Kimberly Abruzzo is a graduate of Emerson College with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Writing. Her work has been seen in Can We Have Our Ball Back? A writer currently residing in Cambridge, MA, she believes the world is very vast, and should be experienced accordingly. By the time this poem is published, she will either have or have not achieved her dream of experiencing the Aurora Borealis over Northern Norway. (kimberly.abruzzo@gmail.com)
Recommended poet: Bill Knott.
Helene Achanzar is a Kundiman Fellow and an undergraduate student at the University of Iowa. She procrastinates at www.heleneiswaiting.blogspot.com (heleneiswaiting@gmail.com)
Recommended poet: Richard Siken.
Ruth Doan, 33, is a reading teacher in Chicago, moving to San Fransisco to continue this work in January 2008. She has an MFA in poetry from Western Michigan University. Consumate word geek, lover, teacher, day-dreamer. (toothied2002@yahoo.com)
Recommended poets: Beckian Fritz Goldberg, John Koethe.
Jéanpaul Ferro is a 4-time Pushcart Prize nominee. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in Cortland Review, Hawaii Review, Portland Monthly, Brick Literary Journal, Newport Review, Review Americana, Pedestal Magazine, and Identity Theory. His poetry has been featured on WBAR radio in New York City and his short fiction has appeared in The Plaza’s Masterpiece Series. He currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island. (jeanpaulferro@netzero.net)
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Jennifer Gravley makes her way in Columbia, Missouri. Recent work can be found online in The Dirty Napkin, Boston Literary Review, 400 Words, and Six Sentences. (jygravley@gmail.com)
Recommended poet: Rebecca Aronson
Graham Hillard holds an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. He lives in Nashville, TN, where he teaches Creative Writing at Trevecca Nazarene University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Dirt, Skyline Review, Tar River Poetry, and New York Quarterly.
Recommended poets: Gregory Orr, Stephen Dunn.
Rathanak Michael Keo is a Kundiman Fellow. He is currently serving as Co-Chair for the IMPAACT, Identifying the Missing Power of Asian Americans in Connecticut, 2007 conference which will be held at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. He can be found at www.keoram.blogspot.com (keoram@gmail.com )
Recommended poets: Regie Cabico, Jack Gilbert.
Alex Lemon's poetry collections include Hallelujah Blackout (forthcoming in 2008 from Milkweed Editions), Mosquito (Tin House Books 2006) and the chapbook At Last Unfolding Congo (horse less press 2007). A memoir is also forthcoming from Scribner. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous magazines, including AGNI, BOMB, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Open City, Pleiades and Tin House. His translations (with Wang Ping) of a number of contemporary Chinese poets have appeared in Tin House, Artful Dodge, New American Writing and other journals. Among his awards are a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2006 Minnesota Arts Board Grant. He co-edits LUNA: A Journal of Poetry and Translation with Ray Gonzalez and is a frequent contributor to The Bloomsbury Review. In the spring he will teach at California Lutheran University.
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Robert McDonald's poems have appeared in Court Green, Southern Poetry Review, Gertrude, and 42 Opus, among many others. He lives in Chicago, where he works as the buyer for an independent bookstore. He also the co-author of the book A Field Guide to Gay and Lesbian Chicago. (robmc1002@yahoo.com)
Recommended poet: Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Tomas Q. Morin studied at Texas State University and Johns Hopkins University. He has work published or forthcoming in Ploughshares, New Orleans Review, Boulevard, and Slate. (ezekiel371@yahoo.com).
Recommended poet: Gerald Stern
Gregg Mosson's first book of poetry Season of Flowers and Dust is forthcoming from Goose River Press in November 2007. He edits the annual journal Poems Against War, including most recently Poems Against War: Music & Heroes (www.poemsagainstwar.com). He has an MA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, where he was a teaching fellow and lecturer. His commentary and poetry have appeared in The Baltimore Review, The Baltimore Sun, Loch Raven Review, Beauty/Truth: A Journal of Ekphrastic Poetry, and other places.
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Miguel Murphy's poems have appeared in Willow Springs, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and the Hawai’i Review. His first book, A Book Called Rats, was awarded the 2002 Blue Lynx Prize from Washington State University’s Lynx House Press and was re-printed by Eastern Washington University Press in 2007.
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James Owens has two books of poetry scheduled for publication this fall: An Hour is the Doorway, from Black Lawrence Press, and Frost Lights a Thin Flame, from Mayapple Press. Recent or upcoming publications include Birmingham Poetry Review, Blue Fifth Review, Mimesis, Galatea Resurrects and The Pedestal Magazine. He lives in La Porte, Ind., with his wife and three children and maintains a blog at klagewelt.blogspot.com (anhaga1066@yahoo.com)
Recommended poet: Eileen Tabios.
Geoff Sanderson is a retired RAF Physical Education Officer; after 34 years knocking around the world, he now lives in North Yorkshire, England with his wife Jill - an amateur artist. His main interests are hill-walking, photography, writing traditional and modern poetry, writing haiku, and creating modern photo-haiga (photography combined with haiku). Geoff's photography and haiga have appeared in Vers Libre Quarterly as guest artist, and in Simply Haiku, Haiga Online, Haiku Hut, Short Stuff, AHAPoetry Review, and soon in Moonset The Newspaper.
Recommended poet: Pris Campbell.
Donna Vorreyer lives in the Chicago area with her husband and son who have both become accustomed to seeing her with a journal and a pen. She is a middle school teacher and spends her days trying to convince teenagers that words are interesting and important. Her work has been published in many print and online journals including New York Quarterly, Flashquake, After Hours: A Chicago Journal of Literature and Art, and Literary Mama. (derfwad@yahoo.com)
Recommended poet: Douglas Goetsch.
Joe Wilkins, though born and raised in eastern Montana on a stretch of high prairie everyone calls the Big Dry, now teaches writing at Waldorf College in Forest City, Iowa. His work has been recently published, or is forthcoming, in the Georgia Review, the Missouri Review, Tar River Poetry, Pleiades, Orion, and Boxcar Poetry Review, among other literary magazines. (jwilkins40@hotmail.com)
Recommended poets: Michael McGriff, Rebecca Wee.
Amanda Yskamp has published work in Threepenny Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Georgia Review, and Caketrain, among others. She lives with poet Douglas Larsen and their two children on the 10-year flood plain of the Russian River, where she teaches correspondence courses and writes food articles for the local free paper. (yskamp@sonic.net)
Recommended poet: Bob Hicok.