2024 WINNING POEMS (ANIMALS CONTINUED) AND BIOS
BY KERRY LOUGHMAN
Kerry Loughman is a retired educator and photographer living in the Boston area. She writes about memory, art, family, and nature in the city, looking for small transient moments of beauty ... or discord. Her work has appeared in Mass Poetry's "The Hard Work of Hope" and "Poem of the Moment," Nixes' Mate, What Rough Beast, The Main Street Rag and Lily Poetry Review.
BY CHRIS O'CARROLL
Chris O’Carroll is the author of two books of poems, “The Joke’s on Me” and “Abracadabratude.” He has been a Light magazine featured poet as well as a contributor to The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology and multiple volumes of the Potcake Chapbooks series. His work appears in New York City Haiku, Extreme Sonnets, and Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle, among other collections.
BY ELLIE GOLDBERG
Ellie Goldberg is an advocate for healthy children, safe schools, and sustainable communities. She is inspired by Rachel Carson, especially Carson's message that our health is intimately connected to the quality of our environment. In 2013, Ellie produced the video “Big Buildings, Big Machines, Big Stories” about the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, to show the government's role in safeguarding public health and enriching the quality of our communities. In each of Ellie’s personal, professional and volunteer roles with organizations such as Mothers Out Front, Green Newton, and Clean Water Action, she has been an outspoken advocate for citizen engagement, government integrity, and corporate accountability on behalf of children and their healthy development.