Alex Abramovich is a writer and editor in NYC. (How To Read Music)

Ellen Adams is currently pursuing her MFA at Brooklyn College and finishing a book of short stories set in Spain. A Hedgebrook alumna and singersongwriter, she has also written art criticism for the Singapore Art Museum. (Lives of the Saints)

Ahmet Ada, winner of the 2011 Cemal Süreya Poetry Award, first achieved prominence in Turkey in the 1980s. Since Let the Sun Dawn on Roses was published in 1980, he has published more than twenty books of poetry, including his latest, Maybe the Man Called Ahmet Ada Doesn’t Exist. His poems have been translated into German, French Kurdish, and English. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

James Tadd Adcox is a writer and editor in NYC. (Machismo)

Kelli Russell Agodon is the author of Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room, winner of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. She is also the editor of Crab Creek Review. (Refrigerator Mothers)

Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is considered one of the greatest female Latin American poets of the early twentieth-century. Her books include El libro blanco, Cantos de la mañana, El rosario de Eros, and Los astros del abismo (all published between 1907 and 1924). Selected Poetry of Delmira Agustini: Poetics of Eros, edited and translated by Alejandro Cáceres, offers a good representation of her work for English-language readers. She died in 1914. (Manifest Destiny).

Martin Aitken is a translator whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in PRISM International, Calque, AGNI Magazine, and The Boston Review. (How To Read Music)

Sherman Alexie is the author of, most recently, Face, a collection of poetry, and War Dances, which is poems and stories. He lives with his family in Seattle. (Lives of the Saints)

James Allardice's work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Blue Mesa Review, Northridge Review, and Witness. His story, “Searching for Mickey Mantle’s Rookie Card,” was nominated for inclusion in Best New American Voices. He is also a photographer. (Lives of the Saints)

R.A. Allen lives in Memphis. His fiction and poetry have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, JMWW, The New York Quarterly, Pear Noir!, Boston Literary Magazine, The Ante Review, Word Riot, Underground Voices, PANK, and elsewhere. Selected for Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Mystery Stories 2010. Nominated for Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web 2010. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy; Manifest Destiny)

Osama Alomar is a Syrian poet and short story writer. He has published three collections of short stories in Arabic: Ayuha al-insaan (O Man), Rabtat Lisaan (Tongue Tie), and Jami’ al-huquq ghayr mahfuza (All Rights Not Reserved); and one volume of poetry, qaala insaan al’ asir al hadith (Man Said the Modern World). He is a regular contributor to various newspapers and journals in Syria and the Arab world. A prominent practitioner of the Arabic “very short story” (al-qisa al-qasira jiddan), he was the 2007 winner of the Najlaa Muharam Short Story Contest in Egypt. He was born in Damascus in 1968 and now lives in Chicago, where he drives a cab. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Gloria Beth Amodeo is a graduate of The New School’s MFA creative writing program and the winner of the 2011 H.O.W. Journal Fiction Contest. Her work has appeared in H.O.W. NOW, NY _____., and is forthcoming in Carrier Pigeon and H.O.W. Journal Issue #9. She currently acts as cofounder/contributing writer for Mantaster.com. (Encyclopedia Britannica; Emo, Meet Hole)

In addition to The Most Beautiful Book in the World: 8 Novellas, Alison Anderson has translated from French Sélim Nassib’s novels I Loved You for Your Voice and The Palestinian Lover, Amélie Nothomb’s Tokyo Fiancée, and Muriel Barbery’s bestselling novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog. (Manifest Destiny)

J.R. Angelella lives in Brooklyn, New York. He has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and his short fiction has appeared in various literary journals. His debut novel Zombie will publish through Soho Press in Spring 2012. He and his wife, Kate Angelella, are co-writing two YA novels for Sourcebooks/Teen Fire, Crossed and Cursed—both about love, hell, and voodoo. (Manifest Destiny)

Renée Ashley is the poetry editor of The Literary Review.

Harold Augenbraum is executive director of the National Book Foundation. The story he translated in this issue is part of Juan Rulfo’s The Plain in Flames, due out next year. (Lives of the Saints)

Mary Jo Bang is the author of six collections of poetry, including Louise in Love, Elegy—which received the National Book Critics Circle Award—and The Bride of E. She is a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Her translation of Dante’s Inferno, with illustrations by Henrik Drescher, was recently published by Graywolf Press. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Anne Baney lives and teaches in Montclair, New Jersey. (Refrigerator Mothers)

Sarah Barber’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Crab Orchard Review, The Journal, Fugue, Malahat, and FIELD, among other places. Her book, The Kissing Party, was published in 2010 by the National Poetry Review Press. (Encyclopedia Britannica; The Rat’s Nest)

Polina Barskova is generally considered the best Russian poet under age 40. She is the author of several poetry collections in Russian, and her work has appeared in multiple literary publications. Last year, she was the finalist for the prestigious Andrei Beloy Prize in St. Petersburg. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Eric Barnes is the writer of the novel Shimmer, an IndieNext Pick from Unbridled Books, and the short story “Something Pretty, Something Beautiful,” a Best American Mystery Story for 2011. He is a publisher of newspapers in Memphis and Nashville that cover business and politics and has been a reporter, editor and forklift driver in New York, Connecticut, Washington, and Alaska. (Lives of the Saints)

Christian Barter's first book, The Singers I Prefer, was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize; his second book, In Someone Else’s House, from BkMk Press; the selection here is from a new book-length poem, just completed. He has been a resident fellow at Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony and a Hodder Fellow in poetry at Princeton. He is a trail crew supervisor at Acadia National Park and an editor for The Beloit Poetry Journal. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Barrett Baumgart is the 2011 recipient of the Iowa Arts Fellowship and will begin working toward an MFA in nonfiction at the University of Iowa in the fall. His fiction has appeared in Camera Obscura. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Michael Bazzett's poems have appeared in West Branch, Beloit Poetry Journal, Best New Poets, Green Mountains Review, DIAGRAM, and Guernica, among others, and his work was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. New poems are forthcoming in Carolina Quarterly, Pleiades, Smartish Pace, and The Windsor Review. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two children. (Encyclopedia Britannica; Machismo)

