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Angie Chau
Join us on TalkShoe.com for a book chat with Angie Chau author of Quiet As they Come, which follows a family from war torn Vietnam to San Francisco. We hope to reschedule the book chat soon and apologize for any inconvenience.
Born in Vietnam, Angie Chau has lived in Vietnam, Malaysia, Italy, Spain, Kauai, and in Southern and Northern California. She earned a BA in Southeast Asian Culture and Political Economy (ISF) from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master's degree in English with a Creative Writing emphasis from the University of California, Davis, where she was the fiction editor for The Greenbelt Review. She has been awarded a Hedgebrook Residency and a Macondo Foundation Fellowship. In 2009 she won the UC Davis Maurice Prize in Fiction.
Jane Stories Press Foundation will be in Chicago February 29-March 3rd for the 2012 AWP Conference. Join us there!
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An active poet for nearly three decades, Christine Swanberg has agreed to critique up to three poems without charge for Jane Members who visit us at the JSPF table at the AWP Conference book fair: The Hilton Chicago Hotel, 720 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605, Exhibit Halls, Lower Level, Table E5. If you haven't joined yet there's still time. Just go to the Member's Page.
Thanks to all those who sent us the memories of the 2011 Retreat posted on our new Retreats page!
Michigan born, Georgia Ann Banks-Martin earned an MFA in Poetry and is currently pursues a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies. Many of you will remember her fascinating presentation at the last retreat about archtypes in poetry through fairy tales. Editor of the poetry magazine: New Mirage Journal her own poetry has or will appear in African-American Review, After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery after Life Shattering Events, Fieraligue; Möbius: The Poetry Magazine; and Xavier Review, as well as her published anthology Rhapsody for Lessons Learned or Remembered, a collection of ekphrastic poems published in 2010.
Susanna Lang was born in New York and raised in college towns where her father taught in Kansas, Michigan and Connecticut. The author of two books of poetry and translator the poetry of Yves Bonnefoy: her first collection of poems, Even Now, The Backwaters Press in 2008, and her chapbook, Two by Two, Finishing Line Press 2011. Words in Stone, her translation of poems by Yves Bonnefoy, University of Massachusetts Press, 1976; and The Origin of Language, prose poems by Yves Bonnefoy, George Nama,1979. Journals in which her work has appeared or will appear include New Letters, Little Star, Café Review, The Baltimore Review, Kalliope, Chicago Review, New Directions, Jubilat, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Comstock Review and Green Mountains Review. She won a 1999 Illinois Arts Council Award and the Inkwell Poetry Competition in 2009. Also in 2009, “My Mother’s Names for Me” was nominated for the Pushcart competition and Best of the Net. She was a 2010 Hambidge Fellow and received an 2011 Emerging Writer Fellowship from The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD.
Christine Swanberg has several published books of poetry: Tonight on This Late Road (Erie St., 1984), Invisible String (Erie St., 1990), Bread upon the Waters (UW:Whitewater, 1990), Slow Miracle (Lake Shore, 1992), The Tenderness of Memory (Plainview Press, 1995), The Red Lacquer Room (Chiron Press, 2001) and hundreds of poems in journals such as The Beloit Poetry Journal, Spoon River Quarterly, Amelia, Chiron, Kansas Quarterly, Creative Woman, Earth's Daughters, Mid-America Review, Powatan Review, Midnight Mind, Sow's Ear, Wind, and others. Her work appears in anthologies such as Knowing Stones: Poems of Exotic Travel, I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted, Jane's Stories, Key West: An Anthology, Pride and Joy, and the forthcoming Still Going Strong. Her newest book, The Alleluia Tree, is now available from Puddenhead Press. Awards include a featured reading at Seattle's Frye Museum through PoetsWest, first and second place in Peninsula Pulse, first place in Midwest Poetry Review, second place in Nit and Wit, the Connor Award for Fiction from Northern Illinois University, the YWCA Leader Luncheon Award for the Arts, and the Womanspirit Award from Womanspace. Her newest collection, The Alleluia Tree was just published by Puddin’head Press.
