Terre Haute bios
Joyce Brinkman, former Poet Laureate of Indiana, lives in Zionsville, with her husband
and a sweet cat. Her printed works include two collaborative books, Rivers, Rails and
Runways and Airmail from the Airpoets. She has received fellowships and grants from the
Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, the Indianapolis Arts Council, and the Indiana Arts
Commission. Her latest book is the multi-lingual, international collaboration, Seasons of
Sharing.
George Kalamaras, current Poet Laureate of Indiana, is the author of fourteen books of
poetry, seven of which are full-length, including Kingdom of Throat-Stuck Luck, winner
of the Elixir Press Poetry Prize (2011). He has received fellowships from the National
Endowment for the Arts and the Indiana Arts Commission. He is Professor of English at
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he has taught since 1990.
Nancy Chen Long is the author of the chapbook Clouds as Inkblots for the War Prone
(Red Bird Chapbooks, 2013). You’ll find her recent and forthcoming work in Bat City
Review, DIAGRAM, Pleiades, Superstition Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Brown
County and works in the Research Technologies division of Indiana University in
Bloomington.
Doug Martin is a past Theodore Morrison Scholar in Poetry at Breadloaf and has
published poetry in the New York Quarterly and other publications. He holds a Ph.D. in
Literary Prosody. He has authored the nonfiction book, Hoosier School Heist, and the
scholarly work, Walt Whitman’s Mimetic Prosody. He lives in Universal, Indiana.
Nancy Pulley is a graduate of Indiana Central College—now the University of
Indianapolis. She has published a book of poetry, Warren Avenue (Chatterhouse Press,
2014), as well as two chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in The Flying
Island, Passages North, The Sycamore Review, and other journals, and she has received
an Indiana Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant.
Jack Ramey’s collections of poetry include his recently released Eavesdropping in
Plato’s Café, The Future Past, and Death Sings in the Choir of Light. His new historical
novel, Turtle Island: A Dream of Peace, tells the epic story of the dramatic founding of
the Iroquois League of Peace. He is an English professor at Indiana University Southeast
and lives in Madison, Indiana.
Katerina Tsiopos lives in Columbus, Indiana, where she is Associate Professor and
director of the English program at IUPUC. She is the author of Our Slow Migration
North (Finishing Line Press) and has been published by ART/LIFE, River Styx, and the
Indiana Historical Society. She has read her work in hundreds of local, national, and
international venues, including Au Chat Noir in Paris, France (2014).