Gregory Dunne is the author of two books of poetry Home Test and Fistful of Lotus. His nonfiction book Quiet Accomplishment: Remembering Cid Corman is forthcoming later this year. He is a professor at Miyazaki International College, Japan.

Alan Botsford is a professor at Kanto Gakuin University, Japan, and serves as editor of Poetry Kanto. He is author of the poetry collections mamaist: learning a new language and A Book of Shadows, and also of the hybrid essay-dialogue-poetry collection Walt Whitman of Cosmic Folklore.

Bern Mulvey's publications include the poetry book The Fat Sheep Everyone Wants and two chapbooks The Window Tribe and Character Readings. The former poetry editor of the Missouri Review, he is currently a professor at Iwate National University, teaching modern Japanese literature and writing.

Jeffrey Lependorf serves as the shared Executive Director of America's two national service organizations for independent literary publishing: the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) and Small Press Distribution.

Karen Gisonny is Helen Bernstein Librarian for Periodicals at the New York Public Library. She is curator of the Library's collection of small press books, contemporary poetry, and serials. She collaborates with CLMP and Academy of American Poets to host programs highlighting these collections.

Meredith Walters is the Director of Programs and Exhibitions for Brooklyn Public Library, where she oversees all cultural events, including film, music, and literary programs. Prior to joining BPL, she was Assistant Director of Public and Interpretive Programs at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

Brent Cunningham is the Operations Director for Small Press Distribution, where he has worked since 1999. Along with SPD’s other directors, he helped nearly double sales at the organization over the past decade. Last year he served as the point person for SPD’s NEA-funded library project.

Valerie Merians is the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.

Dennis Johnson is the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House and the founder of the book blog MobyLives.

Christopher Boucher is the author of the novel How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive and the managing editor of Post Road magazine. He teaches writing and literature at Boston College.

Jeremy P. Bushnell is the author of the novel The Weirdness and is the fiction editor for Longform.com. He teaches writing at Northeastern University in Boston.

Rachel Cantor is the author of the novel A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee's Guide to Saving the World and the forthcoming novel Door Number Two. She has published stories in the Paris Review, One Story, Kenyon Review, and New England Review.

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich's essays appear in The New York Times, Oxford American, Fourth Genre, TriQuarterly Online, and the anthology True Crime. She has received a Rona Jaffe Award and fellowships to the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. She lives in Boston and teaches at Grub Street and Harvard.

Nicholas Boggs is Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of English at NYU. His writing has appeared in PANK, Chelsea Station, Mary Literary, James Baldwin Now, Callaloo, and is forthcoming in the Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin and Best Gay Stories 2013.

Rebecca Morgan Frank is the author of Little Murders Everywhere, a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A recipient of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, she is an assistant professor at the University of Southern Mississippi and co-founder and editor of Memorious.org.

Courtney Maum is the humor columnist behind the "Celebrity Book Review" series on Electric Literature and a satirical advice columnist for Tin House. Her debut novel, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You is forthcoming in the summer of 2014. courtneymaum.tumblr.com @cmaum

Justin St. Germain is the author of the memoir Son of a Gun. He received his MFA from the University of Arizona and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. He is the Joseph M. Russo Professor at the University of New Mexico.

Kate Guthrie Caruso teaches writing and literature for community colleges in Denver, CO. She is also the designer/facilitator of a writing MOOC using game-based learning. In classes she explores landscapes such as digital storytelling, twitter, and hybrid fiction.

Andrea Spofford is assistant professor of poetry at Austin Peay State University. She teaches poetry workshop, literature, and both basic and standard composition with service-learning components, using hybrid genres throughout.

Cole Cohen is the Program Coordinator for UC Santa Barbara's Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. A 2011 finalist for the Bakeless Prize and  the AWP prize in Nonfiction, she was a Yaddo Fellow.

Johnny Jones is assistant professor of African American Studies at Austin Peay State University where he teaches theatre and composition. He designs curriculum with an emphasis on performance within contemporary African American culture.

Kristin Cerda teaches in various contexts, including for-profit universities, ESL classrooms, and writing workshops. A poet studying feminism and hybridity, she teaches rhetoric through popular music and food writing, focusing on personal narrative.

Brangien Davis is the arts editor at Seattle magazine. Previously, she has been a freelance arts writer, humor writing teacher, book editor, and founder of the literary magazine Swivel: The Nexus of Women and Wit. Her poetry and essays have appeared in the journals Rivet, Swink, Filter, and Arcade.

Nicole Hardy is the author of a memoir, Confessions of a Latter-day Virgin, and two poetry collections: This Blonde and Mud Flap Girl's XX Guide to Facial Profiling. One of her essays was "notable" in 2012's Best American series. She earned her MFA at the Bennington College Writing Seminars.

Suzanne Morrison is a writer and solo performer. Her first memoir, Yoga Bitch, has been translated into six languages, and her fiction and essays have been published in Salt Hill, Printers Row at The Chicago Tribune, the Huffington Post, and the anthology Going Om.

Lauren Weedman is an award-winning comedic actress, playwright, and author. Her book A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body-Tales From A Life of Cringe was named by Kirkus Review as a top ten Indie Book in 2007. She is currently at work on a forthcoming second collection of comedic personal essay.

Jenni B. Baker is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Found Poetry Review, as well as a practicing found poet. Her poetry has appeared in more than twenty publications. She is perpetually working on a manuscript of found poetry from David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, called Fest.

Beth Ayer is a Providence, Rhode Island-based poetry and short fiction writer and web editor. She is the senior poetry editor for Found Poetry Review.

E. Kristin Anderson is an author, poet, and editor. She is best known for her work on the Dear Teen Me anthology, and she has been published recently in PANK, Post Road, Asimov's, and the Futuredaze anthology.

Jerome Joseph Gentes taught literature, composition, and writing at Niagara University and Medaille College and with Just Buffalo Literary Center. He will participate in the 2013 International Research Society for Children’s Literature Conference. He was a 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee for poetry.

Luke Rolfes teaches writing and literature at Northwest Missouri State University. His fiction and nonfiction appear in literary journals around the country, and he is a past winner of the Robert C. Wright and Iron Horse Discovered Voices Award.

Nancy A. Parkes is a member of the faculty at The Evergreen State College, where she teaches Writing, Journalism, Sustainability Studies, and Public Policy. She was an award-winning journalist and writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Kristine Somerville’s visual and “found text” features appear regularly in the Missouri Review. Her short stories, nonfiction, and prose poems have been published in a variety of magazines, including the North American Review, Passages North, Quarterly West, and New Voices from the Academy of American Poets.

Richard Sonnenmoser is the co-editor of the Laurel Review. He's had fiction and poetry published in Harvard Review, West Branch, Permafrost, Crab Orchard Review, and MAYDAY magazine. His poetry chapbook, Science- Magic School, won the 2010 Midnight Sun Poetry Chapbook contest.

Jenny Yang Cropp is the author of the chapbook, Hanging the Moon. She received her MFA in creative writing from Minnesota State University - Mankato and is finishing a PhD in English at the University of South Dakota where she serves as an associate editor for South Dakota Review.

Dana Johnson is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Break Any Woman Down, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and Elsewhere, California.

David McGlynn is the author of the story collection, The End of the Straight and Narrow, and the memoir, A Door in the Ocean. His stories and essays have appeared in Men’s Health, The Huffington Post, Best American Sports Writing, and in numerous literary journals.

Michael Downs has published two books including The Greatest Show: Stories, and House of Good Hope, which won the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize. He has received fellowships from the NEA and the Maryland State Arts Council. He teaches creative writing at Towson University.

Tom Zoellner is an associate professor of English at Chapman University and the author of four nonfiction books, including the recently published Train: Riding the Routes that Created the Modern World.

Erika Meitner is the author of four books of poems, including Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls; Ideal Cities, which was a 2009 National Poetry Series winner; and the forthcoming collection Copia. She is an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech, where she teaches in the MFA program.

Isla McKetta is a novelist, book reviewer, and an internet marketer. Her latest project, a book of writing prompts co-authored with Rebecca Bridge, is forthcoming. She is on the board of Richard Hugo House.

Rebecca Bridge is a poet, essayist, and screenwriter. She is co-author of the forthcoming book Clean Out the Static in Your Attic, a collection of writing prompts and exercises. She has received many awards and fellowships.

Elissa Washuta, a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, is the author of a forthcoming memoir, My Body Is a Book of Rules. Her work has appeared in Filter and Third Coast. She serves as adviser and lecturer for the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington.

Ann Hedreen is a writer, teacher, filmmaker, and creator of the radio podcast and blog, The Restless Nest. She recently completed a memoir, Her Beautiful Brain. She and her husband Rustin Thompson have made more than 100 films and won many Emmys and other awards.

Jack Remick is a poet, novelist, and blogger. He edits and maintains bobandjackswritingblog.com with Robert J. Ray. He has taught writing at the University of Washington Distance Learning Program.

Ravi Shankar is Executive Director of Drunken Boat and the author/editor/publisher of eight books or chapbooks of poetry, including W.W. Norton & Co's Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the MIddle East & Beyond. He teaches at CCSU and City University of Hong Kong.

G.C. Waldrep’s most recent books are Your Father on the Train of Ghosts, a lyric collaboration with John Gallaher; The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral, co-edited with Joshua Corey; and a chapbook, Susquehanna. He teaches at Bucknell University and edits West Branch.

Arielle Greenberg is co-author of Home/Birth: A Poemic; author of My Kafka Century and Given; and co-editor of three anthologies, including Gurlesque. She teaches in the University of Tampa MFA and out of her home and writes a column on poetics for the American Poetry Review.

Melissa Tuckey's book Tenuous Chapel was chosen by Charles Simic for the 2012 ABZ First Book Poetry Prize. Her work has been recognized with support from DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, Ohio Arts Council, and by the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.

Marcella Durand’s most recent books are Deep Eco Pre, a collaboration with Tina Darragh; AREA; and Traffic & Weather, a site-specific poem written during a residency at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in downtown Manhattan.

Kathleen Alcala is the author of five books set in the Southwest and Mexico, including Spirits of the Ordinary and The Desert Remembers My Name. She has received the Western States Book Award, PNBA Award for Fiction, and the Governor's Writers Award. She teaches Creative Writing in Washington.

Anna Bálint is the author of three books. Her story collection Horse Thief was a finalist for the PNBA Book Award. Currently, she is working on a novel rooted in the Roma experience of the Holocaust. She is an editor for Raven Chronicles magazine.

Matt Briggs is the author of eight works of fiction including The Double E and Virility Rituals of North American Teenage Boys. His novel, Shoot the Buffalo, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and was awarded an American Book Award by the Before Columbus Foundation in 2006.

Donna Miscolta is the author of the novel When the de la Cruz Family Danced. Her short story manuscript has been a runner-up for the Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award and a finalist for the Grace Paley Prize. Her work was selected for inclusion in New California Writing 2013.

Carletta Carrington Wilson's poems, most recently, appeared in the Raven Chronicles, Cimarron Review, and Pilgrimage. Her exhibit, book of the bound, featuring collages and poems exploring text, textiles, and narratives of cloth was exhibited at the Northwest African American Museum.

David Fenza joined the staff as publications manager in 1988, when he began to engineer the remaking of the AWP Newsletter into the Writer's Chronicle. The first bookfair he organized for AWP featured 33 publishers at the 1989 AWP Conference in Philadelphia, which attracted 300 attendees. After becoming Executive Director of AWP in 1995, he initiated many of the improvements in AWP's governance, conference, and public outreach.

Fred Leebron has published essays, stories, and novels, co-edited anthologies, and co-written a textbook. He directs two MFA programs and a summer program, is an English professor at Gettysburg College, and a managing partner of Unboxed Books.

Andrew Levy is Edna Cooper Chair in English at Butler University, where he has served as MFA Director and is currently the English Department Head. He is the author of The First Emancipator, A Brain Wider Than The Sky, and co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction. His essays have appeared in Best American Essays.

Nadine Sabra Meyer's The Anatomy Theater won the National Poetry Series. Her poems have won the New Letters Prize for Poetry, the 2011 Meridian Editor's Prize, and a Pushcart Prize. New poems have appeared in the Missouri Review, Southwest Review, Literary Imagination, and Ploughshares.

Margaret MacInnis’s essays have appeared in Colorado Review, Gettysburg Review, and Mid-American Review. Her essays were named notable by Best American Essays 2007, 2009, and 2011. She was the 2007 William Raney Scholar in Nonfiction at Bread Loaf.

Brighde Mullins's twelve plays have been performed in New York, London, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Awards include a Guggenheim, Whiting, and NEA fellowships, and a United States Artists Award. She is the Director of MPW, a multi-genre creative writing program at the University of Southern California.

Lisa Katz, who taught most recently at Ben Gurion University, is the author of Reconstruction (poems), and translator from the Hebrew of Approaching You in English, Look There, and the forthcoming volumes Late Beauty and Suddenly the Sight of War: Hebrew Poetry and Nationalism in the 1940s.

Aron Aji translates Turkish literature, including works by Bilge Karasu, Murathan Mungan, and Elif Shafak. Member of the American Literary Translators Association, he is dean of arts & sciences at St. Ambrose University, and visiting professor in the MFA in translation at the University of Iowa.

Mira Rosenthal is the author of the The Local World, which won the Wick Poetry Prize. She has received fellowships from the NEA, PEN, the MacDowell Colony, and Stanford University, where she was a Stegner Fellow. She is the translator of Colonies and The Forgotten Keys, both by Tomasz Rozycki.

Andrea Lingenfelter is a poet, scholar, and translator of Chinese poetry and fiction (Farewell My Concubine, Candy, and The Changing Room: Selected Poetry of Zhai Yongming). She was awarded a 2014 NEA Translation Fellowship to support her translation of fiction by Hong Kong author Hon Lai Chu.

Benjamin Myers is a winner of the Oklahoma Book Award and the author of two books of poetry, including the recently published Lapse Americana. His poems may be read in Poetry Northwest, 32 Poems, and other journals. He teaches at Oklahoma Baptist University.

Tania Runyan is the author of Second Sky, A Thousand Vessels, Simple Weight, and Delicious Air, which was awarded Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature. Her poems have also appeared in several literary journals and anthologies and she received an NEA Literature Fellowship in 2011.

Brett Foster is the author of two poetry collections, The Garbage Eater and Fall Run Road. His writing has appeared in Boston Review, Image, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, Shenandoah, and Southwest Review. He teaches creative writing and Renaissance literature at Wheaton College.

Claire Bateman teaches part-time at the Fine Arts Center in South Carolina and is poetry editor of the St. Katherine Review. She is the author of seven poetry collections.

Michael Shou-Yung Shum is currently a PhD candidate at The University of Tennessee. His stories have appeared in The Doctor TJ Eckleburg Review, Barrelhouse, Weave, and Defunct.

Jaclyn Watterson's work has appeared in elimae, Fringe, PANK, and Western Humanities Review. She studies and teaches writing at the University of Utah and she works as a fiction editor for Quarterly West.

Tasha Matsumoto is a doctoral student at the University of Utah, where she teaches creative writing. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Ninth Letter, DIAGRAM, and the Collagist.

Raul Benjamin Moreno is a doctoral student at the University of South Dakota, where he teaches advanced writing courses and edits nonfiction for South Dakota Review. His essays and journalism have been published by The Normal School, The Millions, and NPR.

Meagan Cass is an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois Springfield, where she directs the creative writing program. Her fiction has recently appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, the Pinch, and Puerto Del Sol. She is an assistant editor for Sundress Publications.

Damian Dressick teaches writing at Robert Morris University. His work has appeared in nearly fifty literary journals, including failbetter.com, New Delta Review, Alimentum, McSweeney's (online), Caketrain, Smokelong Quarterly, and Contrary magazine.

Sara Henning is a doctoral student at the University of South Dakota, where she serves as managing editor for South Dakota Review. The author of two collections of poetry, A Sweeter Water and To Speak of Dahlias, her work appears in such journals as Verse, Willow Springs, and Crab Orchard Review.

Steve Pacheco is an author in the anthology Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets. He also served as guest editor for the Yellow Medicine Review. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at Southwest Minnesota State University, where he teaches writing and literature.

Naomi Long is the author of a chapbook, Radiant Field, and has published poems in Arts & Letters, Tinfish Journal, and Manoa. She works as a book editor in Los Angeles.

Sharon May researched the Khmer Rouge regime for Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Human Rights and co-edited In the Shadow of Angkor: Contemporary Writing from Cambodia. Her fiction has appeared in Best New American Voices, The Chicago Tribune, Manoa, and Tin House.

Shawna Yang Ryan is the author of Water Ghosts, and The Boston Globe has called her “a writer to watch.” A graduate of the Creative Writing Master’s program at UC Davis and a former Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan, she teaches at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.

