Susan Cohen’s third collection is Democracy of Fire (2022), which Ellen Bass praised as “wise and wonderful.” Her recent poetry has appeared in 32 Poems, Poetry International, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, and Southern Review. She’s received the Red Wheelbarrow Prize judged by Mark Doty, the Terrain Annual Poetry Prize judged by Arthur Sze, and a Pushcart Anthology Special Mention, among other honors. She lives in Berkeley. www.susancohen-writer.com
Jeanne Wagner was born in San Francisco and grew up in Sacramento. She graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a degree in German and has a M. A. in Humanities from San Francisco State University. Jeanne is a retired tax accountant. She lives in Kensington, CA with her husband, Bill, a dog and a cat. She likes to travel, read mysteries, play backgammon and watch foreign mysteries and classic films. She is is the author of four chapbooks and four full-length collections, the latest of which is One Needful Song, winner of the 2024 Catamaran Book Prize. Other books are Everything Turns Into Something Else, runner-up for the Grayson Books Prize (2020), In the Body of Our Lives, released by Sixteen Rivers Press (2010), and The Zen Piano Mover from NFSPS Press
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