KWAME DAWESAuthor Photo Download | Bio Download Kwame Dawes is the author of thirty books of poetry and other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. His most recent collections are Mortality (Peepal, 2025) and Sturge Town (Norton, 2024), longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Prize 2025. Dawes is a Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University and the…
By Alicia Gaspar de Alba Its the summer of 1998 and for 5 years over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been found dumped in the Chicuahua desert outside of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just across the river from El Paso, Texas. The perpetrators of the ever-rising number of violent deaths target poor young women,…
JOHN WEBERAuthor Photo Download | Bio Download John Weber grew up in the Midwest where Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin meet on the Mississippi. His undergraduate degree is Resource Conservation from the School of Forestry at the University of Montana and a Master’s degree in Computer Science at Northwest Missouri State University. He has spent most…
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ELLEN LIBBY, PH.D.Author Photo Download | Bio Download As an author, lecturer and psychotherapist with over 35 years of experience, Dr. Ellen Weber Libby has devoted her professional life to fostering the psychological well being of individuals, couples, families and group therapy. She maintains a private practice in Washington, DC, where she has spent over…
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