Winners of the 2022 Moonstone Chapbook Contest

Sunday, August 27 @ 2pm

Virtual on Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUucumgqT4pGtIQzeCL8bdb_uJmWhjgKSwh

Chad Frame (winning chapbook Smoking Shelter) is the author of Little Black Book (2022, nominated for the Lambda Literary Award, and a chapbook, Cryptid. He is Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County, PA, the Poetry Editor of Ovunque Siamo, a founding member of the No River Twice poetry/improv performance troupe, and Founder of the Caesura Poetry Festival and Retreat. His work appears in Rattle, Pedestal, Barrelhouse, Rust+Moth, and elsewhere, on iTunes from the Library of Congress, and was sent to the moon as part of the Lunar Codex Project.

Leonard Kress (winning chapbook Poppy Seeds) author of Living in the Candy Store and Other Poems, Walk Like Bo Diddley, The Orpheus Complex, Sappho’s Apples Thirteens, Braids & Other Sestinas, and The Centralia Mine Fire. His poetry, fiction, non-fiction, reviews, and translations have appeared in Missouri Review, Massachusetts Review, Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, and Harvard Review. He has received grants in playwriting and poetry from the Ohio Arts Council and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, studied religion at Temple University, Poetry at Columbia University, and Polish at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, He currently teaches religion, philosophy, and English at Owens Community College.

Alina Macneal (winning chapbook After a War) is a Philadelphia-based educator/writer/poet/translator/architect and co-host of the Fourth Wednesday Moonstone poetry series at Fergie’s.  Her poems have appeared in Apiary, Poems for the Writing, The World to Come, and Poetry 24.  In 2015 she was a finalist for the Raynes poetry prize.  She has been a member of the faculty at Drexel University for over 20 years.  Since the last presidential election Alina has been translating the 1930’s political poems of the Polish poet, Julian Tuwim.  As Mark Twain said, History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

Karin Molde (author of Self-Portrait with Sheep Skull), feels at home in Ireland and Germany. She teaches languages and has published in magazines like Honest Ulsterman, Light Journal, The Blue Nib, Skylight 47, and in anthologies, e.g. Everything that can happen. (Emma Press, 2019), Identity (Fly on the Wall, 2020), Remembering Toni Morrison (Moonstone Press, 2020), “New Beginnings” (Renard Press, 2021), and Ukraine War Special Edition (Poetica Review, 2022).

John Timpane (winning chapbook Buck in the Piano Room) is former Commentary Page Editor (1997-2008) and Books Editor (2014-2020) for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philly.com. His work has appeared in Sequoia, The Fox Chase Review, Apiary, Cleaver, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Rathalla Review, Per Contra, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Vocabula Review, Wild River Review, and elsewhere. Among his books is a chapbook, Burning Bush (Judith Fitzgerald/Cranberry Tree, 2010). He is the spouse of Maria-Christina Keller. They live in New Jersey.

Nathalie Anderson, Judge of the 2022 Moonstone Chapbook Contest, is author of Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Stain, Held and Firmly Bound.  Her new book, Rough, is forthcoming in 2024. Anderson’s poems have appeared in such journals as Atlanta Review, DoubleTake, Natural Bridge, The New Yorker, Nimrod, and Plume.  She manages the list-serv Lit-Philly, was Pew Fellow, she has recently retired from Swarthmore College, where she taught for 39 years, and served as Director of the Program in Creative Writing.

Reading hosted by the chapbook contest’s annual judge, Nathalie Anderson. 

Their prize-winning chapbooks are all available for purchase on our website.