Gerry
LaFemina, Fiction
Gerry LaFemina's first collection of stories, Proofreading America and
Other Stories is forthcoming; his numerous collections of poetry include
Graffiti Heart, winner of the 2001 Anthony Piccione/MAMMOTH Books Poetry
Prize, The Window Facing Winter, and The Parakeets of Brooklyn, which
received the 2003 Bordighera Prize and was published in a bilingual edition
of English and Italian. A noted writer and teacher, LaFemina was nominated
for the Michigan Governor's Arts Educator of the Year award in 2000, served
on the Board of Directors of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs
(AWP), and has published essays, fiction, and poetry in a variety of journals.
Jennifer Merrifield, Poetry
Jennifer Merrifield is the author of American Proper (March Street Press, 2008). A featured emerging writer in Natural Bridge, her poetry received the 2006 Columbia Poetry Prize, the 2007 42opus Editor’s Select Prize, and has appeared in dozens of journals and anthologies, including Fourteen Hills, LIT, and Sycamore Review. She teaches writing at Potomac State College of WVU and lives in Frostburg.
