ANDREA REXILIUS is currently working towards her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Denver. She is the editor of the online journal Parcel and assistant editor of the Denver Quarterly. Her chapbook To Be Human is To Be A Conversation was published by Horse Less Press in 2008.
ANDY FITCH is the author of 60 Morning Walks (Editions Eclipse, 2008). 10 Walks/2 Talks, his collaboration with Jon Cotner, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse.
BARBARA MALOUTAS is the author of In a Combination of Practices (New Issues) and Practices (New Michigan Press/Diagram). Her work has appeared in journals including Aufgabe, FreeVerse, Segue, Tarpaulin Sky, Good Foot, The New Review of Literature, bird dog, dusie, elimae, Greatcoat and OR. Beard of Bees out of Chicago published an online chapbook, Coffee Hazilly in 2007. Maloutas won the 2008 Sawtooth Poetry Prize for the whole Marie. She teaches book structures at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.
BROOKLYN COPELAND was born in Indianapolis in 1984. Chapbooks of her poetry are available electronically with Scantily Clad Press and Ungovernable Press. Print chapbooks are forthcoming with Greying Ghost Press, Spooky Girlfriend Press, Further Adventures Press, Dancing Girl Press, and Wyrd Tree Press. She is the founding editor of Taiga Press, which publishes the journal Taiga and the Tundra Chapbook Series.
CARA BENSON edits Sous Rature. Her chapbook Quantum Chaos and Poems: A Manifest(o)ation (BookThug) co-won the 2008 bpNichol Prize. Other chaps include He Writes (No Press), UP (Dusie Kollectiv), and Spell/ing ( ) Bound (ellectrique press) with Kai Fierle-Hedrick and Kathrin Schaeppi. Benson edited the interdisciplinary book Prediction forthcoming from Chain. She lives and writes in the analog world of upstate NY. Her online home is necessetics.
CECILY IDDING’S poems have appeared in jubilat, Meridian, Spinning Jenny, and Verse Daily. With Chris Hosea, she edits The Blue Letter, a free direct-mail poetry newsletter (theblueletter@gmail.com).
DAN BEACHY-QUICK is the author of A Whaler's Dictionary. He teaches in the MFA Writing Program at Colorado State University.
DOBBY GIBSON’S second book, Skirmish, was recently published by Graywolf Press. www.dobbygibson.com.
ELISE FICARRA is a poet and writer living in San Francisco. In March, 2008 she traveled to Cuidad Juarez as part of a human rights delegation to document abuse and violations occurring against residents of Lomas Del Poleo—a small agrarian settlement which has become the center of a land dispute due to potential industrial and corporate development on both sides of the border. The delegation’s report can be found at http://www.pasodelsur.com/nahrdreport.pdf. For more information on Lomas Del Poleo, and related struggles in Segundo Bario, one of the oldest neighborhoods of El Paso, Texas, see http://pasodelsur.com/.
EMILY PETTIT’S work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Invisible Ear, Forklift Ohio, and Conduit. She lives in Northampton, MA where she is an editor for the online literary journal notnostrums and Factory Hollow Press.
ERIC BAUS is the author of The To Sound (Verse Press/Wave Books) and Tuned Droves (Octopus Books). New poems appear in Parcel, Front Porch, Caketrain, and Little Red Leaves. He lives in Denver and edits Minus House Chapbooks.
JESSE MORSE adopted a puppy and named him Hank, after Hank Stamper. He has an interview with Sikelianos up on Jacket, and a review of Brenda Coultas' Marvelous Bones of Time there too. Work recently appeared in Mirage #4 Period(ical) and 31 from Crane's Bill Books. Work forthcoming in Vanitas. He is engaged to the lovely Regan Case.
JOSHUA MARIE WILKINSON lives in Chicago, IL.
JULIA STORY’S recent work has appeared in Absent, Moonlit, Ploughshares, and Indiana Review. She lives in Somerville, MA.
KRISTIN NACA lives in Minneapolis and teaches in St. Paul, at Macalester College. Her manuscript, Bird Eating Bird, was selected for the mtvu National Poetry Series Prize and will be published by Harper Perennial, in September 2009.
LARA GLENUM is the author of two books of poetry: The Hound of No (Action Books, 2005) and the just-released Maximum Gaga (Action Books, 2009). She is also the co-editor, with Arielle Greenberg, of Gurlesque, an anthology of contemporary women's poetry and visual art (Saturnalia Books, 2010). She lives in Athens, GA.
MATTHEW COOPERMAN is the author of DaZE (Salt Publishing, 2006) and A Sacrificial Zinc (Pleiades/LSU, 2001), as well as three chapbooks, Still: (to be) Perpetual (Dove | Tail Poetry, 2007), Words About James (Phylum Press, 2005) and Surge (Kent State, 1998). Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in New American Writing, Electronic Poetry Review, Pool, Cannibal, Free Verse, Denver Quarterly and Gutcult, among others. A founding editor of Quarter After Eight, and current poetry editor of Colorado Review, he teaches poetry at Colorado State University.
MICAH MATTIX is a Lecturer in the English Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His first book, Frank O'Hara and the Poetics of Saying 'I', is forthcoming with Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
MICHAEL EARL CRAIG is the author of Can You Relax in My House (2002, Fence Books) and Yes, Master (2006, Fence Books). He has poems soon to appear in Washington Square, The Believer, and Hoboeye sometime late February 2009. He is from Dayton, Ohio and lives near Livingston, Montana where he shoes horses for a living.
NATALIE KNIGHT recently moved to Albany, NY where she teaches and studies English. She has spent 33% of her life on islands in the South Pacific and Puget Sound, so she is one third Islander. Her chapbook Xenia is forthcoming from Furniture Press in April 2009.
NOAH ELI GORDON is the author of several collections, including Novel Pictorial Noise (Harper Perennial 2007). The optioning of a screenplay adaptation of his book The Frequencies is currently in negotiation.
REBECCA GUYON received her MFA in poetry from St. Mary's College of California in May 2008. She currently lives in Lyon, France, but will return to her home in Oakland next year.
ROB MACDONALD lives in Boston and is the editor of the online journal Sixth Finch. His poetry has appeared in Hanging Loose, Tears in the Fence and Beacon Street Review.
TYLER FLYNN DORHOLT is finishing up his M.F.A. in Poetry at Columbia College Chicago, where he teaches first-year writing and serves as poet-in-residence for the Chicago Poetry Center's Hands on Stanzas Program. He is co-editor of the journal Tammy, the Columbia Poetry Review, and on the reading board for Hotel Amerika. His poems most recently appear in or are forthcoming in Euphemism, Hawk & Handsaw, Quarterly West, and Action, YES.