Arlene Ang lives in Spinea, Italy where she serves as an editor for The Pedestal Magazine and Press 1. A book of poems, Bundles of Letters, Including A, V and Epsilon, written in collaboration with Valerie Fox, is forthcoming from Texture Press later this year. [website] [email]

Brent Armendinger

Mary Buchinger's poems have appeared in RUNES, The Massachusetts Review, Versal (Netherlands), and other journals. Her collection, Roomful of Sparrows, (Finishing Line Press, 2008) was a semi-finalist in the New Women's Voices Series. She is a repositioned Michigander who teaches writing and communication studies at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston. [email]

Christopher Cheney

Karen Chien

Joanne Diaz

Jehanne Dubrow

Donald Dunbar grew up in the Midwest. He currently lives in Portland, OR.

Ori Fienberg

Christopher Fritton

Elisa Gabbert

Geof Huth is an American who has lived on most continents on earth. Over the years, he has created visual and other poems in a wide variety of formats: lineated verse, prose, paintings, drawings, pollen, and films. He has been published in venues as diverse as The American Poetry Review, Dreams and Nightmares, Kalligram, Lost and Found Times, Modern Haiku, La Poire D'Angoisse, Prakalpana Literature, ZYX, and atop bandaids. His chapbook of visual poems, Out of Character, was published last year by Paper Kite Press. The 366 poems that make up Longfellow Memoranda are due out as a book in 2008. He writes almost daily on visual poetry and related subjects at his [blog]. [email]

A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz is an instructor and student in the University at Buffalo's Department of Media Study. He is also Assistant Editor of Digital, Visual, and Sound Poetry at Anti-, where he edited the short anthology POWER CRAZY SENIOR GENERAL THAN SHWE in response to the jailing of the Myanmar poet Saw Wai. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Cranky, The Eleventh Muse, Word for/Word, and the Zaoem Festival of Contemporary Poetry in Ghent, Belgium. [email]

Margaret MacInnis's recent nonfiction has appeared in Gettysburg Review, Massachusetts Review, and Mid-American Review and is forthcoming in Briar Cliff Review, Colorado Review, and River Teeth. Her essay "A Day in January" (Louisville Review) was a notable essay in Best American Essays 2007. In August, 2007, she was the William Raney Scholar in Nonfiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Currently, she serves as Nonfiction Editor of Pebble Lake Review and as an Editorial Assistant on The Iowa Review. [email]

Carlo Matos is a poet and playwright. He has had readings and productions of his plays in major cities across the country. He has also published poems in 63 Channels, Underground Window, A-pos-tro-phe, Zaum, Crawdad, and The Mad Hatters' Review. He currently lives in Chicago where he teaches English at the City Colleges of Chicago.

Carol McCarthy makes a living as a writer/barista/waiter/English instructor in New Orleans. Her work has appeared recently in Pebble Lake Review, Rattle, and Red Clay Review, among others. [email]

Philip Metres is the author of To See the Earth (2008), Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941 (2007), Instants (chap, 2006), Primer for Non-Native Speakers (chap, 2004), Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Selected Poems of Lev Rubinstein (2004), and A Kindred Orphanhood: Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky (2003). His poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry and Inclined to Speak: Contemporary Arab American Poetry. He teaches literature and creative writing at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. Were it not for Ellis Island, his last name would be Abourjaili. [website] [blog] [email]

Brian Oliu is originally from Hunterdon County, New Jersey and lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. His work is featured or forthcoming in Swink, New Ohio Review, Brevity, Southeast Review, and Best Creative Non-Fiction Vol. 2. This is an automated message. [email]

Doug Ramspeck’s poetry collection, Black Tupelo Country, was awarded the 2007 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry and will be published in the fall of 2008 by BkMk Press. His poems have appeared in West Branch, Connecticut Review, Seneca Review, Confrontation Magazine, Rattle, Nimrod, and numerous other literary journals.  He directs the Writing Center and teaches creative writing and composition at The Ohio State University at Lima.  He lives in Lima with his wife, Beth, and their daughter, Lee. [email]

Margot Schilpp

Amy Schrader

Sarah Scoles

In the past few years, Don Thompson has had poems in Atlanta Review, Rattle, JAMA, and elsewhere. A chapbook, Turning Sixty, was just released by March Street Press, which put out Been There, Done That a couple of years ago; Sittin' on Grace Slick's Stoop is available from Pudding House. Parallel Press (University of Wisconsin) has a full length book of poems, Where We Live, on its schedule. He lives on a cotton farm in the southern San Joaquin Valley and drives the back roads to a nearby prison where he teaches.

Christian Ward is a 27 year old London based poet whose poetry can be currently seen in Poetry Salzburg Review and is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review and The Warwick Review. He recently crossed the Mojave and can now understand the definition of Hell. Thought he saw Dante asking for a lift somewhere along the route. [email]