Sarah Glaz's first poetry collection, Ode to Numbers (Antrim House, 2017) is a finalist for both Next Generation Indie Book Awards and Book Excellence Awards. Sarah is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Connecticut specializing in the mathematical area of Commutative Ring Theory. Her poetry, poetry translations, and articles on the connections between mathematics and poetry appeared in a variety journals, edited volumes, and anthologies. She coedited the poetry anthology, Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics (AK Peters/CRC Press, 2008), and was guest-editor of the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, Special Issue: Poetry and Mathematics. Sarah serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, and as coordinator of the poetry readings at the annual Bridges conferences and editor of the Bridges Poetry Anthologies.

Website:  http://www.math.uconn.edu/~glaz
Sample poem: Fall

Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya was born in former Soviet Union and studied physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and philology at Moscow State Humanitarian University. Her Ph.D. degree is on Russian experimental poetry. Tatiana is author of thirteen books in Russian, including Introduction to the Literature of Formal Restrictions and Labyrinths of Combinatorial Literature, and co-editor of the anthology, Freedom of Restriction. Her poetry in English appeared in: Can I tell you a secret?, Across the Russian Wor(l)d, Bridges, London Grip, POEM, Rochford Street Review, and Journal of Humanistic Mathematics. She is a member of the Executive Board of the International Symmetry Association, editorial committee of Another Hemisphere Journal and a guest-editor of Symmetry literary sessions. She organized the Mathematics and Arts seminar, GolosA (Voices) Festival of Combinatorial Poetry, and Festival Symmetry Literary Session.
                                                                                                                                                                           
Website: http://antipodes.org.au/en.aboutTatianaBonch.html
Sample poem:  Paul Erdos

Susan Gerofsky,  Mathematics Education professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada, brings experience from many fields to mathematics education. Her research is in embodied, multisensory, multimodal mathematics education through the arts, including poetry, dance and movement, film, theatre, gesture and voice. She also works in garden-based environmental education,  language and genres of mathematics education, and media theory. She holds degrees in languages and linguistics and mathematics education, and worked for years in film production, adult education, and as a high school teacher. Dr. Gerofsky has studied and taught in England, Brazil, Italy, Germany and Cuba. She speaks several languages, is an active musician, and a published poet and playwright. She contributed to the award-winning book, Poetic Inquiry: Enchantment of Place (Vernon Press, 2017) and has a verse play published in The Mathematical  Intelligencer.
                                                  
Website:  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-018-9818-2#citeas

Lisa Lajeunesse is a professor of Mathematics at Capilano University in North Vancouver. She studied mathematics and music for her bachelor degree and her graduate research area was Model Theory, a branch of mathematical logic. Between her undergraduate degree and graduate studies, she worked for ten years with Telesat Canada, launching and controlling Canada's domestic communication satellites. She also taught piano and voice privately and wrote poetry. More recently, she has developed mathematics courses on the connections between mathematics and the arts to reach out to non-science students, and to express her lifelong passion for creative writing, music and the other arts. During a sabbatical in 2016/2017 she wrote a textbook for these courses, which prompted her to attend Bridges for the first time. A sample of Lisa's poetry may be found at:

Website:   https://lisalajeunessepoetry.wordpress.com/

Marco Lucchesi,  Professor of Comparative Literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian poet, novelist, essayist and translator. Marco was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL) in 2011 and became its president in 2018. He is a regular contributor to the newspaper, O Globo, and is the former editor-in-chief of the ABL journal,  Revista Brasileira,  and the National Library of Brazil poetry magazine, Poesia Sempre. His publications include twelve award winning books and numerous works of translation, among others Poemas Reunidos [Collected Poems], Hinos Matematicos [Mathematical Hymns],  Irminsul [his collected Italian poems],  and translations of Rumi, Khlebnikov, Rilke,  Pasternak and Vico. His work has been widely anthologized and translated into more than ten languages. His literary honors include the Prize Alceu Amoroso Lima, a lifetime achievement award in poetry. 

Website: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Lucchesi&prev=search

Sample poem: First Test

Iggy McGovern is Fellow Emeritus in Physics at Trinity College, Dublin. He is also a poet, blending formal structure, humor and science. Iggy has published with Dedalus Press three poetry collections: The King of Suburbia (2005), Safe House (2010) and The Eyes of Isaac Newton (2017), and an anthology 20|12: Twenty Irish Poets Respond to Science in Twelve Lines (2012). A Mystic Dream of 4 (Quaternia Press, 2013) is his verse biography of the nineteenth century Irish mathematician and poet, William Rowan Hamilton. Among his awards are: the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award for Poetry, the Hennessy Award for Poetry, and The Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary. He has read his poems at international festivals in Europe, North America and Australasia. One of his recent lecture's title is:  Science and Poetry -- not so different?

Website:  http://iggymcgovern.com

Eveline Pye worked as an Operational Research Analyst for Nchanga Consolidated Copper Mines, in Zambia, for almost ten years, and was a Statistics Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University, in Scotland, for over twenty years. Her mathematical and statistical poetry has been published in a wide range of literary magazines, newspapers and anthologies. In September 2011, Significance Magazine, the joint publication of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association featured her work in education and published a selection of her poems as part of their Life in Statistics series. She was poetry editor for New Voices Press and worked for the Federation of Writers (Scotland). A collection of her poems about Zambia, Smoke that Thunders, was published by Mariscat Press in 2015. Examples of Eveline's mathematical poems may be found online at: