Dire Literary Series

Dewitt Henry was a founding editor of Ploughshares literary magazine, and active editor and director of the magazine from 1971-1995. Interim Director of Ploughshares 6/2007-10/2008. He’s currently a Professor or Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College.

Eamon Loingsigh (sounds like Lynch), is a Brooklyn-based historical novelist and journalist. This Fall, “Exile on Bridge Street,” a stand-alone novel about a 14 year-old Irish emigrant to pre-Prohibition Brooklyn will be released by Three Rooms Press. It is the second book in the Auld Irishtown trilogy.

Tim Mayo’s poems and reviews have appeared in Barrow Street, Narrative Magazine, Poetry International, Poet Lore, River Styx, Salamander, The Writer’s Almanac, and elsewhere. His first full length collection, The Kingdom of Possibilities (Mayapple Press, 2009,) was a semi finalist for the 2009 Brittingham and Pollock Awards and a finalist for 2009 May Swenson Award. His second volume of poems, Thesaurus of Separation, has just been published by Phoenicia Publishing (Montreal) and was twice a finalist for the Quercus Review Poetry Book Award. A six time Pushcart Prize Nominee, and a top finalist for the Paumanok Award, Mayo is also the recipient of two Vermont Writers Week Fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center. He lives in Brattleboro, VT, where he was a founding member and organizer of the Brattleboro Literary Festival author committee.