Michael Catherwood's poetry has appeared in many magazines, including Agni, Black Warrior Review, Borderlands, Briar Cliff Review, Ecletica, Georgetown Review, Hawai'i Review, Kansas Quarterly, Laurel Review, Louisiana Literature, Mankato Poetry Review, Midwest Poetry Review, Midwest Quarterly, Nebraska Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Red River Review, South Dakota Review.  His first book of poems, Dare, was published by Backwaters Press in 2006.

John Surowiecki is the author of two books The Hat City after Men Stopped Wearing Hats (The Word Works, 2006 Washington Prize)  and Watching Cartoons before Attending a Funeral (White Pine Press, 2003). A third collection, Barney and Gienka (CW Books) will be published in the spring. In addition, he has written five chapbooks, while his Tapeworm Comics, a narrative poem in comic book form, will be published by Ugly Duckling Presse very soon, any day now, in fact. In recent years, John has won the Poetry Foundation Pegasus Award in verse drama for his play My Nose and Me: A TragedyLite or TragiDelight in 33 Scenes and the Nimrod Pablo Neruda Prize. He also took the silver in the Sunken Garden National Competition. Recent publications include: Alaska Quarterly Review, The Alembic, Cider Press Review, Margie, Nimrod, New Zoo Poetry Review, Oyez Review, Poetry, Redivider and West Branch. John was a featured reader at Cafe Muse in 2007 and at the Kensington Book Store in 2008.

Elisavietta Ritchie's 15 books include Real Toads; Awaiting Permission to Land; Spirit of the Walrus; Arc of the Storm; Elegy for the Other Woman; Tightening The Circle Over Eel Country; Raking The Snow; In Haste I Write You This Note; Flying Time.  A new collection will be out from Cherry Grove Collections in 2011. Editor, The Dolphin's Arc: Endangered Creatures of the Sea, and others; her work is widely published, translated, and anthologized. Ex-president for poetry, then fiction, Washington Writers' Publishing House.

E.M. Schorb's work has appeared in The American Scholar, The Formalist, The Dark Horse, The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review, The Yale Review, The Chicago Review, Carolina Quarterly, The Antioch Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Stand and Agenda in England, among others.  His collection of poems, Time and Fevers won the latest "Writer's Digest" Award for Self-Published Books in Poetry and received an Eric Hoffer Award for Excellence in Independent Publishing.  Another collection, Murderer's Day, was awarded the Verna Emery Poetry Prize and published by Purdue University Press. 

Mary Ann Larkin is a poet, writer, teacher, and former fund-raising and publications consultant.  The Coil of the Skin, a book of poems, was published by Washington Writers' Publishing House in 1982.  Publications also include four chapbooks:  White Clapboard, by Carol Allen of Philadelphia; The DNA of the Heart, with Patric Pepper, by Pond Road Press; A Shimmering That Goes with Us by Finishing Line Press; and gods & flesh, by Plan B Press in early 2007.  Her poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, New Letters, Poetry Greece and other magazines, as well as in more than twenty local and national anthologies, including America in Poetry, Ireland in Poetry, and Loving, a poetry and art series published by Harry Abrams of New York.  She has taught writing and literature in a number of colleges and universities, most recently at Howard University in Washington, D.C.  Her involvement with poetry includes co-founding the Big Mama Poetry Troupe, a group of feminist poets, who gave sixty performances from New York to Chicago in the seventies; giving numerous workshops and readings in schools, churches, jails and saloons; and writing for Foundation News, National Public Radio, and The Watershed Foundation, producers of literary radio programming.   In 2003, she and her husband, Patric Pepper, founded Pond Road Press, which published its third book in 2006: Tough Heaven: Poems of Pittsburgh by Jack Gilbert.  Larkin grew up in Pittsburgh and now lives in Washington, D.C., and North Truro, Massachusetts.

Rich Ives has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Trust, Seattle Arts Commission and the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines for his work in poetry, fiction, editing, publishing, translation and photography. His writing has appeared in Verse, North American Review, Massachusetts Review, Northwest Review, Quarterly West, Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many more. He published a three-volume series of the best of Northwest writing as well as an anthology of contemporary German poetry titled Evidence of Fire. He has published a limited edition collection of his own poetry and translated "Yesterday I Was Leaving" by Johannes Bobrowski. He is the 2009 winner of the Francis Locke Memorial Poetry Award from Bitter Oleander. His story collection, The Balloon Containing the Water Containing the Narrative Begins Leaking, was one of five finalists for the 2009 Starcherone Innovative Fiction Prize.

