Clare Rossini, a poet, has published three collections, the most recent of which is Lingo. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, the Kenyon Review, the Paris Review, and the Best American Poetry series, and it has been featured on NPR and the BBC. She teaches at Trinity College in Hartford.

Benjamin S. Grossberg’s latest collection is Space Traveler. His other books are Sweet Core Orchard, winner of the 2008 Tampa Review Prize and a Lambda Literary Award, and Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath.

Alan Michael Parker is the author of seven books of poetry, including Long Division, and three novels, including the forthcoming The Committee on Town Happiness. A Douglas Houchens Professor of English at Davidson College, he is core faculty in the Queens University low-residency MFA program.

Kelly Magee