Marc Petrie’s poetry collections include Poems of Nature and Despair and Then All Goes Blue. His new poetry collection FROM THE ANTHROPOCENE was recently released from Cold River Press. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Book of Matches, the Altadena Review, California Quarterly, and City Lights Review. He teaches math at Willard Intermediate School in Santa Ana, California. He lives in Tustin, California with his wife Amy and their two dogs.
Jeanine Stevens is a California poet by way of Indiana. Her latest book, Left Handed Hummingbird, Clare Songbirds Publishing House, recalls “glimpsed wonders and lose fragments and threads of a poetic life.” Other books include No Lunch Among the Day Stars, Cold River Press, Limberlost and Inheritor, Future Cycle Press and Sailing on Milkweed, Cherry Grove Collections. She has a number of chapbooks including award winning Gertrude Sitting: Portraits of Women, Heartland Review Chapbook Contest, and Brief Immensity, Finishing Line Press Prize. Other awards are from The MacGuffin Poet Hunt, William Stafford Award, The Ekphrasis Prize, The Stockton Arts Commission, WOMR Cape Cod Community Radio National Poetry Contest, Western Archipelago Review, Mendocino Coast Writer’s Conference, and Soulmaking. Jeanine’s poetry has appeared in Evansville Review, Bards West, Women in a Golden State, North Dakota Quarterly, Chiron Review, Comstock Review, Rosebud, Poet Lore, and Muse. She has been editor of newsletters, judged poetry contests and served as poetry workshop facilitator. She studied poetry at U.C. Davis and CSU Sacramento, has an M.A. in Anthropology and a Doctorate in Education. Jeanine is Professor Emerita at American River College and a member of the Community of Writers. She lives in Sacramento and Lake Tahoe with her husband Greg Chalpin.
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