Ken Autrey teaches English at Francis Marion University in Florence, SC. His poems have appeared in Chattahoochee Review, Cimarron Review, Tar River Poetry, Texas Review, Poetry Northwest, South Carolina Review, and Southern Poetry Review, as well as other magazines and anthologies.
Eugene R. Baker was an investigator and trial attorney with the Federal Trade Commission and then worked as an attorney with General Electric Company in various locations throughout the United States. Other short stories have appeared in The Wascana Review and the Timber Creek Review, Greensboro, NC.
Caleb Barber earned a BA from Western Washington University in English/Creative Writing, and received an MFA in poetry from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts, based off of Whidbey Island. He currently lives in Bellingham, WA, where he works at an aerospace machine shop. His poems have been most recently published in Rattle, Portland Review, Los Angeles Review, Makeout Creek, and Forge,as well as a feature in Poet Lore. His book, Beasts and Violins, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press, and the title poem will appear in Best American Poetry 2009.
Cynthia Belmont is Associate Professor of English at Northland College, an environmental liberal arts college in Northern Wisconsin. Her poems have appeared in a variety of journals, including Poetry, The Cream City Review, and Eclipse. She lives in Ashland, Wisconsin.
Karina Borowicz holds an MFA from the University of New Hampshire, where she received the Richard J. Shea Award for Poetry. Her work has recently appeared in American Commentary & Letters, Cream City Review, and The Southern Review. She is a former intern poetry editor at The Paris Review.
Jana Bouma taught in the English department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for eight years. Her poems have appeared in Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Main Channel Voices, and The 2River View. Her reviews have appeared in Valparaiso Poetry Review and Whistling Shade. She lives with her husband and daughter in Madison Lake, Minnesota.
Garnett Kilberg Cohen’s awards include the Lawrence Foundation Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review; the 2004 Crazyhorse National Fiction Prize; a Special Mention from the Pushcart Prize; and four awards from the Illinois Council of the Arts. Her short stories have appeared in many publications, including American Fiction, Ontario Review, Descant, The Literary Review, Other Voices, and Roanoke Review. Her story collection, Lost Women, Banished Souls was published by the University of Missouri Press. A chapbook of poetry, Passion Tour, was published by Finishing Line Press. A Distinguished Artist at Columbia College Chicago, she is also the Review Editor of ACM and the Fiction Editor of Hotel Amerika.
John J. Dunphy is a well-known haiku poet who occasionally ventures into the realm of free verse. He runs The Second Reading Book Shop in Alton, IL with the assistance of several on-site cats. Visit John in cyberspace at www.johndunphy.com
James Engelhardt’s poems have appeared in Lilies and Cannonballs Review, Hawk and Handsaw, KNOCK, and elsewhere. Work is forthcoming in Isotope, Saranac Review, the Fourth River, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Alligator Juniper. His ecopoetry manifesto is at octopusmagazine.com. Originally from Western North Carolina, he lives in Lincoln, NE. He is the Managing Editor of Prairie Schooner.
Elizabeth Eslami’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals in the U.S. and abroad, including G.W. Review, Bat City Review, The Minnesota Review, Neon, and Segue, among others. Her novel, Bone Worship, will be released by Pegasus Books in January. She lives in Oregon.
Cecelia Hagen’s work has most recently appeared in Northwest Review, Pedestal, and Caffeine Destiny. Her second chapbook will be out in 2010 from Traprock Books. A winner of the Passager prize, a Literary Arts award, and a MacDowell Colony residency, she lives in Eugene, Oregon.
Claude Haraway received a Ph. D. from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. He teaches at the University of Texas-Pan American and is the adviser of the school’s literary magazine, gallery. His short work can also be found online at 971 MENU.
Patrick Hicks is the author of several poetry collections, most recently Finding the Gossamer (Salmon Poetry, 2008). Aside from being the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana College, his work has appeared in scores of international journals including, Ploughshares, Tar River Poetry, Glimmer Train, and Nimrod. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Oxford, he has been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize, and he has won a variety of grants to support his work. He lives in South Dakota.
Tim Hunt is from a small town in northern California. He and his wife, Susan, now live in Normal, Illinois. His publications include Lake County Diamond (Intertext); poems in Epoch, Tar River Poetry, and other journals; and Fault Lines (The Backwaters Press).
Maud Kelly is a St. Louis based poet whose work has most recently appeared in American Literary Review and Best American Poetry 2009.
Dan Kelty is a high school Spanish teacher in St. Louis, MO. He has been recently published in Nimrod and Margie. He will also have work published soon in Against Agamemnon: a War Poetry Anthology.
