Michael Adams's latest book is Steel Valley (Lummox Press 2010). He has five earlier books of poetry and essays including Whistleblowers and Broken Hand Peak (Turkey Buzzard Press 2009, 2008). He is the winner of the 2007 Mark Fischer Poetry Prize.

Aaron Smith is the author of Blue on Blue Ground, winner of the 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and a chapbook of poems, Men in Groups. A new collection of poems, Appetite, is forthcoming in 2012.

Celeste Gainey's chapbook manuscript In the land of speculation & seismography is the runner-up for the 2010 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize awarded by Seven Kitchens Press. Her poems have been anthologized in Long Island Sounds and Writing Outside The Lines.

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is the author of ]Open Interval[, the 2009 National Book Award Finalist, Poetry, and Black Swan, winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, both published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

Sherrie Flick is the author of Reconsidering Happiness (University of Nebraska Press). A recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, her work has been published in places including Norton’s anthology Flash Fiction Forward.

Denise Duhamel is the author of many books, most recently Ka-Ching! (U. of Pittsburgh, 2009) and Two and Two (2005). She won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and has been anthologized widely, including four volumes of The Best American Poetry.

Anne Marie Macari's most recent book is She Heads Into the Wilderness (Autumn House Press, 2008). Her first book, Ivory Cradle, won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry. Her poems have been published in many literary journals and magazines.

Cynthia Hogue has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Or Consequence (2010), and When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina (2010). Among her honors are a Fulbright Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

Cheryl Dumesnil’s book In Praise of Falling won the Agnes Starrett Lynch Poetry Prize. Her poems have also appeared in Indiana Review, Calyx and Many Mountains Moving.

Bob Hicok's book This Clumsy Living (U of Pittsburgh, 2007) won the 2008 Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress. A recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, Guggenheim, and two NEA Fellowships, his poetry has appeared in five volumes of Best American Poetry.