DHP Authors
Sarah Barber, author of The Kissing Party, has published poems in Ninth Letter, Pleiades, New Ohio Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, and Poetry, among other publications. She teaches at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY.
Gaylord Brewer is the author of fifteen previous books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and cookery. His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry and The Bedford Introduction to Literature. His many international residencies include Hawthornden Castle (Scotland) and the Global Arts Village (India), and he has taught in Russia, Kenya, England, and the Czech Republic.
Jaime Brunton's poems appear in SPECS journal of art and culture, Denver Quarterly, Diagram, Cincinnati Review, Poet Lore, and other journals.
James Cihlar, author of Rancho Nostalgia, is the publisher of Howling Bird Press. He is also the author of Undoing.
Mark Conway, author of Dreaming Man, Face Down, is also the author of Rivers of the Driftless Region (Four Way Books, 2019). He holds an MFA from Bennington College, and has studied at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Wharton School, and Harvard Graduate School of Education. His prizes include the 2005 Gerald Cable Book Award, the 2004 Aldrich Poetry Competition, and the 2003 Grolier Poetry Prize.
Russell Evatt is also the author of the chapbook We Are Clay (Epiphany Editions, 2012). His work has appeared in Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Lake Effect, Louisville Review, and elsewhere.
Sarah Giragosian , author of Queer Fish (DHP, 2017), is also a critic living in New York. Her poems have recently appeared in such journals as The Offing, Ecotone, Tin House, Cosmonaut's Avenue and Denver Quarterly, among others. She teaches in the department of Writing and Critical Inquiry at the University at Albany-SUNY.
Juliana Gray, author of Role Play (DHP, 2012). Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Birmingham Poetry Review, Sou'wester, 32 Poems, and other journals and anthologies. She she is a professor of English at Alfred University.
James Grinwis, author of The City from Nome (DHP, 2011) is founding editor of Bateau Press. His work has appeared in many literary magazines, including American Poetry Review, Columbia, Black Warrior Review, Quick Fiction, and Third Coast. His book Exhibit of Forking Paths (National Poetry Series, 2011) was winner of the National Poetry Series.
Matthew Guenette, author of Sudden Anthem (DHP, 2008) is also the author of American Busboy (University of Akron Press, 2011) and Civil Disobedience (Rabbit Catastrophe Press, 2017). Recent work has appeared in Forklift: Ohio, Spoon River Poetry Review, Sou’wester, Southern Indiana Review, and TYPO. He teaches composition and creative writing at Madison College.
Elizabeth Hughey, author of Guest Host (DHP, 2009), received her MFA from University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her collection Sunday Houses the Sunday House won the 2006 Iowa Poetry Prize.
Dorine Jennette is the author of Urchin to Follow (DHP, 2010). Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications such as Verse Daily, the Journal, Ninth Letter, Puerto del Sol, the New Orleans Review, and the Georgia Review. She earned her MFA from New Mexico State University and her PhD from the University of Georgia.
Meg Johnson is the author of Inappropriate Sleepover (DHP, 2014), which was a NewPages Editor’s Pick. Her second book, The Crimes of Clara Turlington (Vine Leaves Press), won the 2015 Vignette Collection Award, and her third book, Without: Body, Name, Country (Vine Leaves Press) is new in 2020. She received her MFA in creative writing from the NEOMFA Program and has taught writing at Iowa State University and University of Akron.
