PETER LABERGE is an emerging teenage writer. He was recently awarded the 2011 Renee Duke Youth Award.His work is featured or forthcoming in The Blue Pencil Online, Prick of the Spindle, Polyphony H. S., Anti-,and The Claremont Review. He is the editor-in-chief of The Adroit Journal, a literary publication he created to benefit charity.[PSR 22]
BRUCE LADER, originally from New York City, has lived in Oregon, California, on Vancouver Island, and currently residesin Raleigh, North Carolina. He has recent poetry in literary journals including,New Millennium Writings, Potomac Review, and the anthologyPoetic Voices without Borders (Gival Press, 2005). [PSR 7] [PSR 9]
DEBASISH LAHIRI teaches English Literature at Lal Baba College, under the University of Calcutta. His first collection First Will and Testament was published by Writers Workshop, Kolkata, in 2012.He is also a regular contributor to The Statesman, Kolkata. [PSR 25]
DEBASISH LAMARQUE is a contemporary Italian poet known for sharp social commentary and an engaging, intimate, and direct voice. Author of eleven collections of poetry, she is also an important translator, having created Italian versions of Baudelaire’s prose poems; as well as works by Oscar Wilde, Paul Valéry, and Jacques Prévert. [PSR 36]
STEVE LANGAN is the author of a collection of poems, Freezing (New Issues, 2001),and a chapbook, Notes on Exile & Other Poems (Backwaters Press, 2005). His poems have appeared in avariety of journals in the United States. He lives in Omaha, Nebraska, where he is on the Teaching andResidency Faculty of the University of Nebraska MFA in Writing Program. [PSR 13]
SUSANNE LANSMAN is a practice-based PhD candidate at Royal Holloway researching how trauma and resilience are enacted in poetry. She also works in private practice as a trained psychoanalyst in London and is a con-sultant for the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis. Her poetry has appeared in The Rialto, The Interpreter's House, Vaine Magazine, Ink Sweat & Tears, and Under the Radar. [PSR 39]
W. F. LANTRY studied at L'Université de Nice, Boston University, and the University of Houston.In 2010 he won the Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry. His work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Prairie Fire,Ellipsis, Unsplendid, Istanbul Literature Review, and The Wallace Stevens Journal, among other journals. He currently works in Washington, DC. [PSR 19]
NICK LANTZ is the author of three books of poetry, most recently How to Dance as the Roof Caves In (Graywolf Press, 2014). In 2010, former U. S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky selected his second book of poetry, The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House (U of Wisconsin P, 2010), for the Felix Pollack Prize in Poetry. His fourth book, You, Beast, is forthcoming in 2017. He teaches in the Creative Writing program at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. [PSR 29]
SHEREE LA PUMA's work has appeared in The Penn Review, Redivider, Sugar House Review, The Maine Review, The Lascaux Review, Salt Hill Literary Journal, Stand Magazine, Rust + Moth, Mantis, and Catamaran Literary Reader. She earned her MFA in writing from CalArts. A reader for Orange Blossom Review, her latest chapbook, Broken: Do Not Use, was published by Main Street Rag in 2021. [PSR 41]
FIONA LARKIN's poems have appeared in Magma, The North, and Under the Radar, and in the anthologies Best New British and Irish Poets 2018 (Eyewear) and In Transit: Poems of Travel (Emma Press, 2018). She organises poetry events with Corrupted Poetry and her reviews appear online at Sphinx Reviews. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway. [PSR 34]
ELSE LASKER-SCHÜLER was born in 1876in Elberfeld. She lived in Berlin from 1894-1933, was involved in the earlyexpressionist movement and co-editor of the literary periodical DerSturm. Author of prose and poetry, her works include the collectionsDer siebente Tag, Hebräische Balladen, Der Prinz von Thebenand the prose writings Der Malik and Das Hebräerland.She left Germany in 1933 and lived mostly in Israel until her death in 1945. [PSR 4]
