Dorinda Wegener holds a MFA from New England College where she was a Joel Oppenheimer Award recipient. She has studied with such poets as Ira Sadoff, Judith Hall, Ross Gay, Michael Waters, and Anne Waldman. Her poems have been published in The Antioch Review, Indiana Review, Hotel Amerika, and Mid-American Review, among many others. Dorinda has had the honor of reading with the louderARTS Project in New York City. Her poems, “The Harvest” and “Evening Service,” were both finalist for the Marlboro Prize as judged by poet Edward Hirsch. She has been a featured poet at the Woodberry Poetry Room, Lamont Library, Harvard University through her work with Ibbestson Street Press. Walter E. Butts, New Hampshire Poet Laureate, selected Wegener for New Hampshire Poets Showcase, an online gallery hosted by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. She has served on editorial boards at OVS Magazine, Naugatuck River Review, and Summer Home Review, as well as lectured widely throughout New Hampshire in both traditional and nontraditional forums. As a child, Dorinda lived in Robert Frost’s first New Hampshire home prior to his famous farm. She currently resides in Staten Island, New York, where she’s actively seeking a literary press for her first manuscript, All I’s and O’s. In 2011, Wegener will present a reading and discourse on William Carlos Willams at the Williams Center for the Arts, Rutherford, New Jersey.