Joyce Jenkins is editor and publisher of Poetry Flash. She is author of Portal and Joy Road, and her poems have appeared in Parthenon West Review, Ambush Review, Addison Street Anthology: Berkeley's Poetry Walk, ZYZZYVA, The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Watershed, among other publications. She has received the American Book Award, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Lifetime Achievement Award, National Poetry Association's Distinguished Service to Poets & Poetry Award, and the Berkeley Poetry Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives in Berkeley, California.
Richard Silberg is a poet, critic, translator, and Associate Editor of Poetry Flash. His poetry book, Deconstruction of the Blues, received the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award. He is the author of Reading the Sphere: A Geography of Contemporary American Poetry, The Horses: New & Selected Poems, as well as essays and several translations, among them The Three Way Tavern by South Korean poet Ko Un, which won a Northern California Book Award. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Volt, Parthenon West Review, ZYZZYVA, Eleven Eleven, and New American Writing, among many other journals. He lives in Berkeley, California.