Adele Ne Jame has published four books of poems, including Field Work and The South Wind. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and a Pablo Neruda prize for poetry. Her broadsides have been exhibited at the Sharjah, United Arab Emirates International Biennial.

Pat Matsueda is the managing editor of Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, and a recipient of the Elliott Cades Award for Literature. Her poetry collection Stray was published in 2006. She is also a freelance editor, typesetter, and book designer.

Summer Wood is the author of two novels, Arroyo and Raising Wrecker, which received a 2012 WILLA Award, is a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and a BookBrowse Editors’ Choice. She is the fourth recipient of the Literary Gift of Freedom from A Room of Her Own Foundation.

Melissa Remark served as associate editor of Bayou magazine at the University of New Orleans, where she is an MFA candidate.

Kate Hopper is the author of Ready for Air: A Journey Through Premature Motherhood and Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers. She teaches writing online and at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. She has been the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and a Sustainable Arts Grant.

Hope Edelman is the author of six nonfiction books, including the bestsellers Motherless Daughters, Motherless Mothers, and The Possibility of Everything. Her articles and essays have been published widely. She teaches at Antioch University-LA and in the Iowa Summer Writing Festival every July.

Bonnie J. Rough is the author of the 2011 Minnesota Book Award-winning memoir Carrier: Untangling the Danger in My DNA. She teaches in the Ashland University low-residency MFA program in nonfiction, and she is a prose editor for Versal.

Marybeth Holleman is author of The Heart of the Sound, co-author of Among Wolves, and co-editor of Crosscurrents North. A Pushcart-prize nominee, her essays, poems, and articles have appeared in such venues as Orion, Christian Science Monitor, The Future of Nature, and on National Public Radio.

Ryan Van Meter's essay collection, If You Knew Then What I Know Now, was published in 2011. His work has also appeared in journals and anthologies, including Best American Essays. A recent finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, he teaches at the University of San Francisco.

Megan Snyder-Camp's first poetry collection is The Forest of Sure Things. She has been awarded grants and residencies from the 4Culture Foundation, Bread Loaf, and Djerassi, and her work has been featured on the PBS NewsHour.

C.S. Giscombe teaches English at the University of California, Berkeley. His recent and forthcoming books include Prairie Style, Back Burner, and Into and Out of Dislocation. He is at work on a mixed-genre prose book titled Railroad Sense and a poetry book titled Plantation Songs.

Sean Hill is the author of Blood Ties & Brown Liquor and the forthcoming Dangerous Goods. His poems have appeared in Callaloo, Poetry, Tin House, and numerous other journals and anthologies. He is currently a visiting professor in the creative writing program at University of Alaska-Fairbanks.

Gregory Sherl is the author of four poetry collections: Glow, Monogamy Songs, The Oregon Trail is the Oregon Trail, and Heavy Petting. His debut novel, The Future For Curious People (in participation with Julianna Baggott), is forthcoming.

Laura Jensen has published poetry books and chapbooks and a broadside compilation. Linked to her blog, Spice Drawer Mouse, is work at Salt River Review. A poem was at the State Poet Laureate’s blog in 2012.

David Baker is a poet, critic, and editor whose recent books include Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems, and Never-Ending Birds, winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize. He is Poetry Editor of Kenyon Review and teaches at Denison University.

Kimberly Blaeser, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is the author of three books of poetry: Apprenticed to Justice, Absentee Indians and Other Poems, and Trailing You. She also edited two collections of Ojibwe writing: Stories Migrating Home and Traces in Blood, Bone, and Stone.

Troy Jollimore is the author of Tom Thomson in Purgatory, and At Lake Scugog, as well as two books of analytic philosophy. His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, McSweeney's, and Poetry. A poetry fellow at the 2012 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, he is also a 2013 Guggenheim fellow.

Julie Carr is the author of five books of poetry, most recently 100 Notes on Violence and Sarah-Of Fragments and Lines. RAG is forthcoming. She is also the author of Surface Tension: Ruptural Time and the Poetics of Desire in Late Victorian Poetry.

Dean Rader’s debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize, and his work appears in Best American Poetry 2012. He writes about and reviews poetry for The Rumpus, The San Francisco Chronicle, and the Huffington Post. He chairs the English Department at the University of San Francisco.

Cindy St. John is the author of I Wrote This Poem and several other chapbooks including Be the Heat and City Poems. She is editor of a poetry and art collaboration called Headlamp and co-curates a reading series called Fun Party.

Dan Boehl is founding editor of Birds, LLC, an independent poetry publisher, which put out his book Kings of the F**king Sea. He is editor of the First Four Books of Sampson Starkweather, a freelance arts writer, and he organizes an Austin-based reading series, Fun Party, with Cindy St. John.

Chris Tonelli is one of the founding editors of the independent poetry press, Birds, LLC. He also founded and curates the So & So Series and edits So & So magazine. He is the author of five chapbooks, most recently Increment, and his first full-length collection is The Trees Around.

Matthew Henriksen organizes the Burning Chair Readings, founded in Brooklyn and currently happening in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and he co-curates Vino and Verse at the 21C Museum in Bentonville. In 2008 he put together the Frank Stanford Literary Festival and plans for another in 2015.

Brittney Corrigan is the author of the poetry collection Navigation and the chapbook 40 Weeks. She is the poetry editor for the online journal Hyperlexia: poetry and prose about the autism spectrum. She is both an alumna and employee of Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

Lisa M. Steinman is the author of three books about poetry, most recently Invitation to Poetry, and six volumes of poetry, most recently Absence and Presence. Her work has received recognition from the NEA and the NEH. She teaches at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

Cathy Linh Che is the author of Split, the winner of the 2012 Kundiman Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown, Hedgebrook, Poets & Writers, and Poets House.

CJ Evans is the author of A Penance and The Category of Outcast, a chapbook selected by Terrance Hayes for the Poetry Society of America's Chapbook Fellowship. He is the recipient of the 2013 Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship and the editor of Two Lines Press.

Kristin Dykstra is professor of English at Illinois State University. A 2012 NEA Translation Fellow, she has translated books by Reina María Rodríguez, Omar Pérez, Juan Carlos Flores, and Ángel Escobar. She co-edits Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas /Nueva escritura de las Américas.

Tina Escaja is a writer, digital artist, and scholar based in Burlington, Vermont. She is the author of awarded poetry and fiction as well as experimental and multimedia works, including hypertext. Her digital artefacts have been exhibited in museums and galleries of Spain, Mexico, and the U.S.

Mariela Dreyfus is the author of six poetry books, most recently Cuaderno músico. She has translated into Spanish the poetry of Diane Wakoski, Allen Ginsberg, and Daniel T. Moran. She currently teaches poetry and literary translation in the MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish at New York University.

E.M. O’Connor has translated the poetry collection Fish by Mariela Dreyfus and the novel I Lived on Butterfly Hill by Marjorie Agosín. Her essays, poetry, and translations have appeared in various journals. She teaches Literature and Spanish at Lesley University and is writing her first novel.

Holly M. Wendt teaches writing and literature at Casper College and he is the director of the Equality State Book Festival. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared most recently in Hobart's baseball issue, The Classical, and the Rumpus.

Kathryn Henion’s fiction has appeared in the Briar Cliff Review, Confrontation, the MacGuffin, and RE:AL, and was a finalist in Writecorner Press’s short fiction contest. She earned a PhD in English from Binghamton University, where she served as editor of Harpur Palate.

Claire Hero is the author of four volumes of poetry, including Sing, Mongrel, afterpastures, and Dollyland. She teaches in the Creative Writing program at the State University of New York-New Paltz.

Deborah Poe’s books include the last will be stone, too, Hélène, Elements, and Our Parenthetical Ontology. She also co-edited Between Worlds: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction and Criticism. Her writing regularly appears in journals. She is assistant professor of English at Pace University.

Virginia Shank teaches at Irvine Valley College and writes poetry. Her work has appeared online and in print journals, including Oregon Literary Review, Rhino, and others. She has worked with several journals, including Fugue and Harpur Palate, and is working to resurrect The Ear in Southern California.

Valerie Vogrin is the author of a novel, Shebang and was awarded a Pushcart Prize in 2010. She is an associate professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville where she is prose editor of Sou’wester.

Kelcey Parker is the author of For Sale By Owner, a story collection, and Liliane's Balcony, a novella set at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater. Her current project is a collage biography of the Czech fairy tale writer Bozena Nemcova. She teaches at Indiana University South Bend.

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is author of the poetry collections Dog Road Woman, recipient of the American Book Award, and Off-Season City Pipe. Her other books include Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer, a memoir; and Blood Run, a verse-play. She is the editor of Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas, Effigies, and Effigies II.

Chad Simpson is the author of the story collection Tell Everyone I Said Hi. His work has appeared in McSweeney's Quarterly, Esquire, The Sun, American Short Fiction, and New Stories from the Midwest 2012. He teaches at Knox College.

Kellie Wells is the author of a collection of short fiction, Compression Scars, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award, and two novels, Skin and Fat Girl, Terrestrial. She teaches in the MFA programs at the University of Alabama and Pacific University.

Claire Kruesel studies Creative Writing and Environment, focus in poetry, at Iowa State University's MFA program. Her writing is informed by her work as a nationally certified yoga teacher and her scientific background, including degrees in Biochemistry and Genetics and graduate level labwork.

Stefanie Brook Trout edits nonfiction for Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment and teaches at Iowa State University. She writes environmental nonfiction and fiction that draws on her science and history backgrounds as well as her experiences as a first-generation American in the Midwest.

Audrey McCombs is currently an MFA candidate in the Creative Writing and Environment Program at Iowa State University. A writer of fiction and nonfiction, she has worked for many years in natural resources management.

Meg Brown is a nonfiction writer and scholar in the field of anthrozoology, focusing on animal-related subcultures and animal protection reform. She is a Master of Fine Arts candidate in creative writing and environment at Iowa State University.

Michelle Donahue is an MFA candidate in creative writing and environment at Iowa State, where she is the managing editor of Flyway Journal of Writing and Environment. A writer of fiction and poetry, her work has appeared in Whiskey Island, Paper Darts, and Redactions.

Zack Rogow is the author, editor, or translator of nineteen books or plays. His seventh book of poems is My Mother and the Ceiling Dancers. Currently he teaches in the low-residency MFA in writing program at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Cornelius Eady is the author of eight poetry collections including Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, winner of the 1985 Lamont Prize, and Brutal Imagination. He holds the Miller Chair at the University of Missouri and is co-founder of Cave Canem.

Kim Addonizio's most recent books are Lucifer at the Starlite and Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within. The Palace of Illusions, a collection of stories, is forthcoming from Counterpoint/Soft Skull. She teaches writing workshops in Oakland, California and online.

Toby Barlow is a graduate of the Great Books Program at St. John's College. He has worked in advertising in San Francisco, New York City, and now in Detroit. In 2005, he created The Billy Collins Action Poetry series. He is also the author of the award winning free verse novel Sharp Teeth. His latest novel is Babayaga.

Christine Lee Zilka is the fiction editor at Kartika Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals and anthologies such as ZYZZYVA, Guernica, Hyphen, and Men Undressed. Awarded a residency at Hedgebrook, she earned her MFA from Mills College.

Mat Johnson is the author of the novel Pym, the graphic novel Incognegro, and several other books. He is a recipient of the United States Artist James Baldwin Fellowship, The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Dos Passos Prize. He teaches at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.

Patricia Engel is the author of It's Not Love, It's Just Paris and Vida, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway and Young Lions Fiction Awards and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her stories have appeared in A Public Space, the Atlantic, Boston Review, Guernica, and Harvard Review.

Randa Jarrar is the author of the critically acclaimed novel A Map of Home. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Five Chapters, Guernica, the Oxford American, The New York Times magazine, the Utne Reader, Salon.com, and the Progressive. She is assistant professor at Fresno State's MFA program.

Susan Kiyo Ito co-edited the anthology A Ghost At Heart's Edge: Stories and Poems of Adoption and her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She has been a columnist and editor for the online journal Literary Mama. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto.

Ames Hawkins is an associate professor in the Department of English at Columbia College Chicago. Her most recent work appears in Polari, Water~Stone Review, Off the Rocks, and Interdisciplinary Humanities. Her essay, “Optickal Allusion,” was selected by Robert Atwan as a notable essay of 2011.

Barrie Jean Borich is the author of Body Geographic. Her previous book, My Lesbian Husband, won the American Library Association Stonewall Book Award. She’s a member of the creative writing faculty of the English Department and MA in Writing and Publishing Program of DePaul University in Chicago.

Mary Cappello is the author of four award-winning books, most recently, Swallow. With recent essays in the Georgia Review, Salmagundi, and Cabinet magazine, she is the recipient of The Bechtel Prize for Educating the Imagination, the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

K. Bradford is a poet, performer, and cultural worker whose work has appeared in literary journals and experimental performance venues. After teaching poetry and literature at Columbia College Chicago for nearly a decade, she is pursuing a dual MFA in Writing and in Art + Technology at CalArts.

Susan Harris is the editorial director of Words without Borders and the coeditor, with Ilya Kaminsky, of The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry.

Lawrence Schimel is an award-winning author and anthologist writing in both Spanish and English who has published over one hundred books in many different genres. He is also the publisher of A Midsummer Night's Press. He is a Spanish to English translator in Madrid.

Sholeh Wolpé was born in Iran and has lived in Trinidad, the UK, and the United States. Her publications include three collections of poetry, most recently, Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths, an award-winning book of translations, Sin, and three anthologies. She teaches at Stonecoast MFA program.

Geoffrey Brock is a poet and a translator of Italian poetry and prose. He's the author of Weighing Light: Poems, the editor of The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry, and the translator of Cesare Pavese's Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950. He teaches at the University of Arkansas.

Idra Novey is the author of Exit, Civilian, selected by Patricia Smith for the 2011 National Poetry Series, and The Next Country. Her work has appeared on NPR's "All Things Considered," in Poetry, and Slate. Her most recent translation is Clarice Lispector's The Passion According to G.H.

Sara Henning is a doctoral student at the University of South Dakota, where she serves as managing editor for South Dakota Review. The author of two collections of poetry, A Sweeter Water and To Speak of Dahlias, her work appears in such journals as Verse, Willow Springs, and Crab Orchard Review.

Jenny Yang Cropp is the author of one chapbook, Hanging the Moon. She is finishing a PhD in English at the University of South Dakota where she serves as an associate editor for South Dakota Review.

Jenn Crowell is the author of the critically-acclaimed novels Necessary Madness, Letting the Body Lead, and Etched On Me. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and she is a former Berlin Film Festival Talent Campus delegate in screenwriting.

Elizabeth Earley's stories and essays have appeared in Time Out magazine, Outside magazine, Fugue, Glimmer Train, and other publications. Her debut novel, A Map of Everything, is forthcoming.

Pamela Uschuk has authored seven poetry books, including Blood Flower (2014) and Wild In The Plaza of Memory & Crazy Love, winner of the 2010 American Book Award. Translated into twelve languages, her work has won awards from the National League of American PEN Women, New Millenium, Ascent, and Amnesty Intl. She edits Cutthroat.

Joy Harjo has authored the memoir Crazy Brave; four CDs of music; books for children and young adults; and seven collections of poetry, including In Mad Love and War, recipient of an American Book Award and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award. Her many honors include the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas, the Josephine Miles Poetry Award, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a Native American Music Award (NAMMY) for Best Female Artist of the Year.

Darlin’ Neal is author of the story collections Elegant Punk and Rattlesnakes & The Moon. She is an assistant professor of creative writing in the University of Central Florida’s MFA program.

Jeffrey Lependorf serves as the shared Executive Director of America's two national service organizations for independent literary publishing: the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) and Small Press Distribution.

Steph Opitz is the literary director of the Texas Book Festival, the fiction co-chair for the Brooklyn Book Festival, and the book reviewer for Marie Claire.

Katie Freeman is Associate Director of Publicity for Riverhead Books. She started in publishing at Pantheon Books, and has also worked at Farrar, Straus & Giroux. She serves as the publicity chair of the Brooklyn Book Festival and on the membership committee of PEN America.

Caroline Casey serves as Marketing and Sales Director at Coffee House Press and as a director at Unstuck.

Jane Friedman is web editor for Virginia Quarterly Review. She teaches digital publishing at the University of Virginia. Her expertise has been featured throughout many events and media, including NPR, SXSW, and BEA. She has also served on grant panels for the NEA and keeps a blog for writers at JaneFriedman.com.

Frances Dinger is one of the organizers for APRIL (Authors, Publishers, and Readers and Independent Literature), an annual literary festival in Seattle celebrating independent publishers and their authors. She also works as an environmental communicator.

Richard Nash is VP of Community and Content of Small Demons. From 2001 to 2009 he ran Soft Skull Press for which work he was awarded the AAP’s Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing in 2005. In 2010, the Utne Reader named him one of Fifty Visionaries Changing Your World.

