November 15, 2007

Denise Calvetti Michaels writes poetry and memoir with new work forthcoming in City Works Press, Crosscurrents, Dreams: Poetry on Buses (2007), Paterson Literary Review, and Kent State University Press. Her work can be found in anthologies such as: In Praise of Farmland (Whit Press, 2003) and The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Woman on Food and Culture (Feminist Press, 2002). Denise teaches psychology and human relations at Cascadia Community College where she coordinates service learning. She earned an MA in human development from Pacific Oaks College and in 2004 received the Crosscurrents prize for poetry from the Washington Community College Humanities Association. In 2001 Denise and her colleagues at the King County Child Care Program received the Dr. Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award for their work in King County Human Services to address institutional racism.

Suma Subramaniam’s beginnings as a poet and writer coincided with her meeting the man whom she was to marry in 2005 and who directly or indirectly appears in most of her writing. She has an MBA in human resources and lives in Woodinville, Washington with her husband and dog. She is a member of Striped Water Poets, a roundtable critique group that meets in Auburn and is also member of the editorial board of Kritya, a journal of poetry. She has been published in Kritya, Thanalonline, Muscadine Lines, and Edgz Poetry journals.