Painted Bride Quarterly

Issue 86

Josephine Yu

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Josephine Yu’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Beloit Poetry Journal, 32 Poems, Best New Poets 2008, Crab Orchard Review, Meridian, TriQuarterly, New Letters, The Southern Review, River Styx, Nimrod, and elsewhere. She has been honored with Meridian’s 2010 Editor’s Prize, the New Letters 2010 Poetry Award, New Letters 2010–2011 Readers Award for Poetry, and multiple Pushcart Prize nominations.

Catherine Woodard

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Catherine Woodard worked to restore Poetry in Motion to the NYC subways and is a board member of the Poetry Society of America. Her poems have appeared in Poet Lore, Southern Poetry Review, RHINO and other journals. She was a 2012 fellow at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences in Georgia. In 2011, she […]

Tony Tracy

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Tony Tracy’s books include two poetry collections, The Christening ( Center Press Books) and Without Notice ( March Street Press ). His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in the Coe Review, North American Review, Rattle, Tar River Poetry, Poetry East and Southern Indiana Review. He lives in Urbandale, IA. with his wife, two sons and two dogs.

Carolyn Stice

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Carolyn Stice is currently working on her PhD in Creative Writing at UT Knoxville, where she is poetry editor for the graduate literary magazine Grist. Her work has appeared Cutthroat, The Clark Street Review, Antipodes, and Stirring: A Literary Collection. It is also included in a new anthology due out this September titled Desnudas en el desierto, which highlights the work […]

Diana Spechler

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Diana Spechler is the author of the novels Who By Fire (Harper Perennial, 2008) and Skinny (Harper Perennial, 2011). She has written for the New York Times, GQ, CNN Living, Esquire, New York, Paris Review, the Wall Street Journal, Southern Review, Glimmer Train Stories, and elsewhere. She received her MFA degree from the University of Montana and was a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University and the writer-in-residence […]