Rain Jordan is an essayist, philosopher, Certified Canine Behavior Consultant (CBCC-KA), and Certified Canine Fear Abatement Expert (CCFAE) instructor/mentor. Jordan freelances for several newspapers and other publications in addition to doing private training and canine behavior work via Expert Canine LLC and Canine Fear Solutions. She also develops and directs shelter and other charity programs, including The Fearful Dogs Project, for companion animals and their humans. Ms. Jordan holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and has been a teacher since the early 2000s, including teaching English, creative writing, literature, poetry, and critical thinking in California colleges. Rain's books are The Dog Who Couldn't Be Petted (DHP, 2020), Such Small Hands: An Anti-Aversives Primer (DHP, 2020), Canine Stress Signals: A Primer (DHP, 2020), and Hero: A Podenco's Tale (DHP, 2015)
Dan Kaplan, author of Bill's Formal Complaint (DHP, 2008) is also the author of Instant Killer Wig (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018), and the bilingual chapbook SKIN (Red Hydra Press, 2005). His work appears in American Letters & Commentary, VOLT, Denver Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Washington Square, the anthology Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton & Co.), and elsewhere.
John Mann is the author of Able, Baker, Charlie (DHP, 2009).
Caroline Manring is the author of Manual for Extinction (DHP, 2014).
Gary L. McDowell is the author of American Amen (DHP, 2010) and Weeping at a Stranger's Funeral (DHP, 2014).
Jennifer Moss is author of A Goat from a Distance (DHP, 2017). She received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poems have appeared in Pleiades, Indiana Review, Denver Quarterly, Image, and Conduit, among other journals
Jenn Marie Nunes, author of Those People (DHP, 2020), is also the author of And/Or (Switchback Books, 2015) and four chapbooks, including the collaborative Opera Trans Opera (alice blue books), and is founding coeditor of TENDE RLOIN, an online gallery for poetry. She lives in New Orleans with her girlfriend and her dog.
Beth Woodcome Platow is the author of Little Myths (DHP, 2017).
C. J. Sage is the author of Open House (Salmon Poetry), The San Simeon Zebras (Salmon Poetry), Field Notes in Contemporary Literature (DHP), and several other collections. Her work has appeared in myriad journals and magazines including The Antioch Review, Boston Review, Orion, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, and The Threepenny Review.
Ravi Shankar is the author of Deepening Groove (DHP, 2011). . Along with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, he edited W.W. Norton's Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East & Beyond. He has won a Pushcart Prize, been featured in The New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education, and appeared as a commentator on the BBC and NPR.
Lauren Goodwin Slaughter is the author of A Lesson in Smallness (DHP, 2015).
Maggie Smith is the author of Disasterology (DHP, 2016). Other books are The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo, 2015), Lamp of the Body (Red Hen, 2005), and Good Bones (Tupelo, 2017), from which a poem was featured on the television show "Madam Secretary"and called the "Official Poem of 2016" by Public Radio International.
Michael Tyrell is the author of The Wanted (DHP, 2012) and Phantom Laundry (Backlash Press, 2017). His poems have appeared in many magazines, including Agni, The Canary, Fogged Clarity, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and The Yale Review. He teaches at New York University.
Angela Vogel is the author of Fort Gorgeous (DHP, 2011). Her poems appear in Best New Poets, The Journal, Gulf Coast, Cimarron Review, Green Mountains Review, Southern Poetry Review, Verse Daily, and elsewhere.
A. E. Watkins is the author of Dear, Companion (DHP, 2012) A.E. Watkins is a graduate of the St. Mary's College of California MFA Program. His poems and reviews have appeared in Barrow Street, Copper Nickel, Denver Quarterly, Hayden's Ferry Review, Ninth Letter, Sycamore Review, and elsewhere.
Betsy Wheeler is the author of Loud Dreaming in a Quiet Room (DHP, 2012).
Emily Wolahan is the author of Hinge (DHP, 2015). Her poems have appeared in Oversound, Gulf Coast, Boston Review, and Volt, among others.
Martha Zweig, author of Get Lost (DHP, 2020) received a Whiting Writer's Award in 1999, and her poems have been published in many of the nation's leading literary and political journals, including Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Field, The Boston Review, The Progressive, and The Kenyon Review. Zweig's previous books include Vinegar Bone, What Kind (Wesleyan) and Monkey Lightning (Tupelo).