Poet and playwright Martin Jude Farawell is the author of Odd Boy and Genesis: A Sequence of Poems.” His work has appeared in a wide range of journals and anthologies, and his plays have been performed off-off-Broadway and by regional, college and community theaters from South Africa to Los Angeles. He   directs the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival.

Ona Gritz’s poetry collection Geode was a finalist for the 2013 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. Together with her husband Daniel Simpson, she is co-author of Border Songs: A Conversation in Poems and co-editor of More Challenges For the Delusional. Ona’s poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Catamaran Literary Reader, Bellevue Literary Review, Seneca Review, and elsewhere.

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