| Janet Winans grew up in San Francisco and is a graduate of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, and the M.F.A. Program for writers at Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, North Carolina. She was married to Woodie Winans and has three children, Jennifer, Stephan and Jessica. She is the author of three chapbooks, Our Abidance, If Summer Freezes, and Of Dreams and Bones. She has taught at Central Arizona College, Arizona Western College, and as an Artist-in-Residence with the Arizona Commission on the Arts and Young Audiences of Santa Cruz County. She lives in Patagonia, Arizona.
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The child of newspaper editors, with roots in Cincinnati, Ohio, Terry Adams grew up in newsrooms and Catholic grammar schools. He earned an M.A. in Creative Writing and Literature at Miami Univeristy, Ohio. During the Vietnman War era, he became Top Secret Control Officer at the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command Headquarters, where he had the opportunity to contemplate his personal role in the destruction of civilization. He left the services as a conscientious objector in 1972.
Terry lives with his wife in La Honda, California, among the giant redwoods in Ken Kesey's former house. For many years, he has been active in the local poetry community, including the Waverly Writers of Palo Alto, the Not Yet Dead Poet's Society of Redwood City, and the La Honda writer's group. His poems have appeared in Bellowoing Ark, College English, Ironwood, Poetry, The Sun, Witness, and other journals.
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In 1974, Lee Sharkey bought a hundred-year-old Pearl platen press, taught herself to set type and print, and produced over the course of a long Maine winter her first poetry chapbook. Over the next four years, under the imprint South Solon Press, she printed two more chapbooks of her own poetry, portfolios of other poets’ work, and ephemera such as poems on paper lunch bags.
Since then, she has continued to work both on and off the grid as a writer and an editor. Her publications include two other full-length volumes, Farmwife (Puckerbrush Press, 1977) and To A Vanished World (Puckerbrush, 1995), a poem sequence in response to Roman Vishniac’s photographs of Eastern European Jewry in the years just preceding the Nazi Holocaust. She is the recipient of the 2010 Maine Arts Commission's Individual Artist Fellowship in Literary Arts and the 1997 Rainmaker Award in Poetry, judged by Carolyn Forché. Recent poems have appeared in Green Mountains Review, Margie, Nimrod, The Pinch, and Prairie Schooner, among other journals. Since 2003 she has co-edited The Beloit Poetry Journal, one of the country’s oldest and most respected poetry journals.
Lee lives in the woods outside of Farmington, Maine, with her husband, Al Bersbach, and stands in the weekly Women in Black peace vigil in front of the Farmington post office.
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Henry Braun was born in Olean, New York in 1930 and grew up in Buffalo. After graduating from Brandeis University, where he studied with Claude Vigee and J.V. Cunningham, he spent a year in France on a Fulbright, and then went to Boston University, where he participated in Robert Lowell's workshop. In the 1960s he organized poetry read-ins against the war in Vietnam and was convicted in a Federal court of tax evasion. His war tax dollars were donated to a veterans hospital and to public schools in Philadelphia. As an organizer of a draft card turn-in at the Justice Department he was an unindicted co-conspirator at the Boston 5 trial.
Most of his career as a teacher of literature and creative writing was at Temple University, including a year at Temple’s branch campus in Japan. He has served as coordinator and host of the Poetry Center of the YM-YWHA in Philadelphia. In 1968 his first book of poems, The Vergil Woods, was published by Atheneum. His work has appeared in many magazines, including Poetry, The Nation, The Massachusetts Review, American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Colorado Review, and in several anthologies. He is presently a Contributing Editor for the American Poetry Review. His book, Loyalty, New and Selected Poems, is the first offering of Off the Grid Press, and is now available (see sidebar). He lives with his wife, the artist and family therapist Joan Braun, off the grid in Weld, Maine.
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