Gary Harwood
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Gary Harwood has been a photographer for Kent State University for more than 24 years and chief photographer since 1987. He has won four national Circle of Excellence awards from The Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and was named the 2001 University Photographers Association of America’s Photographer of the Year. His work has appeared in numerous national publications, including the Communication Arts Photo Annual and the Graphis Photo Annual. He received the 2006 Individual Artist grant for photography and the Artists and Communities grant from the Ohio Arts Council. Recently, Harwood was awarded the 2006 Ohio News Photographers Association’s James R. Gordon Ohio Understanding Award for a multi-image photo essay on Growing Season, The Life of a Migrant Community. He teaches Visual Storytelling for Kent State University and was an instructor for the Unseen Cleveland photography project, a division of Unseen America, sponsored by the Service Employees International Union. He lives in Kent, Ohio, with his wife, Carole.
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David Hassler
David Hassler is the author of two books of poems, most recently, Red Kimono, Yellow Barn (Cloudbank Books), for which he was awarded the “2006 Ohio Poet of the Year” award by the Ohio Poetry Day Association. He is co-editor of A Place to
Grow: Voices and Images of Urban Gardeners and Learning by Heart:
Contemporary American Poetry about School. A recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship and an Artists and Communities grant from the Ohio Arts Council, and of the Richard Devine Memorial Award for Poetry, his poems and essays have appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Sun, DoubleTake/Points of Entry, Indiana Review, and other journals. He is the program and outreach director
for the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, where he teaches
and conducts writing workshops in local schools and senior centers. He lives in Kent, Ohio, with his wife, Lynn Gregor, and daughter, Ella.
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