poemeleon - about the editors

About the editors

Cati Porter is founder and editor-in-chief of Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry. Her poems have been anthologized in White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood (Demeter Press), Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel -- Second Floor (No Tell Books), and Letters to the World: Poems from the Women's Poetry Listserv (Red Hen Press), with more of her work available online at kaleidowhirl, mamazine, Literary Mama, Poetry Southeast, and Umbrella, among other publications. She is also an occasional book reviewer and freelance writer, and associate editor for Babel Fruit. She is the author of a book of poems, Seven Floors Up (Mayapple Press, forthcoming June 2008), and a chapbook of prose poems, small fruit songs (Pudding House Publications). Learn more about her by visiting her website or her blog.

Associate editor Ren Powell is a poet, dramatist and translator from California. Her publishing credits include two books of poetry, two chapbooks and nine books of translation. Her dramatic works have been produced in the US, Canada and Norway. She is a member of the Norwegian Authors’ Union and is the Norwegian representative to the International PEN Women Writers’ Committee, and the Committee’s Human Rights Representative. She helped to found the International Cities of Refuge Network and is founder and editor-in-chief of Babel Fruit . She blogs at sidesteppingreal.blogspot.com.

Associate editor Maureen Alsop's poems have appeared or are pending in various publications including: Agni, New Delta Review, Tampa Review, Barrow Street, Typo, Cafe Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, and Texas Review. Her poetry has been thrice nominated for the Pushcart Prize; she is the recipient of Harpur Palate's Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry, Eleventh Muse' Poetry Award, and Bitter Oleander's Francis Locke Memorial Prize in Poetry. She is the author of two chapbooks, Nightingale Habit, and Origin of Stone; her full collection of poetry, Apparition Wren was recently released from Main Street Rag Press.

Book review editor Tom Hunley is currently an assistant professor in the English department at Western Kentucky University and the director of Steel Toe Books. His poems have appeared in TriQuarterly, New York Quarterly, Rattle, Poetry East, Connecticut Review, and other journals. His latest books are My Life as a Minor Character (Pecan Grove Press, 2005), and Teaching Poetry Writing: A Five Canon Approach (Multilingual Matters LTD. ). His book of poems about new fatherhood, Octopus, won the Holland prize and will be published by Logan House Press in 2008.