ANDREW LATIMER has recently graduated from the University of Glasgow, with First Class Honoursin English Literature. He will be studying for an MA in English at Oxford, St. John’s with a particular interest in Ezra Pound'suse of the typewriter. [PSR 24] [PSR 25]
ALAN CHONG LAU grew up in Paradise, California and received a BA in Art from theUniversity of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of no hurry (Cash Machine, 2007), Blues and Greens: A Produce Worker's Journal (University of Hawai'i Press, 1999), Songs for Jadina(Greenfield Review Press, 1980), and The Buddha Bandits Down Highway 99 (with Lawson Fusao Inada and Garrett Kaoru Hongo; Buddhahead Press, 1978). He serves as Arts Editor for the International Examiner, a Seattle-based Asian American community newspaper. [PSR 13]
CHARLES G. LAUDER, JR is an American poet that has lived in the UK since 2000. His debut collection, The Aesthetics of Breath, was published by V. Press in 2019. He is also the author of two pamphlets, Bleeds (Crystal Clear Creators, 2012) and Camouflaged Beasts (Black Light Engine Room, 2017). Poems have appeared in Green Fuse, California Quarterly, The Interpreter's House,Poetry Monthly, Poetry Nottingham International, Agenda, Stand, and Envoi. [PSR 11] [PSR 40] [PSR 41]
JANET LAUGHARNE's poetry and prose has been published in Acumen, Sarasvati, Atrium, and Prole. She also writes fiction as J. L. Harland with Jacqueline Harrett. What Lies Between Them, their debut novel, was published in February 2022 by Dixi Books. She is Professor Emeritus of Languages in Education (Cardiff Metropolitan University). [PSR 40]
SEAN LAUSE is a professor of English at Rhodes State College in Lima, Ohio, United States. His poems have appeared in The Minnesota Review, The Alaska Quarterly, Another Chicago Magazine, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Illuminations, and Poetry International. His latest books of poems are Midwest Theodicy (2019) and The Ones Within (2020, both Taj Mahal Review). [PSR 36]
LEO LAVERY, aged 69. Graduate from Queen’s University Belfast. Published one smallvolume in 1992: East Down View (Lapwing). [PSR 9]
ANTHONY LAWRENCE has published sixteen books of poems and a novel. He is the winner of the 2022 Peter Porter Poetry Prize for his poem "In the Shadows of Our Heads". His collection Headwaters (Pitt Street Poetry, 2016) won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry. His other awards include the 2015 Philip Hodgins Medal for outstanding contributions to Australian literature, the Blake Poetry Prize (2013), and the Newcastle Poetry Prize (2015). His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Rialto, Magma, Black Box Manifold, Obsessed with Pipework, and Prole. He is a senior lecturer at Griffith University, Queensland, where he teaches Creative Writing. He lives on Moreton Bay, southern Queensland. [PSR 38]
ROBERT LEACH was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, and educated at Pembroke College,Cambridge University. He is a theatre practitioner and historian. He has a PhD from Cambridge University and wasReader in Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham before becoming Senior Lecturer in English andEuropean Literature at Edinburgh University. He has had three collections of poetry published: Boy and Baggage (2001),Sour Cream (2006), and After the Storm (2011; all Dionysia Press). His poetic epic,The Journey to Mount Kailash, was published by Indigo Dreams in 2010. [PSR 7] [PSR 11] [PSR 11]
AOIFE LEAHY was awarded her PhD from the School of English, UCD Dublin, Ireland, supervised by Prof Declan Kiberd. She has taught literature and visual culture in UCC, UCD Dublin, University of Limerick, IADT and DIT. She is currently working on community development projects, with a focus on equality, diversity and inclusion. She is a long-standing committee member of the National Association of English Studies, the Irish society within ESSE. She was a member of the Academic Programme Committee for the ESSE 2016 conference in Galway, Ireland. [PSR 40]
