Audrey Henderson was a finalist in the 2008 Indiana Review 1/2 K Award and won second place in the 2008 River Styx International Poetry Contest. She was chosen as a Special Merit Poet in The Comstock Review's 2009 Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award Contest and was a finalist for the 2009 Philbrick Poetry Award.  Her work has appeared in numerous other journals, including the Roanoke Review and The Sow's Ear Review.  Originally from Scotland, she was a frequent contributor to BBC Radio Scotland and graduated from the University of Edinburgh. 

The wife of a Vietnam War veteran, Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely says she's getting the hang of retirement after twenty gratifying/distressing years with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and happy adventures along earlier career paths. Among other wonderfully small-town volunteer activities, she chairs the Guilford Poets Guild and serves as its representative to the Connecticut Poetry Society.

Judith Bowles is Ohio-born, Duke-educated, New York-leavened, and Washingtonian by nature.  She earned her MFA from American University in short fiction where she has taught creative writing.  She writes after having taken a sabbatical from writing during eight years in Philadelphia where she studied horticulture. 

Eleanor Paynter has roots in Texas, Rome, and New York, where she completed an MFA at Sarah Lawrence College. Recent work has appeared in Washington Square, Weave, Salamander, and Willow Springs. She lives in the Netherlands.

Gayle Reed Carroll has taught Art at various grade levels in public schools, and calligraphy at Carnegie Mellon University and in the Mt. Lebanon Adult Education program. She earned an AB at Hood College and an MFA in Graphic Design at CMU. Writing since the early nineties, she has studied with Stephen Dunn, Kenneth Rosen, Jan Beatty, and Ellen McGrath Smith. Her poems have appeared in several small magazines and anthologies, including Poet Lore, The Comstock Review, City Paper, Black River Review, and Voices from the Attic. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Peter Kline's poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, Poetry, Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere.  He is the recipient of a 2008 Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry Writing, as well as the 2010 Morton Marr Prize from Southwest Review.

Peggy Aylsworth's poetry has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Ars Interpres (Sweden), Laurel Review, Zone, and numerous other journals throughout the U.S.

and abroad.

Taylor Graham is a volunteer search-and-rescue dog handler in the Sierra Nevada. Her poems have appeared in American Literary Review, The Iowa Review, The New York Quarterly, Poetry International, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. She's included in the anthology California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present (Santa Clara University, 2004). Her book The Downstairs Dance Floor was awarded the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize, and she's a finalist in Poets & Writers' California Writers Exchange. Her latest book, Walking with Elihu: poems on Elihu Burritt, the Learned Blacksmith, is available on Amazon.

Margot Farrington is the author of two full-length collections, most recently Flares And

Fathoms (Bright Hill Press).  She is the recipient of poetry fellowships at Norton Island and at the I-Park Foundation in 2009 and 2010, respectively.  Forthcoming poems will appear in The Broome Review and Cimarron Review. A reading and interview are available via Art On Air International Radio archives of 2010.

Judy Kronenfeld is the author of four poetry collections including Ghost Nurseries, a Finishing Line chapbook (2005) and Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths, winner of the Litchfield Review Poetry Book Prize (2008). Her poems, as well as the occasional short story and personal essay have appeared in many print and online journals including Adanna, Calyx, Cimarron Review, American Poetry Journal, Fox Chase Review, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Natural Bridge, Hiram Poetry Review, Passager, Poetry International, Spoon River Poetry Review, Stirring, Women’s Review of Books and Pedestal, as well as in a dozen and a half anthologies or text books, including Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California (Greenhouse Review Press/Alcatraz Editions, 2008), Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease (Kent State University Press, 2009), and Love over 60: An Anthology of Women's Poems (Mayapple Press, 2010). She is Lecturer Emerita—after twenty-five years of teaching in the Creative Writing Department at UC Riverside. Her new poetry collection, Shimmer, will be published by WordTech Editions in 2012.

David Derbin Nolta holds degrees from The University of Michigan, The University of Chicago, and Yale University. His first novel, an academic mystery entitled Grave Circle, was published in 2003, and his second, Lostlindens, appeared in 2005. Recent poems have appeared in Christianity and Literature, Subtropics, Assisi, and Rattle. He teaches Art History at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. 

Michael Lauchlan's most recent chapbook is Sudden Parade, from Riverside Press. He has had poems in publications including New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Victory Park, North American Review, Ninth Letter, Apple Valley Review, Chiron Review, Natural Bridge, Collagist, Boxcar, Tampa Review, Cider Press, The Cortland Review, and Poetry Quarterly. He has been included in Abandon Automobile, from Wayne State University Press and in A Mind Apart, from Oxford University Press.

