The Maynard
Fall 2019

Author Biographies

Katie Berger

Katie Berger holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama and lives in Nebraska. She is the author of two chapbooks: Swans (2016) and Time Travel: Theory and Practice (2013), both published by Dancing Girl Press. Other works appear in Cherry Tree, Otoliths, and Thimble Literary Magazine.

Jody Burke-Kaiser

Jody Burke-Kaiser has an MA in literature from Boston College, and an MSN in midwifery from Marquette University. Twice a Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has appeared in Panopoly, The Louisville Review, Rhino, Gingerbread House, and many other journals. She lives and writes in Chicago.

Lauren Camp

Lauren Camp is the author of four books of poetry. Her third, One Hundred Hungers (Tupelo Press, 2016), won the Dorset Prize and was a finalist for the Arab American Book Award and the Housatonic Book Award. Lauren’s poems have appeared in BOATT, Crazyhorse, DIAGRAM, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. www.laurencamp.com

Robert Carr

Robert Carr is the author of the full-length collection The Unbuttoned Eye (3: A Taos Press, 2019) and the chapbook Amaranth (Indolent Books, 2016). Robert is poetry editor with Indolent Books and an editor for the anthology Bodies and Scars by Ghana Writes Literary Group (OkadaBooks, 2019). www.robertcarr.org

Susana H. Case

Susana H. Case is the author of seven books. Drugstore Blue (Five Oaks Press, 2017) won an IPPY Award. Also the author of five chapbooks, including Manual of Practical Sexual Advice (Kattywompus Press, 2011), Case is a professor and program coordinator at the New York Institute of Technology. susanahcase.com

Bridget Gage-Dixon

Bridget Gage-Dixon has had a life-long love affair with poetry that began with rewriting nursery rhymes and fairytales. She progressed to having her poems included in Poet Lore, Inkwell, The Cortland Review, and several other journals. She lives in New Jersey where she teaches and dotes on her grandchildren.

Maryka Gillis

Maryka Gillis spends part of the year working on trails, part of the year bartending, and the whole year writing poetry. She graduated from Colorado College’s creative writing program and currently lives in northern New Hampshire.

Jaimie Gusman

Jaimie Gusman is a poet, potter, and teacher in Ka‘a‘awa, Hawai‘i. Her first book, Anyjar, was published in September 2017 (Black Radish Books). She is a recipient of the Rita Dove Poetry Award (2015) and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She will be taking over editorship of TinFish Press in 2020.

Max Heinegg

Max Heinegg is an English teacher, a singer-songwriter, and a pro brewer. His poems have been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize, and have been a finalist for the poetry prizes of Crab Creek Review, december magazine, Cutthroat, and Asheville Poetry Review.

Mark Gregory Lopez

Mark Gregory Lopez was born and raised in a city by the sea. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, receiving a BA in English and a BJ in journalism. He’s written for Weekly Alibi and Pyragraph. He is currently an MFA poetry candidate at Columbia University.

David Morgan O'Connor

David Morgan O'Connor is from the small village Grand Bend on Lake Huron. After many nomadic years, he is based in Dublin, where a short story collection progresses. He contributes monthly to The Review Review and NewPages. His writing has appeared in Barcelona Metropolitan, Collective Exile, and Across the Margin.

Isabelle Ortner

Isabelle Ortner is a student of contemporary studies at University of King’s College Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she navigates her interests in literature, post-colonial thought, and social justice. Through her poetry, she aspires to bridge the gap between essays and poetry to connect sociopolitical issues and ideas with lyricism.

Savannah Pulfer

Savannah Pulfer is a cook by trade, a physicist by schooling, and a poet by, well, you know... shit happens. They’re a white settler living and working on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the ^wməθk^wəýəm (Musqueam), skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səĺíĺwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Meredith Quartermain

Meredith Quartermain’s Vancouver Walking (NeWest Press, 2005), won a BC Book Award for poetry, and Nightmarker (NeWest, 2008) was a finalist for a Vancouver Book Award. Other books include Recipes from the Red Planet (Book*hug, 2011), finalist for a BC Book Award in fiction and U Girl: a novel (Talonbooks, 2016).

Bruce Robinson

Bruce Robinson’s work/play has appeared over the years in Fjords Review, Pleiades, and in the College English Association collection, This Watery World: Humans and the Sea (2007). Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Blueline, Connecticut River Review, Fourth River, and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change.

Justin Runge

Justin Runge is the author of Hum Decode (Greying Ghost Press, 2014) and Plainsight (New Michigan Press, 2012). His criticism has been featured by Black Warrior Review and Pleiades, and his poetry has been published in Cincinnati Review, Poetry Northwest, Sycamore Review, and other journals.

Angeline Schellenberg

Angeline Schellenberg’s Tell Them It Was Mozart (Brick Books, 2016) won three Manitoba Book Awards. In 2019, she is launching three chapbooks published by Dancing Girl Press, Kalamalka Press, and JackPine Press. Her second full-length collection Fields of Light and Stone is forthcoming from University of Alberta Press in 2020.

Matthew Schmidt

Matthew Schmidt completed his PhD at the University of Southern Mississippi and his MFA at the University of Arizona. His poems have been published in Hobart, Pleiades, The Seattle Review, Territory, and elsewhere. He is an associate poetry editor at Fairy Tale Review.

Marjorie Silverman

Marjorie Silverman is an emerging writer whose work has been published in the online poetry journals Bywords and Montréal Writes. She is currently working on a full-length collection of poetry. Marjorie is also a professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Ottawa.

Cristalle Smith

Cristalle Smith has been published in The Gordian Review, Paper Shell, Sky Island Journal, and Twyckenham Notes. Cristalle was longlisted for Room Magazine’s 2018 Poetry Contest. She is an MFA candidate at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in creative writing and studies under Matt Rader.

Liam Strong

Liam Strong is a transgender-non-binary writer and the editor-in-chief of NMC Magazine, Northwestern Michigan College’s creative arts magazine. You can find their works in Dunes Review, Clementine Unbound, Impossible Archetype, and Painted Cave.

Edward Wells

Edward Wells recently received an MFA in writing from Otis College of Art and Design. They are genuinely enamored with the idea of connection and the cool air that descends into a desert along with dusk. (None of this is the official opinion or statement of any organization.)

John Sibley Williams

John Sibley Williams is the author of As One Fire Consumes Another (The 2018 Orison Poetry Prize), Skin Memory (The Backwaters Prize in Poetry, 2018), and Summon (2019 JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize). A nineteen-time Pushcart nominee, John edits The Inflectionist Review, teaches for Literary Arts, and is a poetry agent.

Landa wo

Landa wo is a poet from Angola, Cabinda and France. His work has previously appeared in Nashville Review, Poetry New Zealand, Raleigh Review, and Salt Hill Journal, among other publications, and has been anthologised in Writing Home: The ‘New Irish’ Poets, Dedalus Press 2019.

Janet Youngdahl

Janet Youngdahl’s writing has appeared in The Malahat Review, The Antigonish Review, Red Wolf Journal, and Light —Journal of Photography and Poetry. She teaches singing, conducting, and medieval music history on traditional and ancestral Blackfoot territory at the University of Lethbridge.