Sundress Publications // Authors

	Tyurina Allen Tyurina Allen no longer uses the name Tyurina Allen. She is almost a grown up now. She lives somewhere in the Midwest where she is pursuing a PhD in English and teaches writing and literature at two local universities. Doing all this leaves her little time for anything else, but she loves her job every day. She is the co-author of Especially the Deer, which was first published in 2003 and was re-released in paperback in 2011.
	Kristy Bowen An artist and writer, Kristy Bowen is the author of several book and chapbook length projects, including shipwrecks of lake michigan, havoc, and in the bird museum. Her third full-length collection, girl show, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in 2013. She lives in Chicago, where she runs dancing girl press and studio. Her poetry chapbook, IHATEYOUJAMESFRANCO, was released in 2012 by Sundress Publications.
	Marcel Brouwers Marcel Brouwers is the author of the chapbook, The Rose Industrial Complex (Finishing Line Press, 2009). He lives in Knoxville, TN, with his wife, LA Hoffer, and works at the University of Tennessee. A lecturer in the English Department, he is currently the Acting Director of the Writing Center and teaches creative writing, literature, and composition classes. His first full-length poetry collection, The Old Cities, was released by Sundress Publications in 2012.
	David Cazden Born in Vienna Austria in 1958, David Cazden received an Al Smith Individual Artist's Fellowship for poetry from the Kentucky Arts Council in 2008, his home state for over 40 years. David began writing poetry as an engineering undergraduate at the University of Kentucky in the 1970s. Although he stopped writing for over twenty years, he began again in 1999. David worked as poetry editor for Miller's Pond for six years. He has one book, Moving Picture (Word Press, 2005). His work has been published in various places, including Passages North, The Connecticut Review, Rattle, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. David's poetry has been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology, and his recent work has received various honors (2nd place, Fugue's Ron McFarland Poetry Award, finalist for Nimrod's Pablo Neruda Poetry Award). David is philanthropic in his local arts community and is currently co-editing the "Animals In The City" issue of the zine, qarrtsiluni. His book, The Lost Animals, is forthcoming from Sundress Publications in 2013.
	Daniel Crocker Daniel Crocker is the author of three collections of poetry, a collection of short stories, and the novel The Cornstalk Man. His most recent collection of poetry, Like a Fish, was released by Sundress Publications in 2011. Crocker is a graduate from The Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, and he currently lives in Leadwood, MO, where he works as a short order cook and substitute teacher.
	Jehanne Dubrow Jehanne Dubrow is the author of four poetry collections, including most recently Red Army Red and Stateside. She is the Director of the Rose O'Neill Literary House and an assistant professor in literature and creative writing at Washington College, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The Hardship Post, originally released in 2009, was her first book poems, which will be released by Sundress Publications in 2013.
	Emily Janowick Emily Janowick writes poems and makes big abstract paintings in a hundred-year-old Victorian house in Knoxville, Tennessee. Against her better judgement, she surrounds herself with an abundance of animals and people at all times. Her chapbook, The Rule of Threes, is forthcoming from Sundress.
	Jan LaPerle Jan LaPerle (married name Matthews) is originally from a small town in northern New Hampshire, but currently lives in East Tennessee with her husband and poet, Clay, daughter, Winnie, and dog, Mortimer H. Matthews. She received her MFA from Southern Illinois University. She teaches English at Tusculum College (Tennessee's oldest college). She has poetry and fiction published in Rattle, Dislocate, Subtropics, 42opus, Boxcar Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Her fiction chapbook, Hush, is now available through Sundress Publications.
	Mary Beth Magin Mary Beth Magin was born in Seoul and adopted and raised in upstate New York. She earned a degree in Economics with a focus on Asian Studies from the University of Pittsburgh in 2004, all the while maintaining a covert affection for critical theory, linguistics, film studies, and feminist art. She currently resides in Memphis, Tennessee with her husband and two cats. Her favorite writers include John Ashbery, Alice Notley, Issa, George Herriman, and Gina Berriault. She is the co-author of Especially the Deer, which was first published in 2003 and was re-released in paperback in 2011.
