Book&Arts Press: Who's Who

Liz received an MSW from University of Wisconsin Madison and an MFA in Writing with a Poetry Concentration from Vermont College. She is the author of Learning to Calculate the Half Life, a full-length poetry collection (Zinka Press, 2001) and the chapbook, What Winter Reveals (Plan B Press, 2005), has co-authored two limited edition artists' books, and is in the process of co-authoring two textbooks and completing a second full-length collection of poetry. Her poems and short stories have been widely published in nationally distributed journals and anthologies and both poetry and prose have been featured on NPR. She is a recipient of three grants from the Ragdale Foundation and two Special Opportunity Stipends from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. In addition to teaching at Rosemont, Liz co-founded and runs an on-line writing workshop, Around the Block Writers Collaborative, and serves as an artist in education in Pennsylvania schools. She frequently reads her work in reading series at a variety of venues in the Philadelphia region.


Liz received an MSW from University of Wisconsin Madison and an MFA in Writing with a Poetry Concentration from Vermont College. She is the author of Learning to Calculate the Half Life, a full-length poetry collection (Zinka Press, 2001) and the chapbook, What Winter Reveals (Plan B Press, 2005), has co-authored two limited edition artists' books, and is in the process of co-authoring two textbooks and completing a second full-length collection of poetry. Her poems and short stories have been widely published in nationally distributed journals and anthologies and both poetry and prose have been featured on NPR. She is a recipient of three grants from the Ragdale Foundation and two Special Opportunity Stipends from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. In addition to teaching at Rosemont, Liz co-founded and runs an on-line writing workshop, Around the Block Writers Collaborative, and serves as an artist in education in Pennsylvania schools. She frequently reads her work in reading series at a variety of venues in the Philadelphia region.


	Liz Chang has lived in and around Philadelphia for most of her life. She has studied in Costa Rica, France and Slovenia. She graduated from Parsons School of Design (a division of New School University) in New York City with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree. She is currently enrolled in the Master’s of Fine Arts program in Writing through Vermont College. She plans to graduate in January of 2009 with a certificate in translation.


Meg has been involved in publishing for almost thirty years, with broad experience in academic publishing, marketing, and sales. She is by training a poet, and has broadened her vistas from the written arts to become an award-winning calligrapher and book artist. She is the co-author, with fellow poet Liz Abrams-Morley, of our forthcoming publication, Building a Book, Binding a Poem: Artist's Books in the Classroom.


Jamie Pastor Bolnick was born in Huntington, Long Island, New York. She attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City and began acting professionally while still a teenager. After the arrival of her children, Britt and Piers, she worked as a journalist and photographer. Her work has appeared in magazines and newspapers, including Redbook, Interview Magazine, New York Newsday and The New York Daily News. She is the author of two non-fiction books and is presently working on a third. She lives in New York City with her family.