MICHAELA A. GABRIEL (born 1971) lives in Vienna, Austria, where she assists adults in acquiring computer and English skills, and gets together with the muse as often as possible. Her first chapbook, apples for adam, was published by FootHills in January 2005.
JEREMY GADD holds a Bachelor of Dramatic Art degree from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, an MA (Hons) from the University of New England and is a Writing Fellow of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (NSW Branch). His plays More Champagne and Realities have been professionally produced for the stage (the former was also broadcast on radio by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation) and a third play, Camera Capers, was staged by the amateur Balmain Village Players in Sydney in 1995. He has also published a novel, Escaping the Triad (Holy Angels Book Design & Publishing, 1998). He is currently employed on an Australian Research Council funded project.
KATE GALE is Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, Editor of the Los Angeles Review and President of the American Composers Forum, LA. She teaches in the Low Residency MFA program at the University of Nebraska. She is the author of six books of poetry, six librettos, and the editor of four anthologies. Her opera Rio de Sangre with composer Don Davis has a world premiere in 2010 at the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee.
RAMÓN GARCÍA's poetry has appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies, including The Paterson Literary Review, The Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, and Ambit. He is a professor in Chicana/o Studies at the California State University at Northridge.
ROBERTO GARCÍA DE MESA (Tenerife, Spain, 1973) is a poet, playwright, dramaturgist, narrator, essayist, multimedia artist and composer. Collections: Los pájaros invisibles / Nausinoos (Idea, 2006), Oblivion (Idea, 2009), Bestiario (Al-harafish, 2010). Plays: Luminarias (Idea, 2006), Outside (Fundamentos, 2010).
HELGA GASSER is a young Austrian artist from Carinthia. She studied Graphic Arts at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Her work has been exhibited in Salzburg, Paris, Porto, Barcelona and Berchtesgaden (Germany).
ALAN GAUNT. Born in Manchester in 1935. He was educated at Silcoates School, Lancashire Independent College and Manchester University, before being ordained as a Congregational minister. He served various Congregational and United Reformed pastorates in the north of England before retirement in June 2000. Publications include one volume of poetry, Always To Their Sea (Headland, 1980), and many collections of hymns and prayers.
ARUN GAUR, born in 1958, lives at Panchkula (Haryana, India). He has been teaching English at Chandigarh since 1982. Three collections of poems: Steppe Tramping with Gorky (Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 2001), Woodcutters (Aadhar, 2000), The Neurosis Island: Homofuge! (Swarnim, 1994).
FERGAL GAYNOR, born in Cork in 1969, is a poet, visual arts writer and member of the interventionist group art / not art. Since 2005, when he co-curated the art and politics event the Cork Caucus, he has collaborated with Trevor Joyce on the SoundEye Festival. His first poetry collection, VIII Stepping Poems and Other Pieces, is due to be published jointly by Miami University Press and New Writers Press in 2009.
MATTHEW GEDEN, an English born-and-raised poet, moved to Kinsale in 1990, where he runs a bookstore. He co-founded the SoundEye Festival. His most recent publications are Catch and Mist, both published by hardPressed poetry in 2005.
CHRISTIAN GENZEL was born in Kassel, Germany in 1978. He studies English at the University of Salzburg. Together with Judith Haudum he is the editor of f-lux, an Internet magazine for literature.
RICHARD GEORGE was born in 1965 and studied Martial to Doctorate level at Oxford. He is a follower of Peter Russell, and writes a range of verse from traditional to more experimental. He also translates in verse from Greek and Latin, and has completed a new version of Juvenal. He has just self-published his first collection Vertigo Swimming (Baikal Press, St. Albans).
