Meet Our Poets ~ Profiles L
Jill Lapin-Zell
Jill Lapin-Zell is a former English teacher who lives in New Jersey. She has a BA in English from Temple University, an EdM in secondary education from Rutgers University and a Masters in Educational Administration from Rider University. She has been published in A Hudson View Poetry Digest Summer 2012. Since her retirement from teaching, her free time has included reading, writing, cooking, and spending as much time as possible near the ocean. Read.
Shannon P. Laws
Shannon P. Laws, of Bellingham, Washington, is a 2013 Mayor’s Arts Award (Bellingham) recipient and 2015 Community Champion Award recipient (Writer’s International Network, Richmond, B.C.). Her poetry has appeared in Clover-A Literary Rag, Five Willows Literary Review, From Bellingham With Love, and Noisy Water: Poetry from Whatcom County, Washington. She has performed in Western Washington University’s "Erotic Poetry Night," the “West Coast Tagore Festival," Writers International Network Canada, Village Books “Literature LIVE,” and has worked as a contributing poet for the Chuckanut Sandstone Writers Theater and the Bellingham Repertory Dance Company “Phrasings” collaboration. Her publications include two poetry books, Madrona Grove and Odd Little Things. Her next book, “Fallen,” is set for release in the fall of 2016. Read.
Vanessa Leanage
Vanessa Leanage’s imagination expanded effortlessly since she was born into multiple genres of Canadian non-fiction. A painter and writer since childhood, Vanessa recently began submitting haiku and tanka poetry for publication, and has been published in Bright Stars 7, An Organic Tanka Anthology by M. Kei, and online at Jars of Stars. You can find more of her work on Twitter @puzzledgoddess and @ArtandThoughts, where she loves interacting with an abundant group of inspiring and diverse writers. Determined by nature, her poetry reflects her love of life and her inner experience of the world around her. Vanessa currently lives in central Ontario, Canada. Read.
Ann Neuser Lederer
Ann Neuser Lederer was born in Ohio and has also lived and worked in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Kentucky. From early childhood she loved to hear, read and write poems and has kept a journal since an English class assignment at age sixteen. Her poems and nonfiction work appear in journals and anthologies such as Best of the Net and The Country Doctor Revisited; She has authored three chapbooks: Approaching Freeze,The Undifferentiated, and Weaning the Babies. Additional information about her and her work can be found at annneuserlederer, her website. Read.
Joanna Suzanne Lee
Joanna Suzanne Lee lives in Richmond, Virginia where she organizes and hosts monthly reading series, open mics & workshops. Her first book, the somersaults I did as I fell, was released in 2009. Her work has recently appeared in the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Contemporary American Voices and scissors and spackle, among others. She writes (semi-)regularly at The Tenth Muse, her poetry blog. Read.
Kat Lehmann
Kat Lehmann is a writer and poet who makes her home in Connecticut, US. She holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry and enjoys considering the grandiose captured within the minute from the perspectives of both poetry and science. Her poems – mostly tanka – have been published in literary journals, including A Hundred Gourds, Acorn, Akitsu Quarterly, American Tanka, Atlas Poetica, Moonbathing, red lights, Ribbons, Skylark, and tinywords. Her first book of free verse poetry, Moon Full of Moons (2015), follows the personal transformation of finding happiness after sadness, with its poems sequenced according to the phases of the Moon. She lives with her husband, two children, three cats, and fifty orchids. Her writing can also be found at her Website and on @SongsOfKat on Twitter. Read.
Letizia Leone
Letizia Leone was born in 1962 in Rome where she lives and works. She has taught literature and history, and she currently teaches creative writing. She has published several books of poetry, including A few inches of light (2000), The Hour Mineral (2004), Health Card (2008), The Elementary Disgrace (2011), and Dragees Dirty (2013). She has edited many anthologies, including Red Chamber (Perrone, 2011), an anthologhy of erotic women's poetry. Her numerous awards include: Great Dictionary of the Italian Language S. Battaglia (UTET, 1998); New Writers, (Tracce, 1998 and 2002), Honorable Mention, Lorenzo Montano, (Anterem 2011); Award Finalist Nana-New writers for Europe (Avagliano, 2013). She can be found on both Facebook and myspace as well as here. Read.
Richard Levine
Richard Levine is a retired teacher, living and writing in Brooklyn, New York. He served with Third Marines in Vietnam, 1967-68. He is the author of The Cadence of Mercy (forthcoming from Finishing Line Press), That Country’s Soul, A Language Full of Wars and Songs, Snapshots from a Battle, and most recently, A Tide of a Hundred Mountains (Bright Hill Press). He has (or is soon to be) published in Adirondack Review, Blueline, North American Review, North Dakota Review, Stone Canoe, and The Same, and he has published in a number of online sites. You can listen here, for example to his “The Talkin’ Frackin’ Blues. “Bread,” a poem from his new book, was recently featured in American Life in Poetry, former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s column. Read.
Kris Lindbeck
Kris Lindbeck teaches literature, Bible, and Jewish History at Florida Atlantic University. In the last seven years, she has published haiku and other short poems in various journals, including Skylark, Bones, Atlas Poetica, and Gnarled Oak. You can read more of her work at Haiku Etc. on tumblr. She also has a "reasonably entertaining," scholarly book entitled Story and Theology: Elijah and the Rabbis, and has plans to publish her fictional work. Read.
