Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series
May 28,
2013
Liane Ellison
Norman's recent book of
poems, Breathing the West: Great Basin Poems, was published
by Bottom Dog Press in the fall of 2012, a year in which a chapbook,
Driving Near the Old Federal Arsenal, was released by Finishing Line Press.
Norman has published individual poems in the North
American Review, Kestrel, The Fourth River, 5 AM, Grasslimb, Rune, Hot
Metal Press and in Voices From the Attic and Come Together:
Imagine Peace anthologies. She won the Wisteria Prize for poetry in 2006
from Paper Journey Press and has published two earlier books of poetry, The
Duration of Grief and Keep, a book about nonviolent protest against
nuclear bomb parts makers, Mere Citizens: United, Civil and Disobedient,
a biography, Hammer of Justice: Molly Rush and the Plowshares Eight, a
novel, Stitches in Air: A Novel About Mozart's Mother, and many
articles, essays and reviews.
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Elise D’Haene is a novelist, screenwriter, and editor.
Her first novel, Licking Our Wounds (Permanent Press), won the Small
Press Book Award at Book Expo in Chicago. She won the Hemingway
Award for her short story, “Married.” She has published several short stories
and co-wrote a four book series of erotica, Red Shoe Diaries, for the
Penguin Group. Among her screen credits, she was a writer for The Little
Mermaid II (Disney) and penned several episodes of the Showtime series, Red
Shoe Diaries. She teaches screenwriting at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, and holds a Ph.D. in Counseling
Psychology from the University of Southern California.
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Celeste
Gainey’s full-length
collection, the gaffer, chosen by Dorianne Laux as runner-up for the
2012 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, has been selected by Eloise Klein Healy
for publication in early 2015 by Arktoi Books, her imprint at Red Hen Press.
Gainey’s chapbook, In the land of speculation & seismography,
runner-up for the 2010 Robin Becker Prize, was published by Seven Kitchens
Press in their 2011 Summer Kitchen Series; it is due to be re-issued in their
Re-Bound Series in 2013. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Columbia Poetry Review, BLOOM, 5AM, Adanna, Wild Apples, and Madroad: The Breadline Press West Coast Anthology. A
gaffer in the film industry and an architectural lighting designer, she holds a
BFA in film and television from New York University and an MFA in creative writing/poetry
from Carlow University. A native Californian, she now resides
in Pittsburgh.
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Jan Beatty’s new book, The Switching/Yard
was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2013. Other books include Red
Sugar (2008, U of Pgh Press) Boneshaker (2002, U. of Pgh. Press) and Mad River, winner of the 1994 Agnes Lynch Starrett
Prize. Ravenous, her limited edition chapbook, won the 1995 State Street Prize. Beatty’s poetry has appeared in Quarterly
West, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, and Court Green, and in
anthologies published by Oxford University Press, University of Illinois Press, and University of Iowa Press. Awards include the $15,000 Creative
Achievement Award in Literature from the Heinz Foundation, the Pablo Neruda
Prize for Poetry, and two fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the
Arts. For the past thirteen years, she has hosted and produced Prosody, a
public radio show on NPR-affiliate WYEP-FM featuring the work of national
writers. Beatty directs the creative writing program at Carlow University, where she runs the Madwomen in the
Attic writing workshops and teaches in the MFA program.
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