SARAH LEAVESLEY is a journalist, short fiction writer, poet, and editor at V. Press poetry and flash fiction imprint. Winner of the Overton Poetry Prize 2015, her pamphlet-length sequence Lampshades & Glass Rivers was published by Lamplight Press in 2016. Her latest full collections are plenty-fish (Nine Arches Press, 2015) and The Magnetic Diaries (Knives, Forks and Spoons Press, 2015). [PSR 30]
MARIE LECRIVAIN is the editor-publisher of poeticdiversity: the litzine of Los Angeles. She has been published in Aesthetica, Edgar Allan Poetry Journal,The Los Angeles Review, and Non-Binary Review. Her newest book, The Virtual Tablet of Irma Tre (Edgar & Lenore's Publishing House, 2014), is a series of alchemical poems. [PSR 11] [PSR 14] [PSR 19] [PSR 27]
DAVID DODD LEE is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently And Others, Vaguer Presences: A Book of Ashbery Erasure Poems (BlazeVOX, 2017) and Animalities (Four Way Books, 2014). He is editor of The Glacier and EIC of 42 Miles Press and Associate Professor of English at Indiana University South Bend. His book of collages and erasures, Unlucky Animals, is forthcoming in 2023. His visual art has appeared in three one-person exhibitions since 2014 and in many group shows. [PSR 40]
KAREN AN-HWEI LEE is an Asian American poet from the United States. She is the author of Ardor(Tupelo Press, 2008), In Medias Res (Sarabande Books, 2004), and a chapbook, God's One Hundred Promises(Swan Scythe Press, 2002). She lives and teaches in greater Los Angeles, California, where she is a novice harpist. [PSR 21]
WENDI M. LEE was born and raised in Honolulu, and since has lived in rural Kentucky, New York City,and Pittsburgh. In 2005, she received an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, and an MA in Literaturefrom the University of Louisville. She has work forthcoming or published in Plainsongs, Oyez Review, Inkwell,Common Ground Review, Roanoke Review, The Portland Review, PMS Journal, Main Street Rag,and Hawai'i Pacific Review. [PSR 22]
MELISSA LEE-HOUGHTON writes poetry and fiction and reviews for The Short Review.Her work has appeared in Tears in the Fence, Succour, and Stand.[PSR 19]
MARK LEECH has published two chapbooks, London Water (Flarestack, 2008) andChang'an Poems (Original Plus, 2012). His poems and translations have appeared in a wide range of magazinesincluding Agenda, Magma, MPT, The Reader, Tears in the Fence, and The Wolf.[PSR 25]
KAREN LEEDER is Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Oxford.Her translations of contemporary German-language poetry (Volker Braun, Ulrike Almut Sandig, Michael Krüger,Durs Grünbein) have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, PN Review, and Poetry Review.Her translation of Durs Grünbein's "Childhood in the Diorama" won first prize in The Times Stephen SpenderCompetition 2013. Together with David Constantine she edited and translated Rubble Flora: Selected Poems of Volker Braun(Seagull Press, 2014). Her translation of Evelyn Schlag's Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2004) won theSchlegel-Tieck prize in 2005 and she is currently preparing a new volume of Schlag's poetry for Carcanet.[PSR 26]
RICHARD LEIGH is a former editor of Eonta and Musics. He has had asmall collection of poems, The Bellmaker, published (1998), as well as a larger collection, Accidents of Birth(2007, both Nettle Press) and a few poems in various journals and in the Kater Murr's Press series. He lives in London.[PSR 3][PSR 4][PSR 16]
EINO LEINO (1878-1926) is considered the greatest poet of Finland's writtentradition. He was 18 years old when his first major collection was published, followed by 31 other poeticcollections among other major literary works. Leino was the leading force in Finnish poetry during theformative years of the country aspiring for independence during the last period of the Czarist Russia. [PSR 12]
CLAIRE LEJEUNE was born in the Hainaut, Belgium. She is the founder of the internationally renown Cahiers Internationaux de Symbolisme and Réseaux. Her photographic writings - analphabétiques- often feature alongside her poetry. In 1984 she was awarded the Prix Canada-Communauté Française de Belgique de Littératurefor the body of her work. Selected titles: La gangue et le feu (1963),Le pourpre (1966), Le dernier testament (1969), Elle (1969), Mémoire de rien (1972).[PSR 8]
