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WALT PETERSON
  • Walt Peterson has won the Acorn-Rukeyser award for poetry for In the Waiting Room of the Speedy Muffler King and the Gribble Publishing award for the collection of short fiction, Depth-of-Field. He has worked on projects such as the artist’s book Image/Song and the show and anthology, Fission of Form, which was a collaboration of twenty sculptors, twenty illustrators and twenty poets. Peterson is a Fellow of the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project and a rostered artist with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Lately, Peterson has published several creative nonfiction pieces including one, “Driving Pittsburgh,” about racing in the Pittsburgh Vintage Gran Prix. He set the hillclimb record for Vintage 2 cars on Polish Mountain in his 1962 Austin-Healey 3000 and has been a performance driving instructor.

 
Wayne Adams
  • Wayne Adams was born in Tennessee, raised in Texas and now lives the retired dream in North Carolina with his wife Claudia. He served in the United States Army from 1972-1986 and was also a Correctional Officer from 1989 until 2015. He is the father of 4 and the grandfather of 8.

 
Wayne F. Burke
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    Wayne F. Burke was born in 1954 to Claire Burke nee Kelly and Edward W. Burke. He was raised in the home of his paternal grandparents, as were his three siblings. His grandfather owned and operated BURKE'S INN, a generational business begun previous to the First World War. He attended public schools and after graduating High School, four institutions of higher learning before graduating from Goddard College in 1979 (RUP). After traveling and working a wide variety of jobs he settled himself in the central Vermont area, USA, and has remained since. His first full-length poetry collection was published when he was fifty-eight years old. Six more publications have followed, with an eighth book, BLACK SUMMER, New & Selected Poems, soon to follow.

     

 
Wendy Taylor Carlisle
  • Wendy Taylor Carlisle lives and writes in the Arkansas Ozarks. She has an MFA in Poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is the author of three books, Reading Berryman to the Dog (2000,) Discount Fireworks (2008) and The Mercy of Traffic (Unlikely Books, 2019) and five chapbooks, most recently They Went Down to the Beach to Play (LoCoFo Chaps, 2017.) Her work appears on line and in print and in the recent, anthologies, In Plein Air, (Poetic License Press, 2017), Untold Arkansas (Et Alia Press, 2018,) 50/50 (Quill's Edge Press, 2018), Fiolet and Wing (Liminal Books, 2019) and Pocket Poems (*82 Review, 2019.)

 
Wilhelm Hojer
  • Teacher, Journalist, Poet, Playwright and Author, Wilhelm Höjer was born on August 10th 1981, in Stockholm, Sweden, into a diplomatic family. He grew up between America and Europe and studied philosophy and journalism at the Pontifical “Angelicum University” in Rome, Italy. While employed at the Vatican City he was an editor on the International News Desk of Vatican News. Mr. Höjer is a published poet and playwright. He is currently a high school humanities teacher.
 
Will Mayo
  • Will Mayo is a man who writes against the coming of the night.

 
Will Nichols
  • Will Nichols is a native Texan from the panhandle who currently lives in the Coastal Bend of South Texas.  While writing is a favorite pass-time of his, the true joy in life comes from time spent with family, fishing, sailing, and with his work. 

 
Will Reger
  • Will Reger was born and raised mostly in Illinois. After a brief period of travel, he met a girl and settled down to raise four children and earn two higher level degrees at the University of Illinois.  With his career as a historian well under way, he spent more time fostering his ambitions as a poet, with some success.  He has actively sought to support poetry in his community, especially after he served as Poet Laureate for the city of Urbana, and published his first two volumes of poetry, Petroglyphs and Kaleidoscope (available on Amazon).  Currently, he is working on a celebratory CD recording of poems by his original workshop group, CU Poetry.

 
Will Schneider
  • Will Schneider is a writer, filmmaker, and poet born and based in Chicago, IL. His film work has screened in cities all over the world, and his writing has won acclaim from some of the industry's most competitive screenwriting competitions. His work can be found at vimeo.com/willschneider82

 
William Doreski
  • William Doreski has published three critical studies and several collections of poetry. His poetry, essays, fiction, and reviews have appeared in many print and online journals. He has taught writing and literature at Emerson, Goddard, Boston University, and Keene State College. His most recent books are A Black River, A Dark Fall and Train to Providence, a collaboration with photographer Rodger Kingston.

