Featured Artist - April Bulmer

April Bulmer has published six books and four chapbooks. She is an award-winning poet who has won the Cambridge Arts Festival Poetry Contest. Her most recent collection is called THE GODDESS PSALMS (Serengeti Press). She has published widely internationally and nationally in such prestigious journals as THE MALAHAT REVIEW, ARC, PRISM international, EVENT AND Harvard's JOURNAL OF FEMINIST STUDIES IN RELIGION. She has three Master's Degrees in creative writing and religious studies and writes often of issues pertaining to women and spirituality. She is originally from Toronto, but has lived in Cambridge for 14 years where she is a member of the Cambridge Writers Collective.

April Bulmer's poetry is often spiritually-driven. She is interested in the goddesses, the prophets, the martyrs, the nuns, the native maidens, the messiahs, the spirits, the ghosts. She studied women and religion and creative writing at the graduate level and often combines these interests to create haunting poems that resonate in the psyche and soul: archetypes that constellate like dreams or visions.

The Cambridge Arts Festival would like to thank April for serving as judge in the adult category of this year's Word Up! Poetry Contest.