Jeffery Bahr lives in Colorado and has work published in Chelsea, Court Green, Iowa Review, Pleiades and POOL.

Trina Burke's poems have appeared recently in The Southeast Review, 580 Split, Hayden's Ferry Review and Phoebe. She received her MFA from the University of Montana and is currently working as a freelance copy editor in Seattle.

Rob Carney is the author of two chapbooks of poems and two books of poems, most recently Weather Report (Somondoco Press, 2006).  His writing has appeared in Mid-American Review, Quarterly West, Redactions: Poetry & Poetics, River Styx, and many others, as well as in Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton, 2006).  He lives in Salt Lake City.

Chauna Craig's writing has appeared in several literary journals and books including recent publications in Fourth Genre and You Have Time For This (Ooligan Press, 2007).  She has received awards from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Vira Heinz Foundation, and her work has received honorable mentions in Best American Essays and the Pushcart Prize anthology.  She teaches creative writing at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Kristina Marie Darling is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, where she is currently pursuing a master's degree.  She is the author of five chapbooks of poetry and nonfiction.  Her reviews have appeared or will appear in New Letters, The Mid-American Review, CutBank, Redactions, and other journals.  Recent awards include residencies from the Centrum Foundation and the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts.

Peter Davis' book of poems is Hitler's Mustache. He edited Poet's Bookshelf: Contemporary Poets on Books That Shaped Their Art. His recent poems are in Tight, Fou, and Barrelhouse. He lives in Muncie, Indiana with his sweet kids and wife. He teaches stuff at Ball State University. His poem "Poem Addressing Academics..." was first published at Left Facing Dog.

Brian Evenson is the author of eight works of fiction, most recently The Open Curtain.  A novel, Last Days, and a new story collection, Fugue State, will be published in 2009.  He directs Brown University’s Creative Writing Program and lives and works in Providence, RI.

Asher Ghaffar's work has been featured in CV2, dANDelion, Open Letter, and other journals. His first book of poetry, Wasps in a Golden Dream Hum a Strange Music, will be out this fall with ECW Press. Asher is the recipient of recent grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. Currently, he makes his home in Toronto, where he is working on a doctoral degree in social and political thought.

Noah Eli Gordon has book-length poems forthcoming from Ahsahta Press and Quale Press. He currently teaches at the University of Colorado Denver.

Andrew Grace was a 2006-8 Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University.  Sections of Sancta have appeared or are forthcoming in LIT, Gulf Stream, Washington Square, Mid-American Review, Smartish Pace, Harp & Altar, H_NGM_N, 580 Split and Seattle Review.  His second book Shadeland recently won the 2008 Ohio State University Press / The Journal Award for Poetry.

Claudia Grinnell was born and raised in Germany.  She now makes her home in Louisiana, where she teaches at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.  Her poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Exquisite Corpse, Cream City Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, New Orleans Review, Greensboro Review and others.   Her first full-length book of poetry, Conditions Horizontal, was published by Missing Consonant Press in the fall of 2001.  Ms. Grinnell was the recipient of the 2000 Southern Women Writers Emerging Poets Award.  In 2005, she received the Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship in poetry and was nominated for a Pushcart prize in the Fall of 2006. In early 2007, her second book of poetry, All Roads, was published by Luddite Kingdom Press

Gretchen E. Henderson's poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, Denver Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Among other awards, her writing has been finalist for the Poets & Writers Exchange in Poetry, the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize, and the AWP Award Series in the Novel. Having recently moved from a town of 34,000 in rural Illinois to a city of a few million in Southern California, she's been surprised to feel earthquakes in both places and to mistake the ocean for the rolling prairie.

Rauan Klassnik was born a rabbit and will die a rabbit. His poems have appeared in The Mississippi Review, Sentence, Caesura, MiPoesias, No Tell Motel and other journals. His first book, Holy Land, released April 1st (no joke), 2008, from Black Ocean. Right now, perhaps, Rauan is staring into headlights.

