Marion Starling Boyer's fourth poetry collection, The Sea Was Never Far, was released May 2019, and Barbara Sabol is the author of seven books, most recently Mapping the Borderlands (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2025).
Marion Starling Boyer’s Ice Hours was selected for the 2021 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, to be released January 2023 from Michigan State University Press. She is author of The Sea Was Never Far, The Clock of the Long Now, and Composing the Rain, winner of Grayson Books’ Chapbook competition. Her work’s been nominated for Pushcarts, the Lenore Marshall Award, and “Best of the Net.” A professor emeritus for Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Boyer conducts workshops for Lit Cleveland and Lit Youngstown. She lives in Twinsburg, which hosts the world record gathering of twins every summer. For more link to www.marionstarlingboyer.com.
Barbara Sabol is the author of seven books, most recently Mapping the Borderlands (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2025). She was named the 2024 Ohio Poet of the Year for her book, WATERMARK: Poems of the Great Johnstown Flood of 1889. Barbara won the Sheila-Na-Gig Editions poetry contest in 2019 for her book, Imagine a Town. Her work has been supported by the Ohio Arts Council. Barbara is a retired speech pathologist who lives in Akron, Ohio, close to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park whose trails she knows by heart.
