Ed Zahniser                    photo by Hope Snyder

Ed Zahniser serves as an associate poetry editor of Antietam Review, poetry editor of the quarterly Good News Paper, which he co-founded in 1979, and on the organizing committee of the Sotto Voce Poetry Festival in Shepherdstown. Earlier this year he organized a gallery show of eight West Virginia poets as “Poetry: Works on Walls” at the AHA! Fire Hall Gallery, Charles Town (W.Va.) Visitor Center. Ed’s poems have appeared in over 70 U.S. and U.K. magazines and seven anthologies. He was a founding editor of Some Of Us Press poets’ press in Washington, D.C., which published his chapbook The Ultimate Double Play in 1974. His books of poetry are The Way to Heron Mountain, A Calendar of Worship and Other Poems, and  Mall-hopping with the Great I AM (Somondoco Press, 2006). He is interested in poet John Berryman, Henry David Thoreau, and medieval religious poetry of India and the Middle East. Ed is a frequent speaker on wilderness preservation topics and edited some of his father’s work as Where Wilderness Preservation Began: Adirondack Writings of Howard Zahniser (North Country Books, 1992).