Bill Batcher is a native of Long Island, New York. After graduating from the New York City Public Schools, he received a Bachelors from Syracuse University, where he majored in English. Bill earned two Masters degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York where, in 1992 he was a awarded a doctorate in the area of education of the gifted.
Bill taught school for over 35 years, in the elementary grades and later teaching courses about the computer to children in a gifted program and also to other teachers. In 1998, he retired and turned his attention more toward his passion for writing. Ever the teacher, Bill now leads a writers' critique group, the Scribblers, in Riverhead.
His poems have been published in both national magazines and online collections, and have won several awards (see below). Bill is a poet in residence aboard the Argo, and several of his poems may be seen on their website A book of Easter poems, Footsteps to the Resurrection, was published in 2005 by Pleasant Word.
Besides writing, Bill also loves singing. He belongs to the choir of the First Congregational Church of Riverhead, the COLE singers (a group that performs Revues of Broadway Show Music), the Choral Society of the Moriches, and the Christian Men's Harmony Chorus.
Bill also has a blog.
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Brandy Bauer is an editor and writer currently based in Denmark.
Though introduced to the ghazal during her graduate MFA program in
poetry, it wasn't until she began studying Persian and spent three
years living in Afghanistan that she tried writing one. Other poems
and essays she has written have appeared places such as the Oregon
Literary Review, Red River Review, and Escape from America.
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Teresa Camacho is an independent researcher, critic and writer from Los
Angeles. She is a Comparative Literature (Spanish, French, and Italian) graduate of UC Berkeley and is currently a graduate student of Middle East History. Topics of interest include medieval Spanish literature, the Sephardim, the culture, politics, art and religion of the Middle East and its diaspora — specifically Iran, Lebanon, Morocco and Armenia.
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Since graduating with a degree in Comparative Semitic Languages, Norman Darlington has maintained an interest in the cultures and literatures of the Middle East and Western Asia. He is current editor of the Renku Column at the online journal Simply Haiku and much of his poetic energy is poured into Japanese form collaborative linked verse.
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Sukhdarshan Dhaliwal is originally from village of Lohara, Punjab-India. He currently resides in Shawnee, Kansas. He works in the area of Mechanical
product design and development. He started writing Punjabi poetry in the
mid-eighties. He has published three books of Punjabi poetry. Punjabi is
the state language of Punjab. Some of his Punjabi Ghazals are composed and
sung by a famous singer Jagjit Singh Zirvi under the "Roo-B-Roo" (Face to
Face) Cassette/CD. In December, 2005 he started thinking about English
Ghazals. Besides writing, Sukhdarshan loves to listen to Urdu/Hindi Ghazals.
His first published English Ghazals are in the August issue of The Ghazal Page. He writes under the pen name of "Darshan."
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Michael Farman is an Electronics Engineer currently living in Texas, where he designs instrumentation for scientific balloons under contract to NASA. His interest in poetry of all kinds is manifest primarily in his translations of Chinese ancient and classical poetry. These translations have been published frequently in literary magazines, a couple of anthologies and in his first book Clouds and Rain, Lyrics of Love and Desire from China’s Golden Age. He is currently working on a selection of lyrics by the Song Dynasty scholar-poet Xin Qiji.
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Steffen Horstmann was recipient of the Brooklyn Poetry Circle's National Student Award while at the University of Arizona. He has new poems and book reviews recently published or forthcoming in Baltimore Review, Blue Unicorn, Contemporary Rhyme, Hurricane Review, LYNX, Pebble Lake Review, Texas Poetry Journal, and Tiferet. He lives in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
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David Jalajel is originally from Baltimore, Maryland. His works on Arabic language include Expressing I`ràb: A Handbook on Arabic Grammatical Analysis (2001: Cape Town), and Safahàt fï al-Balàghah (unpublished), an elementary textbook on Arabic rhetoric for non-native speakers. His poetry has recently been published in Amaze: The Cinquain Journal and Forgotten Ground Regained: Alliterative and Accentual Poetry Here's another in that journal. His work is also scheduled to appear in the next issue of Astropoetica.
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Joan Logghe continues to teach poetry at UNM-Los Alamos and
Poets-in-the Schools in Santa Fe, collaborately run Tres Chicas Books, and
write from La Puebla, New Mexico. Check out her books and contact info at her web site.
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Esther Greenleaf Mürer lives in Philadelphia. At 72, she considers herself an emerging poet. Most recently her poems have been published in Light, New Verse News, and The Externalist. She has also published literary translations from Norwegian. She first learned about ghazals from her son George, an ethnomusicologist with a particular interest in Persianate cultures.
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From his original home in Maryland, Joel has lived in the dual reality of
post-modernism and the MTV generation, eagerly seeking community and
yearning for a strong individual voice. Drawing on his personal history and
contacts with faith, education, multiculturalism and a persistent
encouragement to foster a free spirit, he looks for poetry to unite the
chaos of his experiencial life and the ordered form(s) of transcendental
faith.
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Samuel Salerno has published three books of poetry and has a forthcoming
chapbook, Spirithouse. His work has appeared in Free Verse, Ilya's Honey, Freshwater, Red River Review, and The California Quarterly. He teaches English at The Stevenson School in California.
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J.E. Stanley is an accountant and on again/off again guitarist from the grayscale suburban wilderness of Northeastern Ohio and a member of the Deep Cleveland Tribe of Poets. In addition to a previous issue of The Ghazal Page, his work has appeared in numerous publications including the chapbook Dissonance (deep cleveland press), the short collection Ink (Gypsy Lips Press) and the forthcoming book, Dark Intervals (vanZeno Press).
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Julie Wallace, sometimes called a metaphysical punk poet, works in
software support. She co-hosted a poetry slam and open mike in Athens,
Georgia, and is slowly pursuing an M.A. in English with creative writing
emphasis in poetry at Central Michigan University, and was the poetry
editor for Temenos. She lives in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, with her two cats,
Jasmine and Ivan.
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