STEFAN GEORGE (1868-1933). The leading German poet of his generation. Influenced by Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and the French Symbolists, he led the rebellion against Naturalism in Germany. Representative works include: Algabal (1892), Das Jahr der Seele [The Soul's Year] (1897), Der siebente Ring [The Seventh Ring] (1907), Der Stern des Bundes [The Star of the Covenant] (1914), and Das neue Reich [The New Kingdom] (1928). He influenced younger poets through his verse and through Blätter für die Kunst, the literary organ of his circle.
MICHAEL GERRARD, born in 1933 in Ilford, Essex. First attempts to write verse awakened by reading Milton. At 22 he destroyed everything he had written and started again, found Eliot was the only modern poet comparable to Milton. Two short pieces accepted by Oasis.
SUSAN GEVIRTZ lives in San Francisco. Her books include Hourglass Transcripts (Burning Deck, 2001), Spelt (a+bend press, 1999); Black Box Cutaway (Kelsey Street Press, 1999); Narrative's Journey. The Fiction and Film Writing of Dorothy Richardson (Peter Lang, 1996); PROSTHESIS : : CAESAREA (Potes and Poets, 1994); Taken Place (Reality Street, 1993); Linen minus (Avenue B, 1992); and Domino: point of entry (Leave Books, 1992). She teaches at the University of San Francisco and the California College of Arts and Crafts.
ERICKA GHERSI was born in Peru and currently lives in Florida. She is the author of Zenobia y el anciano (Lima: Arte Reda, 1994) and Contra la ausencia (Lima: Santo Oficio, 2002). Translations of her poems have appeared in Common Ground Review, RHINO, and Versal. The chapbook Collection: Bilingual Ekphrastic Poems by Alberto Nessi and Ericka Ghersi was published by Canvas Press in 2007.
JOHN GIBBENS lives in London and makes his living as a newspaper subeditor. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1982. His poems have appeared in numerous periodicals and newspapers, including The Independent, The Sunday Telegraph, London Review of Books, Poetry Review, Stand, Agenda, Ambit, Bête Noire, and Ostinato. He self-published The Nightingale's Code: A Poetic Study of Bob Dylan in 2001. His narrative poem Orpheus Ascending is due from Smokestack Books in 2012.
PETER GILLIES, born in Luton, is now based in Sheffield where he has a studio at Yorkshire Artspace. Both a painter and a poet, his work has been widely shown internationally, most recently in the exhibitions Zeit at the Aspekte Galerie in the Gasteig, Munich (2008), and Way With Words at Bank Street Gallery, Sheffield (2009). As artist-in-residence at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, he produced several limited edition artist books including Sintesi (2003) and Passaggio (2005; both Arts Council England / Scoula Internazionale Di Grafica, Venezia). He teaches Creative Practices and Creative Writing at University College Falmouth.
WILLIAM GILSON is an American living permanently in England. He and his wife and two sons make their home in Cumbria. He has had poems recently in Orion, Tears in the Fence, and Smiths Knoll.
ANNE-MARIE GLASHEEN - poet, photographer and translator - English mother and Belgian father, spent her early years in Belgium. She is a past chair of the Translators Association and was awarded, in 1998, the Prix de la traduction de la communauté française by the Belgian Ministry of Culture. Her own poetry - she writes in French and English - has been widely published in the UK as well as in Belgium, France, Ireland and Luxembourg. Selected translations of poetry: Muze trilingual anthology of women's poetry (KCC. 1997), Rocking to the North Wind (Liliane Wouters, Dedalus, 2001), Erasing Jean Portante (Dedalus, 2003).
JIM GOAR lives in Norwich, UK. He edits the online magazine past simple. A book, Seoul Bus Poems, is forthcoming from Reality Street Editions.
GEOFFREY GODBERT was born in Manchester in 1937. He has published 14 collections of poetry. His Collected Poems was published in 2007 by Poetry Monthly.
SALENA GODDEN has travelled the world performing her poetry and music. She is the lead singer of ska-punk band Saltpeter and she has also worked with the likes of Coldcut and Alabama 3. She has hosted workshops in schools across the UK and in New York to inspire teenagers to write fiction/poetry. She is a regular guest on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb and BBC Radio 4’s Bespoken Word. Her memoir, Springfield Road, will be published by Harper Collins/Harper Press in 2007/2008. Currently she is living in London.
