About Bill Tremblay, US   Bill Tremblay is a poet, novelist, professor, editor of the Colorado Review [15 years], and reviewer whose work has appeared in seven full-length volumes including Crying in the Cheap Seats [UMass Press], Duhamel: Ideas of Order in Little Canada [BOA Editions Ltd.], and most recently Shooting Script: Door of Fire [Eastern Washington University Press] which won the Colorado Book Award. He has received support from the NEA, the NEH, the Fulbright Commission as well as The Pushcart Prize, Best American Poetry, and the Corporation at Yaddo. Bill wrote the libretto for an opera entitled SALEM 1692, a love story set in the turbulent era of the witch trials: it will premiere October, 2010, in Albuquerque, N.M.  Visit the web site Bill Tremblay This is Bill Tremblay's first appearance in Sketchbook.

About Norman J. Olson, US   Norman J. Olson Norman, the artist, writer and poet lives in Maplewood, Minnesota. His images have been reproduced in dozens of art and literary magazines and publications throughout the world. Longing for quiet and stability, Norman avoids personal contacts with the public. His art is driven by the compulsion and obsession of a man who prefers his own company. In spite of this self-imposed seclusion, Norman J. Olson is becoming an artistic underground legend.  Visit The World of Norman J. Olson The work of Norman J. Olson appears in many issues of Sketchbook.