JOHN LEMMON teaches Literature and CreativeWriting in the School of Arts at Surrey University. He has published widelyin English magazines and has a pamphlet coming out this year. He also editsthe literary magazine Retort.[PSR 4]
RAYMOND LEONARD was born at the heightof the Manchester blitz. During his apprenticeship he won a scholarshipto study Engineering, and later gained a PhD. He is author of over twohundred wide-ranging scientific papers, which include a technique now usedto safeguard the ozone layer, and an expert system for cardio-angioplasty. He published a series of novels in the 1980s, whose titles included The Nostradamus Inheritance (1985), OMEGA (1986, both Poplar Press),and Legacy of the Shroud (Star Books, 1988). [PSR 7]
ALEXANDER LERNET-HOLENIA (1897-1976) was the author of 25 plays, 24 novels, many short stories, novellas, poetry collections, essays, biographies, translations, radio and television plays. Throughout his wide ranging oeuvre, he conveys the image of an Austria haunted by the social and political elementsof the lost Austro-Hungarian Empire. Except for his popular stage comedies and his poetry, much of his workwas banned after the 1938 Anschluss of Austria to Nazi Germany. Mars im Widder (1941) is considered to be theonly Austrian resistance novel published in the Third Reich. He was the president of the Austrian PEN Club from 1969to 1972. No poetry collection in English translation has been published so far. [PSR 24]
LOUISE LANDES LEVI was born in New York City in 1944. She graduated with honors from the University of California at Berkeley. She has lived in the Netherlands, Italy, India, and the USA.Her books include Departure (Guus Bauer, 1986), Concerto (City Lights Books, 1988), Extinction (Left Hand Books, 1990), The Tower (Il Bagatto, 1994), and Guru Punk (Cool Grove Press, 1999). [PSR 13]
JOHN LEVY is a lawyer in Tucson, Arizona who works for the Public Defender's Office doing felony trial work. His most recent publicationis Twelve Poems, published by tel-let in their on-line series. He has recently published work in the following magazines: First Intensity, CLWN WR, Shearsman, and NOON: Journal of the Short Poem. [PSR 6] [PSR 9] [PSR 12]
JENNY LEWIS is a poet and playwright who teaches poetry at Oxford University. Her latest work includes After Gilgamesh (Pegasus Theatre, Oxford 2011), Taking Mesopotamia (Oxford Poets/ Carcanet 2014) and The Flood: Extract from Gilgamesh Retold (Mulfran Press, 2017). In 2012 she was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship to study Babylonian and begin work on a new version of the Epic of Gilgamesh which she has continued as part of a PhD at Goldsmiths, London University. The resulting book, Gilgamesh Retold, has won the Warden's Prize at Goldsmiths and been shortlisted for a Gladstone's Library Residency. It was published by Carcanet Press in October 2018. [PSR 32]
SIMON LEYLAND is based in Co. Galway, Ireland. He has had two pamphletspublished, The Ramblings of an Unkempt Man (2010) and The Language of Exile (2011, both Erbacce Press).He is currently working on his first novel which will be published by Windmill Books in early 2012.[PSR 20]
TIM LIARDET is Professor of Poetry at Bath Spa University, England, and hasproduced seven collections of poetry. Seren published three collections – Competing with the Piano Tuner(1998, Poetry Book Society Special Commendation, short-listed for the Whitbread Poetry Prize),To the God of Rain (2003, Poetry Book Society Recommendation), and The Blood Choir(2006, Arts Council England Writer's Award, Poetry Book Society Recommendation, shortlisted for T. S. Eliot Prize).The Storm House is his latest collection (Carcanet, 2011). Madame Sasoo Goes Bathing, a pamphlet,appears later this year from Shoestring Press. [PSR 24]
BÉATRICE LIBERT was born in Amaybut now lives in Liège where she works as a teacher, librarian andpoetry critic. Selected titles: La langue du désir et du déssaroi(1992), Le bonheur inconsolé (1997), Le rameur sans rivage(1999), Un arbre cogne à la vitre (2000), Litanie pour un doute (2004).[PSR 8]
