Editor Biographies
Anita M. Barnard has co-edited three poetry anthologies, most recently Above Us Only Sky, as Incarnate Muse Press, and edited the anthology Sense of Touch (Entangled Muse). Her poetry has recently appeared in
Illya’s Honey,
Borderlands,
and the
2008 Texas Poetry Calendar.
She was a finalist in
New Millennium Writings’
18th Consecutive Contest. She was a finalist for the 2007 Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award; the selected poem will appear in the Fall/Winter issue of
The Comstock Review. Her poem Red was nominated for the 2008 Pushcart Prize.
Anita is also a visual artist, working in glass, cement, paint, mosaic and collage. Two of her collages were
recently shown in Bremen, Germany then traveled to New Zealand
where they appeared in four gallery shows in 2007. She lives in Fort Worth and spends weekends tending her rural land in NE Texas where she hopes to someday have a retreat for writers and artists. Her still-evolving website is
13moonsgrove.com.
Michelle Rhea has co-edited 3 poetry anthologies, edited 2 chapbooks of her own poetry, and been published in numerous literary magazines, including: The Wormwood Review, The Quarterly, and Byline. In addition to writing, Michelle is a photographer who has been exhibiting in art galleries since 2002, including two solo exhibits. She sometimes combines her photos with her poetry and was most recently in the Paintings and Poems exhibit at
Artamo Gallery.
Some of her work can be seen at
PBase.com.
She is also the executive producer of an upcoming documentary on Iraq,
The Road to Fallujah.
Michelle lives in Santa Barbara with her 12 year old son who is an award winning photographer. She has just begun research for a documentary film about the abuses of “zero tolerance” policies in the schools. |
