| Kathy Allen is a longtime resident of Kansas City, Kansas and has had 20 customer service jobs in forty years. Kathy has a chapbook, End of Front Street, and serves on the Riverfront Reading Series committee. Phyllis Becker works as a consultant in human services. She is on the board of The Writers Place and is coordinator of the Riverfront Reading series which features local and regional writers. Her poems have been published in numerous literary magazines, and she has a chapbook, Walking Naked into Sunday (Wheel of Fire Press). Carl Bettis is a poet and computer programmer who grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. He helped found the literary magazines Thorny Locust and The Same, and his poetry has been widely published to small audiences. He can be contacted at [cbettis AT claranen DOT com]. Nancy Eldredge was in on the early foundation and on hand each step of the way during the two-decade evolution of the Riverfront Series. She has published poems in UMKC's Number One. She is production editor of the Journal of Forensic Economics and managing editor of The Same. She lives in Mount Union, PA. Silvia Kofler’s work has been published in The Sixth Surface: Steven Holl Lights the Nelson-Atkins Museum--a collection of poems, essays and artworks that helps translate the expanded Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art--The Kansas City Star and numerous other publications, including the The Book of Hopes and Dreams, an anthology to benefit Spirit Aid, published by Bluechrome Press in the UK. Her book of poetry, From the Suburbs with the Wedding Dress in its Coffin/Vom Vorort mit dem Hochzeitskleid im Sarg, was published by The Edwin Mellen Press. A new collection of poems, Radioactive Musings, has been included in the Kansas City Star’s Top 100 books of the year 2007. She is editor/publisher of Thorny Locust, she is a member of the American Literary Translators Association, and she lectures at Rockhurst University. Pat Lawson has published poetry, non-fiction, and fiction, the latter in The Dalhousie Review, Nimrod, Pleaides, Big Muddy, and many others.Her work also appears in Why We Love Our Cats and Dogs, co-authored with Phil Miller. The Teacher's Voice plans to publish a chapbook of her story, "Mentoring Heidi," later this year. Phil Miller co-founded the Riverfront Reading Series with the late Donn Irving Blevins (and with the help and support of Garry Noland, former president of the Kansas City Artists Coalition) over twenty years ago. He is a poet, born in Kansas City, MO and now living in Mount Union, PA. His poetry has been published in many places, including, recently, Big City Lit, The Coal City Review, The I-70 Review, Poetry Wales, seveneightfive Magazine, and Thorny Locust. His books include Cats in the House (Woodley Press); Hard Freeze (BookMark Press); From the Temperate Zone--with Keith Denniston (Potpourri Press); Branches Snapping (Helicon Nine Editions); and Why We Love Our Cats and Dogs--with Pat Lawson (Unholy Day Press). His sixth book, The Casablanca Fan, is forthcoming from Unholy Day. He is a contributing editor to Big City Lit and editor of The Same. We are glad to welcome Eve Ott to the Riverfront Committee. |