Molly Gaudry is the author of the verse novel We Take Me Apart, which was named 2nd finalist for the 2011 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil. She teaches at the Yale Writers' Conference and is the creative director at The Lit Pub.

Jacob Perkins is a co-founder of Mellow Pages Library in Bushwick, NYC, which supplies residents of the area with a substantial collection of small and independently pressed books, as well as zines, journals, and philosophy titles. Mellow Pages is also destination for literary events and gatherings.

Kristiana Kahakauwila is the author of This is Paradise, a collection of short stories about Hawai`i, which was selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program and Target’s Emerging Author program. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Western Washington University.

Keala Francis is a creative writer, freelance journalist, and PhD student at UH Manoa. She has won awards for her fiction and her short story, “Language Glass,” was recently published in the journal Essays & Fictions.

Robert Barclay is the author of the novel Melal, which was short-listed for the 2003 Kiriyama Prize and selected by Barnes and Noble for its Discover Great New Writers program. He has also written Hawai`i Smiles: Island Stories. He is a professor of English at Windward Community College.

Rachel M. Simon is the author of the poetry collection Theory of Orange and the chapbook Marginal Road. She teaches writing, gender studies, and film classes at SUNY Purchase College, Pace University, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, Poets House, and others.

Chloe Yelena Miller is the author of Unrest, a poetry chapbook. Her work has been published in Narrative and the Cortland Review among others. She teaches writing at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., online at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and privately.

Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir, Whip Smart. Her work has been widely published and anthologized, and she has been featured in venues ranging from NPR’s "Fresh Air" to "Anderson Cooper Live." She is assistant professor of English at Monmouth University.

Kamilah Aisha Moon is the author of She Has a Name. Widely published in journals and anthologies, she is the recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Fine Arts Work Center, and Cave Canem. She teaches poetry and creative writing for schools, colleges, and diverse organizations.

Alex Samets holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is an educator and activist teaching composition and literature at Bay Path College. With Jules Rosskam, she is co-writer of the film Thick Relations.

Micol Ostow has written many books for teens, including the Sydney Taylor Notable So Punk Rock (and Other Ways to Disappoint Your Mother). She spent eight years as a young adult editor, and she currently runs a teen writing workshop at MediaBistro.com.

Stephanie Kuehnert is the author of two young adult novels, Ballads of Suburbia and I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone. A writer for Rookie magazine, she has taught fiction writing to teens, undergraduate and graduate students, and working professionals.

Laurel Snyder is the author of five children's novels, six picture books, and two collections of poems. She has published essays in such places as Salon, The Boston Globe, and the Utne Reader, and she is a commentator for NPR's All Things Considered.

Sara Zarr is the author of five novels for young adults. A National Book Award finalist and two-time Utah Book Award winner, she is currently on the faculty of Lesley University’s Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program.

Nova Ren Suma is the author of the YA novels Imaginary Girls and 17 & Gone. She has received fellowships from NYFA, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Djerassi, the Millay Colony, and the Hambidge Center. She teaches YA writing with Mediabistro.

Amorak Huey spent fifteen years as a reporter and editor before leaving the newspaper business to teach writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. His poetry appears in The Best American Poetry 2012 and many print and online journals.

Shaindel Beers's poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have been published in numerous anthologies and journals. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections, A Brief History of Time and The Children's War and Other Poems. She also serves as poetry editor of Contrary.

L.S. Klatt's first collection of poems, Interloper, won the Juniper Prize for Poetry. His second book, Cloud of Ink, won the Iowa Poetry Prize. His lyric poem “Andrew Wyeth, Painter, Dies At 91” was anthologized in Best American Poetry 2011 and made into a 90-second animated film.

Judy Halebsky's book of poems, Sky=Empty, won the New Issues Prize and was a finalist for the California Book Award. The MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, and the Japanese Ministry of Culture have supported her work. She teaches creative writing at Dominican University of California.

Jill Alexander Essbaum is the author of several collections of poetry including Heaven, Harlot, and Necropolis. Her poems have appeared Poetry, the Christian Century, Gulf Coast, and Smartish Pace. She teaches in the UCR Palm Desert low-residency MFA program.

Sarah Tomlinson has ghostwritten eight books, including two un-credited New York Times best sellers. Her journalism and essays have appeared in publications including Marie Claire, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, the Huffington Post, and Salon. Her father-daughter memoir is forthcoming.

Alysia Abbott is the author of Fairyland, A Memoir of My Father. Her essays have appeared in Real Simple, Salon, Marie Claire, Vogue, and TheAtlantic.com. She was a contributing producer at WNYC radio.

Jennie Ketcham is an author, public speaker, graduate student, and former porn star who tackled her daddy issues on VH1 shows with Dr. Drew and in her book, I Am Jennie.

Tracy McMillan is a screenwriter, author, and television and radio personality. Her television credits include Mad Men and United States of Tara. She is the author of Why You're Not Married... Yet, and I Love You and I'm Leaving You Anyway. She recently appeared on the NBC show, Ready For Love.

Alison Wearing is an award-winning writer and performer. Her most recent project, Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter: growing up with a gay dad, is both a one-woman show and a memoir.

Jehanne Dubrow is the author of four poetry collections, including most recently Red Army Red and Stateside. She is the director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House and an assistant professor of creative writing at Washington College.

Michelle Chan Brown is the author of Double Agent. A Kundiman fellow, she has received scholarships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and others. She was a Rackham fellow in the University of Michigan's MFA program and poetry editor of Drunken Boat.

Michael Dumanis is the author of the poetry collection My Soviet Union, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry; and the coeditor of Russell Atkins: On the Life & Work of a Lost American Master and Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. He is a professor at Bennington College.

John Drury is the author of three poetry collections: The Refugee Camp, Burning the Aspern Papers, and The Disappearing Town. He teaches at the University of Cincinnati.

Jacob Shores-Arguello is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Ukraine, the Dzanc Books ILP International Literature Award, and the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship in Provincetown. His manuscript, In The Absence of Clocks, was awarded the 2011 Crab Orchard Series Open Competition.

Stephen Corey is the editor of the Georgia Review, with which he has worked in various roles since 1983. He is the author of nine poetry collections, most recently There Is No Finished World. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in a range of periodicals since 1975.

Gary Thompson studied with Richard Hugo, and later taught in the writing program at CSU, Chico. His books of poems include One Thing After Another, To the Archaeologist Who Finds Us, and On John Muir's Trail. As co-editor of Cedar House Books, he published Ripley Hugo's On the Right Wind in 2008.

Frances McCue is a poet, prose writer, and Arts Instigator. The Founding Director of Richard Hugo House from 1996-2006, she is the author of The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs (about Richard Hugo) and two poetry collections, The Bled and The Stenographer's Breakfast.

Patricia Clark is Poet-in-Residence and Professor in the Department of Writing at Grand Valley State University. Author of four volumes of poetry, Her latest book is Sunday Rising. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Gettysburg Review, Slate, Stand, and the Galway Review.

M.L. Smoker, Assiniboine & Sioux, holds an MFA from the University of Montana in Missoula, where she was the recipient of the Richard Hugo Fellowship. Her collection of poems, Another Attempt at Rescue, was published in 2005. She most recently co-edited an anthology of human rights poetry, I Go to the Ruined Place.

Suzanne Berne is the author of a memoir, Missing Lucile, and three novels: The Ghost at the Table, A Perfect Arrangement, and A Crime in the Neighborhood, winner of the 1999 Orange Prize. She teaches creative writing at Boston College and at the Ranier Writing Workshop.

Ann Pancake is author of the novel Strange As This Weather Has Been and the story collection Given Ground. Her awards include a Whiting Award, an NEA grant, and a Bakeless Prize, and her work has appeared in Orion, among other journals. She teaches at Pacific Lutheran University.

Melanie Rae Thon's most recent books are the novel The Voice of the River and In This Light: New and Selected Stories. She teaches in the Creative Writing and Environmental Humanities programs at the University of Utah.

Joanna Luloff is the author of the short story collection The Beach at Galle Road. Her stories have appeared in the Missouri Review, Confrontation, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor at SUNY Potsdam.

Mark Brazaitis is the author of six books, including The Incurables: Stories, winner of the 2012 Richard Sullivan Prize and The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala, winner of the 1998 Iowa Short Fiction Award. He is a professor of English at West Virginia University.

Tyler McMahon is the author of the novel How the Mistakes Were Made. His short work has appeared in Threepenny Review, Antioch Review, and the Rumpus. He studied at the University of Virginia and Boise State University. He teaches writing at Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu.

Peter Chilson teaches writing and literature at Washington State University. He has written three books on West Africa. In 2012, on assignment for Foreign Policy magazine, he was one of the first Western journalists to travel the new border with the short-lived jihadist state in northern Mali. 

Susi Wyss’s book of fiction set across Africa, The Civilized World, received the Maria Thomas Fiction Award from Peace Corps Writers and was called a Book to Watch For by Oprah magazine. She earned her writing degree from Johns Hopkins and works for Jhpiego, an international health organization.

Kelli Russell Agodon is the author of four poetry collections, including Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room and Hourglass Museum, forthcoming in 2014. She is the editor of Crab Creek Review and the co-founder of Two Sylvias Press.

Susan Rich is author of four books of poetry, including Cloud Pharmacy and The Alchemist’s Kitchen, and co-editor of The Strangest of Theatres: Poets Writing Across Borders. A recipient of awards from the Times Literary Supplement and Fulbright Foundation, she teaches at Highline Community College

Elizabeth Austen’s poetry collection Every Dress a Decision was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She is the literary producer for NPR-affiliate KUOW 94.9 and was the 2007 Washington State Roadshow Poet. She teaches at Richard Hugo House.

Sarah Callender is a 4Culture grant recipient and a graduate of Artist Trust’s EDGE Professional Development Program for Writers. She blogs regularly at Writer Unboxed and her personal blog, Inside-Out Underpants. She is at work on her second novel.

Janna Cawrse Esarey is author of the memoir The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers, and a Woman’s Search for the Meaning of Wife. A 2008 Jack Straw Writer, she has taught at Richard Hugo House, the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, and the Whidbey Island Writers Conference.

Kate Pullinger writes novels, short stories, and collaborative multimedia digital fiction. Her forthcoming novel is Landing Gear. Her best known digital work is Inanimate Alice. She is professor of creative writing and digital media at Bath Spa University, England.

Michelle Toth is a member of the board of directors of Grub Street. She is also the founder of SixOneSeven Books, a small press based in Boston, and the author of the novel Annie Begins. She is a human capital professional by day.

Eve Bridburg is the founder and Executive Director of Grub Street. She is also an at-large literary agent with ZSH literary agency, where she has edited and sold bestselling and award-winning nonfiction and fiction.

Nadine Pinede is the author of An Invisible Geography, poems of place and displacement. Her work has appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review, Haiti Noir, and Becoming: What Makes a Woman. An Elizabeth George and a Brown Foundation fellow, she serves on the board of the Hurston/Wright Foundation.

Kim Stafford is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, including 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared; The Muses Among Us; and Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford. He directs the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College.

Ana Maria Spagna is the author of two essay collections, Now Go Home and Potluck, and the history/memoir Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus, winner of the River Teeth literary nonfiction prize. She is assistant director of the MFA program at Northwest Institute of Literary Arts.

Anna Bálint is the author of three books. Her story collection Horse Thief explores intersections of lives and cultures and was a finalist for the PNBA Book Award. Currently, she is working on a novel rooted in the Roma experience of the Holocaust. She is an editor for Raven Chronicles magazine.

Danielle Legros Georges is a poet, essayist, and associate professor at Lesley University. She is the author of a book of poems, Maroon.

Brook Wilensky-Lanford is author of Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden. Her essays appear in The San Francisco Chronicle, Guernica, and Lapham's Quarterly. She received an MFA from Columbia University, and she teaches in the Writing Center at Baruch College, City University of New York.

Andrea Pitzer is the author of The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov. Her writing has appeared in Poet Lore, and Slate, USA Today, and other magazines. She is the founder and former editor of Nieman Storyboard, the narrative nonfiction website of Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism.

Ellen F. Brown is co-author of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood, a Publishers Weekly top pick. An award-winning freelance journalist, she sits on the boards of the Library of Virginia Foundation and James River Writers.

Kristin Swenson, PhD, is the author of Bible Babel: Making Sense of the Most Talked About Book of All Time and Living Through Pain: Psalms and the Search for Wholeness. A visiting associate professor at the University of Virginia, she is also affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University.

Colin Dickey is the author of Afterlives of the Saints: Stories from the Ends of Faith and Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius. He is a regular contributor to Lapham’s Quarterly and the LA Review of Books, among other publications.

Merna Hecht, storyteller, poet, and essayist teaches creative writing and humanities at the University of Washington, Tacoma and directs the Stories of Arrival Poetry Project with immigrant and refugee youth. Her forthcoming book is on using storytelling and poetry with young people facing trauma and loss.

Hamdi Abdulle, Somali poet and scholar, directs Seattle’s Somali Youth and Family club. She spearheaded the acclaimed Community Café model. She is a leader in bringing about social change and strengthening families for East African communities and a dedicated advocate for human rights for refugees.

Marge Pellegrino is an award-winning writer and workshop facilitator who has provided writing and expressive arts workshops for children and caregivers of the incarcerated, refugee families impacted by torture, at-risk youth, youth in detention, Native American youth and elders, and mainstream folks.

J.L. Powers is the author of several young adult novels, including The Confessional, This Thing Called the Future, and most recently, Amina. She is also the editor of the anthologies That Mad Game: Growing Up in a Warzone and Labor Pains and Birth Stories. She blogs at www.jlpowers.net.

Lyn Miller-Lachmann is the author of the young adult novels Gringolandia and Rogue. She has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. The former editor of MultiCultural Review, she currently reviews books on social justice themes for The Pirate Tree and blogs at www.lynmillerlachmann.com.

Robby Nadler is a doctoral student at the University of Georgia. He also holds degrees and fellowships from UCLA, University of Montana, University of Auckland, and Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He is the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship and the 2010 Discovered Voice Award from the Iron Horse Literary Review.

Dan Rosenberg's first book, The Crushing Organ, won the 2011 American Poetry Journal Book Prize. His translation, with Boris Gregoric, of Miklavz Komelj's Hippodrome is forthcoming. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and UGA PhD student, he co-edits Transom.

Gale Marie Thompson is the author of Soldier On and the chapbooks Expeditions to the Polar Seas and If You're a Bear, I'm a Bear. She lives in Athens, Georgia, where she edits Jellyfish magazine and works at the Georgia Review.

Marni Ludwig is the author of Pinwheel and Little Box of Cotton and Lightning. She holds degrees from Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, and Washington University in St. Louis.

Ellen Cassedy is the author of We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust, which won the Grub Street National Nonfiction Prize, a Prakhin International Literary Foundation Award, and the Towson Prize for Literature last year.

Sheri Joseph is an NEA fellow, winner of the Grub Street National Book Prize, and the author of three books of fiction: Where You Can Find Me, Stray, and Bear Me Safely Over. She teaches in the creative writing program at Georgia State University and serves as fiction editor of Five Points.

Rick Barot has published two volumes of poetry: The Darker Fall and Want. He teaches at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

Rahna Reiko Rizzuto is the author of Hiroshima in the Morning and Why She Left Us. A U.S./Japan Creative Artist Fellow; Hedgebrook alumna; and Goddard College faculty member. She has been interviewed on The Today Show, 20/20, and The View. Her articles have been published globally.

Christopher Castellani is the author of three novels, most recently All This Talk of Love, and numerous essays on writing. He is the artistic director of Grub Street and on the faculty of the MFA program at Warren Wilson and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.

Miguel M Morales, a former migrant farmwoker, is a Latino Writers Collective board member, a founding member of Fabulous Queer Writers, and a Lambda Literary Fellow. His work is featured in Primera Página, Cuentos del Centro, From Macho to Mariposa, and Joto: An Anthology of Queer & Chicano Poetry.

José Faus is a Kansas City, Missouri, resident, writer, and visual artist. He is a founding member of the Latino Writers Collective and president of the board of the Writers Place. He is also a youth advocate and community worker.

Maria Vasquez Boyd is a painter/artist/writer and founding member of the Latino Writers Collective in Kansas City Missouri. Her work is published in Primera Pagina, Cuentos Del Centro, Everyday Other Things, Salit magazine, America Now, and Here Kansas City Renga.

Gabriela Ybarra Lemmons's work appears in Primera Pagina: Poetry from the Latino Heartland, Cuentos: Stories from the Latino Heartland, and NewBorder: Contemporary Voices from the US/Mexico Border. She is a co-founder and current president of the LWC.