	T.A. Noonan T.A. Noonan is the author of two hybrid-genre collections, The Bone Folders (Sundress Publications) and Petticoat Government (Gold Wake Press), as well as the chapbooks Darjeeling (Ahadada Books) and Balm (Flaming Giblet Press). Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter, Verse Daily, The Superstition Review, RHINO, specs, Phoebe, and many others. She is the founder and managing editor of both Flaming Giblet Press and grain short/grain long. Currently, she lives on Florida's Treasure Coast with her husband.
	Emilia Phillips Emilia Phillips is the author of Signaletics (University of Akron Press, 2013), the Editor's Choice for the 2012 Akron Poetry Prize. She holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and a BA from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She is the associate literary editor of Blackbird and the recipient of the 2012 Poetry Prize from The Journal, the Zoland Poetry Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, and a scholarship to the Sewanee Writer's Conference. Her poetry appears in or is forthcoming from AGNI, The Collagist, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, Gulf Coast, Hayden's Ferry Review, Indiana Review, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Richmond, Virginia. Her chapbook, Bestiary of Gall is forthcoming from Sundress in the spring of 2013.
	Christine Jessica Margaret Reilly Christine Jessica Margaret Reilly lives in New York, New York. She teaches English at the Professional Children's School and the craft of writing at the University Settlement. She has been published in over fifty journals. She received her Bachelor's from Bucknell University and her Master's from Sarah Lawrence College. Her chapbook, Too Animal, Not Enough Machine, is forthcoming from Sundress in March, 2013.
	Julie Ruble Julie Ruble lives in Charlotte, NC with a poodle and an aquatic turtle. She teaches middle school language arts and writes Willow Bird Baking, a food blog. She wrote the poems found in Especially the Deer while in high school and at Davidson College, where she was awarded both the Patricia Cornwell Creative Writing Scholarship and the Vereen Bell Memorial Award in poetry. She is the co-author of Especially the Deer, which was first published in 2003 and was re-released in paperback in 2011.
	Virginia Smith Virginia Smith earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University, where her poetry manuscript, "One Voice May Survive the Other," received the Distinguished Thesis Award. Her work appears, or is forthcoming, in 2River View, Denver Quarterly, Rattle, Southern Poetry Review, Stirring, Stone Highway Review, Superstition Review, and Weave, among others. She was the Assistant Poetry Editor at TriQuarterly, and currently works as an art teacher in Woodstock, IL. Her first full-length collection, When I Wake It Will Be Forever, will be published by Sundress in 2014.
	Charity Stebbins Charity Stebbins grew up in Ghana and Colorado and currently lives in Iowa City. She is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop in poetry. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in New American Writing, Hannah, Lumina, and the St. Sebastian Review. Her chapbook, Isla, winner of the 2012 Sundress Publications chapbook contest, is now available through Sundress Publications.
	Letitia Trent Letitia Trent's work has appeared in the Denver Quarterly, The Black Warrior Review, Fence, Folio, The Journal, Mipoesias, Ootoliths, Blazevox, and many others. Her chapbooks are Splice (Blue Hour Press) and The Medical Diaries (Scantily Clad Press), and her third chapbook, You aren't in this movie, will be out from dancing girl press in 2012. Her first full-length collection, One Perfect Bird was released from Sundress Publications in 2012. Trent was the 2010 winner of the Alumni Flash Writing Award from the Ohio State University's The Journal and has been awarded fellowships from The Vermont Studio Center and the MacDowell Colony.
	Donna Vorreyer Donna Vorreyer is the author of three chapbooks: Womb/Seed/Fruit (Finishing Line Press), Come Out, Virginia (Naked Mannekin Press), and Ordering the Hours (Maverick Duck Press). She is a poetry editor for Mixed Fruit, and her work has appeared in many journals, recently in Sweet, Linebreak, Rhino, Cider Press Review, Stirring, and Wicked Alice. Donna lives in the Chicago area where she teaches middle school and therefore often acts like she is twelve years old. Her book, A House of Many Windows is forthcoming from Sundress Publications in 2013.