The Ghazal Page 2010
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These brief biographies show the variety of backgrounds and interests of the poets published on The Ghazal Page. Note also the links to poets' Web sites, blogs, and other locations of interest. I recommend following the links in the bios. Publishing biographical information is the poet's choice.
If you are an editor or publisher who wants to contact one of the poets, please email me, and I will put you in touch. (I'm not posting poets' email addresses out of concern they would attract spambots.)
Tabitha Albright is a writer, single mom and student at The Ohio State University. She lives the bohemian lifestyle of her inspirations who came before her: Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Gertrude Stein and Walt Whitman — above all others, Whitman. Tabitha spends her days writing, going to school, and working for a nonprofit organization. Her nights are spent with her kids and her revisions. Tabitha's poetry has been published in The Cornfield Review for 4 consecutive years. . She is currently developing an epistolary work titled Call Me Tabs: Memoir of a Marine Corps Wife that incorporates nonfiction with poetry to paint a more accurate portrait for the reader.
First half of my life bracketed by the Berlin Wall.
Briefly attended UCD NUI (Politics and Economics)
A chance acquaintance led me to start writing again.
Like to approach poetry my way.
Sibel Catana is a psychologist and an artist. She is obsessed with the
works of John Fowles, Salvador Dali, Rubens and Tchaikovsky. Her work
was published in Sonetto Poesia, Ascent Aspirations, Milton
Keynes and in the Spring 2010 Anthology of
Midwest Literary Magazine.
Adam McAlpine Clark is a writer currently living and teaching in Romania, where he is working on a novel, studying Romanian and beginning to learn beekeeping.
Doug Cox got born and raised in Fresno, California. His most recent work has appeared in Chiron Review, Crab Orchard Review, Eclipse, New Madrid, and Suss.
R. K. Das, M. Sc. Physics-Electronics (Banaras Hindu University), B. Ed. (Univ. of Mumbai)
David Quentin Dauthier is an American who has lived in the People's Republic of China since 1999. He teaches English composition and literature at the High School affiliated to Beijing Normal University and at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences where, in addition to Academic Writing, he tutors Classical Latin.
Colin Flanigan's work has been published in Phoebe, Frantic Egg, and Connections. He has served as a reader for the Washington Prize for poetry.
Caroline Gill lives in Swansea (Wales, UK) home town of the poet, Dylan Thomas. Caroline took her degree in Classical Studies, a subject she went on to teach. She lives with her husband David, an archaeologist. Many of her poems are shaped by her love of ancient history and the natural world. Caroline won first prize (with a sestina) in the general section of the international Petra Kenney Poetry Competition in 2007. Her poems have appeared in anthologies and in small press/online magazines in the UK, USA, Romania and India. Caroline's poem, 'Preseli Blue', featured on the BBC Poetry Please programme in 2008 from the Guardian Hay Festival. Caroline's Tercet Ghazal, 'The Ceilidh House', was included in the anthology, By the Winter Fires (Indigo Dreams Press, 2009).
There are two Web sites for Caroline: One, Caroline Gill, includes poetry and much else; the other, Caroline at Coastcard, is her blog.
Taylor Graham is a volunteer search-and-rescue dog handler in California. Her poems appear widely in small and university press. Her book, The Downstairs Dance Floor, was awarded the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize. She's a finalist in this year's Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange.
Akhil Katyal is a writer currently based in London where he is finishing his doctoral studies. Some of his poems have been published in Muse India in Delhi, Chay Magazine in Pakistan, Westwind in Los Angeles and in Hearting: An Anthology of Indian Love Poetry (forthcoming 2010).
Pushcart Prize nominee Ash Krafton is a speculative fiction writer from the heart of the Pennsylvania coal region. She made her publishing debut in Spring 2009 when her poetry appeared in Poe Little Thing; her work has since appeared in several journals including Numinous: Spiritual Poetry, joyful!, 42 Magazine, and Every Day Poets. Visit her website for news and links to her blog.
Nicola Masciandaro is Associate Professor of English at Brooklyn College, CUNY and a specialist in medieval literature. He is founding editor of Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary, has a blog called The Whim, and reads his poetry at Ghazalville.
The author is Brooklyn-born, still residing in the Marine Park section, where she and her husband have lived for many years. She also enjoys the couple's Berkshire home in Becket, Massachusetts where she hikes and bikes, generally enjoying the cultural ambience and nature. For many years, a Special Education teacher, she embarked on a series of classes at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street "Y." She has published with Tapestries, Us 1 Worksheets, Poetica, and The Ghazal Page. Her first chapbook, Chameleon was published in 2008 by Finishing Line Press, and a second, later this year. Also a serious amateur musician, she studies and plays as much as possible, sometimes accompanying her husband on his clarinet and always on the look-out for a chance to play with a chamber group.
Esther Greenleaf Mürer lives in Philadelphia. At 72, she considers herself an emerging poet. She first learned about ghazals from her son George, an ethnomusicologist with a particular interest in Persianate cultures. She finds the ghazal a congenial form for using snippets of experience that she doesn't know how to develop. She has been surprised to discover that her youthful immersion in Ogden Nash helps with the tension and surprise of the ghazal rhyme.
Initially NO composes punkgothic songs for guitar and vocals. Her chord choice is edgy and intriguing and her vocals have a wide range. She also performs comedy with her trumpet, dubbed "Hornie". Hornie mimicks things like cows, elephants, horses and circular saws. Initially NO also creates visual art, which is available online. She performs poetry regularly in venues around Melbourne and has poetry published in Platform magazine, Positive words magazine, and Galaxy journal. Her name, Initially NO, has been stamped and approved by the Australian government, it is a compression of her original birth name that had the initials NO.
The Eyck-Berringer Endowed Chair in English, Diane Raptosh has taught literature and creative writing at the College of Idaho for 18 years. She has published three collections of poems, Just West of Now (Guernica Editions, 1992), Labor Songs (Guernica, 1999), and Parents from a Different Alphabet: Prose Poems (Guernica, 2008). She has published widely in journals as The Los Angeles Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Women's Studies Quarterly. She has won three creative writing fellowship competitions sponsored by the Idaho Commission on the Arts. Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in numerous anthologies in the U.S. and Canada.
K. Rogers writes from Raven Ridge, WV and explores the world with poetry.
Elaine G. Schwartz lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her husband, Daniel, and Purr'l the Postmodern Pussy Cat. Her work, best described as a tapestry of place and political imagination, has appeared in numerous publications including the Santa Fe Literary Review, the Harwood Anthology, Poets Against the War On-Line Anthology, and An Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets.
Matthew Stranach teaches technical writing at the College of the North Atlantic-Qatar in Doha, Qatar. He is originally from Fredericton, NB, Canada.
Linda Umans enjoyed a long teaching career in the NYC public schools. She is an ardent traveler and a native of Manhattan where she lives, studies, writes. Recent and upcoming publications include poems in Beauty/Truth : Journal of Ekphrastic Poetry, qarrtsiluni, Waterways, Terrain.org, The Broome Street Review and a piece in Mr. Beller's Neighborhood.
Raza Yaseen received a B.A. in English Writing from the University of Colorado (Denver). He maintains a ghazal blog, The Tree of Voice, and a razal (reduced ghazal) blog, Razalogy. Also, he contributes to ghazalville.