DEBORAH SACKS read English at New College, Oxford and has been studying versification at the Poetry School in London. [PSR 3]
JARED SAGAR is a poet living in Norwich, UK. His work has appeared in The Honest Ulsterman , The Cannon's Mouth , and Ink Sweat & Tears . [PSR 40]
BERNARD SAINT, born in Cheshire in 1950, he has worked as therapist and supervisor in the NHS and in the addiction recovery field. He is a member of the Jungian Guild of Pastoral Psychology and the Group Analytic Society. He lives in Bedford. His books include Testament of the Compass (Search Press, 1978), Illuminati (Greville Press, 2011), and Roma (Smokestack, 2016). [PSR 30] [PSR 33]
SALLY ST CLAIR's poems/flash fiction have been published in Mslexia, Wasifiri, Strix, Rialto, Ambit, Envoi, Frogmore Papers, Poetry Scotland, Raceme, and ARC. A memoir appeared in Death of a Mother: Daughters' Stories (Eds. Rosa Ainley/Dorothy Rowe, Rivers Oram Press, 1994). In 2012 she won the Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry. [PSR 41]
MICHAEL SALCMAN is a physician, brain scientist, and essayist on the visual arts. He was chairman of Neurosurgery at the University of Marylandand president of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore. Recent poems appeared in such magazines as Alaska Quarterly Review, New Letters, The Ontario Review, Harvard Review, Rattle, and New York Quarterly. He is the author of four chapbooks and a collection, The Clock Made of Confetti (Orchises Press, 2007). [PSR 17]
JANE SALMONS lives in Stourbridge in the Black Country. She has an MA with distinction in Creative Writing from the Open University. Her poems have been published in Ink Sweat & Tears, The Ekphrastic Review, The Eunoia Review, and Amaryllis. She has previously won “Poem of the Month” in Ink Sweat & Tears and Creative Writing Ink. One of her poems was published in The Emma Press Anthology of Illness (2020). [PSR 36]
WENDY SALOMAN lives in London with herhusband, a ceramic sculptor. She studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and later as a mature student read History of Ideas at Middlesex Polytechnic, finally opting out to follow her own course of education. Her first collected poems, Syllables and Leaves, was published by Poetry Salzburg / Salzburg UP in 1998. [PSR 6] [PSR 14]
APRIL SALZANO obtained a Masters Degree in English from Queen Mary College, University of London and is an English Instructorat Penn State University. Her work has appeared in Allegheny Review and Ascent Aspirations. [PSR 18]
CHIARA SALOMONI is Italian and lives in London. Her poems and translations have been published in Acumen, Climate Revolution, The Blue Nib, Eunoia Review, Poem, WordCity Monthly, Wild Court, The High Window, and The Poetry Village. She is a member of Tideway Poets and poetry p f. [PSR 38]
NICHOLAS SAMARAS is from Patmos, Greece and, at the time of the Greek Junta military dictatorship was brought in exile to be raised further in America. His first book of poetry, Hands of the Saddlemaker (Yale University Press) received the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Survivors of the Moving Earth (Poetry Salzburg, 1997) reflects his international focus. He edited To the Country of that Spirit: Selected Poems & Essays of Alexandros Gialas (a.k.a. G. Verites), and wrote the Introduction to the collection, published in Greece and Korea (1998). His most recent book is American Psalm, World Psalm (Ashland Poetry Press, 2014). Samaras serves as the Poetry Editor for The Adirondack Review, is a faculty member/mentor for the Kahini Writers Group, and lives with his family in West Nyack, New York. [PSR 36]
DENNIS SAMPSON's seventh book of poetry, The Lunatic in the Trees, will be published by Settlement House Press in the Fall of 2012. He lives in Winston-Salem, NC. [PSR 22]
FIONA SAMPSON has published fourteen books- poetry, philosophy of language and books on the writing process - of which the most recent are The Distance Between Us (Seren, 2005), Writing: Self and Reflexivity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), and Common Prayer(Carcanet, 2007). Her awards include the Newdigate Prize; 'Trumpeldor Beach'was short-listed for the 2006 Forward prize; and she has been widely translated,with eight books in translation, including Travel Diary, awarded the 2003 Zlaten Prsten in Macedonia. She contributes to The Guardian, The Irish Times and other publications; she is the editor of Poetry Review. [PSR 12]
LISA SAMUELS works with experimental writing, multi-modal art, and relational theory in transnational life. Her recent books include a prose meditation, The Long White Cloud of Unknowing (Chax 2019), and a long lockdown poem, Breach (Boiler House 2021). Partizanska Press will publish a Serbian version of her novel Tender Girl (translator Milan Pupezin) in 2022. She lives in Tamaki Makaurau/Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand. [PSR 38]
XE M. SÁNCHEZ was born in 1970 in Grau (Asturies, Spain). He received his PhD in History from the University of Oviedo in 2016, he is anthropo-logist, and he also studied Tourism and has three masters. He has published seven books in the Asturian language. His latest poetry appears in Adelaide Literary Magazine, The Bombay Review, Amsterdam Quarterly, Revue Méninge, Otoliths, and Poetry Potion. [PSR 36]
JORDAN SANDERSON is a PhD student at The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. His poems have appeared in Red River Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Wavelength: Poems in Prose and Verse and Watershed. [PSR 9]
STEWART SANDERSON is a first year PhD candidate in Scottish Literature at Glasgow University. His poems have appeared in Cyphers, Gutter, Irish Pages, Magma, Poetry Review, and Poetry Wales.[PSR 25]
VICTOR DAVID SANDIEGO lives in the high desert of central M&ecute;xico where he walks the citiesand mountains, plays drums with jazz combos and in musical / poetry collaborations, writes, and studies. [PSR 26]
EDOARDO SANGUINETI (1930-2010) was an Italian poet, critic and politician who was born in Genoa. During the 1960s he was a leader of the neo avant-garde "Gruppo 63" movement, founded in 1963 at Solunto. He was an expert on Dante,taught literature at several Italian universities, wrote plays and essays as well as poems.He was also an active translator of Joyce, Molière, Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, andselect Greek and Latin authors. From 1979 until 1983, Sanguineti was a member of theChamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament. [PSR 19]
KAARLO SARKIA (1902-1945) is at times noted as Apollo of Finnish poetry, although he published only four poetic collections during his short lifetime. An admired lyricist with a perfect sense of language, he was also recognized as a distinguished translator of a widespectrum of French and also Italian poetry from that period. [PSR 13]
NIKOS SARRIS was born in 1944 on Paros andeducated in Athens. Married with three children, he directs Paros' largestforeign language Phrontisterion. He has translated all of Archilochos into Modern Greek, and the Odes of Kalvos and the Collected Poems ofElytis into English. He also directs the Archilochos chorus of Paros. [PSR 7]
ALEXANDRA SASHE was born in 1976 in Moscow, where she studied Painting, Linguistics, and Literature and lives in Austria now. She is a bilingual poet, she writes in English and in French, linguist, and translator. She is regular contributor to the literary reviews and magazines in the UK and France, where she spent many years of her life, and in Austria where she lives now. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Antibodies (2013), Convalescence Dance (2018), and Days of Earthly Exile (2021, all Shearsman Books). [PSR 21] [PSR 24] [PSR 27] [PSR 30] [PSR 37]
LESLEY SAUNDERS has several poetry books and pamphlets published, most recently Cloud Camera (Two Rivers Press, 2012). She has won several major awards, including joint first prize in the 2008 Manchester Poetry competition for a portfolio of poems. She works in educational research. [PSR 23]