Laurence Klavan wrote the novels, "The Cutting Room” and “The Shooting Script,” the libretto of the musical, “Bed and Sofa,” and, with Susan Kim, the forthcoming graphic novels, "Germantown" and "The Fielding Course." An Edgar Award winner, he has been published in Alaska Quarterly, Literary Review, Conjunctions, Gargoyle, and Louisville Review.
John Knoepfle is an award-winning poet who has had over a dozen books of poetry published, the most recent of which are Prayer Against Famine and Other Irish Poems (BkMk Press, 2004) and Walking in Snow (Indian Paintbrush Poets, 2008). He has also worked on translations of poetry from around the world, collected oral histories of Ohio Rivermen, and taught regularly at various institutions from 1954 to 1991.
Sara E Lamers’ collection of poetry A City Without Trees was published by March Street Press in 2007. Other work has appeared in journals such as Fugue, The MacGuffin, Main Street Rag, and Rattle. She teaches at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, MI and received an MFA in poetry from Purdue University.
Donald Lystra’s stories have appeared in many publications, and his work has received Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology. He is a recipient of writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony. His first novel, Season of Water and Ice, will be published in late 2009 by Switchgrass Books, an imprint of Northern Illinois University Press.
James Magorian has had poems published in American Literary Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, California Quarterly, Oxford Magazine, Shenandoah, The Texas Review, and Washington Square, among many others. He has published several books of poetry, the most recent being Millennial Journal and Littorals.
John A. McDermott is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and English at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. His stories have recently appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Clarkesworld Magazine, Cimarron Review, and Cream City Review. He is also fiction editor of the journal, REAL.
Alison Morse’s poetry and prose has been published in Water~Stone, Rhino, Opium Magazine, The Potomac, and a bunch of other journals. She is currently spit-polishing a novel, The Beethoven Frieze, about animators during Yugoslavia’s collapse. For twenty years she animated everything from cigarettes and glass shards to Barbie doing aerobics on the beach in Cancun. Now she runs TalkingImageConnection, an organization that brings together writers, contemporary visual artists and new audiences. Check out the TIC calendar at www.talkimage.org.
Kara Moyer received her B.A. from Webster University in 2006. She teaches poetry writing in the St. Louis Public Schools through Springboard. Her poems are forthcoming in 32 Poems, PMS: poemsmemoirstory, and Natural Bridge.
Doris Radin has appeared in the following magazines among others: The Nation, Prairie Schooner, The Massachusetts Review, New Letters, Confrontation, Kansas Quarterly, The Minnesota Review. Her book, "There Are Talismans" was published by Saturday Press, and she has been awarded two fellowship grants from the New Jersey State Council On The Arts.
Elizabeth Rees’ poetry has appeared in NEW ENGLAND REVIEW, AGNI, PARTISAN REVIEW and KENYON REVIEW, among others. Her most recent chapbook, NOW THAT WE’RE HERE, came out in 2008 with Spire Press.
Graciela Reyes is renowned for her work in Spanish linguistics, Graciela Reyes has published four volumes of poems and is the recipient of the Letras de Oro and Premio Ciudad de Rota. She divides her time between Chicago, Argentina, and Spain.
Edythe Haendel Schwartz’s first collection, Exposure, was published by Finishing Line Press, 2007. Her poems have appeared widely in journals including Calyx, California Quarterly, Cider Press Review, Earth’s Daughters, Poet Lore, Pearl, Spire, Kaleidoscope, Potomac Review, JAMA, Passager and Runes.
Kristen Silver is a graduate of George Mason University ’s MFA program in creative writing, and her work has appeared in Pearl and online in DMQ Review. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, where she works as a proofreader for a textbook publisher.
Brian Simoneau’s poetry has appeared in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, The Fourth River, Poet Lore, Red Rock Review, Smartish Pace, and others. He currently lives in Boston with his wife and daughter.
Laura Lee Smith lives in St. Augustine, Florida. Her fiction has appeared in The Florida Review and was the recipient of the 2006 Snake Nation Press prize for short fiction. She is also the co-author of a biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Natural Writer. She has taught writing at the University of North Florida, Florida Community College and Flagler College. She works as an advertising copywriter.
Don Thompson has been publishing here and there for over forty years. Most recent chapbooks are Turning Sixty and Been There, Done That from March Street Press, Sittin’ on Grace Slick’s Stoop from Pudding House, as well as Where We Live by Parallel Press (University of Wisconsin).
Josh Wallaert is proprietor of the internet curiosity Webster’s Daily. His stories and poems appear in the Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, TriQuarterly, and Shenandoah. He is originally from Oregon and now lives in San Francisco.
Jackie K. White is a poet and translator whose publications include Rondón’s History of Salsa and two chapbooks. Her other translations of poems by expatriate Argentine Graciela Reyes have appeared in ACM and the anthology Between the Heart and the Land.
