Tony Hoagland

Tony Hoagland has published three collections of poetry: Sweet Ruin, winner of the 1992 Brittingham Prize; Donkey Gospel, winner of the 1998 James Laughlin award; and What Narcissism Means to Me, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2005, he received the Mark Twain award for humor in American poetry, and the Folger Library’s O.B. Hardisson Prize for achievement as poet and teacher. He teaches in the graduate writing program of the University of Houston and in the Warren Wilson MFA program. A book of prose about poetry, Real Sofistakashun, is forthcoming in 2006.

Laurie Notaro

Laurie Notaro began her career writing for Arizona State University's newspaper, the State Press, while she attended the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, and eventually became a columnist for The Arizona Republic. She is the author of five books, including The New York Times bestseller, The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club. She is currently at work on her sixth book.

Peter Pereira

Peter Pereira is a family physician in Seattle and a founding editor of Floating Bridge Press. He received his MD from the university of Washington in 1987 and completed his residency in Family Medicine at the University of Washington Medical Center in 1990. He currently provides primary care to an urban poor population at High Point Community Clinic, in West Seattle. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous literary magazines, including JAMA, North Dakota Quarterly, Poetry, Poetry East, Seattle Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Willow Springs; and in the anthology To Come to Light: Perspectives on Chronic Illness in Modern Literature. His books include The Lost Twin (2000) and Saying the World (2003). His next book, What's Written on the Body, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in Spring 2007.