Fall 2006

Frank Anthony (1922-2005), teacher, poet, essayist, was founder/president of New England Writers and editor of The Anthology of New England Writers. Anthony’s poetry is widely published in over 700 anthologies, journals, as well as online. In addition, he has many celebrity interviews (Margaret Mead, James Dickey and John Kenneth Galbraith among others) published in journals that he produced for Vermont Public Radio.

Sylvia Merrill Beaupré’s novels, stories and poems reflect her native New Hampshire. Her writing has appeared in several journals. She is currently working on Tavern Village Tales, a memoir/history, the writing of which is influenced by daily walks through her old neighborhood with dog-friend Suzy.

Sylva Boyadjian-Haddad is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New England College. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2004. Recently her poems have appeared in Facets and in The Henniker Review. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Entelechy International: A Journal of Contemporary Ideas.

Martha Carlson-Bradley’s poems have appeared in Agenda, New England Review and Carolina Quarterly among other magazines. In 2005, Carlson-Bradley was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship by the NH State Council on the Arts. Last spring, Adastra Press published her chapbook Beast at the Hearth.

Mary Chivers, a retired teacher and poet, currently lives with her husband in Wentworth, New Hampshire. A native of Cody, Wyoming, she remains deeply attached to the landscape of the Rockies. Her first book, Doctor Dewey (1996), is a collection of stories about her father, a doctor and dude rancher. Mary’s family continues to operate the 7-D Ranch, a guest ranch in Sunlight Basin outside of Cody.

Corey Cook’s work has appeared in The Aurorean, Brevities, Lilliput Review, Parnassus Literary Journal, Pegasus and at www.adhocmonadnock.org. among other magazines. He lives in Contoocook, NH with his wife.  

Mary Diaz is an artist who works in a variety of media photography, writing, performance, and video. Her work explores the role of interior self-awareness and the struggle to give it voice. She has recently relocated to San Francisco from the Midwest to pursue her MFA in Creative Writing and Performance Art.

Christopher Goodrich is the Managing Director for the Harold Clurman Poet’s Theatre run by the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. He has directed G. Stern’s Father Guzman and Kenneth Koch’s Edward and Christine among other works. His poems have appeared in several journals such as Poetry Motel, The New York Quarterly, Rattle, and Entelechy International: A Journal of Contemporary Ideas. He is the recipient of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize.

Maura Greene is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has been accepted by journals including Facets and Quality Women’s Fiction. She is the recipient of an artist’s grant from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc. A Smith College graduate, she is a partner in the law firm Bowditch & Dewey, LLP.

Louis Richard Lento resides in San Diego, California where he earned his MFA from San Diego State University. In addition to poetry, Lento writes song lyrics and short prose. His poems have been published in various journals, and he is a regular contributor to Entelechy International: A journal of Contemporary Ideas.

Maura MacNeil is a poet and an Associate Professor of Writing at New England College in Henniker, NH. Her poetry has been published in over thirty journals over the past twenty five years and she has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize Award. She is co-founder and editor of Entelechy International: A Journal of Contemporary Ideas. 

Rodger Martin lives in Harrisville, New Hampshire. He currently writes a bi-monthly poetry column for Yangtze River Journal in China. He is editor of The Worcester Review. His poetry and fiction have been published in journals throughout the US and China. He has two collections of poetry/fiction.

Susan Nagelsen is a Professor of Writing at New England College. She is also the Associate Editor of The Journal of Prisoners on Prison and is presently working on a book project involving prison writing.

Julia Older was recently awarded a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for annotating and translating Persian poems by Tahirih. She is the author of ten poetry books, including Tahirih Unveiled and her biographical sequence Tales of  the François Vase forthcoming from Turning Point Poetry Series in early spring. The prequel to her novel The Island Queen is now in print. This Desired Place, a historical saga of pirates and Puritans on the northern Atlantic coast, is the second of a projected Isles of Shoals trilogy.

Peter Olsson is a physician-psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He practiced psychiatry and psychotherapy in Houston for twenty-five years and for eight years in New Hampshire. Olsson has published 26 journal articles, a monograph and two books. He won the Judith Baskin Offer Prize for his paper “Adolescent Involvement in Cults and the Supernatural”. Dr. Olsson supervises the psychotherapy of psychiatry residents at Dartmouth Medical School and spends the rest of his time writing.

Meg Petersen is the director of the Plymouth Writing Project, founding editor of the Plymouth Writers Group anthologies of teachers’ writing, and a Professor of English at Plymouth State University. She lives in Plymouth with her three sons.

Joyce Ray’s poetry has appeared in Color Wheel, and her young adult biography of Hildegard of Bingen is currently under consideration. She teaches English for Speakers of Other Languages and lives in Dunbarton, New Hampshire with her husband Robert and daughter Becca.

Neil Rennie is an Assistant Professor of Art at New England College. After receiving his MFA from Rhode Island School of Design, Rennie has been a professional photographer and photography teacher in Boston for twenty-five years. The large-format black and white work shown on the cover of the current issue of Entelechy International: A Journal of Contemporary Ideas is from the 1970s.

David O. Robinson is a freelance writer, illustrator and editor. He has published his work in Poetry International, Aegis, Main St. Magazine, Powder, and Surfer among other venues. Originally from Lowell, Massachusetts, he now lives in San Diego, CA.

Russell Rowland is a three-time Pushcart nominee, with poems accepted by numerous journals, including Poem, Rattle, Pearl, Poet Lore, and The Baltimore Review. He drinks Moxie and lives without a television.

Vaughn Sills’s photographs document a particular gardening aesthetic that has been traced to Africa. Her first book, One Family, was published in 2001. In 2008, a book of Sills’s photographs will be published by Center for American Places. Her work has been collected and exhibited in galleries  and museums throughout the East and South. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and teaches photography at Simmons College, Boston, MA.

K. A. Thayer a dynamogenicist who harnesses the unknown, a maverick of astro-spoken-space-made-sacred, has his work published in The Alembic, Diner, as well as Entelechy International: A Journal of Contemporary Ideas. Also soon to be found in A Magazine of Paragraphs, or a bathtub of self-sharpening clawfeet, the work of this person is because of what was and will be and indeed, you. He is an alumnus of Rhode Island School of Design and New England College.

Dianalee Velie is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, and has a Master of Arts in Writing from Manhattanville College, where she has served as faculty advisor of Inkwell Magazine. Her poetry and short stories have been published in numerous literary journals throughout the USA and Canada. She enjoys traveling to rural school systems in Vermont and New Hampshire teaching poetry for the Children’s Literacy Foundation. Dianalee was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Velie’s play, Mama Says, was directed by Daniel Quinn in a staged reading in New York City. Velie is formerly from Darien, Connecticut, and now resides in Newbury, New Hampshire.

Roberta Visser is a contributing writer for the Monadnock Living section of the Keene Sentinel, leader of creative writing workshops, and a student in advanced poetry woekshops with Patricia Fargnoli. Her most recent publications include poems in Entelechy International: A journal of Contemporary Ideas, and The Comstock Review.

Kelley Jean White has been a pediatrician in inner-city Philadelphia for over twenty years. Her poetry has appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Nimrod, Rattle, Feminist Studies and The Journal of the American Medical Association. Her publications also include a number of full-length poetry collections, several chapbooks including Against Medical Advice. She is the current editor of Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts.