Jack Stinedurf has an undergraduate degree in Art Education which included studio classes in drawing, painting, sculpture, design, ceramics and printmaking. While studying, he concentrated in printmaking and worked extensively in lithography. He went on to earn a masters degree in the Management…
Ray McNiece is the author of eight books of poems and monologues, most recently Love Song For Cleveland (Red Giant). The Orlando Sentinel reporting on Ray’s solo show at the Fringe Festival called him “a modern day descendant of Woody Guthrie. He…
Cathy Barber has an MFA in Poetry from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and an MA in English from California State University, Hayward (now Cal State East Bay). Her work has been published more than 100 times in journals and anthologies…
Siaara Freeman is the current Lake Erie Siren & is 28 years of dramatic entrances & exits from Cleveland Ohio. She is unsure if she is more necromancer or poet.. She’s been published in Glass, Pinch, Drunk In A Midnight Choir, Texas…
Experienced music industry professional skilled in creative programming, business development, social media marketing, arts management/booking, community organizing, fundraising, and live music production. BM in Jazz Entrepreneurship from Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Amber N. Ford is an artist and freelance photographer based in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She holds a BFA in Photography from the Cleveland Institute of Art. While Ford’s practice is primarily in digital photography, she continues to explore other mediums such as…
Ohio Beat Poet Laureate (2019-2021) | US Beat Poet Laureate (2022-2023) John Burroughs is a nationally-touring poet and performer from the Cleveland area and the author of over a dozen poetry books including Loss and Foundering, Water Works, Electric Company, Beat Attitude and The Eater of the Absurd.…
Amy Rosenbluth has worked with youth during both in-school and out-of- school time programs since 1991. She created the Youth Leadership group and mentoring program for the Shaker Heights Youth Center and has been facilitating Teen Poetry Slams in the Heights area…
Catherine Wing is the author of two collections of poetry, most recently Gin & Bleach, which won the Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature and was published by Sarabande Books in 2012. Her first book of poems, Enter Invisible (Sarabande), was nominated for a 2005 Los…
