Scott Withiam poems have recently appeared in Agni, AGNI ONLINE, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, Ploughshares, and Tar River Poetry Review. He lives and works in Boston where his landlord and roommates and boss are also poets.

Susan Elbe is the author of Eden in the Rearview Mirror (Word Press) and a chapbook, Light Made from Nothing (Parallel Press). Her poems appear or are forthcoming in many journals and anthologies, including Blackbird, diode, MARGIE, North American Review, Salt Hill, and A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-five Years of Women’s Poetry (Calyx Books). Among her awards are the inaugural Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize (Calyx), the Council for Wisconsin Writers Lorine Niedecker Award, and fellowships to Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin where she works as a webmaster for the State housing authority. You can learn more about her at www.susanelbe.com.

Tina Schumann’s manuscript “As If” was awarded the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize for 2010 and will see publication by Parlor City Press this year. Her work received honorable mention in The Atlantic Poetry Writing Contest for 2008 and she is the recipient of the American Poet Prize for 2009 from The American Poetry Journal. She received an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. Her work has appeared or is forthcomng in The American Poetry Journal, The Cimarron Review, Crab Creek Review, Harpur Palate, PALABRA, Poetry International and The Raven Chronicles.  She lives in Seattle, Washington.

Chris Haven’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including Memorious, Relief, Fourteen Hills, The Normal School, and FUGUE. He teaches creative writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, and is at work on a collection of poetry and a novel.

David Harris Ebenbach’s first book of short stories, Between Camelots (University of Pittsburgh Press), won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and the GLCA New Writer?s Award. His poetry has appeared in, among other places, Artful Dodge, Phoebe, Mudfish, and the Journal of the American Medical Association, and he wrote the chapter, “Plot: A Question of Focus,” for Gotham Writers Workshops’ book Writing Fiction (Bloomsbury, USA). Recently awarded a MacDowell Colony fellowship and an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council, Ebenbach has a PhD in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MFA in Writing from Vermont College, and teaches Creative Writing at Earlham College. Find out more at www.davidebenbach.com.

Michelle Bailat-Jones is a writer and translator. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Necessary Fiction, The Kenyon Review, Bordercrossing Berlin, The Quarterly Conversation and Cerise Press. She lives in Switzerland and is at work on a novel.

Robert Root is the author of Recovering Ruth: A Biographer’s Tale, Following Isabella: Travels in Colorado Then and Now, and The Nonfictionist’s Guide: On Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction. He edited the anthology Landscapes With Figures: The Nonfiction of Place and co-edited The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction, now in its fifth edition. He teaches nonfiction creative nonfiction in the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University and at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis.

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.