Jill Caputo is a native of Kansas. She recently graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida State University where she taught freshman composition.

William Doreski teaches at Keene State College in New Hampshire. His most recent collection of poetry is Waiting for the Angel (2009). He has published three critical studies, including Robert Lowell’s Shifting Colors. His essays, poetry, and reviews have appeared in many journals, including Massachusetts Review, Notre Dame Review, The Alembic, New England Quarterly, Harvard Review, Modern Philology, Antioch Review, Natural Bridge.

Clay Carpenter is a newspaper copy editor in Corpus Christi, Texas. His poems have appeared in literary magazines including "Apple Valley Review," "Loch Raven Review," "Falling Star," "deComp," “Nibble” and “Orange Room Review.”

Liz Garcia (recently Cranford) teaches Composition and Literature as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Perimeter College, but is in the early stages of her poetry career. Her ratio of rejections to publications so far is 3:4 (you can read her work in Segullah), and she is working on improving that statistic with the help of a Writing Grant from GPC's Writer's Institute. (This means someone else can teach rhetorical modes to freshmen while she finally gets to do what she really loves.) She was also recently married (a long awaited event), and enjoys being a newlywed.

Steven Joyce is an Associate Professor of German and comparative studies at the Ohio State University, Mansfield campus.  He is a Fulbright scholar, has published a book on G. B. Shaw entitled Transformations and Texts as well as a number of poems in journals including Kimera, Hudson View, Red River Review and Minimus.  He has also published a number of articles on literary criticism.

Noah Lederman has been published in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Cape Cod Times, The Faster Times, Eastern Surf Magazine, VOICE(S), and elsewhere. He is completing a narrative nonfiction book, My Grandparents’ Holocaust.

M.V. Montgomery is a professor in the Atlanta area.  He has published poetry widely in literary journals and e-zines, most recently in Conversation Poetry Quarterly, Words-Myth, and Sleet. 

Bob Morbacher

Angela S. Patane is a South Florida native who recently realized she wants to live near the ocean for the rest of her life. Game Design is a passion and profession, as she teaches at Full Sail University in Game Development. Alongside teaching, she is pursuing an MFA in Poetry at Goddard College. 

Samuel Piccone

Derek Phillips is the greatest poet in the world.  He lives in Illinois.

Caleb Puckett lives in Kansas. His verse chapbook, Desertions, is available from Plan B Press and his prose collection, Tales from the Hinterland, is available from Otoliths.

A poet and school bus driver, Kimberly Sherman attended Humboldt State University (BA Anthropology) and the University of Pittsburgh (MA Linguistics). Her poems have appeared in the Journal of Formal Poetry, the San Diego Poetry Annual, and Blue Collar Review.

Joel Solonche

Jay Snodgrass

Cesca Janece Waterfield is Editor of weekly paper based in Richmond, Virginia. Her portfolio as a journalist reflects a commitment to addiction and treatment issues. Cesca is the author of the forthcoming title Bartab: An Afterhours Ballad (Two-Handed Engine Press ISBN 978-0-9820020-0-1). She’s a musician, and writes short fiction. She can be reached via www.cesca.net.

Fredrick Zydek is the author of eight collections of poetry.  T’Kopechuck: the Buckley Poems is forthcoming from Winthrop Press later this year.  Formerly a professor of creative writing and theology at the University of Nebraska and later at the College of Saint Mary, he is now a gentleman farmer when he isn’t writing.  He is the editor for Lone Willow Press. His work has appeared in The Antioch Review, Cimmaron Review, The Hollins Critic, New England Review, Nimrod, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Yankee, and others. He is the recipient of the Hart