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Teresa Milbrodt

Teresa Milbrodt is the author of the short story collection Bearded Women: Stories (Chizine Publications), the novel The Patron Saint of Unattractive People (Boxfire Press), and the flash fiction collection Larissa Takes Flight: Stories (Pressgang). Her stories, flash fiction and poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, and several have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

 

 

Jeredith Merrin

Jeredith Merrin, brought up in the Pacific Northwest, took her MA in English (specializing in Chaucer), and a PhD from UC Berkeley in Anglo-American Poetry and Poetics. Cup, a special honoree in the 2013 Able Muse Book Award, is her third collection; her previous books are Shift and Bat Ode (University of Chicago Press Phoenix Poets series). She’s authored an influential book of criticism on Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop.

 

Susan McLean

Susan McLean is an English professor at Southwest Minnesota State University. Her first poetry book, The Best Disguise, won the 2009 Richard Wilbur Award, and her second book, The Whetstone Misses the Knife, won the 2014 Donald Justice Poetry Prize. Selected Epigrams, her translations of over five hundred Latin epigrams by Martial, will be published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Her poems and translations have appeared in Measure, Mezzo Cammin, Arion, Transference, Light, and elsewhere.

 

 

Martin McGovern

Martin McGovern earned his MA in philosophy at Stanford University and his PhD in creative writing/literature at the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program. His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in The New Republic, Poetry, The Denver Quarter, Hotel Amerika, Chicago Review, Kenyon Review, Sewanee Review, and elsewhere.

 

David Mason

David Mason’s latest collection is Sea Salt: Poems of a Decade, 2004-2014. His Davey McGravy: Tales to Be Read Aloud to Children and Adult Children, will be out early in 2015, illustrated by Grant Silverstein. A professor at Colorado College, he served as poet laureate of Colorado from 2010 to 2014, and divides his time between Colorado and Oregon.

 

 

Kathryn Locey

Kathryn Locey teaches English at Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia. Most recently, her poems have appeared in Paper Nautilus, Able Muse, and the Voices from the Porch anthology.

 

 

Hailey Leithauser

Hailey Leithauser is the author of Swoop (Graywolf, 2013), which won the Poetry Foundation’s 2012 Emily Dickinson First Book Award. She has recent or upcoming work in Ecotone, Pleiades, Poetry, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Best American Poetry 2014. Last spring, she taught at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD.

 

 

Dorie deWitt LaRue

Dorie deWitt LaRue’s first novel, Resurrecting Virgil (The Backwaters Press), won the Omaha Prize for Fiction. Her poetry collections include The Private Frenzy (University of Nebraska Press) and Seeking the Monsters (New Spirit Press). She is a recipient of a Louisiana DOA Fellowship, a Shreveport Regional Arts Council Fellowship, and four grants from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, The American Poetry Review, The Massachusetts Review and elsewhere.

 

Michael Lacare

Michael Lacare grew up in Long Island, New York and moved to Florida when he was twenty-one. His essays and stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines. He lives in Florida with his wife and children, where he is currently at work on a novel.

 

 

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