Peggy Zuleika Lynch is a poet and lecturer in her native state of Texas. She received a BS degree from UT in Austin and an MFA from SMU. She has been honored with five Pushcart Prize nominations.  In 1983 she and her husband, Major General Edmund C. Lynch co-founded Poetry in the Arts promoting poetry, music, and art. In 2005 at the 18th World Congress of Poets, she was crowned Poet Laureate International and became the Permanent VP of the United Poets Laureate International.  Lynch has authored 9 books of poetry, co-authored 12 additional poetry books, and co-edited 15 anthologies.  Currently, Peggy serves as Director, Archivist, Program Chair, and State Councilor for the Poetry Society of Texas. In addition she serves as VP of the United Poets Laureate International and Archivist for The National Federation of State Poetry Societies.

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Peggy Z. Lynch
4917 Ravenswood Dr. # 260
San Antonio, TX 78227-4353   
(210) 645-4235

Larry D. Thomas was named the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate.  He started writing poetry seriously in the early 1970’s, and has placed poems in numerous literary journals. His first collection of poetry, The Lighthouse Keeper, published by Timberline Press, was selected by the Small Press Review as a “pick-of-the-issue” (May/June 2001). He has since that time published four additional collections of poems which have received several prestigious prizes and awards, including Amazing Grace, (2003 Western Heritage Award, 2001 Texas Review Poetry Prize); The Woodlanders, (Violet Crown Book Award Special Citation); Where Skulls Speak Wind (2004 Texas Review Poetry Prize, 2004 Violet Crown Book Award). Mr. Thomas is married to Lisa Parker Thomas, D.D.S, and has one adult daughter, Deena.

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Larry D. Thomas
Houston, TX
http://www.larrydthomas.com/