Richard Boada teaches at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Southern California Review, The Louisville Review, Yalobusha Review, Poetry East, Oyez Review, New Madrid, Reed Magazine, and Rio Grande Review among others.

Sheila Black is the author of a chapbook, How to be a Maquiladora (Main Street Rag, 2007), and two poetry collections, House of Bone (CW Press, 2007) and the recently released Love/Iraq (CW Press, 2009). In 2000, she received the Frost-Pellicer Frontera Award, given to one U.S. and one Mexican poet living along the U.S.-Mexico border. Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, Willow Springs, Puerto del Sol, Diode, and Sweet among others. She was most recently Visiting Professor of Poetry at New Mexico State University.

A. M. Brant is a current MFA candidate at the University of Pittsburgh where she is on the staff of Hot Metal Bridge. Originally from Indiana, she also worked on Southern Indiana Review, but she now lives in Pittsburgh's South Side with her dog, Maddie. Her work has recently appeared in Invisible City.

Edward Byrne is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently Tidal Air (Pecan Grove Press, 2002) and Seeded Light (Turning Point Books, 2009). His poetry has appeared in numerous journals—such as American Literary Review, American Poetry Review, American Scholar, The Literary Review, Mid-American Review, Missouri Review, North American Review, Oxford Magazine, Quarterly West, Southern Humanities Review, and Southern Poetry Review—as well as a number of anthologies. He is a professor of American literature and creative writing at Valparaiso University, where he serves as the editor of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Neil Carpathios is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Playground of Flesh (Main Street Rag Press, 2006), At the Axis of Imponderables (winner of the Quercus Review Book Award, 2007), and Beyond the Bones (FutureCycle Press, 2009). He currently teaches creative writing and English, and is Coordinator of Creative Writing, at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio.

Rebecca Fiske lives in the Berkshires of Massachusetts with her husband and daughter. She has a PhD and is a Dean at Bard College at Simons Rock. She also teaches courses in religion and literature, literary theory and writing. Recently she has had a short story included in the anthology Experiencing Race, Class and Gender in the United States and has contributed a chapter to the forthcoming book Educating Outside The Lines.

Laurie Foos is the author of five novels: Before Elvis There Was Nothing, Bingo Under the Crucifix, Twinship, Portrait of the Walrus by a Young Artist, and Ex Utero. Her short fiction has been widely published, most recently in The Rake and in the anthology Wreckage of Reason: XXperimental Women's Writing in the 21st Century. Fiske currently teaches in the MFA program at Lesley University.

J. Bruce Fuller was born in the piney woods of Louisiana and currently lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana with his wife and two children. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Louisiana Review, Lilliput Review and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. His chapbook 28 Blackbirds at the End of the World was recently published by Bandersnatch Books. He is a MFA candidate in poetry at McNeese State University.

Niels Hav is a full-time poet and short story writer living in Copenhagen. He is the author of three books of short fiction and five collections of poetry in his native Danish, most recently Grundstof (Gyldendal, 2004).

Graham Hillard lives and teaches in Nashville, Tennessee. His work has appeared in The Oxford American, The Portland Review, Puerto del Sol, New York Quarterly, Tar River Poetry and many other journals.

Alysse Hotz is a second-year MFA student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she holds the Stanley H. Durwood Fellowship for creative writing. Her poems have appeared in Shadows and Origami Condom.

Jennifer Hurley is an alum of Boston University’s graduate creative writing program. She currently works as a professor of English at Ohlone College in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work as appeared in The Green Hills Literary Lantern, Peeks and Valleys and Natural Bridge. and her short story “A Poem” received an honorable mention in the 2005 Mississippi Review fiction contest.

Jessie Janeshek is the co-editor of Outscape: Writings on Fences and Frontiers (KWG Press, 2008) and a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Tennessee. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College, Boston. Her poetry has appeared in Washington Square, Passages North, Review Americana and Caduceus. She promotes her belief in the power of creative writing as community outreach by co-directing a variety of volunteer workshops in the Knoxville area. She is a freelance editor and also works as a writing instructor at the University of Tennessee.

Marilyn Kallet is the author of fourteen books, including Packing Light: New and Selected Poems (Black Widow Press, 2009). Her translation of Benjamin Peret's Le grand jeu/The Big Game will be out from Black Widow in 2010. She is a Lindsay Young Professor of English at the University of Tennessee as well as poetry workshops for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Auvillar, France.

Flavian Mark Lupinetti’s fiction has recently appeared in Barrelhouse, Bellevue Literary Review, Cutthroat, New Fables, Yellow Medicine Review and ZYZZYVA.

Kristi Maxwell is the author of Hush Sessions (Saturnalia Books, 2009), Realm Sixty-four (Ahsahta Press, 2008), and the chapbook Elsewhere and Wise (Dancing Girl Press, 2008). Her poems have most recently appeared or are forthcoming in Action Yes Quarterly, The Concher and Octopus.

Kristine Ong Muslim has more than three hundred publications worldwide, including work in Bellevue Literary Review, Narrative Magazine, Southword, The Pedestal Magazine, Turnrow and Weber Journal. She has been nominated five times for the Pushcart Prize.

Stephen Roger Powers has published his poetry and short fiction in a variety of journals and anthologies, including Shenandoah, Main Street Rag and 32 Poems. His first book of poetry, The Follower's Tale, is available from Salmon Poetry. He teaches at Gordon College in Georgia and spends his free time on the beaches of Tybee Island and at Dollywood.

Joshua Robbins won the 2008 James Wright Poetry Award, and he has recent work published or forthcoming in Best New Poets 2009, Third Coast, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Mid-American Review, New South, Southern Poetry Review and elsewhere. He is a PhD student in English at the University of Tennessee, where he teaches poetry writing and composition and serves as Poetry Editor for the journal Grist.

Francine Rubin’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Fringe Magazine, Fuselit, Long Island Pulse, Ozone Park and Pank. Growing up in NY, she trained at the School of American Ballet and has since worked on occasion as a freelance dancer and ballet teacher. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and a BA in Theater from Dartmouth College.

Karen Schubert's poems appear or are forthcoming most recently in Artful Dodge, diode, The Meadowland Review, Reconfigurations and Squid Quarterly. Schubert is the poetry editor for Whiskey Island Magazine, and teaches creative writing at Cleveland State. Her chapbook is The Geography of Lost Houses (Pudding House). She lives and loves in Youngstown, Ohio.

Helen Stead will complete her MFA in fiction from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she also serves as a graduate teacher, and design/assistant editor of Number One Magazine.  More recently, she suffers from wants-to-check-her-mail-itis to see if her PhD program applications have been returned.  Her work has appeared in Echo Ink Review.  She is currently working on a collection of short stories.

Josh Webster is currently a PhD candidate at The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, where he lives and teaches. His work has appeared in Everyday Weirdness and Trailer Park Quarterly. He also serves as the fiction editor for Stirring: A Literary Collection.

Ruth Williams is a PhD candidate in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati. Her poems have recently appeared in jubilat, H_ngm_n, 42 Opus, Barrelhouse, Knockout and Redactions. She has work forthcoming in Bateau, No Tell Motel and Barn Owl Review.

Sherra Wong is a law student living in Arlington, Virginia.