April 21, 2011

Sharmagne Leland-St. John is a Native American poet, concert performer, lyricist, artist, and film maker. She is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She is the editor-in-chief of the poetry e-zine QuillandParchment.com. Sharmagne spends time between her home in the Hollywood Hills in Southern California and her fly-fishing lodge on the Stillaguamish River in Arlington, Washington. She tours the United States, Canada, and England as a performance poet. She has published four books of poetry: Unsung Songs (2003), Silver Tears and Time (2005), Contingencies (2008), La Kalima (2010) and coauthored a book on film production design: Designing Movies: Portrait of a Hollywood Artist (Greenwood/Praeger 2006).

Ellaraine Lockie is a widely published poet, nonfiction book author, and essayist who has received more than 400 poetry awards. Her seventh chapbook, Stroking David’s Leg, was awarded Best Individual Collection for 2010 from Purple Patch magazine in England, and her eighth chapbook, Red for the Funeral, won the 2010 San Gabriel Poetry Festival Chapbook Contest. She also teaches poetry/writing workshops and serves as poetry editor for the lifestyles magazine, Lilipoh.