LINDA SAUNDERS's poems have been published in magazines like Acumen, Agenda, New Welsh Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales,The Rialto, Scintilla, The Warwick Review, and The Tree Line (Worple Press, 2017). She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics. A Touch on the Remote (Arrowhead Press, 2016) is her fourth collection. She won the 2019 Teignmouth Open Poetry Competition. [PSR 26] [PSR 30] [PSR 35]
GEOFF SAWERS and PETER HAY both lived by the Thames in Reading for many years. Together they have produced a number of books and pamphlets, including The Ancient Boundary of Reading, A Ladder for Mr. Oscar Wilde, and an edition of Rimbaud's The Drunken Boat (all from Two Rivers Press, 1995-99). They are currently working on A Thames Bestiary. [PSR 3] [PSR 5]
GEOFF SAWERS's previous collections include Scissors Cut Rock (Flarestack, 2005) and A Thames Bestiary with Peter Hay (Two Rivers Press, 2008). He lives in Reading, UK. [PSR 39]
SAMANTHA SCHAEFER received her MFA in Poetry as a Follett Fellow at Columbia College Chicago. She has worked as co-editor of Black Tongue Review and was Writer-in-Residence at Brushcreek Foundation for the Arts as well as a Working Writer-in-Residence at The Poetry Farm. Her poetry has received two Pushcart Prizes and has appeared in TYPO, Columbia Poetry Review, Ghost Ocean Magazine, Brill | Sense publishers' anthology, Science-Based Vulnerability: Scientists and Poets, and #RESIST. [PSR 39]
M. A. SCHAFFNER has poetry recently published or forthcoming inPoetry Ireland Review, Magma, Stand, and Dalhousie Review. Other work includesthe collection The Good Opinion of Squirrels (Word Works, 1997), the novel War Boys (Welcome Rain, 2002), and the memoir Good-Bye to All This (PBGC, 2009). [PSR 1] [PSR 19]
LISA SCHANTL is a graduate of American Literature at the University of Graz. She is the founding editor-in-chief of Tint Journal and project assistant at the Institute for Art in Public Space Styria at the Universalmuseum Joanneum. Her journalistic and critical work has appeared in Anzeiger, PARADOX, schreibkraft, The Montclarion and Versopolis, and her creative writing and translations in Artists & Climate Change, Asymptote, Otherwise Engaged, The Normal Review, and UniVerse. [PSR 38]
EGON SCHIELE was born in 1890 in Tulln, near Vienna. In 1909 he founded the Neukunstgruppe (New Art Group). From about 1910 to 1915 he also wrote poems. After his first solo exhibitionin 1911 Schiele began developing the Expressionist style - vibrant colours, angular structures, often melancholy moods - which characterises his paintings, graphic work and poems. Living openly with Edith Harms (whom he married in 1915), and painting many young women and girls estranged him from thelocal community. Having just achieved recognition and material success,he died of Spanish 'flu in 1918. [PSR 5]
RICHARD SCHIFFMAN is an environmental journalist, poet, and author of two biographies. His work has appeared in The New York Times, BBC Radio, Writer’s Almanac, and This American Life in Poetry. His poetry collection What the Dust Doesn't Know was published by Salmon Poetry in 2018. [PSR 37]
ROBERT SCHINDEL was born in 1944 in Bad Hall, Upper Austria. His Jewish Communist parents were arrested for working with the anti-fascist resistance and deported to Auschwitz. His mother survived, his father wasmurdered in Dachau. Robert Schindel survived under wrong name in a Nazi children's home. He was active in the 1968 student movement and was founder of the "Kommune Wien". He lives in Vienna as a librarian and book dealer. Works: Ohneland(1986), Gebürtig (1992), Gott schütze uns vor den guten Menschen (1995), Mein liebster Feind (2004). [PSR 12]
Austrian writer EVELYN SCHLAG's most recent book of poetry is verlangsamte raserei(Zsolnay, 2014). Sprache von einem anderen Holz from which this selection is taken, was published by Zsolnay in 2008.She is also the author of several novels. She translated Douglas Dunn's Elegies into German and was Lecturer for Poetry at the Institut für Sprachkunst (University of Applied Arts Vienna) in 2010/2011. Her Selected Poems, translated by Karen Leeder, was published by Carcanet in 2004. [PSR 26]
EDUARD SCHMIDT-ZORNER is a translator and writer of poetry, haibun, haiku, and short stories. He writes in four languages – English, French, Spanish, and German – and holds workshops on Japanese and Chinese style poetry and prose and experimental poetry. Member of four writer groups in Ireland. Lives in County Kerry, Ireland. He writes also under his penname Eadbhard McGowan. [PSR 39]
MYRA SCHNEIDER has had eleven full collections of poetry published, the most recent one is Siege and Symphony (Second Light Publications, 2021). Her other collections are mainly from Enitharmon Press (The Door to Colour, 2014) and Ward Wood (Lifting the Sky, 2018). Also recent is the pamphlet Persephone in Finsbury Park (SLP 2016). Other publications include books about personal writing, notably Writing My Way through Cancer (Jessica Kingsley, 2003) and Writing Your Self with John Killick (Continuum, 2008), and novels for young people. Her work has been published in Agenda, Critical Quarterly, London Magazine, The North, Poetry Review, and The Rialto. It has been broadcast on BBC Radio Four and Radio Three. She is consultant to the Second Light Network of women poets and tutors for the Poetry School. [PSR 35] [PSR 39]
E. M. SCHORB's poetry collections include Time and Fevers: New and Selected Poems(AuthorHouse, 2004), A Fable and Other Prose Poems (Argonne Press, 2002), and Murderer's Day(received the Verna Emery Poetry Prize; Purdue UP, 1998). His poems have appeared in Agenda, The Antioch Review,The Chicago Review, The Hudson Review, The Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, Stand, and The Yale Review.[PSR 3][PSR 6][PSR 20][PSR 23][PSR 26]
MATT SCHUMACHER is a vagabond transplant who considers himself an Oregonian. His collections Spilling the Moon (2008)and Fire Diaries (2010) were both published by Wordcraft of Oregon. He is poetry editor for a magazine of New Fabulism andFantastic Literature named Phantom Drift. [PSR 21]
Born in Pottsville, Pennsylvannia, in 1958, GERALD SCHWARTZ is the author of Only Others Are (LEGIBLE books, 2003). He lives in West Irondequoit, New York. [PSR 10]
GEORGIA SCOTT is a poet and scholar. Her most recent poetry publications are The Good Wife (Poetry Salzburg, 2001, 2nd ed. 2002), The Penny Bride (Salzburg: PoetrySalzburg, 2004), and Dreams of Fires: 100 Polish Poems 1970-1989 (Poetry Salzburg, 2004) with David Malcolm. Georgia Scott is the pseudonym of Cheryl Alexander Malcolm, Associate Professor of English at the University of Gdansk in Poland. Her other publications include bookson Jean Rhys and Anita Brookner. Read more about Georgia Scott on our homepage. [PSR 2] [PSR 3] [PSR 5] [PSR 7]
JOSEPHINE SCOTT was born in Northumberland and spent her childhood in Australia. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Northumbria University, and feels fortunate to have had two poetry collections, Sparkle and Dance (2009) and Rituals (2014), published by Red Squirrel Press. Poems have appeared in both the Double Bill (RSP, 2014) and Limerick Nation (Iron Press, 2014) anthologies. [PSR 32]
MAURICE SCULLY was born in Dublin in 1952. Books include: 5 Freedoms of Movement(Galloping Dog Press, 1987), The Basic Colours (Pig Press, 1994), Steps (Reality Street, 1998), Livelihood (Wild Honey Press, 2004), Tig (Shearsman, 2006), and Sonata (Reality Street, 2006). At the end of 2008, Doing the Same in English appeared from Dedalus Press which samples his work between 1987 and 2008. [PSR 5] [PSR 15]
STEPHANIE SEARS is a Franco-American anthropologist specialized in the South Pacific. She has lived all over the place: Paris, Marseille, New York, Hong Kong, Marquesas Islands, Barcelona, and now Verona. Poetry published in RiverSedge, ArtWord, The Long Island Quarterly, California Quarterly, and The Amherst Review. [PSR 16] [PSR 19]
DAVID SEDDON is from Liverpool and works as a counsellor in Congleton, Cheshire. His poems have appeared
in Agenda, The Interpreter’s House, Poems in the Waiting Room, Antiphon, Ink Sweat and Tears, and Lighten Up Online. He was Associate Editor
of the sonnet anthology The Phoenix Rising from the Ashes (Friesen Press, 2013). He is a landscape photographer and counsel-ling blogger and
has worked as a teacher, a musician, and for the Royal Navy.
