March 17, 2016
Marty Steyer is a formalist poet who, in particular, loves the sonnet. However, he also writes a fair amount of free verse and therefore might be aptly characterized as a formalist with anarchic tendencies. Marty was the winner of the 2014 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award and has poems in recent issues of Measure and Teaching English at the Two-Year College. Marty is also the founder and owner of Steyer Associates, Inc., a staffing firm that supplies content professionals (writers, editors, program managers, etc.) to high-tech companies in the Seattle and the San Francisco Bay area. Marty earned degrees at UC Berkeley and Harvard University and has attended the Bread Loaf Sicily, Tin House, and Sewanee writers’ conferences.
Will Wells’ most recent poetry book, Unsettled Accounts, winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, was published by Ohio University/Swallow Press in 2010. His current manuscript, Odd Lots, Scraps, and Second-hand, Like New, is complete. A previous volume of poems, Conversing with the Light, won the Anhinga Prize for poetry. Will has won fellowships to various writing conferences, including Sewanee, Bread Loaf, West Chester, and Wesleyan. He has earned four NEH fellowships, one NEA creative writing fellowship, two Individual Artist Excellence awards (including for 2016) from the Ohio Arts Council, and was named 2010 Ohio Poet of the Year.