Lawrence Mark Lane lives in Missoula, Montana.

Michael Leong was educated at Dartmouth College (A.B. ’00), Sarah Lawrence College (M.F.A. ’03), and Rutgers University (M.A. ’07) and is currently working on a dissertation about the contemporary long poem and the archive.  His poetry and reviews have appeared in various journals including Bird Dog, Cranky, GutCult, jubilat, Pindeldyboz, Snow Monkey, and Tin House.  More of his translations of Estela Lamat are forthcoming in Metamorphoses.

Michelle Menting will begin her PhD in Creative Writing this fall at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Some of her recent work appears or is forthcoming in Diagram, Boxcar Poetry Review, and Conclave: A Journal of Character. Having always lived near great lakes and rivers, this move to Lincoln means living without a large body of water nearby. But change is always good and the prairie grass is spectacularly tall.

Peter Moore’s work currently appears in recent or forthcoming issues of Raritan, Barrow Street, Pool, Poetry East, Hotel Amerika, Gulf Stream, Hawai'i Review, South Carolina Review, Turnrow, and Quarter After Eight.

Stephen Nelson was born in Motherwell, Scotland in 1970. He has been published in various magazines including elimae and Indefinite Space. He blogs at www.afterlights.blogspot.com.

Originally from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Jordan Sanderson earned a PhD from the University of Southern Mississippi and currently teaches at Auburn University.  His work has appeared in journals such as Mad Hatter’s Review, DMQ Review, and Parthenon West Review, and he has published a chapbook, The Last Hedonist (Pudding House, 2006).

Zach Savich has recent poems in American Letters and Commentary, Court Green, and jubilat.  His first book, Full Catastrophe Living, won the 2008 Iowa Prize.

Meg Sefton graduated from Seattle Pacific University with an MFA in creative writing in August 2008. She lives in Florida where she teaches tenth and eleventh graders the joys of literature and spends her free time with her husband, son, and dog "Cosmo."

Ed Taylor's fiction and poetry have appeared most recently in Southwest Review, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, New Writing (UK), Nth Position (UK), Radical Society, Sentence, Slope, BlaxeVox, Swink, Vestal Review, and on "Fiction in Shorts," a program of NPR-affiliate WXII-FM in Rochester NY.

Craig Morgan Teicher's first book, Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems, won the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry, chosen by Paul Hoover.  His second book, a collection of fables called Cradle Book, from which these pieces come, will be published by BOA Editions in 2010.

Tony Tost is the author of Complex Sleep (Iowa 2007) and Invisible Bride (LSU 2004). He lives in Durham, North Carolina with his family, where he is working on a Ph.D. in English at Duke University focused on myth, technology, and 20th century poetics and art. Recent prose and poetry appear in Hambone, American Literature, Open Letter, Denver Quarterly, Typo, Colorado Review and Octopus.

J. M. Tyree was a Truman Capote - Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction and will be a Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University's Creative Writing Program.

Kellie Wells’ collection of short fiction, Compression Scars, was awarded the Flannery O’Connor award in 2001. Her novel Skin was published in the Flyover Fiction Series by the University of Nebraska Press. She teaches in the MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis.

Elisabeth Whitehead recently had a chapbook published by Cosa Nostra Editions, titled “a pilgrim's traveling kit.”  She is the co-editor of Greatcoat magazine and lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. I've recently had a chapbook published by Cosa Nostra Editions, titled *a pilgrim's traveling kit.*  I'm the co-editor of Greatcoat magazine and live in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia.

Thomas Wiloch is the author of Stigmata Junction, Mr. Templeton's Toyshop, Paper Mask, and Screaming in Code. He also writes the blog "A Man of Few Words," about prose poems and flash fiction.

Corey Zeller has recently been published or accepted in The Literary Review, Poetry East, Drunken Boat, Elimae, Lake Effect, 5_Trope, 3 AM, Word Riot, Snow*Vigate, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He is forthcoming in Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years.  He is currently anticipating the birth of his first child.