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Kathryn Stripling Byer
(Poet Laureate Award, Final Judge)
Kathryn Stripling Byer is the Poet Laureate of the State of North Carolina.
Bruce Bond
(Poet Laureate Award, Preliminary Judge)
Bruce Bond's collections of poetry include Blind Rain (LSU, forthcoming), Cinder (Etruscan, 2003),
The Throats of Narcissus (U. of Arkansas, 2001), Radiography (BOA, 1997), The Anteroom of Paradise
(QRL, 1991; Silverfish, 2007), and Independence Days (Woodley, 1990). His poetry appears regularly in such
publications as Best American Poetry, The Yale Review, The Georgia Review, and The New Republic,
and he has received numerous honors including the TIL Best Book of Poetry Award, the Colladay Award, the Gerald Cable Prize,
and fellowships from the NEA, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and other organizations. Presently he is Professor of
English at the University of North Texas and Poetry Editor for American Literary Review.
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Deborah Ager
(Katherine Kennedy McIntyre Light Verse Award)
Deborah Ager's first book, Midnight Voices, was a finalist for the BOA Editions A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, judged
by Edward Hirsch, and will be published in March 2009 by WordTech. She has published poems in Best New Poets 2006,
Best of the Tigertail Anthologies, Writing Poems (2007), and in a variety of magazines. She has been awarded
fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Jenny McKean Moore workshop;
and was a Tennessee Williams scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Ms. Ager's magazine, 32 Poems
(www.32poems.com), publishes 64 poems per year.
Elizabeth Bradfield
(Joanna Catherine Scott Award)
Elizabeth Bradfield's poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry Magazine, and Prairie
Schooner; and have twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. The anthologies Best New Poets 2006 and
Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry have also included her work. Her book, Interpretive
Work, is forthcoming from Arktoi Books; and she is a 2007-2009 Wallace Stegner Fellow. She is the founder and editor
of Broadsided (www.broadsidedpress.org) and works as a web designer and naturalist.
Mike Collins
(Poetry of Courage Award)
Mike Collins' poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2003, Callaloo, Rattapallax,
32 Poems, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, the UN's Reflections magazine, and elsewhere. His essays
have appeared in The Michigan Quarterly Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, The World & I, and
Callaloo; and are forthcoming in PMLA and Modern Philology. A chapter from his novel-in-progress
has been published in Callaloo. He is an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University.
Charles Fort
(Thomas H. McDill Award)
Charles Fort is the author of eight books of poetry, including Darvil and The Town Clock Burning. He has
received a number of prestigious honors, including the Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize in 1985. His poems have appeared
in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry in 2000 and 2003. A Professor of
English, Mr. Fort held the Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair in Poetry at the University of
Nebraska at Kearney from 1997-2007.
Jim Kacian
(Lyman Haiku Award)
Jim Kacian is founder and owner of Red Moon Press, the largest and most prestigious publishing house dedicated to
English-language haiku and related forms in the world, as well as a founder of the World Haiku Association, and
erstwhile editor of Frogpond, the international journal of the Haiku Society of America. He has published
13 books, 10 of which are volumes of haiku.
Rachel Moritz
(Mary Ruffin Poole American Heritage Award)
Rachel Moritz's chapbook, The Winchester Monologues, won the 2005 New Michigan Press Competition. Her poetry has
been published recently or is forthcoming in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Five Fingers Review,
Hayden's Ferry Review, Indiana Review, and other journals. She publishes a chaplet and broadside series of
innovative poetry, WinteRed Press, and edits poetry for Konundrum Literary Engine Review. Moritz lives and writes
in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Juliet Patterson
(Poetry of Love Award)
Juliet Patterson's first book, The Truant Lover, was selected by Jean Valentine as the 2004 winner of the Nightboat
Poetry Prize and was a 2007 finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American
Letters & Commentary, Bellingham Review, Conduit, New Orleans Review, The Journal,
Verse, and other magazines. She teaches poetry and creative writing in Minneapolis through the College of St.
Catherine, and Hamline University.
Joyce Sidman
(Caldwell Nixon Jr. Award; poems for children 2-12)
Joyce Sidman is the author of seven award-winning children's poetry books, including the Caldecott Honor book, Song of
the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems (also a Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award winner). She teaches poetry writing
to children in her home town of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and participates in many national poetry events, including the
annual "Poetry Blast" at the American Library Association meeting. Her most recent book, This Is Just to Say: Poems
of Apology and Forgiveness, was published by Houghton Mifflin in April 2007.
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