KEITH WALDROP's recent books include The House Seen from Nowhere (Litmus Press, 2002), Haunt (Instance Press, 2000), the trilogy: The Locality Principle, The Silhouette of the Bridge (America Award, 1997) and Semiramis, If I Remember (Avec Books, 1995, 1997, 2001), and the novel, Light While There Is Light (Sun & Moon, 1993). He has translated, among others, Anne-Marie Albiach, Claude Royet-Journoud, Paol Keineg, Dominique Fourcade, Pascal Quignard, and Jean Grosjean. He teaches at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and is co-editor of Burning Deck Press.
ROSMARIE WALDROP's recent books of poems are Reluctant Gravities (New Directions, 1999), Split Infinites (Singing Horse Press, 1998), and Another Language: Selected Poems (Talisman House, 1997). Northwestern UP has reprinted her two novels, The Hanky of Pippin's Daughter and A Form/of Taking/It All (2001). She has translated most of Edmond Jabès's work (her memoir, Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabès, was published by Wesleyan UP in November 2002) as well as volumes by Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard, and, from the German, Friederike Mayröcker, Elke Erb, and Oskar Pastior.
BRENDA WALKER was born in New South Wales in 1957. She studied at the University of New England in Armidale and, after gaining a PhD in English at the Australian National University, she moved to Perth in 1984. She now lectures in English at the University of Western Australia. Novels: Crush (1991), One More River (1993) and Poe's Cat (1999). She has published a number of articles and reviews in the field of contemporary Australian women's writing.
SUE WALKER is the Chair of the English Department at the University of South Alabama where she teaches literature and poetry. She is a critic, poet and fiction writer as well as playwright and runs Negative Capability Press. She is the author of four books of poetry. A new collection, It's Good Weather for Fudge: Conversing with Carson McCullers, is forthcoming from New South Press (Montgomery, AL) in October 2003.
TSERING WANGMO DHOMPA grew up in the Tibetan communities in India and Nepal. She is the author of two chapbooks, In Writing the Names (A.bacus, Potes & Poets Press, 2001), and Recurring Gestures (Tangram Press, 2000). Her first book of poems is Rules of the House (Apogee Press, 2003). She works for a non-profit foundation in San Francisco where she lives.
CHRISTIAN WARD is the author of Bone Transmissions (Maverick Duck Press, 2009). His work has been published in The Warwick Review, Grasslimb, Decanto, Remark, Iota, Other Poetry, Poetry Wales, Crannog, Envoi, and The Emerson Review.
DONALD WARD was born in 1909 in Belmont, Surrey. His first book The Dead Snake (Allison & Busby) received an Arts Council Award in 1971. Anvil Press produced Border Country, Mandeville Press and Mammon Press published three pamphlets. His most important collections are Lark Over Stone Walls (Hippopotamus, 1993), Collected Poems (U. of Salzburg, 1995), and Selected Poems 1956-1996 (U. of Salzburg, 1996).
PAUL WATSKY lives in San Francisco, and earns his living as a Jungian analyst. His poetry has appeared in magazines such as The Cream City Review, Poetry Flash, Elysian Fields, and Modern Haiku. Tel-let published his chapbooks More Questions Than Answers (2001) and Sea Side (2003).
STEPHEN WATTS is a poet, editor and translator. Recent books are Gramsci & Caruso (Prague: Periplum, 2003) & The Blue Bag (London & New Delhi: Aark Arts, 2004). He helps run the Multicultural Arts Consortium in Whitechapel, where he also lives & where the "Brick Lane Mela Poem" is set. He has guest edited Mother Tongues (MPT, 2001) & co-edited with David Miller Music While Drowning (Tate Publications, 2003). He co-translates mainly contemporary Persian, Kurdish & Slovenian poets.
Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, J. MARCUS WEEKLEY now lives and works and plays in Lubbock, Texas. He is also a photographer, and is working in collaboration with Gail Folkins on a book about dance halls in Texas. His writing has appeared, or is forthcoming in, Iowa Review, 3 a.m., and Quick Fiction, among other places.
