October 21, 2010

Allen Braden is author of A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood, and a fine letterpress accordion book, Detail of the Four Chambers to the Horse’s Heart. He earned a BA from Central Washington University and then MA and MFA degrees from McNeese State University. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and from Artist Trust as well as the Emerging Writers Prize from Witness magazine, the Grolier Poetry Prize, the Dana Award in Poetry, and other honors. Braden’s recent work appears in Orion Magazine, Subtropics, Poetry International, Water-Stone Review, and three textbooks.

Kevin Miller lives in Tacoma, Washington. Blue Begonia Press published his first two collections: Light That Whispers Morning and Everywhere Was Far. Pleasure Boat Studio published his third collection, Home & Away: The Old Town Poems. Miller has received grants from Artist Trust and the Tacoma Arts Foundation. He has been teaching in the public schools of Washington State for thirty-nine years.