Susan Gerardi Bello lives with her husband and son in Bucks County, PA. She is a member of the U.S. 1 Poets Cooperative in Princeton, NJ, and, for three years, served as selecting editor for their journal U.S. 1 Worksheets. She currently co-hosts with Kathleen Mullholland the Bucks County Bards monthly poetry series at The Newtown Library Company. She has been published in numerous journals in print and online, including Mom Egg Review, New Verse News, Patterson Literary Review, and Schuylkill Valley Journal. Susan’s first full-length poetry manuscript “Through the Oak Tree” is under contract with Kelsay Books.
Kathleen Mulholland writes to understand her place in this world. Under the guidance of Dr. Christopher Bursk, she placed runner-up four times in the Bucks County Poet Laureate search. She’s been published in The Bucks County Writer, MadPoets Review, and US1 Worksheets. She won an honorable mention in the Milton Dorfman Poetry Prize (2008), and won the 2016 Bucks County Muse Award. Kathleen founded/hosts the Newtown Library Poetry Series. She considers herself blessed to have so many talented writers in the community who inspire and shape her poetry.
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