Lee Harlin Bahan’s poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, North American Review, and Ploughshares. Residencies at Dorset Colony House, Dorset, VT, and Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, Mt. St. Francis, IN, have furthered her work translating Petrarch’s sonnets.
Grace Bauer’s most recent books of poems include Retreats & Recognitions, (Lost Horse Press) and Beholding Eye, (CustomWords). She is also co-editor, with Julie Kane, of Umpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum: Critical and Creative Responses to Everette Maddox, (Xavier Review Press). Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She teaches in the Creative Writing program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and is currently guest editing a special issue of Prairie Schooner.
Michael S. Begnal has published three collections: Ancestor Worship (Salmon Poetry, 2007), Mercury, the Dime (Six Gallery Press, 2005), and The Lakes of Coma (Six Gallery Press, 2003). He was formerly the editor of the Irish literary magazine The Burning Bush.
Susan Howard Case has been a teacher for many years; and now devotes most of her time to reading, writing, and running poetry workshops for people of all ages. She received her MFA from Bennington in June, 2007. Her work has appeared in The Comstock Review, The Ledge, Peregrine, Primavera, The Sow’s Ear, and Small Pond Magazine, and forthcoming in Eclipse, and elsewhere. Her chapbook Blown Roses is forthcoming from Puddinghouse Press.
Antony Di Nardo has poetry published and forthcoming in several Canadian journals including Grain, The Fiddlehead, Arc, Event, and The New Quarterly, among others. A collection of his poems is forthcoming, Alien, Correspondent (Brick books, 2010). He lives in Beirut, Lebanon where he teaches at International College.
James Doyle’s latest book is Bending Under the Yellow Police Tapes (Steel Toe Books, 2007). He has poems coming out in The Paterson Literary Review, Nimrod, Redactions, The American Poetry Journal, Margie, and Green Mountains Review. He and his wife, Sharon Doyle, live in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Susan Millar DuMars has had poetry and short stories published in the US, UK and Ireland. Big Pink Umbrella, published by Salmon Poetry, is the first full collection of her poetry, and was published in April 2008. American Girls, a volume of her short stories, was published by Lapwing in 2007.
Christen Enos lives and teaches in Boston. Raised in Massachusetts, she studied film as an undergraduate at NYU, and received her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. In a past life, she worked as a CBS casting assistant and as a receptionist at a celebrity PR firm. Her work has also appeared in The New Orleans Review, Quick Fiction, The Portland Review and The Tusculum Review.
Alex Epstein was born in Leningrad in 1971 and has been living in Israel since the age of 8. He is the author of four collections of short stories and three novels. Among his awards is the Prime Minister's Prize for Literature. He writes literary reviews and teaches creative writing in Tel Aviv.
Francesc M. Franch is the author of two novels, Gray City Under the Rain (Milenio, Spain, 2008) and A Hidden Portrait (Milenio, Spain, 2005). He is also the author of A Catalan Symbolist: Selected Poems of Marius Torres (Peter Lang Publishing, 1992). His work has appeared in Phantasmagoria, Quercus Review, Quiddity Literary Journal, Rio Grande Review and Old Red Kimono.
Diane Glancy has two novels forthcoming in 2009, The Reason For Crows, about Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th century Mohawk, and Pushing The Bear, After The Trail Of Tears. A new collection of poems, Asylum In The Grasslands, was published in 2007. Glancy is a professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she taught Native American Literature and Creative Writing. She holds the Richard Thomas Chair at Kenyon College in the spring semesters of 2008 and 2009.
Emily M. Green lives in Oxford, Mississippi, where she teaches writing classes at the University of Mississippi. “Wasps” is her first published story.
Benjamin S. Grossberg teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Hartford. His books are Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath (Ashland Poetry Press, 2007) and Sweet Core Orchard (University of Tampa Press, 2009). A chapbook, The Auctioneer Bangs His Gavel, was published by Kent State in 2006.
Marc Harshman publications include The Georgia Review, Wilderness, Marginalia, Shenandoah, and The Progressive. He is the author of three chapbooks of poetry including most recently Local Journeys (Finishing Line). He is also the author of eleven children's picture books including The Storm, a Smithsonian Notable Book for Children.
Judith B. Herman, who holds a doctorate in English and American literature, has taught in universities in the United States and France. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Comstock Review, The Larcom Review, and The Formalist. Her chapbook Fishing Rites, published recently, was the winner of the Westmeadow Press chapbook contest.
Patrick Hicks teaches creative writing at Augustana College and his work has appeared in, Ploughshares, Tar River Poetry, Glimmer Train, and Nimrod. He is the author of three chapbooks as well as a full length collection, Finding the Gossamer, which has just been published by Salmon Poetry in Ireland. His next collection is tentatively entitled, This London.