Oliver Rice's poems have appeared widely in journals and anthologies in the United States and abroad. An interview with Creekwalker was released by that zine in January, 2010. His book of poems, On Consenting To Be a Man, is offered by Cyberwit, in Allahabad, India, and is available on Amazon. His online chapbook, Afterthoughts, Siestas, and his recording of his Institute for Higher Study appeared in Mudlark in December 2010.

W.M. Rivera has a new book titled Buried in the Mind's Backyard (Brickhouse Books—also available at Itascabooks.com and Amazon.com).  Born in New Orleans, he began publishing poetry in the 1950s. His early poetry appeared under the names William Rivera and William McLeod Rivera in The Nation, Prairie Schooner, the Kenyon Review, and the New Laurel Review among other publications. Recent poems have appeared in the California Quarterly, Gargoyle, Ghazal, and Broome Review. A first book of his poetry was published in 1960 titled, The End of Legend's String, illustrated by Mexican artist, José Luis Cuevas. His new book, Buried in the Mind's Backyard, was published by Brickhouse Books in 2011, with a cover print by Miguel Condé one of Spain's prominent artists.  Rivera's professional activities in agricultural development have taken him to more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Retired from the University of Maryland, he is putting together his next collection of poetry under the title The You that's Left.

Rob Spiegel is a writer living in New Mexico. His poetry, fiction, and journalism have appeared in publications ranging from Halfway Down the Stairs and Psychotic Meatloaf to Rolling Stone and True Confessions.

Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. For more information, including his essay "Magic, Illusion and Other Realities" and a complete bibliography, please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com.

Dean Olson has published six limited-edition poetry collections.  He is emeritus faculty of the Evergreen State College, where he taught economics, cultural studies, and maritime history.  He lives in Olympia, Washington, with his children and grandchildren.  His poems have been accepted for publication by Prairie Schooner, Cascade #2, and elsewhere.

Will Greenway's tenth collection of poems, Everywhere at Once, won the Poetry Book of the Year Award from the Ohio Library Association, as did his eighth collection, Ascending Order. Both are from the University of Akron Press Poetry Series.  His work has appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Southern Review, Georgia Review, Southern Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, and Shenandoah.  His awards include the Helen and Laura Krout Memorial Poetry Award, the Larry Levis Editors' Prize from Missouri Review, the Open Voice Poetry Award from The Writer's Voice, the State Street Press Chapbook Competition, an Ohio Arts Council Grant, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and he has been named Georgia Author of the Year. He is Distinguished Professor of English at Youngstown State University.

Dante Di Stefano's work has appeared most recently in Poetry, Quarter After Eight, and The Hollins Critic. 

Will Cordeiro is currently a Ph.D. candidate studying 18^th century British literature at Cornell.  Co-founder of Brooklyn Playwrights Collective, he has had several plays produced in regional and off-off-Broadway venues, including a libretto performed at the Johnson Museum of Art. His work appears in numerous literary journals.

Stephen Spencer has served as Chair of the English Department at the University of Southern Indiana since 2008. Before that, he taught English at Wilmington College for eighteen years. He has taught and published in the areas of American studies, ethnic literature, and global studies. His creative work has been published in the Aurorean, Estuary, Journal of Kentucky Studies, Tipton Poetry Journal, and Coal: A Poetry Anthology. His work recently has centered on travel.

Mike Smetzer's work has been published in New Letters, West Branch, Cottonwood, Hanging Loose, and he has two chapbooks: A Quiet Man and Teaching the Clergy to Dance. Some of his published work appears at http://mikesmetzer.wordpress.com/

Matthew Buckley Smith was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He earned his MFA in poetry at the Johns Hopkins University. His poems have appeared (or will soon appear) in Beloit Poetry Journal, Think Journal, Linebreak, Iron Horse Literary Review, Commonweal, and Measure, as well as in Best American Poetry 2011. He lives in Baltimore with his wife, Joanna.

Terri Brown-Davidson's work has appeared in LA Review, Triquarterly, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Puerto del Sol, Denver Quarterly, The Literary Review, and other journals. Recently, she was the guest editor in fiction for The Pedestal Magazine.  She has received the New Mexico Writer's Scholarship, the AWP Intro Award for poetry, a Yaddo residency fellowship, and thirteen Pushcart nominations, as well as a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her first book, The Carrington Monologues.

Beth Paulson's poems have appeared most recently in Blueline, the Aurorean, Plain Spoke and Wild Goose Review and will appear soon in a new anthology by Native West Press.  Her work was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2007, 2009, and 2011.  Her new collection of poems, Wild Raspberries, was published by Plain View Press (Austin, 2009).

