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Ada Limón’s first book, lucky wreck, was the winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize and her second book, This Big Fake World, was the winner of the Pearl Poetry Prize. She’s won the Chicago Literacy Award and fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is the Creative Director for Travel + Leisure Magazine and teaches a Master Class for Columbia University. Her third book of poems, Sharks in the Rivers, will be published by Milkweed Editions in 2010.
Nathalie Anderson’s first book, Following Fred Astaire, won the 1998 Washington Prize from The Word Works, and her second, Crawlers, received the 2005 McGovern Prize from Ashland Poetry Press. Anderson’s poems have appeared in such journals as APR’s Philly Edition, Atlanta Review, Denver Quarterly, DoubleTake, Inkwell Magazine, Journal of Mythic Arts, Louisville Review, Natural Bridge, The New Yorker, Nimrod, North American Review, Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, The Recorder, Southern Poetry Review, and Spazio Humano. Her work has been commissioned for the Ulster Museum’s collection of visual art and poetry titled A Conversation Piece; for the catalogue of the retrospective exhibition Sarah McEneany at the Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania; and for the artist’s press book titled Ars Botanica published by Enid Mark of ELM Press. Her work appears in The Book of Irish American Poetry From the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Notre Dame), and her poems have twice been solicited for inclusion in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror (St. Martin’s). She has authored libretti for three operas – The Black Swan; Sukey in the Dark; and an operatic version of Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Scandal in Bohemia – all in collaboration with the composer Thomas Whitman and Philadelphia’s Orchestra 2001. A 1993 Pew Fellow, she serves currently as Poet in Residence at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, and she teaches at Swarthmore College, where she is a Professor in the Department of English Literature and directs the Program in Creative Writing.
Andrew Palmer is a recent graduate of the MFA program in fiction at Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Brooklyn.
Desirae Matherly is a Harper Fellow at the University of Chicago where she teaches in the Humanities. Her most recent essays appear in Pleiades, River Teeth, and Lake Effect. She is a contributing editor for Quotidiana, an online anthology of classical essays, and in 2004 she finished her Ph.D. in creative nonfiction at Ohio University.
Brian Patrick Heston grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has a Master’s in English and Poetry from the University of New Hampshire and an MFA in Fiction from George Mason University. His poetry has appeared in Pennsylvania English, Confrontation, Slipstream, Cake Train, Poetry Southeast, West Branch, The Bitter Oleander, Many Mountains Moving, Philadelphia Stories, Portland Review, and Gargoyle. He currently is an MFA candidate in Poetry at Rutgers University in Camden New Jersey and is an Assistant Editor with Many Mountains Moving Press.
Charles O’Hay is the recipient of a 1995 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship in poetry. His poems have apperared in over 100 literary publications including Gargoyle, South Carolina Review, Brooklyn Review, Slipstream, Rattle, and New York Quarterly. As a member of the Deadpool Poets, his work appeared on the audiocassette Taedium Viate (1994). His chapbook, Curio, was published by Kali Momma Press (1996). Broadcast appearances including a reading on WXPN’s Live from Kelly Writers House (1997) and an interview on WWDB’s The Comfort Zone (1999).
Chris Payne, a photographer based in New York City, specializes in the documentation of America’s vanishing architecture and industrial landscape. His first book, New York’s Forgotten Substations: The Power Behind the Subway (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002), offered dramatic, rare views of the behemoth machines that are hidden behind modest facades in New York City. His new book, Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals (MIT Press, 2009), which includes an essay by the renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks, is the result of a six-year exploration of America’s vast and largely abandoned state mental institutions. Trained as an architect, Payne is a graduate of Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. His interest in historic buildings and industrial architecture began shortly after college, when he documented cast iron bridges, grain elevators, and power plants for the Historic American Engineering Record of the National Park Service, and, later, produced measured drawings for New York University’s excavations at Aphrodisias, a Greco-Roman city in Turkey. He has been awarded grants by the Graham Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Christina LaPrease was raised in the backwaters of Louisiana. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Beloit Poetry Journal and Black Warrior Review, among others. She lives and works in New York.
Eryn Green is a graduate student in the creative writing program at the University of Utah, where he also serves as an editorial assistant for Quarterly West. He was a nominee for the 2007 Ruth Lilly Fellowship, awarded by the Poetry Foundation. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the tiny, Bat City Review, H_NGM_N, Word for/ Word, Rhino and Denver Quarterly.
Wendy Fox has been published in ZYZZYVA, The Pinch, The Expatriate Harem: Foreign Women In Modern Turkey (Seal Press 2006), The Madison Review, and others. She lives in Denver, Colorado.
Francine Witte is a poet, playwright and fiction writer living in NYC. Her poetry chapbook, The Magic in the Streets, was published by Owl Creek Press. Her flash fiction chapbook, The Wind Twirls Everything, was published by MuscleHead Press.
She is a high school English teacher.
