February 26, 2012

Nancy Brady Cunningham

Nancy Brady Cunningham is a published poet and author of five books of non-fiction.  More than a dozen of her poems were published in the poetry textbook: Unlocking the Poem, (2009) by Ottone Riccio and Ellen Siegel.  Nancy’s awards include, the Barbara Bradley Award, and the Gretchen Warren Award from the New England Poetry Club (2010).  She is the co-editor of The Book of Arrows, by Mike Amado, published by Cervena Barva Press (2011).  Nancy has featured in many venues, including Boston’s First Night.

Robin Smith-Johnson

Robin Smith-Johnson is the author of a forthcoming collection of poems, Dreams of the Antique Dealer’s Daughter (Word Tech, 2013).  Her poems have appeared in the journals, Capewomen, Sandscript, Voices International and Yankee, and in several anthologies, including A Sense of Place and Essential Love.  Robin works at the Cape Cod Times and teaches in the Language and Literature Department of Cape Cod Community College.  She lives in Mashpee with her husband and three sons.

David Surette

David Surette’s new book of poetry is The Immaculate Conception Mothers’ Club.  He is the author of two other collections:  Young Gentlemen’s School and Easy to Keep, Hard to Keep In.  His poems have been published in Off the Coast, Peregrine, and Salamander, and in the anthologies French Connections:  A Gathering of Franco-American Poets and Cadence of Hooves:  A Celebration of Horses.  David has been a co-host of Poetribe, a contributing editor at Salamander, an instructor at the Cape Cod Writers Center Conference, and a contributor at the Bread Loaf Writing Conference.