Kristen Millares Young is a freelance reporter for The New York Times and was researcher for Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek, which won a Pulitzer Prize and a Peabody Award in 2013. Hailed by The Stranger as one of the fresh new faces in Seattle fiction, she is writing her first novel.

Jonathan Evison is the author of three award-winning novels: All About Lulu, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, and the New York Times best-selling, West of Here. He is currently at work on novels four and five: Harriet Chance and The Dreamlife of Huntington Sales.

Karen Maeda Allman has worked as a bookseller and author events co-coordinator at the Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, Washington since 1999. Each month, Elliott Bay hosts and co-promotes over fifty author events both at the bookstore and at a variety of other Seattle locations.

Rachel Fershleiser heads publishing outreach at Tumblr. She has been Community Manager at Bookish and Events Director at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe. She’s co-creator of Six-Word Memoirs and co-editor of the New York Times best seller Not Quite What I Was Planning and three other books.

Jarret Middleton is the author of An Dantomine Eerly and other fiction. He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Dark Coast Press and the imprint Pharos Editions in Seattle, Washington.

Anton Dudley's plays have been produced Off-Broadway and at major regional theaters around the country. A finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Drama, he has received new play commissions from Manhattan Theater Club, Cherry Lane Theater, and Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Kellen Blair is the co-creator of Murder For Two, the murder mystery musical comedy that debuted off-Broadway at Second Stage Uptown in 2013. In 2011 he received the Joseph Jefferson Award recognizing Murder For Two as the Best New Musical Work in Chicago.

Charlie Sohne has written several musicals as both a bookwriter and a lyricist. His shows have been seen at The O'Neill, New York Stage and Film, and the Yale Institute for Music Theater. His songs have been seen at Second Stage, Joe's Pub, and 54 Below. He teaches as part of Lincoln Center's SISP.

Douglas Unger is the author of four novels, including Leaving the Land, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book is Looking for War and Other Stories. He is cofounder of the Creative Writing International Program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Sam Hamill co-founded Copper Canyon Press and was editor for thirty-two years. He has published forty books of poetry, translations mostly from Chinese and Japanese, and essays. In 2003, he founded Poets Against the War. His Habitation: Collected Poems was published in January 2014.

Shaun Griffin is the author of four books of poetry, most recently This Is What the Desert Surrenders, New and Selected Poems. He recently edited a book of essays on the late poet and critic, Hayden Carruth: From Sorrow’s Well.

Lee Briccetti has been the executive director of Poets House since 1989. Under her leadership, the annual Showcase and Poetry in the Branches were developed and became signature programs, and Poets House mounted a successful capital campaign and construction project, moving to its permanent home.

Malena Morling is the author of two books of poems, Ocean Avenue and Astoria. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. She teaches at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington and in the Low-Residency MFA Program at New England College.

Christian Moody's fiction has been published in Esquire, Best American Fantasy, Best New American Voices, and Cincinnati Review. He teaches at Centre College and has been in residency at Yaddo.

Tessa Mellas's debut story collection Lungs Full of Noise won the Iowa Short Fiction Prize. She is the Distinguished Visiting Fiction Writer at Bowling Green State University this spring.

Alexander Lumans is co-editor of Apocalypse Now, an anthology of fabulist writers confronting environmental crises. His fiction is in StoryQuarterly, Gulf Coast, and Cincinnati Review. He received fellowships to MacDowell Colony, Blue Mountain, and ART342.

E. Lily Yu received the 2012 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She was a finalist for the 2012 Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. Her short fiction has appeared in Boston Review, Kenyon Review Online, and the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year.

Matt Bell is the author of the novel In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods, as well as two other books, How They Were Found and Cataclysm Baby. He is an assistant professor in the Creative Writing program at Northern Michigan University.

Heidi Lynn Staples is the author of four published works, including her latest poetry collection, Noise Event, and an illustrated memoir, Take Care Fake Bear Torque Cake. She is Assistant Professor of English and co-director of the creative writing track at Piedmont College in Georgia.

Lucy Ives is the author of the books Anamnesis and Orange Roses. Her poems have appeared in the Colorado Review, Conjunctions, Fence, Ploughshares, Volt, and 1913. A deputy editor at Triple Canopy, she is co-editor of Corrected Slogans: Reading and Writing Conceptualism.

Kathleen Jesme is the author of five collections of poetry, including Albedo, Meridian, and The Plum-Stone Game.

Rusty Morrison's books of poetry include After Urgency, winner of the Dorset Prize; the true keeps calm biding its story, winner of several awards including the Sawtooth Prize and Academy of American Poets’ James Laughlin Award; and Whethering, which won the Colorado Prize for Poetry. She is co-publisher of Omnidawn.

Stephanie Strickland has published seven books of  poetry, most recently Dragon Logic, and collaborated on seven electronic poems, most recently Sea and Spar Between, a poetry generator. Her forthcoming work is V: WaveTercets / Losing L’una, with an accompanying app for mobile devices.

Mary F. Rockcastle is the author of the novels In Caddis Wood and Rainy Lake. She is director of The Creative Writing Programs at Hamline University and the founding and executive editor of Water~Stone Review. Her awards include a Loft-McKnight Award of Distinction in Prose and a Bush Fellowship.

Stan Sanvel Rubin is director of the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA at Pacific Lutheran University. He has published six collections of poetry and The Post-Confessionals, a selection from his widely published interviews with writers. Awards include the Barrow Street Book Prize. He writes essay-reviews for Water-Stone Review.

David Ingle is assistant editor at the Georgia Review. In addition to helping select and solicit poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction manuscripts, he is also primarily responsible for the assignment and editing of book reviews that are published in the magazine.

Jocelyn Bartkevicius teaches creative writing at the University of Central Florida and is editor of the Florida Review. Her work has appeared in Bellingham Review, the Hudson Review, Fourth Genre, Missouri Review, Sweet, and Gulf Coast. She is completing a memoir, The Emerald Room.

Dominic Luxford edited The McSweeney’s Book of Poets Picking Poets, and co-edited Open the Door: How to Excite Young People about Poetry. He edits poetry for the Believer magazine and is a founding editor of the McSweeney’s Poetry Series.

Kate Gale, managing editor Red Hen Press writes poetry, memoir, creative nonfiction, and librettos.

Jeff Shotts is executive editor at Graywolf Press, where he acquires and edits poetry, creative nonfiction, literary criticism, and translation.

Joshua Edwards directs and co-edits Canarium Books. He is the author of two poetry collections, Imperial Nostalgias and Campeche, and the translator of Mexican poet Maria Baranda's Ficticia.

Gregory Donovan is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection Torn from the Sun, as well as Calling His Children Home. He directs the MFA in Creative Writing program at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he is also senior editor of the online journal Blackbird.

Kathleen Graber is the author of two collections of poetry, The Eternal City and Correspondence. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Virginia Commonwealth University and the low residency MFA Program at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Clint McCown is the author of eight books. He teaches in the MFA program at Virginia Commonwealth University and in the Vermont College of Fine Arts low-residency MFA program.

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher is author of Descanso For My Father: Fragments Of A Life. His award-winning essays have appeared in numerous journals including New Letters, Fourth Genre, and the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction. He teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Sheri Reynolds is the author of six novels: Bitterroot Landing, The Rapture of Canaan, A Gracious Plenty, Firefly Cloak, The Sweet In-Between, and The Homespun Wisdom of Myrtle T. Cribb. She teaches at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, where she holds the Morgan Chair of Southern Literature.

Matt Hart is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless and Debacle Debacle. A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety, he teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

Steve Dickison directs the Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University, and teaches there and at California College of the Arts. He co-edited Shuffle Boil, a magazine of poets and music with David Meltzer, and he is author of Disposed (poetry) and Wear You to the Ball.

Julia Bloch is the author of Letters to Kelly Clarkson, a poetry finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; coeditor of the poetics journal Jacket2; and associate director of the Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia. She holds an MFA from Mills College and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.

Harmony Holiday is the author of Negro League Baseball, winner of the Motherwell Poetry Prize. She runs a boutique production house devoted to the crossing between archiving, improvisation, myth, and black music.

Jeffrey Sirkin has written on the role of popular music in postmodern literature, and his poetry can be found in numerous journals. He is assistant professor in the Creative Writing Department at University of Texas El Paso, where he co-curates the Dishonest Mailman Reading Series.

rebecca brown is a poet. She has facilitated numerous community and school-based conversation circles for upwards of eight years.

Liz London is a fiction writer and trained facilitator. Since 2011 she has been a Book Group Leader at Literature for All of Us, a literary arts organization for youth in Chicago. She has also worked for several years as a dialogue facilitator for an international, conflict resolution youth program.

VersAnnette Blackman is a performance poet, playwright, and a social justice advocate for ending violence against women. She joined the Literature for All of Us family in 2009.

Stefania Heim is author of A Table that Goes on for Miles. Founding Editor of CIRCUMFERENCE: Poetry in Translation, she teaches at Columbia, Hunter, and Deep Springs College.

Don Mee Choi is the author of The Morning News Is Exciting and the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award. She also translates contemporary Korean women’s poetry and has recently received the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize for All the Garbage of the World, Unite! by Kim Hyesoon.

Jen Hofer is a poet, translator, interpreter, and co-founder of Antena, dedicated to language justice and literary activism. Her latest poetry translations are Ivory Black by Myriam Moscona and books by Dolores Durantes. Her hand-stitched poems include "Shroud" (w/Jill Magi) and "The Missing Link."

Jennifer Scappettone is the author of From Dame Quickly and of several chapbooks. Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli, which she translated, was awarded the Raiziss/De Palchi Book Prize by the Academy of American Poets. She is associate professor at the University of Chicago.

Jennifer Kronovet is the author of the poetry collection Awayward and the co-translator of In Her White Wake, the selected poems of Yiddish writer Celia Dropkin. She co-founded Circumference, the journal of poetry in translation.

Lorraine Berry is associate editor at Talking Writing. She is a frequent contributor at Salon, a featured writer at Byliner, and her work has appeared in Diagram, Flavorwire, The Raven Chronicles, you are here, and Slow Trains. She is Project Director for NeoVox at SUNY Cortland.

Roxane Gay is the author of three books, Ayiti, an Untamed State, and Bad Feminist. She has had work in Best American Short Stories 2012, Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, and New York TImes Book Review. She is the co-editor of PANK and teaches at Eastern Illinois University.

Amy Hoffman is the author of Lies About My Family. Her other memoirs are Hospital Time and An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News. She is editor of Women's Review of Books and teaches creative nonfiction in the Solstice low-residency MFA program at Pine Manor College.

Aimee Phan is the author of two books of fiction: We Should Never Meet and The Reeducation of Cherry Truong. She has received fellowships from the NEA, the MacDowell Arts Colony, and Hedgebrook. She currently chairs the MFA Writing Program at California College of the Arts.

Mat Johnson is the author of the novel Pym, the graphic novel Incognegro, and several other books. He is a recipient of the United States Artist James Baldwin Fellowship, The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Dos Passos Prize. He teaches at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.

Teresa Carmody is the author of the short story collection Requiem and three chapbooks: I Can Feel, Eye Hole Adore, and Your Spiritual Suit of Armor by Katherine Anne. She is the co-founding director of Les Figues Press in Los Angeles.

Joshua S. Raab is editor, creative director, and carnival master for the Newer York Press. His aim in life is to publish weird literature, make book readings less boring, and experiment with publishing methodologies. 

Karen Finneyfrock has written two full-length books of poetry, including Ceremony for the Choking Ghost. Her debut young adult novel is The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door. She is a former Writer-in-Residence at Richard Hugo House.

Artis Henderson is the author of the memoir Unremarried Widow. She writes the "Sandy Days, Salty Nights" column for Florida Weekly, which earned her two Florida Press Association awards.

Julia Cooke's essays, profiles, and cultural criticism have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Village Voice, the Paris Review Daily, and the Atlantic. Her book, All the Young Punks: Grandchildren of the Cuban Revolution in Post-Fidel Havana, is forthcoming.

Claire Dederer is the author of the bestselling memoir Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Poses. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, The Nation, Slate, Salon, and New York magazine, as well as several essay anthologies.

Suzanne Mozes is a writer and editor. Her work has appeared in Travel + Leisure and New York. At present, she is at work on a book about one of her obsessions: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his masterpiece Beata Beatrix.

John Edgar Wideman is the recipient of the American Book Award for Fiction, the Lannan Literary Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction. His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Vogue, Esquire, Emerge, and The New York Times magazine.

Floyd Skloot is a three time Pushcart Prize winner and the recipient of a PEN USA Literary Award. His eighteen books include the memoirs In the Shadow of Memory, The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life, and the forthcoming Revertigo: an Off-Kilter Memoir.

Brian Doyle is editor of Portland magazine at the University of Portland, Oregon, "the finest spiritual magazine in America," says Annie Dillard. The author of thirteen books of fiction, essays, and poems, he contributes to the bestselling Daily Guideposts and has won the Catholic Book Award.

Rebecca Skloot wrote the #1 New York Times bestseller The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which has been translated into thirty languages and is being made into a film by Oprah Winfrey and Alan Ball. She's working on a book about animals and ethics.

Elena Passarello is the author of Let Me Clear My Throat, a collection of essays on the human voice in pop culture. She is an assistant professor in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University and a faculty mentor in Murray State University's low-residency MFA program.

Kermit Frazier has had many plays produced in New York and around the country. He has also written for several television series and he has published fiction and creative nonfiction in several magazines and journals. He teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Adelphi University.

Catherine Chung is the author of the novel Forgotten Country and an assistant professor at Adelphi University. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Granta.com, and The Rumpus, and she is fiction editor at Guernica.

Jessica Hagedorn is an award-winning novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. She is the director of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Long Island University Brooklyn.

Cassandra Medley, playwright and professor at Sarah Lawrence College, won the 2006 Audelco August Wilson Award for Playwriting. Her most recently produced plays include: American Slavery Project, Cell, and Daughter.

Jacqueline Jones LaMon is the author of two collections, Last Seen, a Felix Pollak Poetry Prize selection, and Gravity, U.S.A., recipient of the Quercus Review Press Poetry Series Book Award; and the novel, In the Arms of One Who Loves Me. She teaches at Adelphi University.

Alexandra Diaz is the author of three novels for young adults, including Of All the Stupid Things, which was an American Library Association Rainbow List book. She teaches creative writing to adults and teens.

Mimi Thebo is an American who lives, writes, and works in the UK. She's had seven books published in ten years, and her work has been adapted for a BAFTA-winning film by the BBC, iilustrated in light on London's South Bank, signed for deaf children on ITV, and extensively translated.

Kekla Magoon is the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award-winning author of YA novels The Rock and the River, Camo Girl, and 37 Things I Love. Author of historical nonfiction for teens, she is a three-time NAACP Image Award nominee, and she serves on the board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.

Michele Corriel is the author of two middle grade novels as well as a nonfiction picture book, Weird Rocks. She is a freelance art writer, working with regional and national publications, and she conducts writing workshops and is a Regional Adviser for SCBWI.

Mindy Hardwick is the author of the middle grade novel, Stained Glass Summer, and a young adult novel, Weaving Magic. She is listed on the Washington State Arts Commission Teaching Artist Roster and facilitates a poetry workshop with teens in juvenile detention.

Phong Nguyen is the author of Memory Sickness & Other Stories, and Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History. He is co-editor of Pleiades Press, for which he edited the book Nancy Hale: The Life and Work of a Lost American Master. He teaches creative writing at the University of Central Missouri.

A. Manette Ansay is the author of eight books, including Vinegar Hill, Blue Water, and, most recently, Good Things I Wish You, based on the life of pianist Clara Schumann and her friendship with Johannes Brahms. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Miami.

Will Boast is the author of the story collection Power Ballads and a forthcoming memoir, The Pantomime Horse. He has received fellowships from Stanford University and the University of East Anglia and has taught at Stanford, the University of San Francisco, and San Francisco State University.

Constance Squires is the author of the novel Along the Watchtower, for which she received the Oklahoma Book Award. Short fiction has appeared in the Atlantic monthly, the Village Voice, This Land, the Dublin Quarterly, and Ginkgo Tree Review. She teaches fiction writing at the University of Central Oklahoma.

Janice Gary is the author of Short Leash: A Memoir of Dog Walking and Deliverance. She is the recipient of the Christine White Award for memoir and the Ames Award for Essay and is a fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Aimee Liu is author of the novels Flash House, Cloud Mountain, and Face. Nonfiction works include Gaining and Solitaire. Her short stories and essays have appeared in more than a dozen anthologies, magazines, and literary journals. She teaches in Goddard College's MFA program in Creative Writing.

Richard Hoffman is author of five books, Half the House: A Memoir, the poetry collections Without Paradise, Gold Star Road, and Emblem, and Interference & Other Stories. He is Senior Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College.

