Uphook Press Poets
Judith Arcana writes poetry, fiction, and essays. Her most recent poetry collection is 4th Period English (Ash Creek Press, 2009). She lives in Oregon. Website
Samantha Barrow rides her motorcycle around the U.S. putting poetry where it doesn't belong. She is the author of GRIT and tender membrane (Plan B Press). Website
Paul Belanger is a world traveler, teacher, storyteller, and poet who has performed his work in countries as diverse as South Korea and the U.K.
Alex O. Bleecker is currently working with Tibetans-in-exile in Dharamsala, India. His chapbook Found in a Cord was published in 2006 by Poets Wear Prada Press.
Tony Burfield lives in Boulder, Colorado. When not running wild in the hills, he writes, pounds on his bongos, and edits an online poetry review.
Patrick Cahill has published fiction and poetry in TriQuartely, Reed Magazine, and North Beach Beat, amongst others. He launches a literary and arts review, Ambush, in the fall of 2009.
Malaika Favorite is a visual artist, writer, and winner of the 2005 Louisiana Literature Prize. Her work appears in anthologies and journals including The Maple Leaf Rag, PEN International, Uncommon Place, and Xavier Review.
Thomas Fucaloro was born in Brooklyn, grew up in Staten Island, and now resides in Harlem. Of his poetry habit, Thomas says, "This is what I want to do with my life. Mom and Dad are not happy."
Christian Georgescu was born in Bucharest, Romania, and raised in New York City where he has appeared on stage and in film, most recently in Pussyfoot.
Thomas Gibney reads, writes, eats, sleeps, breathes, dreams, loves, doubts, regrets, smiles, listens, waits, decants, invokes, belies, combusts. He currently lives in Tennessee.
Gary Hanna has received fellowships in poetry from the Delaware Division of the Arts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His work appears widely in literary journals and anthologies.
Robert Harris lives in New York City. His poems have been published in journals including Barrow Street, Crested Myna, and Spillway.
Suzanne Heagy is fiction editor at Kestrel, the literary journal of Fairmont State University. Her work can be found in Dos Passos Review, Oregon Review, Lynx Eye, and Poetry Southeast.
Aimee Herman enjoys a severe fondness for peanut butter, individuals with curly hair, and Canadians. Her short story "In the Dentist's Chair" appears in the erotica anthology Oysters and Chocolate (Heat, 2009).
Kit Kennedy has been published widely in print and online journals including Bombay Gin, Rainbow Curve, Saranac Review, and Niederngasse. She hosts the monthly Gallery Cafe reading series in San Francisco.
Joan Payne Kincaid has published ten books of poetry and is a painter, avid birder, gardener, and former opera-concert artist, living in Long Island. Joan's book, Blue Eyes Wise and Dancing, co-authored with Wayne Hogan is forthcoming.
Laura LeHew's chapbook Beauty was published by Tiger's Eye Press in 2009. Her work also appears in such anthologies and journals as Eating Her Wedding Dress (Ragged Sky Press, 2009), A Cappella Zoo, and Untamed Ink. Website
Richard Loranger is a writer, performer, and visual artist. His book Poems for Teeth (We Press, 2005) was called by Bob Holman "one of the most extraordinary and virtuosic poets feats since Francis Ponge took on Soap".
G. L. Pettigrew is an educator, writer, photographer, and naturalist from South Florida. His poetry and essays appear in Red River Review, Taj Mahal Review, Terain.org. and Red Ink.
Sarah Sarai lives in New York City. The Future is Happy, her first poetry collection, will be published in 2009 by BlazeVOX Press. Blog
Thandiwe Shiphrah collaborates with her husband, Daniel Arite, in the jazz-blues-folk-etc. performance duo, The Bosch Institute. She lives in Nashville.
Michael Shorb's work reflects an abiding interest in myth, history, and the lyrical form, as well as a satirical focus on present day trends and events. His poetry can be found in over one hundred magazines and anthologies.
Mary McLaughlin Slechta is an associate editor for The Comstock Review and lives in Syracuse. Her poetry collection about grief, Wreckage on a Watery Moon, was published by Foothills in 2005.
Karin Spitfire's performance poems include "Incest: It's All Relative," "Corpus Callosum," and "Can I Get You Another Cocktale." She is a former Poet Laureate of Belfast, Maine.
Charles F. Thielman has worked as a corrections counselor, a truck driver, bus driver, shoe salesman, and Left-Coast Sandcastler. He is vice-president of an independent bookstore's collective in Eugene, Oregon.
Geoffrey Jason Kagan Trenchard has performed poetry on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, at universities throughout the United States, and in numerous detention centers. He is a mentor for Urban Word NYC and runs a workshop in the foster care center at Bellevue.
Joanna Valente is currently completing her bachelor's degree in Creative Writing and Literature from SUNY Purchase College. She enjoys ginger tea and listening to Billie Holiday.
Stefanie Wielkopolan is a native of Michigan who dreams of having her own show dedicated to sarcasm on NPR. Her essays and poetry appear in Confluence: The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies, Zaum Press, Coe Review, and Miranda Magazine.
Laura Madeline Wiseman teaches English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Widely published in journals and anthologies including Eating Her Wedding Dress (Ragged Sky Press, 2009), Laura's chapbook, My Imaginary, is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. Website
Theo Coates began as a painter. Since 1995, writing has been her main creative medium and she has read at numerous New York City poetry venues. Theo was the original spark for the creation of Uphook Press and "A Cautionary Tale" reflects her enthusiasm and artistic sensitivity.
Pete Dolack is a poet, essayist, photographer and activist. He is the author of the chapbook And Now a Word From Our Sponsors.
Bob Hart's
poetry can be found in his chapbook Acrobat, in the anthologies put
together by Bruce Weber and Bertha Rogers, as well as
Poetz.com,
Nomad's Choir, Stained Sheets, and
Poets Wear Prada.
Ice
is a multimedia artist living between
Brant Lyon's work can be found in his chapbook Your Infidel Eyes (Poets Wear Prada, 2006), the CD Beauty Keeps Laying Its Sharp Knife Against Me (Logochrysalis 2008), and in numerous journals. He hosts the "jazzoetry" reading series, Hydrogen Jukebox. Website
Jane Ormerod performs regularly on both east and west coasts plus everywhere in- between. She is the author of Recreational Vehicles on Fire (Three Rooms Press, 2009), 11 Films (Modern Metrics, 2008), and the CD Nashville Invades Manhattan. Website
Frank Simone declares, "All creative adventures are the highest form of compliment to humanity." He is a poet and painter and his work has been anthologized in In the Arms of Words (Sherman Asher 2006), and Heal (Clinique Books, 2005).