Travis Blankeship (B. 1984, Daviess County, Kentucky). He recently taught an Advanced Poetry workshop at the University of Mississippi. He received his BA in English from Western Kentucky University (2007) and his MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Mississippi (2011).

Travis is the founder of the Goldenrod Poetry Festival and has experience working with at risk youth and teaching English. He was a finalist for the HUB-BUB AiR Program this past year and we are thrilled that he’s accepted to fill our vacant spot in the program mid-year.

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Eric Kocher was born in 1985 and grew up in Baldwin, New York. Eric received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Binghamton University and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Houston where he was an assistant poetry editor for Gulf Coast and has taught literature, creative writing, and freshman composition. He also has taught poetry to elementary school students for the organization Writers in the Schools and, for the past few summers, has left the Texas heat to teach at the University of Virginia’s Young Writers Workshop. Some of his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, DIAGRAM, Octopus, The Offending Adam, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. While at HUB-BUB, aside from writing, Eric would like to work on a podcast that features the voices and stories he encounters in Spartanburg. He also plays a mean ukulele.

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Mark Rice was born in 1980 in Carbondale, Illinois. He grew up in central Indiana and then moved to Bloomington, Indiana earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking. After graduation, Mark Rice became the team leader of his own homegrown multinational corporation, Goatmother Industrial. Working under different smaller companies and pseudonyms within this conglomerate, Mark has worked in a variety of mediums and techniques from drawing to prints to performance and video. Throughout, Mark has maintained a deep attachment to music by performing and many local and touring musical outfits such as The Magnolia Electric Co., The Impossible Shapes, The Coke Dares, The John Wilkes Booze, Ativin, and many more. These pursuits of visual art and music were eventually combined in 2006 with the founding of the Art Hospital, an exhibition space and all-ages venue for regional and national art exhibitions and music performances located in Bloomington, IN.

Visit www.goatmother.com to see Mark's art.

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Steve Snell was born in 1983 and grew up in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, where he watched a ton of great television and often rode his bike to Taco Bell. After graduating from Miami University (of Ohio) in 2006 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and a Bachelor of Science in Art Education, Snell moved to Alaska, eventually becoming the sole art teacher in a remote village called Yakutat. There, he lived on a floating house in the harbor, where he was harassed by otters, chased by sea lions, and attempted to watch every episode of the television show MacGyver.

Visit www.steve-snell.com to see Steve's art.

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