St. Johns Books is delighted to welcome three of the authors featured in recent anthologies published by Uphook Press.

From start to finish, whether in received or invented forms, Nancy Carol Moody tells about the reading "that exposed me to words," and how "sound becomes us, and then/there is the silence." Her language deciphers and discovers. It permits her careful handling of life's common disruptions—the gaps between girls and women, past and present, personal and public, proximate and distant. 

Born and raised in the Great Lakes region, living now in the Pacific Northwest, Judith Arcana is a writer of poems, stories, essays and books, and a longtime scholar, teacher and activist.  Praised by writers & readers, reviewers and community leaders, Judith’s work is published in many journals, online and on paper. Her latest collections are a poetry chapbook (4th Period English), a signed/numbered edition five-poem broadside (POEMS) and a chapbook manuscript in an envelope (Family Business). Her most recent full-length book is What if your mother, a collection of poems and monologues examining a constellation of motherhood themes rarely offered with such richness, including abortion, adoption, miscarriage and the contemporary biotechnology of childbirth.

Charles Thielman is a Poet and Artiste, and a co-owner of an independent bookstore with adjacent performance venue which hosts readings, book-signings, fund-raisers and musical events. He has had works hung in galleries and published in journals.  Born and raised in Charleston, S.C., educated at red-brick colleges and on Chicago streets, he's worked as a corrections counselor, truck driver, big city bus driver and shiny shoe salesman. Nowadays, He aspires to be one of the best Grand-Fathers west of the Mississippi!

Danish poet Claus Ankersen performs his work at readings throughout the US, including this appearance in 2007 at the renowned Nuyorican Poets' Cafe.