Dan Beachy-Quick is the author, most recently, of Circle’s Apprentice. His Wonderful Investigations will be appearing from Milkweed Editions in the spring of 2012. He teaches in the MFA writing program at Colorado State University. (Lives of the Saints)

Priscilla Becker, the lonesome antelope of poetry, suffers from morbid dyslexia. She writes in all forms, and in none at all. (The Rat’s Nest)

Madeleine Beckmanis the author of Dead Boyfriends, a poetry collection; her work has appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Confrontation, and elsewhere. She teaches at the City University of New York. (The Rogue Idea)

Matt Bell is the author of the story collection How They Were Found. His fiction has been included in in Best American Mystery Stories 2010 and Best American Fantasy 2. He is also the editor of The Collagist. (Refrigerator Mothers)

Charles Berret is a writer and editor currently based in Chicago. He will begin a Ph.D. in Communications at Columbia University in the fall. (Emo, Meet Hole)

Ann Beman is The Los Angeles Review’s nonfiction editor and lives with her husband and two whatchamaterriers on California’s Kern River. After taking a recent swiftwater rescue course, she knows how it must feel to sleep in a moving cement mixer. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy)

Nina Berberova who died in 1993 at age ninety-two, is best known for her prose fiction and nonfiction, but she was also a poet, playwright, and translator. She left Russia in 1922 and lived in Paris until 1950, when she came to the United States. English translations of her poetry have appeared in Cyphers, Modern Poetry in Translation, and Salt. (Manifest Destiny)

Charles Berret is the books editor for TriQuarterly Online and was formerly an editor for Egypt Today magazine in Cairo. He lives in Chicago. (Refrigerator Mothers)

Anthony Berris was born in the United Kingdom and has lived in Israel for most of his life, working as a teacher and freelance translator. (The Rogue Idea)

Miron Białoszewski (1922–1983) was a Polish poet, novelist, playwright and actor from Warsaw. He was a survivor of Nazi labor camps. During his lifetime he published eleven collections of his poems. His book titled A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising is still in print. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Josh Billings is a writer and translator who lives in Portland, ME. His translations of Alexander Pushkin’s Tales of Belkin and Alexander Kuprin’s The Duel are available from Melville House Books. (Lives of the Saints, The Rat’s Nest)

Gabriel Blackwell is the reviews editor of The Collagist. His reviews can be found at Bookslut, American Book Review, Puerto del Sol, and BIG OTHER. (Emo, Meet Hole)

Noah Elliot Blake is an MFA candidate at The New School. He believes it essential to eke out a moderate amount of affection with his bio. He offers that today you look very nice. (How To Read Music)

Alberto Blanco, one of Mexico’s most important poets, is the author of, among other books, El corazón del instante, a compilation of twelve volumes of poetry, and La hora y la neblina, a second compilation of another twelve books of poetry. Dawn of the Senses is the most representative sample of his work available in English. (Manifest Destiny)

Danielle Blau’s poems, short stories, articles, and interviews have appeared in such publications as The New Yorker Book Bench blog, The Atlantic Online, Black Clock, The Wolf, multiple issues of Unsaid, as well as the recent anthology Why I Am Not A Painter. (Lives of the Saints)

Thomas Bonfiglio’s stories have appeared in Flatmancrooked, Fiction, Northwest Review, The Florida Review, Lake Effect, and Rumble Magazine. He won the Robert C. Martindale Prize in Long Fiction, and has received Special Mention in the Pushcart Prizes: Best of the Small Presses. He teaches writing at Arizona State University. (Refrigerator Mothers)

Karina Borowicz has recent work in Bellevue Literary Review, American Letters & Commentary and The Southern Review. She lives in Western Massachusetts. (Therapy!)

Buddhadeva Bose (Refrigerator Mothers) was one of the most celebrated Bengali writers of the twentieth century. A central figure in the Bengali modernist movement, he wrote novels, short story collections, plays, essays, translations, and books of verse. He died in 1974.

Neil Boyack Neil Boyack’s stories and poems have appeared in many different journals and magazines, and have been translated into Chinese and French. His three collections of stories have been critically acclaimed, and damned. Married in Las Vegas, he lives in the Victorian central goldfields on solar power and water tanks. He has 2 kids and is the creator and director of the Newstead Short Story Tattoo. (Refrigerator Mothers)

Steve Bradbury’s poems, essays, and translations have appeared in Jacket Magazine, Raritan, Sub-Tropics, and elsewhere. A recipient of the PEN translation fund grant, he lives in Taipei, where he edits Full Tilt: A Journal of East-Asian Poetry, Translation, and the Arts. (Lives of the Saints)

Duff Brenna is a former AWP Best Novel winner, and the recipient of an NEA Fellowship. His novel, Too Cool, was a 1999 New York Times Noteworthy Book. His most recent novel, The Law of Falling Bodies, was published September 2007. His stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Agni, The Nebraska Review, The Madison Review, New Letters, and numerous other venues. (Machismo)

Jason Lee Brown teaches at Eastern Illinois University and is co-series editor of New Stories from the Midwest. He is finishing a novel. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy)

Callista Buchen’s poetry and prose have appeared in Gigantic, Gargoyle, jmww, >kill author, and others. Her reviews have been published in Mid-American Review, The Collagist, and Prick of the Spindle. She lives and teaches in Kansas. (Encyclopedia Britannica; Lives of the Saints; The Rat’s Nest)

Polly Buckingham Her work appears in The New Orleans Review, The North American Review, The Tampa Review, Exquisite Corpse, Kalliope, Hubbub, and elsewhere. She is founding editor of StringTown Press and teaches writing and literature at Eastern Washington University. (Therapy!)

