Anne Barngrover is a 2011 graduate of the MFA program at Florida State University. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Florida Review, Big Lucks and iO: A Journal of New American Poetry, among others. She currently writes and teaches in Tallahassee.

Michelle Chan Brown’s Double Agent was the winner of the 2011 Kore First Book Award, judged by Bhanu Kapil. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Harpur Palate, Sycamore Review, Witness, The Missouri Review, Tampa Review, The Concher, textsound, and others. Her chapbook, "The Clever Decoys," is available from LATR Editions. She earned her MFA at the University of Michigan, where she received the Michael R. Gutterman prize. She lives in Pomfret, Connecticut, where she is the Writer-in-Residence at Pomfret School and poetry editor for drunken boat.


Holly Virginia Clark was a 2011 Pushcart nominee and finalist for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship.  Her work appears or is forthcoming in Hunger Mountain, The North American Review, Redactions, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

Lisa Fay Coutley is the author of In the Carnival of Breathing, winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), and Back-Talk, which won the ROOMS Chapbook Contest (Articles Press, 2010). She is currently a doctoral fellow and poetry editor for Quarterly West at the University of Utah. Her work has appeared most recently or is forthcoming in Best New Poets 2010, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Third Coast, Barn Owl Review, RHINO, and on Verse Daily.

A former pre-med lab rat, Heather Foster shed the goggles and sold her soul to poetry. She lives on a 144-acre farm in Sardis, Tennessee, with her husband, 2 sons, and Ozzy the heavy metal rooster. She's an M.F.A. candidate in poetry at Murray State University, and her most recent work is forthcoming in PANK Magazine.

Gretchen Hodgin holds a BA in Russian from the University of South Carolina, which she has never used.  She currently studies creative writing at Johns Hopkins University as a graduate student.  Her work has appeared in, or is forthcoming in, The Lyric, Sewanee Theological Review, and Gargoyle, among a few others.



Amorak Huey recently left the newspaper business after 15 years as a reporter and editor. He teaches professional and creative writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan and can be found online at www.amorakhuey.net. His poems have appeared recently in The Southern Review, Rattle, Subtropics, Indiana Review, Contrary, PANK, and many other journals.

Anna Leahy's book Constituents of Matter won the Wick Poetry Prize and her poems appear in journals such as Crab Orchard Review, Cream City Review, The Journal, and Zócalo Public Square. She has creative nonfiction in a recent issue of The Southern Review and forthcoming in The Pinch, and she co-writes the blog Lofty Ambitions. She teaches in the MFA and BFA programs at Chapman University, where she directs Tabula Poetica, including its annual reading series.

Nick McRae is the author of Mountain Redemption, winner of the Fall 2011 Black River Chapbook Competition from Black Lawrence Press. His poems, reviews, and translations have appeared or will soon appear in Hayden's Ferry Review, Linebreak, Passages North, The Southern Review, Third Coast, and other journals. Formerly a Fulbright fellow in the Slovak Republic and a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, he now studies poetry and teaches creative and analytical writing at The Ohio State University, where he also serves as Poetry Review Editor for The Journal. Nick was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, raised in the northwest Georgia mountains, and currently lives in Columbus, Ohio. 

Kevin Weidner hails from Missouri and currently lives in Tuscaloosa, where he is pursuing an MFA in creative writing at the University of Alabama. His work can be found in Hayden's Ferry Review, storySouth, PANK, Super Arrow, and Midwestern Gothic. He edits 751 Magazine.