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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.

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.

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.

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, 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 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.

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 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.