Danika Dinsmore is a poet, performer, educator and arts administrator. She earned her bachelor¹s degree and teaching credential from California Lutheran University and an M.F.A. in writing and poetics from Naropa University. In 1996 she co-founded the Northwest SPokenword LAB in Auburn, WA and served as director until 1998. Currently, she is Executive Director of Eleventh Hour Productions, a nonprofit producer of literary arts events including the annual Seattle Poetry Festival.

Her books include traffic, The 3:15 Experiment (with Bernadette Mayer, Lee Ann Brown, and Jen Hofer) and Every Day Angels and Other Near Death Experiences. She also has a spokenword CD, All Over the Road, and appears in the anthology Short Fuse: A Global Anthology of Fusion Poetry, forthcoming in Fall 2002. Her awards include a 1998 grant from King County Arts Commission to produce a curriculum guide for teaching poetry in the schools and the 1999 Washington Poets Association award for Performance Poetry. She has performed and taught in public schools, alternative schools, libraries, universities, literary festivals, detention centers, cafes, churches, street corners, motel rooms, and kitchens across the United States and in Prague, Vancouver, BC, & Vienna, Austria. She has also been facilitating the annual multi-conscious 3:15 writing experiment since 1993 (www.315experiment.com).
 

Dina Hardy is the author and illustrator of the small book 'Grocery Shopping with Roy Lichtenstein' from Spout Graphic Press. Her work has been published in the 'Beyond the Valley of the Contemporary Poets 2001 Anthology' and 'Inscape 2002'. She has also been accepted into an anthology of paradelles, RUNES magazine and 'Mischief, Caprice and Other Poetic Strategies' (Red Hen Press). Dina has participated at Idyllwild's Intensive Poetry Workshop for three consecutive summers. She has featured at many venues, including the legendary Beyond Baroque in Venice. Dina began writing poetry in the late 1990's and feels very fortunate that she is able to attend numerous workshops in the LA area. Despite her best efforts, Dina still resides in Burbank, but she is coming to terms with it, sites it as "good material."

She will be selling the Lichtenstein book -- it has full-color on almost every
page, thus it's $10/piece (the cost to print -- no profit).

She'll also be selling a collection called "Invisible Plane", which has one of her poems in it, also from Spout Graphic Press.