Jerald Walker is the author of Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption, recipient of the 2011 PEN New England/L.L. Winship Award for Nonfiction. His essays have appeared in numerous publications, including three times in The Best American Essays.

Meredith Hall is the author of the bestselling memoir Without A Map. She is listed on Flavorwire's "17 Women to Read" and was awarded the Gift of Freedom Award from the Rona Jaffe Foundation. Her work has appeared in The New York Times and Kenyon Review. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of New Hampshire.

Stephanie Bolster’s first book won the Governor General’s Award, one of Canada’s highest literary honours, in 1998. She has published three others, most recently A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth, and edited two anthologies. She teaches creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal.

Barbara Nickel is the author of two books of poetry, The Gladys Elegies and Domain. She is a recipient of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize.

Christopher Patton is the author of Ox, a book of poetry; Jack Pine, a story in verse for children; and Curious Masonry, a volume of translations from Old English. He teaches creative writing and literature at Western Washington University.

Matt Rader is a Vancouver Island writer and rabble rouser. His work has appeared in magazines, journals, and anthologies across North America, Ireland, and Australia. His poems and stories are rooted in the ecology, geography, and social history of Vancouver Isalnd.

Beth Jusino is a freelance editor, teacher, and writer. A former literary agent, she edits fiction and nonfiction, leads a quarterly publishing class at the University of Washington Experimental College,  published two white papers for writers, and speaks nationally at book festivals and events.

Jason Black is a freelance developmental editor in the greater Seattle area. He has edited hundreds of manuscripts for his clients, helping them to strengthen the plots, characters, and writing craft of their novels. He writes a monthly column on character development for Author Magazine.

Waverly Fitzgerald is the author of seven published novels and one nonfiction book, Slow Time. She has received residencies from Hedgebrook and the Whiteley Center, a fellowship from Jack Straw Foundation, and a grant from Artist Trust. She coaches writers and teaches writing classes for Hugo House.

Anne Mini's blog, Author! Author!, provides writers with practical advice on everything from query letter construction to the most delicate of craft issues. She has won numerous writing awards and fellowships. She also holds degrees from Harvard and the Universities of Chicago and Washington.

David B. Schlosser has earned awards for editing and fiction and nonfiction writing. After careers in politics and PR, he has worked as a freelance writer and editor since 2001. His work ranges from mystery, scifi/fantasy, and literary fiction to STEM, economics, and business/HR nonfiction.

Matthew Roberson is the author of two novels, 1998.6 and Impotent, and editor of a critical book, Musing the Mosaic. His short fiction has appeared in journals such as Fourteen Hills, Fiction International, and Western Humanities Review. He teaches at Central Michigan University.

Luke B Goebel is the recipient of the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Prize for Innovative Fiction. His novel in stories, Fourteen Stories | None of Them Are Yours will be released in 2014. He is an assistant professor of english at the University of Texas at Tyler.

Lance Olsen is author of more than twenty books, most recently the novel Calendar of Regrets and the anti-textbook Architectures of Possibility: After Innovative Writing. A Guggenheim and Berlin Prize fellowship recipient, he teaches experimental theory and practice at the University of Utah.

Carrie Shipers is the author of the chapbooks Ghost-Writing and Rescue Conditions and the full-length collection Ordinary Mourning. Her poems have appeared in New England Review, North American Review, and Prairie Schooner. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Marshfield/Wood County.

Andrea Scarpino is the author of the chapbook The Grove Behind and the poetry collection Once, Then. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from The Ohio State University and has published in numerous journals including the Cincinnati Review, Los Angeles Review, and Prairie Schooner.

Aaron Raz Link is assistant professor at Pacific NW College of Art, nonfiction MFA, historian of science, and mask performer. His book What Becomes You was a Lambda Literary Award finalist in both gay and transgender writing; essays appear in books and journals including Brevity and Fourth Genre.

Kwame Dawes is author of eighteen collections of poetry; two novels; several anthologies; and plays. He has won a Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Emmy. At the University of Nebraska he is a Chancellor's Professor of English and Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner.

emily m. danforth is author of the YA novel The Miseducation of Cameron Post, winner of the 2012 Montana Book Award and finalist for the William C. Morris and Lambda awards. She teaches creative writing at Rhode Island College in Providence and is co-editor of the Cupboard.

Edward McPherson is the author of two nonfiction books, Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat and The Backwash Squeeze and Other Improbable Feats. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in a number of venues, including The New York Times magazine. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

Ethan Rutherford’s first book, The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection for Summer 2013, has been long-listed for the Frank O’Connor Award, and was named by Publishers Weekly as one of the Best Books of Summer 2013.

Sandra Lim is the author of Loveliest Grotesque, a book of poems, and the forthcoming collection, The Wilderness, which was awarded the 2013 Barnard Women Poets Prize. She is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Amy Leach is the author of Things That Are. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays, A Public Space, and Orion. She has been recognized with the Whiting Writers' Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award, and a Pushcart Prize, and she holds an MFA from the University of Iowa.

Jim Shepard is the author of six novels, including most recently Project X, and four story collections, including most recently Like You’d Understand, Anyway, which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award and won The Story Prize, and You Think That’s Bad, released in 2011.

Peter Grandbois is the author of four books, including most recently a collection of fictions, Domestic Disturbances, a novel, Nahoonkara, and The Arsenic Lobster, a memoir. He is associate editor at Boulevard magazine and teaches at Denison University.

Janet Burroway is author of eight novels including Raw Silk, Cutting Stone, and Bridge of Sand, and textbooks Writing Fiction and Imaginative Writing. Her memoir Losing Tim appeared 2013. She is at work on a musical, Morality Play, and a drama, Headshots. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita at FSU.

Brighde Mullins's twelve plays have been performed in New York, London, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Awards include a Guggenheim, a Whiting, an NEA, and a United States Artists Award. She is the Director of MPW, a multi-genre creative writing program at the University of Southern California.

David Starkey is Director of the Creative Writing Program at Santa Barbara City College and served as Santa Barbara’s 2009-2010 Poet Laureate. His introductory textbook, Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief, is in its second edition, and a two-genre version of the book has just been published.

Iris Mahan was the runner-up for 2013 Donald Everett Axinn Award in poetry. Editor of the online review, Ter Duende, her chapbook Bathe Once Before and Twice After is also available online.

Barbara Siegel Carlson is a poet and translator. Her poetry collection Fire Road was published in 2013. She is co-translator (with Ana Jelnikar) of the Slovene Srecko Kosovel's selected poems Look Back, Look Ahead.

Richard Jackson is the winner and recipient of AWP's George Garrett Award; Guggenheim, Witter-Bynner, NEA, and NEH fellowships; five Pushcart prizes; and the Slovene Order of Freedom Award. He is the author of ten books of poems including Resonance, Out of Place, two books of criticism, and two Slovene anthologies.

Zoe Zolbrod is the author of Currency, which received a 2010 Nobbie Award and was a Friends of American Writers prize finalist. She's a contributor to The Nervous Breakdown, The Rumpus, and The Weeklings, and works as a senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Jillian Lauren has an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. She is the author of the memoir Some Girls: My Life in a Harem and the novel Pretty. Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review, The New York Times, and Los Angeles magazine.

Ben Tanzer is an Emmy-award winning Public Service Announcement writer and the author of the books My Father's House, You Can Make Him Like You, and the forthcoming Orphans and Lost in Space. He is also the editor of the anthology Daddy Cool and a partner at Curbside Splendor.

Claire Dederer is the author of the bestselling memoir Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Poses. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, the Nation, Slate, Salon, New York magazine, and in several essay anthologies.

Kerry Cohen is the author of six books, including Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity and Seeing Ezra: A Mother’s Story of Autism, Unconditional Love, and the Meaning of Normal. Her work has been featured in numerous anthologies and journals. She teaches in the Red Earth MFA.

Michael Wiegers, a veteran of independent literary publishing for over two decades, is the Executive Editor of Copper Canyon Press, and the Poetry Editor of Narrative magazine. He translates poetry from Spanish and has edited poetry books from around the globe at every stage in their careers.

Marianne Boruch's recent collection of poems, The Book of Hours, won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, 2013. Her eighth book, Cadaver, Speak, is due out in 2014. Author of a memoir, The Glimpse Traveler, and two essay collections on poetry, she teaches at Purdue University and Warren Wilson College.

Ellen Bass's poetry books include Like A Beggar, The Human Line, and Mules of Love. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, and the New Republic. She is co-author of The Courage to Heal and Free Your Mind. She teaches in the MFA program at Pacific University.

Mark Bibbins is the author of three books of poems, the most recent of which is They Don't Kill You Because They're Hungry, They Kill You Because They're Full. He teaches at The New School and Columbia University and edits the poetry section of The Awl.

Matthew Zapruder is an editor for Wave Books, and teaches poetry as a member of the Core Faculty of the MFA Program at St. Mary's College of California. His newest book of poems, Sun Bear, will be published by Copper Canyon in spring 2014.

Audrey Colombe is an associate professor in the Department of English and Writing at University of Tampa. Her short fiction and nonfiction has appeared in numerous literary journals, and she is the fiction editor at Tampa Press.

Kathlene Postma directs the creative writing program for undergraduates at Pacific University, where she also teaches fiction writing. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in Zyzzyva, Hawaii Review, Willlow Springs, and Green Mountains Review. She edits Silk Road Review.

Janet Sylvester’s books are, That Mulberry Wine and The Mark of Flesh. Her new book, Breakwater, is under consideration at a number of publishers. She directs the low-res BFA in Creative Writing at Goddard College in Vermont.

Abi Curtis is Head of Programme for Creative Writing at York St John University, York, United Kingdom. Her second poetry collection, The Glass Delusion, won a Somerset Maugham Award in 2013.

S.L. (Sandi) Wisenberg is the author of two nonfiction books, The Adventures of Cancer Bitch, and Holocaust Girls: History, Memory & Other Obsessions, and the fiction collection The Sweetheart Is In. She directs the MA/MFA in Creative Writing Program at Northwestern University.

Faith Adiele is author of Meeting Faith, a PEN-award-winning memoir/travel diary and writer/subject/narrator of My Journey Home, a PBS documentary based on a memoir-in-progress about finding her global family. She teaches at California College of the Arts, Stanford, Berkeley, and around the world.

Donald Morrill is the author of four books of nonfiction, among them Impetuous Sleeper and The Untouched Minutes, as well as two volumes of poetry. He is currently associate dean of Graduate and Continuing Studies at the University of Tampa and teaches in UT’s Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing.

Kenny Kruse is an MFA candidate at the University of Alabama. He teaches with the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project and is a co-founder of Writers in the Schools - Alabama.

Meryl DePasquale is the author of a chapbook, Dream of a Perfect Interface, and her poems have appeared recently in DIAGRAM, Handsome, and Interim. A member of the artist co-op at Minnesota Center for Book Arts, she collaborates with Shawn Hebrank on Four-Letter Press.

Anna Lena Phillips is editor of Ecotone and author of A Pocket Book of Forms, a letterpress-printed, travel-sized guide to poetic forms. Her other letterpress projects include Forces of Attention, a series of printed interventions. She teaches in the creative writing department at UNC Wilmington.

MC Hyland is the author of Neveragainland and the chapbooks Every Night In Magic City, Residential, As In, and, with Kate Lorenz and Friedrich Kerksieck, the hesitancies. She runs DoubleCross Press with Jeff Peterson, and she recently started work toward a PhD in English Literature at NYU.

Drew Burk is an editor and bookbinder for Spork Press. He continues to work on his next novel.

Guy Pettit is the executive director of Flying Object, an arts and publishing nonprofit in Western Massachusetts. He is an editor at Factory Hollow Press.

Lou Ann Walker is the editor-in-chief of TSR: The Southampton Review. The author of A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in the Family, as well as many other books and articles, she is a professor at Stony Brook Southampton.

Susan Scarf Merrell is fiction editor of TSR: The Southampton Review, and teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing & Literature at Stony Brook Southampton. Her novel Shirley is forthcoming in 2014.

Dinah Lenney wrote Bigger than Life: A Murder, A Memoir and co-authored Acting for Young Actors. She teaches in the Bennington Writing Seminars, the Rainier Writing Workshop, and the Master of Professional Writing Program at USC. Her new memoir The Object Parade will be published in 2014.

Robert Wrigley teaches at the University of Idaho. His most recent books include Anatomy of Melancholy & Other Poems, and The Church of Omnivorous Light: Selected Poems.

Rachel Pastan is the author of three novels, Alena, Lady of the Snakes, and This Side of Married. A member of the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars, she is also editor-at-large for the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, where she writes the blog "Miranda."

Tami Haaland is the author of When We Wake in the Night. She is a graduate of Bennington Writing Seminars and a professor at MSU Billings. She teaches at Montana Women’s Prison and coordinates a writing-in-the-schools program for Arts Without Boundaries. She is Montana’s poet laureate.

Danell Jones’s poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in various publications. Winner of the Jovanovich prize for poetry, she was a finalist for the Breadloaf Poetry Prize and the PEN/Nelson Algren in Fiction. She is the author of The Virginia Woolf Writers’ Workshop.

Dave Caserio, recipient of a Fellowship in Poetry award from the New York State Foundation of the Arts and a member of the Humanities Montana Speakers Bureau, conducts writing workshops for cancer survivors and produces multi-media poetry events. His CD of poetry is Wisdom For A Dance In The Street.

Amelia M. McDanel is an MFA candidate at Antioch University Los Angeles. She teaches poetry to children and facilitates a writing group for veteran women. A six-year veteran of the US Navy, she is also the Commander of American Legion Post 117 in Billings, Montana.

Ashley K. Warren graduated from the Stonecoast MFA Program and writes fiction and poetry. She won first prize for fiction in Concordia College’s Annual Literary Contest. She teaches creative writing at Montana State University Billings.

Ken Waldman has six full-length poetry collections, a memoir, a children's book, and nine CDs that combine Appalachian-style string-band music with original poetry. Since 1994 he's made his living as a freelance writer, teacher, musician, and performer, sometimes touring as Alaska's Fiddling Poet.

Garry Craig Powell's novel-in-stories, Stoning the Devil, is set in the United Arab Emirates and has been longlisted for the Frank O' Connor Award and the Edge Hill Prize. He is an associate professor at the University of Central Arkansas.

Vincent Craig Wright is a short story and song writer from Ashland Oregon. Fiction Writer at Southern Oregon University and cofounder of Institute of New Writing/Ashland, he has recent work in BlazeVox, Sleet magazine, the Harvard Advocate, and a book of stories, Redemption Center.

Will Jennings’s writing has appeared in the Water~Stone Review, River Teeth, the Southern Humanities Review, the Wapsipinicon Almanac, Trapeze, Exchange, Fugue, and ICON magazine. A musician, he has performed on Public Television, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, at SXSW, the CBC, and NPR.

C. Dale Young is the author of three collections of poetry, the most recent being Torn. A recipient of fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, he teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.

Mary Szybist is the author of Granted, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and Incarnadine. She teaches at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

Bruce Beasley is a professor of English at Western Washington University and author of seven collections of poems, including Theophobia and The Corpse Flower: New and Selected Poems. He has won three Pushcart Prizes, an NEA fellowship, the Colorado Prize for Poetry, and other awards and honors.

Mark Jarman is the author of Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems. He has also published two books of essays about poetry, The Secret of Poetry and Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry. He is Centennial Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

Jacqueline Osherow is author of six books of poetry, most recently Whitethorn. Her seventh, White on White, is forthcoming in 2014. She’s received the Witter Bynner Prize and grants from the NEA, Guggenheim, and Ingram Merrill Foundations. She directs Creative Writing at Utah.

Pages Matam is a multi-lingual creative writing and performance Artist, originally from Cameroon, Africa. He is a Write Bloody author, educator, activist, playwright, host, event organizer, and an Award Winning slam poet.

Jonathan B. Tucker is a poet, teacher, DJ, and activist. Coach of the DC Youth Slam Team and Youth Programs Coordinator for the nonprofit Split This Rock, he uses performance poetry to raise issues of social justice and inspire dialogue and action. He has twice represented DC at the National Poetry Slam and his book of poems is I Got the Matches.

Josh Healey is an award-winning writer, performer, and creative activist. Author of the poetry collection Hammertime, He has been featured in The New York Times, Al-Jazeera, and NPR's Snap Judgment. Based in Oakland, California, he is the 2013-2014 Culture Shift Fellow for Movement Generation.

Elizabeth Acevedo is currently an MFA candidate at The University of Maryland. She has been a featured poet at The Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts, The Kodak Theatre, and Madison Square Garden.

Jeanne Heuving is a scholar and writer. Her published books include Incapacity (winner of the 2004 Book of the Year Award from Small Press Traffic), Transducer, and Omissions Are Not Accidents. She directs the MFA program in Creative Writing & Poetics at the University of Washington, Bothell.

