Gary L. McDowell is the author of American Amen (Dream Horse Press, 2010), and winner of the 2009 Orphic Prize in Poetry from Dream Horse Press, and two chapbooks, They Speak of Fruit (Cooper Dillon, 2009) and The Blueprint (Pudding House, 2005). He is co-editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice (Rose Metal Press 2010) and his poetry has appeared all over in journals such as: Bellingham Review, Colorado Review, Indiana Review, Laurel Review, Mid-American Review, New England Review, Ninth Letter, Poetry Daily, Third Coast, Quarterly West, and Verse Daily, among others. He was recently awarded the 2010 Editor’s Prize from Minnetonka Review for his group of three poems published in Issue #6. He recently earned his Ph.D. in American Literature and Contemporary Poetry at Western Michigan University, and now lives in Antioch, TN, where he is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Belmont University in Nashville, TN.

Amy Beeder is the author of  Now Make an Altar (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 20012) and Burn the Field (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2006). Her work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Nation, The Kenyon Review, and other journals. She teaches poetry at the University of New Mexico.

Sandra Kohler's third collection of poems, Improbable Music (Word Press), will appear in May 2011. Earlier collections are The Country of Women (Calyx 1995) and The Ceremonies of Longing (University of Pittsburgh Press 2003). Her poems have been published in numerous journals over the past thirty-five years.

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Nick Courtright is the author of Punchline, a National Poetry Award finalist published by Gold Wake Press, as well as the chapbook Elegy for the Builder’s Wife. He teaches English, Humanities, and Philosophy at a number of local colleges and universities, and lives on the east side with his wife, Michelle, and son, William. He's Interviews Editor of the Austinist, an arts and culture website based in Austin, Texas.

Margot Schilpp is the author of three books of poetry, all published by Carnegie Mellon University Press: Civil Twilight (2012); Laws of My Nature (2005); and The World's Last Night (2001). Her work has appeared widely in literary magazines, including Boston Review, LIT, Copper Nickel, The Southern Review, and American Poetry Review. She teaches at Quinnipiac University, Southern Connecticut State University, and is the poet-in-residence at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven. She and her husband, poet Jeff Mock, live in New Haven with their two daughters, Paula and Leah.

Catherine Pierce is the author of Girls of Peculiar (Saturnalia, 2012) and Famous Last Words (Saturnalia, 2008), winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry, Boston Review, Slate, Ploughshares, and Field. She co-directs the creative writing program at Mississippi State University.

Terry Blackhawk is the author of six poetry collections, including her most recent, The Light Between, and Escape Artist, winner of the 2002 John Ciardi Prize. She has received the Foley Poetry Prize, the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, the Michigan Governor's Award for Arts Education, and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. She is founding director of Detroit's acclaimed InsideOut Literary Arts Project and lives and writes not far from the river in Detroit, Michigan.

Ravi Shankar is founding editor and executive director of Drunken Boat, an international online journal of the arts that has celebrated over a decade in existence, and co-director the Creative Writing Program at Central Connecticut State University. His books and chapbooks include Seamless Matter: Thirty Stills (OHM Editions, 2010); Voluptuous Bristle (Finishing Line Press, 2010); Wanton Textiles (co-authored with Reb Livingston, No Tell Books, 2006); and Instrumentality (WordTech Communications, 2004). With Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, he edited W.W. Norton’s Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East & Beyond. Recipient of a Pushcart Prize, he has appeared in The New York Times, BBC and NPR, and has read his work around the world. He teaches in Fairfield University’s MFA Program and in the first international MFA Program at City University of Hong Kong. His most recent book, Deepening Groove (The National Poetry Review Press, 2011), won the 2010 National Poetry Review Book Prize.

 

Lee Rossi was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied 5 years for the Roman Catholic priesthood before leaving the seminary. He has published two ESL textbooks, as well as a critical study of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. His latest book is Wheelchair Samurai (Plain View Press, 2011). He is the author of two previous books of poetry, Ghost Diary (Terrapin Press, 2003) and Beyond Rescue (Bombshelter Press, 1992), and has appeared in various anthologies, including Blue Arc West (Tebot Bach, 2006), Chance of a Ghost (Helicon Nine Editions, 2005), Mischief, Caprice, & Other Strategies (Red Hen Press, 2002) and Grand Passion: the Poetry of Los Angeles and Beyond (Red Wind Books, 1995). His poems, reviews and essays have been published in numerous journals, including Tar River Poetry, The Atlanta Review, The Green Mountains Review, The Sun, Poetry East, Chelsea, The Wormwood Review, Nimrod, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poet Lore, and The Southern Poetry Review. From 1986 to 1992, he edited Tsunami, a journal of contemporary poetry. He is Staff Reviewer and Interviewer for Pedestal. He lives in California.

The founding editor of Bateau Press and the author of Exhibit of Forking Paths and The City from Nome, James Grinwis has been published in American Poetry Review, Columbia, Black Warror Review, Quick Fiction, and Third Coast. He lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife and children.