Poet Bios
Timothy Green was born in Rochester, New York. He worked in an mRNA research lab, and as a group home counselor for mentally ill adults, before moving west to serve as editor of the poetry journal RATTLE in 2005. His poems have appeared in many journals, including The Connecticut Review, The Florida Review, Fugue, Mid-American Review, and Nimrod International Journal. Green has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and is winner of the 2006 Phi Kappa Phi award from the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the poet Megan Green. American Fractal (Red Hen, 2009) is his first book-length collection.
Jamey Hecht is the author of four books: Plato's Symposium: Eros and the Human Predicament (Twayne, 1999); a translation, Sophocles' Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus (Wordsworth, 2004); How to Write About Homer (Chelsea House, 2010); and a collection of poems, Limousine, Midnight Blue: Fifty Frames from the Zapruder Film (Red Hen Press, 2009). His poetry, criticism and journalism have appeared in some 30 publications including Black Warrior Review, Tikkun, and ELH. He enjoys acting in Shakespeare productions with the Porters of Hellsgate.
Thea Iberall is a poet, playwright, and scientist. She has a Master's Degree in Writing (USC) and a Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience (U Mass). As a performance poet, Thea represented Los Angeles at the National Poetry Slams. Thea has had over 40 poems published in anthologies and journals, including Rattle, Spillway, New Works Review, Blue Arc West: An Anthology of California Poets (Tebot Bach), poetrydiversity, Peregrine, and The Southern California Anthology. She has a poem in Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust (Time Being Books, 2007). She was a semifinalist in the Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition. She is featured in the documentary GV6 THE ODYSSEY: Poets, Passion & Poetry. Thea has developed a new form of poetry called contextual poetry and her first contextual poetry book The Sanctuary of Artemis is to be published next month by Tebot Bach.
Robert Peake studied poetry at U.C. Berkeley and in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing program at Pacific University, Oregon. His poems have appeared in Askew, North American Review, Rattle and two anthologies of Southern California poetry. Robert writes about poetry on his website.
Carlos Reyes is a noted poet, writer and translator. Of his work Carolyn Kizer has said: “Mr. Reyes is one of our local and national treasures. His poetry is as clear and strong as his social conscience. One is always struck by his sensual and sensory qualities: the touch, taste, feel, color of things, and his ability to capture a mood, a world, in a handful of lines.”
Latest book of poetry: The Book of Shadows; New and Selected Poems (2009) . Other recent books: At the Edge of the Western Wave (2004) A Suitcase Full of Crows (1995) (a Bluestem Prize winner and finalist for 1996 Oregon Book Awards). His books of translations: Poemas de la Isla/Island Poems by Josefina de la Torre (Eastern Washington University Press, 2000). Reyes’ translation of the Obra poética completa (Complete Poetic Works) of the preeminent Ecuadorean poet Jorge Carrera Andrade, was published in 2004 in a bilingual edition in Ecuador. He is the publisher/editor of Trask House Books, Inc. In 2007 he was awarded a Heinrich Boll Fellowship to write on Achill Island, Ireland and in 2008 was awarded the Ethel Fortnter Award from St Andrews College. He was recently the poet-in-Residence in theJoshua Tree National Park. Reyes lives in Portland but travels often to Ireland and is a frequent visitor to Spain and Ecuador.
John Struloeff directs the Creative Writing program at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. His fiction and poetry has appeared recently in The Atlantic Monthly, PN Review, The Southern Review, ZYZZYVA, Prairie Schooner, The Literary Review, Rattle, Open Spaces Magazine, and many other journals and magazines. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and 2009 NEA Literature Fellow, he now lives with his wife and son in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains.
