bio

Judith Kunst’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic, Poetry, Southern Poetry Review, Saint Katherine Review, In Posse, LUMINA, Measure, and other publications. Her book, The Burning Word (Paraclete Press) explores the treasure houses of Jewish literary traditions and the Bible. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and lives with her family at La Lumiere School in northwest Indiana.

Len Krisak’s latest books are Afterimage, The Carmina of Catullus, and Ovid’s Erotic Poems. His work appears in the Hudson, Sewanee, PN, and Antioch reviews, and he is the recipient of the Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur, and Robert Frost Prizes. He is also a four-time champion on Jeopardy!

Stephen Kampa has poems published or forthcoming in Yale Review, Smartish Pace, Subtropics, Rattle, First Things, Cincinnati Review, and others. His first book, Cracks in the Invisible, won the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and a gold medal in poetry from the Florida Book Awards. His second book, Bachelor Pad, recently appeared from the Waywiser Press.

Since winning Southwest Review’s Morton Marr Poetry Prize in 2008, Lisa Huffaker’s poems have been published in Southwest Review, Poet Lore, Measure, Southern Poetry Review, Mezzo Cammin, The Texas Observer, and Southern Humanities Review, which recently nominated her for the Pushcart Prize. Lisa’s primary background is classical singing; she holds a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the New England Conservatory, and has sung with The Dallas Opera since 1999.

Barbara Haas has an MFA from UC-Irvine, is an NEA Fellowship recipient (fiction) and teaches in the Creative Writing & Environment MFA program at Iowa State University. She is a repeat contributor to The North American Review, Virginia Quarterly Review and The Hudson Review. Her nonfiction centers on environmental issues in Russia.

J.P. Grasser is originally from Maryland. His work explores the diverse regions he has called home, most insistently his family’s fish hatchery in Brady, Nebraska. He studied English and Creative Writing at Sewanee: The University of the South and is currently an MFA student in poetry at Johns Hopkins University. His work appears or is forthcoming from The Journal, Cream City Review, Ninth Letter Online, The Collagist, and Nashville Review, among others.

Derek Furr is a literature professor and director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College. He is the author of a collection of fiction and essays, Suite For Three Voices (Fomite Press, 2012), and a work of literary criticism Recorded Poetry and Poetic Reception from Edna Millay to the Circle of Robert Lowell (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Semitones, a new collection of prose and poetry with art by Andres San Millan, will be published by Fomite in 2015.

Tamas Dobozy is a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University. He has published three books of short fiction, When X Equals Marylou, Last Notes and Other Stories, and Siege 13: Stories, the last of which won the 2012 Rogers’ Writers Trust of Canada Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the 2012 Governor General’s Award for Fiction. He has published over 50 stories in North American and British journals including Fiction, AGNI, One Story, and Granta, and won an O. Henry Prize in 2011.

Born and bred in New Jersey, Frank De Canio works in New York. He loves music from Bach to Dory Previn, Amy Beach to Amy Winehouse, World Music, Latin, opera. He attends a philosophy workshop on 23rd Street, New York City, and is a fan of foreign film and a student of psychoanalysis. Shakespeare is his consolation, writing his hobby. He likes Dylan Thomas, Keats, Wallace Stevens, Frost, Ginsberg, and Sylvia Plath as poets. He presently holds an Associate’s degree in liberal arts and has been published in diverse magazines in print and online.

Robert W. Crawford lives in Chester, NH. He has published two books of poetry, The Empty Chair, winner of the 2011 Richard Wilbur Award, and Too Much Explanation Can Ruin a Man. His poems, “Odds Are” and “The Empty Chair,” won the 2011 and 2006 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award. His work has appeared in Measure, The Formalist, First Things, Dark Horse, The Raintown Review, The Lyric, Forbes, and many other journals.