KENNETH GOLDSMITH (born 1961) is an American poet. He is the founding editor of UbuWeb, teaches Poetics and Poetic Practice at the University of Pennsylvania and is Senior Editor of PENNsound. He has published ten books of poetry, notably Fidget (Coach House Books, 2000), Soliloquy (Granary Books, 2001), Day (The Figures, 2003), and his American trilogy, The Weather (2005), Traffic (2007), and Sports (2008, all Make Now).
JOHN GOODBY lectures in English at the University of Swansea. He is the author of Irish poetry since 1950: From stillness into history (MUP, 2000), co-or-ganiser of the annual Hay Poetry Jamboree, and is currently working on a new edition of the poems of Dylan Thomas for publication in 2014, the poet's centenary year. His books of poetry include A Birmingham Yank (Arc, 1998), uncaged sea (Waterloo, 2008), Illenium (Shearsman, 2010), and The True Prize (Cinnamon, 2011, forthcoming).
GILES GOODLAND works as a lexicographer. His latest book is What the Things Sang (Shearsman, 2009). His previous books include Capital (Salt, 2006), A Spy in the House of Years (Leviathan, 2001), Overlay (Odyssey, 2000), and Littoral (Oversteps, 1996).
MARK GOODWIN was born in 1969. He lives on a narrow-boat on the river Soar, north of Leicester and works as a community poet. His two collections, Else (2008) and Back of a Vast (2010) were published by Shearsman.
GTIMOTHY GORDON teaches and writes on Modernism-Postmodernism, Poetics, and Creative Writing at Graduate College, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. Everything Speaking Chinese, winner of Riverstone Publishers' Poetry Competition (Scottsdale), and Ground of This Blue Earth (Mellen P) were published last year, "Summer Rhythm" nominated for a national Pushcart Prize (NY), From Falling a finalist for Blue Light Publishers' 2004 Book Award.
JOHN GOSSLEE has lived in Germany, Turkey, Italy, and currently lives in the United States where he attends Liberty University. His first book Sonnets for the Seasons of the Zodiac is due out by Gival Press in 2011.
DESMOND GRAHAM is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. His books include a biography of Keith Douglas (OUP, 1974), editions of Douglas's poetry (OUP, 1978; Faber, 1997) and letters (Carcanet, 2000), a critical study of the poets of the First World War, The Truth of War (Carcanet, 1984), and six collections of poetry. He co-translated Two Darknesses by Polish poet Anna Kamienska (Flambard, 1994), and edited Poetry of the Second World War (Chatto & Windus, 1995). His poetry books are The Lie of Horizons (1993), The Marching Bands (1996), Not Falling (1999, all Seren), After Shakespeare (2001), Milena Poems (2004), and Heart work (2007, all Flambard).
MARTIN GREEN lives in Cornwall. His latest collection of poems is Homage to Dafydd ap Gwilym (Poetry Monthly Press, 2005). Earlier publications are Gandesa: Elegy for the Dead in Spain (Warren & Pell, 2006), An Englishman Looks at His Passport (Tuba Press, 1991), and A Night with Fiona Pitt-Kethley (Avenue Press, 2000).
DAVID GREENSLADE won the Planet Essay of the Year Competition for 2009 with an essay about the political and literary situation on Moldova. He currently teaches at University of Wales Institute. "Empty Meaning" comes from his collection Humuncular Misfit.
GERARD GREENWAY lives in Oxford, UK. He has worked in academic publishing for fifteen years and is the managing editor of Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities (Routledge) and editor of the Angelaki Humanities book series (Manchester UP).
