P@RT 2025 Bios
Mark Doty is the author of nine books of poetry, including Deep Lane (April 2015), Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, which won the 2008 National Book Award, and My Alexandria, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the T.S. Eliot Prize in the UK. He is also the author of four memoirs: the New York Times-bestselling What Is the Grass, Dog Years, Firebird, and Heaven’s Coast, as well as a book about craft and criticism, The Art of Description: World Into Word. Doty has received two NEA fellowships, Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, a Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Award, and the Witter Byner Prize.
Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, Apocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize), and Rocket Fantastic, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Calvocoressi is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University; a Rona Jaffe Woman Writer’s Award; a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, TX; the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review; and a residency from the Civitella di Ranieri Foundation, among others. Calvocoressi’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in numerous magazines and journals including The Baffler, The New York Times, POETRY, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Tin House, and The New Yorker. Calvocoressi is an Editor at Large at Los Angeles Review of Books, and Poetry Editor at Southern Cultures. Works in progress include a non-fiction book entitled, The Year I Didn’t Kill Myself and a novel, The Alderman of the Graveyard. Calvocoressi was the Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute for 2022 – 2023. Calvocoressi teaches at UNC Chapel Hill and lives in Old East Durham, NC, where joy, compassion, and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice.
Amanda Johnston is a writer, visual artist, and the 2024 Texas State Poet Laureate. She is the author of two chapbooks, GUAP and Lock & Key, and the full-length collection Another Way to Say Enter. Her work has appeared in online and print publications, among them, Callaloo, Poetry Magazine, The Academy of American Poets, The Moth, and the anthologies, Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry and Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, and The Watermill Center. She is a former Board President of Cave Canem, an Affrilachian Poet, and founder/executive director of Torch Literary Arts.
Kim Stafford, founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College, teaches and travels to raise the human spirit. He is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, including The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft and 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared. His most recent book is the poetry collection Singer Come from Afar (Red Hen, 2021). He has taught writing in dozens of schools and community centers, and in Scotland, Italy, Mexico, and Bhutan. In 2018 he was named Oregon’s 9th Poet Laureate by Governor Kate Brown for a two-year term.
Cecily Parks is the author of three poetry collections, including most recently The Seeds, which is forthcoming from Alice James Books. Her poems appear in The New Yorker, The New Republic, A Public Space, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA Program at Texas State University.
Hayan Charara is a poet, novelist, children’s book author, essayist, and editor.
His poetry books are These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit (Milkweed Editions 2022), a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and a Pulitzer Prize nomination, Something Sinister (Carnegie Mellon Univ Press 2016), The Sadness of Others (Carnegie Mellon Univ Press 2006), and The Alchemist’s Diary (Hanging Loose Press 2001).
His debut novel, Hush, Little Children, is forthcoming from Flexible Press in October, 2025. His children’s book, The Three Lucys (2016), received the New Voices Award Honor. And he edited Inclined to Speak (2008), an anthology of contemporary Arab American poetry.
With Fady Joudah, he is co-founder and series editor of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. His honors include the Arab American Book Award, a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lucille Joy Prize in Poetry from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, and the John Clare Prize.
Born in Detroit in 1972 to Arab immigrants, he studied biology and chemistry at Wayne State University before turning to poetry. He spent a decade in New York City, where he earned a master’s degree from New York University’s Draper Interdisciplinary Master’s Program. In 2004, he moved to Texas, where he eventually earned his PhD in literature and creative writing at the University of Houston.
He has taught at a number of colleges and universities, including Queens College, Jersey City University, the City University of New York-La Guardia, the University of Texas at Austin, Trinity University, and Our Lady of the Lake University. He is a professor in the Honors College at the University of Houston.
Joan Logghe and Michael live on a family compound in La Puebla where they built their own solar house, raised three children and have five grandchildren. Awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry Grants, A Mabel Dodge Luhan Internship, and a Barbara Deming/Money for Women grant Joan was Santa Fe’s Poet Laureate from 2010-2012. She teaches annually at Ghost Ranch since 1990, and founded Write Action, free writing workshops for the AIDS community as well as 40 years as poet-in-the schools, including Santa Fe Girls school for 21 years. She was poetry editor for Mothering Magazine which is how she met Naomi.
Her books include What Makes a Woman Beautiful, Twenty Years in Bed with the Same Man (a finalist in Western States Book Award), Sofia, Rice, The Singing Bowl, Love and Death; Greatest Hits (with Miriam Sagan and Renée Gregorio) and Unpunctuated Awe. With Renée Gregorio, and Miriam Sagan she is a founder of Tres Chicas Books. The Singing Bowl from UNM press was shortlisted in three books prizes, and Love & Death; Greatest Hits, Tres Chicas Books won a New Mexico Book award.
Workshop Leader Katie Dozier’s love of poetry first bloomed as a child. She memorized Robert Frost sitting on a tree stump and bathed in Edgar Allan Poe as an adolescent. While studying words at Florida State University, KHD also played with chips and became a professional poker player. She’s passionate about encouraging others to discover and share contemporary poetry, through her X account (@Katie_Dozier), as curator of The NFT Poetry Gallery. KHD is the author of Watering Can, and co-authored Hot Pink Moon with Timothy Green. She hosts the weekly podcast The Poetry Space_, is the Haiku Editor for ONE ART, and an editor at Rattle, where she curates a prompt-based poetry series. She lives inThe Woodlands, Texas, with Timothy Green.
Timothy Green is editor of Rattle magazine, host of the weekly Rattlecast and Critique of the Week, and co-host of The Poetry Space_. His radio programming regularly appears on KPFK-Los Angeles and his articles on poetry in the Press-Enterprise newspaper. Green is the author of American Fractal and Hot Pink Moon, which was co-written with Katie Dozier. He’s also the co-founder of the Wrightwood Arts Festival and the Wrightwood Arts Center. Find him on X @timothygreen. He lives inThe Woodlands, Texas, with Katie Dozier.
He’s also the co-founder of the Wrightwood Arts & Wine Festival and the Wrightwood Arts Center. He lives in Wrightwood, California, and The Woodlands, Texas, with Katie Dozier.
Offering manuscript consultations is David Meischen, a Pushcart honoree, with a personal essay in Pushcart Prize XLII, and author of Nopalito, Texas: Stories, new from the University of New Mexico Press. Caliche Road Poems is forthcoming from Lamar University Press. Anyone’s Son, from 3: A Taos Press, won Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters in 2020. David’s work has appeared in The Common, Copper Nickel, The Gettysburg Review, Naugatuck River Review, The San Pedro River Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Southern Review, Valparaiso Fiction Review, and elsewhere. A former juror for the Kimmel Harding Nelson center for the arts, David is an alumni of the Jentel Arts residency program. Co-founder and Managing Editor of Dos Gatos Press, he lives in Albuquerque, NM with his husband—also his co-publisher and co-editor—Scott Wiggerman.