[PSR 31]
JOHN SEE's published writing includes an investigative article, "The Union-Busting Consultant Spreading Far-Right Conspiracy Theories", in In These Times and a poem,
"Half-Eaten Orange #2", in Art Source. His short story “You and Ivy” will be published in Allium in late 2024. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Western Michigan University.
[PSR 41]
IAN SEED is editor of Shadowtrain books and webzine. His most recent publications are Italian Lessons (LikeThisPress, 2017), Identity Papers (Shearsman, 2016) and The Thief of Talant (Wakefield, 2016; the first translation into English of Pierre Reverdy’s Le Voleur de Talan). New York Hotel is published by Shearsman in 2018. [PSR 14] [PSR 17] [PSR 25] [PSR 29] [PSR 32]
JOHN SEED lives in London. He is a historian and is the author, inter alia, of eleven collections of verse, most recently Smoke Rising: London 1940-1 (Shearsman, 2015) and Brandon Pithouse (Smokestack, 2016). [PSR 31]
GAVIN SELERIE was born in London, where he still lives. He was formerly a lecturer at Birkbeck College. His books include Azimuth (Binnacle, 1984), Roxy (1996) and Le Fanu's Ghost (Five Seasons, 2006) - all long sequences with linked units. Music’s Duel: New and Selected Poems 1972-2008 was published by Shearsman in 2009. Hariot Double (Five Seasons, 2016) is a juxtaposition of jazz, science and other modes of discovery. He often collaborates with poet and graphic artist Alan Halsey, as in Days of '49 (West House, 1999). His critical work includes studies of Charles Olson and Edward Dorn. An interview, in 5 parts, is available at: www.shearsman.com/ws-blog/ category/210-gavin-selerie. [PSR 10] [PSR 30]
ELISABETH SENNITT CLOUGH is the author of Glass (PaPer Swans Press, 2016; Best Pamphlet Saboteur Awards 2017), At or Below Sea Level (2019; both PaPer Swans Press) and a full collection, Sightings (Pindrop Press, 2016; Michael Schmidt Award for Best Portfolio). A poem from Sightings was published in the Forward Book of Poetry 2018. Other poems have appeared in The Rialto, Poem, Mslexia, Magma, and Stand. [PSR 33]
DAVID SERGEANT grew up in Cornwall, and now works as a Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Plymouth University. He has published academic work on Robert Burns, Ted Hughes, and Kipling's prose, and hashad poems published in PN Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, andStand. His first collection, Talk Like Galileo, was published in 2010 by Shearsman. [PSR 28]
IGOR SEVERYANIN (1887-1941) is almost unknown in the West, yet in Russia he is considered an important, though controversial, figure. He was well-thought of by his gifted contemporaries, and at a gathering in Moscow in 1918 he was crowned 'King of the Poets',leaving Mayakovski in second place. But he didn't appear to reciprocatesuch respect, for in 1934 he published Medallions, a set of 100 sonnets dedicated to individual poets and composers, the tone of which ranges from a certain degree of respect to mockery, sarcasm and downright derision. All the examples in this book are from this collection. Tsvetaeva called him 'a poet graced by God', but his poem to her is particularly vicious, and Pasternak fares little better. Severyanin led the splinter-group known as the Ego-Futurists. [PSR 11]
MOHAMMAD-REZA SHAFI-I-KADKANI, known as Sereshk,was born in 1939 in Kadkan near Neishapur, Iran. His poems, reflecting Iran's social conditions during the 1940s and 1950s, are replete with memorable images and ironies. He has authored eight collections of poetry, eightbooks of research and criticism, two book-length translations from Arabic,one on Islamic mysticism from English. He has also published three scholarly editions of classical Persian literature. He is a professor of Persian literature at Tehran University. [PSR 10]
JILL SHARP worked as a tutor for the Open University for nearly 20 years, and also worked with excluded teenagers. Ye Gods (Indigo Dreams, 2015) was her debut pamphlet. Her poems have appeared in Acumen, Envoi, The Frogmore Papers, Mslexia, London Grip, Under the Radar, Prole, and Stand. Her work features in a six-poet collection from Arachne Press: Vindication (2018). She lives in Swindon. [PSR 30] [PSR 37] [PSR 40]
MICHAEL SHARP was educated at universities in Britain and the United States andteaches at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan where he specializes in Caribbean poetry and the literatures in English of West and South Africa. His poems have been published in The Caribbean andThe Times Literary Supplement. [PSR 26]
MICHAEL SHCHERBA lives in Kazakhstan.
M. P. A. SHEAFFER is a Professor in theDivision of Humanities and Social Sciences at Millersville University of Pennsylvania. A member of the Poetry Society of America and the American Academy of Poets, she has edited four anthologies of poetry and has authored Moonrocks and Metaphysical Turnips (2nd ed., Oct. 2000) and Lacquer Birdsand Leaves of Brass. A third volume, Paths, was also published in England in 2000. [PSR 1]
AMY SHEARER was born and raised in thenortheast suburbs of London by American parents. She studied English andGerman for her BA, Jewish History and Culture for her MA, and is currently writing her doctorate the University of Vienna on early Austrian cinemaand turn-of-the-century Austrian art. She's been living in Vienna for two years and works part-time as a journalist and fiction editor. [PSR 3]
HILDA SHEEHAN is a mother of 5 children and has been a psychiatric nurse and Montessori teacher. She is editor of Domestic Cherry magazine and also works for Swindon Artswords (Literature Development) and theSwindon Festival of Poetry. Her first collection, The Night My Sister Went to Hollywood, was published by Cultured Llama Press in 2013. [PSR 23] [PSR 25]
ROBERT SHEPPARD is currently writing a critical book entitledThe Meaning of Form in Contemporary Innovative Poetry. A book of prose pieces from Veer called Unfinish is forthcoming. In October 2015 Shearsman published History or Sleep: Selected Poems and Knives Forks and Spoons his autobiographical work Words Out of Time. He is currently co-creating some fictional poems, which he isintending to curate into an anthology, EUOIA: European Union of Imaginary Authors. He lives in Liverpool, UK, and is Professor at Edge Hill University. [PSR 7] [PSR 12] [PSR 23] [PSR 28]
BRANDON SHIMODA is the author of several books of poetry and prose, most recently The Grave on the Wall (City Lights, 2019), which received the PEN Open Book Award, and The Desert (The Song Cave, 2018). His next book, Hydra Medusa, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books. [PSR 39]
PNINA SHINEBOURNE is originally from Israel, now living in London. She has published academic research work mainly in psychology and psychotherapy, as well as English/Hebrew translations and more recently poetry. Poetry Salzburg published her pamphlet Radioactive in May 2013. Smokestack published her collection Pike in a Carp Pond in 2017. [PSR 23] [PSR 33]
EVIE SHOCKLEY's collections of poetry include the new black (Wesleyan UP, 2011), a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press, 2006), and two chapbooks. She has also written a book of criticism, Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (U of Iowa P, 2011), which considers the intersection of racial politics and artistic invention. Shockley is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where she teaches African American Literature and Creative Writing. [PSR 20]
MICHAEL SHORB was a poet, technical writer, editor, and children's book author who lived in San Francisco. His poems have appeared in The Nation, The Sun,Michigan Quarterly Review, Kansas Quarterly, Shakespeare Newsletter, Commonweal,Religious Humanism, Beatitude, and European Judaism. He passed away on August 8, 2012. His collection Whale Walker's Morning was published posthumously in 2013 by Shabda Press. [PSR 13] [PSR 16] [PSR 20]
