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| Zinta |
Zinta Aistars, founder and editor-in-chief of The Smoking Poet, is the published author of three books. Zinta is living out her
dream on a farm called Z Acres near Hopkins, Michigan, and working as a full-time freelance editor and writer
for her own business, called "Z Word." She is a regularly contributing writer to Southwest Michigan's Second Wave. Her work also appears on many ezines and in print publications. Zinta broadcasts many of her southwest Michigan author interviews on the Arts and More program on WMUK 102.1 FM, Kalamazoo's NPR affiliate.
Read more of Zinta's work on her website. Or, tweet Zinta on Twitter.
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| Joannie |
Joannie Stangeland’s new book, Into the Rumored Spring, is available from Ravenna Press. Joannie is also the author of two poetry
chapbooks—A Steady Longing for Flight, which won the Floating Bridge Press
chapbook award, and Weathered Steps from Rose Alley Press. Joannie has been a Jack
Straw Writer and has taught classes at Richard Hugo House in Seattle, and her poems have appeared in numerous journals and
on Seattle-area buses.
Tim Bazzett is a book reviewer
for The Smoking Poet. Born in Charlotte, Michigan, Tim grew up in Reed City. He
earned degrees from Ferris State, Central Michigan and Eastern Michigan Universities and taught English for five years at
Monroe County Community College. After eight years in the U.S. Army, Tim worked for twenty-one years as a Russian linguist
and intelligence analyst at the National Security Agency. In 2001, he retired and returned to his home town where he began
writing. He has published five books. His latest is a memoir, Booklover: A One-Year
Journal of Reading, Reflecting & Remembering. Tim is married with three grown children and five grandchildren.
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