December 11, 2008

Julene Tripp Weaver has a B.A. in creative writing from City University of New York. She has a Masters in Applied Behavioral Science from the Leadership Institute of Seattle, and works in HIV/AIDS Services. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues. Garrison Keillor featured a poem from her book on “The Writer's Almanac.” Her poems are published in many journals, including Main Street Rag, The Healing Muse, Knock, Arabesques Review, Nerve Cowboy, Arnazella, Crab Creek Review, Pilgrimage, and Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv. She has lived in Seattle since 1989.

Deborah Woodard has published three chapbooks of poetry, The Orphan Conducts the Dovehouse Orchestra (Bear Star Press, 1999), The Book of Riddles (Boxcar Press, 1998) and Hunter Mnemonics (Hemel Press). Her first full-length collection, Plato’s Bad Horse, was published in 2006, also by Bear Star Press. Deborah’s Hamlet Mnemonic Series won the 2007 Chelsea Poetry Award. Impromptu, her translation of the poetry of Amelia Rosselli (in collaboration with Giuseppe Leporace) will be published by Chelsea Editions in 2009. She teaches at the Richard Hugo House, a community literary center in Seattle.