Julia Alter grew up mostly in Santa Cruz, California. She has published poems in The Cortland Review, Porter Gulch Review, Calyx and Red Wheelbarrow among others and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is the author of Walking the Hot Coal of the Heart (Hummingbird Press, 2004). Julia lives with her husband, daughter and son in Venice, where she is shining up her second collection.
Jenn Blair is a Park Hall Fellow at the University of Georgia. She has published in MELUS, Copper Nickel, The Tusculum Review, and SNR Review, among others. Her chapbook, All Things are Ordered, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.
Elijah Burrell was born and raised in Mid-Missouri. His poems have appeared most recently in Under One Sun, and he will soon begin working towards an MFA at Bennington College. He currently lives in Jefferson City, Missouri.
Kara Candito is the author of Taste of Cherry (University of Nebraska Press), winner of the 2008 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Her poems and reviews have appeared or will appear in such journals as Blackbird, AGNI, Prairie Schooner, The Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Sycamore Review, The Rumpus, and Best New Poets 2007. She has received awards for her poetry, including an Academy of American Poets Prize and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
Carol Frith, co-editor of Ekphrasis, has chapbooks from Bacchae Press, Palanquin Press, Finishing Line, Rattlesnake and Medicinal Purposes. A full-length collection was just released from David Robert Books. Her work has appeared in such journals as Seattle Review, POEM, Rattle, Rhino, Atlanta Review, Measure, Poetry Kanto (Japan) and others.
Kimberly Groninga is the nonfiction editor of the North American Review and is a lecturer in English at the University of Northern Iowa. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in Briar Cliff Review, Mid American Poetry Review, Stone's Throw Magazine and elsewhere. Her first collection, Other Things that Grow, was released in January by Final Thursday Press. Visit her website at www.kimgroninga.com.
Ryan Holden is a graduate student in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. He has been published most recently in The Blue Guitar and received an Honorable Mention for The Katharine C. Turner Prize of The Academy of American Poets in 2009.
Kip Knott is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Everyday Elegies (Pudding House, 2007). His writing has appeared in numerous journals, including Beloit Fiction Journal, Gettysburg Review, Poet Lore, and The Sun. His second book of poetry, Whisper Gallery, can be accessed online at Mudlark. Currently, Kip lives in Delaware, Ohio, and teaches English at Columbus State Community College.
Christian Nagle holds a PhD with honors in literature and creative writing from the University of Houston. He has published poetry, essays, translations, interviews and prose fiction in The Paris Review, Esquire Japan, Southwest Review, Partisan Review, New England Review, Antioch Review, Subtropics, Connecticut Review, Measure, Kyoto Journal, Quick Fiction, Cimarron Review, and many other magazines. His first collection of poems, Flightbook, is scheduled for publication by Salmon Poetry (Ireland). He lives in Tokyo, where he is translating the collected works of the early modernist, Chuya Nakahara.
Rachel Marie Patterson finished her M.F.A.
at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2010. Her poems
appear in the Superstition Review, Scapegoat, Red River Review,
and Clementine Magazine.
Jessica Piazza was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and received an MA from The University of Texas at Austin, where she co-founded Bat City Review. She now lives in Los Angeles while pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California and helping direct the Loudest Voice reading series. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Agni, Indiana Review, Mid-American Review, Rattle, Barrelhouse, 42 Opus, and Pebble Lake Review, among other places.
Corinna McClanahan Schroeder is currently completing her MFA degree at the University of Mississippi where she is a John and Renée Grisham Fellow. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Hayden’s Ferry Review, Tampa Review, and Measure, and she is the recipient of a 2010 AWP Intro Journals Award in poetry. She lives in Oxford, MS, with her husband Matthew.
