HEATHER TOSTESON, a writer, visual artist and spiritual director, has received a Nation/Discovery prize for her poetry and fellowships for poetry, fiction, and photography from MacDowell, Yaddo, VCCA and Hambidge Center. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (UNC-Greensboro), a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing (Ohio University), and a Diploma in the Art of Spiritual Direction (San Francisco Theological Seminary). She has worked as a science writer and editor, executive editor of two public health journals at Harvard Medical School, and in health communications at the Centers for Disease Control, with a focus on communication across professional disciplines, racism, social trust, and how belief systems develop and change. She is the author of Visible Signs, a novel, Hearts as Big as Fists, a collection of short stories, and God Speaks My Language, Can You?, which focuses on how we can listen with imagination to the faith journeys of our neighbors whatever their faith tradition. She has just published The Sanctity of the Moment: Poems from Four Decades.
CHARLES BROCKETT, having worked from an early age in a small book bindery co-owned by his father, is delighted decades later to develop a second career as a book publisher - and co-director of Universal Table. He has written two well received books, Political Movements and Violence in Central America and Land, Power, and Poverty: Agrarian Transformation and Political Conflict in Central America, and many journal articles. Recently retired as professor of political science at Sewanee: The University of the South, he is a recipient of several Fulbright and National Endowment for the Humanities awards. His Ph.D. is from UNC-Chapel Hill.
MATTHEW BISHOP
Wising Up Press Intern Emeritus
I am originally from Alma,
Georgia. I graduated from Georgia Southern University (GSU) with a
Bachelor's in English Literature, and am currently studying at Hollins for an MFA in poetry. I worked at Wising Up Press as an intern for a year between college and graduate school. I
was a finalist in the Clapboard House fiction contest judged by Dorothy Alison,
and winner of GSU's Roy F. Powell award in poetry. I especially enjoy
contemporary poetry and the Beat poets. My favorite authors are Lyn Hejinian,
C.K. Williams, Allen Ginsberg, and Andrew Hudgins. I love music, and can play
guitar and piano. The word "medicine" makes me think of peppermint. And I
refuse to kill anything alive, not even spiders, of which I am afraid.
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