Tag: Bull City Press

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Vidya’s Tree by Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan

 

 

 

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This selection comes from Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan’s book Vidya’s Tree, available from Bull City Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Hali Sofala-Jones.

Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan was born in Santa Monica, California, and raised in Los Angeles. Claire was an accomplished poet, scholar, teacher, and animal-lover. She received her B.A. in English from Loyola Marymount University in L.A. She went on to earn an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow (under the mentorship of Rita Dove); an M.A. in Literature from the University of California, Berkeley; and a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston, where she was a Cambor Fellow. She published two acclaimed books of poetry: Shadow Mountain (Four Way Books, 2008) and Bear, Diamonds and Crane (Four Way Books, 2011). Shadow Mountain was the 2006 winner of the Four Way Books Intro Prize in Poetry.

Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan passed away in 2016 and is survived by her husband, Raj, and their daughter, Vidya.

Hali Sofala-Jones is a Samoan-American writer. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Her poetry appears in Nimrod International Journal, The Bitter Oleander, CALYX, and elsewhere. She lives and teaches in Milledgeville, Georgia.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Three Syllables Describing Addiction by Kate Daniels

 

 

 

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This selection comes from Kate Daniels’s book Three Syllables Describing Addiction, available from Bull City Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Nilsa Rivera.

Kate Daniels was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. Educated at the University of Virginia, she later received her MFA from Columbia University. She is the author of four earlier books of poetry, including A Walk in Victoria’s Secret and Four Testimonies. A forthcoming collection, In the Months of My Son’s Recovery, includes most of the poems appearing in Three Syllables Describing Addiction, her first chapbook with Bull City Press. A former Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry, and a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, Daniels is professor of English at Vanderbilt University where she directs the creative writing program. She also teaches writing at the Baltimore Washington Center for Psychoanalysis and facilitates workshops on writing and recovery in Nashville and other communities.  Find her online at http://katedanielspoetryandprose.com/.  Kate‘s Twitter handle is: @katedan72268849

Nilsa Rivera’s work explores gender and diversity issues. Her work has appeared in the Huffington Post, 50 GS Magazine, The Awakenings, Six Hens Literary Journal, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and Selkie Literary Magazine. She’s also the Managing Editor of The Wardrobe for Sundress Publications. She can be found as @nilsawrites in most corners of the virtual world and at Miami Beach in real life.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Three Syllables Describing Addiction by Kate Daniels

 

 

 

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This selection comes from Kate Daniels’s book Three Syllables Describing Addiction, available from Bull City Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Nilsa Rivera.

Kate Daniels was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. Educated at the University of Virginia, she later received her MFA from Columbia University. She is the author of four earlier books of poetry, including A Walk in Victoria’s Secret and Four Testimonies. A forthcoming collection, In the Months of My Son’s Recovery, includes most of the poems appearing in Three Syllables Describing Addiction, her first chapbook with Bull City Press. A former Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry, and a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, Daniels is professor of English at Vanderbilt University where she directs the creative writing program. She also teaches writing at the Baltimore Washington Center for Psychoanalysis and facilitates workshops on writing and recovery in Nashville and other communities.  Find her online at http://katedanielspoetryandprose.com/.  Kate‘s Twitter handle is: @katedan72268849

Nilsa Rivera’s work explores gender and diversity issues. Her work has appeared in the Huffington Post, 50 GS Magazine, The Awakenings, Six Hens Literary Journal, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and Selkie Literary Magazine. She’s also the Managing Editor of The Wardrobe for Sundress Publications. She can be found as @nilsawrites in most corners of the virtual world and at Miami Beach in real life.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Three Syllables Describing Addiction by Kate Daniels

 

 

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This selection comes from Kate Daniels’s book Three Syllables Describing Addiction, available from Bull City Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Nilsa Rivera.

