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Elizabeth Bradfield - Once Removed

Lisa C. Taylor - Interrorgation of Morning

Writer/naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of Toward Antarctica, Once Removed, Approaching Ice, Interpretive Work, and Theorem, a collaboration with artist Antonia Contro. She has co-edited the anthologies Broadsided Press: Fifteen Years of Poetic/Artistic Collaboration, 2005-2020 (with Alexandra Teague and Miller Oberman) and Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology and Poetry (with Marie Fuhrman and Derek Sheffield). Her poems and essays have appeared in The Sun, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Orion and have been widely anthologized. Winner of the Audre Lorde Prize from the Publishing Triangle, finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, her honors also include a Stegner Fellowship and a Bread Loaf Scholarship. Founder and editor-in-chief of Broadsided Press, she lives with her partner on Cape Cod, teaches creative writing at Brandeis University, and balances her work as a writer with work as a naturalist/field assistant, both locally and abroad.

Lisa C. Taylor is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Interrogation of Morning (Arlen House/Syracuse University Press 2023). She also has two short story collections, Impossibly Small Spaces (2018), and Growing a New Tail (2015) and two poetry chapbooks. One of her short stories received the Hugo House New Fiction Award in 2015. Her collaborative collection with Irish poet and writer Geraldine Mills, The Other Side of Longing (Arlen House/Syracuse University Press, 2011) received the Elizabeth Shanley Gerson honor for Irish literature for both of them at University of Connecticut. Both her poetry and fiction are published in numerous journals and anthologies and her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best-of- the-Net. Lisa holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Stonecoast (University of Southern Maine. She is the co-director of the Mesa Verde Writers Conference, a presenter for Write on the Sound, and she teaches online for www.writers.com.

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