Steven Barthelme is the author of the short story collection, And He Told the Little Horse the Whole Story, the essay collection, The Early Posthumous Work, and with his brother Frederick a memoir, Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss. He teaches writing at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Jan Beatty's books include Red Sugar, Boneshaker, and Mad River, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. She is host and producer of Prosody, a public radio show featuring the work of national writers. She directs the creative writing program at Carlow University where she teaches in the MFA program.
B.H. Fairchild's fourth book of poems, Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest, received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Bobbitt Prize of the Library of Congress, and the Gold Medal of the California Book Awards. His most recent book is Usher (W.W. Norton, 2009).
Susan Falco lives in Miami, where she is an MFA candidate in Fiction at FIU. Her poetry has appeared in The Gingko Tree Review and The Louisville Review, although she feels obligated to point out that the latter was an edition featuring children's writing and she was eight at the time. But hey, at least you can't call her a dilettante.
Connie May Fowler is the author of When Katie Wakes: A Memoir, and the novels Sugar Cage, River of Hidden Dreams, Before Women had Wings, Remembering Blue, The Problem with Murmur Lee, and the forthcoming How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly, from which this excerpt is taken. She lives in the Florida Panhandle.
Frank Giampietro's first book of poems Begin Anywhere was published by Alice James Books in 2008. He is the editor and designer of the online poetry journal, La Fovea and Poems by Heart. His poetry, short short fiction, nonfiction, and book reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in journals including 32 Poems, American Book Review, Barrow Street, Black Warrior Review, Cimarron Review, CutBank, FENCE, Hayden's Ferry, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, Poetry International, Subtropics, and Rain Taxi. Awards for his writing include a Florida Book Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and fellowships from The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference.
Lisa Glatt is the author of two books of poems, the short story collection The Apple's Bruise and the novel A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That. Her work has appeared in such magazines as Zoetrope, Mississippi Review, and Columbia. She teaches at California State University, Long Beach and is married to writer David Hernandez.
Peter Grimes has an MFA from the University of Florida and is pursuing a PhD in creative writing, narrative theory, and Southern literature at the University of Cincinnati. His short fiction appears or is forthcoming in Mid-American Review, Cream City Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Roanoke Review, Copper Nickel, and other journals.
Amanda Hosey is a graduate student in Florida International's MFA program, concentrating in poetry.
Taylor Rickett lives in Bloomington, Indiana and received his B.A. in English from Indiana University. He is an MFA candidate in Drew University's Poetry Graduate Program in Madison, New Jersey.
F. Daniel Rzicznek's books include Divination Machine (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, forthcoming in 2009), Neck of the World (Utah State University Press, 2007) and Cloud Tablets (Kent State University Press, 2006). He is also coeditor, with Gary L. McDowell, of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice, forthcoming from Rose Metal Press in 2010. He currently teaches at Bowling Green State University.
Leslie Singleton has an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she received the Carol Kyle Award for Poetry and the Robert J. and Katharin Carr Poetry Prize, and was a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship finalist. She currently resides in Chicago. This is her first publication.
David Svenson is an MFA candidate at FIU. He is the Assistant Editor for Gulf Stream Magazine.
Emma Trelles is the winner of the 4th annual Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. Her collection Tropicalia is forthcoming from the University of Notre Dame Press. She is also the author of Little Spells (GOSS183) and a two-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize. She is the editor of OCHO: The Travel Issue and MiPOesias Magazine's American Cuban Issue. Her work has appeared in publications such as Verse Daily, 3 AM Magazine, Oranges and Sardines, Newsday, the Miami Herald, Latina, and the Sun-Sentinel, where she was the art critic for three years. She is a regular contributor to the Best American Poetry blog; read her rambles here.
Letitia Trent's work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Fence, The Denver Quarterly, and Folio, among others. Her chapbook, The Medical Diaries, was published by Scantily Clad Press in 2009.
Lisa Tucker is the author of the novels The Song Reader, Shout Down the Moon, Once Upon a Day, The Cure for Modern Life, and The Promised World.
Zac Walsh is the editor of the Arroyo Literary Review and an assistant editor of Tattoo Highway. He recently won the 2009 Robert V Williams prize for fiction. His work has appeared in Occam's Razor, Thirty First Bird Review, and a story is forthcoming in Zaum. He teaches English at California State University, East Bay.