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.
