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2021
Contributors
Kathleen Aponick has published two poetry collections: Bright Realm and The Descendant's Notebook. She lives in Andover, Mass., and has worked as a teacher and an editor. Her poems have appeared in Potomac Review, Notre Dame Review, Poetry East, and Still Point Arts Quarterly. Susan April was born not far from Tyler Park in Lowell. She attended Keith Hall and is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and the University of Chicago. Her work has appeared in many literary journals and is forthcoming in two anthologies. She is an Environmental Consultant and writes from Maryland. Joe Blair is the author of the memoir By the Iowa Sea. He lives in Coralville, Iowa. Prudence Brighton may not be a Lowell native, but she has lived there for fifty years. She came to the city as a general assignment reporter for The Sun and stayed when she went to work for Wang Laboratories and other high-tech companies. A freelance writer, she works mostly for The Sun. Michael Casey is from Lowell and attended public schools there. He received a B.S. in physics in 1968 from UMass Lowell, where poet William Aiken taught modern poetry. The journal of his military experience became the book Obscenities, published in 1972 by the Yale University Press. His book Millrat, on blue collar work in a textilemill dye house, will be reprinted by Loom Press in 2021. Casey taught for many years at Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill, Mass. Born in Lowell, George Chigas’ paternal grandparents came to the city from Greece in the early 1900s and settled in the Acre neighborhood. His maternal grandparents lived two streets away. Although his parents grew up close together and graduated from Lowell High School, they didn’t know each other until they met and married as college students in Boston. Chigas teaches at UMass Lowell and lives downtown. David Daniel is the author of more than a dozen books, including White Rabbit, a novel set in San Francisco in the Summer of Love, and four entries in the prize-winning Alex Rasmussen mystery series. His most recent book is Inflections & Innuendos, a collection of flash fiction. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
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