Mark Budman was born in the former Soviet Union. He is the publisher of Vestal Review, the longest-running flash fiction magazine in print. His novel My Life at First Try was published to wide critical acclaim, and he co-edited the anthologies You Have Time for This and Sudden Flash Youth. He is at work at another anthology and two new novels. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Wendy Burk is a poet and translator of Tedi López Mills’s While Light Is Built. She has recently completed a translation of López Mills’s selected poems. (The Rogue Idea)

Jeff Bursey writes for journals in Canada, the UK, and the US. His first book, Verbatim: A Novel, comes out in the fall of 2010. (How To Read Music, The Worst Team Money Could Buy, Emo, Meet Hole)

Lawrence Cady is a writer living in Portland, Oregon. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Portland State University, Lawrence is finishing his new novel, The Celebrated Dead.
(Therapy!)

Drew Calvert is a graduate student at Stanford University’s Center for East Asian Studies. (The Rat’s Nest, Emo, Meet Hole)

Marco Candida, a young writer from Tortona, Italy, has published four novels in the last three years, including Il diario dei sogni, excerpted here. This excerpt from Dream Diary is his first work to appear in English. (How To Read Music)

James Capozzi lives in Binghamton, New York. His first book, Country Album, won the New Measure Poetry Prize and will be published by Free Verse Editions in 2011. (Emo, Meet Hole)

C.E. Cardiff teaches for the English Department at the University of Kentucky. She was born in Manila and grew up in Northern California. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Robert Carnevale’s poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and The Alaska Quarterly. He teaches writing and literature at Drew University and Kean University. (How To Read Music)

Manu Samriti Chander teaches in the English Department at Rutgers University-Newark, where he specializes in British Romanticism and global literatures. His reviews have appeared in American Book Review and New Formations. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Katherine Lien Chariott’s prose can be found in recent (or forthcoming) issues of Post Road, Fiction International, and Artful Dodge. She lives in Shanghai. (How To Read Music, Emo, Meet Hole)

Kelly Cherry is the author of twenty books, eight chapbooks, and two translations of classical plays. The Retreats of Thought: Poems was published in 2009. (The Rat’s Nest, How To Read Music)

Rebecca Chew is a graphic designer and illustrator. She lives in Malaysia. (Refrigerator Mothers)

Alex Cigale’s poems and translations of Russian poetry have appeared in Colorado Review, Green Mountains Review, and St. Petersburg Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, PEN America, Drunken Boat, and Brooklyn Rail InTranslation. (Lives of the Saints)

George David Clark. Recent work appears in Cimarron Review, Hayden’s Ferry, New Ohio Review, Quarterly West, and online at Verse Daily and Linebreak. (Machismo)

Bruce Cohen have been featured in various journals, including The Georgia Review, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, TriQuarterly, and Western Humanities Review as well as being featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. A recipient of an individual artist grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, he has two collections of poems, Swerve and Disloyal Yo-Yo, which was awarded the 2007 Orphic Poetry Prize. (Therapy!)

Peter Cooley lives in New Orleans, where he teaches creative writing at Tulane University. He has published eight books of poetry, most recently A Place Made of Starlight and Divine Margins. He is currently finishing a new book, Night Bus to the Afterlife. (How To Read Music)

Christine Condon is a writer living in Jersey City, NJ. She is the copy chief at a Manhattan publishing company and earned her MFA in creative writing from The New School. (Therapy!)

Michael Copperman’s fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The Oxford American, Creative Nonfiction, GOOD, Brevity, Guernica, and Copper Nickel, among others, and is forthcoming in The Sun. (The Rogue Idea)

Michela Costello is a poet and English teacher at National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C. Her recent writing is published in Tidal Basin Review, The Glasgow Review, and The Edinburgh Review. (The Rogue Idea)

M. Eileen Cronin. Her publications include Third Coast, Bellevue, G.W. and Coe reviews, the Washington Post, and one forthcoming in Slice. She won the Washington Writing Prize, was a finalist in the Faulkner-Wisdom, was nominated for a Pushcart, and is on the Narrative staff. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy)

Vida Cross. Her work has appeared in Reverie Journal, Reed Magazine, Make Magazine, WarpLand, Mochila Review, and the Journal of Film and Video. In 2008, she received an Illinois Arts Council Special Assistance Grant for Bronzeville at Night: 1949. Cross is a recipient of scholarships from Cave Canem, The Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and Voices of Our Nation writers’ retreat. (Refrigerator Mothers)

Cynthia Cruz is the author of Ruin and The Glimmering Room. She is the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and a Hodder Fellowship. Her poems have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Boston Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, and others. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Walter Cummins is editor emeritus of The Literary Review and publisher of Serving House Books. (Refrigerator Mothers)

Ruth Curry is a student in the M.F.A. program at The New School. She lives in Brooklyn.(The Rat’s Nest, The Worst Team Money Could Buy, The Rogue Idea)

Caleb Curtiss teaches high school English in Champaign, IL. (The Rogue Idea)

Weston Cutter’s You’d Be a Stranger, Too was released last year. He edits the website Corduroy Books. (The Rat’s Nest, The Worst Team Money Could Buy)

Anthony D’Aries won the 2010 PEN New England Discovery Award in Nonfiction. His essay "Chalk," which originally appeared in Solstice, has been nominated for a 2011 Best of the Net nonfiction award. (Emo, Meet Hole)

Jim Daniels’ new and forthcoming collections include Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry; From Milltown to Malltown, a collaborative book with photographer Charlee Brodsky and writer Jane McCafferty; and All of the Above. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy)

Along with José Martí, Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío was a leader of the Modernismo literary movement that renovated Latin American poetry between 1885 and 1915. Darío’s most important books are Azul . . . , Cantos de vida y esperanza, El cisne y otros poemas, and El canto errante and Canto a la Argentina—all published between 1888 and 1914. Rubén Darío: Selected Writings, edited by Ilan Stavans, is a comprehensive anthology of his work available in English. Dario died in 1916. (Manifest Destiny)

Kristina Marie Darling is the author of Night Songs, a full-length collection of poems available from Gold Wake Press. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy, Emo, Meet Hole)

Steve Davenport is the author of a book of poems, Uncontainable Noise, an essay listed as Notable in Best American Essays 2007, and a story that earned a 2011 Pushcart Prize Special Mention. (The Rat’s Nest, Machismo)

Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis. His work has appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The New York Quarterly, AGNI Online, The Louisville Review, Fiction International, and Pedestal Magazine. He is a founding co-editor-in-chief of The Asian American Literary Review. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy)

Linda Davis received her MFA from Antioch University and attended Breadloaf Writer’s Conference. She lives in Santa Monica with her husband and two sons. (Therapy!)

