David
Appelbaum
Purveyor
of local geography and lover of mountain hikes, David Appelbaum holds
a degree in philosophy. He is past editor of Parabola Magazine
and currently, publisher of Codhill Press.
Christopher
Bamford
Christopher
Bamford is the editor-in-chief of Anthroposophic Press and Lindisfarne
Books. A Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association, he has lectured, taught,
and written widely on Western spiritual and esoteric traditions, and
is a contributing editor to Lapis magazine. He is the author,
translator, and editor of numerous books, including Celtic Christianity:
Ecology and Holiness, Homage to Pythagoras: Rediscovering Sacred Science,
and The Noble Traveller. An essay of his was included in the
HarperSanFrancisco anthology Best Spiritual Writing 2000.
Frederick
Bauman
Frederick Bauman has been involved in the literary work since the 1970s
when he gave poetry readings at various establishments in New York City
and founded a much publicized poetry reading series at Chumleys in Greenwich
Village. In the 1980s he was a contributing editor for the literary
quarterly Home Planet News. In the Nineties he turned to fiction,
writing short stories and the novel Periwinkle. He is married
and lives in the Catskill region of New York State.
Brenda
Bufalino
Brenda
Bufalino is a performer, master teacher, choreographer, author, actress,
producer and director. Choreographer and founder of the celebrated American
Tap Dance Orchestra, she has been a trailblazer in the renaissance of
jazz and tap dance and a guiding force in the creation of countless
tap festivals and workshops world-wide. She has received fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation
for the Arts and was recently awarded the prestigious Flobert Award,
The Tapestry Award, and The Hoofer Award for contributions to the field
and lifetime achievement. When not on tour, Bufalino divides her time
between New York City and New Paltz, New York. She has two sons and
five grandchildren, as well as thousands of students around the world.
Laurence
Carr
Laurence
Carr, editor, teaches Creative and Dramatic Writing at SUNY New Paltz
where he created The SUNY Playwrights' Project and was honored as a
Teacher of the Year. Over thirty of his plays and theatre pieces have
been produced in NYC, throughout the U.S., and in Europe. His prose
and poetry have been published and performed throughout the country.
Patrick
Carrington
Patrick
Carrington teaches creative writing in New Jersey and is the poetry
editor for the art and literary journal Mannequin Envy (www.mannequinenvy.com).
His poetry has appeared in The Connecticut Review, The Potomac Review,
Rattle, The Evansville Review, and many other journals. Rise,
Fall, and Acceptance (MSR Publishing, 2006), his first full collection,
is available at Main St. Rag's online bookstore (www.mainstreetrag.com).
Steve
Clorfeine
Steve
Clorfeine is a writer and performer whose most recent book, In the
Valley of the Gods: Journals of an American Buddhist in Nepal,
was published by Station Hill Press in 2001. His performance work incorporates
his own writing as well as adaptations of Samuel Beckett, Lewis Carroll,
T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, and Robert Louis Stevenson. He has been
on the faculty of Naropa University, SUNY New Paltz and The Amsterdam
Theaterschool. He lives in Accord, New York.
Stephen
Damon
Stephen
Damon owns Browser Books in San Francisco.
Dennis
Doherty
Dennis
Doherty is Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program and Chair of
the Poetry Board at SUNY New Paltz. NY. He regards the sky, studies
nature, and swaps stories with friends over beer in their hometown of
Rosendale. Doherty's essays, poems, and stories appear throughout the
literary press. He is the author of The Bad Man, a volume of
poetry.
Jane
English
Jane English has
a unique place in the East-West exchange of knowledge. Her photography
conveys a deep connection to natural wisdom and was a major factor in
bringing the Tao Te Ching to the widest circle of readers in
the Western world. Her photographs formed an integral part of Gia-Fu
Feng's historic translation of this work. Her publications include
Chuang Tsu, The Inner Chapters, Finger Pointing to the Moon, and
the Mount Shasta and Tao Te Ching calendars.
