Deborah Ager
Ager's first book, Midnight Voices, was a finalist for the BOA Editions A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, judged by Edward Hirsch, and will be published in March 2009 by WordTech. She has published in several places, including Best New Poets 2006, Best of the Tigertail Anthologies, Writing Poems (2007), The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, The Bloomsbury Review, The Georgia Review, New Letters, and Quarterly West. She has been awarded fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Jenny McKean Moore workshop and was a Tennessee Williams scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference.
She is a search engine optimization expert (she helps businesses attract qualified clients from the internet) and owns her own search engine marketing company.
She has edited and published 32 Poems magazine for four years. 32 Poems has had poems appear in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets 2005 (edited by George Garrett), Best New Poets 2006 (edited by Eric Pankey) and on Verse Daily and Poetry Daily. The magazine publishes 64 poems per year. Email her at deborah dot ager at 32poems dot com.