Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator.Since 1967, he has published twenty books of his own poetry, seven books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations of French, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovenian poetry for which he has received many literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize, the MacArthur Fellowship and Wallace Stevens Award.

Charles Simic has three new books: That Little Something (poetry), Renegade (essays) and The Monster Loves His Labyrinth (selections from notebooks), all available at Amazon.com.

Michael Gutierrez grew up in Los Angeles. He received his BA in history from UCLA and an MA in history from Umass-Amherst. He was a finalist in The Atlantic Monthly’s Student Writing Contest, and received 2nd place in The Baltimore Review’s short story contest. He has been published in Pisgah Review, The Historical Journal of Massachusetts, and LA Weekly.

Chase Twichell is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Dog Language (Copper Canyon, 2005). She is also the co-translator, with Tony Stewart, of The Lover of God (poems by Rabindranath Tagore, Copper Canyon), and co-editor, with Robin Behn, of The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach (HarperCollins). Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New & Selected Poems is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2010.

David Blair's first book, Ascension Days, was chosen by Thomas Lux for the 2006 Del Sol Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in the anthologies Zoland Poetry: An Annual of Poems, Translations, and Interviews—Volume One and The Best of Lady Churchhill's Rosebud Wristlet. He is an associate professor at the New England Institute of Art in Brookline, Massachusetts.

MRB Chelko is an instructor at the University of New Hampshire and editorial assistant of the unbound poetry journal Tuesday; An Art Project. Her work has recently appeared (or is forthcoming) in Lumina, Silk Road, LIGHT, Muse & Stone, Hidden Oak, Octothorp, anderbo.com and The Portland Review. She won both 1st and 2nd prize in the 2009 Lumina Poetry Contest judged by Ilya Kaminsky. Chelko's first chapbook, What to Tell the Sleeping Babies (sunnyoutside press), will be released in the fall of this year.

Though raised in upstate New York’s suburban sprawl, Tim Fitzmaurice is, at present, a New Hampshire poet. In 2008, he received a Master of Arts degree in literature from the University of New Hampshire and has since lived in the small city of Dover where he dispatches for emergency services on the midnight shift and teaches the occasional writing class. His work has appeared in such journals as Beloit Poetry Journal, Cairn, and The Onion River Review. He is currently working on publishing his first chapbook.

Jennifer S. Flescher's poetry publications include The Harvard Review, Fulcrum, Lit, and the blog for The Best American Poetry. Her non-fiction publications include Agni-Online, Jubilat, Perihelion, and Poetry Daily. She teaches writing and journalism to college students. She is editor and publisher of Tuesday; An Art Project.

A postcard hanging in Hannah's dining room reads "Hanna is mean." Upon finding it in a box of old photos, Hannah hung the postcard, though she doesn't know who wrote it. Hannah studies poetry at the University of Houston, where she teaches Introduction to Poetry and serves as the Reviews Editor for Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. Her poems have appeared, or will appear, in Hayden's Ferry Review, Cimarron Review, Third Coast, Mid-American Review and others.