December 15, 2011

Carolyne Wright has published nine books and chapbooks of poetry, four volumes of translations from Spanish and Bengali, and a collection of essays. Her latest collection is Mania Klepto: The Book of Eulene (WordTech/Turning Point, 2011). Her previous collections are A Change of Maps (Lost Horse Press, 2006), which won the 2007 IBP Bronze Award, and Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire (Carnegie Mellon UP/EWUP Books, 2nd edition 2005), which won the Blue Lynx Prize and American Book Award. Wright, a visiting writer at colleges and universities around the country, who served on the Board of the AWP from 2004–2008, moved back to her native Seattle in 2005. She teaches for the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts’ Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA program.

Mary Eliza Crane grew up in New England and began writing poetry at age fourteen. Poetry remains the one constant in life to which Mary always returns. In the Adirondacks, she fell madly, passionately and desirously in love with the natural world. A transplant to the Cascade foothills of the Pacific Northwest, her voice lives in the understory and fog of the Snoqualmie River. A fusion of this one true love and a deep understanding of what makes us human, she fuses the personal, political, and natural world.A regular feature at poetry venues in the Puget Sound region, she has two volumes of poetry, What I Can Hold In My Hands and At First Light, published by Gazoobi Tales.Her poetry has also featured in Quill and Parchment.