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Melanie McCabe

by Shannon C. WardUpdated on January 9, 2026January 9, 2026

Melanie McCabe is the author of three previous poetry books, including The Night Divers (Terrapin Books), which was a finalist for the 2023 Library of Virginia Literary Awards. Her memoir, His Other Life: Searching For My Father, His First Wife, and Tennessee Williams, won the 2016 University of New Orleans Press’s Publishing Lab Prize and was featured in The Washington Post. Her writing has graced the pages of The Washington Post, The Georgia Review, The Massachusetts Review, Threepenny Review, and more. With an impressive teaching career spanning 22 years in high school English and creative writing, Melanie’s literary journey is as inspiring as her work.

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Frank Paino

by Shannon C. WardUpdated on January 9, 2026March 17, 2025

Frank Paino holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. His poems have appeared in a variety of literary publications, including: Crab Orchard Review, Catamaran, North American Review, World Literature Today, Gettysburg Review, Prairie …

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Christopher Buckley

by Shannon C. WardUpdated on March 17, 2025August 13, 2023

Christopher Buckley’s recent books—in addition to One Sky to the Next—are Agnostic (Lynx House Press), The Pre-Eternity of the World (Stephen F. Austin State University Press), and The Consolations of Science & Philosophy (Lynx House Press). Star Journal: Selected Poems was published by University …

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Janine Certo

by Shannon C. WardUpdated on August 13, 2023August 13, 2023

Janine Certo is the author of four award-winning poetry books, three full-length poetry collections: O Body of Bliss, winner of the Longleaf Press Book Contest in Poetry (Longleaf Press, 2023), Elixir, winner of both the New American …

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George Rawlins

by Shannon C. WardUpdated on July 31, 2023August 5, 2021

George Rawlins was born and raised in southeastern Ohio. He has a BA from Ohio University, attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and earned an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. He has recent poems in Chiron Review, The Common, Illuminations, New Critique (UK), Mudfish, Nine …

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Crystal Simone Smith

by Shannon C. WardUpdated on July 31, 2023August 4, 2021

Crystal Simone Smith is the author of three poetry chapbooks: Routes Home, Finishing Line Press (2013); Running Music, Longleaf Press (2014), and Down to Earth, Longleaf Press (2021). She is also the author of Wildflowers: …

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Kate Fetherston

by Shannon C. WardUpdated on July 31, 2023August 3, 2021

Kate Fetherston lives in Montpelier, Vermont, where she works as a poet, visual artist, and psychotherapist. Her first poetry collection, Until Nothing More Can Break, was published in 2012, and she has co-edited two anthologies: …

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Roger Weingarten

by Shannon C. WardUpdated on July 31, 2023August 3, 2021

Roger Weingarten is the author of 11 poetry collections, including Ethan Benjamin Boldt, Knopf, Ghost wrestling, Godine, and The Four Gentlemen and Their Footman, Longleaf, 2015. Co-editor: 8 poetry and prose anthologies, he’s taught & read at conferences, …

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Tina Barr

by Shannon C. WardUpdated on July 31, 2021July 31, 2021

Tina Barr’s third book, Green Target (2018), won the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize, judged by Patricia Spears Jones, and was selected by Michael Waters as winner of the Brockman-Campbell Award. Her first book, The …

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Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

by Shannon C. WardUpdated on July 31, 2023July 30, 2021

Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin’s poetry has appeared in The Nomad, Atlanta Review, Appalachian Heritage, Great Smokies Review, Notes from the Gean and several anthologies including The Gift of Experience (Atlanta Review, 2005), Immigration, Emigration, Diversity (Chapel Hill Press, 2005), and The Moveable Nest (Helicon Press, 2007), . Her …

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Finley Bullard Evans

by Shannon C. WardUpdated on July 31, 2023July 29, 2021

Finley Bullard Evans is the author of a memoir, Two of ‘Em in There: A Southern Writer’s Journey to and Through the First Year of Twin Motherhood (2011), and two poetry collections available from Longleaf Press: Ukulele Angel (2019) and Ours (2016). She lives in …

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Earl Carlton Huband

by Shannon C. WardUpdated on July 31, 2023July 28, 2021

Earl Carlton Huband, a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.A. and M.A.T.), is the author of two poetry chapbooks, The Innocence of Education (Longleaf Press, 2018) and In the Coral …