Margot Bettauer Dembo was awarded the 1994 Goethe-Institut/Berlin Translator’s Prize and the 2003 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize. Other than three books by Judith Hermann, her translations include The Swimmer by Zsuzsa Bank and Hitler’s Bunker: The Final Days of the Third Reich by Joachim Fest. (The Rogue Idea)

Abigail Deutsch is a writer from New York. Her work appears in The Los Angeles Times, n+1, Bookforum, Poetry, and other publications. (How To Read Music, Therapy!)

Glenn Deutsch is finishing his first novel. He has been published in Notre Dame Review, New Delta Review, River City, Controlled Burn, Iodine Poetry Journal, Memoir (and) and elsewhere. He lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan with his wife and son. (Machismo)

Joshua Diamond’s poems have appeared in Arsenic Lobster, National Poetry Review, Pleiades, and Verse Daily. He is an MFA candidate at Purdue University and nonfiction co-editor of Sycamore Review. (Lives of the Saints)

Tamas Dobozy has published fiction in Granta, One Story, and Fiction, among others, and has published two story collections, When X Equals Marylou and Last Notes and Other Stories. He teaches American literature at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. (The Rat’s Nest)

Ian W. Douglas is a writer, photographer and designer living in Brooklyn, NY. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and other publications. (Manifest Destiny)

Catherine Doty is the author of Momentum. She has been a featured poet at The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, the Frost Place, and other venues. (Therapy!)

Karen Emmerich has translated works by Margarita Karapanou, Vassilis Vassilikos and Miltos Sachtouris; her translation of Sachtouris's Poems (1945–1971) was a finalist for a National Book Critics’ Circle Prize. (Therapy!)

Laura Eve Engel is the co-author of [Spoiler Alert], forthcoming from The Collagist/Dzanc Books. Her work has recently appeared in or is forthcoming from Denver Quarterly, LIT, Cincinnati Review, Cream City Review, and elsewhere. (The Rat’s Nest)

Nesrin Eruysal is a literary scholar and translator, and editor of Söyleşi Üç Aylık Şiir Dergisi, part of The Conversation International Poetry Project. Her translations of contemporary Turkish poetry (with Ken Fifer) have appeared in The Wolf, Visions International, Qarrtsiluni, and Söyleşi Üç Aylık Şiir Dergisi, and in the current issue of Silk Road. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Elizabeth Eslami is the author of the novel Bone Worship. Her essays and short stories have appeared widely and her work will be featured in the forthcoming anthology Not in My Father’s House: An Anthology of Fiction by Iranian American Writers. (Emo, Meet Hole)

John Estes teaches at the University of Missouri and lives with his family in Columbia. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, West Branch, Southern Review, New Orleans Review, and Tin House. He is author of Kingdom Come and two chapbooks: Breakfast with Blake at the Laocoön and Swerve, which won a National Chapbook Fellowship. (Machismo)

R.G. Evans teaches and writes in southern New Jersey. (Manifest Destiny)

Percival Everett has written some books. If you write long enough, you win an award or two and so he has. He is Professor of English at the University of Southern California. (How To Read Music)

Martin Jude Farawell is author of the chapbook Genesis: a Sequence of Poems. His work has appeared in Paterson Literary Review, Paintbrush, Poetry East, The Southern Review, Tiferet Journal, and others, as well as a number of anthologies. He directs the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Program. (Manifest Destiny, Machismo)

Catalan poet Ernes Farrés lives in Barcelona. A journalist who works on the cultural supplement of the Spanish daily La Vanguardia, he has written three volumes of poetry including Edward Hopper, which won the Englantina d’Or of the Jocs Florals in 2006. (Manifest Destiny)

Kathryn Farris is the author of BOYSGIRLS and her fiction, poetry, and translations appear in Virginia Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, The Journal, Verse, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and numerous other publications. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Ken Fifer most recent poetry collection is After Fire. His poem/collage collaborations from Architectural Conditions (with Larry Mitnick) are featured in the current issue of Grey Sparrow. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Gary Fincke. His latest collection is The Fire Landscape. His memoir, The Canals of Mars, was published this year. His story collection, Sorry I Worried You, won the Flannery O’Connor Prize. (The Rogue Idea)

T.J. Forrester has a collection and a novel forthcoming with Simon & Schuster. His stories have appeared in Harpur Palate, The MacGuffin, The Mississippi Review, and Potomac Review, among others. He edits Five Star Literary Stories, an online site that celebrates story. (Machismo)

Sesshu Foster is the author of several unpublished notebooks, including Live Clean Dirty Bastards, Ironclad Dirigibles of the Civil War, and I Saw It Before You. (The Rat’s Nest)

Porter Fox writes and teaches in Brooklyn, NY. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, Narrative, Northwest Review, and Third Coast, among others. This story is from his recently completed collection, Kingdom. He is the editor of the literary travel journal Nowhere. (Machismo)

D. Foy lives in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in Post Road, The Georgia Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, and Quick Fiction, among others. (Lives of the Saints)

Margaux Fragoso’s work appears in Margie, Barrow Street, Paddlefish, Other Voices, Karamu, and Pennsylvania English, among other literary journals. She has completed a Ph.D. in English and her memoir, Tiger, Tiger, debuted in March 2011. (Machismo)