J. Matthew Boyleston is an Assistant Professor of Writing and English at Houston Baptist University. He received a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of South Carolina. His poems and essays have appeared widely in journals such as Puerto del Sol, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and The New Orleans Review. He has also taught at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania and at the Malahide Language School in Dublin, Ireland.
James Engelhardt’s poems have appeared in Lilies and Cannonballs Review, Elsewhere, Hawk and Handsaw and Paddlefish. His ecopoetry manifesto can be found at octopusmagazine.com. Originally from Western North Carolina, he is now in Lincoln, NE pursing a PhD in poetry. He is the Managing Editor of Prairie Schooner.
Jeff G. Lytle, an Idaho native, earned an MFA in Poetry from the University of California, Irvine and currently lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He has won two Academy of American Poets awards, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His poems have appeared in Redlands Review, Faultline, Swerve, Croonberg’s Fly, Factorial and Dust-Up, and has serialized epic poem on thepeterprincipal.org.
The fiction of Joseph Rogers has appeared recently in Bridge, Opium, Pindeldyboz and Verb.
Josh Rathkamp’s first book of poems Some Nights No Cars At All was published by Ausable press in September. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Indiana Review, Meridian, Passages North, Puerto Del Sol, Gulf Coast, Sycamore Review, Verse Daily, and The Drunken Boat. He is currently the Coordinator of Creative Writing at Mesa Community College.
Hunt lives in the village of Port Townsend, on the northwest coast of Washington. Her poems have appeared in Rattle, The Sun, and Open Spaces, among other magazines. She earns her living as a freelance writer. When she is not at her desk, she can be found in her garden, trying to stay ahead of the weeds and deer.
Keetje Kuipers was the 2007 Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident. Her poems have appeared most recently in Agni and Southeast Review, among others. You can hear her read her work at the online audio archive From the Fishouse. She lives in Missoula, Montana with her labradoodle, Bishop.
Kerrin McCadden is a poet and teacher who lives in Central Vermont. No matter what she does, she ends up living and working at the edge of the Winooski River. Her poetry has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Rattle, Poet Lore, New Delta Review and The Fiddlehead.
Marilyn McCabe’s poetry and essays have been published in such magazines as Nimrod, Beloit Poetry Journal, Natural Bridge, and Hunger Mountain. Two chapbooks produced in collaboration with poets Mary Sanders Shartle and Elaine Handley were awarded best poetry book prizes in 2006 and 2007 by the Adirondack Center for Writing. In 2004, she was awarded a New York State Council of the Arts Individual Artist grant. She is currently pursuing her MFA in poetry with New England College.
Ashley McWaters is an instructor at the University of Alabama, where she is the Coordinator of Undergraduate Creative Writing. Her manuscript, Whitework, was a 2006 finalist in the National Poetry Series, the Four Way Books Intro Prize, the Elixir Press Prize, and the Nightboat Books Prize. She was a 2007 finalist for the Stadler Fellowship. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Northwest Review, Caketrain, Spinning Jenny, Fairy Tale Review, and Pindeldyboz, among others. She lives in Tuscaloosa with husband Scott, daughter Posey, and dogs Tallulah and Olive.
R.G. O'Reilly lived half of his life in Brooklyn and currently lives in exile in another borough. He is a practicing attorney and writer.
Rachel Abramowitz is a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford.
Rachel Chalmers is an Australian writer living in San Francisco. She keeps a blog at http://www.yatima.org.
Rochelle Jewel Shapiro’s novel, Miriam the Medium (Simon & Schuster), is being sold internationally. She teaches writing at UCLA Extension.
Siel Ju writes 17 blocks from the beach in Santa Monica, Calif. Her poems and stories have been published in Gargoyle, ZYZZYVA, Hobart, How2, So to Speak, The Mad Hatters’ Review, Shampoo, and other journals. She just received her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. While trying to figure out what to do with said degree, Siel blogs at greenlagirl.com.
Rob Talbert is a former Corrections Officer from San Antonio, TX. His poetry has appeared in American Poetry Review, Ninth Letter, the Portland Review, and others.
Teresa Leo is the author of a book of poems, The Halo Rule (Elixir Press, 2008), winner of the Elixir Press Editor’s Prize. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Women’s Review of Books, New Orleans Review, Barrow Street, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Italian Americana, Xconnect, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the Pew Fellowships in the Arts, the Leeway Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She works at the University of Pennsylvania.
Yvonne C. Murphy lives in Queens, NY. She is an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Empire State College.
Tomaž Šalamun has had books translated into most of the European languages. He lives in Ljubljana and occasionally teaches in the USA. His recent books in English are The Book For My Brother and Row. Woods and Chalices was published by Harcourt in Spring 2008.
Mathias Svalina is the author of numerous chapbooks and the book Destruction Myth, from The CSU Poetry Center Press. He lives in Denver, CO and has a new puppy named D'Count.
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