Catherine Zobal Dent

Catherine Zobal Dent was born in Washington, DC, and moved to the banks of the Tuckahoe River, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, at five years of age. A graduate of Duke University, Catherine lived in California, Massachusetts, and along the Appalachian Trail, before teaching high school for four years and then earning a Masters and PhD at Binghamton University. At Binghamton, Catherine started the Wordscape open mic series, was a founding editor of the journal Harpur Palate, and co-directed the Writing By Degrees Conference. Catherine was the 2006 recipient of the Charles Johnson Prize for Student Fiction and taught at Shippensburg University for three years before moving to Susquehanna University. 

Catherine’s stories and reviews have appeared in Harvard Review, PANK, North American Review, Drunken Boat, Green Mountains Review, Crab Orchard Review, Louisville Review, Echolocation, Impost, and elsewhere. Catherine’s co-translations with Lynn Palermo (French stories by Sylvie Weill and Cyrille Fleischman) appear in Kenyon Review, World Literature Review and Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation

Currently Catherine shares an associate professor position at Susquehanna University with partner Silas Zobal. Catherine is the former national director of FUSE, an organization for undergraduate literary editors and writers, as well as a past coordinator of both the Summer Writers Workshop and Common Reading Program at Susquehanna University. Catherine and family live in Freeburg, PA, a few miles from the river that forms the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay. They lovingly care for dogs, cats, chickens, a garden, and a house built over a century ago by local educator Daniel S. Boyer. 

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Ann Piper was born in New London, Connecticut.  She earned a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from New Mexico
State University.  Her paintings and drawings have been exhibited
widely across the United States for the past fifteen years.  Her work
has appeared in numerous publications, including The Perception of Appearance: A Decade of American Contemporary Figurative Drawing (Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington) and the 4th International Painting Annual (MANIFEST, Cincinnati, Ohio).  She has received various awards
and honors, such as the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Grant and the Kansas Arts Commission Fellowship Award.  Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Studio Art at Susquehanna University.

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