bio

A workshop with Cathy Smith Bowers inspired Gail Tyson to write dreams forward as pantoums, and she enjoys the challenges of all poetic forms, from the meticulous minute to the fiendish sestina. As often as she can, she writes at the cabin in the East Tennessee mountains that she shares with her husband, Dick, and border collie, Maggie. Gail earned an MA from Stanford University’s Creative Writing Program, and her work has appeared in America and Still Point Arts Quarterly.

N.S. Thompson lives outside Oxford, UK.

Anne-Marie Thompson’s first book, Audiation, won the 2013 Donald Justice Poetry Prize. She works as a technical writer and musician in Columbia, Missouri.

Marilyn L. Taylor, former Poet Laureate of the state of Wisconsin (2009 and 2010) and of the city of Milwaukee (2004 and 2005), is the author of six collections of poetry.

Hollis Seamon is the author of YA novel Somebody Up There Hates You (Algonquin Young Readers, 2013): Fall 2013 Kids’ Indie Next List pick, 2014 Best Book for Young Adults from the American Library Association, and 2013 Best Teen Fiction from Kirkus Reviews. She is also the author of the short story collection Corporeality (Able Muse Press, 2013): a gold medal winner in the 2014 Independent Publishers Awards, and a finalist for Foreword Review’s 2014 Book of the Year.

Maxine Rosaler’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Southern Review, Glimmer Train, Fifth Wednesday, and New York Press. She is a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fiction Fellowship and a story of hers was cited in an edition of The Best American Short Stories. She is also the author of a number of young adult nonfiction books. “The Uncle” is part of a collection of short stories that take place in New York City during the 1980s.

Jason Phillip Reeser, editor of Saint James Infirmary Books, lives and writes in southwest Louisiana. His ghost story anthology, The Cities of the Dead, which Louisiana Poet Laureate Julie Kane called “a twist of Louisiana Gothic,” is set in the cemeteries of New Orleans. This year he published Kiss of the Lazaretto, the third book in his Lazaretto trilogy, which mixes science fiction and hard-boiled detective thrillers.

Zara Raab’s latest book is Fracas & Asylum (David Robert Books). Earlier books are Swimming the Eel, and The Book of Gretel with narrative poems on the remote lost coast of northern California in an earlier, mythical time.

Kyle Potvin’s poetry has appeared in The New York Times, Measure, The Huffington Post, JAMA, Blue Unicorn, Alimentum, and on BBC’s World Update, among others. She was named a finalist for the 2008 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award. Her first collection of poetry, Sound Travels on Water (Finishing Line Press), co-won the 2014 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award from the New England Poetry Club. She lives in Derry, NH, and helps coordinate the Robert Frost Farm’s Hyla Brook Reading Series.

Scott M. Miller earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from M.I.T. and an MFA in poetry from Antioch University Los Angeles. His work has appeared in Barrow Street, Raintown Review, Barefoot Muse and other journals. When not working on poetry or developing software, Scott might be found in the kitchen kneading dough, outside practicing kung fu, or trying to teach himself Quantum Field Theory. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and young son.