Zoya Abbas
Bio:
Zoya Abbas is a high school writer who is in the SCAPA Literary Arts program. She has been writing since she was in 3rd grade and has her own blog.
Z.Z. Van Tappan
Bio:
Z.Z. is descended from Dutch explorers
& has since not risen much.
Reason for Signing Up:
My great granddaughter put me up to it.
Stefan Delipoglou
Bio:
Yersinia P. is an anaerobic organism that may infect humans.
Reason for Signing Up:
Binary fission and resulting dissemination of chaos.
Hat
Bio:
Wisteria is a trans poet from Lexington KY
Wilson
Bio:
Wilson is a research scientist at the University of Virginia. She considers herself more of a fiction writer than a poet (and is honestly more of a software developer). But a woman can dream!
Reason for Signing Up:
My friend asked me to.
wendyjett
Bio:
Wendy is a long time fitness instructor, Improv junkie and attempts to write.
Reason for Signing Up:
Community
Violet
Bio:
Resides in North Carolina and studies at Naslund-Mann School of Writing.
Reason for Signing Up:
To keep me writing in a community I love to be a part of
Victoria Woolf Bailey
Bio:
Victoria Woolf Bailey’s work has appeared in a number of publications including: The Heartland Review, Kudzu, Alchemy Spoon and the Tipton Poetry Journal. She is the author of a chapbook, Dragging Gunter’s Chain, published in 2014 and her first full-length collection, Cannibalism and the Copenhagen Interpretation: a Love Story, was released by Finishing Line Press in March 2022. Her chapbook Under Glass is scheduled to be released in January 2023.
Reason for Signing Up:
I’ve heard about this in the past and always thought it would be fun to participate.
Victoria Gross
Bio:
Victoria is an author, poet, and editor from Southeastern Kentucky. She has a BFA in Creative Writing from Morehead State University, as well as an MFA in the same from Southern New Hampshire University. She has three dogs and a cat, and currently resides with her husband and stepdaughter. Her debut novel, Zodiac Rising, will be released in 2022.
Reason for Signing Up:
I'm a regular! I love poetry. :)
Anesa
Bio:
Vanesa is a 16yr old girl, who’s not quite ready to move on from May.
Reason for Signing Up:
I am a poet.
upfromsumdirt
Bio:
dork af
Reason for Signing Up:
for fame & fortune
PBSartist
Bio:
Trish is an artist, author and international instructor most recognized in the realm of encaustic painting. She publishes her poetry and essays via her blog on her site, and through her newsletter.
Reason for Signing Up:
because I get to! <3 lol
Toni Menk
Bio:
Toni lives in rural Casey County with her partner, Jerry Johnson, her dog, LaDee, and cats Tommy and Sweetie Pie.
She is a retire telephone worker, a farmer, a Lampwork bead artist, and a long time member of the Kentucky Guild of Artist and Craftsmen. Toni had a BA in Anthropology from the University of Kentucky and an MFA from Spalding University.
Reason for Signing Up:
Kim Kayne Shaver made me do it.
Tom Hunley
Bio:
Tom C. Hunley directs the MFA Creative Writing program at Western Kentucky University, where he has taught since 2003. His latest books are Adjusting to the Lights (2020 Rattle Chapbook Prize) and What Feels Like Love: New and Selected Poems (C&R Press, 2021).
Reason for Signing Up:
I suddenly have some free time, and this is a perfect time for me to focus on new poems.
Jennifer Gleason
Bio:
Tillie the Toiler is trying not to till the soil and is sitting on her porch writing a poem or two while the birds cheer her on.
Reason for Signing Up:
Word play is one of my love languages.
the bluegrass warbler
Bio:
I am just a singer in a rock and roll band.
Reason for Signing Up:
glory
teja
Reason for Signing Up:
accountability & community!
Taunja
Bio:
: t.m. thomson’s work has most recently appeared in Raw Art Review and Quillkeepers Press’s Halloween Anthology: Bare Bones and will appear in Lone Mountain Literary Review and Sunlight Press in the upcoming months. Three of her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Awards: “Seahorse and Moon” in 2005, “I Walked Out in January” in 2016, and “Strum and Lull” in 2018. She is the author of Strum and Lull (2019) and The Profusion (2019), which placed in Golden Walkman’s 2017 chapbook competition, and co-author of Frame and Mount the Sky (2017). Her full-length collection Plunge will be out in 2022. She has a writer’s page at https://www.facebook.com/TaunjaThomsonWriter/.
Reason for Signing Up:
To encourage myself to write & to see what other people are writing
Tania Horne
Bio:
Tania misses Virginia but is getting by in Ohio.
Reason for Signing Up:
It is something I do for myself each year that is not an obligation.I look forward to reading the poets I "see" here each year.
Tabitha Dial
Bio:
Tabitha Dial began calling herself a writer when she was growing up in Colorado. She became part of the Workhorse community four years ago. She’s moved to New Jersey, where she works as a substitute teacher, charmed by everything, including, still, Kentucky.
Reason for Signing Up:
Amy Camuglia invited me here one fine day outside High on Art and Coffee. This was a good decision.
Also, I swore an oath to the godds of poetry.
