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April
9 - Laura Tohe
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April
16 - Sean Nevin
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Laura Tohe, Diné (Navajo), was born and raised
on the Navajo reservation. She is an Associate Professor of the
Arizona State University English Department. Her book of poetry and
stories, No Parole Today, received Poetry of the Year Award by the
Wordcraft Circle
of Native Writers and Storytellers. Tohe is recognized for her
contributions to American Indian literature through “Those Who
Speak the World into Place: An Honoring of Native Writers,” made
possible through Joy Harjo and the Lila-Wallace Reader’s Digest
Fund. Her current work is called, Talking
Woman.
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Sean Nevin teaches at
Arizona
State
University
and for the Arizona Commission on the Arts through the Artist
Roster. He served as poetry editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review. His
poetry has appeared in Poet
Lore, The East
Valley
Tribune, Long Island
Quarterly, Medicinal Purposes
and Barbaric Yawp. He
received the 1999 Dorothy M. Hood Prize for Poetry, was a finalist
in
Arizona’s 18th Annual Statewide Poetry Contest (2001) and was
awarded ASU’s first Faculty Emeriti Association Fellowship in
2001. Nevin, originally from
New Jersey
, currently resides in
Tempe
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April
23 - Lois Roma-Deeley
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April
30 - Thea S. Kuticka
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Lois Roma- Deeley’s poems have been published
in a number of literary magazines and anthologies nationwide,
including Looking for Home, Faultline, Iris and Confluence. She was the Honorable Mention choice for the IX Tucson
Poetry Festival and a finalist in the 2000 Emily Dickinson Award
poetry competition. She serves as one of two poetry editors for National Forum. Roma-Deeley teaches creative writing at
Paradise
Valley
Community College
, where she is a full-time professor.
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Thea S. Kuticka, associate editor at Bilingual Review/Press, received her MFA from the University of Virginia. She received a Henry Hoyns Fellowship and the 2001 Arizona
Commission on the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry.
Kuticka was selected for First Place at the 2000 Tucson Poetry Festival by Arthur Sze and chosen for the
2001 Black Rock Press Broadside Competition. Her poetry has appeared
in Alaska
Quarterly Review, Arts &
Letters, Clackamas Literary Review, Poems & Plays and the
online journal Valparaiso
Poetry Review.
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