Brett Foster’s writing has recently appeared in Image, Kenyon Review, Poetry East, and Raritan, and his first book of poetry will soon be published by Northwestern University Press. He teaches Renaissance literature and creative writing at Wheaton College.

Elizabeth Dodd was just named a University Distinguished Professor at Kansas State University, where she teaches creative writing and literature.  Her most recent book, In the Mind’s Eye: Essays across the Animate World, won the Best Creative Book Award for 2009 from the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment.

Rachel Toor teaches in the MFA program at Eastern Washington University. She writes a monthly column for The Chronicle of Higher Education, and a bi-monthly one for Running Times. Her most recent book is Personal Record: A Love Affair with Running and her website is www.racheltoor.com.

Ingrid Wendt is the author of four full-length books and one chapbook of poems, and a book-length teaching guide. Co-editor of two anthologies, including the Oregon Poetry Anthology (OSU Press) and In Her Own Image: Women Working in the Arts (The Feminist Press and McGraw-Hill), her many honors include 3 Fulbright professorships to Germany, the Oregon Book Award, the Editions Prize, the Yellowglen Award, and  the D.H. Lawrence Award.  She is a poetry consultant for the NCTE and was “featured poet” in the Spring/Summer 2009 issue of the online journal Valparaiso Poetry Review, with three new poems, an essay, and an interview by Barbara Crooker.  She and her husband, Ralph Salisbury, divide their time between Eugene and Seal Rock, Oregon.

Richard Hoffman is the author of two collections of poems, Without Paradise (2002), and Gold Star Road (2007), winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motton Book Award from The New England Poetry Club. Half the House: A Memoir won the Boston Athenaeum Readers’ Prize in 1996. His latest book is Interference and Other Stories (2009). He has twice been a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellow in fiction, and recently received a Brother Thomas Fellowship from The Boston Foundation. He is a Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College in Boston.

Steven Harvey is the author of three books of personal essays, the most recent entitled Bound for Shady Grove from the University of Georgia Press. He edited an anthology from Georgia called In a Dark Wood: Personal Essays by Men on Middle Age and has published pieces in many magazines including Harper’s, DoubleTake, Hope, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, and The Georgia Review.  He teaches English at Young Harris College and creative nonfiction in the Ashland University MFA program.

 L.E. Miller has published short stories in The Missouri Review, Scribner’s Best of Fiction Workshops 1999, and CALYX.  One of her stories was also selected as a PEN/O. Henry Prize Story for 2009.  L. E. Miller holds an M.A. in fiction writing from the University of New Hampshire.  She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and son and is completing a collection of short stories.

Alyson Foster received her undergraduate degree in creative writing at the University of Michigan where she was the recipient of a Hopwood Award for short fiction. She is presently enrolled in the M.F.A. program at George Mason University where she is a Completion Fellow.  Her work has been published in Smokelong Quarterly and is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, and Glimmer Train.

Lisa Norris’s book Toy Guns won the 1999 Willa Cather Fiction Prize and was published by Helicon Nine Press.  Other stories, poems and essays have been published or are forthcoming in South Dakota Review, Notre Dame Review, Fourth Genre, Ascent and others.  She is an assistant professor at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington.

Anne Panning’s short story collection, Super America, won The 2006 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. She has also published a book of short stories, The Price of Eggs, as well as short fiction and nonfiction in places such as Prairie Schooner, Passages North,  Black Warrior Review, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, The Kenyon Review, Five Points,  West Branch, Brevity and many others.  Anne recently published her first poem, “So,” in 32 Poems. Two of her essays have received notable citation in The 2006 and 2007 Best American Essays.  She has just completed a memoir, Viet*Mom: An American Mother of Two Moves to the Mekong.  She lives in upstate New York with her husband and two children, and teaches creative writing at SUNY-Brockport.   Her website is www.annepanning.com