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Peter Schneider
Peter Schneider is a poet and psychotherapist. Retired from his therapy practice, he now splits his time between Brooklyn, NY. and Rochester, Vt. His poems have appeared in AMP: The Journal of Digital Literature (Hofstra Univ.); The Buddhist Poetry Review; Mobius: The Journal of Social Change; The Shot-glass Journal; Kairos; Better Than Starbucks; Big Windows Review; Amethyst Review; Rat’s Ass Review; Blueline Magazine; Cape Rock Poetry Review and in the broadside collection, A Midnight Snack. His debut collection, The Map is Not the Territory was published by Anaphora Literary Press in April 2018. His second book, In the Field of Unintended Consequences, has just been published by PB&J Books (2023). His MFA is from Columbia University and his Ph.D. is in clinical psychology from New York University.
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Bruce Kawin
Bruce Kawin was born in Los Angeles and lives in Boulder. At Columbia, where he majored in English and Comparative Literature, he interviewed writers on his FM radio show and worked on Columbia Review, one year as editor. At Cornell, he earned an MFA in Creative Writing with a minor in Filmmaking along with a Ph.D. in Modern British and American Literature with a minor in Film Aesthetics. He taught Modern Literature and Film History at Wells College, UC Riverside, UC Santa Cruz, and, for forty years, the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has written three books about Faulkner’s screenwriting (one of them the first to present complete screenplays in unedited facsimiles), two film textbooks, three books of narrative theory (one on repetition, one on first-person narration in movies, and one on reflexivity and the ineffable), a book on the horror film, a collection of his film essays and interviews, two poetry chapbooks (Slides, printed by hand by David Sykes, Angelfish Press, and Starting Over, printed by hand by the late Les Gottesman, Omerta Publications), and one book of poems (Love If We Can Stand It, published by Thames River Press). He got one poem in The Paris Review a long time ago. FBI 1970 is his first book of fiction.
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Janet Kaplan
Janet Kaplan's poetry books are Ecotones (2022, shortlisted for the Sexton Prize and published by The Black Spring Press Group Ltd., London); Dreamlife of a Philanthropist (2011 Sandeen Prizewinner from the University of Notre Dame Press); The Glazier’s Country (2003 Poets Out Loud Prizewinner from Fordham University Press); and The Groundnote (1998, Alice James Books). Her honors include grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Bronx Council on the Arts, and fellowships and residencies from Yaddo, the VCCA, the Ucross Foundation, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has appeared in dozens of literary journals online and in print and in the anthologies An Introduction to the Prose Poem, Firewheel Editions, 2007; Lit from Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James, Alice James Books, 2012; and Like Light: 25 Years of Poetry & Prose by Bright Hill Poets & Writers, 2017. She has served as Poet in Residence at Fordham University and as a member of the creative writing faculty at Hofstra University, where she edited the digital literary magazine AMP.