ROBERT LIETZ (born 1946) is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Ohio Northern University.His poems have appeared in, among others, Agni Review, Antioch Review, Carolina Quarterly, Epoch,The Georgia Review, Mid-American Review, The Missouri Review, The North American Review,The Ontario Review, Poetry, and Shenandoah. He is the author of seven collections of poems.[PSR 22]
KATE LIGHT lives in New York City. Her poems have appeared in magazines such asDark Horse, The Paris Review, Hudson Review, Washington Post Book World, Barrow Street,Kean Review, Wisconsin Review, Dogwood, Carolina Quarterly, and The Formalist.Three books of poetry: The Laws of Falling Bodies (Story Line Press, 1997), Open Slowly (Zoo Press, 2003),and Gravity's Dream (West Chester University Poetry Center, 2006). [PSR 24]
RICHARD LIGHTHOUSE, a writer and poet, is also an inventor, artist,pilot, and musician. He holds an MS from Stanford University. His work has been published inWest Hills Review, Red Cedar Review, Mudfish and other magazines.[PSR 10][PSR 14]
ISIDRO LI was born in Havana, Cuba, and currently resides in the United States. His work has been published by Chicago Review, Poetry Magazine, and Reliquiae. [PSR 40]
NANCY FENG LIANG is a bilingual poet and translator living in Massachu-setts and North Carolina. She has translated Henry David Thoreau's Wild Fruits into Chinese (Culture and Development Press, 2018) and Chen Xianfa's Poems in Nines (publ. in China by Anhui Education Press, 2018). Qi Cun Tie is her most recent poetry collection (Taiwan Showwe Press, 2020). She graduated from Harvard University with an MA in 2004. [PSR 40]
IRA LIGHTMAN currently works around Durhamand Newcastle in disability support, creative writing teaching, IT forbeginners and poetry in schools. His 200+ pp of small press publications are itemised in, for example, O to Subject (Liverpool: Radiator,2003); and, more fully, Hands across a Love Culture (Hereford: Spanner,1999). His first full-length book, Trancelated, is free atwww.ubu.com/ubu. [PSR 7]
CLIFFORD LILES lives in Hereford but has travelled, lived and worked in several countries. His poems have been published in Acumen, Orbis, London Grip, The Cannon's Mouth, and Dream Catcher. His collection of poems, The Thin Veneer, was published by Dempsey & Windle in July 2022. [PSR 39] [PSR 41]
JOANNE LIMBURG has published two books of poetry with Bloodaxe: Femenismo (2000)and Paraphernalia (2007). A memoir, The Woman Who Thought Too Much, is forthcoming from Atlantic Books in 2010.She is currently Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge. [PSR 17]
GREVEL LINDOP has seven collections of poems published by Carcanet Press, most recently Luna Park (2015). Other books include biographies of Thomas De Quincey and Charles Williams; Travels on the Dance Floor (Welbeck, 2010); and A Literary Guide to the Lake District (Random House, 1993). He is currently writing a book on the spiritual life and poetry of W. B. Yeats. [PSR 40]
JOW LINDSAY grew up in South Africa and now lives in London. He is one of the editors of Bad Press. He also writes as Francis Crot and Helen Bridwell and a dozen other pseudonyms, though one hears his real name pronounced as Joe. Neither he nor his avatars have a glue-for-binding book in the world yet,though the one called Crot has published forty-four pages of a cut-up novel-with-verse that, if it's ever finished, mightbe titled The Tragedy of Beyoncé Knowles. [PSR 15]
FRANÇOISE LISON-LEROY lives and works as a teacher in Tournai. She is as well known for her plays and short storiesas she is for her poetry. Selected titles: La mie de terre est bonne(1983), L'apprivoise (1984), Elle, d'urgence (1989), Paysgéomètre (1991), Lettres d'appel (1996), Marie-Gasparine(1999), Le dit de petite elle (2000). [PSR 8]
JACK LITTLE (b. 1987) is a British-Mexican poet, editor and translator based in Mexico City and Palma de Mallorca. He is the author of Elsewhere (Eyewear, 2015) and is the founding editor of The Ofi Press. He was the Poet-in-Residence at The Heinrich Böll Cottage on Achill Island in the west of Ireland in July 2016. [PSR 31]
