Reservoir

Elaine Fletcher Chapman (Elaine Walters McFerron) writes poetry and nonfiction. Her poetry collections include, RESERVOIR (Saint Julian Press), Hunger for Salt (Saint Julian Press) and Double Solitude (Green River Press). She has numerous publications in many journals. She holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, Bennington College, Bennington Vermont where she was on staff for 18 years. She teaches Literature at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, founded The Writer's Studio, maintains a private practice as a psychotherapist and is a Certified iRest Yoga Nidra Teacher. She lives near the Chesapeake Bay and devotes time with family in the San Francisco Bay area. To learn more about this writer: www.elainefletcherchapman.com

Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, memoirist, critic, editor, and visual artist. Her first book of poems, The Real Tin Flower (Crowell-Collier, 1968), was published when she was 12 years old, with a foreword by Anne Sexton. In 2014, Carnegie-Mellon University Press published her book, Madly in Love, in the Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporaries Series, which reissues the early work of America's important poets. Among her other six books of poetry are Dear God Dear, Dr. Heartbreak: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow, 2009), Bright Body (White Pine, 2011), and Dwelling (Sheep Meadow, 2016). She translated The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy (W.W. Norton, 2006). Her translations have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Triquarterly, and elsewhere. The co-founder and former series editor of the Cliff Becker Book Award in Translation, she served twice as a translation judge for the National Endowment for the Arts. Liana Sakelliou's translation of Barnstone's Eva's Voice into Greek is forthcoming in a bilingual edition with Vakhikon Editions in Athens. She edited A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now (Schocken,1980; 2nd edition, 1992) and the Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry (Shambhala, 2002). Her criticism includes the introduction and readers' notes for H.D.'s Trilogy, co-editing The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era, and her study, Changing Rapture: The Development of Emily Dickinson's Poetry (University Press of New England, 2007). She has been awarded a Senior Fulbright Fellowship in Greece, the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame Silver Pen Award, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and residencies at the Anderson Center at Tower View and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is Professor of English at the University of Missouri and served as poet laureate of Missouri from 2016-2019.

RON STARBUCK is the Publisher/CEO/Executive Editor of Saint Julian Press, a poet and writer, an Episcopalian, and author of There Is Something About Being An Episcopalian, When Angels Are Born, and Wheels Turning Inward, three rich collections of poetry, following a poet's mythic and spiritual journey that crosses easily onto the paths of many contemplative traditions. He has been deeply engaged in an Interfaith-Buddhist-Christian dialogue for many years, and holds a lifelong interest in literature, poetry, Christian mysticism, comparative literature and religion, theology, and various forms of contemplative practice. He has been a contributing writer for Parabola Magazine. And has had poems and essays published in Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature, an interview and poem in The Criterion: An Online International Journal in English, The Enchanting Verses Literary Review, ONE from MillerWords (Feb. 2016), and Pirene's Fountain, Volume 7 Issue 15, from Glass Lyre Press (Oct. 2014), and Levure Littéraire (France - 2017 & 2018). A collection of essays, poems, short stories, and audio recordings are available on the Saint Julian Press, Inc., website under Interconnections. Forming an independent literary press to work with emerging and established writers and poets, and tendering new introductions to the world at large in the framework of an interfaith and cross cultural literary dialogue has been a long time dream. Ron is a former Vice President with JP Morgan Chase and a public sector information technology Executive Program Manager.