Andrew Abbott is an artist originally from Portland, ME. His work is carried by the gallery Bambi Project, in Philadelphia, among others.

Samuel Amadon is the author of Like a Sea (University of Iowa Press).

Steve Barbaro is currently an MFA in Poetry candidate at the University of Virginia, where he is teaching an undergraduate poetry workshop and working on his first manuscript, Abyss/Edifice. His poems are also forthcoming in Denver Quarterly and Diagram.

Bridgette Bates was a winner of a 2008 “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Contest prize and her poetry has been published in various magazines including Lit, American Letters & Commentary, and the Colorado Review. She lives in Los Angeles.

Elaine Bleakney lives in Brooklyn and interviews artists for At Length magazine. Her poems are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Court Green, and others.

Thomas Cook and Tyler Flynn Dorholt are co-editors and publishers of the journal Tammy. Work from Monster: a Glottochronology, appears or is forthcoming in Alice Blue and Qarrtsiluni. Other work can be found at Action Yes, Denver Quarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere.

Deborah Flanagan’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Gettysburg Review, Hotel Amerkia, Poet Lore, Big City Lit, and DIAGRAM, among others. A Reiki Master, she has a private practice and works with patients at Beth Israel Medical Center. Deborah lives in the East Village in New York City.

John Harper lives in Pittsburgh, PA, and graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. When traveling, he tries the same things wherever he goes.

Megan Levad is a graduate of the University of Iowa and the University of Michigan, where she received the Cornwell Fellowship, the Roethke Prize, and the Zell Postgraduate Fellowship in Poetry. Her work was recently selected for the Poetry Center of Chicago’s Juried Reading. She wrote the lyrics for Infidel, a song cycle composed by Tucker Fuller, with whom she is now working on an opera. She is the assistant director of the MFA program at the University of Michigan.

Jennifer MacKenzie often teaches writing in Portland, Oregon, but is currently studying Arabic, teaching English, and plotting a small Balkan Flexipass poet-stalking train-excursion from Damascus, Syria. Other poems of hers can be found in Fence, Verse, Greatcoat, and Sub-Lit.

Ricardo Maldonado was born and rasied in Puerto Rico. He works at the 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center in New York City.

Michael Morse, a 2009–10 fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA., has published poems in various journals and in the anthologies Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn (New York University Press, 2007) and Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days (University of Iowa Press, 2010).

Matthew Pennock studied poetry at the University of Virginia where he was a member of the undergraduate poetry writing area program. He received an MFA from Columbia University in 2007. His work has appeared or will be appearing in such journals as Western Humanites Review, Denver Quarterly, LIT, and New York Quarterly, among others. He lives and teaches in New York City.

Tomaž Šalamun lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and occasionally teaches in the United States. His recent books translated into English are Woods and Chalices (Harcourt 2008), Poker (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2nd ed. 2008), and There's the Hand and There's the Arid Chair (Counterpath Press, 2009). His Blue Tower will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2010. He received the Europäische Preis in Münster, Germany, in 2007 and a Golden Wreath from Struga Poetry Evenings in Macedonia in 2009.

Dan Rosenberg’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Subtropics, Conduit, Third Coast, 6X6, and elsewhere. His first chapbook, A Thread of Hands, is forthcoming from Tilt Press.

Mara Vahratian grew up in southeastern Michigan and lives in Tucson. Her poems can be found in Coconut, Drunken Boat, EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts and are forthcoming in Alice Blue.

William Winfield Wright lives in Grand Junction, Colorado. His poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Field, Ninth Letter, Seattle Review, South Carolina Review, Third Coast, and elsewhere.

Elizabeth Winder’s poems have appeared in Antioch Review, American Letters and Commentary, FIELD, Burnside Review, and elsewhere.