December 18, 2014

Jill McCabe Johnson is the author of the poetry collection Diary of the One Swelling Sea (MoonPath Press, 2013) and editor of two companion anthologies, Becoming: What Makes a Woman, and Being: What Makes a Man (University of Nebraska Gender Programs). She is the founding director of Artsmith, an artist residency and arts education nonprofit. Jill earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific Lutheran University, and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska. She and her husband cook and hike together as often as they can. Her website is jillmccabejohnson.com.

Tina Schumann won the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize for her manuscript As If (Split Oak Press). She received the American Poet Prize and her work was named a finalist in the National Poetry Series and the Terrian.org Poetry Contest. Tupelo Press listed her full manuscript as a “remarkable work” in their open reading period. She holds an MFA from Pacific Lutheran University and has received a Pushcart nomination. Her poems have appeared in such journals as American Poetry Journal, Ascent, Cimarron Review, Crab Creek Review, Midwest Quarterly, Parabola, Poemeleon, Poetry International, San Pedro River Review, and the Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine.