Robert Bly

ROBERT BLY is the author and editor of dozens of works of poetry, translation, and stories. He is the father of the "expressive men's movement" and author of the internationally acclaimed work Iron John.  His poem The Face in the Toyota was produced as a signed letterpress poetry broadside by Back Pages Publishers and the Quercus Press in the Spring of 2010 in a signed limited edition of 36 copies.  

 

Anara Guard

ANARA GUARD studied writing at the Urban Gateways Young Writers Workshop of Chicago, the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in fiction. She attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science in Boston. A poet and short fiction writer, she is the author of "The Sound of One Body - Stories" from Back Pages Publishers.  She resides in the Boston area and Sacramento.

Richard F. Mollica

RICHARD F. MOLLICA, MD is the director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma.  He holds an MAR from the Yale Divinity School and is a globally recognized expert on mental health care reform, patient care, and psychiatric treatment.  As a practicing psychiatrist he has treated over 10,000 victims of severe torture and trauma.  He is the author of the acclaimed, Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World and a prominent voice in the area of patient care reform. Healing: A Manifesto is the first work in the Back Pages Publishers Health and Science series.

 

Franz Wright

FRANZ WRIGHT is the author of over a dozen works of poetry and translation and received the Pulitzer Prize for his collection Walking to Martha's Vineyard.  His most recent collection is Wheeling Motel.  He is the author of Lesson, a letterpress typeset broadside poem produced in two forms (blue and white) by Back Pages Publishers and the Quercus Press.  It was originally published in collection God's Silence.

Howard Zinn

HOWARD ZINN is an acclaimed historian, activist, and playwright. Born in Brooklyn, New York he served as a bombardier in World War II and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has taught at Spelman College and Boston University. He is the author of over twenty books including A Power Governments Cannot Suppress and the bestselling People's History of the United States. Zinn's State of the Union 2009: Notes for a New Administration was the first book published by Back Pages Publishers.