Poets and Writers

Morrie Warshawski is a consultant, facilitator and writer who has spent 30 years specializing in the nonprofit sector. His work is characterized by a commitment to the core values of creativity, thoughtfulness, tolerance and transparency.

Pushcart Prize winner and Best American Short Stories author Mark Wisniewski's third novel, Watch Me Go (Penguin Putnam, 2015), received early praise from many accomplished American writers.

Cecilia Woloch is a poet who has been active in the Los Angeles literary community for more than twenty years. She is the founding director of Summer Poetry in Idyllwild.

Leo Yankevich grew up and attended high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania, a small steel town in western Pennsylvania. He studied History and Polish Studies at Alliance College, Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, receiving a BA in 1984.

Ms. Wasescha's story 'The Storm' appeared in 1987 in 'Concert at Chopin's House' - a collection of Polish American writing. She is now the President of West Central Initiative, in Minnesota.

Michael Wojczuk was born in Vilnius, now Lithuania. He was raised in Brooklyn and went West to become a poet and painter. He published two magazines, 'New Blood' and 'Renegade'.

Joanna H. Wos is a short story writer who lives in Indianapolis, She won the 4th Indiana Short Fiction Contest for her short story collection, A House of Butter.

Poet, translator, and jazz musician Bill Zavatsky was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He earned BA and MFA degrees from Columbia University, where he studied with Kenneth Koch, Adrienne Rich, and Stanley Kunitz.

Carol Wierzbicki's work has been published in Long Shot, Public Illumination, Evergreen Review, Big Bridge, Many Mountains Moving, The Otter, and A Gathering of the Tribes.

David Wojnarowicz was an American artist and AIDS activist. Throughout his career, he used painting, performance, film, and photography to draw attention to civil rights and gay identity within American popular culture.

Donna Wyszomierski, a native of Pittsburgh, PA is a longtime resident of Buffalo, NY. Her collection of stories, Bad Mayonnaise, was published by the Buffalo Ochre papers in association with Yellow Field in Buffalo in 2012.

Andrena Zawinski, award winning author of several poetry collections, is the daughter and granddaughter of W. Pennsylvania steel workers and coal miners.