Janice D. Soderling is a former contributor to Innisfree. Her current and scheduled work appears in The Pedestal, Blue Unicorn, New Verse News, Soundzine, Concise Delight, Literary Mama, Left Hand Waving, Loch Raven Review, Lucid Rhythms, Unsplendid (USA), Anon, Lyric Poetry Magazine (Scotland), The Centrifugal Eye (Canada) Horizon Review, Borealis (England), The Flea, The Chimaera (Australia), and the recently released Best of Our Stories anthology. Her poetry was nominated by the Australia-based Shit Creek Review in 2009 for Dzanc Best of the Web, Sundance Best of the Net, and Pushcart. She lives in a small Swedish village.

Heather Hughes has been published in Cream City Review, Grain, Prick of the Spindle, Saw Palm, and Stirring. She keeps busy as curator of the Imagined Therefore Limitless

Readers' Series, editorial assistant at a scholarly publisher, dedicated yogi, and language learner. She would like to live in a lighthouse.

A.L.Rodenberg is a writer working in both poetry and fiction.  She graduated with a MA in Creative Writing from the University of Lancaster. Ms. Rodenberg's first published poem, "Apocrypha," appeared in Smiths Knoll in 2006 and will be included in an upcoming collaboration of poetry and art at the Tate Museum in London.  Her most recent adventures in prose include completing National Novel Writing Month and a digital fiction work-in-progress located at http://sites.google.com/site/shorehwy/apartment.  Ms. Rodenberg lives in a suburb of Washington, D.C.

Bonnie Maurer earned an MFA in poetry from Indiana University. She is the author of four small-press chapbooks: Reconfigured (Finishing Line Press, 2009); Ms. Lily Jane Babbitt Before the Ten O'clock Bus from Memphis Ran Over Her (Raintree Press and Ink Press, 2nd edition); Old 37: The Mason Cows (Barnwood Press); and Bloodletting: A Ritual Poem for Women's Voices (Ink Press).  She has poems forthcoming in War Literature & the Arts, and in an anthology:  And Know This Place: Poetry of Indiana.   Maurer has conducted creative writing/healing workshops for the homeless in recovery, for the HIV+/AIDS affected/infected population and for cancer patients at The Wellness Center.  She grew up in Indianapolis where she continues to live and work as a poet for Young Audiences of Indiana, as a copy editor for the Indianapolis Business Journal, and as an Ai Chi (aquatic flowing energy) instructor.

Paul Fisher's first book, Rumors of Shore, won the 2009 Blue Light Book Award, and is forthcoming in 2010.  Recent poems appear in Cave Wall, Centrifugal Eye, DMQ Review, Pedestal, Umbrella, Waccamaw, and various other publications. Paul is the recipient of an Individual Artist's Fellowship in Poetry from the Oregon Arts Commission, and a graduate of the MFA program at New England College. He lives in Bellingham, WA, with his wife, two cats and a dog. 

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.

Retired after a career of teaching high school and college in Norfolk, Virginia, Lynda Self now resides in the mountains of Western North Carolina.  Her poems have appeared in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, The New England Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Threepenny Review, and Innisfree Poetry Journal.  Recent poems will appear in forthcoming issues of The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Confrontation, and North Carolina Literary Review.

Tania Runyan's poems have appeared in Poetry, Atlanta Review, Indiana Review, The Christian Century, Willow Springs, Southern Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, and A Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare.  Her chapbook, Delicious Air, was awarded the 2007 Book of the Year Citation by the Conference on Christianity and Literature. Her first full-length collection of poetry will be published by WordFarm in 2011. When not writing, Tania spends her days tutoring high school students, playing various instruments, and chasing three kids around the house. Find Tania online at www.TaniaRunyan.com.

Doris Lynch's work appears in Bitter Oleander, Commonweal, and Tattoo Highway.  New work is forthcoming in Adirondack Review and Xanadu.  Her chapbook, Praising Invisible Birds, appeared from Finishing Line Press in November 2008.  The Indiana Arts Commission has awarded her three individual artist's grants: two for poetry and one for fiction.  She works as a reference librarian.

