Anna Lowe Weber, originally from Louisiana, currently lives in Alabama where she teaches creative writing at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.  Her work has previously appeared in such magazines as the Iowa Review, the Colorado Review, and Rattle, where a recent poem was chosen as a Rattle Poetry Prize finalist.

Katharine Coles’ fifth poetry collection, Flight, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press.   Recent poems have appeared or been accepted to appear in The Gettysburg Review, The Southwest Review, upstreet, DIAGRAM, Crazy Horse,  and Best Spiritual Writing 2011.  She teaches at the University of Utah and co-directs the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature.  In 2010, she traveled to Antarctica on a grant from the NSF’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program; the poems here are from that project.   In 2009-10, she served as the Inaugural Director of the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute.