ABOUT NINE MILE
Nine Mile Magazine publishes online twice yearly, showcasing the best work we receive from authors whose poems, energy, and vision seem to us most deeply imbued with life. Our name comes from Nine Mile Creek, a 25-mile long waterway formed 14,000 years ago by glaciers in our region. Like our namesake creek, Nine Mile is varied and surprising, with different writings coming together to form a cohesive whole. Our purpose is to bring great writing to our readers, without consideration of school, style, or form, but with a special focus on Central New York. This includes writers within and outside the mainstream, writers with disabilities, writers of color, writers with marginalized genders and sexual orientations, and writers from different cultures and religions. We believe that poetry is everyone’s art. With our Propel Poetry initiative we are committed to publishing books by first rate poets with disabilities.
BOB HERZ
Founding Editor
STEVE KUUSISTO
Senior Editor
Stephen Kuusisto is the author of the memoirs Have Dog, Will Travel; Planet of the Blind (a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year”); and Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening and of the poetry collections Close Escapes; Old Horse, What Is to Be Done?; Only Bread, Only Light; and Letters to Borges. A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and a Fulbright Scholar, he has taught at the University of Iowa, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and Ohio State University. He currently teaches at Syracuse University where he holds a University Professorship in Disability Studies. He is a frequent speaker in the US and abroad. His website is StephenKuusisto.com.
ANDREA SCARPINO
Senior Editor
Andrea Scarpino (she/her) is a writer, teacher, editor, disability activist, foodie, yoga student, wellness enthusiast, middle grade reader, kitty foster mom, and Women's World Cup fanatic (among other things!). She is the author of four poetry collections: Once Upon Wing Lake (Hoot 'n' Waddle Press,2017); What the Willow Said as it Fell (Red Hen Press, 2016); Once, Then (Red Hen Press, 2014); and the chapbook The Grove Behind (Finishing Line Press, 2009). Andrea earned her PhD in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University and was the 2015-2017 Poet Laureate of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.