New Books from Moonstone Press

September 26, 2023 – 7pm Eastern – VIRTUAL

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Beth Bayley is a writer, yoga instructor, and occasional archivist who divides her time between Massachusetts and Singapore. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Evening Street Review, Ghost City Review, Slant, Vox Poetica, and Neologism Poetry Journal, among others.

Jefferson Carter has work in such journals as Carolina Quarterly, Barrow Street, and Rattle.  He published his ninth collection, Get Serious: New and Selected Poems, chosen as a Southwest Best Book of 2013.  Birkenstock Blues, is now available through his website: jeffersoncarterverse.com. He taught writing for 30 years at Pima Community College, the last 18 years as Writing as Department Chair.   Currently, he’s a passionate supporter of Sky Island Alliance, a regionally-based environmental organization.

Flower Conroy is a LGBTQ+ writer, NEA and MacDowell Fellow and former Key West Poet Laureate, Snake Breaking Medusa Disorder was chosen as the winner of the Stevens Manuscript Competition; A Sentimental Hairpin is forthcoming from Tolsun Books. Her poetry will/has appeared in American Poetry Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Michigan Quarterly Review and others.

Marjorie Gowdy writes at home in the Blue Ridge mountains, she has three chapbooks, her poetry has been published in a number of journals, including the international Friends Journal, Artemis, Streetlight, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, and Roanoke Review.

Richard Stimac, author of Bricolage, Of Water and of Stone, and published over thirty poems in Burningword, Clackamas, The Examined Life Journal, Faultline, Havik, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mikrokosmos, New Plains Review, Novus, Penumbra, Salmon Creek, and Wraparound South. He published flash fiction in BarBar, The Blue Mountain Review, Book of Matches, Bridge Eight, New Feathers, and more.  He is a poetry reader for Ariel Publishing, Clepsydra, and a fiction reader for the Marine Review.

Daniel Williams, recipient of the Robinson Jeffers Poetry Prize, is a long-standing member of Poets’ West, California Federation of Chaparral Poets, Poets & Writers, and the Ina Coolbrith Circle and has poems in Yosemite National Park’s time capsule, a haiku engraved on MAVEN, the Mar’s orbiter, and has been nominated for Pushcart Prize in poetry. His poem, Water Creatures in Yosemite Fall, was awarded first place for poems in the California Federation of Chaparral Poets’ contest for 2022.

Theresa Wyatt, a Buffalo native, is a retired teacher. She is the author of Hurled Into Gettysburg, and her work has appeared in New Flash Fiction Review, Spillway, Snapdragon, steel bellow, The Ekphrastic Review, The Healing Muse, The Phare, W.W. Norton’s New Micro, and elsewhere. She credits her artistic parents, participation in the Siena, Italy Program during college, and teaching in the NYS prison system and abroad – as the major influences on her life.