bio

Kevin Durkin's poems have appeared in The Dark Horse, Measure, The New Criterion, Poetry, Poetry Daily, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.

Currently a director of communications at the University of Southern California, he resides in Santa Monica.

Alan Dunnett was born in London in 1953. He read English at Oxford before going to drama school. He is now Course Director, MA Screen, Drama Centre London, which is within Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.

A. McHugh studies creative writing at the University of Arkansas, where she is currently pursuing her MFA in creative writing. She has received scholarships from Sewanee Writer's Conference and the West Chester University Poetry Conference. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Crab Orchard Review and Memorious as well as other publications. She is a co-editor of Linebreak, an online literary journal.

Rachel Hadas is Board of Governors Professor of English at the Newark campus of Rutgers University. The latest of her many books of poetry is The River of Forgetfulness (2006); The Ache of Appetite is forthcoming in 2009 from Copper Beech press. She is currently coediting an anthology of Greek poetry in translation from Homer to the present, forthcoming from Norton at the end of 2009.

Gilbert Allen, a frequent contributor to Able Muse, has published four books of verse (In Everything, Second Chances, Commandments at Eleven, Driving to Distraction) as well as the chapbook Body Parts.  His sequence of poems “The Assistant” received the 2007 Robert Penn Warren Prize from The Southern Review.  Other recent work has appear

William Ford  has published two books of poems, The Graveyard Picnic (2002) and Past Present Imperfect (2006) and has a third, Allen & Ellen (a chapbook), soon to be released from Pudding House.  He has appeared most recently in Brilliant Corners, Café Review,  Free Lunch, The Iowa Review, and  Southern Humanities Review.

Timothy Murphy hunts and farms in the Dakotas.

Angelo Giambra's poetry has been featured in Atlanta Review, Ballard Street Poetry Journal and Tipton Poetry Journal. His poem "Timothy, On Foot" won Honorable Mention in Freefall Magazine's annual poetry contest. He lives in Largo, Florida where he is a technical engineer for a large engineering firm.