Jesse Freedman’s reviews have appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Journal of Jewish History. (How To Read Music)

Franklin Freeman is a freelance writer living in Saco, Maine, with his wife and four children. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Avital Gad-Cykman was raised in Israel and currently lives in Brazil with her family. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s, Glimmer Train, Michigan Quarterly Review, and other publications. She has completed a novel. (The Rat’s Nest)

Matthew Gagnon. His reviews and essays have appeared in Jacket, The Poker, Word For/Word: A Journal of New Writing, and Octopus Magazine. Poems are forthcoming in The Nation, Colorado Review, and Model Homes. He lives in Amherst with his wife. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy)

Amity Gaige is the author of two novels, O My Darling and The Folded World. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. (Machismo)

Peter Gaines is an independent school administrator, a great reader of poetry, and a sometimes-writer. He lives outside of Detroit with his wife and two young daughters. (Emo, Meet Hole)

Miciah Bay Gault is the managing editor of Hunger Mountain at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her fiction has appeared in AGNI. She is working on her first novel. (Manifest Destiny)

Chris Gavaler’s fiction appears in over two dozen national journals, including the New England Review, Prairie Schooner and Shenandoah. He received an MFA from the University of Virginia and teaches at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA. (Therapy!)

Argentine poet Juan Gelman is the author of, among other books, Violín y otras cuestiones, Gotán, and Cólera buey; the anthology, Unthinkable Tenderness: Selected Poems, edited and translated by Joan Lindgren, offers a representative style of his poetry in English. He is also the author of Dibaxu, a volume of poetry written in Ladino, the Judeo-Spanish language. The two poems included in this issue are from that collection. Gelman taught himself the language in order to compose the book. (Manifest Destiny)

David Georgi has been studying, teaching, and writing about François Villon for sixteen years. His translation of the complete poems of Villon is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Alan Gilbert is a widely published poet and critic, and the author of Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight. (Manifest Destiny)

Michael S. Glaser is a professor emeritus at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and former poet laureate of Maryland. His most recent publication, Disrupting Consensus, won the Teacher’s Voice Chapbook Publication award in 2008. (Emo, Meet Hole)

Albert Goldbarth is the author of more than twenty-five books of poetry, including To Be Read in 500 Years and The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems 1972–2007. He lives in Wichita, Kansas. His newest collection, Everyday People: Poems, has just been released by Graywolf Press. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Jesse Goolsby is the recipient of the Richard Bausch Fiction Prize and the John Gardner Memorial Award in Fiction. His work has appeared widely, including publications in Epoch; Harper Palate; War, Literature & the Arts; Our Stories; and Vestal Review. He teaches at the United States Air Force Academy. (The Rogue Idea)

Kathleen Graber’s most recent collection is The Eternal City. She teaches in the MFA programs at Virginia Commonwealth University and Fairleigh Dickinson University. (The Rat’s Nest)

Eamon Grennan. His most recent poetry collections are Still Life with Waterfall, which won the Lenore Marshall Prize; The Quick of It; and Matter of Fact. He translated Oedipus at Colonus with Rachel Kitzinger. His new collection, Out of Sight: New and Selected Poems, is coming out this summer. He lives in Poughkeepsie, NY, and whenever he can in Renvyle, a peninsula in the west of Ireland. Each of his poems in this issue speaks of one of these places. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy)

Jeffrey Grinnell, aside from being a poet, is a recently retired technical librarian who lives near Palo Alto. His work has been published in New York Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, The Evansville Review, The Texas Review, Lilies and Cannonballs, Colere, and Spillway. (Lives of the Saints)

James Grinwis is the author of The City from Nome and Exhibit of Forking Paths, which was selected by Eleni Sikelianos for the 2010 National Poetry Series. He edits Bateau Press from his home in Florence, Massachusetts. (Lives of the Saints)

Dan Gutstein works at Maryland Institute College of Art. His first book, non/fiction, is due out this spring. His poems and stories have appeared widely in journals and anthologies. (How To Read Music)

D.L. Hall is author of The Anatomy of Narrative: Analyzing Fiction and Creative Nonfiction. Her work has also appeared in River Teeth, The Sun, Arkansas Review, and Apalachee Review, among others. She is prose editor of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies. She teaches creative writing at Valdosta State University in Georgia. (Lives of the Saints, Refrigerator Mothers, Manifest Destiny)

Ted Hamilton is a writer interested in the possibilities of joining classical sensibilities to modern form. He is descended from the Italian bard Camillo Querno. (How To Read Music)

Jody Handerson has a widely varied background in the visual and performing arts. She currently applies her literary talent as a technical writer and editor for an environmental consulting company. She is a contributing editor to The Literary Review. (How To Read Music, The Worst Team Money Could Buy, Refrigerator Mothers)

Myronn Hardy lives in Morocco and is the author of two collections of poems: Approaching the Center, winner of the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and The Headless Saints. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. (The Rat’s Nest)

Elizabeth Harris is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of North Dakota. Her translations of Giulio Mozzi’s stories appear recently in The Missouri Review and The Kenyon Review, and in Dalkey Archive’s annual anthology, Best European Fiction 2010. (How To Read Music)

Jeff Hart was previously named one of The L Magazine Literary Upstarts. He is an editor of the online magazine Culture Blues. He lives in Brooklyn. (Therapy!)

Cassie Hay is an essayist and documentary filmmaker. She is a former editorial assistant for The Literary Review and is in development for a film based on the theft of the Quedlinburg treasures. She lives in Hoboken, New Jersey. (Emo, Meet Hole, The Worst Team Money Could Buy, Refrigerator Mothers, The Rogue Idea, Therapy!)

