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Joyce Meyers and Beth Phillips Brown 

Joyce Meyers, an attorney, started life as an English teacher and eventually returned to her roots by writing poetry. Her poems have been published in various journals and anthologies, and she has participated in poetry readings and workshops in and around Philadelphia. In 2004 she received an International Merit Award from Atlanta Review. She practices law in Philadelphia and lives in
Wallingford, Pennsylvania with her husband, Gerry Adams, their calico cat, Shana, and a yard full of rabbits and chickadees.

Beth Phillips Brown carries her Welsh ancestors’ oral tradition of poetry and storytelling through two languages, English and Welsh.  She tells traditional Welsh and other Celtic stories, whether truth or white lie; mythology or history; folktale or other narrative-personal, familial and community; riddle, proverb or ancient triad.  She aspires to the calling of cyfarwydd, the Welsh word for bard and tradition-bearer. and to write in the traditional Welsh poetic form of cynghanedd.A fluent Welsh speaker, independent teaching artist and a 2002 PCA Folk Arts Performing Traditions fellowship recipient, she is the editor and publisher of Gwasg Cwtsh y Bardd (The Bard’s Cupboard Press), a small press with a focus on Welsh and Welsh-American interests.  She lives in the
Philadelphia area.