PIPPA LITTLE is a Scottish poet based in Northumberland.Two collections: The Spar Box (Vane Women, 2006), a PBS choice, and Foray (Biscuit, 2009). A third, Overwintering, out 2012 from OxfordPoets, Carcanet. Winner of Eric Gregory Award, Northern Arts Award, New Writing North Promise Award (The Andrew Waterhouse Prize), Young Scots Poet Award, Biscuit International Poetry Prize, Norman MacCaig Centenary Poetry Prize, the Scotsman Hogmanay Haiku Prize. Founder and secretary of Carte Blanche, a women's writing workshop. [PSR 20]
CHRISTOPHER LITTLEWOOD was born in 1992. He was educated in the United States and England and currently lives in Shanghai. [PSR 22]
DAVID LLOYD is the author of ten books, including three poetry collections: Warriors (Salt Publishing, 2012), The Gospel According to Frank (New American Press, 2009), The Everyday Apocalypse (Three Conditions Press, 2002). His fiction titles include Boys: Stories and a Novella; his novel, Over the Line (2013; both Syracuse UP); and a story collection, The Moving of the Water (2018). In 2000, he received the Poetry Society of America's Robert H. Winner Memorial Award. His poems and stories have appeared in Denver Quarterly and Virginia Quarterly Review. He directs the Creative Writing Program at Le Moyne College, USA. [PSR 24] [PSR 39] [PSR 40]
CHARLES LOCK has been Professor of English Literature at the University of Copenhagen since 1996.Prior to that he was Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Raised in England and educated at Oxford, he haswritten extensively on Thomas Hardy and John Cowper Powys. Among the contemporary poets on whom he has published areGeoffrey Hill, Roy Fisher, Les Murray, Derek Walcott, and Anne Blonstein. [PSR 21]
CHRISTOPHER LOCKE (born in Laconia, NH in 1968) received an MFA from Goddard College.His poems have appeared in such magazines as The Literary Review, The Southeast Review, Connecticut Review,Atlanta Review, The Chattahoochee Review, and Agenda. His three chapbooks of poetry are Possessed(Main Street Rag, 2005), Slipping Under Diamond Light (Clamp Down Press, 2002), and How To Burn (Adastra Press, 1995).His first full length collection of poems, End of American Magic, is forthcoming from Salmon.[PSR 16]
DUANE LOCKE, Doctor of Philosophy, EnglishRenaissance literature, Professor Emeritus of the Humanities was Poet inResidence at the University of Tampa for over 20 years. He is also a painter,having many exhibitions, his latest at the city art museum in Gainesvilleand the Polk Historical Theater in Lakeland.[PSR 8]
SHERYL LOEFFLER is a writer and musician who has made Canada her home.She moved to Malta in April 2005 for one glorious snowless year and returned to Canada in May 2006.Her work has been published in literary magazines in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.[PSR 10][PSR 15]
PARVIN LOLOI is a scholar and translatorwith particular interests in the connections between the literatures ofthe English and Persian-speaking worlds. Her study of the English translationsof Hafiz will soon be published by I.B. Tauris of London. [PSR 3]
SALLY LONG has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East London and is aPhD student at Exeter University researching and writing poetry springing from The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. She has had poems published in Agenda, Ink Sweat & Tears, Prole, and Snakeskin.She edits the webzine Allegro Poetry Magazine. [PSR 28]
JOHN LOOKER retired after a career in the British civil service where he worked on EU matters. His poetry has been published by Artemis, Magma, in online journals including Ink Sweat & Tears, Poetry Breakfast and Communion, and has appeared in two anthologies: Indra's Net and the Austin International Poetry Festival's 25th anniversary anthology. His first collection, The Human Hive (Bennison Books), was published in 2015. [PSR 34]