Micah Jon Heatwole is a writer living in Lubbock, Texas. He is happy to have his first publication be with The Literary Review. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Steven Heighton is the author of the novel Afterlands, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. His stories and poems have appeared in London Review of Books, Poetry, Tin House, and Best English Stories. (The Rogue Idea)

Amanda Hempel was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1982 and moved to the states as a child. She is the poetry editor of Flywheel Magazine, which recently launched Issue One. She currently lives in Pittsburgh, PA, and if you’re looking for her, can usually be found in the kitchen. (Emo, Meet Hole)

Derek Henderson is alive and well in Salt Lake City. He is the author of Thus & and co-author, with Derek Pollard, of Inconsequentia. At present, his favorite quote is Ashbery’s assertion that “You can’t say it that way anymore. / Bothered about beauty, you have to / Come out into the open, into a clearing / And rest.” (Lives of the Saints)

Brian Henry has published eight books, most recently, Doppelganger. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

George Henson is completing a Ph.D. in literary and translation studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. His translations have appeared in Nimrod International Journal, Translation Review, and Sojourn and are forthcoming in the Havana Reader. He is currently completing a translation of Elena Poniatowska’s award-winning novel The Train Passes First. (How To Read Music)

Judith Hermann Alice, which this story is taken from, is Hermann’s third book. Her first, Summerhouse, Later (Sommerhaus, später, 1998) received wide acclaim in Germany and internationally. Her second, Nothing But Ghosts (Nichts als Gespenster), was published in 2003. She lives in Berlin. (The Rogue Idea)

Margaret Hermes's collection of short fiction, Relative Strangers,
will come out in winter 2012. The manuscript was chosen by Jill McCorkle as winner of the 2011 Doris Bakwin Book Award. (Lives of the Saints)

Mark Hillringhouse is a published poet, essayist, and photographer whose works have been widely exhibited in area galleries and museums. He has a particular interest in urban landscapes. His photography and writing have been published in the New York Times, New Jersey Monthly, the Paris Review, and the American Poetry Review, among others. He is one of the founding editors of The American Book Review and a contributing editor for the New York Arts Journal. He has won several fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and is a member of the National Book Critics's Circle and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation's Poetry Program. His book of poetry and photography, Between Frames, is being published by Serving House Books. (Refrigerator Mothers, Machismo)

Joyce Hinnefeld is the author of two novels, Stranger Here Below and In Hovering Flight, and a collection of short stories, Tell Me Everything and Other Stories. She is Cohen Chair for English and Literature at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA. (The Rogue Idea)

H. L. Hix’s most recent book is a translation, made with the author, of Eugenijus Ališanka’s from unwritten histories, published in 2011. (The Rat’s Nest, Therapy!)

John Oliver Hodges was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 2008. He currently attends the University of Mississippi’s MFA program in writing. (How To Read Music)

Michael Homolka. His poems appeared or are forthcoming in publications such as Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, minnesota review, Notre Dame Review, and West Branch. He works at Simon & Schuster in New York City. (Emo, Meet Hole)

Suzanne Marie Hopcroft is a Ph.D. student in comparative literature at Yale University. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Gargoyle Magazine, LITnIMAGE, > kill author, elimae, and others. (The Rogue Idea)

John Hoppenthaler's books of poetry are Lives of Water and Anticipate the Coming Reservoir. With Kazim Ali, he has co-edited a volume of essays and interviews on the poetry of Jean Valentine. For twelve years he served as poetry editor for Kestrel: A Journal of Literature and Arts, and he currently edits “A Poetry Congeries” and curates a guest poetry editor feature for the cultural journal Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Huan Hsu lives in Shanghai. This is his first published story. (Manifest Destiny)

Henry Israeli’s books include New Messiahs and Praying to the Black Cat, and, in translation, Fresco: the Selected Poetry of Luljeta Lleshanaku and Child of Nature. (The Rat’s Nest)

Jeanne-Marie Jackson is a Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature at Yale University, where she works primarily on Russian and South African fiction. Other writing has appeared on Inside Higher Ed, Bookslut, The New Haven Review, and Powells.com. (The Rat’s Nest)

Krzysztof Jaworski lives in Kielce, Poland. He is the author of nine collections of poems, most recently Irritating Pleasures: Collected Poems 1988–2008. (The Rogue Idea)

Ilya Kaminsky is the author of Dancing in Odessa and co-editor of Ecco Anthology of International Poetry. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Yoram Kaniuk has published more than thirty books of fiction and cultural commentary, including the novel The Last Jew, which appeared in English translation in 2006. A feature film based on his novel Adam Resurrected came out in 2009 to great critical acclaim. (The Rogue Idea)

J. Kates is a poet and literary translator who lives in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire. (Manifest Destiny)

Thomas E. Kennedy’s Copenhagen Quartet is being published by Bloomsbury worldwide: the first novel of the set, In the Company of Angels, was published last spring. Kennedy has translated many Danish writers into English, most recently Dan Turèll and Henrik Nordbrandt. He is a TLR advisory editor. (Refrigerator Mothers)

John King, an aficionado of college degees, earned his fourth, an MFA in creative writing from NYU, in 2010. While his doppelganger proudly teaches composition and creative writing at he University of Central Florida, John currently resides at an undisclosed location and toils on his epic novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame. (Lives of the Saints, The Rat’s Nest, The Rogue Idea, Machismo)

John Kinsella. His most recent volume of poetry is Divine Comedy: Journeys Through a Regional Geography. His critical book, Activist Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon Valley, just came out, and his next volume of poems, Jam Tree Gully/Walden, will appear next year. He is a Professional Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. (Emo, Meet Hole, The Rogue Idea)

Becca Klaver is a founding editor of Switchback Books, author of the poetry collection LA Liminal, and a Ph.D. candidate in English at Rutgers University. (Machismo)

Peter Kocan is an Australian poet and novelist. His most recent novel, Fresh Fields, was named one of the Best Books of the Year by the London Times. (Therapy!)