Kris Lindbeck teaches literature, Bible, and Jewish History at Florida Atlantic University. In the last seven years, she has published haiku and other short poems in various journals, including Skylark, Bones, Atlas Poetica, and Gnarled Oak. You can read more of her work at Haiku Etc. on tumblr. She also has a "reasonably entertaining," scholarly book entitled Story and Theology: Elijah and the Rabbis, and has plans to publish her fictional work. Read.
Peter Lindsey
Peter Lindsey has been living and working in Barcelona, Spain for nearly 20 years. He works as a freelance teacher, teaching English as a foreign/second language, and refers to himself as "an amateur writer trying to get my head around what it means to be ‘me’ at the ‘meridian’ of my life." Writing is a form of expression that allows him to do it. His work has been published in Symmetry Pebbles, the British Haiku Society Members’ Anthology (2011), Blithe Spirit--the journal of the British Haiku Society, and he is anthologized in Signal from Static (2013). Also, he posts here and here on his two blogs. Read.
Paulie Lipman
Paulie Lipman is a Jewish/Queer/Writer out of Denver, Colorado. Before becoming a writer full-time, his job titles have included Renaissance fair employee, waiter, bouncer, and bartender. His work has been called everything from “intense, punk rock” to “4 am personified." He has toured the U.S. extensively (and a little bit of Canada) performing poetry, and is the voice of Neal Cassidy in the documentary "Neal Cassidy: The Denver Years.” His work has appeared in The Legendary, Radius, Borderline, and Drunk In A Midnight Choir. He has been anthologized in The Good Things About America, We Will Be Shelter, and We Can Make Your Life Better. Read.
Chen-ou Liu
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Chen-ou Liu emigrated to Canada in 2002 and settled in Ajax, a suburb of Toronto, where he continues to struggle with a life in transition and translation. He is the author of Ripples from a Splash, Broken/Breaking English: Selected Short Poems. His Following the Moon to the Maple Land was the First Prize Winner of the 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest. His tanka and haiku have been honored with many awards. You can visit his blog, Poetry in the Moment, to explore more of his work. Read.
Lucy Logsdon
Lucy M. Logsdon’s recent (or upcoming) publications include Heron Tree, Drafthorse Lit Journal, Poet Lore, Nimrod, The Southern Poetry Review, Literary Orphans, Sixfold, Gingerbread House Literary Magazine, Rose Red Review, Indian Summer Quarterly, Conclave: A Journal of Character, The Miscreant Magazine, Cross Poetry Review and Seventeen magazine. She has received a MacDowell Writing Colony fellowship and taught at The Frost Place. She received her MFA from Columbia University, and served as the Program Director at the National Book Awards. Currently, she teaches at Southeastern Illinois College. In her spare time, she raises chickens and ducks with her husband, and cares for various other aging critters. Read.
Lauren Lola
Lauren Lola is a writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a recent graduate from California State University, East Bay where she earned her B.A. in Communication and a minor in Theatre. She has had poetry featured on VerseWrights and in the Oakland Asian Cultural Center's debut zine, "I Am Here." She has been featured on the Paperblanks blog Endpaper, Hapa Voice, and Zealous Scripts. A Moment's Worth is the title of her debut novel. Lauren blogs at Lola By The Bay and tweets @akolaurenlola. Read.
LA Lorena
LA Lorena is a health care professional from Vancouver, B.C. Her writing appears online at WritersCafe She has been writing poetry for just over one year, and she hopes eventually to retire to the tropics and write poetry and novels by the ocean. Read.
Ramon Loyola
Ramon Loyola is a Philippines-born Australian poet and author of three collections of poetry: not poems, just words: on loving, living and longing, I Look For You In Other Truths and The Heaving Pavement: Epistles on an anxious life. His short story, "Words That Don’t Mean Anything", is part of a single pocketbook series in 2015 from In Short Publishing Company. His writing has appeared in various publications, including Paper Lens, Australian Latino Press, Narrator International, tablet and STU. He lives in inner-Sydney’s Newtown and works as a lawyer and legal author. Read.
Layley Lu
Layley Lu comes to us from Australia by way of Japan, which she calls her real home. She is presently studying at university in Australia, with a concentration in commerce and business. She has published some of her poems online, and now here. She is a Buddhist, "limping in circles," and hopes one day to open her own tea house. Read.
Veronica Lupinacci
Veronica Lupinacci received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She has taught writing from the elementary to university level. She worked as an assistant editor for Chautauqua, and was a founding editor for Globe’s Wing: UNCW’s Study Abroad Online Magazine. She was a middle school literacy specialist at Harlem RBI, and a head teacher for TeensOutLoud/WriteOut, a creative writing group for HIV positive youth. She was a finalist in the Gigantic Sequins Poetry Contest 2015, and her poems have most recently appeared or are forthcoming in The McNeese Review, Haiku Journal, The Pinch, BOAAT, Kentucky Review, Eunoia Review, Unbroken, Ekphrastic, and Gravel. Veronica is currently working on a new poetry manuscript and helping to build Seven Moons Trading Company in Sarasota, Florida. Read.