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About Us : Bios
Jendi Reiter
Jendi Reiter is vice president of Winning Writers, editor of Poetry Contest Insider, and final judge of the Winning Writers literary contests. She is the author of the poetry collection A Talent for Sadness (Turning Point Books, 2003) and the award-winning poetry chapbooks Swallow (Amsterdam Press, 2009) and Barbie at 50 (Cervena Barva Press, 2010). In 2010 she received a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists' Grant for Poetry. Other awards include the 2011 OSA Enizagam Award for Fiction, first prize in the 2010 Anderbo Poetry Prize, second prize in the 2010 Iowa Review Awards for Fiction, first prize in the 2009 Robert J. DeMott Short Prose Prize from Quarter After Eight, first prize for poetry in Alligator Juniper's 2006 National Writing Contest, and two awards from the Poetry Society of America. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Iowa Review, The New Criterion, Mudfish, Passages North, American Fiction, The Adirondack Review, Cutthroat, The Broome Review, FULCRUM, Juked, The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Alligator Juniper, MARGIE: The American Journal of Poetry, Phoebe, Best American Poetry 1990 and many other publications. Visit her blog at www.jendireiter.com.
Adam Cohen
Adam Cohen is president of Winning Writers and publisher of Poetry Contest Insider. He acquired 10 years of experience in circulation marketing at The
Atlantic Monthly, most recently as Circulation Director. He graduated from Harvard University.
Tomasin Seabright
Tomasin Seabright is assistant editor of Winning Writers. She has maintained databases for a start-up web development company, a private art collection and an ecology non-profit in western Massachusetts. She is a graduate of the American International University in London and of New York University. Her favorite writer is George Orwell.
Ellen LaFleche
Ellen LaFleche is the assistant judge of the Winning Writers Sports Poetry & Prose Contest. She has worked as a journalist and women's health educator in Western Massachusetts. Her manuscript, Workers' Rites, won the Philbrick Poetry Award and was published as a chapbook in 2011. Another chapbook, Ovarian, was published in 2011 by the Dallas Poets Community Press. Her poems have been published in Alehouse, New Millennium Writings, The Ledge, Alligator Juniper, Words and Pictures Magazine, Many Mountains Moving, Harpur Palate, Southeast Review, Naugatuck River Review, and PoetrySuperHighway.com, among many others. She won the Poets on Parnassus Prize for poetry about the medical experience and the editor's choice award for poetry from Writecorner Press.
Tracy Koretsky
Tracy Koretsky is the Winning Writers poetry reviewer. Her poetry collection, Even Before My Own Name, is available for free at www.TracyKoretsky.com, where you can also find audio poems, author interviews and links to her widely-published poetry, essays, short stories and reviews. Her novel, Ropeless, a rollicking mother-daughter drama celebrating possibilities despite disabilities, has won fifteen awards. Ms. Koretsky served on the editorial staff of the online magazine Triplopia, for which she ran the Best of the Best Poetry Competition. Currently she reviews for Main Street Rag and the Children's Literature Comprehensive Database.
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