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Rachel Hadas

Rachel Hadas is Board of Governors Professor of English at the Newark campus of Rutgers University. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, essays, and translations. Most recently, she co-edited the anthology The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present (Norton, 2009).

A. E. Stallings

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Gregory Dowling

Gregory Dowling grew up in Bristol, UK, and studied at Oxford University. Since 1979 he has lived in Italy; he is a professor of American literature at the University of Venice. Apart from his academic interests he has published four thrillers, set in England and Italy, and he has written and regularly updates the sightseeing pages for the Time Out Guide to Venice. His most recent publication is a guidebook to Byron's Venice.

Cristina Ceron

Cristina Ceron is an independent scholar in English Literature. She completed her Ph.D. at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice with a dissertation on Thomas Hardy’s poetry of memory. She lectured at the University of Verona for six years and took part in several national and international conferences. She has published extensively on Shakespeare, Keats, Byron, Gissing, Owen, Eliot, and of course on Hardy (The Hardy Review, X, 2009).

André Naffis-Sahely

André Naffis-Sahely is a poet and freelance reviewer. He is currently writing a Ph.D. thesis on the work of Michael Hofmann, for which he was awarded an AHRC grant in 2009. He recently edited the Selected Prose of Mick Imlah (forthcoming). Later this year, the German publishing house S. Fischer Verlag will publish a selection of his fables.

Dana Reva de Greff

Dana Reva de Greff is a candidate in the MA program for Creative Writing (Fiction) conducted by the University of Texas at Austin.

Steve Mitchell

Steve Mitchell lives and works in North Carolina. He has published fiction and poetry in Contrary, Straylight, Two Hawks Quarterly, The Adirondack Review, The North Carolina Literary Review, among others. His plays have been performed in various small pockets of the universe. He has recently completed a novel, Body of Trust. Steve has a deep belief in the primacy of doubt and an abiding conviction that great wisdom informs very bad movies.

Maryann D’Agincourt

Maryann D’Agincourt was born in Boston, Massachusetts. An alumna of Simmons College, she has earned two graduate degrees in English literature. Her thesis and orals focused on contrary forms of fiction in early 20th century British literature, selected works of Conrad and Galsworthy. She later was a student in the Humber School for Writers Program, Toronto. In this program, her mentors were M.G. Vassanji, Mavis Gallant, as well as the Artistic Director, Antanas Sileika.

Kevin Dobbs

Kevin Dobbs lived in Asia for 18 years, mostly in China and Japan. He’s published fiction, essays, and poetry in several countries but mostly North America in such journals as Beloit Fiction Journal, Raritan: a Quarterly Review, Mid-American Review, Maverick Magazine (online), Sou’wester, New York Quarterly, Chelsea, Karamu, Carolina Quarterly, New Delta Review, Writer’s Forum, Gulfstream, Florida Review, and many others.

William John Watkins

William John Watkins was a member of the founding faculty at Brookdale Community College in New Jersey from which he recently retired. He has published more than 500 poems in such magazines as Rhino, South Carolina Review, Hellas, and Commonweal. His sonnet, “Wife of My Youth, Look Back, Look Back”, won the 1994 Hellas Award, and his poem, “We Die as Angels and Come Back as Men” won the 2002 Rhysling Award. His short story, “Beggar in the Living Room”, was a Nebula Award finalist.

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