POETS
Poet and photographer Ronda Piszk Broatch (Reading Mary Oliver’s White Owl…) is the author of Lake of Fallen Constellations (MoonPath Press, 2015). Ronda was a finalist for the Four Way Books Prize, and her poems have been nominated several times for the Pushcart prize. Her journal publications include Blackbird, Prairie Schooner, Sycamore Review, Mid-American Review, Puerto del Sol, and Public Radio KUOW’s All Things Considered, among others. Learn more at rondabroatch.com.
A founding member of the Pine Row editorial board, Michael Chang (Dior, Homie) (they/them) is the proud recipient of a Brooklyn Poets fellowship. They were invited to attend the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at UMass Amherst, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop at Kenyon College, as well as the Omnidawn Poetry Writing Conference at Saint Mary's College of California. Their writing has been published or is forthcoming in Yellow Medicine Review, The Santa Clara Review, The Summerset Review, The Broadkill Review, Heavy Feather Review, UCityReview, Chiron Review, Thirty West, Map Literary, Armstrong Literary, Love's Executive Order, Straylight, Juked, Poet Lore, and many others.
Will Cordeiro (Metamorphosis) has work appearing or forthcoming in Agni, Best New Poets, The Cincinnati Review, Sycamore Review, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. Will’s collection Trap Street won the 2019 Able Muse Book Award, forthcoming in 2020. Will co-edits the small press Eggtooth Editions and currently lives in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Samantha DeFlitch (As I Apologize Again) received her MFA from the University of New Hampshire, where she is the Associate Director of the Connors Writing Center. Her first collection, Hoarded Birds, is forthcoming in spring 2021 with Broadstone Books. Her work has appeared in The Missouri Review, Hobart, On the Seawall, and Rust+Moth, among others, and she is the 2018 recipient of the Dick Shea Memorial Award for Poetry, as judged by Shelley Girdner. She lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Learn more at samanthadeflitch.com.
Diane DeCillis (Swamped, Dementia Walks Into A Bar) writes at her desk in West Bloomfield Michigan. Her poetry collection, Strings Attached (Wayne State University Press), was as a Michigan Notable Book for 2015, won the 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Award, and was a finalist for the Forward Indie Fab Book Award. Recent publications of her poems, stories, and essays include Adirondack Review, Columbia Journal, Cumberland River Review, and Minnesota Review. Learn more at dianedecillis.com.
Sonia Greenfield (Why I Won’t Use The Term) was born and raised in Peekskill, New York, and her collection of prose poems, Letdown, is forthcoming in April of 2020 with White Pine Press as part of the Marie Alexander Series. Her chapbook, American Parable, won the 2017 Autumn House Press/Coal Hill Review Prize, and her first full-length collection, Boy with a Halo at the Farmer's Market, won the 2014 Codhill Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in a variety of places, including in the 2018 and 2010 Best American Poetry, Antioch Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Los Angeles Review, Massachusetts Review, and Willow Springs. She lives with her husband, son, and two rescue dogs in Minneapolis, where she teaches at Normandale College and builds artists’ websites. Learn more at soniagreenfield.com.
Kathryn Hunt (Talking Like This) makes her home on the coast of the Salish Sea. Her poems have appeared in The Sun, Rattle, Radar, Orion, the Missouri Review, the Carolina Quarterly, The Writer’s Almanac, and Narrative. Her collection, Long Way Through Ruin, was published by Blue Begonia Press. She’s currently at work on a memoir, Why I Grieve I Do Not Know. She’s worked as a waitress, shipscaler, short-order cook, bookseller, printer, food bank coordinator, filmmaker, and freelance writer. Learn more at kathrynhunt.net.
Jeremy Radin (Some People Eat To Live…) is a poet, actor, and teacher. His poems have appeared (or are forthcoming) in Ploughshares, The Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Hunger Mountain, The Journal, MUZZLE, Passages North, Wildness, and elsewhere. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Slow Dance with Sasquatch (Write Bloody Publishing, 2012) and Dear Sal (not a cult press, 2017). He lives in Los Angeles where he once sat next to Carly Rae Jepsen in a restaurant. Follow him @germyradin.
Angela Maria Spring (The Gallery of Dangerous…) is a poet, journalist, and the owner of Duende District, a mobile boutique bookstore by and for people of color—where all are welcome. She holds an M.F.A. in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, was a 2018 Kirkus Fiction Prize judge, and has work forthcoming in Pilgrimage, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and Third Wednesday. You can find her words in various publications, most recently in Rust + Moth, LitHub, Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, and The American Poetry Journal.
