The
IWC 2014 Creative Writing Conference has the pleasure of hosting seven poets
from Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist
Gender Violence. I had the pleasure of hearing work from this anthology at Split this Rock! Poetry Festival in
Washington D.C. last March, and I consider the collection one of the best I
have read to date. Along with WWR
Editor Laura Madeline Wiseman, each reader is as impressive as the next, and
here you can get to know them a little more before the conference.
Larissa Shmailo is the editor of the anthology Twenty-first Century Russian
Poetry, poetry editor for MadHat Annual, and founder of The Feminist
Poets in Low-Cut Blouses. She translated Victory over the Sun for the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art's landmark restaging of the multimedia opera
and has been a translator on the Bible in Russia for the American Bible Society.
Her books of poetry are #specialcharacters (Unlikely Books), In Paran
(BlazeVOX [books]), A Cure for Suicide (Červená Barva Press), and Fib
Sequence (Argotist Ebooks); her poetry CDs are The No-Net World
and Exorcism (SongCrew).
Jill Khoury earned her Masters of Fine Arts
from The Ohio State University. She teaches writing and literature in high
school, university, and enrichment environments. Her poems have appeared or are
forthcoming in numerous journals, including Bone Bouquet, RHINO,
Inter|rupture, and Stone Highway Review. She has been nominated for
two Pushcart Prizes and a Best of the Net award. Her chapbook Borrowed
Bodies was released from Pudding House Press. You can find her at jillkhoury.com.
Shevaun Brannigan is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, as well as The
Jimenez-Porter Writers' House at The University of Maryland. She has had poems
appear in such journals as Best New Poets 2012, Lumina, Rhino, Court Green, and
Free State Review. She has been an Arts & Letters Poetry Prize finalist,
received an honorable mention in So to Speak's 2012 Poetry Contest, as well as
a Pushcart nomination by Rattle.
Meg Day, selected for Best New Poets
of 2013, is a 2013 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry and the
author of Last Psalm at Sea Level, winner of the Barrow Street Press
Poetry Prize (forthcoming 2014), When All You Have Is a Hammer (winner
of the 2012 Gertrude Press Chapbook Contest) and We Can’t Read This (winner
of the 2013 Gazing Grain Chapbook Contest). A 2012 AWP Intro Journals Award
Winner, she has also received awards and fellowships from the Lambda Literary
Foundation, Hedgebrook, Squaw Valley Writers, the Taft-Nicholson Center for
Environmental Humanities, and the International Queer Arts Festival. Meg is currently
a PhD candidate, Steffensen-Cannon Fellow, & Point Foundation Scholar in
Poetry & Disability Poetics at the University of Utah. www.megday.com
Mary Stone Dockery is the author of One Last Cigarette and Mythology of Touch, and two chapbooks, Blink Finch
and Aching Buttons. Her
poetry and prose have appeared in many fine journals, including Mid-American
Review, Gargoyle, South Dakota Review, Arts & Letters.
Sara Henning is the author of A Sweeter Water (Lavender Ink,
2013), as well as a chapbook, To Speak of Dahlias (Finishing
Line Press, 2012). Her poetry, fiction, interviews and book reviews
have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Willow Springs, Bombay Gin and
the Crab Orchard Review. Currently
a doctoral student in English and Creative Writing at the University of South
Dakota, she serves as Managing Editor for The
South Dakota Review.
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