Michelle Menting lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. Some of her recent or upcoming work can be found in Ampersand Review, Redactions, Superstition Review, Opium, and Pank Magazine. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.

Claudia Serea is a Romanian-born poet who immigrated to the U.S. in 1995. Her poems and translations have appeared in Meridian, Mudfish, Main Street Rag, Harpur Palate, Exquisite Corpse, The Fourth River, The Red Wheelbarrow, among others. She is the author of two poetry collections: Eternity’s Orthography (Finishing Line Press, 2007) and To Part Is to Die a Little, forthcoming from Červená Barva Press. She also writes creative nonfiction, published by The Rambler and The Writers’ Workshop Review. Claudia lives in New Jersey and works in New York for a major publishing company.

Donald Morrill is the author of two volumes of poetry, At the Bottom of the Sky and With Your Back to Half the Day, as well as four books of nonfiction, The Untouched Minutes (winner of the River Teeth Nonfiction Prize), Sounding for Cool, A Stranger’s Neighborhood and Impetuous Sleeper. He has taught at Jilin University, Peoples’ Republic of China, and has been a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Lodz, Poland, as well as the Bedell Visiting Writer in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. For many years, he directed the Writers at the University series at the University of Tampa, and has been a poetry editor of Tampa Review and the University of Tampa Press Poetry Series. Currently, he teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Creative Writing Program at Antioch/Los Angeles and is Associate Dean of Graduate and Continuing Studies at the University of Tampa.

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.