Margaret Bashaar's chapbook Barefoot and Listening was published by Tilt Press in 2009; Letters from Room 27 of the Grand Midway Hotel is forthcoming from Blood Pudding Press. Her poems have also been published in Caketrain and The Pedestal Magazine.

Recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant, Edelman has had her poetry published in Cimarron Review, 5 AM, Prairie Schooner, and Poet Lore. She has published several works, including her first chapbook, A Girl in Water (Parallel Press, 2012).

Recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant, Edelman has had her poetry published in Cimarron Review, 5 AM, Prairie Schooner, and Poet Lore. She has published several works, including her first chapbook, A Girl in Water (Parallel Press, 2012).

The Winners of the 2011 Writers Café Contest are student writers from the University of Pittsburgh, reading their winning pieces of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction, led by writer Ellen McGrath Smith.

Shirley Snodey is a member of the madwomen in the Attic Writing Workshops at Carlow University. Her poems have been published in City Paper and Voices from the Attic. Her manuscript is entitled, Barefoot on Southern Soil.

Marilyn Donnelly has always lived, spoken, and written, with a stunning, indelible, original voice. Her poems, while often brief, plumb great depths of wisdom and wit. Her style of humor sweeps cobwebs and confusion far far away.

Derek Green's first book, New World Order, was selected to launch the Autumn House Pressfiction series. He has been the recipient of many awards, including the University of Michigan's prestigious Avery and Jule Hopwood Award in Creative Writing.

Kristofer Collins is the author of King Everything (2007) and The Litrugy Streets(Six Gallery Press). He served as managing editor of The New Yinzer for many years.

Sally Rosen Kindred is the author of No Eden (Mayapple Press, 2011). Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, Best New Poets 2009, and The Journal. She was a Margaret Knight Sanford Creative Writing Scholar at Duke University.

Roberta Hatcher's poems have been published in Yawp, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, and the Comstock Review. She was a 2009 finalist for the Patricia Dobler Award and holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.