JOHN SHORT lives in Liverpool again after years in southern Europe, including long periods in Barcelona and Athens as an agricultural worker, musician and language teacher. He has been published in Atrium, Blue Nib, Dream Catcher, Envoi, The High Window, Picaroon, Prole, Stepaway, Yellow Mama, and Sarasvati. He is a member of Liver Bards and reads at venues around Liverpool and beyond. His full collection Those Ghosts will appear from Beaten Track Publishing later this year. [PSR 35]
DAVE SHORTT is an American author whose work has appeared in Blackbox Manifold, Contra Equus Niveus, Molly Bloom, nth position, The Journal, The Pedestal, Sugar Mule, and Surrealist Star Clustered Illuminations. [PSR 31]
PENELOPE SHUTTLE has lived in Falmouth, Cornwall, since 1970 and is the widow of the poet Peter Redgrove (1932-2003). Her retrospective, Unsent: New & Selected Poems 1980-2012 (Bloodaxe, 2012), drew on ten collections published over three decades plus the title-collection, Unsent. Her later collections from Bloodaxe are Will you walk a little faster? (2017) and Lyonesse (2021). Heath, a collaboration about Hounslow Heath with John Greening, was published by Nine Arches in 2016. Poetry Salzburg published her pamphlet Father Lear in August 2020. [PSR 36] [PSR 41]
CIARA SHUTTLEWORTH was born in San Francisco. Her poetry has been published in Confrontation, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and Tahoma Literary Review. She received an MFA in poetry from University of Idaho, a BFA in painting/drawing from San Francisco Art Institute, and a BA in studio art from Gustavus Adolphus College. She was The Jack Kerouac Project of Orlando’s 51st resident at Jack Kerouac House. Her poetry chapbook, Night Holds Its Own, was published by Blue Horse Press in 2016. [PSR 31]
JOHN SIDDIQUE is the author of ThePrize (Rialto, 2005), Poems from a Northern Soul (Crocus Books,2007), Don't Wear It on Your Head - Poems for Young People (PeepalTree, 2006), editor of Transparency (Crocus Books, 2005) and co-authorof Four Fathers (ROUTE, 2006.) He gives readings, mentors and teachescreative writing in the UK and abroad.[PSR 11]
JEFFREY SIDE has had poetry published in over30 magazines including Poethia, nthposition, eratio,Ancient Heart, Blazevox, P.F.S. Post, hutt,and ken*again. He was the assistant editor of The Argotist(1996-2000). He now runs The Argotist Online website.[PSR 8][PSR 10]
ANGELUS SILESIUS (1624-77) was born JohannesScheffler to a Lutheran family in Breslau. He studied medicine at Strasburg,Leiden and Padua before being appointed court physician to the Duke ofÖls. Influenced by the example of Abraham von Franckenberg and deeplyattached to the traditions of German mysticism, Scheffler became increasinglydissatisfied with orthodox Lutheran doctrine and converted to Catholicismin 1653, adopting the name of Angelus Silesius (the Silesian Angel). Hiscollection of epigrams, the Cherubinischer Wandersmann (The CherubinicTraveller) appeared in 1657. Neglected for almost two centuries, Silesiusis today considered as one of Germany's major religious poets.[PSR 3]
MARTINE SILK is an abstract artist, poet, and songwriter. She is the author of two books:The Dream That Becomes Us (2003) and Bears & Other Shadows (1998; both Edwin Mellen Press).[PSR 28]
D. NEIL SIMMERS is an on-line editor with Fine Lines. He is in the 125thAnniversary of Vancouver issue of subTerrain. He has contributed to California Quarterly, Plainsongs,and Poets Touchstone.as well as The Storyteller.[PSR 23][PSR 27]
IAIN SINCLAIR lives, works and walks inEast London. His novels include White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings(Goldmark, 1987) and Downriver (Paladin, 1991). Psychogeographicalexpeditions have thrown up Lights Out for the Territory (Granta,1998) and London Orbital, Walk around the M25 (Granta, 2002). Poetry,including Lud Heat (Albion Village Press, 1975), has been a privatematter, fugitive presses and modest runs. Autobiographical material - reliableas Ford Madox Ford - can be found in a book-length interview with KevinJackson: The Verbals (Worple Press, 2003).[PSR 5]
PETER SINCLARE was born in 1949 and attendedLeeds University, where he took a degree in Fine Arts / English. He startedwriting poetry when he was 29. Much of his early poetry was published inmagazines such as Great Works. He is also a painter.[PSR 13]
ROGER G. SINGER served as a med-tech at MacDill AFB in Tampa Florida for three in half years during the Vietnam era. While stationed at MacDill he attended evening classes through the University of Tampa. When discharged he began studies at the University of South Florida attaining his Associate and Bachelor degrees. In 1977, he attained his doctorate in chiropractic from Logan College of Chiropractic, St. Louis, Missouri. [PSR 30]
AMRITJIT SINGH, Professor of English at RhodeIsland College, has authored or edited over a dozen books on American andIndian literatures. Most recently, he has co-edited, with Peter Schmidt, Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, Literature (UP of Mississippi,2000) and, with Daniel M. Scott, The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman (Rutgers UP, 2003). [PSR 7]
NICHOLAS SKALDETVIND is an Italian-American poet and papermaker. He received his MA from Stockholm University and is currently an editor for California Quarterly. He has written two chapbooks of poetry: Words That Mattered in the Moment (?Clare Songbirds Publishing House, 2021) and In Keeping with the Noisy Earth (Bottlecap Press, 2023). [PSR 41]
Originally from Ukraine, ASKOLD SKALSKY is a part-time professor at Hagerstown Community College in Western Maryland and has had poems in numerous small pressmagazines and journals, most recently in Cutthroat, Tulane Review, and Inscape.His first book of poems, The Ponies of Chuang Tzu, was published by Horizon Tracts in New York in 2011. [PSR 19] [PSR 24] [PSR 29] [PSR 34]
JEFFERY SKEATE's poems have been publishedin Orbis, zimmerzine, Indefinite Space, Albatross, Abbey, Small Brushes, and elsewhere. He lives in Decorah, Iowa. [PSR 6]
ANITA SKEEN is Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanitiesat Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan where she is the Director of the RCAH Center for Poetryand Arts Coordinator for the college. She is the author of six collections of poetry, editor of one anthology, and a collaborator, with visual artist Laura DeLind, on the forthcoming, The Unauthorized Audubon (February 2014), a collection of linocuts and poems about imaginary birds. She is the co-ordinator of the annual Creative Arts Festival and the Fall Writing Festival at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico. [PSR 24]
K. V. SKENE's latest publications include Only a Dragon and Calendar of Rain, winners of the 2002 and 2004 Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award and published by Micro Prose (Canada). A chapbook, Edith (a series of poems on Nurse Edith Cavell), was recently published by Flarestack (UK). A manuscript, Love in the (Irrational)Imperfect, is due from Hidden Brooke (Canada) in 2006. A long-termexpatriate Canadian, K. V. Skene now lives in Oxford. [PSR 10]
A librarian in another life, JEFF SKINNER has been published in The Morning Star, Poetry News, Prole, and Fenland Poetry Journal. He lives in Exeter, volunteers for his local Food Bank and in the Oxfam bookshop, and plays old blokes' football. He has read at Exeter's Uncut Poets open mic evening a few times and came third in the 2021 Poetry Space competition. [PSR 38]
RICHARD SKINNER has published five books of poems, the most recent of which is Dream into Play (Poetry Salzburg, 2022). His next collection, White Noise Machine, is out with Salt in September 2023. He is Director of the Fiction Programme at Faber Academy. He runs VanguardEditions, was the co-editor of Magma 80 and is the current editor of 14 magazine. [PSR 31] [PSR 40]
MARIE SLAIGHT. Originally from Montreal,she has spent the last years living between Montreal, New Orleans and BuenosAires. She has written and acted for both film and theatre, ran a gallery-theaterin Montreal and taught acting in New Orleans, Montreal and Buenos Aires. Her poetry has been published in American Writing, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Visions International, The Plaza and Abiko Quarterly(Japan) and Poetcrit (India). [PSR 2]