Richard Koffler, who teaches at Fairleigh Dickinson University, was editorial director at Aldine de Gruyter. His essays and reviews have appeared in The Nation, Novel, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and The Spectator, among others. (Machismo)

Susanne Kort’s poetry, prose, and translations have appeared in Grand Street, The North American Review, Puerto Del Sol, Indiana Review, Green Mountains Review, and other journals. She is a psychotherapist practicing in Jalisco, Mexico. (Emo, Meet Hole)

Andrei Krasnyashykh is a writer of short stories, essays, experimental prose, and criticism. Born in 1970 in Poltava, Ukraine, Krasnyashykh is the co-editor of the literary journal Soyuz Pisatelei. In 2008, his short collection The Park of Culture and Relaxation was short-listed for the Andrei Bely Prize, the oldest independent literary prize in Russia. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Anatoly Kudryavitsky is a Russian/Irish poet and novelist of Polish/Irish descent living in Dublin, Ireland. He has published a novel, three novellas, a number of short stories, three collections of his English poems, and seven collections of his poetry in Russian, as well as an anthology of contemporary Russian poetry in his translations into English, A Night in the Nabokov Hotel. He also published his English translations of Tomas Tranströmer’s poems. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Yahia Lababidi is the author of three books: a new poetry collection, Fever Dreams, a critically-acclaimed essay collection, Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Belly Dancing, and a collection of aphorisms, Signposts to Elsewhere, selected as a 2008 Book of the Year by The Independent (UK). His work has appeared in various publications/anthologies, and his writing has been translated into Arabic, Slovak, Dutch, Swedish, and Turkish, as well as Italian. (The Rat’s Nest)

Laurie Lamon was selected by Donald Hall, Poet Laureate 2007, as a Witter Bynner Fellow for 2007. Her collections are The Fork Without Hunger and Without Wings. She is a professor of English at Whitworth University and poetry editor for the literary journal Rock & Sling. (The Rat’s Nest)

Born in 1982, Line-Maria Lång is half Swedish, half Danish, and lives in Copenhagen. Her debut collection, Rat King (Rottekong), came out in 2009. Other translations from this work will appear soon in Southern Review and elsewhere. (Refrigerator Mothers)

Svetlana Lavochkina was born and educated in Ukraine. She currently resides in Leipzig and teaches English at a Waldorf School. Her fiction has appeared in Eclectica, Textualities.com and Chapman. (Machismo)

Zachary Lazar is the author of three books, most recently the novel Sway and the memoir Evening’s Empire: The Story of My Father’s Murder. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, BOMB, and other places. He teaches creative writing at Tulane University. (The Rat’s Nest, Machismo)

Rand B. Lee writes from northern New Mexico, where he has lived for twenty-two years. He is not currently in therapy. (Therapy!)

Alex Lemon is the author of Happy: A Memoir, and three poetry collections. His writing has appeared in Esquire, AGNI, Kenyon Review, BOMB, New England Review, Open City, and Best American Poetry 2008, among others. He lives in Fort Worth, TX. (Emo, Meet Hole)

Jørgen Leth is an internationally celebrated filmmaker and one of Denmark’s foremost modern poets. His collected poems were published in 2002, and his most recent volume appeared in 2006. (How To Read Music)

Joseph Levens' short story collection was a finalist in the 2010 Bakeless Fiction Prize. His work has appeared in many literary magazines. He is editor of The Summerset Review. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

David Licata is currently working on a collection of interconnected stories—including the one that appears here. He lives in New York City. (Machismo)

Deena Linett’s second poetry collection, Woman Crossing a Field, came out in 2006. Recent poems have appeared in The Same, Shofar and Barrow Street. She is at work on a novel. (Machismo)

John Lindgren’s poetry and prose has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Chelsea, The Iowa Review, Encounter, Poetry Northwest, and is forthcoming in the American Literary Review and The Southern Review. He is working on his first book of verse, and teaches calculus and physics in Los Angeles. (Manifest Destiny)

Chip Livingston is the author of Museum of False Starts. His poetry and short fiction appear widely in literary journals, most recently in Subtropics, The Cincinnati Review, The Potomac Review, and Court Green. (How To Read Music)

Kelly Luce’s story collection is a finalist for the 2010 Bakeless Prize, and the title story, “Ms. Yamada’s Toaster,” was awarded Tampa Review’s 2008 Danahy Prize. Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, The Gettysburg Review, and other journals. She is the current writer in residence at the Kerouac House in Orlando, FL. (How To Read Music)

A prolific man of letters in Argentina at the turn of the last century, Leopoldo Lugones is the author of Los crepúsculos del jardín, Lunario sentimental, and El payador. He also wrote impressionistic, book-long meditations on the war against the gauchos in Argentina, and the Jesuit presence in Paraguay during colonial times. His poetry remains unavailable in English. Some of his fiction is featured in Strange Forces, translated into English by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert. He died in 1938. (Manifest Destiny)

Kevin Lutz’s work has appeared in Prism, Common Ground, Weber, Dark Sky Magazine, and Post Road, among other journals. His essay, “Down in the Valley,” was a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2007. (The Rat’s Nest)

David Macey’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Southern Humanities Review, The Journal, and Third Coast. His translations of Catullus can be seen online at Mayday Magazine. (The Rat’s Nest)

Bryon MacWilliams recently returned to the States after more than a decade in Moscow, where he reported for a variety of publications, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nature, and Science. “The Banya Is Holy” is an excerpt from a book he just completed, a work of memoir and journalism about Russia through the filter of its steam bath. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Yonatan Maisel is a psychologist and writer. His most recent work, Life After Death in The Bronx, appears in Review Americana, the Literary Journal of The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture. He lives in Jerusalem. (Therapy!)