Kevin Higgins was born in London in 1967 but grew up in Galway City where he still lives. With his wife Susan Millar DuMars, he co-organises the Over The Edge literary events in Galway. Kevin won the 2003 Cúirt Festival Poetry Grand Slam and was awarded a literature bursary by the Arts Council in 2005. Kevin’s first collection of poems The Boy With No Face was published by Salmon in February 2005. The Boy With No Face was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish Poet. His second collection, Time Gentlemen, Please,was published in March 2008 by Salmon. One of the poems from Time Gentlemen, Please,‘My Militant Tendency’,was highly commended by the judges of this year’s Forward Poetry Prize and features in the Forward Book of Poetry 2009. His work will be featured in the forthcoming anthology Identity Parade – The New British and Irish Poets (Bloodaxe, 2010).
Nicole Higgins lives and writes in Kansas City, Missouri. She is a member of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshops.
Jen Hirt was the 2004 writer-in-residence at Bernheim Arboretum and the 2003 recipient of an Ohio ana library grant. Her essays appeared online at Rougarou and Sunday Salon. She earned her M.A. at Iowa State University and her M.F.A. at the University of Idaho. She lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and teaches writing at Penn State Harrisburg.
Patrick Kehoe was born Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, Ireland, March 17 1956. Previous work published in The Irish Press, the Gorey Detail and various broadsheets published by James Liddy at the Gorey Arts Centre. Lived for two years in Barcelona, Spain between 1978 and 1980 which has inspired many poems. Now works as a journalist in Dublin.
Alison Kolodinsky is a poet and translator, and the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Florida Arts Council. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Kalliope, Cream City Review, and the Alaska Quarterly Review and elsewhere. Her first book of translations, Into the Blue Reach: Selected Poems and Prose by Rainer Maria Rilke with Bilingual Translations is forthcoming by Black Lawrence Press in late 2009 coauthored with Ingrid Amalia Herbert.
Judy Kronenfeld’s most recent poetry collection is Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths, winner of The Litchfield Review Poetry Book Prize for 2007 (The Litchfield Review Press, 2008). She is also the author of a book on Shakespeare, King Lear and the Naked Truth (Duke, 1998). Recent poems appeared in Innisfree, Calyx, Cimarron Review and elsewhere.
Rustin Larson’s poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, North American Review, Poetry East, The Atlanta Review and other magazines. Crazy Star, his latest collection, was selected for the Loess Hills Book’s Poetry Series in 2005. A new collection, The Wine-Dark House, is forthcoming from Blue Light Press. He is the host of the radio talk show Irving Toast, Poetry Ghost http://www.kruufm.com and lives in Fairfield, Iowa.
Michael Lauchlan teaches and coaches baseball. His most recent chapbook is Sudden Parade, (Riverside Press). Poems have appeared in New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Third Wednesday and included in Abandon Automobile, a anthology from Wayne State University Press and, A Mind Apart, (Oxford Press, 2008).
Ken Letko is originally from Wisconsin and now resides in Crescent City, CA where he teaches at College of the Redwoods. He has poems forthcoming in Tundra, Red Hawk Review, Fifth Wednesday, and Argestes.
John Liddy’ publications include: 'Boundaries' (1974), 'The Angling Cot' (1991), 'Song of the Empty Cage' (1997), 'Wine and Hope' (1999), 'Cast-A-Net' (2003), 'The Well: New and Selected Poems' (2007). Forthcoming: 'La Barca de la Arena' (a translation by Francisco Rivero in Spanish of The Angling Cot), 'Ivy Down' (a tanslation by John Liddy from 'Tosigo Ardento' by José Maria Álvarez), The Very Very Very Clever Little Fox (a collection of stories for children) and a new collection of poems.
Robert Lowes is an independent journalist in St. Louis. His poetry has appeared in The New Republic, The Tampa Review, Jabberwock Review, Hiram Poetry Review, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, and other journals. He holds an MFA in creative writing from UM-St. Louis.
Mary Madec studied for a B.A and Master's at NUI Galway and wrote her M.A. thesis on the Old English lyric. In the nineties, she studied for a PhD in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is employed by Villanova University in Ireland where she directs the Villanova University Centre. Her work has appeared Crannóg, West 47, Sunday Tribune, Poetry Ireland and in Britain in Iota and Nth Position. She received The Hennessy Award for Emerging Poetry in 2008. She is working on her first collection.
Kate McCann lives in Weymouth, MA and teaches poetry and American literature at Eastern Nazarene College. New poems are forthcoming in Poetry East; The South Carolina Review; and The Kerf. A full-length manuscript, A Roof Gone To Sky, is forthcoming (Carpenter Gothic Press 2009).