Kate Daniels was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. Educated at the University of Virginia, she later received her MFA from Columbia University. She is the author of four earlier books of poetry, including A Walk in Victoria’s Secret and Four Testimonies. A forthcoming collection, In the Months of My Son’s Recovery, includes most of the poems appearing in Three Syllables Describing Addiction, her first chapbook with Bull City Press. A former Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry, and a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, Daniels is professor of English at Vanderbilt University where she directs the creative writing program. She also teaches writing at the Baltimore Washington Center for Psychoanalysis and facilitates workshops on writing and recovery in Nashville and other communities.  Find her online at http://katedanielspoetryandprose.com/.  Kate‘s Twitter handle is: @katedan72268849

Nilsa Rivera’s work explores gender and diversity issues. Her work has appeared in the Huffington Post, 50 GS Magazine, The Awakenings, Six Hens Literary Journal, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and Selkie Literary Magazine. She’s also the Managing Editor of The Wardrobe for Sundress Publications. She can be found as @nilsawrites in most corners of the virtual world and at Miami Beach in real life.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Three Syllables Describing Addiction by Kate Daniels

 

 

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This selection comes from Kate Daniels’s book Three Syllables Describing Addiction, available from Bull City Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Nilsa Rivera.

Kate Daniels was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. Educated at the University of Virginia, she later received her MFA from Columbia University. She is the author of four earlier books of poetry, including A Walk in Victoria’s Secret and Four Testimonies. A forthcoming collection, In the Months of My Son’s Recovery, includes most of the poems appearing in Three Syllables Describing Addiction, her first chapbook with Bull City Press. A former Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry, and a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, Daniels is professor of English at Vanderbilt University where she directs the creative writing program. She also teaches writing at the Baltimore Washington Center for Psychoanalysis and facilitates workshops on writing and recovery in Nashville and other communities.  Find her online at http://katedanielspoetryandprose.com/.  Kate‘s Twitter handle is: @katedan72268849

Nilsa Rivera’s work explores gender and diversity issues. Her work has appeared in the Huffington Post, 50 GS Magazine, The Awakenings, Six Hens Literary Journal, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and Selkie Literary Magazine. She’s also the Managing Editor of The Wardrobe for Sundress Publications. She can be found as @nilsawrites in most corners of the virtual world and at Miami Beach in real life.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Three Syllables Describing Addiction by Kate Daniels

 

 

 

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This selection comes from Kate Daniels’s book Three Syllables Describing Addiction, available from Bull City Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Nilsa Rivera.

Kate Daniels was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. Educated at the University of Virginia, she later received her MFA from Columbia University. She is the author of four earlier books of poetry, including A Walk in Victoria’s Secret and Four Testimonies. A forthcoming collection, In the Months of My Son’s Recovery, includes most of the poems appearing in Three Syllables Describing Addiction, her first chapbook with Bull City Press. A former Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry, and a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, Daniels is professor of English at Vanderbilt University where she directs the creative writing program. She also teaches writing at the Baltimore Washington Center for Psychoanalysis and facilitates workshops on writing and recovery in Nashville and other communities.  Find her online at http://katedanielspoetryandprose.com/.  Kate‘s Twitter handle is: @katedan72268849

Nilsa Rivera’s work explores gender and diversity issues. Her work has appeared in the Huffington Post, 50 GS Magazine, The Awakenings, Six Hens Literary Journal, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and Selkie Literary Magazine. She’s also the Managing Editor of The Wardrobe for Sundress Publications. She can be found as @nilsawrites in most corners of the virtual world and at Miami Beach in real life.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Season of Dares by Leah Silvieus

 

 

 

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This selection comes from Leah Silvieus’s book Season of Dares, available from BullCity Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for January is Rax King.

Leah Silvieus was born in South Korea and adopted to the U.S. at three-months old. She spent her early childhood and adolescence in small towns in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley and western Colorado. She is the author of two chapbooks, Anemochory (Hyacinth Girl Press) and Season of Dares (forthcoming from Bull City Press in fall 2018). Her full-length book of poetry was a finalist for the Kundiman, Orison Books, and Agape Editions book prizes and is forthcoming from Sundress Publications in 2019. Her recent poetry and criticism have appeared in Harvard Review Online, The Collagist, and Boxcar Poetry Review among others. She is a recipient of awards and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets and Fulbright and serves on Kundiman’s Junior Board and as a mentor on The Brooklyn Poets Bridge. She received her bachelor’s degree in literature from Whitworth University and holds an MFA from the University of Miami. She currently travels between New York and Florida as a yacht Chief Stewardess and serves as a Books Editor at Hyphen magazine.

Rax King is a dog-loving, hedgehog-mothering, beer-swilling, gay and disabled sumbitch who occasionally writes poetry and works as assistant editor for Sundress Publications. She is the author of the collection ‘The People’s Elbow: Thirty Recitatives on Rape and Wrestling’ (Ursus Americanus, 2018). Her work can also be found in Barrelhouse, Glass Poetry, and Dream Pop.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Season of Dares by Leah Silvieus

 

 

 

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This selection comes from Leah Silvieus’s book Season of Dares, available from BullCity Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for January is Rax King.

