Mudwoman | Joanna Penn Cooper & R. Bratten Weiss

Poet and essayist Joanna Penn Cooper is the author of The Itinerant Girl's Guide to Self-Hypnosis (Brooklyn Arts Press) and What Is a Domicile (Noctuary Press).  Her  work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, South Dakota Review, Zocálo Public Square, Poetry International, and other journals.  Joanna teaches online workshops in flash memoir and lyric essay for Creative Nonfiction.  Previous chapbooks include Mesmer from dancing girl press and When We Were Fearsome from the Ethel Zine. R. Bratten Weiss is a writer, organic grower, and free-range academic residing in rural Ohio. Her poems and essays have appeared in Two Hawks Quarterly, The Green Room, The Cerurove, Figroot Press, Lycan Valley Press Publications, The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Jesus the Imagination, The Tablet, US Catholic, The Connecticut River Review, and the Ethel Zine. She is a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, and edits the literary journal Convivium as w