ELSE LASKER-SCHÜLER was born in 1876 in Elberfeld. She lived in Berlin from 1894-1933, was involved in the early expressionist movement and co-editor of the literary periodical Der Sturm. Author of prose and poetry, her works include the collections Der siebente Tag, Hebräische Balladen, Der Prinz von Theben and the prose writings Der Malik and Das Hebräerland. She left Germany in 1933 and lived mostly in Israel until her death in 1945.
ALAN CHONG LAU grew up in Paradise, California and received a BA in Art from the University 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.
CHARLES G. LAUDER, Jr. was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, but now lives in south Leicestershire with his wife and two children. Poems have appeared in Green Fuse, California Quarterly, The Interpreter's House, Poetry Monthly, Poetry Nottingham International, Agenda, and are forthcoming in Stand and Envoi.
LEO LAVERY, aged 69. Graduate from Queen’s University Belfast. Published one small volume in 1992: East Down View (Lapwing).
ROBERT LEACH is a writer, theatre director and teacher of acting. He is Chairman of the Scottish Borders Writers Forum and Director of Lapwing Press. He has directed plays in Moscow, and he created The Lichfield Mysteries, one of the largest community arts festivals in Europe.
MARIE LECRIVAIN is the executive editor of poeticdiversity: the litzine of Los Angeles. Her prose and poetry have appeared in a number of journals, including Aesthetica, The Los Angeles Review, and Sein und Werden. Her chapbook Misericordes was published in Spring 2008 by Off World Publications.
RICHARD LEIGH is a former editor of Eonta and Musics. He has had a small 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.
EINO LEINO (1878-1926) is considered the greatest poet of Finland's written tradition. He was 18 years old when his first major collection was published, followed by 31 other poetic collections among other major literary works. Leino was the leading force in Finnish poetry during the formative years of the country aspiring for independence during the last period of the Czarist Russia.
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 Littérature for 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).
JOHN LEMMON teaches Literature and Creative Writing in the School of Arts at Surrey University. He has published widely in English magazines and has a pamphlet coming out this year. He also edits the literary magazine Retort.
RAYMOND LEONARD was born at the height of the Manchester blitz. During his apprenticeship he won a scholarship to study Engineering, and later gained a PhD. He is author of over two hundred wide-ranging scientific papers, which include a technique now used to 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).
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).
JOHN LEVY is a lawyer in Tucson, Arizona who works for the Public Defender's Office doing felony trial work. His most recent publication is 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.
BÉATRICE LIBERT was born in Amay but now lives in Liège where she works as a teacher, librarian and poetry 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).
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 in West Hills Review, Red Cedar Review, Mudfish and other magazines.
IRA LIGHTMAN currently works around Durham and Newcastle in disability support, creative writing teaching, IT for beginners 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 at www.ubu.com/ubu.
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.
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, might be titled The Tragedy of Beyoncé Knowles.
FRANÇOISE LISON-LEROY lives and works as a teacher in Tournai. She is as well known for her plays and short stories as she is for her poetry. Selected titles: La mie de terre est bonne (1983), L’apprivoise (1984), Elle, d’urgence (1989), Pays géomètre (1991), Lettres d’appel (1996), Marie-Gasparine (1999), Le dit de petite elle (2000).
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.
DUANE LOCKE, Doctor of Philosophy, English Renaissance literature, Professor Emeritus of the Humanities was Poet in Residence 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 Gainesville and the Polk Historical Theater in Lakeland.
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.
PARVIN LOLOI is a scholar and translator with particular interests in the connections between the literatures of the English and Persian-speaking worlds. Her study of the English translations of Hafiz will soon be published by I.B. Tauris of London.
SANTOS LÓPEZ was born in Anzoátegui state, Venezuela, in 1955 and graduated in Media Studies at the 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, an anthology of his work.
YANN LOVELOCK is a Birmingham (UK) based writer and translator whose Landscape With Voices was published by University of Salzburg Press in 1995. As a Buddhist, he has been widely involved in educational work and inter-faith dialogue. Currently he is also involved in inner-city Capacity Building and edits his area's community newspaper, Bright Spark, in characteristically lively manner.
EDWARD LOWBURY has published over twenty collections 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.
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).
RUPERT M. LOYDELL is Senior Lecturer in English with Creative Writing at University College Falmouth, and the editor of Stride magazine. From 1982-2008 he was the Managing Editor of Stride Books. 2009 sees the publication by Shearsman of Boombox, a new collection of poems, and of a book of manifestos from Salt, which he edited.
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 and translates poetry again. Publishes in literary journals across continents.
ALEXIS LYKIARD's contributions to issue 4 of PSR are extracts from Jean Rhys Afterwords, a short sequel 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 poetry collection Skeleton Keys will be published by Redbeck Press in 2003.