Contributors
Opal Palmer Adisa, a full professor at California College of the Arts, is an interna- tionally recognized literary critic, poet, storyteller and artist.
Robert Allen, Jr lives and writes in Wisconsin.
JP Anderson is a teacher from Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, and holds an MFA from New England College. He is currently working on a novel.
Kristine Rae Anderson won first place in Southern Indiana Review’s 2007 Mary C Mohr Poetry Contest. She teaches at Riverside Community College in California.
Sybil Baker, an Assistant Professor of English at University of Tennessee, Chatta- nooga, has published fiction and essays Bitter Oleander, AWP Chronicles, and elsewhere.
Earl S Braggs, English Professor at University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, has authored six books of poetry, most recently In Which Language Do I Keep Silent.
Paula Brancato, is a poet and filmmaker teaching at the Univeristy of Southern California. Recent poems appear in Rattle, Southern California Anthology, and pacificREIVEW.
Mary G Bush is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of North Texas.
Kevin Cantwell teaches print history and poetry at Macon State College. His poetry has appeared in Poetry, New Republic and The Paris Review.
Billy Collins served as US Poet Laureate from 2001-2003. His most recent collec- tions of poetry include The Trouble with Poetry and Ballistics.
Phebe Davidson is a staff writer for The Asheville Poetry Review and reviews editor for Yemassee. Her most recent poetry collection is Fat Moon Rising.
Erica Dawson’s first collection of poems, Big-Eyed Afraid, won the 2006 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. She teaches and writes in Cincinnati, OH.
Cornelius Eady, co-founder of Cave Canem, is the director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame .
Cheri Paris Edwards writes fiction, poetry, and non-fiction in east-central Illinois, where she is the mother of two sons and a yappy German-chocolate poodle.
Bill Garvey earned his MFA in Poetry from New England College. His poems have appeared in 5 AM, Slant, Spitball, and The Worcester Review.
Anna Evans’ poems have appeared in Harvard Review, Atlanta Review, Rattle and Measure. She currently serves as Associate Editor of The Raintown Review.
Ted Gilley’s poems have recently appeared in Poetry Northwest, Free Verse, Rattle, The National Review, and The Mind’s Eye. He lives in Vermont.
Brian Gilmore, a DC writer and public-interest lawyer, is the author of Elvis Presley is Alive and Well and Living in Harlem.
Elton Glaser has published six full-length collections of poems, most recently Here and Hereafter, which won the Ohioana Book Award for Poetry.
Midge Goldberg’s poetry has been published in Measure, Atlanta Review, and in her first full-length collection, Flume Ride. She lives in Derry, New Hampshire.
Michael S Harper, recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s 2008 Robert Frost Medal, teaches at Brown University. His newest poetry collection is Use Trouble.
Nellie Hill’s most recent chapbook, My Daily Walk, was published last year by Pudding House Press. She has a private acupressure practice in Berkeley.
Jackelyn Hoy lives in Chicago, where she spends her time reading, writing, and listening to baseball on the radio. “Mating Rituals” is her first published poem.
Anna James lives in West Virginia, where she facilitates meditation workshops and an artists group. She’s received various awards for her poetry, fiction, and novel-in-progress.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ most recent poetry collection is Red Clay Suite. A native southerner, she’s now Associate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma.
Greg Jones teaches English literature, film, and composition at Salisbury University in Maryland and Eastern Shore Community College in Virginia.
Allison Joseph lives, writes, and teaches in Carbondale, IL, where she’s on faculty at Southern Illinois University. Her poetry collections include Imitation of Life.
Laurie Junkins earned an MFA in poetry from Northwest Institute of Literary Arts (Whidby Writer’s Workshop). Her recent work appears in Nimrod and Poet Lore.
Heather Kamins is a graduate of the Mills College MFA program. She currently lives in Nashville, where she writes poetry and fiction.
William Keener, an environmental lawyer in San Francisco, has published poetry in Rattle, Runes, and other journals.
Alan King, a Caven Canem fellow, has published work in Black Renaissance Noire, Drunken Boat, and Black Arts Quarterly. He lives in Ft Washington, MD.
Willie James King has published poetry in Appalachian Heritage, Rattle, and The Hawaii Pacific Review. His newest collection is The House in the Heart.
Sandra Kohler’s poems have appeared in Natural Bridge and The Missouri Review. Her second book, The Ceremonies of Longing, won the 2002 AWP Poerty Award.
Ellen LaFlèche has worked as a journalist and women’s health educator. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies.
Kathleen Latham, winner of the 2007 Writer’s Digest short story contest, lives in Massachusetts. “On Running Into an Ex-Lover” is her first published poem.
