Category: The Authors

Garrison Keillor has read two of Betsy’s poems on The Writer’s Almanac, and a manuscript of her essays was a semi-finalist in the Graywolf Non-ficti...

  Robin Chapman’s most recent collections are the art portfolio Dappled Things (Paris: Revue K, 2013), a collaboration with Peter Miller’s phot...

Joannie Stangeland’s new book, In Both Hands, was recently released by Ravenna Press, which also published Into the Rumored Spring. Joannie is also the author o...

Aaron Krol’s forthcoming or has previously appeared in the Kenyon Review Online, Measure, the Carolina Quarterly, Ghost Ocean Magazine and others.  

Kathleen Hellen is the author of Umberto’s Night (2012), winner of the Washington Writers’ Publishing House poetry prize, and The Girl Who Loved Mothra (2010). ...

Heather A. Slomski received her M.F.A. from Western Michigan University, after which she held the Axton Fellowship in Fiction at the University of Louisville.  ...

Michael Cohen has been writing and publishing (Kenyon Review, The Humanist, Harvard Review) personal essays since his retirement from teaching. He lives with hi...

Jeff Muse writes and teaches along the Mississippi River in southwestern Wisconsin. Trained in science and environmental education, he recently received an MFA ...

Jim Dameron splits his time between Portland and Lostine, Oregon. In addition to Ascent, his work has appeared in The Missouri Review, Mid-American Review, Nort...

Katharine Coles’ fifth and sixth poetry collections, Ice Blind and Flight, are forthcoming from Red Hen Press.   Recent poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Re...