Poet Biographies

Meet the authors behind Issue 6 of Gleam:

Rose Mary Boehm | Jamey Boelhower | Becky Boling | Natalie Callum | Sarah Carleton | Claire Cella | Jane Dougherty | Fulvia Del Duca | Malcolm Glass | Sarah Gordon | Shirlee Jellum | Tara Knight | Tanis MacDonald | Carolyn Martin | Ann Michael | K. Alma Peterson | Marcella Remund | Jacquelyn Shah | Merril D. Smith | Sarah Snyder | Maggie Van Putten | Sterling Warner | Ingrid Wilson | Jon Yungkans

Rose Mary Boehm

Rose Mary Boehm is a German-born British national living and writing in Lima, Peru, and author of two novels as well as seven poetry collections. Her poetry has been published widely in mostly US poetry reviews (online and print). She was twice nominated for a Pushcart. Her latest: DO OCEANS HAVE UNDERWATER BORDERS? (Kelsay Books July 2022), WHISTLING IN THE DARK (Ciberwit July 2022), and SAUDADE (December 2022) are available on Amazon. https://www.rose-mary-boehm-poet.com/

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Becky Boling

Retired professor & “naturalized” Minnesotan, Becky Boling has published creative nonfiction, dramatic monologues, short stories, poetry (The Ekphrastic Review, Lost Lake Folk Opera, Willows Wept Review, Persimmon Tree, 3rdWednesday Magazine, Moss Puppy Magazine, visualverse.org). Two of her monologues were performed for Northfield’s SOLOS: Monologue Writing and Performance Festival. Her poems have won competitions—Northfield Sidewalk Poetry & Red Wing Arts’ Poet-Artist Collaboration—and twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. MPR’s Pandemic Poetry featured her poems. She is published in the Ramsey County Library’s anthology, This Was 2020: Minnesotans Write About Pandemics and Social Justice in a Historic Year.

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Natalie Callum

Natalie Callum is a writer and poet living in Wyoming. When she is not writing, she can be found outside free climbing and exploring with her much beloved husband. Her work has been published in North Dakota Quarterly and Willawaw Journal.

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Sarah Carleton

Sarah Carleton writes poetry, edits fiction, plays the banjo, and knits obsessively in Tampa, Florida. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Nimrod, Chattahoochee Review, Tar River Poetry, Split Rock Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and New Ohio Review. Her first collection, Notes from the Girl Cave, was published in 2020 by Kelsay Books.

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Jane Dougherty

Jane Dougherty lives and works in southwest France. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her poems and stories have been published in magazines and journals including Ogham Stone, the Ekphrastic Review, Black Bough Poetry, ink sweat and tears, Gleam, Nightingale & Sparrow, Green Ink and Brilliant Flash Fiction. She blogs at https://janedougherty.wordpress.com/ Her poetry chapbooks, thicker than water and birds and other feathers were published in October and November 2020.

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Fulvia Del Duca

Fulvia Del Duca is a doctoral student based in Germany, trying to find the right balance between poetry and engineering. Outside the lab, she enjoys reading rock biographies, learning about photography, and crafting poems.

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Malcolm Glass

Over the past sixty-five years, Malcolm Glass has published fourteen books of poetry and non-fiction. His poems, fiction, and articles have appeared in many literary journals and magazines, including “Poetry” (Chicago), “The Sewanee Review,” “Nimrod,” “The Linking Ring,” “Vanderbilt Review,” and “Prairie Schooner.” In 2018, Finishing Line Press published his chapbook of poems, Mirrors, Myths, and Dreams; and later this year they will release his triple hybrid collection of poems, stories, and plays, Her Infinite Variety.

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Shirlee Jellum

Shirlee Jellum is a retired English teacher living in the middle of nowhere. She has occasionally published poetry, fiction and nonfiction.

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Tara Knight

Tara Knight is a healthcare provider in a small hockey town in northern Ontario. First published in Poetry is You she is now older and wiser. Tara’s work can also be found in the Literary Hatchet Magazine Issue 32, and Gleam: Journal of the Cadralor Issue 5. Tara’s work was also longlisted for the 2022 Raven Short Story Contest (Pulp Literature)

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Tanis MacDonald

Tanis MacDonald (she/them) is the author of four books of poetry, the latest of which is Mobile (Book*hug 2019). Tanis lives in southwestern Ontario in Canada, and has had poems appear recently in Vallum, Lammergeier, Event, and Contemporary Verse 2.

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Ann Michael

Ann E. Michael’s forthcoming collection of poetry is The Red Queen Hypothesis. She blogs almost weekly at http://www.annemichael.blog and spends as much time as possible in her garden.

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K. Alma Peterson

K. Alma Peterson is a graduate of Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. She is the author of two books of poetry, published by Blaze Vox Books: Was There No Interlude when Light Sprawled the Fen; and The Last Place I Lived. She lives and writes and does abstract painting in Florida and in Minnesota.

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Marcella Remund

Marcella Remund is a native of Omaha, Nebraska, and a South Dakota transplant, where she taught at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals. Her chapbook, The Sea is My Ugly Twin, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2018. Her first full-length collection, The Book of Crooked Prayer, won Honorable Mention in the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition from the National Association of State Poetry Societies and was published by Finishing Line Press in 2020. Find more info about Marcella, including links to her books, at www.marcellaremund.com.

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Merril D. Smith

Merril D. Smith lives in southern New Jersey. Her poetry has been published in journals including Black Bough Poetry, Anti-Heroin Chic, and Humana Obscura, and anthologies, such as the recent Our Own Coordinates: Poems about Dementia. Her full-length poetry collection, River Ghosts, was published by Nightingale & Sparrow Press.

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Sarah Snyder

Sarah Dickenson Snyder lives in Vermont, carves in stone, & rides her bike. Travel opens her eyes. She has four poetry collections, The Human Contract (2017), Notes from a Nomad (nominated for the Massachusetts Book Awards 2018), With a Polaroid Camera (2019), and Now These Three Remain (2023). Poems have been nominated for Best of Net and Pushcart Prizes. Recent work is in Rattle, Lily Poetry Review, and RHINO. sarahdickensonsnyder.com

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Maggie Van Putten

Maggie Van Putten writes poetry and nonfiction. She has published work in journals and anthologies, competed in poetry slams and been a featured reader at Perth Poetry Club. In 2017 she won equal first in the annual Creatrix Poetry prize. Maggie grew up in New York and lived in San Francisco before settling in Perth (Western Australia) with her Australian husband.

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Ingrid Wilson

Ingrid Wilson is owner and editor of Experiments in Fiction, a publishing house which has several bestselling titles to its name, including the anthology Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women and Three-Penny Memories, A Poetic Memoir by Barbara Harris Leonhard. Most recently, Ingrid published Archery In The UK, a poetic collaboration with her partner, the author, musician and artist Nick Reeves.

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Jon Yungkans

Jonathan Yungkans listens to the pouring Southern California rain in the wee hours of what some call morning and others some mild form of insanity and types while watching a large skunk meanders under the foundation of a century-old house. He is thankful when his writing is less noxious than that jittery creature on the other side of those floorboards. During what some choose to call normal hours, he works as an in-home health-care provider, fueled by copious amounts of coffee while finding time for the occasional deep breath. His poems have appeared in Gyroscope Review, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Panoply, Unbroken and other publications.

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