Heinz
Insu Fenkl
Heinz
Insu Fenkl is an internationally renowned author, editor, translator,
and folklorist. His first book, Memories
of My Ghost Brother, an autobiographical novel about
growing up in Korea as a bi-racial child in the 1960s, was a Barnes
and Noble "Discover Great New Writers" book in 1996 and a PEN/Hemingway
finalist in 1997. He is also co-editor of the two major collections
of Korean American fiction: Kori and Century of the Tiger.
Fenkl studied Classical Chinese with Benjamin Wallacker, a student of
the brilliant and eccentric Sinologist, Peter Boodberg. He is currently
the recipient of a fellowship from the Korean Literature Translation
Institute to translate the seventeenth-century Korean Buddhist masterpiece,
Nine Cloud Dream. He has also published short fiction in a
variety of journals and magazines, as well as numerous articles on folklore
and myth. Fenkl was raised in Korea, Germany, and the United States.
He lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife and daughter.
Frederick
Franck
Frederick
Franck (1910-2006) was the author of over thirty books, including
The Zen of Seeing (Random House), and the award-winning Pacem
in Terris: A Love Story (Codhill), as well as an editor of What
Does it Mean to be Human (St. Martin's Press), recently translated
into Spanish and Chinese.
He
was honored with the World Citizenship Award by the Nuclear Age Peace
Foundation, and his
sculpture and artwork are in the permanent collections of The Museum
of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Tokyo National Museum, and other
public and private collections.
Celestine
Frost
Celestine
Frost is an accomplished poet with many publications.
Kim
Gwang-gyoon
Kim Gwang-gyoon
(1914-1993) started his poetic career by contributing to major Korean
newspapers in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Considered one of the
most prominent modernist poets in Korea, Kim often wrote in styles that
resembled those of T.E. Hulme, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot. Many of Kim’s
poems written during the Japanese military rule over Korea deal with
his concept of "painting-like poetry," depicting landscapes
and ideas in vivid imagery reminiscent of William Carlos Williams' early
poems. After Korea's liberation in 1945, and especially after the division
of the country into North and South, Kim turned to lamenting and elegizing
various sorts of loss--of his hometown, of his family members and friends,
of his past loves and passions. He is also noted for the nearly forty-year-long
hiatus he took from poetry following the Korean War; he did not return
to the literary scene until the late 1980s. Among his major works are
Gas Light, A Port of Call, Twilight Elegy, and Imjin Flower.
Mikhail
Horowitz
Mikhail
Horowitz is the author of Big League Poets (City Lights, 1978)
and The Opus of Everything in Nothing Flat (Red Hill/Outloud,
1993). His poetry, short plays, and artwork have been widely published
in the small- press world and featured in City Lights Journal, The
Stiffest of the Corpse, Into the Temple of Baseball, Laugh Lines,
and other anthologies, as well as in the New York Times. His
performance work, with jazz and acoustic musicians and/or with his longtime
partner Gilles Malkine, can be heard on a dozen CDs, including The
Blues of the Birth (Sundazed Records) and the anthology album Bring
It On Home, Vol. II (Columbia Records). He lives in the woods north
of Saugerties, New York, with the printmaker Carol Zaloom and three
cats. His day gig is impersonating an editor at Bard College.
David
McCann
David
R. McCann, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature in the Department
of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, received
his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees at Harvard, and his B.A. at Amherst College.
He is the recipient of the Order of Culture Merit Award (2006), the
Manhae Prize in Arts and Sciences (2004), the Daesan Foundation Translation
Grant (1997), and the Korea P.E.N. Center Translation Prize (1994).
His poetry has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Runes, and
Prairie Schooner, and in the Pushcart Prize Anthology III.
His books include Azaleas, Poems by Kim Sowol (Columbia University
Press, 2007), Enough to Say It's Far, poems by Pak Chaesam,
translated with Jiwon Shin (Princeton University Press, Lockert Library
of Poetry in Translation, 2006), Traveler Maps: Poems by Ko Un
(Tamal Vista Press, 2004), and The Columbia Anthology of Modern
Korean Poetry (2004).
