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Michael Aakhus听has been professor of printmaking and painting at the 91社区 since 1977, and currently serves as the dean for the College of Liberal Arts. He was born in Minnesota on the Canadian border and attended Bemidji State University where he earned a BA in art and art history. Aakhus received an MFA in printmaking, painting, and drawing from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, and in 1976-77 he was the recipient of a grant to continue his creative work with the Roswell Artist in Residence Program where he spent a year painting and making prints in New Mexico.

Curtis Bauer听is a poet and translator; his most recent collection of poetry is The Real Cause for Your Absence (C&R Press, 2013); his recent translations include Eros Is More, by Juan Antonio Gonz谩lez Iglesias (Alice James Books, 2014); From Behind What Landscape, by Luis Mu帽oz (forthcoming from Vaso Roto Ediciones in 2015); and Baghdad and Other Poems, a bilingual chapbook of poems by Jorge Gimeno (forthcoming from Poets@Work Press in 2015). Bauer is the publisher and editor of Q Avenue Press Chapbooks and Broadsides, Spanish Translations editor for From the Fishouse, and he teaches at Texas Tech University.

Jenna Bazzell has an MFA from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. She won the 2010 AWP Intro Journal Award for her poem 鈥淲et Field鈥� and received publication in Hayden鈥檚 Ferry Review. She received Honorable Mention from the Academy of American Poets Prize for her poems 鈥淚nto the Damp Woods鈥� and 鈥淒rought.鈥� Other publications are in Passages North, Cream City Review, Crab Orchard Review, Sou鈥檞ester, and Southern Indiana Review. She is the associate editor of Cimarron Review and publishes interviews of contemporary poets on PoemoftheWeek.org.

Adam Clay听is the author of A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World (Milkweed Editions, 2012) and The Wash (Parlor Press, 2006). A third book of poems is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, Crab Orchard Review, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, The Kenyon Review Online, Black Warrior Review, Iowa Review, The Pinch, and elsewhere. Clay co-edits TYPO Magazine and teaches at the University of Illinois Springfield.

Ansel Elkins is the author of Blue Yodel, which won the 2014 Yale Series of听Younger Poets Prize. Her poems have appeared in The American Scholar, The听Believer, Oxford American, Parnassus, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.听She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the听North Carolina Arts Council, and the American Antiquarian Society, as well听as a 鈥淒iscovery鈥�/Boston Review award. In 2014 she was The Paris Review Writer-in-Residence at the Standard East Village. Born in Anniston, Alabama, she was听educated at Sarah Lawrence College and the University of North Carolina at听Greensboro.

Stephen Frech has published three volumes of poetry: Toward Evening and the听Day Far Spentwon the 1995 Wick Poetry Chapbook Contest; If Not For These听Wrinkles of Darkness won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize (2001); and The听Dark Villages of Childhood won the 2008 Mississippi Valley Poetry Chapbook Prize.听A fourth volume, A Palace of Strangers Is No City, a sustained narrative of prose听poetry/flash fiction, was published by Cervena Barva Press in 2011. His translation听from the Dutch of Menno Wigman鈥檚 book of poems Zwart als kaviaar/Black as听Caviar was published in 2012. He has been the recipient of the Elliston Poetry听Writing Fellowship, the Milton Center Post-Graduate Writing Fellowship, and听grants from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and the Illinois Arts Council. Frech听is founder and editor of Oneiros Press, publisher of limited edition, letterpress听poetry broadsides, and associate professor of English at Millikin University.

Benjamin S. Grossberg earned an MFA and PhD in creative writing and听literature from the University of Houston. He is the author of the chapbook The听Auctioneer Bangs His Gavel(2006), winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Series,听and the full-length poetry collections Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath (2007);听Sweet Core Orchard (2009), winner of a 2010 Lambda Literary Award; and Space听Traveler (2014). He teaches English and creative writing at the University of听Hartford. Grossberg is the assistant poetry editor of the Antioch Review.

Rebecca Gayle Howell is the author of Render/An Apocalypse (CSU, 2013),听which was selected by Nick Flynn for the Cleveland State University First Book听Prize. She is also the translator of Amal al-Jubouri鈥檚 Hagar Before the Occupation/Hagar After the Occupation(Alice James Books, 2011). Among her awards are听two fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center and a Pushcart Prize. Native to听Kentucky, Howell is the poetry editor at Oxford American.

