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Ann Goldsmith is the author of No One Is the Same Again, a prize-winning book of poems published by the Quarterly Review of Literature. She has a full-length book of poetry, The Spaces Between Us, forthcoming from Outrider Press. Her poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including Traffic East (2006). She was a runner-up in the 1996 Orillia International Poetry Festival; twice a finalist in the "Discovery"/The Nation national poetry competition; winner in 1984 of a WNY Writers-in-Residence Award from Just Buffalo, and one of "Five New Voices" selected in the Second Biennial Burchfield Competition in 1983. In 1985–86 she served on the poetry panel for the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). Goldsmith has served as WNY coordinator for ALPS, a statewide poetry-in-the-schools organization. She has been a visiting poet for Just Buffalo and the Canadian Authors' Association, and also served as a poet-in-residence for two years at the Chautauqua Institution's summer writing program.

Elaine Chamberlain is the author of Pictures from the Beehouse (White Pine Press, 1978) and one of the original editors of Earth’s Daughters magazine at its inception. According to poet Helen Conkling, Chamberlain's poems "about people—their exuberance, discoveries, losses, courage—" are delivered with "precise, yet full-blooded, imagery," revealing significant information with delicious nuances. Elaine’s first reading at Hallwalls (as Elaine Rollwagen) took place on April 12, 1978, on a program with Joe Chamberlain. She read again on October 18, 1986 with Cynthia Brown Dwyer on a program entitled First Person Plural: Writing As Witness.

Earth's Daughters magazine, the oldest continuously published feminist literary arts periodical in the U.S., is currently celebrating its 39th year. Publication of Earth's Daughters magazine is made possible with a NYSCA Decentralization grant from the Arts Council in Buffalo and Erie County. This series is co-curated by Jennifer Campbell and ryki zuckerman.