ANDREW SLATTERY is a Communications graduate from Newcastle University, Australia. Two collections: Love and Other Ways to Pass the Time (2003) and Stroll Data (2004; both Arrangement Media, Newcastle, Australia). He lives in the Hunter Valley, down riverfrom Les Murray. [PSR 9] [PSR 14]
BARBARA SMITH lives in Ireland, with hersix children and partner. She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Literature last year and is completing an MA in Creative Writing in Queen's University,Belfast, in 2008. Her debut collection, Kairos, was published in 2007 by Doghouse. [PSR 13]
HAZEL SMITH is a poet, performer and new media artist. She has published four volumes of poetry including Word Migrants (Giramondo, 2016). She has also published three CDs of poetry and performance work, and numerous collaborative multimedia works, including motions, with Will Luers and Roger Dean, selected for the 2016 Electronic Literature Organisation Collection 3. She is a member of austraLYSIS, the sound and intermedia arts group, with whom she has performed her work extensively. From 2007-2017 she was a Research Professor in the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University. She is now an Adjunct Professor at Western Sydney University and a full-time writer. She has authored several academic books including The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship: intermedia, voice, technology, cross-cultural exchange (Routledge, 2016). [PSR 34]
IAN C. SMITH's work has appeared in London Grip, New Contrast,Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, The Weekend Australian, Westerly, and Two-Thirds North. His seventh book is wonder sadness madness joy (Ginninderra, 2014). He writes in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria, and on Flinders Island, Tasmania.[PSR 22][PSR 25][PSR 27] [PSR 29] [PSR 34]
J. D. SMITH was born near Denton, Texas in 1988, where he currently resides.He attended the University of North Texas where he earned his BA. A recent musical collaboration, Daedalus,was set to four-part choir by composer Ryan Pivovar; the work has since received performances by chamberensembles at the University of North Texas and Arizona State University.[PSR 22]
JOAN SMITH has taught and translated fromthe Russian language, under her professional name of Joan Pemberton, formany years. She has also worked for record companies such as EMI, ConiferRecords and Deutsche Grammophon, translating the complete song cycles ofTchichovsky, Mussorgsky and others.[PSR 9]
MARCUS ROBERT SMITH's poetry has appeared internationally in a variety of journals,including Acumen, Envoi, Orbis, Confrontation, The Greensboro Review, HQ, andThe Wallace Stevens Journal. Born in England, he now lives in San Francisco. [PSR 11] [PSR 13]
MICHAEL SMITH was born in Dublin in 1942.He is founder/editor of New Writers' Press. As a literary critic and polemicisthe has been largely responsible for rehabilitating into the canon of Irish poetry the work of Thomas MacGreevy, Denis Devlin, Brian Coffey and others. His Selected Poems (Melmoth) appeared in 1985 and Lost Genealogies& Other Poems (New Writers' Press) in 1993. In print also are his translations of Antonio Machado, Pablo Neruda, Miguel Hernández,Francisco de Quevedo and Luis de Góngora. [PSR 5]
MORAG SMITH is a European Scot. Her poetry has been published in Ink Sweat & Tears, New Writing Scotland, Poetry Ireland Review, Crannog, and Gutter. She was winner of the 2021 Paisley Book Festival/Janet Coates Memorial Prize. She was also one of the Glasgow Mirrorball Clydebuilt poetry apprentices for 2019-21, working with mentor John Glenday. Her first pam-phlet, Background Noises, is due out from Red Squirrel Press in November 2022. [PSR 39]
ROBIN SMITH is currently attending the CSUN graduate program and is studying English with an emphasis on poetry. [PSR 24]
SAM SMITH (born 1946) is the author of more than twenty-five books of poetry and fiction. Collections ofpoetry include To Be Like John Clare (Salzburg UP, 1997) and more recently Rooms & Dialogues (boho, 2005) andAn Atheist's Alphabetical Approach to Death (erbacce, 2009). Sam, resident now in Cumbria, UK, has run the small press OriginalPlus and edited The Journal (formerly The Journal of Contemporary Anglo-Scandinavian Poetry) since 1997.[PSR 18]
SIMON SMITH. Born 1961, and since 1991 hasbeen Assistant Librarian at the Poetry Library in the Royal Festival Hall.His pamphlets are: North Star (Poetical Histories, 1992); LEXICON(Form Books, 1993); Night Shift (Prest Roots Press, 1994); JuicyFruit (Gratton Street Irregulars, 1999). Waterloo Press published FifteenExits in 2001, his first full-length book. More recent work has appearedas Reverdy Road, a whole issue of the journal Painted, Spokenedited by Richard Price, and at Peter Philpott's Great Works web site:Household Gods, a sixty-six page e-book:http://www.greatworks.org.uk/poems/HG/SS1.html.[PSR 3]
DAMIAN SMYTH was born in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, in 1962. He is the authorof five collections: Mesopotamia (Templar Poetry, 2014), Market Street (2010), Lamentations (2010),The Down Recorder (2004), and Downpatrick Races (2000; all Lagan Press). He is Head of Literature & Dramaat the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.[PSR 10][PSR 12][PSR 14][PSR 27]
GERARD SMYTH was born in Dublin in 1951.He has contributed poetry to magazines such as Agenda, PoetryReview, Other Poetry, The Denver Quarterly,Cyphers, The Salmon, The Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review,Krino, and The Honest Ulsterman. His collections are Worldwithout End (New Writers, 1977), Loss and Gain (Raven Arts,1981), Painting the Pink Roses Black (1986), Daytime Sleeper(2002), A New Tenancy (all Dedalus, 2004). [PSR 10]
ROGER SNELL lives in San Francisco with the lovely Ann Marie and their five-year-old son Duncan. They edit and publish Sardines Press. His book The Morning was published by Plein Air Editions & Bootstrap Press in 2008. [PSR 16]
DARIUS VICTOR SNIECKUS is currently completing a collection of original poems under the working title Translations. His work has appeared in various American, Canadian and UK literary and academic journals. He has also published a sequence of ekphrastic poems, The Brueghel Desk (Pneuma Press, 1994), in chapbook form. Born in Canada,he lives in Bath, England. [PSR 6]
EDWIN F. SNYDER studied Poetics at Naropa Institute (now Naropa University) under Anne Waldman, Steven Taylor, and Reed Bye and received his BA in 1998. He graduated from Harvard in 2018 with a Masters in International Relations. His work has been published in The Slate and No Exit. He retired from the US Army Special Forces "Green Berets" in 2016. [PSR 39]
VALERIE SOAR joined the staff of Senate House, University of London, in 1970 and ran its Research Degree Office until 2008. After Eric Mottram’s death in 1995, she worked, with Bill Griffiths, on the preparation of Mottram’s papers for two years for what is now the Eric Mottram Archive at King’s College, London and is currently completing this task. Organised a one-day conference and exhibition for King’s College London on 23 April 2018: “Eric Mottram Remembered: Poet, Professor and Cultural Firebrand”. [PSR 33]
ANDRÉE SODENKAMP was born in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode,Belgium and died at the age of 97. She only started writing poetry in herfifties. Selected titles: Sainte terre (1954), Les Dieux obscurs(1958), Femmes des longs matins (1965), La fête debout(1973), C’est au feu que je pardonne (1976), Choix (1980), C’était une nuit comme une autre (1991), Poèmes choisis (1998). [PSR 8]
PAUL SOHAR was born in Hungary and educated in the US. He has published seven volumes of translations including In Contemporary Tense (Sándor Kányádi; Iniquity Press, 2013) and Silver Pirouettes (György Faludy; TheWriteDeal, 2012). He is the author of the collection Homing Poems(Iniquity, 2006), the e-chapbook The Wayward Orchard (Wordrunner Press, 2011), and of True Tales of a Fictitious Spy(Synergebooks, 2006). He lectures at Centenary College, NJ. [PSR 3] [PSR 11]< a href="psr-no20.htm">[PSR 20] [PSR 26]
