master in both acrylic and oil. His work includes small, whimsical bird paintings, land and seascapes, Moroccan landscapes, nudes, abstract, still life and Egyptian, Greek, Buddhist, and Jewish myths and legends. cardonahineart.wordpress.com & www.cardonahinegallery.com
Barbara Crooker is the author of Radiance, Line Dance, and ten chapbooks. Her poems appear in The Green Mountains Review, The Christian Science Monitor, The Tampa Review, and other magazines, and she has held fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and writing residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work is included in The Bedford Introduction to Literature and The Bedford Introduction to Poetry.
Travis Wayne Denton is the Associate Director of Poetry @ TECH. The pushcart prize nominated poet is also editor of the literary arts publication Terminus Magazine , as well as a contributing editor for The Chattahoochee Review. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines and journals.
Allison Funk has published three books of poems: The Knot Garden (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2002); Living at the Epicenter (Northeastern University Press, 1995); and Forms of Conversion (Alice James Books, 1986). She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Arts Councils of Delaware and Illinois. She has also been awarded the George Kent Prize from Poetry magazine, the Celia B. Wagner Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and the 1995 Award for Poetry from the Society of Midland Authors. Her work has been included in The Best American Poetry, 1994, and such journals as Poetry, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, and Shenandoah. www.allisonfunk.com
George Kalamaras is Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he has taught since 1990. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including five chapbooks. His titles include Gold Carp Jack Fruit Mirrors (The Bitter Oleander Press, 2008), Borders My Bent Toward (Pavement Saw Press, 2003), and The Theory and Function of Mangoes (Four Way Books, 2000). Stockport Flats recently published Something Beautiful Is Always Wearing the Trees--George's poems with paintings by Alvaro Cardona-Hine. He is the recipient of Creative Writing Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1993) and the Indiana Arts Commission (2001), and first prize in the 1998 Abiko Quarterly International Poetry Prize (Japan). A long-time practitioner of yogic meditation, he spent several months in India in 1994 on an Indo-U.S. Advanced Research Fellowship from the Fulbright Foundation and the Indo-U.S. Subcommission on Education and Culture.
Jason Koo was born in New York City and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He holds a BA in English from Yale, an MFA in creative writing from the University of Houston and a PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Missouri-Columbia. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center, he has published his poetry and prose in numerous journals, including The Missouri Review, North American Review, and The Yale Review. He currently lives in New York, where he teaches at NYU and Lehman College and serves as Poetry Editor of Low Rent.
Alexander Long is a poet, teacher, book reviewer, essayist, and musician. Vigil, his first book of poems, was released in 2006 from the New Issues Press Poetry Series (2006). Co-editor of A Condition of the Spirit: the Life & Work of Larry Levis (Eastern Washington UP, 2004), Long is also the author of a memoir, Noise (RockWay Press, 2007), and a chapbook, Six Prose Poems (Brandenburg Press, 2004). His poems, essays, and book reviews have been published in American Writers (Charles Scribner's Sons), Blackbird, The Prose Poem: an International Journal, Quarterly West, Third Coast and elsewhere. Currently he is a member of the writing faculty at West Chester University, and writes, plays, and tours with the band Redhead Betty Takeout. http://www.alexanderlonghome.com/
Jon Veinberg is the author of several poetry collections including, An Owl's Landscape, Stickball Till Dawn, Oarless Boats, and Vacant Lots. In addition, he was co-editor of Piecework: 19 Fresno Poets. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines including The Antioch Review, The Missouri Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. His work has also been included in many anthologies such as Highway 99: a Literary Journey through California's Great Central Valley, The Geography of Home: California's Poetry of Place (California Poetry Series), What Will Suffice - Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry, and Many Californias: Literature from the Golden State. http://jonveinberg.com/
Lesley Wheeler is Professor of English at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, where she teaches classes in twentieth-century poetry, American literature, and creative writing. She is the author of a poetry chapbook, Scholarship Girl (Finishing Line 2007), and co-editor, with Moira Richards and Rosemary Starace, of the anthology Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv (Red Hen, 2008). Her scholarly publications include Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present (Cornell, 2008) and The Poetics of Enclosure: American Women Poets from Dickinson to Dove. Wheeler has held fellowships from the Virginia Commission from the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her forthcoming C&R title, Heathen, won the Elixir Poetry Prize for 2009 (withdrawn).