Toni Mirosevich and Mary Winegarden

Toni Mirosevich

Professor Toni Mirosevich is an award-winning poet who has taught at SF State since 1991. In 2005, her collection of poems Queer Street was published by Custom Words. Also in 2005, another poetry collection, My Oblique Strategies, won the Frank O’Hara Chapbook Award and was published by Thorngate Road Press. Literary awards include the Astraea Foundation Emerging Lesbian Writer in Fiction Award, Pushcart Prize and Lambda Literary Award nominations, and fellowships with the MacDowell Colony, Espy Foundation and Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Mirosevich has recently focused her attention on writing and teaching in multiple genres. Her work has appeared in UTNE, Kenyon Review, The Progressive, Gastronomica, Five Fingers Review, The Bark and elsewhere. Poems and stories have been anthologized in Best American Travel Writing, The Impossible Will Take A Little While, The Discovery of Poetry, AutoBioDiversity and elsewhere. Mirosevich earned her M.A. and M.F.A. in Creative Writing at SF State.

Mary Winegarden

Lecturer Mary Winegarden has taught comparative world literature and English at SF State for 21 years. Her translations of Russian poets were published in “Crossing Centuries: The New Generation in Russian Poetry,” and her poems have appeared in the journal 26. Her most recent book is The Translator’s Sister.