Peter Streckfus is the author of Errings, winner of the 2013 POL Editors Prize through Fordham University Press, and The Cuckoo, published in 2004 as part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. A 2013 Rome Prize Fellow in literature, he teaches at George Mason University.

Tung-Hui Hu is the author of three books of poetry, The Book of Motion, Mine, and Greenhouses, Lighthouses. He is an assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan, where he teaches creative writing and film/media studies.

Elisabeth Frost is the author of a book of poems, All of Us; a critical study, The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry; and two chapbooks: Rumor and A Theory of the Vowel. She is professor of English at Fordham University, where she edits the Poets Out Loud poetry series from Fordham Press.

Sara Michas-Martin, is the winner of the 2013 Poets Out Loud Prize. A former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, he currently teaches at Goddard College and Stanford’s Online Writers’ Studio.

Ande Davis has worked as an editor for various magazines and literary journals. His fiction and poetry have recently appeared in PANK, cream city review, Foxing Quarterly, South Dakota Review, and Hawai'i Review.

Luke Rolfes teaches writing and literature at Northwest Missouri State University. His fiction and nonfiction appear in literary journals around the country, and he is a past winner of the Robert C. Wright and Iron Horse Discovered Voices Award.

Eric McHenry teaches creative writing at Washburn University. His books of poetry include Potscrubber Lullabies, which received the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Mommy Daddy Evan Sage, a children’s book illustrated by Nicholas Garland.

Matthew Porubsky lives in Topeka, Kansas, and works as a freight conductor for the Union Pacific Railroad. He has four collections of poetry, voyeur poems, Fire Mobile (The Pregnancy Sonnets), Ruled by Pluto, and John, and his poems have appeared in RHINO, Quiddity, {HOOT}, and elimae.

Peter Sears is the author of five books of poetry. His volume of poetry, New and Selected Poems: Small Talk, is forthcoming in 2014. He is a member of the faculty for Mountain Writers Series and the Pacific University MFA in Writing.

Anita Helle is professor of English and director of the School of Writing, Literature, and Film. She is the editor of The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath and past editor of the American Literary Scholarship annual chapters on American Poetry 1940s to the Present.

Lex Runciman has authored four collections of poetry, including The Admirations, which won the Oregon Book Award. His most recent collections include Starting from Anywhere and the forthcoming One Hour That Morning & Other Poems. He teaches literature and writing at Linfield College.

Maxine Scates is the author of three books of poetry, Undone, Black Loam, and Toluca Street and co-editor, with David Trinidad, of Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford. She has received the Starrett Prize, an Oregon Book Award, and a Pushcart Prize.

Christopher Howell has published ten volumes of poems and has published poems, essays, reviews, and interviews in a long list of journals. He has been awarded three Pushcart Prizes, two NEA fellowships, and a number of other distinctions. He teaches at Eastern Washington University and is director of Lynx House Press.

Arna Bontemps Hemenway is the author of Elegy on Kinderklavier. His fiction has appeared in A Public Space, Ecotone, AQR, FiveChapters, and the Missouri Review. He is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at Baylor University.

Roy Scranton's work has appeared in The New York Times, Boston Review, New Letters, LIT, and Theory & Event. He is co-editor of Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War. He holds an MA from the New School for Social Research and is earning a PhD in English at Princeton.

David J. Morris is a former Marine and author of Storm on the Horizon, an account of the Gulf War battle of Khafji. His war reportage has appeared in Salon, Slate, VQR, and the Best American Nonrequired Reading series. His biography of PTSD, titled The Evil Hours will be released in fall 2014.

Phil Klay served in the United States Marine Corps and was deployed to Iraq in 2007. He is the author of the forthcoming short story collection, Redeployment, and is a contributor to Fire and Forget: Short Stories From the Long War. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, and Tin House.

Philip Graham is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Paris Review, McSweeney's, and elsewhere. He teaches at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Chamapign and the VCFA MFA in Writing program, and is a co-founder and an editor of Ninth Letter.

Dinty W.Moore is author of The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life, as well as the memoir Between Panic & Desire, winner of the Grub Street Book Prize. Editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction, he lives in Athens, Ohio.

John Warner is the author of The Funny Man. A weekly columnist for the Chicago Tribune's Printers Row book supplement, he is a blogger for Inside Higher Ed. He is also an editor for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and commentator for the Tournament of Books. Warner teaches at the College of Charleston.

Harmony Neal is the 2011-2013 Fiction Fellow at Emory University. Her essays and short stories have been recently published or are forthcoming in Grist, New Letters, the Gettysburg Review, Paper Darts, and storySouth.

Irina Reyn is the author of the novel, What Happened to Anna K, and the anthology, Living on the Edge of the World: New Jersey Writers Take on the Garden State. She teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh.

Hannah Tinti is co-founder and editor-in-chief of One Story and the author of Animal Crackers and The Good Thief. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University's MFA program and the Museum of Natural History. In 2011, she joined the public radio program "Selected Shorts" as their literary commentator.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz is a novelist, essayist, poet, and translator from Italian. Her latest books are Two-Part Inventions, a novel, and See You in the Dark, a poetry collection. She teaches in the Bennington Writing Seminars and at Columbia University.

Ryan D. Harbage is an agent at The Fischer-Harbage Agency. His clients include award-winning and bestselling authors such as Aliya King, Edward Klein, Taylor Plimpton, Robbie Robertson, p.g. sturges, Amy Sullivan, Jackson Taylor, and Thad Ziolkowski. He teaches at Pratt and The New School.

Maud Newton won the Narrative Prize for "When the Flock Changed," an excerpt from her novel-in-progress. She has written for the New York Times magazine, Narrative, Granta, Tin House, Bookforum, Awl, Paris Review Daily, The Los Angeles Times, and New York Times Book Review.

Phillip Lopate has written over twenty books, most recently, the essay collections Portrait Inside My Head and To Show and to Tell: the Craft of Literary Nonfiction. Editor of the anthology Art of the Personal Essay, he directs the MFA nonfiction program at Columbia University.

Elyssa East is the author of Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town, winner of the 2010 PEN New England/LL Winship award in Nonfiction. Her fiction has appeared in Cape Cod Noir and Best of the Akashic Noir. She teaches at Rhode Island School of Design and is working on a novel.

Robert Root teaches nonfiction in the Ashland University MFA Program in Creative Writing. His recent books include the memoir Happenstance, the essay collection Postscripts: Retrospections on Time and Place, and the craft book The Nonfictionist’s Guide: On Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction.

Lia Purpura is the author of seven collections of essays, poems, and translations, most recently Rough LIkeness (essays) and King Baby (poems). Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Book Critics Circle Award. She is Writer in Residence at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Michael Steinberg is founding editor of Fourth Genre. Still Pitching won the ForeWord Magazine/Independent Press Memoir of the Year. The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction (with Bob Root) is in a 6th edition. He's nonfiction writer in residence in the Solstice MFA program.

David Wojahn's eighth collection of poetry, World Tree, was published in 2011 and won the Acadmey of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Prize. He teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University and in the MFA in Writing Program of Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Peter Campion is the author of three collections of poems, Other People, The Lions, and El Dorado. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Larry Levis Reading Prize, The Rome Prize (Prix de Rome) and the Guggenheim Fellowship. 
He directs the MFA program at the University of Minnesota.

Kathleen Graber is the author of two collections of poetry, The Eternal City and Correspondence. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Virginia Commonwealth University and the low residency MFA Program at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

J. Allyn Rosser's books of poems are Foiled Again, Misery Prefigured, and Bright Moves. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Lannan Foundations, the NEA, and the Ohio and New Jersey Arts Councils. Rosser teaches at Ohio University and edits New Ohio Review.

Jeffrey Lependorf serves as the shared Executive Director of America's two national service organizations for independent literary publishing: the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) and Small Press Distribution.

Rob Spillman is editor and co-founder of Tin House, a fifteen-year-old bi-coastal (Brooklyn and Portland) literary magazine, Executive Editor of Tin House Books, co-founder of the Tin House Writers Workshop, now in its twelfth year, and editor of Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of African Writing.

Rachel Fershleiser heads publishing outreach at Tumblr. She has been Community Manager at Bookish and Events Director at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe. She is co-creator of Six-Word Memoirs and co-editor of the New York Times Bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning and three other books.

Ira Silverberg has worked in the literary world for nearly thirty years. Among the positions he's held are Literature Director of the National Endowment for the Arts, Editor in Chief of Grove Press, and Publisher and founding co-editor of High Risk Books/Serpent's Tail.

Suzanne Roberts is the author of the memoir Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, which won the National Outdoor Book Award, as well as four collections of poetry, including Three Hours to Burn a Body: Poems on Travel. She writes and teaches in South Lake Tahoe, California.

Rolf Potts is the author of two travel books, and he has reported from more than sixty countries for the likes of National Geographic Traveler, the New Yorker, Slate.com, Outside, Sports Illustrated, and the New York Times magazine. He teaches nonfiction writing at Yale.

Lavinia Spalding is series editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing, author of Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler, and coauthor of With a Measure of Grace: the Story and Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant. Her work appears in many print and online publications.

David Miller is Senior Editor of Matador, the largest independent travel publication on the internet, and Director of Curricula at MatadorU, a global education community for writers, photographers, and filmmakers with an emphasis on travel journalism.

Ann Marie Brown is the author of thirteen guidebooks and dozens of magazine articles on California and Nevada travel and outdoor recreation. She also teaches Travel and Adventure Writing and journalism classes at Sierra Nevada College.

Karen An-hwei Lee is the author of three books of poetry and a chapbook. Her first collection, In Medias Res, won the Norma Farber First Book Award. A collection of Song Dynasty translations, Doubled Radiance: Poetry & Prose of Li Qingzhao, is forthcoming.

Sawako Nakayasu’s books include Mouth: Eats Color, Texture Notes, and a translation of Takashi Hiraide’s For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut which won the 2009 Best Translated Book Award. She has received NEA and PEN fellowships, and her poetry has been translated into several languages.

Srikanth Reddy is the author of two books of poetry, Facts for Visitors and Voyager, and a scholarly study, Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry. He is currently an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Chicago.

Neil Aitken is the author of The Lost Country of Sight, winner of the 2007 Philip Levine Prize, and the editor of Boxcar Poetry Review. His collaborative translations of Chinese poetry appear in The Book of Cranes: Selected Poems of Zang Di and New Cathay: Contemporary Chinese Poetry, 1990-2012.

Kathleen Flenniken is the 2012-2014 Washington State Poet Laureate, and the author of two books of poetry, Famous, and Plume, a meditation on the Hanford Nuclear Site in eastern Washington State, finalist for the 2013 William Carlos Williams Award. She is an editor at Floating Bridge Press.

Nancy Pagh has authored one book of nonfiction (At Home Afloat) and two collections of poetry (No Sweeter Fat, After). She is the recipient of Artist Trust and D.H. Lawrence fellowships and Whiteley Center and Port Townsend Writers’ Conference residencies. She teaches writing at Western Washington University.

Molly Tenenbaum is the author of three books of poetry: By a Thread, Now, and The Cupboard Artist. Honors include a Hedgebrook residency, a GAP grant, and a 2009 Artist Trust Fellowship. She teaches at North Seattle Community College.

Dennis Caswell is the author of the full-length poetry collection Phlogiston and has appeared in Floating Bridge Review, Crab Creek Review, Monarch Review, and other journals and anthologies.

Timothy Kelly has four poetry collections, including Stronger, which won the 1999 Field Poetry Prize. He works as a Physical Therapist, and his work reflects a longstanding fascination with the body, its resilience, and capacity to heal.

Lee Ann Roripaugh is the author of four volumes of poetry: Dandarians (forthcoming 2014), On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year, Year of the Snake, and Beyond Heart Mountain. She directs the creative writing program at the University of South Dakota, and is editor-in-chief of South Dakota Review.

Tiffany Midge won the Kenyon Review Earthworks Prize for The Woman Who Married a Bear (forthcoming). She has published work  in the Raven Chronicles, Florida Review, South Dakota Review, Shenandoah, and Poetry Northwest, and she is Standing Rock Sioux.

Ira Sukrungruang is the author of the Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy and In Thailand It is Night. His work has appeared in Brevity, the Sun, and North American Review. The editor of Sweet: A Literary Confection, he teaches in the MFA program at University of South Florida.

Megan Kaminski is the author of one book of poetry, Desiring Map, and six chapbooks of poetry, including This Place and Gemology. She is assistant professor of poetry writing at the University of Kansas, and she also curates the Taproom Poetry Series in downtown Lawrence.

Sean Johnston’s latest book is Listen All You Bullets. He is also the author of All This Town Remembers and A Day Does Not Go By, which won Canada’s ReLit Award for short fiction in 2003. He has a PhD from the University of South Dakota and teaches Writing and Publishing at Okanagan College.

David Roderick’s first book of poems, Blue Colonial, won of the APR/Honickman Prize. His next book, The Americans, will be published in the fall of 2014. He teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Tomás Q. Morín is the author of the poetry collection A Larger Country, winner of the APR/Honickman Prize. He is co-editor with Mari L’Esperance of the anthology, Coming Close: 40 Essays on Philip Levine. He teaches literature and writing at Texas State University.

Shara Lessley is the author of Two-Headed Nightingale. Her awards include a Stegner Fellowship, Diane Middlebrook Fellowship, Colgate University’s O’Connor Fellowship, The Gilman School’s Tickner Fellowship, and a Discovery / The Nation prize. She is the 2014 Mary Wood Fellow at Washington College.

Paul Otremba is the author of The Currency and the forthcoming Pax Americana. His poems, reviews, and criticism have appeared in New England Review, the Kenyon Review, Witness, Houston Chronicle, The Washington Post, and American Poets in the 21st Century. He teaches at Rice University.

Rachel Richardson has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford. She is the author of Copperhead, a poetry collection, and is currently the Kenan Visiting Writer at UNC Chapel Hill.

Sholeh Wolpé's publications include three collections of poetry, most recently, Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths, an award-winning book of translations, Sin, and three anthologies. She teaches at Stonecoast MFA program.

Yusef Komunyakaa is author of seventeen collections of poetry. His work has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize and the 2011 Wallace Steven's Award. His plays, musical collaborations, and theater art have been performed internationally. His most recent collection is Testimony, A Tribute to Charlie Parker.

Stanley Moss’s most recent collection of poems is No Tear is Commonplace (2013). In 1977, he founded the Sheep Meadow Press.

Robert Stewart is editor of New Letters, New Letters on the Air radio series, and BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is author of Outside Language, essays, and Plumbers, poems. In 2008, he won a National Magazine Award for editorial excellence in the essay category.

Rachel Kessler is co-founder of literary collaborations The Typing Explosion and Vis-à-Vis Society. Her poems have been published in Tin House, Poetry Northwest, The Far Field, and City Arts magazine. She teaches creative writing in public schools and in homeless shelters in Seattle.

Anastacia Tolbert is a writer, Cave Canem Fellow, Hedgebrook Alumna, EDGE Professional Writers Graduate, VONA alum, creative writing workshop facilitator, documentarian, and playwright. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published widely.

Matthew Dickman is the author of All-American Poem, 50 American Plays (co-written with his twin brother Michael Dickman, 2012), and Mayakovsky’s Revolver (2012).

Jan Wallace, a poet and essayist, writes advertising copy. She has one chapbook, Kickpleat in the Cosmos. Her poems and essays have appeared in various journals.

Ryan Boudinot teaches at Richard Hugo House. He also teaches in Goddard College's MFA program in Port Townsend, Washington. His work has appeared in McSweeney's and The Best American Nonrequired Reading.

Rebecca Hoogs is the author of Self-Storage and a chapbook, Grenade. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, AGNI, Crazyhorse, FIELD, and others. She is the Program Director for Seattle Arts & Lectures, and a co-director of the Creative Writing in Rome program for the University of Washington.

Terry Blackhawk's Escape Artist won the 2003 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry. She also received the 2010 Pablo Neruda Award and has work in many journals, anthologies, and online. A former high school teacher, she is founder of InsideOut Literary Arts, Detroit's acclaimed writers-in-schools program.

Garth Stein is the author of three novels, including The Art of Racing in the Rain, a New York Times and international bestseller. He is the co-founder of Seattle7Writers, a nonprofit collective of Northwest authors working to foster a passion for the written word.

Nick Flynn wrote Some Ether, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands, The Reenactments, The Ticking is the Bomb, Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins, Blind Huber, and A Note Slipped Under the Door. His work has been translated into fifteen languages.

Susan Denning is the director of Programs and Events at Literary Arts in Portland, Oregon, where she serves as program director for the Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships program. She is also an adjunct professor of writing at Marylhurst University, and her poetry has appeared in several publications.

