Bronson O'Quinn
Bio:
Fiction writer, web developer, father of an awesome 2-year-old who just wants to read Astro Boy and watch Charlie's Colorforms Cities, and husband to the coolest dork in the whole world.
Reason for Signing Up:
I once heard Robert E Howard kept writing Conan books because he sincerely believed Conan the Barbarian was a real person who threatened to keep writing them or else he'd lob off his head. That's not how I feel, but man isn't that a fun story?
Maya Pemble
Bio:
Maya is a rising senior in high school and an aspiring poet. She loves travel, cannoli and is constantly lost in thought.
Reason for Signing Up:
4th year with lexpomo, hoping for more years after that
Christopher McCurry
Bio:
Christopher McCurry teaches high school English. He likes to play board games, skateboard, and go on adventures with his daughter, Abra.
Reason for Signing Up:
What's better than this?
Jennifer Barricklow
Bio:
Jennifer Barricklow is a writer and freelance editor in Lexington KY. She also enjoys gardening, working with the Tarot, and crocheting. One of her dreams is to become a gypsy fortune teller.
Reason for Signing Up:
To connect with these amazing writers and be active in the community we create together.
Hat
Bio:
Walker Prather is a writer who loves his dog and has long hair
Reason for Signing Up:
I enjoy writing poetry I enjoy Lexington and being part of a great group of writers will be tons of fun.
kelly casey
Bio:
just living in the heart of the feywild.
fighting against all the odds and surviving just to spite you.
i once won the the richard taylor poetry award. i think that’s when i peaked.
Reason for Signing Up:
because it’s easier to make my head feel like home when i’m writing.
Nollie Palmer
Bio:
Nollie is a visual artist who can be found at @halfwitchdisaster on instagram.
Reason for Signing Up:
Round 2
Nancy Jentsch
Bio:
Nancy Jentsch has taught German and Spanish for over thirty-five years at Northern Kentucky University. She will retire in 2020 and looks forward to spending more time writing poetry and sharing the art of words with others. She has published scholarly articles, short fiction and poetry in journals such as Journal of Kentucky Studies, Eclectica, Aurorean, and Blinders. Her chapbook, Authorized Visitors, has been published by Cherry Grove Collections, an imprint of WordTech Communications (2017). Seven of her ekphrastic poems appear in the collaborative chapbook Frame and Mount the Sky (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Her Facebook writer’s page is https://www.facebook.com/NancyJentschPoet/. When she is not writing or teaching, she enjoys hiking, bird watching, knitting and Sudoku.
Reason for Signing Up:
There's no way I'd rather spend the month of June.
Lori Taylor
Bio:
Lori is a four-time LexPoMo participant, writer, mother of three daughters, wife, lover of coffee, alone time, office supplies, organization, sparkly things, and creativity. She is revising a NaNo WriMo novel, devising plans for future projects, and improvising in the in-between.
Reason for Signing Up:
The LexPoMo community is a talented bunch of attentive life-living sparks of light who not only write beauty and horror, but encourage and support each other in the process. I enjoy being a part of it.
Dennis Preston
Bio:
Dennis J. Preston lives in Owensboro, Kentucky. He taught elementary school language arts for twenty-five years, but now enjoys being semi-retired. He is a minister, and enjoys reading, writing, traveling, and spending time with his family. He has published five books of poetry including Cloaked Moon: Women of the Bible.
Reason for Signing Up:
I love to write, but sometimes I need to be challenged. I also love the LexPoMo community, and the positive feedback given on my work. It helps me become a better writer.
Dangerfield Yella
Bio:
Once again back it's the incredible
Reason for Signing Up:
Time to write again
Robin Rahija
Bio:
Robin LaMer Rahija is the editor of Rabbit Catastrophe Press.
Reason for Signing Up:
poems are fun!
Shaun Turner
Bio:
Shaun Turner is the author of chapbooks "The Lawless River: Stories" (Red Bird Chapbooks) and "Trying Not to Write Roadkill: Poems" (Ghost City Press). He serves as Fiction Editor for Stirring: A Literary Collection and co-editor at Fire Poetry Journal. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can be found in the Chattahoochee Review, Bayou Magazine, Barely South, and the Fourth River, among others.
Reason for Signing Up:
To share poems and community with y'all again.
Corey Kirby
Bio:
Corey is a social worker, a returned Peace Corps volunteer, a big sister, an avid reader, a poet.
Reason for Signing Up:
LexPoMo has become part of who I am.
Amy Camuglia
Bio:
...a folk poet, runnin around the planet with kindred hooligans
Reason for Signing Up:
i love the kinship and variety of poetry produced
mtpoet
Bio:
Poet, novelist, short story writer, and publisher/editor of Old Seventy Creek Press.
Reason for Signing Up:
This makes number seven. I usually write under the name of mtpoet.