Susan
Ellen Mesinai
Scholar
in comparative religion and co-author of Shlomo’s Stories (Jason
Aronson, 1994, 2004), Susan Ellen Mesinai was chosen one of Columbia
University's 250 "greatest graduates" for her search for Raoul
Wallenberg and other foreign prisoners who disappeared into the Soviet
Gulag after World War II.
Michael
Meyerhofer
Michael
Meyerhofer's first book, Leaving Iowa, won the Liam Rector
First Book Award. He is also the author of four chapbooks and was recently
the recipient of the James Wright Poetry Award, the Annie Finch Prize,
and the Laureate Prize. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, Arts
& Letters, North American Review, Southern Poetry Review, Green
Mountains Review and others.
Ed
Mooney
Poet,
writer, musician, and professor, Ed Mooney writes on Kierkegaard, Thoreau,
Cavell, and the great Montana thinker, Henry Bugbee. He's rowed the
San Francisco Bay and now teaches religion and philosophy at Syracuse
University.
David
Rothenberg
David
Rothenberg is a contributing editor to Parabola magazine and
author of Sudden Music and Hand's End. His writings on
spirituality, philosophy, ecology and music have been published in magazines
ranging from Sierra and Whole Earth to Wired and
The Nation, and are featured in The Best Spiritual Writing 1999
(Harper SanFrancisco) and The Soul of Nature (Penguin).
Laura
Simms
Laura
Simms is an internationally renowned storyteller, author, and recording
artist whom Maori elders call "as good as our grandparents."She
is the author of the award-winning children's book, Rotten Teeth
(Houghton Mifflin) and the spoken word recording The Gift of Dreams
(Sounds True) which Publishers Weekly called "spellbinding."
A contributing editor to Parabola magazine and co-chairman of
the National Healing Story Alliance, she has served as artist-in-residence
at New York City's Lincoln Center for the Arts and travels around the
world telling stories for adults and children alike.
Pauline
Powers Uchmanowicz
Pauline
Uchmanowicz is Associate Professor of English and director of Writing
Across the Curriculum at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
Her poems and essays have appeared in many national publications, including
Ploughshares, Crazyhorse, Ohio Review, Mudfish, The Massachusetts
Review, and Z Magazine. She has published scholarly articles
in College English, Writing Program Administration, Literature and
Psychology, and elsewhere. In addition, Pauline is a widely published
freelance writer in the Hudson Valley, and a food columnist for The
Woodstock Times. She was recently awarded a SUNY-wide Chancellor’s
Award for Teaching Excellence.
Pamela
Uschuk
Pamela
Uschuk holds a M.F.A in Poetry and Fiction from the University of Montana.
Author of several chapbooks of poems, including the award-winning Without
Birds, Without Flowers, Without Trees, her work has appeared in
over two hundred journals and anthologies worldwide. She has released
three books of poetry, Finding Peaches in the Desert, One-legged
Dancer, and Scattered Risks. Her literary prizes include
the 2001 Tucson/Pima Writing Award and the 2000 Struga International
Poetry Prize, as well as awards from the National League of American
PEN Women, Chester H. Jones Foundation, Iris, Ascent, The Wildwood Journal,
Sandhills Review, Harbinger, and Amnesty International.
Robert
Waugh
Robert
Waugh, a professor of SUNY New Paltz, is the author of The Monster
in the Mirror: Looking for H. P. Lovecraft and the author of many
poems in small journals. For thirty-five years he has lived part of
the time on Cape Cod.
Song
Yong
Born in
Youngkwang, Korea in 1940, Song Yong studied German language and literature
at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. After several years as a fugitive
from compulsory military duty, he was arrested and sent to prison, but
was released by a sympathetic judge who had learned that he was a writer.
His first short story, "Cock-Fighting," was published in Changbi
Magazine in 1967; he has since published several books of fiction
and nonfiction.
