SubscribeMeet the Authors from Issue 2
We thought our first issue would be hard to beat. But, because of the great writing of the authors featured in our second issue we are once again excited about this issue and pleased to introduce them to you. If you haven’t yet, make sure to check out Rachel’s impressive style and Michael’s ability to draw you in.
Rachel Mehl
Rachel Mehl has published poems in Alaska Quarterly Review, LA Review, Portland Review, Poet Lore, and Willow Springs among others. She has an MFA in poetry from the University of Oregon and lives in Bellingham, WA. She works for Skagit County Community Action Agency in Mount Vernon, WA.
Michael Heffernan
Michael Heffernan’s books include The Cry of Oliver Hardy (1979), To the Wreakers of Havoc (1984), both recently reissued by the University of Georgia Press; Love’s Answer (Iowa Poetry Prize, 1994); The Night Breeze Off the Ocean (Eastern Washington University Press, 2005), along with his two earlier books from Salmon, The Back Road to Arcadia (1994) and Another Part of the Island (1999). His work has earned three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (US), two Pushcart Prizes, and the Porter Prize for Literary Excellence. He has taught the study and practice of poetry at the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) since 1986.