GEORGE LOONEYis the founder of the BFA in Creative Writing Program at Penn State Erie,editor-in-chief of Lake Effect, translation editor of Mid-American Review, and co-founder of the ChautauquaWriters' Festival. His latest books are Meditations before the Windows Fail (Lost Horse Press, 2015), Structures the Wind Sings Through (Full/Crescent Press, 2014), Monks Beginning to Waltz (Truman State UP, 2012), and A Short Bestiary of Love and Madness (Stephen F. Austin State UP, 2011). [PSR 28]
SANTOS LÓPEZ was born in Anzoátegui state, Venezuela, in 1955 and graduated in Media Studies atthe Universidad Central de Venezuela. He was co-founder and for many years director of the Casa de la Poesía "Pérez Bonalde",which organized a yearly international "Poetry Week". He twice won the Caracas municipal prize for poetry (1986 and 2001). He has published seven books of poetry; in 2004 Grupo Editorial Eclipsidra brought out Soy el animal que creo, ananthology of his work. [PSR 17]
JACK e LORTS lives in a small town in eastern Oregon. His poems have appeared in Arizona Quarterly, Kansas Quarterly, English Journal, and more recently in online magazines such as Haggard and Halloo, Eunoia Review, Chiron Review, Phantom Drift, and Locust. Author of three earlier chapbooks, Uttered Chaos Press published The Love Songs of Ephram Pratt in 2019. [PSR 37]
YANN LOVELOCK is a Birmingham (UK) based writer and translator whose Landscape With Voices was publishedby University of Salzburg Press in 1995. As a Buddhist, he has been widelyinvolved in educational work and inter-faith dialogue. Currently he isalso involved in inner-city Capacity Building and edits his area's community newspaper, Bright Spark, in characteristically lively manner. [PSR 1]
EDWARD LOWBURY has published over twentycollections of poems, including Time for Sale (1961),Daylight Astronomy (1968), The Night Watchman (1974), Selected &New Poems (1990), Collected Poems (1993), and Mystic Bridge(1997). Also Hallmarks of Poetry: Reflections on a Theme (Essays, 1994). He is co-author, with Alison Young, of To Shirk No Idleness (Poetry Salzburg), a critical biography of her father, the poet Andrew Young. [PSR 1]
HANNAH LOWE's first poetry collection, Chick (Bloodaxe, 2013), won the Michael Murphy Memorial Award for Best First Collection. Her second collection, Chan, is published by Bloodaxe (2016). She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Brunel University, London. [PSR 33]
TOM LOWENSTEIN, born near London in 1941, studied at Cambridge University. He taught English and Creative Writing at Northwestern University, worked for the Alaska State Museum and spent a year, in the mid-1970s, in an Alaskan Eskimo village, recording and translating its legends and histories. Collections: The Death of Mrs Owl (Anvil, 1977), Filibustering in Samsara (Many Press, 1987), Ancient Land: Sacred Whale (Bloomsbury, 1993), and Ancestors and Species: New & Selected Ethnographic Poetry (Shearsman, 2005). [PSR 15]
HARRY LOWERY's first two collections are An Enquiry into the Delight of Existence and the Sublime (Austin Macauley, 2020) and Being and Becoming (Amazon, 2021). His poems have appeared in Publishers Weekly, The Lancaster Flash Literary Journal, Sylvia Magazine, and NARC Magazine. He is studying for an MA in Creative Writing at Lancaster University. [PSR 39]
Former British Judo champion, OWEN LOWERY suffered a spinal injury while competing and is now a tetraplegic. He has a First Class Honours BA, two Master’s Degrees, and a PhD in the poetry of Keith Douglas. His poetry has appeared in The Independent, PN Review, Stand, The Times, and The Guardian. He has published two collections, Otherwise Unchanged (2012) and Rego Retold (2015; both Carcanet). He has performed all over the UK, and has worked with organisations, film-makers, musicians, and artists, including Carol Ann Duffy, Dame Paula Rego, Anna Cady, LA Productions, Arts Council England, Unlimited, and the BBC. [PSR 34] [PSR 35] [PSR 39]
RUPERT M. LOYDELL is Senior Lecturer in English with Creative Writing atUniversity College Falmouth, and the editor of Stride magazine. From 1982-2008 he was the Managing Editor of Stride Books.He is the author of several collections of poetry, including the recent Boombox from Shearsman (2009),and A Music Box of Snakes, co-authored with Peter Gillies, from Knives, Forks & Spoons Press (2011). [PSR 5] [PSR 11] [PSR 16] [PSR 19]
