C. E. Perry graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1992 and Dartmouth Medical School in 1999. She has worked as a waitress, construction worker and nursing assistant as well as a poetry instructor, and a physician for the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. Her work has been published in Southeast Review, Harpur Palate, Margie, Pool, and Ploughshares. Sarabande Books published her first book of poetry, Night Work, in 2009. She is a family medicine physician in Madison, Wisconsin where she lives an a 107 year old house with her family. grew up in West Virginia and moved to Tallahassee when she was twenty years old to work for a lesbian publisher. She lived in Tallahassee for 13 years and received a B.A. in American Studies and an M.A. in poetry at Florida State University. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Wallace Stegner fellow in fiction, a Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Women Writers, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her first book of poetry, The Alphabet Conspiracy, was released in February 2011 from Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press.
Wendy Vardaman lives in Madison, Wisconsin and is the author of
Obstructed View (Fireweed Press 2009). She works for The Young Shakespeare Players (a children’s theater company), co-edits
Verse Wisconsin, has three children, and does not own a car. In addition to poetry, she writes essays and interviews, which have appeared in
Poetry Daily,
Women’s Review of Books, and on Poets.org.
Sarah Busse is a poet and a co-editor of
Verse Wisconsin, and the coordinator of her local school’s bake sales. She’s the author of
Quiver (Red Dragonfly Press, 2009) and
Given These Magics (Finishing Line Press, 2010). A third chapbook,
Gauguin in California, is forthcoming from Desperado Press. She has been featured at Verse Daily and Your Daily Poem. She lives in Madison with her husband and two children, where she searches for a good recipe for pear pie and the missing game pieces for Chutes and Ladders. Her most recent hobby is shouting herself hoarse down at the Capitol.
Writers in Prisons Project Participants are from a wide variety of backgrounds with a wide variety of skills and accolades to their names. They share a writing workshop, a love for poetry and performance, and a dedication to each other’s growth as artists. Their work will be read, with pseudonyms, by poets on the “outside.”
C. E. Perry graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1992 and Dartmouth Medical School in 1999. She has worked as a waitress, construction worker and nursing assistant as well as a poetry instructor, and a physician for the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. Her work has been published in Southeast Review, Harpur Palate, Margie, Pool, and Ploughshares. Sarabande Books published her first book of poetry, Night Work, in 2009. She is a family medicine physician in Madison, Wisconsin where she lives an a 107 year old house with her family.
