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Samantha Barrow is director of the Humanities in Medicine at the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at The City College of New York, and teaching in the Program of Narrative Medicine at Columbia. Spoken word poet, performance artist and educator. Author of ‘GRIT’, ‘tender membrane’, ‘Jelly’ and ‘Chap’. Her poetry, prose, reviews and interviews have been published in places such as Off Our Backs, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia City Paper, Lesbian Nation and Feminist Review.

Lisa Grunberger is the author of three books: Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love, Loss and the Lotus Position (Harper Collins, 2009) and two poetry books: Born Knowing (Finishing Line Press) and I am dirty (Moonstone Press, First Prize Winner). A Pushcart nominee and Temple University Professor, her work has appeared in a wide variety of publications including The New York Times, Hanging Loose Press, Crab Orchard Review, Krytyka Literacka and The Mom Egg Review.   She teaches Narrative Medicine and Yoga and Writing at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine.  Her play about motherhood, infertility, and assisted reproductive technologies, Almost Pregnant, is currently under artistic development at the Squeaky Bicycle Theatre company in NYC.  When she’s not being a mom, a professor and a poet, she teaches Yoga and Writing Workshops at The Healing Arts Center in Philadelphia.

Jane Ellen Ibur, Poet Laureate of St Louis, Missouri, an established arts educator, received a Visionary Award for Outstanding Arts Educator; recognized as a Warrior Poet from Word in Motion; two awards from the Missouri Scholar’s Academy, A World of Difference Award from the Anti-Defamation League. Honored with an Author Recognition Award by the Missouri Center for the Book, she is published in literary journals and anthologies since 1972 garnering numerous additional awards. She is the author of Both Wings Flappin’, Still Not Flyin’ and The Little Mrs./Misses both published by PenUltimate Press.  For further details, visit Ibur’s Wikipedia page.

Aaren Perry, Host – Open Reading Follows