Willy Vlautin has published three novels, The Motel Life, Northline, and Lean on Pete. His fourth novel, The Free will be published spring of 2014. He also founded the band Richmond Fontaine, which has achieved critical acclaim at home and across Europe.

Patrick deWitt is the author of Ablutions: Notes for a Novel and The Sisters Brothers.

Ismet Prcic is a Bosnian-American writer. His debut novel Shards won the Los Angeles Times and Sue Kaufman awards for first fiction as well as the Oregon Book Awards in fiction. Recipient of an NEA Award for Fiction in 2010, he is a Sundance Institute's Screenwriting fellow.

PaulA Neves’ work has appeared in Quiddity, The Waiting Room Reader II; Between Mountain; The New Laurel Review; The Newark Metro; Lambda Literary Award finalist The Poetry of Sex; and Stonewall Book Award-winning Uncommon Heroes. Her scholarships include Dzanc Books and West Chester.

Melissa da Silveira Serpa serves on the executive committee of Litquake, San Francisco’s Literary Festival, and is a teaching artist for Poetry Inside Out, an education program run by the Center for the Art of Translation.

Marie Carvalho writes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Her work has received an AWP Intro award, Ford Foundation and Wyoming Arts fellowships, a Dzanc Books scholarship, and a Pushcart Prize nomination. She teaches and works as a freelance writer in Honolulu.

Amy Sayre Baptista’s stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Ninth Letter, S’ouwester, LUSO American Voices, and Chicago Noir. She is a CantoMundo fellow, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and a scholarship recipient to the Disquiet Literary Festival in Lisbon, Portugal.

Maria Miranda Maloney is the founder of Mouthfeel Press and author of The City I Love. She is a former writer and literary event organizer for the Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum, and she is the current poetry editor for BorderSenses.

Arisa White is a Cave Canem fellow, the author of Post Pardon, Hurrah’s Nest, and A Penny Saved, and she is an advisory board member for Flying Object and co-editor for Her Kind, an online literary community powered by VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.

JP Howard aka Juliet P. Howard is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and co-founder of Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon, a monthly literary salon in New York, which nurtures women writers of all levels. Her poems have been published widely, including in Muzzle magazine and The Best American Poetry Blog.

Xánath Caraza’s bilingual poetry and short story collections are Conjuro, Corazón Pintado, and What the Tide Brings. She writes the column, "US Latino Poets en español," and teaches at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is an advisory circle member of the Con Tinta literary organization.

Erica Eller is the organizer of the Hazel Reading Series in San Francisco. She has published fiction in Everyday Genius and the Otolith.

Brian Castner served as an explosive ordnance disposal officer in the U.S. Air Force from 1999 to 2007, deploying to Iraq in 2005 and 2006. His first book, The Long Walk, was published 2012. His writing has appeared in the Daily Beast, The New York Times, and Foreign Policy.

Warren Etheredge, is a playwright, founder of The Film School, and teacher of the Red Badge Project, a writing program for soldiers. He has conducted over 2,500 interviews and is host of The High Bar, an Emmy®-nominated television series. He is a documentarian, author, and public radio contributor.

Christa Parravani-Swofford's Her: A Memoir was an Indie Bound Next pick, an Amazon Debut Spotlight pick, and a best book of the month. Her writing has appeared in Marie Claire, The Washington Post, The London Times, and The Daily Mail.

Sonya Lea is the author of Wondering Who You Are, a memoir. She has written for Brevity, the Southern Review, and Cold Mountain Review, and she has been granted an international memoir prize, and Artist Trust award, and the Nicholl Fellowship in screenwriting.

Lee Martin is the author of four novels, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist, The Bright Forever. He is also the author of three memoirs, most recently Such a Life, and a story collection, The Least You Need to Know. He teaches in the creative writing program at Ohio State University.

Dorothy Allison is the author of the prize-winning novels, Bastard out of Carolina and Cavedweller, as well as the books Two or Three Things I know for Sure, Trash, Skin, and the book of poetry, The Women Who Hate me. A novel, She Who, is forthcoming.

Karen Salyer McElmurray won the AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction for her memoir, Surrendered Child: A Birth Mother’s Journey. Her novels are The Motel of the Stars and Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven. She teaches in low-residencies at Wilkes University, West Virginia, and West Virginia Wesleyan.

Claire Vaye Watkins's Battleborn won the Story Prize, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. One of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35, she is currently teaching at Princeton.

Sonja Livingston’s book, Ghostbreat, won the AWP Award for Nonfiction. Her work has won honors from the Deming Fund, Iowa Review, Arts & Letters, and New York Foundation for the Arts. Essays from a forthcoming collection appear in journals such as RiverTeeth, Seneca Review, and Creative Nonfiction.

Katharine Whitcomb is the co-editor of A Sense of Place: The Washington State Geospatial Poetry Anthology and the author of three poetry collections: Saints of South Dakota & Other Poems, Hosannas, and Lamp of Letters. Her poetry awards include a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University.

Mark Auslander is a sociocultural and historical anthropologist, with interests in slavery, historical memory, ritual performance; research in Africa and African American communities. He is author of The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family.

Marc Thompson is currently a Master's Candidate in Resource and Environmental Management at Central Washington University. He is the technical director for www.cascadiachronicle.com and www.asenseofplacewa.com. His main area of interest is finding interesting implementations for Google Earth.

Allen Braden is the author of A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood and Elegy in the Passive Voice. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and from Artist Trust of Washington State, as well as the Emerging Writers Prize from Witness magazine, the Grolier Poetry Prize, and the Dana Award in Poetry.

Tom Wayman is the Squire of "Appledore," his estate in the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern B.C. He has published more than a dozen collections of poems, most recently Dirty Snow, as well as works of fiction and cultural criticism. He taught most recently for the University of Calgary, 2002-2010.

Jennifer Burton (Tufts University) produces films with Five Sisters Productions, including Manna From Heaven, a new comedy on ageism, Old Guy, and a documentary on drag culture in Columbus, OH. Publications include Call and Response: Key Debates in African American Studies, co-edited with Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Kandace Brill Lombart is a literary scholar who is currently compiling the Ruth Stone Bibliography. She has been active for over two decades in promoting poets and writers in Buffalo, New York, as well as organizing and co-coordinating major international events focused on women writers.

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is author of the poetry collections Dog Road Woman, recipient of the American Book Award, and Off-Season City Pipe. Her other books include Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer, a memoir; and Blood Run, a verse-play. She was editor of Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas, Effigies, and Effigies II.

Monika Cassel is chair of the English Department at New Mexico School for the Arts, a statewide charter arts school. She is launching a creative writing minor at the school in 2013-14 as a pilot for a writing major. She is working on a translation of the German poet Durs Grünbein’s Porzellan.

Jamie Figueroa teaches creative writing at New Mexico School for the Arts, a dual credit college course offered through the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction has been published in various literary reviews. She is at work on her MFA in Creative Writing.

Kim Henderson chairs the Creative Writing department at Idyllwild Arts Academy, an arts boarding high school. She is the author of a chapbook of flash fiction, The Kind of Girl, which won the 2012 Rose Metal Press chapbook contest.

Anne-Marie Oomen is author of Pulling Down the Barn and House of Fields, both Michigan Notable Books, An American Map: Essays; and Uncoded Woman. She is instructor of creative writing at Interlochen Arts Academy and The Solstice MFA at Pine Manor College (MA).

Scott Gould teaches at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts. Since 2006, eight of his students have been named US Presidential Scholars in the Arts; 9 have won $10,000 portfolio prizes from the Scholastic Writing Awards. His fiction has appeared in Kenyon Review, Carolina Quarterly, and Bull: Men's Fiction.

Jeffrey Lependorf serves as the shared Executive Director of America's two national service organizations for independent literary publishing: the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) and Small Press Distribution.

Laura McGee Kvasnosky has written and illustrated seventeen picture books and a middle grade novel in the last twenty years. Her books’ awards include SCBWI Kite honors for Zelda and Ivy, and the American Library Association's Geisel award for The Runaways. She has taught in Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program.

Zu Vincent is author of the award winning novel The Lucky Place, the biography Catherine the Great, and numerous short stories, essays, and nonfiction works for such publications as ALAN Review, Harper’s, and Yoga Journal, among others. She writes for both children and adults.

Julie Larios teaches on the faculty of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program. The author or four books of poetry for children, she has also had her work for adults honored with a Pushcart Prize and included twice in The Best American Poetry series.

Kelly Bennett is the award-winning author of many books for children—mostly picture books. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in magazines for children and adults, and in newspapers.

Debby Dahl Edwardson's most recent novel, My Name is Not Easy, was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is an adjunct instructor at Ilisagvik College, Alaska’s only tribal college.

Forrest Gander is a writer & translator with degrees in geology and English literature. Recent books include Eiko & Koma, Fungus Skull Eye Wing: Selected Poems of Alfonso D'Aquino, and Core Samples from the World, a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist.

Richard Blanco’s first book, City of a Hundred Fires, received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. His second book, Directions to The Beach of the Dead won the PEN/Beyond Margins Award. His third collection, Looking for The Gulf Motel, won the Paterson Poetry Prize and Thom Gunn Award from the Publishing Triangle. He stands as the youngest, first Latino, and first openly gay person to serve as the Presidential inaugural poet.

Cristina García is the author of several novels, including The Agüero Sisters, winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize; and Dreaming in Cuban, finalist for the National Book Award, and, most recently, King of Cuba. She has edited two anthologies, Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicano/a Literature and Cubanísimo: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature. Her other work includes three books for young readers and a collection of poetry, The Lesser Tragedy of Death.

Andrew C. Gottlieb is the Book Reviews Editor for Terrain.org, and his writing has appeared in journals like Ecotone, ISLE, Poets & Writers, and Salon.com. He’s the author of a chapbook of poems, Halflives, and he won the 2010 American Fiction Prize.

Fred Swanson co-directs the Long-Term Ecological Reflections program based at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in the Oregon Cascade Range, which has hosted more than forty writers in residence and a variety of humanities-science interactions. He is a retired US Forest Service scientist.

Kathleen Dean Moore is an essayist and environmental ethicist, author of Riverwalking, Holdfast, Pine Island Paradox, and Wild Comfort, and co-editor of the climate ethics book, Moral Ground. She is co-founder and now Senior Fellow of the Spring Creek Project at Oregon State University.

Alison Hawthorne Deming is author of four poetry books, most recently Rope, and three nonfiction books with Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit forthcoming. She is Director and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arizona.

Charles Goodrich is the author of three books of poetry, A Scripture of Crows; Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden; and Insects of South Corvallis; and a collection of essays, The Practice of Home. He serves as Director for the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word

Lauren Smith is assistant professor of English at Delta College in central Michigan. Her essays have appeared in the Writer’s Chronicle, New Madrid, Prick of the Spindle, and the Umbrella Factory.

Jennifer Militello is the author of three collections of poetry: Body Thesaurus, Flinch of Song, winner of the Tupelo Press First Book Award, and the chapbook Anchor Chain, Open Sail. She is the director of the creative writing program at River Valley Community College.

Adam Penna is the author of two books of poetry: Little Song & Lyrics to Genji, and The Love of a Sleeper. He teaches at Suffolk County Community College, where he is an associate professor of English.

Lynn Kilpatrick is the author of the story collection, In the House. Her essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Ninth Letter, and Brevity. She earned a PhD in Fiction from the University of Utah and an MA from Western Washington University. She teaches at Salt Lake Community College.

Ryan Stone is the author of the short story collection Best Road Yet. His work has appeared in numerous publications and he currently serves as the President of the Two-Year College Caucus. He teaches writing and literature at Danville Area Community College in Illinois.

Michael Cross is the author of In Felt Treeling, Haecceities, and The Katechon, 1-100. He is the one-time editor of Atticus/Finch chapbooks and current editor of Compline and On: Contemporary Practice (w/ Thom Donovan).

Alicia Cohen is the author of Bear, Debts and Obligations, and a new work, Echolocation, which is forthcoming. Her poetry and critical writing explores the role of poetry and art in the production of the senses and sense of the world. She has taught at Reed College and Portland State University.

Carla Harryman is the author of seventeen books. Her Poets Theater, interdisciplinary, and bi-lingual performances have been presented nationally and internationally. Recent performance includes the “re-performance” of Theodore Adorno’s “Music and New Music” at dOCUMENTA 13 in Kassel, Germany.

Judith Goldman is the author of Vocoder, Death/Star Rico-chet, and l.b.; or, catenaries. She is core faculty in the Poetics Program at SUNY, Buffalo.

Maryrose Larkin is the author of The Book of Ocean, The Name Of This Intersection is Frost, Marrowing, and the forthcoming Identification of Ghosts. She is a founder of Spare Room, a Portland innovative writing collective and co-editor of Flash+Card Press.

Janice Gary is the author of Short Leash: A Memoir of Dog Walking and Deliverance. She is the recipient of the Christine White Award for memoir and the Ames Award for Essay and is a fellow of The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Kate Hopper is the author of Ready for Air: A Journey Through Premature Motherhood and Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers. She teaches writing online and at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. She has been the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and a Sustainable Arts Grant.

Anna March's essays/fiction/poetry/reviews have appeared in New York magazine, Salon, The Rumpus, and numerous other publications/anthologies. She writes extensively on gender/sexuality/the body. Her novel, The Diary of Suzanne Frank, is forthcoming, as is her memoir. She was a 2012 Pushcart nominee.

Connie May Fowler is a novelist, short story writer, memoirist, and screenwriter. The author of seven books, her novel Before Women had Wings won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Buck Award. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Oxford American, and elsewhere.

Rosemary Daniell is the award-winning author of eight books of poetry and prose, including her revolutionary memoirs, Fatal Flowers: On Sin, Sex and Suicide in the Deep South and Sleeping with Soldiers. Her memoir in progress is My Anarchist Heart.

Dan Kois is a senior editor in the culture department at Slate and a contributing writer to the New York Times magazine.

Parul Sehgal is a staff editor at The New York Times Book Review. Previously, she was the books editor at NPR and a senior editor at Publishers Weekly. She is a recipient of the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle.

Kathryn Schulz is the author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error and the book critic for New York magazine. She has also written for the New York Times magazine, Rolling Stone, TIME, Foreign Policy, and The Nation. In 2012, she won the NBCC award for excellence in reviewing.

Sasha Weiss is the literary editor of Newyorker.com.

Michelle Dean is a journalist and critic whose work has appeared at the New Yorker's Page Turner, Slate, the LA Review of Books, and the Barnes & Noble Review.

Erika T. Wurth, Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee, is the author of the forthcoming novel Crazyhorse's Girlfriend and the collection of poetry Indian Trains (2007). Her work has appeared in numerous journals. She teaches creative writing at Western Illinois University and she was a guest writer at IAIA.

M.L. Smoker, Assiniboine and Sioux, holds an MFA from the University of Montana in Missoula, where she was the recipient of the Richard Hugo Fellowship. Her collection of poems, Another Attempt at Rescue, was published in 2005. She most recently co-edited an anthology of human rights poetry, I Go to the Ruined Place.

Marianne Aweagon Broyles is the author of a poetry collection, The Red Window. Her poems have also appeared in the Florida Review, As/Us, and Poets of the American West. A psychiatric nurse, she is a member of the Cherokee Nation.

Layli Long Soldier has served as contributing editor to Drunken Boat. Recent poems appear in the American Poet, the American Reader, and the Kenyon Review Online. Her first chapbook is Chromosomory.

Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of Leaving Tulsa. She studied poetry at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. She is member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma.

Kaveh Bassiri was the recipient of a Witter Bynner Poetry Translation Residency and Walton Translation Fellowship. His poetry won the Bellingham Review’s 49th Parallel Award and was published in Best New Poets 2011, Virginia Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Mississippi Review.

Geoffrey Brock is a poet and a translator of Italian poetry and prose. He's the author of Weighing Light: Poems (2005), the editor of The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry (2012), and the translator of Cesare Pavese's Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950 (2002). He teaches at Arkansas.

Sidney Wade’s sixth collection, Straits & Narrows, was published in April 2013. She has served as President of AWP and Secretary/Treasurer of ALTA and teaches workshops in Poetry and Translation at the University of Florida’s MFA@FLA program. She is the poetry editor of Subtropics.

Susan Briante is the author of two collections of poetry, Pioneers in the Study of Motion and Utopia Minus. She is an associate professor of English and creative writing at the University of Arizona.

Roger Sedarat is the author of Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic and Ghazal Games, as well as a chapbook, From Tehran to Texas. A translator of classical and modern Persian poetry, he teaches creative writing and literary translation at Queens College, City University of New York.

Lyn Coffin is an award-winning poet, translator, playwright, fiction, and nonfiction writer. Fifteen of her books have been published or are forthcoming. She teaches literary fiction at the University of Washington and translation at the Rustaveli Institute, Tbilisi.

