POETRY IN THE WINDOWS III April 24 - May 23 1999 JURORS ERIN AUBRY is a staff writer for the L.A. Weekly who writes frequently about black arts, politics and culture in the city. She was previously a staff writer for New Times Los Angeles and a contributor to the Los Angeles Times, where her stories appeared everywhere from City Times to Book Review and the Sunday Magazine. Erin is also a poet, essayist and fiction writer who has read and performed around town in such venues as Highways and the World Stage. Her essays and commentary have appeared in many publications and online magazines, including Salon, Underwire and Contemporary Art. Currently she is co-editing an anthology of short fiction by L.A. writers to be published this year by International Black Writers & Artists. Erin has a B.A. and M.F.A. from UCLA. RICHARD GARCIA is the author of The Flying Garcias (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993). He has written a bilingual book for children, My Aunt Ottila's Spirits (Children's Book Press). He has received fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. He received a 1997 Pushcart Prize, the Cohen Award from Ploughshares, the Greensboro Award from the Greensboro Review and the Mudfish Prize. He is Poet in Residence at Children's Hospital, Los Angeles. CHERRY JEAN VASCONCELLOS lives in Pasadena and teaches English as a Second Language to adults in Los Angeles. Her poems have appeared in Poetry/LA, New York Quarterly, Pearl, Wormwood Review, and in the animated poetry series Woman to Woman on Lifetime on Lifetime Television. Works are included in Marilyn, My Marilyn, an anthology on Marilyn Monroe by Pennywhistle Press and Grand Passion: the Poets of Los Angeles published by the Los Angeles Poetry Festival.
PROJECT DIRECTORS Literary Director SUZANNE LUMMIS' new book of poetry, In Danger, will be published in 1999 by The California Poetry Series, a collaboration between Heyday Books in the Bay Area and Poetry Flash. She is one of four poets selected for the first year. Poems are forthcoming or have recently appeared in Fourteen Hills: The Magazine of SFSU, Poetry Flash, Ploughshares, and Solo. Suzanne teaches several levels of poetry classes through the UCLA Extension and received their Outstanding Teacher Award in 1996. Administrative Coordinator SUZANNE SIEGEL is a visual artist who believes in daily portions of whole grain bread, red wine, and poetry.
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