Grace Cavalieri’s first book was published by The Washington Writers’ Publishing House 50 years ago. She’s published several books, and written several produced plays since then. Founder and producer of “The Poet and The Poem,” Grace celebrates 47 years on-air. These poetry programs were launched to the moon from NASA in the Lunar Codex time capsule.

Jean Nordhaus’s 8 volumes of poetry include The Porcelain Apes of Moses Mendelssohn, Innocence, Memos from the Broken World, and The Music of Being. She has published poetry and dance criticism in numerous journals, directed the Folger Library’s poetry programs, served for 5 years as President of WWPH, and for 8 as review editor of Poet Lore.

Jona Colson is an educator and poet. He graduated from Goucher College with a double Bachelor’s degree in English and Spanish and earned his MFA from American University and a Master’s in Literature/Linguistics from George Mason University. His poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Ploughshares, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. In addition to writing his own poetry, he also translates the Spanish language poetry of Miguel Avero from Montevideo, Uruguay including the new collection AGUAS/WATERS published in May, 2024 from the Washington Writers’ Publishing House. His translations can be found in Prairie Schooner, Tupelo Quarterly, and Palabras Errantes. He is currently a professor at Montgomery College in Maryland where he teaches English as a Second Language. He lives in the Dupont Circle area of Washington, DC.

Caroline Bock writes stories—from micros to novels. She is the author of the forthcoming novel THE OTHER BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE from Regal House Publishing in the summer of 2026. A graduate of Syracuse University, she studied creative writing with Raymond Carver and poetry with Jack Gilbert and Tess Gallagher. In 2011, after a twenty-year career as a cable television
executive, she earned an MFA in Fiction from The City College of New York. She is the co-president and prose editor at the Washington Writers’ Publishing House.

Heather Bruce Satrom teaches English Language Learners at Montgomery College on the Takoma Park / Silver Spring campus. Her oral history project, “History in the Making: Documenting Stories of Immigrant and Refugee Students at Montgomery College,” an Open Educational Resource that documents the lives of immigrants and refugees in Montgomery County, recently won the American Association of Community Colleges’ Faculty Innovation Award and was adapted into a Pressbook. A believer in the healing power of storytelling, Heather integrates oral history and digital storytelling into her teaching. Her work has appeared in WWPH Writes, the literary journal of the Washington Writers’ Publishing House, Maryland Literary Review, and The Sligo Journal.

David Lott’s poems have popped up in numerous spots, including the Washington Writers Publishing House’s This Is What America Looks Like, his own bilingual collection New to Guayama/Nuevos en Guayama, and most recently at the National Baseball Poetry Festival, where his poem “preseason report” was recognized as a co-winner.

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