GAILMARIE PAHMEIER teaches creative writing at the University of Nevada and in the MFA Program at Sierra Nevada University. Widely published, she's the author of three chapbooks and three full-length collections...

DON WELCH (1932-2016) was a Nebraska native and the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Dead Horse Table (1975), The Rarer Game (1980), A Brief History of Feathers (1996), Inklings:...

MARK SANDERS is a Nebraska native, born in Creighton and raised on the eastern rim of the Sandhills at Ord. He has taught at schools and colleges in Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, Idaho, and Texas. Among...

BARBARA SCHMITZ is Emeritus Instructor of English at Northeast College where she taught writing and literature for thirty years and founded the Visiting Writers Series. Her latest books are What Bob...

AMY PLETTNER holds an MFA from the University of Nebraska. She lives and works on a tall grass prairie in southeast Nebraska where she has learned to wrangle snakes, wasps, and small mammals. Much of her...

GILBERT VAUGHAN, award-winning Professor of English, taught Language and Literature for thirty-four years at Wayne State College before retiring in 1999. His teaching specialties included Greek drama and...

TOM C. HUNLEY is the author of eight full-length poetry collections, eight chapbooks, and two textbooks. He also wrote and co-directed You’re Not Alone, a short film produced by Forerunner TV., Inc.,...

JANET JOYNER grew up in Marion, South Carolina. The town sits in a region of midland and coastal plains crisscrossed by rivers and streams. These rivers, many still known by the names of natives, were...

WILLIAM KLOEFKORN (1932-2011) was named the Nebraska State Poet by proclamation of the Unicameral in 1982. In addition to his many publications and honors, he also won first-place in the 1978 Nebraska...

AE STUEVE was born in Illinois and grew up in Iowa on a steady diet of comic books, video games, and oddly enough, classic literature. His published work runs the gamut from comics book scripts for Bluewater...

RICHARD DUGGIN was born and raised in New England and now lives  in Omaha, Nebraska, where he has taught fiction writing at the University of Nebraska at Omaha for more than forty-five years. His published...

MICHAEL SKAU was born and raised on the South side of Chicago. He earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in English at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), where his dissertation was on Themes and...