Michael Dumanis is the author of My Soviet Union (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), winner of the 2006 Juniper Prize for Poetry, and the coeditor, with poet Cate Marvin, of Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande, 2006). He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Cleveland State Univerisity, where he also serves as the director of a small press, the Cleveland State University Poetry Center.


  Monica Ferrell’s debut collection of poems, Beasts for the Chase, won the Kathryn Morton Prize in Poetry and was published by Sarabande Books in 2008. She is also the author of a novel, The Answer is Always Yes, which was published by Random House and named a Borders Original Voices selection as well as one of Booklist's Top Ten Debut Novels of 2008. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and "Discovery"/The Nation prizewinner, she teaches poetry writing at Purchase College and lives in Brooklyn.

  Jeffrey McDaniel is the author of Alibi School, The Forgiveness Parade, and The Splinter Factory. His work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including Best American Poetry 1994, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, and New (American) Poets He has won several awards, including an NEA Fellowship. He teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College. His newest collection, published by University of Pittsburgh Press in 2008, is titled The Endarkenment.

  Roddy Lumsden (born 1966) is a Scottish poet. Lumsden was born in St Andrews. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 1991. His first book Yeah Yeah Yeah was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in the Best First Collection section. His second collection The Book of Love was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Roddy Lumsden is Dead followed in 2001, then Mischief Night: New & Selected Poems which was a PBS Recommendation and, in 2009, his fifth collection Third Wish Wasted. He lives in London.

  Laurie Sandell is a contributing editor at Glamour, where she writes cover stories, features, and personal essays. She has also written for Esquire, GQ, New York, and InStyle, among other publications. The Impostor’s Daughter: A True Memoir is her first book. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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