July 18, 2006

Jeannine Hall Gailey is a Seattle-area journalist whose first book of poetry, Becoming the Villainess, was recently released by Steel Toe Books. Poems from the book have been featured on Verse Daily and on NPR’s Writer’s Almanac. Her work has also appeared in journals such as The Iowa Review, The Evansville Review, The Columbia Poetry Review, and others. Jeannine is studying for her MFA in poetry at Pacific University where she volunteers as a poetry editor for Silk Road.

Annette Spaulding-Convy’s poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, and Crab Orchard Review. Her chapbook, In the Convent We Become Clouds, won the 2006 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Contest. She is also the recipient of a Washington State Artist Trust GAP Grant.