Paula Bohince is the author of a poetry collection, Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods, (Sarabande
Books, 2008). Her poems have
appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, The Kenyon Review, Slate, and The
Yale Review. She has received
the Amy Clampitt Resident Fellowship and a 2009 Fellowship from the NEA. She has taught at NYU, the New School,
and elsewhere. She lives in
Pennsylvania.
Jeanne Marie Beaumont is the author of Curious Conduct, published by BOA Editions in 2004, and Placebo Effects, selected by William
Matthews as a winner in the National Poetry Series and published by Norton in
1997. Her third collection of poems, Burning
of the Three Fires, is forthcoming from BOA in 2010. With Claudia Carlson
she coedited the anthology The Poets’
Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Her poems have been
published in numerous anthologies and magazines including Barrow Street, Court Green, Denver
Quarterly, Good Poems for Hard Times,
LIT, The Manhattan Review, The
Nation, New American Writing, Poetry Daily, The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 2007, World Literature Today, and others. Her poem “Afraid So” was made
into a short film by award-winning filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt which has been
shown at over two dozen international festivals, including the TriBeCa Film
Festival and the 2008 Split This Rock Poetry Festival; it won 2nd prize at the
Black Maria Film Festival, among other awards. She has taught at Rutgers
University and the Frost Place in Franconia, NH, where she is now the Director
of the annual Frost Place Advanced Seminar. She currently teaches at the
Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd St. Y and in the Stonecoast low-residency
MFA program in Maine. A native of Pennsylvania, since 1983, she has made her
home in Manhattan.
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