Bruce Bennett is the author of nine books of poetry and more than twenty poetry chapbooks. His most recent books are Something Like Karma (Clandestine Press, 2009) and Subway Figure (Orchises Press, 2009). A chapbook, Visitation: A Sequence of Sonnets (FootHills Publishing) came out in Spring 2009, and a new chapbook, The Holding Stone, will appear from Finishing Line Press in March 2010. His New and Selected Poems, Navigating The Distances (Orchises Press), was chosen by Booklist as "One Of The Top Ten Poetry Books Of 1999." Bennett co-founded and served as an editor of two poetry magazines, Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, and Ploughshares, and, during the 1980's and 90's, served as an Associate Editor for State Street Press. He has reviewed contemporary poetry books in The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. He teaches literature and creative writing at Wells College, where he is Professor and Chair of English and Director of Creative Writing.

Sharlie West was born and raised in Washington, D.C. She received her MA in English/Education from the George Washington University. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including: Pacific Coast Journal, California Quarterly, Passager, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Baltimore Review, Gargoyle, Minimus, Wordwrights!, Bogg, and Nth Degree.  She is the author of five poetry chapbooks, a novel, and several short stories. Sharlie and her husband, Jim, live in Silver Spring, Maryland.             

Claire McGoff lives in Silver Spring with her husband and six children. She has been a member of the Writer's Center for several years, participating in a number of workshops, including personal essay, memoir, and poetry.

Douglas Korb's poems have appeared in RHINO, 5AM, Poet Lore, Mannequin Envy, and elsewhere. He has held previous posts in poetry as National Poetry Month coordinator for the Academy of American Poets and as critic for GrowlerPoetry.org, a website dedicated to the reviewing of debut poetry collections. He holds a MFA in creative writing from Bennington College and his chapbook, The Cut Worm, won Bright Hill Press's 2006 chapbook award.

Phillip Calderwood's poems have appeared in The Chabot Review, The Berkeley Text, and A Magazine of Paragraphs.  He is originally from Northern California, where he received undergraduate degrees in English and history from UC Berkeley.  He moved to Maryland in 2004, completed a master's program in history at American University, and now works as an editor and content manager in the District of Columbia.

Christina Daub's recent work is included in the anthologies, Full Moon on K Street, edited by Kim Roberts, The Poet's Cookbook, edited by Grace Cavalieri, and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, edited by Billy Collins.  She teaches creative writing at George Washington University.

Jacklyn Potter's poetry and translations appeared in The Hollins Critic, The MacGuffin, Poets On, Plainsong, Poet Lore, The Washington Review, Stone Country, and Jazz a Go-Go (Warsaw, Poland). Her work was anthologized in Weavings 2000, Maryland Millenial Anthology; Hungry as We Are: An Anthology of Washington Area Poets (Washington Writers' Publishing House); Quiet Music: A Plainsong Reader's Anthology; If I Had My Life to Live Over, I'd Pick More Daisies, If I Had a Hammer: Women's Work in Poetry, Fiction and Photographs (Papier-Mache Press); the WPFW-FM Anthology (Bunny and Crocodile Press); and in The Stones Remember, Native Israeli Poetry (The Word Works). She was lead editor of Cabin Fever: Poets at Joaquin Miller's Cabin, 1984-2001 (The Word Works, 2003). In 1994, Delos, a journal of translations, featured her interview with Richard Harteis and William Meredith. In 1994-95, District Lines included her Spanish translations in a children's literary poster series on Washington Metro buses. Journey Proud: Southern Women's Writings (Carolina Wren Press) included her chapter about living on the Virginia Eastern Shore. For 22 years, she directed the Joaquin Miller Cabin Poetry Series, readings under the stars in Rock Creek Park. She received several fellowships from the D.C. Commission on the Arts. As a child, she performed as a singer on radio, television, and stage.

David Salner worked as an iron ore miner, steelworker, and machinist for 25 years.  His fourth collection of poetry, John Henry's Partner Speaks, appeared last spring. His work appears in recent or forthcoming issues of The Iowa Review, Isotope, and Southern Humanities Review.  His first published short fiction was nominated for this year's Pushcart Prize. He has been awarded grants from the Maryland State Arts Council and the Puffin Foundation and is currently working on a novel about the lives of hard-rock miners in the Old West.