Leah Silvieus was born in South Korea and adopted to the U.S. at three-months old. She spent her early childhood and adolescence in small towns in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley and western Colorado. She is the author of two chapbooks, Anemochory (Hyacinth Girl Press) and Season of Dares (forthcoming from Bull City Press in fall 2018). Her full-length book of poetry was a finalist for the Kundiman, Orison Books, and Agape Editions book prizes and is forthcoming from Sundress Publications in 2019. Her recent poetry and criticism have appeared in Harvard Review Online, The Collagist, and Boxcar Poetry Review among others. She is a recipient of awards and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets and Fulbright and serves on Kundiman’s Junior Board and as a mentor on The Brooklyn Poets Bridge. She received her bachelor’s degree in literature from Whitworth University and holds an MFA from the University of Miami. She currently travels between New York and Florida as a yacht Chief Stewardess and serves as a Books Editor at Hyphen magazine.

Rax King is a dog-loving, hedgehog-mothering, beer-swilling, gay and disabled sumbitch who occasionally writes poetry and works as assistant editor for Sundress Publications. She is the author of the collection ‘The People’s Elbow: Thirty Recitatives on Rape and Wrestling’ (Ursus Americanus, 2018). Her work can also be found in Barrelhouse, Glass Poetry, and Dream Pop.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Season of Dares by Leah Silvieus

 

 

 

 

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This selection comes from Leah Silvieus’s book Season of Dares, available from BullCity Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for January is Rax King.

Leah Silvieus was born in South Korea and adopted to the U.S. at three-months old. She spent her early childhood and adolescence in small towns in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley and western Colorado. She is the author of two chapbooks, Anemochory (Hyacinth Girl Press) and Season of Dares (forthcoming from Bull City Press in fall 2018). Her full-length book of poetry was a finalist for the Kundiman, Orison Books, and Agape Editions book prizes and is forthcoming from Sundress Publications in 2019. Her recent poetry and criticism have appeared in Harvard Review Online, The Collagist, and Boxcar Poetry Review among others. She is a recipient of awards and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets and Fulbright and serves on Kundiman’s Junior Board and as a mentor on The Brooklyn Poets Bridge. She received her bachelor’s degree in literature from Whitworth University and holds an MFA from the University of Miami. She currently travels between New York and Florida as a yacht Chief Stewardess and serves as a Books Editor at Hyphen magazine.

Rax King is a dog-loving, hedgehog-mothering, beer-swilling, gay and disabled sumbitch who occasionally writes poetry and works as assistant editor for Sundress Publications. She is the author of the collection ‘The People’s Elbow: Thirty Recitatives on Rape and Wrestling’ (Ursus Americanus, 2018). Her work can also be found in Barrelhouse, Glass Poetry, and Dream Pop.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Season of Dares by Leah Silvieus

 

 

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This selection comes from Leah Silvieus’s book Season of Dares, available from BullCity Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for January is Rax King.

Leah Silvieus was born in South Korea and adopted to the U.S. at three-months old. She spent her early childhood and adolescence in small towns in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley and western Colorado. She is the author of two chapbooks, Anemochory (Hyacinth Girl Press) and Season of Dares (forthcoming from Bull City Press in fall 2018). Her full-length book of poetry was a finalist for the Kundiman, Orison Books, and Agape Editions book prizes and is forthcoming from Sundress Publications in 2019. Her recent poetry and criticism have appeared in Harvard Review Online, The Collagist, and Boxcar Poetry Review among others. She is a recipient of awards and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets and Fulbright and serves on Kundiman’s Junior Board and as a mentor on The Brooklyn Poets Bridge. She received her bachelor’s degree in literature from Whitworth University and holds an MFA from the University of Miami. She currently travels between New York and Florida as a yacht Chief Stewardess and serves as a Books Editor at Hyphen magazine.

Rax King is a dog-loving, hedgehog-mothering, beer-swilling, gay and disabled sumbitch who occasionally writes poetry and works as assistant editor for Sundress Publications. She is the author of the collection ‘The People’s Elbow: Thirty Recitatives on Rape and Wrestling’ (Ursus Americanus, 2018). Her work can also be found in Barrelhouse, Glass Poetry, and Dream Pop.