 
William E. Cooper
  • William E. Cooper has been writing haiku and senryu since 2009, with work appearing in a variety of journals. He has also published books and articles in cognitive science, higher education, and international relations. He serves as distinguished university professor and president emeritus at the University of Richmond.

 
William Heyen
  • William Heyen is Professor of English/Poet in Residence Emeritus at the College at Brockport, his undergraduate alma mater. He received his Ph.D from Ohio University, & an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from SUNY. A former Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature in Germany, he has received NEA, Guggenheim, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Pushcart & other awards. His work has appeared in hundreds of anthologies, & in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Harper's, The Atlantic, The Southern Review, & numerous other magazines. He was the first Poet in Residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace on Long Island, & has lectured at Walt's Camden home. Heyen is the editor or author of more than thirty books including Noise in the Trees, an American Library Association Notable Book for 1975; Crazy Horse in Stillness, winner of 1997's Small Press Book Award for Poetry; Shoah Train: Poems, a Finalist for the 2004 National Book Award; A Poetics of Hiroshima, a Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle selection for 2010. Three new books of poetry (Straight's Suite for Craig Cotter & Frank O'Hara, The Football Corporations, & Hiroshima Suite) & the first four volumes of his massive journal (The Cabin, Hannelore, Poker & Poets, and Too Many Angels), appeared 2013-2017 as did Crazy Horse & the Custers which includes 35 paintings in response to his poems by DeLoss McGraw. Etruscan Press published The Candle, a volume of 45 years of his holocaust poetry, in 2016. The Candle was a 2017 CLSC selection. H_NGM_N Books will publish the fifth of his journal volumes, The Presence I'll Be, in 2020, when MAMMOTH Books will publish a new collection of poems, Vehicles.

 
William Pruitt
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    William Pruitt has been a construction laborer, reference librarian, hospital courier, loading dock receiver, manager in a natural foods collective, and for 26 years, teacher of English as a Second Language. He is a writer of poetry and narrative fiction as well as a storyteller. His poems and stories have been published in numerous journals and anthologies such as Ploughshares, Country Journal, Otis Nebula , Crack of the Spine Literary MagazineMidway, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Hypertext,  Cottonwood and Finding the Way Home: Poems of Awakening and Transformation (White Pine press).  He has two chapbooks from White Pine and FootHills presses, and the self-published full-length book of poems Walking Home from the Eastman House. He is currently assistant editor for Narrative Magazine, Additionally, he has taught storytelling and performed traditional and original tales at hundreds of libraries, schools, art galleries, science centers and other institutions including  the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York. He and his wife Pam live in Rochester New York, and have a daughter, Cedar, a son, Elliott, and two grandchildren.

     

 
William S. Peters
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    AKA 'just bill', William S. Peters, Sr. is a devoted writer who has been committed to the path of poetry since 1966. Presently, his poetic work has been published in excess of 200 anthologies, newspapers and literary magazines, including about 50 books of his own. Since the day of his commitment to the creation and public-sharing of the poetic art, Peters has been a devoted supporter of the venue of creative expression regardless of form. His conviction that the human countenance through written art is a necessity reflects in his capacity as an activist for the progression and evolution of humanity and its love of each other.

 
Wojciech Plocharski
  • Wojciech Plocharski. Author of books, literary songwriter, society of authors member, traveller. Author of Polish radio hit 'Klub wesolego szampana' [Chcialabym, chciala...]. Composes contemporary classical music. Reporter, foreign correspondent, news editor, editor-in-chief, new media campaign advisor etc.

 
Wolf Staf Bruggen
  • Wolf Staf Bruggen (1967) is aan zijn debuut toe wat het schrijven van een boek betreft. Hij is nu meer dan 10 jaar actief en leidinggevend lid van de Roma gemeenschap in Vlaanderen en België.