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Susan Settlemyre Williams, Blackbird associate
literary editor, holds an MFA in poetry from VCU. Her poems have
been published or are forthcoming in River City, Shenandoah, Barrow
Street, The Cream City Review, DIAGRAM, storySouth, and other journals.
She has also published book reviews, both in Review Revue and regularly
in Blackbird. Her book-length manuscript Ashes in
Midair has been
a finalist in several recent competitions. She is retired from
the practice of real estate law.
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Linda Bierds’s seventh book of poetry, First
Hand, was published in 2005 by Putnam. Her other six volumes
include The Seconds (Putnam, 2001); The Profile
Makers (1997), The Ghost Trio (1994), Heart
and Perimeter (1991), and The Stillness, the Dancing (1988),
all from Henry Holt; and Flights of the Harvest-Mare (Ahsahta,
1985). Her prizes include the PEN/West Poetry Award and the Washington
State Governor’s Writers Award (both for The Profile
Makers), two grants from the National Endowment for the
Arts, four Pushcart Prizes, the Consuelo Ford Award from the
Poetry Society of America, a 1995 Notable Book Selection from
the American Library Association (for The Ghost Trio),
and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Artist
Trust Foundation of Washington, and the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation. In 1998 she was named a Fellow of the John
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Her poems appear in
such journals as The Atlantic Monthly, FIELD, Gulf
Coast, The Journal, The Kenyon Review, New
England Review, The New Yorker, TriQuarterly,
and The Virginia Quarterly Review, which awarded her
the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry in 2004. She is Byron
W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University
of Washington. Photo by Mary Levin
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Victoria Chang’s first book of poetry, Circle,
won the Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry (Southern Illinois
University, 2005). Her poems have been published or are forthcoming
in Best American Poetry 2005, The Nation, The
New Republic, Poetry, Threepenny Review, The
Kenyon Review, New England Review, Slate,
and others. She edited the anthology Asian American Poetry:
The Next Generation (University of Illinois, 2004) and resides
in Los Angeles, where she is completing the PhD Program in Literature
and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. Photo by Todd Terlecki
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