YI LU (born 1956) is a theatre scenographer who leads a parallel life as a poet.Since the 1980s, she has established herself as one of the most widely-read female poets in contemporary China.Currently serving as a design artist at the People's Art Theatre in Fujian, she is also ranked as China'sforemost theatrical stage and set designer. She lives in the southern coastal city of Fuzhou. [PSR 20]
CURTIS LUCKEY currently resides in North Hollywood, CA. He holds a BA in Creative Writingfrom Cal State Northridge. [PSR 27]
RICHARD LUFTIG is a Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology and Special Education atMiami University in Ohio (USA). His poems have appeared in Borderlands Poetry Review, Plainsongs, and Wisconsin Review. His third chapbook Off the Map was published by Dos Madres Press in 2007. He and his wife currently reside in California. [PSR 18]
DAVID LUKENS lives in Wiltshire. He started writing late, initially novels for young adults, then poetry. His work has been published in Acumen, Brittle Star, Orbis, Butcher's Dog, and The Interpreter's House. In 2020 he won the Frosted Fire Firsts competition run by the Cheltenham Poetry Festival and his pamphlet, One Brief Wave, was published in 2021 by Frosted Fire. [PSR 40]
TATJANA LUKIC published four books of poetry across former Yugoslavia, and won a few national awards in the 1980s. Philosophy& sociology graduate from University of Sarajevo, lived in Croatia,Bosnia, Serbia and the Czech Republic, and worked as a college teacher,researcher and editor. In 1992 migrated to Australia, and did not write for years. Lives in Canberra, works as a researcher, and now writes andtranslates poetry again. Publishes in literary journals across continents. [PSR 9]
JULIE LUMSDENwas born in 1947, grew up in Kent, Shropshire and Germany, and now lives in Chesterfield. She now has a full collection, Dog Days (Shoestring, 2022), which makes her happy to think of herself as a retired poet (almost). [PSR 40]
RANDY LUNDY is a member of the Barren Lands (Cree) First Nation, Brochet, Manitoba, Canada. He is the author of four award-winning full-length books of poetry, most recently Field Notes for the Self (2020), Blackbird Song (2018, both University of Regina Press), and the chapbook In the Dark Times (Frog Hollow Press, 2022). He teaches in the English Department at the University of Toronto, Scarborough and is the Editor of the Oskana Poetry & Poetics series at University of Regina Press. [PSR 39]
TIN LUONG was born in 1995 and calls Melbourne his birthplace. He completed a Masters thesis at La Trobe University, and is currently an editorial assistant with the academic journal Thesis Eleven. [PSR 38]
ALEXIS LYKIARD's contributions to issue4 of PSR are extracts from Jean Rhys Afterwords, a shortsequel to his widely acclaimed Jean Rhys Rivisited (Stride, 2000).He is currently translating Antonin Artaud’s novel Héliogabale,Ou L’Anarchiste Couronné for Creation Books. Lykiard’s new poetrycollection Skeleton Keys will be published by Redbeck Press in 2003. [PSR 2] [PSR 4]
JOHN LYONS, painter and poet, was born in Trinidad in 1933; he lives in Ely, Cambridgeshire. He has published six collections of poetry: Lure of the Cascadura (Bogle-L’Ouverture, 1989), Behind the Carnival (1994), Voices from the Silk Cotton Tree (2002), No Apples in Eden (2009), A Carib Being in Cymru (2015, all smith/doorstop), and Dancing in the Rain (Peepal Tree Press, 2015), a collection of poems for young readers, which was shortlisted for the 2016 CLiPPA award. Cook-up in a Trini Kitchen (Peepal Tree Press, 2009) is a book of recipes, poems, anecdotes, and illustrative drawings. He is the three-times winner of the Peterloo Poets Afro-Caribbean, Asian Poetry Prize (1987, 1988, 1991). In 2013 he received the Windrush Arts Achieve-ment Award. [PSR 31]
ANDRZEJ LYSZKOWICZ was born in 1970 in Olsztyn, Poland. He took his MA in AmericanLiterature at the University of Warsaw and lectured English at Warsaw University of Technology before moving to England.His pamphlet Terrifying Fruit was published by Creative Future in 2013. He lives in Brighton.[PSR 28]