Kim Stoll (Splinter) lives in Tucson and holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Arizona. Her chapbook, Anna Lives, is available from Dancing Girl Press, and you can read her work at Cartridge Lit, ILK, Birdfeast, and The Boiler. She owns four large dogs and yes, they all bite. Find her online at kimstoll.com.
Visual Artists
Poet and photographer Ronda Piszk Broatch (13 December 2017) is the author of Lake of Fallen Constellations (MoonPath Press, 2015). Ronda was a finalist for the Four Way Books Prize, and her poems have been nominated several times for the Pushcart prize. Her journal publications include Blackbird, Prairie Schooner, Sycamore Review, Mid-American Review, Puerto del Sol, and Public Radio KUOW’s All Things Considered, among others. Learn more at rondabroatch.com.
Joshua M. Cordeiro (Metamorphosis) studied at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, New York, where he received his BFA. Currently he attends Wilmington University in Delaware where he is pursuing an MA in Elementary Education K-6 with a dual certification in Special Education. To contact Joshua regarding his artwork, direct email to joshuamcordeiro (at) gmail (dot) com.
Maiko Kikuchi (No Need…), born 1983, Tokyo, Japan, received her B.A in Theater Arts and Fashion Design from Musashino Art University, Japan in 2008, her M.F.A in Sculpture from Pratt Institute, in 2012. She has extensive, multi-faceted professional experience in the areas of illustration, painting, drawing, collages, sculpture, animation, and puppetry/performance. Her recent self-direction object theatre piece “Daydream Tutorial” has been shown at LaMaMa (NY), The Wild Project (NY), and FiveMyles Gallery (NY). Other recent exhibits include “On The Other Side Of The Fence.” at Dixon Place (NY) as their 2016 artist in residency, “PINK BUNNY” at Japan Society (NY), and “Daydream Antology” at Five Myles (NY) as an opening performance in their festival IN FLUX. As well as self-directed theatre pieces, Kikuchi has worked as a puppeteer, object builder, and visual designer for other directors’ shows, such as “Co. Venture” by Brooklyn Touring Outfit at Baryshnikov Art Center (NY), “Six Characters” by Theodora Skipitares at LaMaMa (NY), and “The Chairs” by Theodora Skipitares at Whitney Museum (NY). As Visual artist, she presented her collage animation in the Crown Heights Film Festival group exhibition“NO PARKING” at Ca’d’ Oro Gallery (NY), and“Unwritten stories” at HERE Art Center (NY) and Jamestown Art Center (RI). Her drawing/collage works are commissioned to some online art galleries such as Tuuum and Walls Tokyo, and she also provides collage animation music videos for a variety of musicians. Kikuchi is currently an artist in residency at HERE Art Center’s HARP program, collaborating with multidisciplinary artist and puppeteer, Spencer Lott. Learn more at maikokikuchi.jimdo.com.
Bethany Rowland (The Long View) is a painter and psychotherapist living in Portland, Oregon. She spent her formative years wandering the woods north of Seattle with her pet goat Toby. She has always felt a deep connection to the natural world, and is interested in questions of hope, empathy, and what motivates us to act, in response to the growing threats to our interconnected world. Her paintings are inspired by nature, rooted in memory, and connected by emotion. Birds, in all their beauty and wisdom as inhabitants of the world for 60 million years, are frequent subjects of her work; in particular, a migrating Peregrine Falcon who paid her a long visit in 2016. Bethany studied with Phil Sylvester at The Drawing Studio in Portland, OR, where she learned to trust her impulses in creating a truthful work of art. It is an ongoing process of discovery and practice. Bethany is represented by Imogen Gallery in Astoria, OR, and Brian Marki Fine Art Gallery in Palm Springs. Learn more at bethanyrowland.com.
Gail Spaien (Serenade 10) has been the recipient of numerous fellowships including the Varda Artist Residency Program, Millay Colony for the Arts, the Djerassi Foundation Resident Artists Program, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has received grant funding from the Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation Artist Advancement Grant, and the Maine Arts Commission. Her solo and group exhibitions include the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME; Nancy Margolis Gallery, NY; the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento,CA; the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; and Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME. A Professor in the MFA program at the Maine College of Art, Spaien received her BFA from the University of Southern Maine and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Crossing two generations, Spaien was born at the tail-end of the Baby Boomer decades, raised by parents who grew up in the 50’s. Both generations reached for idealist paradigms in different ways and shaped her ongoing inquiry into ideas about place, utopia, and how to give form to life’s poetry and paradox. Learn more at gailspaien.com.
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