Josefine Klougart is one of Scandinavia鈥檚 most important writers. Her debut听novel Rise and Fall (Rosinante, 2010) contributed to her receiving the Nordic听Council Literature Prize in 2010. She has since published three other novels:听The Halls (2011), One of Us is Sleeping (2012), and On Darkness (2013). Her work听has appeared in Salamander, World Literature Today, and Fjords. She is the editor听of the Danish literary journal The Blue Gate.

Dorianne Laux鈥檚 fifth collection, The Book of Men, winner of The Paterson听Prize, is available from W.W. Norton. Her fourth book of poems, Facts about听the Moon, won The Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore听Marshall Poetry Prize. Laux is also author of Awake(Carnegie Mellon Classic听Contemporary); What We Carry (finalist for the National Book Critic鈥檚 Circle听Award); and Smoke, as well as two fine small press editions, The Book of Women听and Dark Charms, both from Red Dragonfly Press. Co-author of The Poet鈥檚听Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry, Laux is the recipient of three Best American Poetry Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, two fellowships from The National听Endowment for the Arts, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Shara Lessley is the author of Two-Headed Nightingale. Her poems have听appeared in Plougshares, The Missouri Review, New England Review, Colorado听Review, The Kenyon Review, and Pleiades, among others. A former Stegner Fellow听at Stanford, Lessley is the recipient of a 2015 Artist Fellowship in Poetry from the听National Endowment for the Arts.

Ada Lim贸n is the author of three books of poetry, Lucky Wreck, This Big Fake听World, and Sharks in the Rivers. She received her MFA in poetry from New York听University. Lim贸n has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for听the Arts, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and was one of the judges听for the 2013 National Book Award in Poetry. She works as a freelance writer and splits her time between Lexington, Kentucky, and Sonoma, California (with a听great deal of New York in between). Her new book of poems, Bright Dead Things,听is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in fall 2015.

Marc McKee is the author of What Apocalypse?, which won the New Michigan听Press/DIAGRAM 2008 Chapbook Contest; Fuse (Black Lawrence Press, 2011);听and Bewilderness (Black Lawrence Press, 2014). His work has appeared in journals听such as Barn Owl Review; Boston Review; Cimarron Review; Conduit; Crazyhorse; DIAGRAM; Forklift, Ohio; LIT; and Pleiades, among others. He teaches at the听University of Missouri at Columbia, where he lives with his wife, Camellia听Cosgray.

Nick McRae is the author of Mountain Redemption (Black Lawrence Press, 2013)听and The Name Museum (C&R Press, 2014) and editor of Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets(Sundress Publications, 2013). His work has appeared in Cincinnati听Review, The Southern Review, Third Coast, and other journals. He is an associate听editor of 32 Poems. McRae received an MFA in writing from Ohio State University, and he is currently Robert B. Toulouse Doctoral Fellow in English at听the University of North Texas.

Fabio Mor谩bito is a Mexican writer and poet. Born in Egypt to Italian parents,听he spent his childhood in Milan. From the age of fifteen he has lived in Mexico听City where he has written鈥攊n Spanish鈥攖hree books of poetry, Lotes bald铆os听(which won the 1995 Carlos Pellicer Prize), De lunes todo el a帽o (which won the听Aguascalientes National Prize for Poetry in 1991), and Alguien de lava; a book of听prose, Caja de herramientas (1989); three collections of short stories, La lenta furia听(1989), La vida ordenada (2000) and Grieta de fatiga (which won the ntonin听Artaud Prize in 2006); and three books of essays, El viaje y la enfermedad (1984),听Los pastores sin ovejas (1996), and El idioma materno (2014).

Jon Tribble鈥檚 first collection of poems, Natural State, will be published by Glass听Lyre Press in 2016. His poems have appeared in print journals and anthologies,听including Ploughshares, Poetry, Crazyhorse, Quarterly West, South Dakota Review, and The Jazz Poetry Anthology, and online at The Account,听Levure litt茅raire, Prime Number, and Story South. Tribble teaches at Southern Illinois听University Carbondale, where he is the managing editor of Crab Orchard Review听and the series editor of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry published by SIU Press

Mark Wagenaar is the winner of numerous poetry awards, including, in the听past two years, the New Letters Poetry Prize, The Pinch Poetry Award, the James听Wright Poetry Prize, the Poetry International Prize, and the Yellowwood Poetry听Award. This past summer he served as the University of Mississippi鈥檚 2014听Summer Poet in Residence. His debut manuscript, Voodoo Inverso, was the 2012听winner of the University of Wisconsin Press鈥� Felix Pollak Prize, and his second听manuscript, The Body Distances, was first runner-up in Tupelo Press鈥� 2014 Dorset听Prize. Recent acceptances or publications include The New Yorker, Narrative听Magazine, Field, the Chattahoochee Review, Shenandoah, and the Laurel Review.听He and his wife, poet Chelsea Wagenaar, are doctoral fellows at the University听of North Texas in Denton.