Gail Wronsky’s most recent books are Blue Shadow Behind Everything Dazzling: Poems from India and Bling & Fringe (The L.A. Poems), coauthored with Molly Bendall. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in journals, such as Virginia Quarterly Review, Boston Review, Antioch Review, and Crazyhorse, and in anthologies, including Poets Against the War and The Black Body. She teaches poetry, critical theory, and women’s writing at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where she is Director of Creative Writing and Syntext (Synthesizing Textualities). She is a founding member of the Glass Table Collect
Jamey Hecht is the author of four books: Plato's Symposium: Eros and the Human Predicament (Twayne, 1999); a translation, Sophocles' Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus (Wordsworth, 2004); How to Write About Homer (Chelsea House, 2010); and a collection of poems, Limousine, Midnight Blue: Fifty Frames from the Zapruder Film (Red Hen Press, 2009). His poetry, criticism and journalism have appeared in some 30 publications including Black Warrior Review, Tikkun, and ELH. He enjoys acting in Shakespeare productions with the Porters of Hellsgate.
Thea Iberall is a poet, playwright, and scientist. She has a Master's Degree in Writing (USC) and a Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience (U Mass). As a performance poet, Thea represented Los Angeles at the National Poetry Slams. Thea has had over 40 poems published in anthologies and journals, including Rattle, Spillway, New Works Review, Blue Arc West: An Anthology of California Poets (Tebot Bach), poetrydiversity, Peregrine, and The Southern California Anthology. She has a poem in Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust (Time Being Books, 2007). She was a semifinalist in the Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition. She is featured in the documentary GV6 THE ODYSSEY: Poets, Passion & Poetry. Thea has developed a new form of poetry called contextual poetry and her first contextual poetry book The Sanctuary of Artemis is to be published next month by Tebot Bach.
Robert Peake studied poetry at U.C. Berkeley and in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing program at Pacific University, Oregon. His poems have appeared in Askew, North American Review, Rattle and two anthologies of Southern California poetry. Robert writes about poetry on his website.
Carlos Reyes is a noted poet, writer and translator. Of his work Carolyn Kizer has said: “Mr. Reyes is one of our local and national treasures. His poetry is as clear and strong as his social conscience. One is always struck by his sensual and sensory qualities: the touch, taste, feel, color of things, and his ability to capture a mood, a world, in a handful of lines.”
Latest book of poetry: The Book of Shadows; New and Selected Poems (2009) . Other recent books: At the Edge of the Western Wave (2004) A Suitcase Full of Crows (1995) (a Bluestem Prize winner and finalist for 1996 Oregon Book Awards). His books of translations: Poemas de la Isla/Island Poems by Josefina de la Torre (Eastern Washington University Press, 2000). Reyes’ translation of the Obra poética completa (Complete Poetic Works) of the preeminent Ecuadorean poet Jorge Carrera Andrade, was published in 2004 in a bilingual edition in Ecuador. He is the publisher/editor of Trask House Books, Inc. In 2007 he was awarded a Heinrich Boll Fellowship to write on Achill Island, Ireland and in 2008 was awarded the Ethel Fortnter Award from St Andrews College. He was recently the poet-in-Residence in theJoshua Tree National Park. Reyes lives in Portland but travels often to Ireland and is a frequent visitor to Spain and Ecuador.
John Struloeff directs the Creative Writing program at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. His fiction and poetry has appeared recently in The Atlantic Monthly, PN Review, The Southern Review, ZYZZYVA, Prairie Schooner, The Literary Review, Rattle, Open Spaces Magazine, and many other journals and magazines. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and 2009 NEA Literature Fellow, he now lives with his wife and son in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains.
Gail Wronsky’s most recent books are Blue Shadow Behind Everything Dazzling: Poems from India and Bling & Fringe (The L.A. Poems), coauthored with Molly Bendall. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in journals, such as Virginia Quarterly Review, Boston Review, Antioch Review, and Crazyhorse, and in anthologies, including Poets Against the War and The Black Body. She teaches poetry, critical theory, and women’s writing at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where she is Director of Creative Writing and Syntext (Synthesizing Textualities). She is a founding member of the Glass Table Collect