Katharyn Howd Machan  (b. 1952) LINKS The Department of Writing at Ithaca College http://www.ithaca.edu/hs/writing/faculty/Katharyn_Machan/machan.htm Along with her impressive Curriculum Vitae, the Department of Writing at Ithaca College provides a photograph of their assistant professor, Katharyn Howd Machan. Katharyn Howd Machan http://www.ithaca.edu/poetrylink/machen.html Poetrylink, an online student magazine from Ithaca College, reprints Katharyn Howd Machan’s poem “Black Swans: A Poem for Voices” The Things of This World http://www.creationsmag.com/14-6/pages/things_of_this_world.html Creations Magazine reprints Katharyn Howd Machan’s poem “The Things of This World.” BIOGRAPHY Machan grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut, and Pleasantville, New York. She studied creative writing and literature at the College of Saint Rose and at the University of Iowa, taught college for five years, then returned to graduate school for a Ph.D. in interpretation (performance studies) at Northwestern University. She is on the faculty of the Writing Program of Ithaca College, New York. For eight years she coordinated the Ithaca Community Poets and directed the national Feminist Women’s Writing Workshops. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines (such as Yankee, Nimrod, South Coast Poetry Journal, Hollins Critic, Seneca Review, and Louisiana Literature), in literature anthologies, and in numerous published collections, including Belly Words (1994).