October 19, 2006

Susan Rich is the author of Cures Include Travel, recently released by White Pine Press. Her book The Cartographer’s Tongue: Poems of the World won the PEN USA Award for Poetry and the Peace Corps Writers Award for Best Poetry Book. She has been the recipient of an Artist Trust Award and a Fulbright Fellowship. Her poems have recently appeared or will be appearing in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Poetry East, North American Review, and Quarterly West. She is an editor of Floating Bridge Press, dedicated to publishing poets from throughout the state of Washington.

Kathleen Flenniken’s first poetry collection, Famous, won the 2005 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and is scheduled for release in September 2006. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, Poetry Daily, and The Iowa Review and she is an editor with Floating Bridge Press, dedicated to publishing Washington State poets.