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Other Words Saturday, September 10, 2005 at 7pm click here to view the promo poster (jpg) click here to download a printable version of the promo poster (2.6MB pdf) |
 Henry Alley is a Professor Emeritus of Literature in the Honors College at the University of Oregon. He has three published novels: Through Glass, The Lattice, and Umbrella of Glass. He is also author of the scholarly study, The Quest for Anonymity: The Novels of George Eliot, from University of Delaware Press. His stories have appeared over the past thirty years in such journals as Seattle Review, Cimarron Review, and Clackamas Literary Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review. He has finished a new comic novel, Second Life, a semi-finalist in the Elixir Novel Contest, and his story, “The Summer of the Beautiful Pink Hydrangea,” previously published in Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly, was nominated for the 2005 Pushcart Award. A newer story, slated for publication in HGMFQ, received honorable mention in the Richard Hall Memorial Contest, sponsored by the Lambda Literary Foundation. |
 Janet Buck, PhD is a seven-time Pushcart Nominee. Her poetry has recently appeared in CrossConnect, Poetry Magazine.com, Offcourse, The Pedestal Magazine, 2River View, Gertrude, Octavo, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Southern Ocean Review, PoetryBay, Facets Magazine, and hundreds of journals worldwide. In 1999, Newton's Baby Press published her first print collection entitled Calamity's Quilt. In the year 2000, Janet was of ten U.S. poets to be featured at the “One Heart, One World” Exhibit at the United Nations Exhibit Hall in New York City. Her poem “Acrylic Thighs” was translated into five languages and paired with original artwork. The tour traveled to France, Australia, Vietnam, Brazil, and Japan. Janet's second print collection, Tickets to a Closing Play, was the winnner of the 2002 Gival Press Poetry Award; her third print collection, Beckoned by the Reckoning, was published by Poet Works Press in 2004. |
 Laura Puryear Finnell received her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles in December 2004. She teaches writing at South Puget Sound Community College and online poetry workshops through Inberry.org. In 2001 she won the Susan Wallace Award for a set of poems submitted to SLAM, Pierce College’s (WA) literary journal. In 2004 she placed first in the Cambium Arts/TreeWalk Award competition for a nature themed poem, and in 2005 she won the Banyan Review Poetry Competition. Her work has appeared in several journals, both online and in print, and two of her poems can be found in the 2005 issue of Gertrude. |
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