JOSEF WEINHEBER (1892-1945) was the major poetic voice of Germany in the 1930s and remains one of the distinctive voices of German poetry in the twentieth century. Volumes of verse include: Adel und Untergang (1934, "Nobility and Decline"), Wien wörtlich (1935, "Vienna Verbally"), and Kammermusik (1939, "Chamber Music").
MARK WEISS’ publications include six books and chapbooks of poetry: Letter to Maxine (Heron Press, 1974), Intimate Wilderness (New Rivers Press, 1976), A Block Print by Kuniyoshi (Four Zoas Nighthouse Press, 1994), Fieldnotes (Junction Press, 1995), Figures: 32 Poems (2002), and As Landscape (2009, both Chax Press). He is editor and publisher of Junction Press.
DANIEL WEISSBORT taught for many years in America, but is now back in England where he edits Modern Poetry in Translation, which Ted Hughes and he founded in 1965. His most recent translation is Selected Poems of Nikolay Zabolotsky (Carcanet) and his most recent poetry collection is What Was All the Fuss About? (Anvil). He is working on a Historical Translation Theory Reader for Oxford University Press and a book on Ted Hughes and Translation for the same publisher. Anvil will publish his Letters to Ted and a translational memoir of the late Joseph Brodsky, From Russian With Love.
PAULA WELD-CARY is a naturalist who enjoys mountain climbing and birding. She lives in New York with her husband and son. Her poems have been published in Atlanta Review, Nimrod International, and The Lyric. She is also a novelist with four completed novel manuscripts.
JAMES R. WHITLEY lives in Boston, Massachusetts and works as an attorney. His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has been published in numerous magazines including Gargoyle, Mississippi Review, Poetry Midwest, and Xavier Review. His first book, Immersion (Lotus Press, 2002), was selected by Lucille Clifton as the winner of the 2001 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. His second book This Is the Red Door won the 2003 Ironweed Press Poetry Prize and was be published in 2005.
KLAUS WIEMANN, born in 1934 in Germany, studied Biology, Physics and Sports Science. He taught Biomechanics and Kinesiology at the universities of Bochum and Wuppertal. Since 1999, he has concentrated on painting in the style of Fantastic Realism. His artworks show scenes and objects from mythology, imaginary creations, and human bodies in movement.
KAZIMIERZ WIERZYNSKI (1894-1969) was born in Drohobyez, Austria-Hungary (now Drohobych, Ukraine) and studied in Krakow and Vienna before serving in the Austrian Army during the Great War. He lived in Warsaw during the inter-war period and was a co-founder of the Skamander group. From 1939 until his death, he lived in exile, mainly in the USA. He is a highly regarded Polish poet and has been extensively anthologized in Poland, even under the Communists. Selected Poems (New York: Voyages Press, 1959) is the only volume of his poetry that has been published in English.
MENNO WIGMAN (The Netherlands, 1966) is regarded as one of the most interesting poets of his generation and he has won several awards. He has published three full-length collections to date: 's Zomers stinken alle steden [In the Summer All Cities Stink] (Bert Bakker, 1997), Zwart als kaviaar [Black as Caviar] (Prometheus / Bert Bakker, 2001), Dit is mijn dag [This Is My Day] (Prometheus, 2004). In 2006 he was invited to write a short collection to celebrate National Poetry Day. Wigman is also very active as an editor and translator; Baudelaire and Rilke are among the poets whose work he has translated into Dutch.
BEN WILENSKY, 66, has been a merchant seaman, soldier, news reporter, and art teacher. He favors good wine and whiskey, Chinese food, and American football. He works out at a gym three times a week. He is married to the great love of his life. His work has appeared world-wide.
JAMES WILKIE, born in Glasgow, holds a Ph.D degree from the University of Vienna, where he lives. He is a prolific writer, broadcaster and foreign policy consultant to several national and international organisations and edited the intercultural magazine Austria Today for fifteen years.
