Sarah Glaz's poetry collection, Ode to Numbers (Antrim House, 2017) was a finalist for both Next Generation Indie Book Awards and Book Excellence Awards. Sarah is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Connecticut specializing in the mathematical area of Commutative Ring Theory. Her poetry, poetry translations, collaborative work with visual artists, and articles on the connections between mathematics and poetry appeared in a variety of literary and mathematical journals, edited volumes, and anthologies. Sarah serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, for which she guest-edited the special issue Poetry and Mathematics. She co-edited the poetry anthology, Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics (CRC Press, 2008), and as the coordinator of the poetry readings at the annual Bridges conferences, she edits the Bridges Poetry Anthologies. 

Madhur Anand's debut memoir This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart (Strange Light/Penguin Random House Canada, 2020) won the Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction. Her debut collection of poems A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes (2015) was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, named one of 10 all-time trailblazing poetry collections by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), and received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly. Her second collection of poems Parasitic Oscillations (2022) was published to international acclaim and named the top-pick for Spring poetry by the CBC. Both poetry collections were published with McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House Canada. She is a professor of ecology and sustainability at the University of Guelph, where she was appointed the inaugural Director of the Guelph Institute for Environmental Research.

      
  
   Website: https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020/08/10/The-Chat-with-GG-s-Literature-Award-Winner-Madhur-Anand  
   Sample poem: Sensible Parallels

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, where she earned a Ph.D. in Russian experimental poetry. Tatiana is author of fourteen 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 editorial committee of Articulation and the board of PEN Moscow, and was guest-editor of a Symmetry literary issue. Tatiana organized the Mathematics and Arts seminar, the GolosA Festival of Combinatorial Poetry, and the Symmetry Festival Literary Session. 

   
   Website:  http://antipodes.org.au/en.aboutTatianaBonch.html   
   Sample poem:  Hypatia, the last Alexandrian mathematician

Marion Deutsche Cohen is known for writing poetry and memoirs on three topics: spousal chronic illness, late pregnancy loss, and math. She authored 33 books. Her newest poetry collection is Negative Aspects (dancing girl press), and her latest prose collection is Not Erma Bombeck: Diary of a Feminist 70s Mother (Alien Buddha Press). Forthcoming are: Disturbing Shapes and Reasons and Remedies for Insomnia. She is also the author of two controversial memoirs about "well-spousery," a trilogy diary of full-term-pregnancy loss, and Crossing the Equal Sign, about the experience of and her passion for math. This year, her work has been included in six anthologies. She teaches a course she developed, Mathematics in Literature, at Drexel University's Honors College. Other poetic inspirations are classical piano, singing, Scrabble, thrift-shopping, grown children and step-children, and six grandchildren. 

    Sample poem:  So glad

Carol Dorf is fascinated with the boundaries between disciplines, particularly mathematics and poetry. She was founding poetry editor of Talking Writing where she wrote about issues in contemporary poetry, and edited several issues on mathematical poetry, science poetry, and technology poetry. For many years, she taught high school mathematics, and has led poetry workshops as a California-Poet-in-the-Schools, at Berkeley City College, and other art venues. She brought her loves together by introducing poetry into the mathematics classroom and by teaching poetry writing to mathematics teachers. She has three chapbooks available, Some Years Ask (Moria Press), Theory Headed Dragon (Finishing Line Press), and Given (Origami Poems Project).  Her poetry appears in Yes Poetry, Great Weather For Media, The Mom Egg, Sin Fronteras, E-ratio, About Place, Glint, Slipstream, The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Scientific American, and Maintenant. 

   
    Website: http://talkingwriting.com/why-poets-sometimes-think-in-numbers/   
    Sample poem: Psalm for the numerous on crossing the Re(e)d Sea 

Susan Gerofsky is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education and Environmental Education at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Her interdisciplinary research is in embodied, multisensory, multimodal mathematics education through the arts, movement, gesture and voice. She works in curriculum studies, environmental garden-based education, the language and genres of mathematics education, and media theory. Dr. Gerofsky is academic advisor and co-founder of the UBC Orchard Garden, a student-led campus learning garden. She is active as a poet, playwright, musician and filmmaker, and also works with dance and fiber arts. You'll often find her cycling around town with a baritone horn or an accordion. Susan contributed to the award-winning book, Poetic Inquiry: Enchantment of Place (Vernon Press, 2017) and has a verse play, Kepler: A Renaissance Folk Play, published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (2018).

   
 
    Website:  https://edcp.educ.ubc.ca/susan-gerofsky/
    Sample poem: Diagonal Eyes Enter Leaving

Lisa Lajeunesse is a professor of Mathematics at Capilano University in North Vancouver. As an undergraduate, she studied mathematics and music. Before embarking on graduate studies in mathematics, she worked for ten years with Telesat Canada on the launch and control of Canada's communication satellites. At Capilano University, she has developed and taught 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 other art forms. During a sabbatical in 2016/2017 she wrote a textbook for these courses, which prompted her to attend Bridges for the first time. Since then, she has adapted popular logic puzzles to encode poetry so that the solving of each puzzle unlocks a poem. A sample of Lisa's poetry may be found her website.

