Garrett, Yvonne

Yvonne Garrett has been published in several music & literary magazines. She has an MFA (The New School) and is currently working toward a Ph.D. (Drew University). She is Senior Fiction Editor for Black Lawrence Press. Mary Ellen Sanger is a poet and writing workshop leader now writing from Fort Collins, Colorado (after 17 years in Mexico and 10 in NYC). Her prison memoir, "Blackbirds in the Pomegranate Tree" was published in 2013. She leads weekly workshops for the women incarcerated in the Larimer County Detention Center, and is a nonprofit administrator by day.