Deanna Kulpa:

Deanna Kulpa grew up in Northern Michigan listening to Terry Wooten perform poetry around the bonfire on summer nights at Stone Circle.  Now, she lives in Ann Arbor and performs her own brand of poetry at the Ann Arbor Poetry Slam.  She was a member of the Poetry Slam Team representing Ann Arbor at the National Poetry Slam in St. Louis in 2004 and was an alternate for the team in 2003.  She is also a member of the Ann Arbor team competing in the Midwest Poetry Slam League.  Her work can be found in A2 Brute, a collection of poems from the Ann Arbor Poetry Slam Team and the Off the Mic anthology from the Wordsmith Press.  She is currently writing her thesis to obtain a Ph.D. in Human Genetics from the University of Michigan. Deanna has been a poetry lecturer at Washtenaw Community College, and her poetry has been published in several anthologies.  She has been a regular performer in and around the Ann Arbor area for the last few years.