Adrian C. Louis teaches English in the Minnesota State University system. His 2006 collection of poems, Logorrhea (Northwestern University Press), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Denise Duhamel's most recent book Two and Two (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005) is the winner of Binghamton University's Milt Kessler Book Award. She and Amy Lemmon are currently working on a series of poems with these two constraints: the stanzas are written in abba rhyme, and each poem must mention ABBA, the 70s pop group, at least once. Duhamel is an associate professor of English at Florida International University in Miami.
Amy Lemmon is the author of the forthcoming poetry collections Fine Motor (Sow's Ear Review Press) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press ). Poems from the sequence ABBA: The Poems, written in collaboration with Denise Duhamel , have appeared or are forthcoming in Birmingham Poetry Review, Paterson Literary Journal, and the Cincinnati Review. She is an associate professor of English at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and blogs at http://saint-nobody.blogspot.com.
Erica Maria Litz lives in Tempe, Arizona with her husband, Miguel, and their two children. She has been an Adult Education Specialist for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community for nine years. She graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University in 2002. Her poetry has been influenced by her Colombian heritage and the musical roots of Latin America. Erica's work has been published in Volume 19 of The Caribbean Writer and Volume 1, Issue 2 of quietShorts.
Irena Praitis is an associate professor of literature and creative writing at California State University, Fullerton. She earned her PhD and MFA degrees from Arizona State University. In the spring of 2005, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Vilnius, Lithuania. Her poems, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as Rattle, Mochila Review, Mid-America Poetry Review, International Poetry Review, Cold Mountain Review, The Iconoclast, The Connecticut River Review, and Interculturidád & Traducción. Her collection of poems, Touch, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2004, and her collection of poems, Branches, was published by D-N Publishing in 2007.
Jeannine Savard is an Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University, Tempe campus where she has been teaching on the creative writing faculty for over twenty years. Her work has appeared in a variety of periodicals and journals, and her most recent manuscript of poems will be published by Red Hen Press in late 2009 or early 2010. Her books in print include Snow Water Cove, republished in Carnegie Mellon's Classic Contemporary Series, 2006, My Hand Upon Your Name, Red Hen Press, 2005, and Trumpeter, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1993.
Jim Daniels is the winner of the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize for his book, Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies (Eastern Washington University Press, 2007). In addition, he has edited or co-edited four anthologies, including Letters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on Race, and American Poetry: The Next Generation. He has received the Brittingham Prize for Poetry, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His poems have appeared in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. He is the Thomas Stockman Baker Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, where he directs the Creative Writing Program. At Carnegie Mellon, he has received the Ryan Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Elliott Dunlap Smith Award for Teaching and Educational Service.
John Findura holds an MFA from The New School. His poetry and criticism appear in journals such as Mid-American Review, Verse, Fugue, Fourteen Hills, CutBank, Juked, elimae, No Tell Motel, H_NGM_N, Jacket, and Rain Taxi, among others. Born in Paterson, he lives and teaches in Northern New Jersey with his wife Lauren, their puppy, and a charm of finches.
Kassy Scrivner is a recent graduate of Union Institute & University / Vermont College where she earned her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, Poetry, and Small Business Administration from the University of Redlands. Her work has been published in The Iowa Source, Cosmopsis Quarterly, and has received Honorable Mention in the Jean Burden Prize for the American Academy of Poetry. Originally from Oregon, Ms. Scrivner now resides in Scottsdale, Arizona where she is currently the Director of First Impressions for the Greater Phoenix Economic Council.
Kelli Stafford lives in Oregon with her husband and children. She is in the low residency MFA program at the University of Nebraska. Her poems have appeared in 2River View, Millers Pond, Poetry Magazine, and Foliate Oak.
Lois Roma-Deeley is the author of two collections of poetry. Her second book, northSight (2006), earned her a nod from the Los Angeles Book Prize nominating committee and received critical praise. Rules of Hunger, her first full-length poetry collection (2004), earned her a National Book Award nomination. Roma-Deeley has won numerous awards and honors for her poetry, has published in seven national anthologies, and her work has been featured in numerous literary journals nationwide. In collaborations with visual artists on several ekphrasis projects, Roma-Deeley's poems have been exhibited nationally and internationally. www.loisroma-deeley.com
Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of Sagittarius Agitprop (forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press), and the chapbooks Four Hours to Mpumalanga (Pudding House Publications), and Aardvark (West Town Press). Recent work appears in The New Republic, Field, Epoch, Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, North American Review, Pleiades, and others. He is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship and an Artist's Grant to the Vermont Studio Center.
Nathaniel Miles Millard was awarded a research grant to write about a small tribe in Alaska; he received a Copley Foundation Scholarship for journalism; he has published a non-fiction piece about his experiences as a relief worker during Hurricane Katrina. Along with articles in academic journals, he has creative work published in Watershed, and a poem in the forthcoming book Cadence of Hooves by Yarroway Mountain Press. He received his MA in English from CSU Chico and is currently a Quinney Fellow at Utah State University in the Department of Environment and Society researching connections between language and environment.
Pete Miller is a mental health worker and poet living in Seattle. He is the co-founder of the League of Citizens Concerned About Literature, a group that hangs hand washing poems in public restrooms.
Rigoberto González is the author of seven books, most recently of the memoir, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. A story collection, Men without Bliss, is forthcoming. The recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, and of various international artist residencies, he writes twice a month a Latino book column, now entering its seventh year, for the El Paso Times of Texas. He is contributing editor for Poets and Writers Magazine, on the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle, on the Board of Directors of Fishouse Poems: A Poetry Archive, and on the Advisory Circle of Con Tinta, a collective of Chicano/ Latino activist writers. He lives in New York City and is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark.
Robert Keim attended Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH where he received a Bachelor of Arts in History. He completed an MPhil in Medieval Studies at the University of Glasgow's Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and began PhD research at the Institute for Environmental History at the University of St. Andrews on the subject of species history. After one year he suspended his studies and relocated to Steamboat Springs, CO. He is currently at Dartmouth College pursuing a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies with a concentration in creative writing.
William Doreski's most recent collection of poetry is Another Ice Age (2007). He has published three critical studies, including Robert Lowell's Shifting Colors. His essays, poetry, and reviews have appeared in many journals, including Massachusetts Review, Notre Dame Review, The Alembic, New England Quarterly, Harvard Review, Modern Philology, Antioch Review, Natural Bridge.
