Building Blocks and Elements

 

Ebony E. Chinn was born and raised in New Jersey. She is a McNair Scholar, a Callaloo Fellow, a Poets & Writers Amy Award recipient, and a Poetry Assistant Editor for Anomaly. She is an MFA student at the University of Alabama. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in H_NGM_N, Callaloo, Narrative, and Frontier Poetry.

 

Teresa Dzieglewicz is an educator, Pushcart Prize-winning poet, and a co-director of the Mni Wičhóni Nakíčižiŋ Owáyawa (Defenders of the Water School) on Standing Rock Reservation. She earned her MFA from Southern Illinois University, where she received the Academy of American Poets Prize. She is the winner of the 2018 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. Her poems appear in Pushcart Prize XLII, Best New Poets 2019, Beloit Poetry Journal, Ninth Letter, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere.

 

Laura Ring is a poet, short story writer, anthropologist and librarian. She is the author of the ethnography Zenana: Everyday Peace in a Karachi Apartment Building (Indiana University Press), and her poems and short stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, most recently Rogue Agent, Rise up Review, and Everything That Can Happen: Poems About the Future (Emma Press). A native Vermonter, she lives in Chicago.

 

B. Metzger Sampson is a poet, essayist, and frequent collaborator with visual artists. Recent publications include interviews, essays, and poems, in Adroit Journal, Temporary Art Review, Hypertext Magazine, and at poetryfoundation.org. Their collaborative visual and written work has been shown at venues in and around Chicago, in Neuss, Germany, and Cairo, Egypt. They are currently the executive director of the Chicago Poetry Center, and was named one of Newcity’s “Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago.”

 

Sara Moore Wagner lives in West Chester, Ohio with her husband and three children. She is the recipient of a 2019 Sustainable Arts Foundation award, and the author of the chapbook Hooked Through (Five Oaks Press, 2017). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals including Tar River Poetry, Harpur Palate, Western Humanities Review, Glass Poetry Journal, and Nimrod, among others. She has been nominated for a Pushcart prize, and Best of the Net. Find her at www.saramoorewagner.com.

Nina Corwin — WMG Literary Events Curator.
Nina Corwin is a published poet, Founding Editor for Fifth Wednesday Journal and psychotherapist/advocate for victims of sexual assault. She is the author of two books of poetry, The Uncertainty of Maps and Conversations With Friendly Demons and Tainted Saints. Her work has appeared in ACM, Forklift OH, Hotel Amerika, New Ohio Review, Southern Poetry Review, Verse and has been nominated for the Pushcart prize. Corwin is an Advisory Editor for Fifth Wednesday Journal and co-edited Inhabiting the Body: A Collection of Poetry and Art By Women. She has read and performed her work across the country, at times set with musical or choreographic compositions.

Jennifer Steele – WMG Literary Events Outreach Coordinator.
Jennifer Steele is a published poet and educator and serves as Partnerships Coordinator for Teen Services at Chicago Public Library.  She served as co-founder and co-curator of the Revolving Door Reading Series. Her work has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Callaloo Journal, Columbia Poetry Review, Warpland Journal, So To Speak, and others, and is a Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop fellow. She has taught creative writing and digital media arts across Chicago since 2008 and has collaborated with numerous youth organizations and cultural institutions, designing innovative arts programming.

Kurt Heintz – WMG Literary Events Audio Recordist.
Kurt Heinz once taught computer graphics programming at Columbia College, and worked as an independent web developer. He’s since become the lead video director at Britannica. Heintz is known for his poetry videos, begun in the early 1990s. He also videoconferenced his colleagues’ poetry in the late 1990s — years before Skype and the iPhone. He was a technical advisor to the Electronic Literature Organization in its earliest years, and is the video content editor for Another Chicago Magazine.

Thank you Angela Narciso Torres, for your wonderful work and support for WMG and our Literary Program!