Becka Mara McKay has had poetry and translations in ACM, American Letters & Commentary, The Iowa Review, Words Without Borders, Zeek, and others. In 2006 she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her translation, from the Hebrew, of the novel Laundry was published by Autumn Hill Books in 2008.
Dan Memmolo’s poems have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Sycamore Review, Southern Poetry Review and elsewhere. His chapbook, Beat Surrender, was published by Main Street Rag as part of their Editor’s Choice Chapbook Series.
Miranda Merklein is currently hibernating on the Gulf Coast. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Oxford American, Permafrost, The Columbia Review, and others. She teaches English Composition and is a PhD candidate in creative writing at University of Southern Mississippi where she continues to edit and publish Journal of Truth and Consequence, a magazine for the arts.
CD Mitchell’s writing has appeared in the The Southeast Review, The Apalachee Review, Story South, North Dakota Quarterly, The Arkansas Review, and eleswhere. CD had a career as a boxer and served as prosecutor, a special judge, and a defense attorney. He currently teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Alabama. His email address is mitchell461961@yahoo.com.
MaryAnn Franta Moenck lives and works just east of St. Paul, Minnesota. Her poems appear in Free Verse, Dogwood, Snowy Egret, Cimarron Review, Three Candles, and other magazines. Her manuscript received Honorable Mention for the 2008-2009 Loft Mentor Awards.
Nancy Carol Moody's work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Massachusetts Review and New York Quarterly, among others. Her book, Photograph with Girls, is forthcoming (Traprock Books, 2009). She lives in Eugene, Oregon.
Helena Mulkerns has worked as a freelance writer and journalist in Europe and the United States, and her fiction writing has been shortlisted for Ireland's Sunday Tribune/Hennessy Awards and America's Pushcart Prize. She served as a Press Officer with United Nations Peacekeeping Operations in Central America, Africa and Afghanistan for ten years and has recently relocated to Ireland to focus on her own creative work.
Michael Onofrey grew up in Los Angeles. He now lives in Japan, where he teaches English as a Second Language. His stories have appeared in The Evansville Review, Oyez Review, The William and Mary Review, and elsewhere.
Eric Pankey is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently, The Pear As One Example: New And Selected Poems 1984-2008. He is professor of English and the Heritage Chair in Writing at George Mason University.
Dan Pinkerton’s recent work has appeared or are forthcoming in Subtropics, Hayden’s Ferry Review, River Styx, Sonoma Review, Northwest Review, Arts & Letters, Washington Square, and the 2008 edition of Best New American Voices. His fiction manuscript was a finalist in the 2006 Flannery O’Connor Award competition.
Christine Poreba’s poems have most recently appeared in Subtropics and Birmingham Poetry Review. She teaches English as a Second Language to adults in Tallahassee, FL, where she also serves as an Associate Editor for the Apalachee Review.
Matt Rasmussen’s poetry has been recently published or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Cimmaron Review, MARGIE, Dislocate, New York Quarterly, and LIT. He currently lives in Robbinsdale, MN. His chapbook, Fingergun, is available from Kitchen Press.
Laura Sobbott Ross was nominated for a 2007 Pushcart Prize. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in The Columbia Review, Tar River Poetry, Slow Trains, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Kalliope and The Caribbean Writer, among many others. She was recently named a finalist for the Creekwalker Poetry Prize.
Terry Savoie’s work includes over two hundred poems published in literary journals, anthologies and small press publications over the past twenty-five years. These include American Poetry Review, Poetry, Ploughshares and The Black Warrior Review. Others are in recent or forthcoming issues of Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, and Flyway.
Phillina Sun is an arts reviewer and M.A. Student in Culture and Colonialism at NUI Galway. She resides on the west coast of Ireland. From time to time, she misses the hummingbirds and redwoods of California.
Alison Townsend is the author of The Blue Dress (White Pine) And Still the Music (Flume Press), and What the Body Knows (Parallel Press). Her newest collection, Persephone in America, won the Crab Orchard Open Poetry Competition and is forthcoming from Southern Illinois University Press in 2009. She teaches English and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and lives with her husband on four acres of prairie and oak savanna in the farm country outside Madison.
Helen Wickes lives in Oakland, California. For many years she worked as a psychotherapist. Her first book of poems, "In Search of Landscape" was published in 2007 by Sixteen Rivers Press. Her poem, Drinking the Blue, is from an unpublished manuscript called, Moon over Zabriskie.
Timothy Ziegenhagen teaches creative writing, British Literature, and composition at Northland College, which specializes in the environmental liberal arts. Currently, Ziegenhagen is working on a novel.