Alexander Weinstein is the director of The Martha鈥檚 Vineyard Institute of听Creative Writing, and his short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in听Cream City Review, Notre Dame Review, Pleiades, PRISM International, Quarter听After Eight, Sou鈥檞ester, Zone 3, and other journals.

Phillip B. Williams is a Chicago, Illinois, native. He is the author of Thief in听the Interior (Alice James Books, 2016). A Cave Canem graduate and recipient听of scholarships from Bread Loaf Writers鈥� Conference and a 2013 Ruth Lilly Fellowship, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Anti-, Callaloo, Kenyon听Review Online, Poetry, The Southern Review, West Branch, and others. Williams received his MFA in creative writing from Washington University in St. Louis.听He is the poetry editor of the online journal Vinyl Poetry.

Contributing editor Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum is a poet, professional editor, and educator living in Denver, CO. He is the author of a collection of poems, ; editor of ; series editor of ; founder of FineArtsEditing.com; and founder and managing editor of . Learn more at .

Sam Grieve was born in Cape Town, and lived in Paris and London prior to听settling down in Connecticut with her husband and two sons. She graduated from听Brown University; received an MA in English from King鈥檚 College, London; and听has worked as a librarian, a bookseller and an antiquarian book-dealer. Her stories听and poems have recently appeared in 10,000 Tons of Black Ink, Cactus Heart,听Forge, Grey Sparrow Journal, Qwerty, Sanskrit, and [PANK], amongst others.

Leyna Krow has previously appeared in Hayden鈥檚 Ferry Review, Ninth Letter,听Prairie Schooner, South Dakota Review, and other publications. She holds an MFA听from Eastern Washington University.

David James Poissant鈥檚 stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic,听The Chicago Tribune, Glimmer Train, The New York Times, One Story, Playboy,听Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and in the New Stories from the South and Best听New American Voices anthologies. His writing has been awarded the Matt Clark听Prize, the George Garrett Fiction Award, the RopeWalk Fiction Chapbook Prize,听the GLCA New Writers Award, and the Alice White Reeves Memorial Award听from the National Society of Arts & Letters, as well as awards from The Chicago听Tribune, The Atlantic Monthly and Playboy magazines. Poissant teaches in the听MFA program at the University of Central Florida and lives in Orlando with his听wife and daughters. His debut short story collection, The Heaven of Animals, was听published by Simon & Schuster in 2014. He is currently at work on a novel,听Class, Order, Family, also forthcoming from Simon & Schuster.

Kevin Callaway is a graduate of Belmont University and winner of the 2013听Treadway Creative Writing Award. He lives in Milan, where he works as a听linguistic assistant and educator. His essays have appeared in SLAB, Gravel, and Extract(s).

Lisa Nikolidakis鈥檚 work has appeared or is forthcoming in Brevity, Passages听North, The Rumpus, [PANK], The Greensboro Review, Los Angeles Review, and听elsewhere. She currently teaches creative writing in the Midwest.

Michael Waters has written eleven books of poetry, including Celestial听Joyride (BOA Editions, 2016); Gospel Night (BOA, 2011); Darling Vulgarity, a听finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (BOA, 2006); and Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems, finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize (BOA, 2001).听His poems have appeared in various journals, including The Yale Review,听The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The Georgia Review, and Rolling Stone. Among his awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for听the Arts and the Fulbright Foundation and fellowship residencies at Yaddo,MacDowell, The Tyrone Guthrie Center (Ireland), Le Chateau de Lavigny听(Switzerland), and The St. James Centre for Creativity (Malta). He is professor听of English at Monmouth University and also teaches in the Drew University听MFA Program in Poetry and Poetry in Translation. Waters lives with his wife,听poet Mihaela Moscaliuc, in Ocean, New Jersey.

Kathryn Wilder鈥檚 essays and stories have appeared in such places as River听Teeth, Midway Journal, Fourth Genre, Southern Indiana Review, Bugle, Sierra,听many Hawai`i magazines, and half a dozen anthologies. Wilder and her son Ken听run a small family ranch on the Colorado Plateau, on which they raise species听generationally adapted to the desert environment of the Southwest, including听Navajo-Churro sheep and Corriente cattle. 鈥淪undance,鈥� from the in-progress听manuscript Woman Chasing Water, was the beginning.