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

     Sample poem: Model Theory

Marco Lucchesi,  Professor of Comparative Literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian poet, novelist, essayist and translator. Elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL) in 2011, Marco served as its president from 2018 to 2021. He 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 over twenty-five award winning books and numerous works of translation, among others Novos Poemas Reunidos [New Collected Poems], Hinos Matematicos [Mathematical Hymns], 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 Jabuti Prize, the Romanian Latin Prize, the Ministry of Italian Culture Prize, and Alceu Amoroso Lima, a lifetime achievement award in poetry.

   
    Website:  https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Lucchesi

    Sample poem: Hilbert

E. R. Lutken's collection Manifold: poetry of mathematics (3: A Taos Press, 2021) won the New Mexico First Book Award 2022. By training, Emily Lutken is a family physician. She graduated from Duke University, and U.T. Southwestern Medical School. After residency, she worked in urban emergency rooms, then with International Medical Corps teaching and caring for refugees, and for the majority of her career on the Navajo Nation. After retiring from medicine, she taught middle and high school science and mathematics in rural Colorado for six more years, and developed an interest in cross-curricular activities with the humanities. Now she spends time writing poetry, and fishing in the swamps of Louisiana and mountain streams of New Mexico. Her poems often involve science and mathematics, and have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies.
                                                                                                            

   
   
    Website: https://www.erlutkenpoetry.com/ 
    Sample poem: Fourier Transformation

Alice Major's 12th collection of poetry, Knife on Snow, is coming out with Turnstone Press in spring, 2023. Her book of essays, Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science, has been awarded the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for non-fiction. Among her writing awards are the 2017 Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artist Award and an honorary doctorate from the University of Alberta. Her interest in mathematics began at the age of twelve, when she was introduced to non-Euclidean geometry in one of Martin Gardner's books.  Ever since, like Percy Bysshe Shelley, she turns to math and science "to replenish my store of metaphor." She has been president of the League of Canadian Poets, first poet laureate for her home city of Edmonton (Canada), and is the founder of the Edmonton Poetry Festival.

Kaz Maslanka received a BFA in Sculpture from Wichita State University, where he also studied music, mathematics and physics. He has been involved in the arts for over 50 years and has been pioneering mathematical visual poetry since the early 1980's. He maintains a strong international presence on his blog "Mathematical Poetry" and with exhibitions of his work. Among Kaz's awards and recognitions is a nomination for a Pushcart prize in poetry, and the appearance of a poem in the 2020 'Page A Day' calendar published by the AMS. He lives in San Diego, California, and serves as curator for the San Diego based "Sonic Arts Studio," a group of composers and musicians devoted to microtonal music. He also served on the advisory board of the Bronowski Art and Science Forum in Del Mar, California. 

    
    
     Website: http://mathematicalpoetry.blogspot.com/ 
      Sample poem: Il Puente Del Corazon

Doug Norton is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Villanova University. Doug's first interaction with the math-art community happened when his proposal for a paper session at the 2003 Joint Math Meetings merged with Reza Sarhangi and John Sullivan's proposal. He was pulled in by the dynamo that was Reza, attended Bridges Alhambra 2003, and has been hooked on Bridges ever since. He pulled his first all-nighter in ages in his motel room at Bridges Towson 2012, completing the lyrics for his first Bridges Informal Music Night presentation. Since 2015, he has attended Bridges and presented a new song each year. Whether contrafactum or parody or something else altogether, whether poetry or lyrics, he tries with each piece to capture some sense of the meeting. The lyrics are available at his website.

    Website: https://www.bridgesmathart.org/norton-lyrics/
    Sample multimedia work:  Birdland/Finland

Amy Uyematsu, who taught high-school math for 32 years, is a sansei (third-generation Japanese American) from Los Angeles. Amy's poems consider the intersection of politics, mathematics, spirituality, and the natural world. She has published six poetry volumes: 30 Miles from J-Town and Nights of Fire, Nights of Rain (Story Line Press, 1992, 1998), Stone Bow Prayer (Copper Canyon Press, 2005), The Yellow Door and Basic Vocabulary (Red Hen Press, 2015, 2016), and That Blue Trickster Time (What Books Press, 2022). Amy is the recipient of the 1992 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Her work is featured in many venues, including "Poetry Outloud," a national program promoting poetry in American high schools. Prior to teaching mathematics, Amy was active in Asian American Studies at UCLA, and in 1971 she co-edited the anthology Roots: An Asian American Reader. 

 
    
     Website: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/amy-uyematsu
     Sample poem: The Maning of Zero: A Love Poem

                                                                              
                                                                               Remembering Amy Uyematsu (1947 - 2023)

                                                                                 / a lover's quarrel / that blue trickster time
                                                                 how much more /our wide shining eyes / is this the last kiss
           
                                                                  from: "In what season love, in what season dying" by Amy Uyematsu

                Amy Uyematsu passed away this June. A wonderful mathematical poet and a lovely person, Amy had been part of the
                Bridges poetry community since its inception in 2011, and was planning to join us at the poetry reading in Halifax, this
                year. Sadly, the poems she graciously contributed to the Bridges 2023 Poetry Anthology are her last publication. They
                shine from the pages and enrich the collection. We will also feature Amy's poetry at the Bridges Halifax poetry reading.

                                          An obituary in Rafu Shimpo,  and  A memorial  in Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics

                                                                               
                                                                                  Celebrate her life and mourn her passing!

                                                                                                  We will miss you, Amy!