J. R. SOLONCHE is the author most recently of It's About Time (Deerbrook Editions, 2023), The Book of a Small Fisherman (Shanti Arts Publishing, 2023), Leda (Dos Madres Press, 2023), The Dreams of the Gods (Kelsay Books, 2023), Alone (David Robert Books, 2023), The Eglantine (Shanti Arts Publishing, 2023), and The Architect's House (forthcoming from Kelsay Books in 2024). [PSR 1] [PSR 40]
BRENT SOUTHGATE is a former editor and poet living in New Zealand. Other Martial translations by him have been published in PN Review, Dark Horse, Orbis, The Same, Blue Unicorn, Snakeskin, and Lighten Up. [PSR 33]
KATHRINE SOWERBY is a Glasgow based poet with a background in fine art. She has been published in journals like Fractured West, Gutter, and Northwords Now. [PSR 25]
ANDREW SOYE lives near Belfast. His poems have been published in Abridged, Honest Ulsterman, The Bangor Literary Journal, The North, Magma, and the web anthology Poetry Daily. He won the 2014 Kent & Sussex Poetry Competition. Sources of inspiration for his poems have included his work as a geologist and time spent living in Kenya, Rwanda, and Malawi. [PSR 34]
SALLY SPEDDING was born near Porthcawl in Wales and trained in sculpture in Manchester andat St. Martin's, London. Her poetry has been published in The Interpreter's House, The New Writer, andRoundyhouse. She won the Anglo-Welsh International Poetry Competition in 2011 and 2013. She judged the International Welsh Poetry Competition 2018. She is the author of ten crime novels. [PSR 28] [PSR 32]
KEVIN SPENST has recently graduated with an MFA in Creative Writingat the University of British Columbia. He has had poetry published in Prairie Fire, CV2,Dandelion, Filling Station, Qwerty, Poetry is Dead, The Rusty Toque, Rhubarb Magazine, illiterature, The Enpipe Line, and V6A. In November 2013, a chapbook of poems, Pray Goodbye, will be published through The Alfred Gustav Press. [PSR 24]
MICHAEL SPINKS is a Londoner, with careers in petrochemical engineering design and community project work. He has also published articles on his friend the poet Jack Clemo, whose biographical entry he supplied for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. His poetry has appeared in Acumen, Agenda, The London Magazine, The Observer, The Critical Review, and Havering One. [PSR 16] [PSR 36]
DAVID SPITTLE is a poet and filmmaker. Poetry: Rubbles (Broken Sleep Books, 2022), All Particles and Waves (Black Herald Press, 2020), B O X (HVTN, 2019). His first short film, Light Noise (2019), was funded and broadcast by the BBC; made available to watch on iPlayer. He has also published a collection of interviews with filmmakers on poetry and poets on film, Light Glyphs (Broken Sleep Books, 2022). [PSR 39]
W. MAURICE SPRAGUE was born in San Franciscoin 1973. He has a college education with degrees in Anthropology, History and German Studies, with a specialization in Medieval Studies. He has lived in the United States and Germany, and currently resides in Salzburg, Austria.This is his first poetry publication in a literary journal. [PSR 13]
GEOFFREY SQUIRES was born in 1942 and grew up in Co. Donegal, Ireland.His main publications are Drowned Stones (New Writers Press, 1975), Landscapes and Silences (New Writers Press, 1996), and the selected Untitled and Other Poems 1975-2002 (Wild Honey Press, 2004). [PSR 5] [PSR 15]
KELI STAFFORD lives in Oregon with her husband and the youngest of their five children. Her poems have appeared in Whiskey Island Magazine, Caesura, The Columbia Review, Carillon Magazine, and The Superstition Review. [PSR 17]
BENJAMIN STAINTON lives and writes inrural Suffolk. He works as a photographer and occasionally performs musicin public. He has had poems published in The Journal, Carillon,The Delinquent, Decanto, and The Cannon’s Mouth. Hisfirst collection, The Jealousies, will be published in October 2008 by BeWrite Books. [PSR 12] [PSR 14]
DEREK STANFORD, an octogenarian whosepoetry has enjoyed a late flowering: The Memorare Sequence (Poetry Salzburg, 1997), The Purgatory & Paradise of Aubrey Beardsley (Typographeum Bookshop, 1999). His critical anthology Three Poets ofthe Rhymers' Club: Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, John Davidson (1974) is to be republished by Carcanet Press. An unorthodox Catholic he has a devotion to "Lady St. Mary". His Muse is the poet Julie Whitby. [PSR 4]
MARTIN STANNARD lives in Nottingham and has been publishing poetry and criticism for some 40 years. He was founding editor and publisher of joe soap’s canoe (1978-1993) and poetry editor of Decals of Desire (2016-17). His poetry and reviews have appeared in Stride, International Times, Tears in the Fence, and The North. His full-length collection is Poems for the Young at Heart (Leafe Press, 2016) and a chapbook, Items, was published by Red Ceilings in August 2018. After more than a decade teaching Literature and Culture at a university in China, he returned to the UK in early 2018. A collection of his versions of classic Tang Dynasty poems, The Moon Is About 238,855 Miles Away, was published by Shoestring Press in 2019. His most recent full-length collection is Reading Moby-Dick and Various Other Matters (Leafe Press, 2020). [PSR 30] [PSR 34] [PSR 37]
LARRY STAPLETON's poetry has been published in Crannóg, The Curlew, Cyphers, The Honest Ulsterman, The Interpreter’s House, Irish Pages, The Irish Times, The North, Poetry Ireland Review, THE SHOp, The Stinging Fly, and The Stony Thursday Book. His great project (100 sonnets) of found poems on the writings of Van Gogh, The Boundless and Miraculous (Liffey Press), was published in September 2019. In February 2020 he sadly passed away. He lived in Wexford and was a former Director of the Environmental Protection Agency in Ireland. [PSR 35]
MATTHEW STARK recently graduated with an MFA from the University of South Carolina as a James Dickey Fellow. His work appears or is forthcoming in Cider Press Review, Fall Lines, Jasper, andSpillway. [PSR 28]
M. STASIAK grew up in Newfoundland and now lives in London. She has been published in Brittle Star, Envoi, Intepreter’s House, Iota, Magma, The Rialto, and Urthona. [PSR 30]
JONATHAN STEFFEN was born in London in 1958 and read English at Cambridge. In 1987 he received a Hawthornden Fellowship. From 1982 to 1997 he lived in Germany, where he taught at Heidelberg University. He lives in Windsor, where he operates the corporate communication consultancy The Corporate Story alongside his publishing operation Falcon Editions. Acumen published his first poetry pamphlet in 2011, The Colour of Love. This was followed by Exposure, a collection of 40 poems illustrated by the work of 40 different photographers, which appeared under the Falcon Editions imprint in 2012. [PSR 21] [PSR 24]
IAN STEPHEN is a writer, artist, and sailor from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. He studied English, Drama, and Education at Aberdeen University. After 15 years in the coastguard service, he resigned in 1995, to work full-time in the arts. His first poetry collection, Malin, Hebrides, Minches was published by Dangaroo Press, Denmark, in 1983. Later collections from Polygon and The Windfall Press. His new collection maritime is forthcoming from Saraband in Spring 2016. [PSR 28]
PAUL STEPHENSON grew up in Cambridge and studied Modern Languages. He took part in the Jerwood/Aldeburgh mentoring scheme. He has published three pamphlets: Those People (smith|doorstop, 2015), The Days That Followed Paris (HappenStance, 2016) and Selfie with Waterlilies (Paper Swans Press, 2017). He is co-curating Poetry in Aldeburgh 2019 (8-10 Nov). [PSR 34]
SHELBY STEPHENSON's Family Matters: Homage to July, the Slave Girl(Bellday Books, 2008) won the 2008 Bellday Poetry Prize. From 1979 to 2010 Shelby Stephenson served as editor of Pembroke Magazine. [PSR 25]
