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Dan Wilcox
Poet Dan Wilcox is the Chair of the Hudson Valley Writers Guild Program Committee. He is an active member of Veterans for Peace and is the host of the Third Thursday Poetry Night at the Social Justice Center in Albany NY, member of the traveling poetry performance group, 3 Guys from Albany, and the poetry scene's unofficial photographer who has photographed and compiled "the world's largest collection of photos of unknown poets." Daniel Nester, professor of English at The College of Saint Rose, writes about Dan, that he is "one of those tireless literary boosters and performers who, in a perfect world, would get six-figure grants for being such an arts entrepreneur. As it stands, he's one of those people who builds the fields, gets phone calls from poets for gigs, hosts them, and lets people do their thing. At any reading in the greater Capital District, you're bound to see Wilcox, flash camera in hand, handing out his quarter-page flyers for his events." Dan is also known for his widely-read and highly-rated blog, DWX, in which he writes about the Albany poetry scene and provides reviews and photographs of area readings.
Mimi Moriarty
Mimi Moriarty is the producer and host of "Write Stuff," a cable access TV program in the Albany, NY area. Her short fiction, poems, essays, and articles have been published in many journals, magazines, and newspapers, including Margie, Alehouse, SLAB, Thema, The Litchfield Review, Rockhurst Review, Connecticut Review, Peregrine, and Irish America. Her chapbook of 23 poems about the aftermath of war, War Psalm, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2007. She also has written a workbook for couples, Let's Watch a Movie: Using Popular Videos to Enrich Your Marriage, which was published by Twenty-Third Publications in 2003. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, and teaches writing workshops for adults and teens. She is currently the Secretary of the Hudson Valley Writers Guild.
Alan Catlin
Alan Catlin has published approximately sixty chapbooks and full length books of poetry and prose since the mid-seventies. He has appeared in hundreds of small press, literary, and university publications. Seventeen of his publications have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, thirteen in poetry and four in fiction. In addition to winning several national chapbooks awards, the most recent being The Evil Genius Award for his book, Suffering Bastards, he has been a finalist for several national book contests including the University of Wisconsin's Brittingham Award, The Pleiades Book Award, and The Quercus Review Book Awards (twice). Two of his books, Animal Acts and Barred on Both Sides (co-written with Paul Weinman), were cited as most neglected books of the year by legendary Wormwood Review publisher, Marvin Malone. Catlin's works have been internationally published and translated into several foreign languages including Spanish, Italian, and Romanian. He is currently at work on several projects including his fictional memoirs, Hours of Happiness and a related sequence of poems, Extreme Art. His most recent chapbooks are Only the Dead Know Albany (Sunnyoutside Press) and The Effects of Sunlight in the Fog (Bright Hill Press). Alan is a Board Member of HVWG.
M. Miriam Herrera
M. Miriam Herrera is a graduate of the Program for Writers (MA) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and has published poems in New Millennium Writings, Nimrod, Blue Mesa Review, Albatross, and other journals. Her chapbook, Kaddish for Columbus, was a finalist in the New Women's Voices Series by Finishing Line Press and is forthcoming. Her poems often explore Mexican American or Chicano life and her Crypto-Jewish and Native American (Cherokee) heritage, but mainly the universal themes of nature, family, myth, and the transcendent experience. She has taught creative writing and Chicano/Latino Literature at University of Illinois, University of New Mexico, and Russell Sage College, Troy, NY. She has lived in the Midwest, Southwest, and Israel, and today makes a home in Malta, New York with her mathematician husband among pine, elderberry, burning bush, sparrows, owls, foxes, and other beloved creatures. Miriam is on the Board of Directors and serves as the Webmaster for the Guild. (Photo by Laura Rasmussen)