TONY MAGISTRALE Tony Magistrale is professor of English at the University of Vermont. His most recent book of poems is entitled Entanglements, published by Fomite Press. GARY MARGOLIS Gary Margolis is Emeritus Executive Director of College Mental Health Services and Associate Professor of English and American Literatures (parttime) at Middlebury College. He was a Robert Frost and Arthur Vining Davis Fellow and has taught at the University of Tennessee, Vermont and Bread Loaf, and Green Mountain Writers’ Conferences. His third book, Fire in the Orchard, was nominated for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, as well as Raking the Winter Leaves: New and Selected Poems. His poem, “The Interview” was featured on National Public Radio’s “The Story” and Boston’s ABC Channel 5 interviewed him on the Middlebury campus reading his poem, “Winning the Lunar Eclipse,” after the 2004 World Series. His latest book is Seeing the Songs: A Poet’s Journey to the Shamans in Ecuador. His new book of poems, Raking the Winter Leaves: New and Selected Poems, is recently published. JEREMY MARKS Jeremy Marks is a poet, writer and amateur photographer who also works as a self-employed teacher/tutor. His poetry and photography have appeared in numerous publications including Lake: a journal of arts and environment, Up The Staircase Quarterly, Electric Windmill Press, The Blue Hour, the Proost Poetry Anthology and Wilderness House Literary Review. He lives with his wife, infant daughter and two rescue dogs in London, Ontario. MIKE MINCHIN Mike Minchin earned his MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2014. His fiction has received Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train. His stories are forthcoming in Vermont Magazine and Mud Season Review. He lives in Vermont with his wife and two children. MIMI MORTON Mimi Morton is a Guilford, Vermont writer. Her most recent work is a collection of interlinked stories set in Vermont. 80
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SHIELA POST A former university associate professor and academic specialist in transcendentalism, Sheila Post is a novelist and essayist who writes about the simple, the natural, the local, and the transcendental in the worlds of New England and Atlantic Canada. Visit her website at www.silepost.com. CP SURENDRAN CP Surendran has written two novels, An Iron Harvest, and Lost and Found. At present he is the Editor-in-Chief of DNA, India’s third largest selling newspaper. Earlier, he was a senior editor and a wellknown columnist with the Times of India. Surendran’s columns in print and in social media elicit a great deal of response, but, gratifyingly, most of it is negative. His poems have been internationally anthologized, and his awards for writing and journalism include Reuters International Fellowship at Oxford, Wolfson Press Fellowship at Cambridge, and British Council Literature Fellowship at Cambridge. CINDY VEACH Cindy Veach’s poems have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Poet Lore, North American Review, Chicago Review, Prairie Schooner, Sou’wester and are forthcoming in The Journal and others. She was a finalist for the Ann Stanford Prize, and the recipient of honorable mentions in the Ratner-Ferber-Poet Lore Prize and Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize. Her collection, Thimbleful, was the runner up for the 2014 Zone 3 first book prize. N A M I A WA D E Naima K. Wade lives in Southern Vermont: a poet, performance artist of spoken word, humanities educator and international minority and woman business owner. She has performed throughout New England, New York, and the Caribbean. She recently was a featured poet with other Caribbean poets and writers living abroad and in the USVI. Naima read from a collection of poetry West-Indian-Alien-Yankee Times and Select Spirits. She is the director of the Journey’s End Program Series ( JEPS) National Parks Service Underground Railroad Network To Freedom Program, which is a Vermont Living History and Cultural Literary Program. In the JEPSprogram series, Naima retells—wearing period costume—the renowned and memorialized life story