R. G. GREGORY was first published in The Mermaid (Göttingen 1947), the Rhine Army's literary magazine. By 1980 his work had appeared in many magazines including The Window, Outposts, Envoi, Ambit, and Iota. In 1972 he set up Word And Action (Dorset), touring with theatre/poetry performances, whilst publishing broadsheets, individual collections, anthologies and magazines (Doors and South). Also a playwright (director and actor) and writer of fiction and non-fiction, in 2003 he quit W&A (D), and since has remarried and settled in Shropshire.
WHIT GRIFFIN currently resides in western Tennessee. His recent work has appeared in First Intensity and Hassle. Wanhope, a chapbook-clutch of poems, was published by Longhouse in 2008.
ANDREW GROSSMAN had worked published in Ariel, Whetstone, Altadena and other magazines. He is the founder of the web poetry database www.poeticcopy.com.
DAVID GROULX was raised in the Northern Ontario mining community of Elliot Lake. He is proud of his Native roots - his mother is Ojibwe Indian and his father French Canadian. He has written three poetry books, Night in the Exude (Tyro Publications, 1997), The Long Dance (2000), and Under God's Pale Bones (2010; both Kegedonce Press). Until the Bullets Rose is due out 2011 (Wosak & Wynn). He lives in a log home near Ottawa.
PAUL GROVES. Born in Gloucester, 1947. Taught English and Drama from 1970, has lectured in Creative Writing for fourteen years, is an Open College of the Arts tutor. Came to public notice with Poetry Introduction 3 (Faber & Faber, 1975). Has read on BBC Radio and Television, at the Hay Festival and the Cheltenham Festival. A critic for Poetry Review and Poetry Wales. Has won, inter alia, The Times Literary Supplement Prize, the Charterhouse Award, the Orbis International Prize, the Bournemouth Festival Award. Publications: Academe (1988), Ménage à Trois (1995), Eros and Thanatos (1999), and Wowsers (all Seren, 2002).
DAVID W. H. GRUBB (b. 1941) is a tutor of Creative Writing at the University of Reading and also runs a mentoring scheme for individual writers. Collections include The Memory of Rooms: Selected and New Poems (Stride, 2001), The Elephant in the Room (Driftwood, 2004), Out of the Marvellous (Oleander, 2006), and It Comes with a Bit of Song (Salt, 2007).
DOLORES GUGLIELMO was born in Corona, New York in 1928. She graduated from Queens College in Flushing, New York, in 1983, with a BA in English. Her poems have appeared in many magazines, among them Paris Atlantic, Orbis, Poetry Monthly, and Poetry Nottingham.
HERVÉ GUIBERT (1955-1991). A prolific writer and photographer. Considered one of the most important French novelists of this generation. His literary works began in earnest in 1981. The content of his work changed dramatically when he was diagnosed with AIDS, from which he died in 1991. Several of his works which deal directly with his struggle with the disease have already been translated into English, e.g. The Compassion Protocol (1994), Blindsight: A Novel (1996, both George Braziller, both transl. James Kirkup).
JEFF GUNDY has taught at Bluffton University since 1984. He has published five collections of poetry, most recently Spoken among the Trees (U of Akron P, 2007). A regular reviewer for The Georgia Review, he has recent poems and essays in Cincinnati Review, North American Review, Image, Shenandoah, Mid-American Review, and Kenyon Review.
RAHILA GUPTA is a freelance writer and activist. She co-wrote Circle of Light (HarperCollins, 1997), the story of an Asian woman, who killed her violent husband, and co-scripted the film Provoked, based on the book. She was on the writing team of Westway, an award-winning drama series for BBC World Service. Her latest book, Enslaved, on modern slavery in Britain was published in 2007 by Portobello.
CHRISTOPHER GUTKIND grew up mostly in Montreal and has lived in London for many years where he works as a librarian. Between 1999 and 2003 he lived in the US and "American Street" comes out of that fascinating and brutal, and good, experience. He hopes to have a collection out soon.