Camile Norton is a professor of English at Pacific University in Stockton. Her first book of poems, Corruption, was a 2004 National Poetry Series winner, published by Harper Perennial in 2005. Her work has appeared in Field, The Colorado Review, The Georgia Review, and in American Poet: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets. Her poem, “The Prison Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone,” was published in The Best American Poetry of 2010. Camille grew up near Philadelphia and and lived for many years in Boston. She has worked collaboratively with artists and composers since the early 1990’s, when she co-edited Resurgent: New Writing by Women, an anthology of experimental writing by women in literature, film, and the visual arts. She lives in Stockton, near the San Joaquin River, and is at home in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Her poetry explores the interstices between artistic expression and the political systems that define who reads, who writes, and who is remembered. Her new book A Folio for the Dark is recently published by Sixteen Rivers Press and is available here from Target.
Barbara Swift Brauer is a freelance writer living in San Geronimo, California. She has been a member of Sixteen Rivers Press poetry collective since 2011. Barbara’s poems have appeared nationally in journals and anthologies as well as art exhibitions and installations. Her first poetry collection, At Ease in the Borrowed World, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2013 and Rain, Like a Thief in 2019. With portrait artist Jackie Kirk, she is coauthor of the nonfiction book, Witness: The Artist’s Vision in “The Face of AIDS” (Pomegranate Artbooks, 1996).
