Fruitlands: Mary Buchinger, Timothy Gager, John L. Holgerson

(Left to right: Timothy Gager, Mary Buchinger, John L. Holgerson)

Mary Buchinger is the author of six collections of poetry; her most recent books are Navigating the Reach and Virology; her work has appeared in AGNI, Maine Review, Plume, Salamander, Salt Hill, Seneca Review, and elsewhere. Buchinger grew up on a farm in Michigan, volunteered for the Peace Corps, and earned a doctorate in linguistics from Boston University. She teaches at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and serves on the board of the New England Poetry Club.

Bestselling author Timothy Gager has published 18 books of fiction and poetry, which includes his latest novel, Joe the Salamander. He hosted the successful Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, MA from 2001 to 2018, and started a weekly virtual series in 2020. He has had over one thousand works of fiction and poetry published, eighteen nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work also has been nominated twice for a Massachusetts Book Award, The Best of the Web, The Best Small Fictions Anthology and has been read on National Public Radio. In 2023, Big Table Publishing published an anthology of twenty years of his selected work, The Best of Timothy Gager, with 150 pages of new material. Timothy served as the Fiction Editor of The Wilderness House Literary Review for ten years, and was the founding co-editor of The Heat City Literary Review. A graduate of the University of Delaware, Timothy lives in Dedham, Massachusetts.

John L. Holgerson is the author of three books of poetry: Convictions of the Heart (In Case of Emergency Press 2021), Unnecessary Tattoo and Other Stains on a Stainless Steel Heart (Finishing Line Press 2016) and Broken Borders (Wasteland Press 2012). He has published poems in small literary journals, in print and online. He is listed in the Poets & Writers’ Magazine Directory of Poets and Writers, is one of three MassPoetry representatives for Bristol County and co-hosts For the Love of Words, an hour long program on Easton Cable Access Television featuring a different poet and  musician each month. He lives most of the year in Taunton, MA and is the founder of the Poetry as Verdict project providing a public venue for high school student-poets to read their work. Since 1995, he resides the rest of each year on the Greek island of Hydra. Please see johnlholgerson.com.

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