JOHN WILKINSON works in mental health in North East London. From 2003-04 he will be based in New York thanks to a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award, working on a book on mental health and the city. His most recent books of poetry are Effigies Against the Light (Salt, 2001) and Signs of an Intruder (Parataxis, 2001). A new Salt collection will appear this year.
JUDITH WILKINSON is a British poet and translator. Her work has been widely published in journals, including Envoi, English Studies, PN Review, Chapman, The Manhattan Review, Stand, and Poetry London. Her translations Instead of Silence (Miriam Van hee; 2007) and About Love and about Nothing Else (Toon Tellegen; 2008) were published by Shoestring Press.
RIK WILKINSON has been published in Acumen, Agenda, Equinox, Manifold, and Spokes Magazine. His pamphlet collection A Hundred Mile Walk was published by Acumen in 2008.
BRIAN WILLEMS is an American teaching British literature at the University of Split, Croatia. His work has been published in Prague Literary Review, Eyeshot, Milk Magazine and others.
GWILYM WILLIAMS was born in North Wales. In 1962 he was paid 10/6d by the Liverpool Echo for his first poem. He then gave up poetry for 40 years. He was recently rescued by David Greenslade and told to give poetry another go. Poems have appeared in iota, Pulsar and Poetry Monthly. He lives in Vienna.
J. L. WILLIAMS was born in New Jersey and studied at Wellesley College with the poet Frank Bidart. Her poetry has been published in The Red Wheelbarrow, The Wolf, Aesthetica, Fulcrum, and Stand. She is currently studying on the MLitt course in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.
ELIZABETH WITTS lives in London, and used to work for the BBC Overseas Services. Her first collection of poems, The Pool of Echoes, was published in 2006 by Authority.
SHOLEH WOLPÉ was born in Persia but spent most of her teen years in Trinidad and England, ending up in the U.S. where she says she became fasci-nated by its vastness, isolation and good-looking men. She spent her twenties pursuing degrees at three universities; thereafter she worked as a health docu-mentary producer. She was selected this year by the LA Poetry Festival as one of the "talented poets who've reached an interesting level of development and who've lately become active and influential in the community." She lives in Redlands where she hosts Poetry at the Loft.
Originally from Essex, MICK WOOD worked for many years in experimental and community theatre as a director and performer. His poems have been published in Acumen, The Frogmore Papers, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry London, and Seam. He now lives in Strasbourg and is currently working on his first collection.
GREGORY WOODS is the author of four collections, all from Carcanet Press: We Have the Melon (1992), May I Say Nothing (1998), The District Commissioner's Dreams (2002), and Quidnunc (2007). His critical books include Articulate Flesh: Male Homo-Eroticism and Modern Poetry (1987) and A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition (1998), both from Yale University Press.
LILIANE WOUTERS (1930) was born in Ixelles (Brussels) where she worked as a teacher until 1980. In 1985 she was elected to the Belgian Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises. She won the Nuit de la Poésie (1955), (among the judges were Cocteau, Aragon and Reverdy), the Prix triennal de Poésie (1962), Prix Louise Labé (1967), Grand Prix de la Maison de Poésie (1989). Selected titles: l’aloès (1983), Journal du Scribe (1990), Le billet de Pascal (2000).
MICHAEL WRIGHT is a retired librarian. He read English at Cambridge. He was formerly editor of the English Berlioz Society Bulletin; his cycle of poems, Mosaic of the Air (University of Salzburg Press, 1996) is based on Berlioz' compositions.
CHARLES WYATT is the author of a collection of short fiction, Listening to Mozart (University of Iowa Press, 1995), and a novella, Falling Stones: The Spirit Autobiography of S. M. Jones. He has published poems in numerous journals in the USA. He is presently visiting fiction writer at Purdue University.
LYNNE WYCHERLEY was born in East Anglia, but her writing is inspired by many landscapes, including those of Ireland and Scotland. She is a former Blue Nose Poet-of-the-Year. Her first pamphlet, Cracks in the Ice, was published by Acumen (1999). Shoestring Press released her first full collection At the Edge of Light in 2003.