Chloë Joan López received an MA in Poetry from the Johns Hopkins University. Originally from New Mexico, she now lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
devorah major served as San Francisco’s Poet Laureate from 2002-2005. Her recent books include where river meets ocean and Brown Glass Windows.
Eileen Malone, her teaching career behind her, lives and writes in the coastal fog of the necropolis of Colma where San Francisco buries its dead.
Joy Maulitz, a San Francisco attorney, represents indigent criminal defendants on appeal. She hosts an author interview program on KMWR-FM in Pt Reyes Station.
Julianna McCarthy lives above the snow line in California’s Los Padres National Forest. Her work has appeared in Antioch Review, 51%, Stellazine and other journals.
Kevin McKelvey, a native Hoosier, teaches at the University of Indianapolis. A graduate of DePauw University, he earned his MFA at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
Amy Miller works as a trivia-book editor in Ashland, Oregon. Recent poems of hers appear in Northwest Review, ZYZZYVA, and Crab Orchard Review.
David Mills is a poet and critic who’s reviews have appeared in Rolling Stone and The Village Voice and poetry in The Pedestal Magazine.
Derek Mong, the 2008-2010 Axton Poetry Fellow at the University of Louisville, has recent work appearing in The Kenyon Review, Cream City Review, and Pleiades.
Kitty Nard lives in Southern California, where she teaches at Cal State Northridge. Her poetry and fiction has appeared in 51%, Roar, Watershed, and others.
Kathe L Palka, a lifelong New Jersey poet and author of two chapbooks, is a member of US1 Poets’ Cooperative and production editor for US1 Worksheets.
Ron Pearson, a member of the North Carolina Writers’ Network, is a slowly emerging poet, supporting himself with a day job as a mathematical data analyst.
Iain Haley Pollock, a Cave Canem fellow, lives in Philadelphia, teaches at Chestnut Hill Academy, and holds an MFA from Syracuse University.
Ronald Primeau, English Professor at Central Michigan University, has published books on Edgar Lee Masters, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Herbert Woodward Martin.
JoAnne Preiser, author of the chapbook Confirmation, lives, writes, and teaches in Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in Penwood Review, Inkwell, and The Ledge.
Inès Pujos, a recent high school graduated, will be studying poetry at Columbia College in Chicago. Her poems have received national attention and writing awards.
Diana Raab’s writing has appeared in Rosebud, Oracle, Red River Review, and Poetica. Her recent memoir is Regina’s Closet: Finding my Grandmother’s Secret Journal.
Jay Rubin teaches writing at the College of Alameda, across the bay from San Francisco, where he lives with his wife and son.
Wanda Sabir, a poet, journalist, and writing instructor at The College of Alameda, is also CEO of Maafa in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Ed Sams, a Santa Cruz writer, has been widely published. He and his wife Sally own and operate the Yellow Tulip Press.
Jordan Sanderson, having earned a PhD in Creative Writing from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, now teaches at Auburn University.
Reginald Shepherd is the editor of The Iowa Anthology of New American Poets and Lyric Postmodernists. A recipient of numerous grants and honors, his poetry is widely published.
Evie Shockley is the author of a half-red sea and The Gorgon Goddess. A Cave Canem graduate fellow, she teaches African-American literature and creative writing at Rutgers University.
giovanni singleton is founding editor of nocturnes (re)view, a journal dedicated to the work of artists and writers of the African Diaspora.
Mbembe Milton Smith’s Selected Poems, published in 1986, is available through BkMk Press.
Bianca Spriggs, an Affrilachian poet and Cave Canem fellow, enjoys living, working, and educating in the Bluegrass region surrounding Lexington, KY.
Jeanine Stevens’ won first place in poetry from the Stockton Arts Commission and the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference. Recent poems appear in Poet Lore and Quercus.
Janine Surmick, an MFA student at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, lives in a tiny overpriced studio apartment. “Kaleidoscope” is her first published poem.
Joyce Sutphen teaches literature and creative writing at Gustavus Adolphus College in St Peter, Minnesota. Her most recent poetry collection is Naming the Stars.
Truth Thomas’ poems have appeared in Poet Lore, Quiddity, and The Henniker Review. His newest collection, A Day of Presence, is available through Flipped Eye Press.
Anastacia Tolbert is a writer, Cave Canem fellow, journalist, playwright, and docu-mentarian living in Seattle. Her poetry collection is Baring My Soul.
Tana Jean Welch, born and raised in Fresno, California, is currently a PhD candi-date at Florida State University. Recent poems appear in Rhino and Crab Orchard Review.
Irene Willis’ poetry collections include They Tell Me You Danced and At the Fortune Cafe, the latter awarded the 2005 Violet Reed Haas Poetry Prize.
Al Young’s most recent books are Coastal Nights and Island Afternoons: Poems 2001-2006 and Something about the Blues.