Laszlo Slomovits is part of the award-winning children's music duo, Gemini, and his songs are featured in songbooks used by music teachers throughout the US. He also has five CDs of his song settings of Rumi and Hafiz, as well as CDs of the poetry of Linda Nemec Foster and the Czech poet Jiri Orten.

Maya Pindyck's collection of poems, Friend Among Stones, won the Many Voices Project Award and her chapbook, Locket, Master, received a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. She is currently a doctoral candidate in English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Judy Halebsky's book of poems, Sky=Empty, won the New Issues Prize and was a finalist for the California Book Award. The MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, and the Japanese Ministry of Culture have supported her work. She teaches creative writing at Dominican University of California.

Giovanni Singleton is a poet, teacher, and founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts, a journal of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. Her debut collection Ascension, informed by the music and life of Alice Coltrane, was awarded the 81st California Book Award Gold Medal.

Dean Rader’s debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize, and his work appears in Best American Poetry 2012. He writes about and reviews poetry for The Rumpus, The San Francisco Chronicle, and the Huffington Post. He chairs the English Department at USF.

Kate Ingold is a visual artist and poet.

Ron Tanner is the author of three books, most recently, From Animal House to Our House: A Love Story. His awards for writing include a Faulkner Society gold medal, a Pushcart Prize, a New Letters Award, a Best of the Web Award, and many others.

Jessica Anya Blau is the author of the novels The Wonder Bread Summer, Drinking Closer to Home, and The Summer of Naked Swim Parties.

Deborah A. Miranda (Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation), is the author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir, Indian Cartography, The Zen of La Llorona, and co-editor of Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literatures. She is Full professor of English at Washington and Lee University.

William Trowbridge, the current Poet Laureate of Missouri. He has published five full collections of poetry and three chapbooks. His sixth collection, a new and selected, is forthcoming. He teaches in the University of Nebraska Low-residency MFA in Writing Program.

Benjamin Busch is the author of a memoir, Dust to Dust, which was released in March of 2012.

Sherman Alexie is the author of, most recently, War Dances, stories and poems, and Face, poetry. He is the winner of the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award, 2007 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, 2001 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, and a Special Citation for the 1994 PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction. Smoke Signals, the film he wrote and co-produced, won the Audience Award and Filmmakers Trophy at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.

Elisabeth Schmitz is vice-president and editorial director of Grove/Atlantic Inc. where she has worked for eighteen years as an editor of both fiction and narrative nonfiction.

Morgan Entrekin is currently the president and publisher of Grove/Atlantic, Inc., which publishes general nonfiction, current affairs, history, biography, narrative journalism, fiction, drama, and poetry.

Margaret Wrinkle is the author of the novel Wash, which was short-listed for the Center for Fiction's Flaherty Dunnan First Novel Prize and nominated for the Crook's Corner Prize for a debut Southern novel. Her award-winning documentary, broken\ground, explores the racial divide in Birmingham, AL

Jamie Quatro is the author of the story collection I Want To Show You More. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The O.Henry Prize Stories 2013, the Kenyon Review, Tin House, Ploughshares, and McSweeney's. She is a contributing editor at the Oxford American.

Franny Choi is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer and community organizer. She is the coordinator for Providence Poetry Slam’s Youth Program and is an alumna of WORD Poetry Group.SPublished in numerous journals, she has been a finalist at the three most prestigious poetry slams in the U.S.

Jamila Woods is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet and a founding member of Young Chicago Authors Teaching Artist Corps. Her plays have been produced by theaters in Chicago and Providence. She is an alumna of Young Chicago Authors and WORD Performance Poetry Group at Brown University.

Aaron Samuels is a Cave Canem fellow and author of the book Yarmulkes & Fitted Caps. An alumnus of the Providence Youth Poetry Slam, he has coached youth poets in Providence, Boston, and DC. He is the founder of WU-SLam, a collegiate literary organization at Washington University in St. Louis.

Danez Smith, a Cave Canem Fellow and two-time Pushcart Nominee, works as a Student Advisor for the the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His recent work appears or is forthcoming in journals such as decomP, the Cortland Review, Anti-, Southern Indiana Review, and Muzzle.

Nicole Stellon O’Donnell is the author of Steam Laundry. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Bellingham Review. She received an Individual Artist Award from the Rasmuson Foundation. She is a columnist and editor for Literary Mama.

Peggy Shumaker's newest book Is Toucan Nest: Poems of Costa Rica. Her memoir is Just Breathe Normally. She has served as Alaska State Writer Laureate and edits the Alaska Literary Series and Boreal Books, publishing literature and fine art from Alaska. She teaches at RWW, the MFA at Pacific Lutheran University.

Melina Draper is the author of two books, Later the House Stood Empty and Place of Origin-Lugar de Origen, co-authored with her mother, Argentine writer Elena Lafert, and a chapbook, What Better Place than This? She received an individual artist grant from the Rasmuson Foundation in 2012.

Erin Coughlin Hollowell is the author of Pause, Traveler, a book of poetry. Her poetry appears in various literary magazines, including Alaska Quarterly Review and Sugar House Review. A recipient of a Rasmuson Foundation Fellowship, she is an adjunct at the Kenai Peninsula College.

Susanna J. Mishler's poems have appeared in the Iowa Review, Kenyon Review Online, and Mid-American Review. Her collection of poems, Termination Dust, was released this year. She is an electrician in Anchorage, Alaska.

Edward Porter's fiction credits include Colorado Review, Barrelhouse, Booth, Best New American Voices, and Best Indie Lit New England. A former Madison Fellow and MacDowell Fellow, he teaches at Millsaps College.

Robin Black is the author of the story collection If I loved you, I would tell you this, and the novel Life Drawing. A contributing editor at the Colorado Review and a former Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bryn Mawr College, she has taught most recently in the Brooklyn College MFA program.

Shannon Cain's first book, The Necessity of Certain Behaviors, won the 2011 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her stories have been awarded the O. Henry Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and a grant from the NEA. She is a writing coach and fiction teacher, most recently of MFA students at Bennington College.

Erin Stalcup’s short stories have appeared in the Kenyon Review, Kenyon Review Online, and the Sun. She recently joined the creative writing faculty at Northern Arizona University.

Laura Lampton Scott's fiction has appeared in Monkeybicycle. She served as assistant editor for two Voice of Witness books. A MacDowell Colony fellow, she works on education programs at Seattle's Richard Hugo House.

Lois Welch, professor emerita of English, University of Montana, taught comparative literature between 1966 and 2001, directing the Creative Writing Program for eight years and the English Department for three. She is writing a memoir about her husband, author James Welch.

Richard Robbins studied with Richard Hugo and Madeline DeFrees at the University of Montana. His most recent poetry collections include Radioactive City and Other Americas. He currently directs the creative writing program and Good Thunder Reading Series at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Greg Pape is the author of Four Swans, Animal Time, American Flamingo, and other books. His work has received many awards, including The Discovery/The Nation award and two NEA Fellowships. He teaches at University of Montana and Spalding University. He was Montana Poet Laureate from 2007-2009.

Stefanie Torres is a nonfiction writer and PhD candidate at the University of Kansas, where she is one of the co-editors of the graduate-run literary journal, Beecher's, for the second year in a row.

Joshua S. Raab is editor, creative director, and carnival master for theNewerYork Press. His aim in life is to publish weird literature, make book readings less boring, and experiment with publishing methodologies.

James R. Gapinski is Managing Editor of the Conium Review. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. His fiction has recently appeared in Line Zero, theNewerYork, and the Pink Fish Press anthology Involution. He teaches Short Story Writing at Mt. Hood Community College.

Chelsea Werner-Jatzke has an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and she is a 2013 Jack Straw Writer. Her fiction is in the Conium Review and ListenParty.com. She founded Lit.mustest, a reading series, and was editor of Pitkin Review. She teaches writing at Seattle Central Community College.

Matt Muth is the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Pacifica Literary Review. He graduated from the University of Washington's MFA program in 2011 with a concentration in poetry and also teaches Screenwriting and Composition as an adjunct instructor at Digipen Institute of Technology.

Laure-Anne Bosselaar is the author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, Small Gods of Grief (Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry 2001), and A New Hunger (ALA Notable Book Prize). She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College and she currently teaches at the Solstice Low Residency MFA at Pine Manor College and at UCSB.

David Jauss is the author of three story collections, including Glossolalia: New & Selected Stories and the AWP Award-winning Black Maps, two volumes of poetry, and On Writing Fiction. He teaches at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Tim Seibles is the author of several collections of poetry, including Hammerlock, Buffalo Head Solos, and most recently, Fast Animal, which was nominated for a National Book Award in 2012. He is a professor of English at Old Dominion University and visiting faculty for the Stonecoast MFA program.

Karin de Weille has published poetry and essays in the Writers Chronicle and elsewhere, presented at numerous literary conferences, and performed in collaboration with musicians and dancers. She currently teaches at Richard Hugo House in Seattle as well as privately.

Robert Vivian is the author of The Tall Grass Trilogy and two books of meditative essays, Cold Snap As Yearning and The Least Cricking Of Evening. His most recent novel is Water And Abandon. He teaches at Alma College and in the low residency MFA program at The Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Jeffrey Thomson is the author of four books of poems, including Birdwatching in Wartime, winner of both the 2010 Maine Book Award and the 2011 ASLE Award in Environmental Creative Writing, and Renovation. In 2012, he was the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry.

Christopher Bakken is the author of two books of poetry, After Greece and Goat Funeral, and the culinary memoir, Honey, Olives, Octopus. He is also co-translator of The Lions’ Gate: Selected Poems of Titos Patrikios. He teaches at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania.

Poet Marianne Boruch's recent collection, The Book of Hours, won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, 2013. Her eighth collection, Cadaver, Speak, is due out in 2014. She's also written a memoir, The Glimpse Traveler, and two essay collections on poetry. She teaches at Purdue University and Warren Wilson College.

Ann Fisher-Wirth is the author of four books of poems, most recently Dream Cabinet and Carta Marina, and coeditor of the newly published, Ecopoetry Anthology. She has had senior Fulbrights to Switzerland and Sweden. She teaches at the University of Mississippi.

David Lynn has been the editor of the Kenyon Review since 1994. His most recent book is Year of Fire, short stories.

Kimiko Hahn, author of nine poetry collections, including the recent Toxic Flora. A recent Guggenheim Fellow, she teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation at Queens College, CUNY.

Charles Baxter is the author of five novels, five books of short stories, and two books of criticism. He teaches at the University of Minnesota.

Jaquira Diaz is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, the Sun, the Southern Review, Five Chapters, and Pushcart Prize XXXVII.

Wendy Call wrote No Word for Welcome (Grub Street National Book Prize / Nonfiction), and co-edited Telling True Stories. Her current projects include audio translations of multilingual poetry and digital text/audio essays.

Geoff Larson is a musician and Project Director/Curator of The Bushwick Book Club Seattle, a monthly book club that creates original music inspired by poetry and short fiction. He collaborates with local Seattle writers through Seattle’s Jack Straw Writers Program and Richard Hugo House.

Nari Baker is a Seattle-based installation artist whose recent work explores transnational migration and adoption, incorporating oral history, audio narrative, and community-based history. She is a recent Fulbright Fellow and resident artist in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery program.

Judith Roche is the author of three poetry collections and is published in numerous journals. The most recent won an American book Award. She has poems installed in several Seattle area permanent public art pieces and has collaborated with visual artists and musicians.

Tina Hoggatt is a writer and studio artist who incorporates audio narrative, storytelling, and music into her visual art installations. Her installation “Story Chairs” was created through a Jack Straw Artist Residency. She manages digital communications for 4Culture, King County’s cultural agency.

Martha Nichols is the editor-in-chief of Talking Writing, an online literary magazine. Her personal essays and features have been widely published in journals such as Utne Reader, Salon, and the Christian Science Monitor. She teaches in the journalism program at Harvard University Extension School.

Fred Setterberg is the author of Lunch Bucket Paradise: A True-Life Novel and The Roads Taken: Travels Through America’s Literary Landscapes, winner of the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction. He co-wrote Under the Dragon: California’s New Culture and Toxic Nation with Lonny Shavelson.

Andrew Lam is the author of Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora, East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres, and Birds of Paradise Lost. He currently blogs with the Huffington Post and is an editor at New America Media, which he co-founded.

Autumn Stephens is the author of the Wild Women book series, editor of two anthologies of women's writing, and the second-ever NYT Modern Love columnist. A former co-editor of The East Bay Monthly, she is trained in the Amherst Writers method and teaches creative writing in hospitals and privately.

William Wong, a former columnist at the Oakland Tribune; freelance columnist for the San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle, Asian Week, and East-West; and blogger at sfgate.com. He is the author of Yellow Journalist: Dispatches from Asian America; Images of America: Oakland's Chinatown.

Mary Rechner is the author of Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women. She directs the Writers in the Schools program for Literary Arts in Portland, Oregon.

Desmond Spann is on a mission to motivate and inspire positive changes in people’s lives while having a crapload of fun. Under the name DLUXTL (TL=The Light) he performs spoken word, plays keyboard with the Hip-Hop fusion band Speaker Minds, emcees (rap), and produces.

Aricka Foreman's work has appeared in Drunken Boat, Minnesota Review, Vinyl Poetry, the Bakery, the Poetry, and elsewhere. A Poetry MFA Candidate at Cornell University, she has received fellowships from Callaloo and Cave Canem. She is a Poetry Editor for Muzzle Magazine.

Monica Prince is an MFA candidate in poetry at Georgia College and State University where she writes performance poetry and creates choreopoems. She works with the Early College, Georgia College seventh graders, mentoring their undergraduate teachers to teach creative writing.

Janet Hurley is the co-founder of Asheville Writers in the Schools (AWITS) in Asheville, North Carolina, a freelance writer, and adjunct instructor in writing at Warren Wilson College. AWITS organizes a regional spoken word competition for youth each year, Asheville Wordslam.

Andrew Gray is the author of a collection of short fiction, Small Accidents, which was shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Award and an IPPY award in the US. He is the founder and current coordinator of the Optional-Residency MFA Program at The University of British Columbia.

Melissa Bashor is a freelance writer and editor, and the Program Coordinator for the Low-Residency MFA at Queens University of Charlotte, where she received her MFA.

Sara Graefe is a playwright, screenwriter, and television story editor. Her produced work includes Sadly As I Tie My Shoes, Dreamspyre, and Yellow on Thursdays. She is a faculty member in the Optional-Residency MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.

Brooke Warner is publisher of She Writes Press and founder of Warner Coaching Inc. She is the author of two books, What's Your Book? and How to Sell Your Memoir. Brooke’s expertise is in traditional and new publishing. Her website was selected by The Write Life as one of the Top 100 Best Websites for Writers in 2014 and by the Association of Independent Authors as a winner of “Best Websites for Independent Authors.” She lives and works in Berkeley, California. She is actively involved with SheWrites.com, where she blogs twice a month and moderates two groups.

Santee Frazier is the author of a collection of poems Dark Thirty. His poems have appeared Ploughshares, American Poet, Prairie Schooner, and others. He is low residence faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

David Lau is the author of the book of poems, Virgil and the Mountain Cat, and a chapbook called Bad Opposites. He is the co-editor of Lana Turner. He lectures at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

T. Geronimo Johnson is author of the PEN/Faulkner award finalist Hold it Til it Hurts and Welcome to Braggsville, a forthcoming comedy. Director of the the Summer Creative Writing Program at UC Berkeley where he is a Lyman Fellow, he designs creative writing pedagogy curricula.

Benjamin Hale is the author of the novel The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore. He is the recipient of the Bard Fiction Prize and a Michener-Copernicus Award and has been nominated for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the New York Public Library's Young Lions of Fiction Award. He teaches at Bard College.

Shane Book’s debut collection, Ceiling of Sticks, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the GLCA New Writers Award, and it was a Poetry Society of America New American Poet Selection.

David Robson is an award-winning playwright and educator. His many produced plays include Assassin, Playing Leni, and Man Measures Man. Associate professor of English at Delaware County Community College, he is the recipient of the Gould Award for Teaching Excellence in 2010.

Nancy McCurry is a  freelance editor of full length fiction and an award winning writer in short story, essay, and flash fiction. She teaches creative writing and research at Paradise Valley Community College in Phoenix.

Paul Pat is an assistant professor of English at Delaware County Community College in Media, Pennsylvania. He teaches composition and creative writing.

Lloyd Noonan teaches humanities at West Los Angeles College and conducts a weekly creative writing workshop in Culver City. Since 2006, he has taught creative writing at The Pacific Inn, a senior residential facility.

Maya Sonenberg is the author of the story collections Cartographies and Voices from the Blue Hotel. More recent fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Diagram, Web Conjunctions, Fairy Tale Review, New Ohio Review, and the Literarian. She teaches at the University of Washington - Seattle.