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Kathryn Stripling Byer
(Poet Laureate Award, Final Judge)
Kathryn Stripling Byer is the Poet Laureate of the State of North Carolina.
Mark Doty
(Poet Laureate Award, Preliminary Judge)
Mark Doty is the author of eight books of poems, most recently Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems,
published by HarperCollins in 2008. His work has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the
T.S. Eliot Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, a Whiting Writers Award, and other acknowledgements.
He teaches in the graduate creative writing program at the University of Houston.
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Dick Allen
(Thomas H. McDill Award)
Dick Allen's seventh poetry collection is Present Vanishing: Poems (Sarabande Books, 2008).
His previous collections, The Day Before: New Poems and Ode to the Cold War: Poems New
and Selected, were also published by Sarabande. Allen's many national awards include a Pushcart
Prize, NEA and Ingram Merrill Poetry Writing Fellowships, and inclusion in five editions of The Best
American Poetry volumes. He lives in Connecticut, near a Zen lake.
Denise Duhamel
(Poetry of Courage Award)
Denise Duhamel's most recent books are Ka-Ching! (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009),
Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005), Mille et un Sentiments (Firewheel, 2005);
Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001); The Star-Spangled Banner
(Southern Illinois University Press, 1999); and Kinky (Orchises Press, 1997). A bilingual
edition of her poems, Afortunada de mí (Lucky Me), translated into Spanish by Dagmar
Buchholz and David Gonzalez, came out in 2008 with Bartleby Editores (Madrid).
Alice Frampton
(Lyman Haiku Award)
Alice Frampton's haiku have been published in: The Heron's Nest, Frogpond, Modern
Haiku, The Haiku Canada Newsletter [now Review], Raw NerVZ, the Redmoon
Anthologies, the Snapshot Calendar Contest, Carpe Diem, A New Resonance 3: Emerging Voices
in English Language Haiku, and Echoes. Currently, she is the pacifi-kana regional coordinator
of Haiku Canada, is an associate editor for The Heron's Nest, teaches haiku to elementary school
children, and lives in Washington State.
Laura Kasischke
(Poetry of Love Award)
Laura Kasischke has published seven collections of poetry and four novels. She has been the recipient
of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches at the University of Michigan
and lives in Chelsea, Michigan.
Jarret Keene
(Katherine Kennedy McIntyre Light Verse Award)
Jarret Keene was born in 1973. He earned his Ph.D. in creative writing from the Florida State University,
and is the author/editor of several books, including the poetry collections Monster Fashion
(Manic D Press, 2002) and A Boy's Guide to Arson (Zeitgeist Press, 2008). Jarret is currently editing
a book of post-apocalyptic fiction (for the University of Nevada Press) tentatively titled Doom Town:
Tales of Near-future Las Vegas. His black-metal band Dead Neon is slated to release its debut EP in the
summer of 2009.
Evie Shockley
(Joanna Catherine Scott Award)
Evie Shockley is the author of a half-red sea and a chapbook, The Gorgon Goddess, both with
Carolina Wren Press. Her poetry appears widely in journals and anthologies, recently including PMS:
poemmemoirstory, The Southern Review, and The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South. Shockley
is a Cave Canem graduate fellow. She teaches African American literature and creative writing at Rutgers
University, New Brunswick.
Ryan G. Van Cleave
(Mary Ruffin Poole American Heritage Award)
Ryan G. Van Cleave was the 2007-2008 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence at George Washington University.
He has taught creative writing at Clemson, Florida State, UW-Green Bay, and UW-Madison, as well as at prisons,
community centers, and urban at-risk youth facilities. He creates educational books and films with New Realm
Productions; he also works as a freelance writer, editor, and consultant. He serves as Director of C&R Press,
a non-profit literary organization.
April Halprin Wayland
(Caldwell Nixon Jr. Award; poems for children 2-12)
April has been a teacher, a corporate manager, a fiddle player, and a walnut farmer, but she has always been
a writer. An award-winning poet, she is the author of Girl Coming In For a Landing-an illustrated novel
in poems, as well as several picture books. Her poems have been featured in Cricket Magazine and
many anthologies; her forthcoming picture book is New Year at the Pier-a Rosh Hashanah Story. She has
been an instructor with the Writers' Program of UCLA Extension for over ten years and has spoken at over 400
schools across the USA, England, Italy, Germany, France, and Poland.
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