Andrew H. Oerke recently returned to poetry after many years in development work with the Peace Corps and other volunteer organizations.  His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, and elsewhere.  In 2006, his two new collections, African Stiltdancer and San Miguel de Allende, were published jointly by Swan Books and the UN Society for Writers and Artists and subsequently received the United Nations Literature Award.  His most recent book, Never Seek to Tell Thy Love, was published in 2010.

Long a reader of poetry, R.D. Parker has recently turned to writing poems himself.  His work has appeared in Caketrain, decomP, PANK, and Salamander.  https://sites.google.com/ site/rdparker97/

Barbara Crooker's books are Radiance, winner of the 2005 Word Press First Book Award and finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize; Line Dance (Word Press, 2008), winner of the 2009 Paterson Award for Excellence in Literature; and More (C&R Press, 2010). Her poems appear in a variety of literary journals and many anthologies, including Good Poems for Hard Times (Garrison Keillor, editor)(Viking Penguin) and the Bedford Introduction to Literature.

Joe Mills has published three volumes of poetry—Somewhere During the Spin Cycle; Angels, Thieves, and Winemakers; and Love and Other Collisions—as well as numerous works of fiction, non-fiction, and criticism.  He teaches at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and is the poet-in-residence at Salem College.

Siham Karami lives in Northwest Florida, is a mother of five, and owns a technology recycling company. Her works have been published or will be published in 14 by 14, 4 and 20, Sonnetto Poesie, and The Whirlwind Review.

Laura Manuelidis is a physician/scientist who has investigated the shape of chromosomes and the causes of dementia. She has published poetry in various journals, including The Nation, Connecticut Review, Oxford Poetry, Innisfree Poetry, and Reflections (Yale journal), has been nominated twice for a Pushcart prize, and has read in European and American universities and other venues. Her book of poems, Out of Order, is available online; additional links (and readings with music by P. Jordan) are at: http://info.med.yale.edu/neurosci/faculty/manuelidis_poetry.html.

Grace Cavalieri is the author of 16 books and chapbooks of poems, as well as 23 produced full-length and short-form plays. Her newest publication is Millie's Sunshine Tiki Villas (2010, Casa Menendez).  Grace has founded and still produces "The Poet and the Poem" on public radio celebrating 34 years on-air.  It is recorded at the Library of Congress.   She holds the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, the Bordighera Poetry Prize, The Paterson Award for Excellence in Poetry, the CPB Silver Medal, Pen Center's Best Books List, plus others. Her play "Anna Nicole: Blonde Glory" opened in NYC in 2011.

Yvette Neisser Moreno is a poet and translator of Luis Alberto Ambroggio's Difficult Beauty: Selected Poems (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2009). A nominee for a Pushcart Prize and for the ALTA National Translation Award, she teaches at The George Washington University and The Writer's Center, in Bethesda, MD.

Patricia Bejarano Fisher has worked as a Spanish instructor, translator and language-learning materials developer. She taught college-level English in her native Colombia and Spanish at the University of Maryland, and has a Master's Degree in Linguistics.

Judith McCombs' poems appear in Calyx, Hunger Mountain, Poet Lore, Potomac Review (Poetry Prize), Prairie Schooner, Red Cedar Review, Sisters of the Earth, and Sow's Ear; Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Innisfree Poetry Journal; Feminist Studies, Nimrod (Neruda Award), Poetry, Poetry Northwest, River Styx, and her fifth book, The Habit of Fire: Poems Selected & New. She received the Maryland State Arts Council's highest 2009 award in Poetry. She teaches writing workshops at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD, and arranges a poetry series at Kensington Row Bookshop. 

Bruce Bennett is the author of nine books of poetry and more than twenty poetry chapbooks. His poems have appeared recently, or are forthcoming, in Ploughshares, 5 AM, Tar River Poetry, Fifth Wednesday Journal, and The Healing Muse. His most recent chapbook, a sonnet sequence entitled A Girl Like You, has just been published by Finishing Line Press. Bruce Bennett teaches literature and creative writing at Wells College, where he is Professor and Chair of English and Director of Creative Writing.

Laura Orem is a poet, essayist, and artist living in Red Lion PA. She holds an MFA from Bennington and teaches writing at Goucher College. She is a featured writer for The Best American Poetry Blog and is a senior editor for Toad Hall Press. Her poetry can be found in many journals, including recently in The Dos Passos Review and OCHO.

Brad Bisio studied Aerospace Engineering at Syracuse University for three years and graduated with a BA in English Literature from Humboldt State University. He was a performing musician while living in San Francisco and Colorado. Currently, he lives in Tennessee where he teaches Adult Education at Nashville State Community College. He received a certificate of achievement from the Nashville Adult Literacy Council in 2010.