Judith Cody's poetry won awards from Atlantic Monthly and Amelia magazines, was put forward for the Lyric Recovery Award, received several honorable mentions from the Emily Dickinson Poetry Award, among others. One of her poems, together with its historical chronicles, was inducted into the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution's American History Museum. Her poems are published or are forthcoming in: Nimrod, New York Quarterly, South Carolina Poetry Review, Poet Lore, Cumberland Poetry Review, Xavier Review, Texas Review, Poem, Primavera, Phoebe, Louisville Review, Madison Review, Fox Cry Review, Eureka Literary Magazine, South Carolina Review, Confluence, Chaffin Review, Distillery, Soundings East, Phantasmagoria, Westview, Carquinez Poetry Review, Bathyspheric Review, and many others.
Nuno Júdice was born in 1949 Algarve, Portugal. A professor at Lisbon’s Universidade Nova, he served from 1997 to 2004 as the cultural attaché of the Portuguese Embassy in Paris. One of the most important contemporary poetic voices in Portuguese literature he has written more than forty books of poetry, fiction, essays, criticism and drama. His poetry has garnered over a dozen prizes and is translated into twelve languages. Although translated into twelve languages Júdice’s poetry is underrepresented in English.
Bruce Taylor is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Pity the World: Poems Selected and New (Plain View Press 2005) and editor of eight anthologies including Wisconsin Poetry (Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts & Letters), and, with Patti See, Higher Learning, (Prentice Hall,) 2005.
His poetry and translations have appeared in such places as The Chicago Review, The Exquisite Corpse, The Formalist, Light, Literary Salt, The Nation, Nerve, The New York Quarterly, The Northwest Review, and Poetry, His fiction has appeared in such places as Carve Magazine, Unlikely Stories, Slow Trains, The Vestal Review, The Paumanok Review and E2ink-1: the Best of the Online Journals 2002
George Held, a native of Scarsdale, NY, attended public schools there and graduated from Brown University in 1958. After teaching English at The Kamehameha Schools, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, from 1958-64, he earned a Ph.D. at Rutgers University in 1967 and taught English at Queens College, City University of New York, until his retirement in 2004.
He was a Fulbright lecturer in American literature and the English language at Comenius University, Bratislava, and Charles University, Prague, from 1973-76.