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David Alpaugh's first collection, Counterpoint, won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize from Story Line Press. Journals that have published his poetry include Evergreen Review, The Formalist, Light, Poetry, Raintown Review, Rattle, The HyperTexts, and Zyzzyva. His essays—"The Professionalization of Poetry" and "What's Really Wrong with Poetry Book Contests"—have been widely discussed on and off line.

Bruce Taylor' is  Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire is the author of seven collections of poetry,  including Pity the World: Poems Selected and New, and  editor of eight anthologies including, with Patti See,  Higher Learning: Reading and Writing About College. His  poetry, translations and fiction have appeared in such places as Carve Magazine, The Chicago Review, The Columbia Review, The Nation, The New York Quarterly.

Amit Majmudar is a diagnostic radiologist specializing in nuclear medicine. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife and twin sons. His first book, 0',0', is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press/TriQuarterly Books. His poetry appears widely.

Cally Conan-Davies is a scholar and teacher who has researched and written widely on  D.H. Lawrence and Depth Psychology. She is a practising Bibliotherapist, and runs her own Adult Education business which aims to keep literature and the arts at the heart of community life. Cally lives on the road, by her heart.

In 2007, Brian Culhane was awarded The Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson Prize and his winning manuscript, The King's Question, was published the following year by Graywolf Press. Last summer he spent time at the MacDowell Colony as a writing fellow. He teaches English and film at Lakeside School in Seattle.

Jane Hammons teaches writing at UC Berkeley and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her most recent writing appears in Columbia Journalism Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Opium Magazine, Slow Trains, and Word Riot.

Tobey Hiller writes fiction and poetry.  Her novel Charlie’s Exit was published in 2002 (EdgeWork, Boulder), and three books of her poetry, Crossings, Certain Weathers (Oyez, 1980 and 1987) and Aqueduct (Clear Mountain Press, 1993), have been published.  Her poetry and fiction have appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Abraxas, Five Fingers Review, Caliban, Transfer, Milkweed Chronicle, Berkeley Poetry Review, Giants Play Well in the Drizzle, Brief, The Poetry Flash, A Fine Madness, Embers, B