Maureen Alsop is the author of Apparition Wren. Her work has appeared in a variety of journals including Blackbird, Kenyon Review and Tampa Review. 

Bridget Bell teaches English at Vance-Granville Community College in North Carolina. She is also an associate editor for Four Way Books and the executive director of The Hinge, a volunteer-run literary center.

Tina Cane was born in Hell’s Kitchen and raised in New York’s East and West Villages. She studied at the University of Vermont, the Sorbonne, and the University of Paris X-Nanterre, where she earned a master’s degree in French literature. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and her long poem, The Fifth Thought, was published by Other Painters Press in 2008. Tina is also the founder and director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI, a program which sends visiting poets into public school classrooms. She lives outside of Providence with her husband, their three children, a tortoise, and a windmill.

Bruce Cohen's poems have appeared in literary periodicals such as AGNI, The Georgia Review, The Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The Southern Review, as well as being featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. He has published two books: Disloyal Yo-Yo (Dream Horse Press), which was awarded the 2007 Orphic Poetry Prize, and Swerve (Black Lawrence Press); a third is forthcoming (Black Lawrence Press): Placebo Junkies Conspiring with the Half-Asleep.

Craig Foltz is a writer and multimedia artist whose work has appeared in numerous journals. His first book of poetry "The States" is available from Ugly Duckling Presse. He lives and works in New Zealand, where hapuka patrol the depths.

Sophia Kraemer-Dahlin is a writer from Oakland. Her work can be found in such magazines as Meatpaper and Vanitas.

Kyle Flak works at a library in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  He is the author of two little volumes of "poetry."  He went to school at Northern Michigan University and the University of Massachusetts.

Lily Ladewig's poems have appeared in Conduit, Denver Quarterly, Salt Hill, and SUPERMACHINE. With Anne Cecelia Holmes, she is a coauthor of the e-chapbook I Am A Natural Wonder (Blue Hour Press, 2011). Her first full-length book, The Silhouettes, is forthcoming from SpringGun Press.

Stacie Leatherman is the author of two books of poetry: Stranger Air (Mayapple) and Storm Crop (BlazeVOX). Work has appeared in New American Writing, Indiana Review, Barrow Street, Diagram, and Crazyhorse, among others. She has an MFA in Poetry from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Bo McGuire hails from Hokes Bluff, Alabama. It all begins and ends with Dolly Parton and a little bit of glitter or a ton.

Andy Nicholson received his MFA from California College of the Arts and his PhD from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he was a Schaeffer Fellow in Poetry. His poems have been published in magazines and journals including The Colorado Review, Tarpaulin Sky's Chronic Content, and The Offending Adam.

JoAnna Novak is the author of the chapbook Something Real (Dancing Girl Press, 2011).  Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in H_NGM_N, Aesthetix, and La Petite Zine.  She lives in Northampton, MA.

Nate Pritts is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Sweet Nothing. He is the founder & principal editor of H_NGM_N, an online journal & small press.

Danniel Schoonebeek's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, Boston Review, Crazyhorse, The Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, Publishers Weekly, and elsewhere. He was born in the Catskills.

Paige Taggart authored three chapbooks: DIGITAL MACRAMÉ (Poor Claudia), Polaroid Parade (Greying Ghost Press), and The Ice Poems (forthcoming from DoubleCross Press). She's a fanatic jeweler.

Tony Trigilio's newest book is the poetry collection Historic Diary (BlazeVOX, 2011). He is a member of the core poetry faculty at Columbia College Chicago and co-edits Court Green.

Jane Wong received her MFA from the University of Iowa and is currently pursuing her PhD in English at the University of Washington. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in CutBank, Mid-American Review, Octopus, and The Journal.