Richard Jarrette Author

Richard Jarrette is author of Beso the Donkey (Michigan State University Press, 2010)—Gold Medal winner for Poetry Midwest Independent Publishers Association 2011, A Hundred Million Years of Nectar Dances (Green Writers Press, 2015), The Beatitudes of Ekaterina (Green Writers Press, 2017). He is Poetry Columnist for VOICE Magazine of Santa Barbara and his books have been endorsed by W.S.Merwin, Jane Hirshfield, Joseph Stroud, Sam Hamill, and others. He lives semi-reclusively in the Central Coast area of California and is far into his next poetry collection, It Is Never Finished, inspired by the ancient Chinese poets who named names, praised, and preserved. Susan Solomon is a freelance paintress living in the beautiful Twin Cities of Minneapolis/Saint Paul. She has paintings in the university collections of Metropolitan State and Purdue. She has exhibited art widely throughout the Twin Cities, as well as featured works in many literary publications including the New England Review and Catamaran Literary Reader. Susan loves working with writers, painting impressions of their words, and finds them an endless source of inspiration.