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Wendy Barnes-Thomassen is a graduate of the MFA Writing Program at California Institute of the Arts. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Trepan, Faultline, and Cargo (Paris). She lives in Brooklyn. Her chapbook, So-Called Mettle, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press (December 2011).

Mary Di Lucia lives and works in New York City, where she teaches writing, and works as a developmental editor. Her poetry manuscript is called “Beauty Russe.”

Laura M. Dixon is a Michener Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin, where she also serves as Associate Editor of Bat City Review. Her work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Rhino, Georgetown Review, Two Review, Wicked Alice, Front Porch, and elsewhere.

David Greenslade’s poetry books include Weak Eros (Parthian); Zeus Amoeba (Two Rivers Press) and Burning Down the Dosbarth (Y Lolfa) he writes in Welsh and in English and lives in Wales.

Russell Jaffe teaches English at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, IA. He holds an MFA in Poetry from Columbia College in Chicago and his poems have appeared in The Portland Review, La Petite Zine, elimae, Shampoo, Horse Less Review, alice blue, and many others. His chapbook G(*)D is forthcoming from Pudding House Press. He is the founder and editor of O Sweet Flowery Roses, an online journal of poetry, and Good Hurts, a hot sauce review blog.

Paul Lisicky is the author of Lawnboy, Famous Builder, and The Burning House. His work appears in recent issues of The Iowa Review, Story Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, The Seattle Review, The Rumpus, and Lo-Ball. He teaches at NYU and lives in New York City. His next book, Unbuilt Projects, is forthcoming in Fall 2012.

Reagan Lothes lives in Jersey City with her husband and a small herd of strays. She is working on her dissertation at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and teaches at John Jay College. Another poem from what she’s calling her “she” series recently appeared in Linebreak.

Amy MacLennan has been published in Hayden’s Ferry Review, River Styx, Linebreak, Cimarron Review,Folio and Rattle. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies Not a Muse from Haven Books and Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems from Ragged Sky Press. One of her poems is available as a downloadable broadside from Broadsided Press, and she has an article appearing in the 2011 Poet’s Market.

Angie Macri’s recent work appears or is forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Redivider, and Southern Indiana Review, among others. A recipient of an individual artist fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council, she teaches in Little Rock.

Prairie L. Markussen lives, writes, and teaches in Daegu, South Korea. Lately of Chicago, IL, she moved to South Korea to teach English to high school students. She received her MFA in poetry from Roosevelt University in Chicago. She loves to travel, and her writing seeks to reflect the stuff she has seen.

Katy Resch’s work has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Pank, and LIT Magazine. Recently, she was awarded a Norton Island Artist’s Residency and a fellowship to attend the annual Summer Literary Seminars. Her story “The Fawn Skull” has been recognized as a notable story by the judges of storySouth’s Million Writers Award. She lives in RIchmond, VA.

Matthew Rohrer is the author of A Hummock in the Malookas, Satellite, A Green Light, Rise Up and A Plate of Chicken. With Joshua Beckman he wrote Nice Hat, Thanks and recorded the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. Octopus Books published his action/adventure chapbook-length poem They All Seemed Asleep in 2008. His poems have been widely anthologized and have appeared in many journals. He’s received the Hopwood Award for poetry and a Pushcart prize, and was selected as a National Poetry Series winner, and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. He teaches in the creative writing program at NYU and lives in Brooklyn.

Sarah V. Schweig’s poems have appeared in Bomb Magazine, Boston Review, Western Humanities Review, and Verse Daily. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Columbia University, where her manuscript was recipient of the David Craig Austin Memorial Award, and she was a 2010 Ruth Lilly Fellowship finalist. Her chapbook, S, will be available through Dancing Girl Press. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Sandra Gail Teichmann-Hillesheim’s books include Slow Mud, Killing Daddy, and Woman of the Plains. She is also a playwright with Mockernut Street, Corinne, and Not Laughing staged. Her works (writing and art) have been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies including Woven in the Wind, Short Story, Writers’Forum, The Lowell Review, Rockhurst Review, Sirena: Poesia – Arte y Critica, Cimarron Review, Architrave: A Journal of the Arts, Puerto del Sol, Painted Bride Quarterly, West Branch, The Hollins Critic, Mad River, and she has participated in many readings, conference presentations, and performances.

Maureen Thorson’s first book of poems, Applies to Oranges, is available from Ugly Duckling Presse. She is also the author of several chapbooks, including Mayport, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s National Chapbook Series for 2006. She lives in Washington, DC, where she co-curates the In Your Ear reading series at the DC Arts Center.

Danielle Veith holds an MFA from the University of Maryland and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. She has worked in communications and event planning for publishing, academic, non-profit and news organizations in New York and Washington. Currently, she lives in the DC suburbs with her husband and 2-year-old daughter.

R.A. Villanueva’s lives in Brooklyn. A finalist for the Beatrice Hawley Award and the Alice James Books/Kundiman Poetry Prize, his writing has appeared in Gulf Coast, AGNI, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, DIAGRAM, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere.

Phillip B. Williams is a Chicago, Illinois native. A Cave Canem fellow, he recently won BLOOM’S inaugural chapbook competition in poetry for his manuscript BRUISED GOSPELS. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Callaloo, Sou’wester, Boxcar Poetry Review, Hunger Mountain and others. Phillip is currently poetry editor of Vinyl Poetry.

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