ANNE STEVENSON is an Anglo-American poet,born to American parents in Cambridge, England, but raised in the United States and educated at the University of Michigan. After graduating with honours, she returned to the UK where she has lived for most of her life. Stevenson was the inaugural winner of the Northern Rock Foundation Writer'sAward in 2002. In 2007 she received the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award and the Neglected Master's Award from the Poetry Foundation of America. Her latest collection of poetry is Stone Milk (Bloodaxe, 2007). [PSR 13]
C. P. STEWART lives with his family in North Yorkshire. For two years he was the poetry editor of Sotto Voce Arts and Literary Magazine.A chapbook of his poetry, Taking It In, was published by Koo Poetry Press in 2009. Considering the Lilies: New and Selected Poems, was published by Wordsonthestreet, Galway, in 2011. [PSR 24]
GERRY STEWART was born and grew up in the Midwestern United States and currently lives in Finland. Her work has appeared in Chapman, island, lichen, Poetry Ireland Review, and Semicerchio.She was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Bursary in 2005 to finish her novel Talking Italian in My Sleep. Flambard Press published her first poetry collection Post-Holiday Blues in 2007. [PSR 3] [PSR 22]
JACK STEWART was educated at the University of Alabama and Emory University and was a Brittain Fellow at The Georgia Institute of Technology (1992-95). His first book, No Reason, was published by the Poeima Poetry Series in 2020, and his work has recently appeared in Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, The American Literary Review, The Dark Horse, The Southern Humanities Review, Nimrod, and Image. He currently directs the Talented Writers Program at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. [PSR 13] [PSR 15] [PSR 41]
MATTHEW STEWART works in the Spanish wine trade and lives between Extremadura and West Sussex. Following two pamphlets with HappenStance Press, he published his first full collection, The Knives of Villalejo, with Eyewear Books in 2017. [PSR 35]
R. S. STEWART is a native of Oregon, where he now resides after many yearsof service at the Oregon State Library. Formerly, he taught Literature and Composition at Christopher Newport College (now University) of the College of William and Mary in Virginia, where he also founded the College Theatre. Two of his plays have been produced at Oregon regional theatres. His poems have appeared in San Jose Studies, Blue Unicorn, Able Muse, Canary, and The Raintown Review. [PSR 24]
EDWIN STOCKDALE was born in Chester in 1985. He graduated from Lancaster University in 2007in Music and Creative Writing. Recent magazine publications include The Brontë Society Gazette, The Coffee House,Fire, The Interpreter's House, Obsessed with Pipework, Poetry Cornwall, and Poetry Scotland. [PSR 22]
HANNAH STONE has two collections, Lodestone (Stairwell Books, 2016) and Missing Miles (Indigo Dreams, 2017), and is a winner of the Yorkshire Poetry and the Geoff Stevens Memorial prizes. She convenes the poets/composers forum for the annual Leeds Lieder Festival, and co-edits the poetry ezine Algebra of Owls. She hails from London and has lived in Leeds for many years. [PSR 33]
WILL STONE, born in 1966, is a poet, an essayist, and a literary translator who currently divides his time between Belgium and Suffolk. His first two collections, Glaciation (2007) and Drawing in Ash (2011), were published by Salt. His third, The Sleepwalkers, will be published by Rufus in early 2014. His translated works include To the Silenced: Selected Poems of Georg Trakl (Arc, 2005) and a series of books for Hesperus Press, with translations of works by Stefan Zweig (2010), Joseph Roth (2013), and Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). His translations of the Belgian Symbolist poets Emile Verhaeren and Georges Rodenbach appeared from Arc earlier this year. [PSR 4] [PSR 5] [PSR 11] [PSR 13] [PSR 17] [PSR 24]
EDWARD STOREY was born in Cambridgeshire. Before becoming a full time writer in the late 1960s, he worked in adult education for the Peterborough City Education Authority. He has publishedten volumes of poetry, most recently New and Selected Poems (Rockingham Press, 2004). He is also the author of several books on the life and history of the Fen Country, and a biography of John Clare, A Right to Song(Methuen, 1982). He moved to Wales in 1999. [PSR 14]
BRADLEY R. STRAHAN teaches poetry at the University of Texas. He is a former Fulbright Professor of Poetry & American Culture (2002-2004). For 12 years he taught Poetry at Georgetown University. He is the director of Visions International Arts and editor of Visions International. [PSR 21]
AUGUST STRAMM was born in 1874, and died in battle in Galicia, in 1915. Although most of his experimental, Expressionist poetry was published after his death, Herwarth Walden published his major work during WWI. Also a playwright (one of his plays was made into an operaby Paul Hindemith), painter and cellist, Stramm is best known as a poet whose advanced style is reminiscent of Ernst Jandl. Like him, he stretched the boundaries of language whilst retaining a strong emotional impact. Stramm is now well-known enough to have over 1700 entries on the Internet. [PSR 4]
LIANE STRAUSS was born in Queens, New York, and grew up in Bergen County, New Jersey. She is the author of Frankie, Alfredo (Donut Press, 2009), Leaving Eden (Salt, 2010), and All the Ways You Still Remind Me of the Moon (Paekakariki Press, 2015). Her poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Hudson Review, The Iowa Review, Magma, Poetry, Poetry Review, and Prairie Schooner. She is the Head of Poetry in Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London. [PSR 29]
SEÁN STREET has published nine collections, the most recent being Jazz Time(Lapwing, 2014) and Cello (Rockingham Press, 2013). Recent prose includes The Memory of Sound (2014)and The Poetry of Radio (2012), both from Routledge. He is Emeritus Professor at Bournemouth University. [PSR 20] [PSR 22] [PSR 27]
TESSA STRICKLAND is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of independent children's publisher Barefoot Books. She has written extensively for children under various guises. Her poetry has been published by The North, Poetry Ireland Review, and The Frogmore Papers. She lives in Somerset. [PSR 34]
ALEXANDRA STRNAD read English at the University of Cambridge and completed a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford. Her poems have been published in Ambit, Cadaverine, Ink, Sweat & Tears, Other Poetry, The Frogmore Papers, The Moth, and Wasafiri. She was the 2014 winner of the Jane Martin Poetry Prize. She is poet-in-residence at Carfax Education. [PSR 30]
DAN STRYK is a London-born American poet, residing in southwest Virginia. He has recently retired from a twenty-three-year Professorship in Creative Writing and World Literature at Virginia Intermont College. He is the authorof six collections of poetry. Most recently he published Dimming Radiance: Poems and Prose Parables (Wind Publications, 2008). [PSR 18]
PAUL STUBBS (born in Norwich in 1969) is the author of several collections of poetry and books of poetical and philosophical essays. His poems and essays have appeared in The Wolf, The Poetry Review, The Rialto, The Shop, Poetry Wales, The Bitter Oleander, and The High Window. A selection of poems translated into French, Visions de l’outre-monde, was published by Hochroth-Paris in 2019. He has been invited to read at the National Poetry Library, at Oxford University, at the Seamus Heaney Centre, at Kings Lynn Festival, and at various venues in New York and Paris. With French translator Blandine Longre, he has translated several poets into English (Victor Segalen, Jos Roy, Pierre Cendors). He received awards for his writing from the Society of Authors and Arts Council East; his latest poetry collection, The Lost Songs of Gravity (Black Herald Press, 2020), received a substantial grant from the Society of Authors. [PSR 12] [PSR 41]
