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Shawn Pittard is the author of three slender chapbook volumes of poetry: Witness, which was a Finalist in The Poetry Box 2024 chapbook contest; Standing in the River, the winner of Tebot Bach’s 2010 Clockwise Chapbook Competition; and These Rivers from Rattlesnake Press. He’s been a coach for Poetry Out Loud and a California Poet in the Schools, taught recitation and writing in middle schools and high schools, including juvenile hall (yep, they’re good kids), as well as with veterans and the men in Folsom Prison. By day, he labored in the field of environmental protection, planning, and public policy, focusing on energy.
David Koehn won the May Sarton Poetry Prize with his first book, "Twine" (Bauhan Publishing, 2013). Judith Kitchen in the Georgia Review applauded it as “illuminated and complicated by invention.” He published "Compendium" (Omnidawn Publishing, 2017), revisiting Donald Justice's approach to prosody. Koehn's second book of poems, "Scatterplot" (Omnidawn Publishing, 2020), per a review in Gulfstream, "helps make sense of the world." "Sur," his third full-length collection, was released by Omnidawn in the fall of 2024. Koehn's writing appears in the Kenyon Review, New England Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Rhino, Volt, Carolina Quarterly, Diagram, McSweeney's, The Greensboro Review, North American Review, The Rumpus,
Smartish Pace, Hotel Amerika, Gargoyle, Zyzzva, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere. He earned his BA in Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon and an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Florida. David has taught a post-graduate workshop, “Prosody as A Form of Revision,” for the last decade and a post-graduate workshop, “Forms: Breaking The Bowl,” for the past five years, both online for Omnidawn.
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