Doug Anderson’s book of poems, The Moon Reflected Fire, from Alice James Books, won the
Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Blues for Unemployed Secret Police, from Curbstone Books, a
grant from the Academy of American Poets. His play, Short Timers, was produced at Theater
for the New City in New York City in 1981. His memoir, Keep Your Head Down, Vietnam, the
Sixties and a Journey of Self-Discovery, was published by W.W. Norton in 2009. His book of
poems is Horse Medicine, from Barrow Street, was published in 2015. His new book, Undress,
She Said, was published by Four Way Books in September of 2022. His work has appeared in
The Massachusetts Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Southern
Review, Field, and other publications. He has written critical articles for the New York Times
Book Review, The London Times Literary Supplement, and the Boston Globe. He has received
fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural
Council, Poets & Writers, and other funding agencies. He has taught at Emerson and Smith
Colleges, the University of Massachusetts, and the MFA programs at Pacific University of
Oregon and Bennington College. He is an affiliate of the Joiner Center for the Study of War and
its Social Consequences at UMASS Boston.
Bessy Reyna, former opinion columnist for the Hartford Courant, and arts editor for Identidad Latina and
ctlatinonews.com. Her work has been published in anthologies in the USA and Latin America. Her bilingual book “Memoirs of the Unfaithful Lover” was published by TunAstral, Mexico. She has been a guest reader in festivals in the USA and Latin America. Reyna conducted radio interviews with poets participating in the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, and published several of their profiles in Northeast magazine. She is Bolton's Inaugural Poet Laureate. Her arts advocacy was recognized with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the CT Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Library of Congress, she was also honored by CT Women's Hall of Fame. (
www.bessyreyna.com)