SARAH STUTT is studying for a PhD in Creative Writing (“Heimat: Home and belonging in Contemporary German and British Poetry”) at the University of Hull. She won the East Riding Prize in the Philip Larkin Society Poetry Competition in 2010, 2012, and 2015 and has had poems published in Iota, The Yellow Nib, The North, and The Guardian online. [PSR 29]
VIRGIL SUÁREZ was born in Havana,Cuba in 1962. At the age of twelve he arrived in the United States. Hereceived an MFA from Louisiana State University in 1987. His poetry collections include Palm Crows (University of Arizona Press, 2001) and Banyan(LSU Press, 2001), and Guide to the Blue Tongue (University of Illinois Press, 2001). He is the co-editor of the anthologies American Diaspora:Poetry of Displacement (2001) and Like Thunder: Poets Respond of Violence in America (both University of Iowa Press, 2002). He is the recipient of an NEA grant for poetry. He divides his time between Key Biscayneand Tallahassee where he lives with his wife and daughters and teaches as full professor at The Florida State University. [PSR 1] [PSR 5]
RAY SUCCRE is a poet and playwright living on the southern Oregon coast. He has been published in Nthposition, Art Times, and in Posse Review. [PSR 9]
C. P. SURENDRAN is a poet, novelist, and columnist. His latest collection of poems is Available Light: New and Collected Poems (Speaking Tiger, 2017). His other verse volumes are Portraits of the Space We Occupy (HarperCollins, 2007), Canaries on the Moon (Yeti Press, 2003), Posthumous Poems (1999), and Gemini II (both Penguin Viking, 1996). His novels include One Love and the Many Lives of Osip B (Niyogi Books, 2021), Hadal (2015), Lost and Found (both HarperCollins, 2010), and An Iron Harvest (Roli/IndiaInk, 2006). [PSR 41]
PETER SURKOV works as a junior doctor in Bristol and is currently preparing a first pamphlet, on drugs and today's NHS. Recent poems have appeared in 3:AM Magazine, Envoi, and The Interpreter's House. [PSR 38]
MARIO SUSKO, a witness and survivor of thewar in Bosnia, has lived in the USA since 1993, where he is an Associate Professor at Nassau Community College. He is an editor and translator of major American writers,including Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, and Kurt Vonnegut, among others. His most recent work includeshis Selected Poems 1982-2002 Reading Life and Death (Zagreb: Meandar, 2003), and hissixth collection Closing Time (Harbor Mountain Press, 2008). [PSR 9] [PSR 19]
COLIN SUTHERILL lives near Leominster. He taught on A. E. Markham's programme at Sheffield Hallam University. His book-length poem, Ogd, came out with Red Squirrel Press in 2017. Einstein’s Bumblebee, was published by Blackwater in 1997. His poetry is published in Envoi, Orbis, Under the Radar, Stride, and Tears in the Fence. [PSR 25] [PSR 27] [PSR 30] [PSR 33]
JANET SUTHERLAND's work has appearedrecently in Stride, Shadowtrain, Great Works, PoetryReview, and Shearsman. A collection, Burning the Heartwood,came out from Shearsman in 2006. [PSR 13]
DAVID SUTHERLAND's work has been published, among others,in The American Literary Review, The Midwest Quarterly, The Hollins Critic, The American Poetry Review, and Poetry Magazine. [PSR 19]
KESTON SUTHERLAND is a British poet and lecturer at the University of Sussex.He is the editor of the poetics and critical theory journal QUID and co-editor (with Andrea Brady) of Barque Press which publishes, among others, J. H. Prynne. Collections: Hot White Andy (2007), Neocosis (2005), Neutrality (2004), Antifreeze (2002, all Barque Press), and The Rictus Flag (Object Permanence, 2003). [PSR 15]
MICHAEL SUTTON is a British writer and artist. His work has been featured by The Gateway Review and The Menteur. His poetry collection music/lyrics was published by Hesterglock Press in June 2020. He is the recipient of the 2019 Streetcake Experimental Writing Prize for poetry. [PSR 36]
PETER SUTTON has given readings from his modern verse translation of William Langland’s medieval poem Piers Plowman (McFarland 2014) at poetry festivals and conferences in the UK and the US. His collection Poems of Armenian War and Peace, co-written with Liana Hayrapetyan, was published by Edit Print of Yerevan for the Tekeyan Trust in 2019, and other work has appeared in poetry magazines. His plays Elgar and Alice and The Prebumptious Mr Punch have been professionally produced, he has written languages textbooks and articles on education, and he has been a visiting lecturer. [PSR 35]
SRIDALA SWAMI lives in Hyderabad, India. Her poetry and fiction has appeared in Wasafiri, International Literary Quarterly, and Drunken Boat. Her first collection of poems, A Reluctant Survivor (New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2007), was shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Award in 2008. [PSR 19]
MICHAEL SWAN works in English language teaching and applied linguistics. He has published three collection: When They Come for You (Frogmore Press, 2003), The Shapes of Things (Oversteps Books, 2011), and Tiger Dreams / Vise Cu Tigri (Niculescu, 2014), a selection of his poems accompanied by Romanian translations. He has twice been a prize winner in the Stephen Spender Prize for poetry translation. [PSR 37]
MARJORIE SWEETKO lives in Marseille. Her poetry has appeared in ArtemisPoetry, The North, The London Magazine, Magma, Orbis, South, The Interpreter’s House, South, South Bank Poetry, Obsessed with Pipework, and on-line in Antiphon and London Grip. After a teaching career worldwide, she now lives in Marseille, where she edits scientific papers for the academic community. [PSR 27] [PSR 31] [PSR 36] [PSR 41]
WALLY SWIST's books include The Map of Eternity (Shanti Arts, LLC, 2018), Singing for Nothing: Selected Nonfiction as Literary Memoir (The Operating System, 2018), Candling the Eggs (Shanti Arts, LLC, 2017), Invocation (Lamar UP, 2015), Velocity (Virtual Artists Collective, 2013), and Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love (Southern Illinois UP, 2012). His poems have appeared in Blueline, The Cape Rock, Commonweal, Connecticut Review, Crab Orchard Review, Empirical Magazine, Mudfish, North American Review, and Wild River Review. [PSR 25] [PSR 28] [PSR 33]
Of Anglo-Irish descent, CHRIS SYKES has published poetry in Acumen, Envoi, Honest Ulsterman, Other Poetry, The Rialto, and Slow Dancer. There are three collections: Cargo of Balloons (Other Branch, 1986), Listening to the Dark (1994), and Having an Osprey about the House (2001, both Magpie Press). He has written four books on creative writing for Hodder & Stoughton. His play Playing Away was performed at Sadler's Wells in 2005 and published by Josef Weinberger. [PSR 37]
After a career teaching deaf children and adults ANNE SYMONS began writing poetry in retirement. Her work has been published in Orbis, Obsessed with Pipework, Ekphrastic Review, Agenda, Ink Sweat and Tears, The Alchemy Spoon, The High Window, and The Atlanta Review. She was awarded second prize in the Gloucestershire Open Poetry Competition. She completed an MA in Writing Poetry at Newcastle University and the Poetry School in London. [PSR 37] [PSR 40]
GEORGE SZIRTES was born in Budapest in1948. His parents left as refugees in 1956 and he was brought up in Englandwhere he has lived since. His first book of poems, The Slant Door (Secker & Warburg, 1979), was joint-winner of The Faber Prize. His dozen books since then have won a variety of prizes and awards, the last, Reel (Bloodaxe, 2004), being awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize. His New and Collected Poems will be published by Bloodaxe in 2008 (the US edition by Sheep's Meadow) together with a book-length study of his work, Reading George Szirtes, by John Sears. He is also a translatorof books of poetry and fiction from Hungarian. He is currently Reader in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. [PSR 13]
FIONA SZE-LORRAIN is the author of two books of poetry, My Funeral Gondola (Manoa Books/El Leon Literary Arts, 2013) and Water the Moon (Marick, 2010), as well as many books of translationof Chinese, French, and American contemporary poets. She lives in France where she works as an editor and zheng harpist. [PSR 19] [PSR 20] [PSR 25]