Eric Maroney is the author of two books of non-fiction, Religious Syncretism and The Other Zions. His fiction has appeared in Our Stories, The MacGuffin, ARCH, Segue, Eclectica, Pif, Per Contra, The Montreal Review, and Forge. (Machismo)

John Marvin is a teacher who retired and subsequently earned a Ph.D. in English at SUNY Buffalo. His poems have appeared in many journals. He has published literary criticism in James Joyce Quarterly, Pennsylvania English, and Hypermedia Joyce Studies. (The Rat’s Nest)

Erica McAlpine is currently finishing her PhD in English at Yale. Her poems and translations have appeared (or are forthcoming) in Slate, TriQuarterly, The Southwest Review, Literary Imagination and The American Scholar. (Manifest Destiny)

Sean McConnell. His fiction has previously appeared in Fence. He lives in Chicago with his partner, Maya Mackrandilal. (The Rogue Idea)

Shane McCrae is the author of Mule and two chapbooks, One Neither One and In Canaan. (The Rat’s Nest)

Laura McCullough’s third collection of poems, Speech Acts, is forthcoming. She has been awarded two NJ State Arts Council fellowships and is a doctoral candidate in poetry at the University of Essex. Her work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, The Potomac, and Gulf Coast, among others. She is also editor-in-chief of Mead: The Magazine of Literature and Libations. (How To Read Music)

Jamie McCulloch is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson’s MFA in Creative Writing program. His work has appeared in The International Fiction Review, Best New Writing, Storyglossia, The Redbridge Review and The Kelsey Review. (Therapy!)

David McGlynn is the author of the story collection The End of the Straight and Narrow. His recent nonfiction has appeared in The Missouri Review, The Southwest Review, The Best American Sports Writing and elsewhere. He teaches at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. (Manifest Destiny)

Matt McGregor is a teacher and writer currently living in Wellington, New Zealand. You can find other reviews and essays of his in Bookslut, The Rumpus, Warscapes, The Monthly Review, and The Millions. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Andrew McKay serves as director of advancement communications for Fairleigh Dickinson University and volunteers as a poetry reader for The Literary Review. He is currently working on a memoir titled Living Here, which chronicles his experiences growing up in a New Jersey floodplain in the early 1980s. (The Rat’s Nest, How To Read Music, The Worst Team Money Could Buy)

Kyle McManus is an English writer. His short fiction has won two prizes, and has been published in Flash: The International Flash Fiction Magazine. (Therapy!)

Anne McPeak is the managing editor of A Public Space. She lives in Brooklyn. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy, Machismo)

Diane Mehta lives in Brooklyn with her son. Her writing has appeared in Slate, Poetry, The Southern Review, AGNI, and others. Her book, How To Write Poetry, was published in 2006. She’s working on a poetry book and a novel. (The Rat’s Nest)

M.A. Melnick received her MFA from Brooklyn College. Her stories have appeared in Many Waters, Brooklyn Review, Contrary, Pindeldyboz, Eclipse, and Carve Magazine. She is at work on a collection. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy)

Matt Mendez’s writing has appeared in BorderSenses, Alligator Juniper, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and inclusion in Best New American Voices 2009. His story “Airman” was winner of Alligator Juniper’s National Fiction Contest. (Manifest Destiny)

Lina Meruane was born in Chile and has authored one collection of short stories, Las Infantas, and three novels: Postuma Cercada, and Fruta Podrida. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. She has lived in New York City since 2000. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy)

Judy Rowe Michaels, a poet-in-the-schools for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and poet-in-residence at Princeton Day School, is author of Reviewing the Skull. (How To Read Music)

Chloe Yelena Miller's poetry and essays have been published in Alimentum, The Cortland Review, Narrative, and other literary journals. Her poetry was a finalist for the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry and in Narrative’s Poetry Contest. Miller received an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College and was a resident at the Vermont Studio Center. Miller lives in Washington, D.C., and teaches writing online at Fairleigh Dickinson University and privately. (Lives of the Saints)

Leslie Adrienne Miller is the author of six volumes of poetry including Y, forthcoming from Graywolf Press, The Resurrection Trade, and Eat Quite Everything You See. (Refrigerator Mothers)

Tedi López Mills has published eleven books of poetry and an essay collection in Mexico. Her most recent book of poetry, Muerte en la rúa Augusta, received the prestigious Premio Xavier Villaurrutia. (The Rogue Idea)

John Minichillo’s debut novel, The Snow Whale, will be published this summer. He lives in Nashville and teaches at Middle Tennesssee State University. (Emo, Meet Hole)

Ceridwen Morris is a writer, mother, and childbirth educator. She is co-author of It’s All Your Fault and From the Hips as well as screenplays for Miramax and HBO. She lives in New York City with her husband, the novelist Sam Lipsyte, and their two children. (Refrigerator Mothers)

Michael Morse has recently published poems in The Lumberyard, Ploughshares, Spinning Jenny, and in the anthology Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days. He was a fellow at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown from 2008–2010 and currently lives in Brooklyn. (Emo, Meet Hole)

Kate Munning is the production editor for The Literary Review. When not writing for outfits like The Rumpus and Bookslut, she inhabits her alter ego as a trowel ninja and ambitious cook. Her garden is bigger than her house.

Michael Z. Murphy Union County College instructor of communication, dad, retired urban educator, certified massage therapist, life member International Listening Association, playwright, poet, tree hugger, Montclair State alumnus, no television 24 years. (The Rogue Idea)

Peter E. Murphy received a 2009 Poetry Fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts. He is the author of two books of poems, Stubborn Child and Thorough and Efficient. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy, Machismo)

Christian Nagle holds a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing from the University of Houston, where he is a Stella Erhardt Scholar and Cullen Graduate Fellow. His work has appeared in Esquire, Raritan, The Paris Review, Southwest Review, Partisan Review, New England Review, Kyoto Journal, and many other magazines. His first collection of poems, Flightbook, will be published in English and Japanese by Salmon Poetry (Ireland). (Lives of the Saints)

Robert Nazarene is founding editor of Margie: The American Journal of Poetry and IntuiT House Poetry Series publisher of the 2006 winner of National Book Critics Circle award in poetry. His volume of poems is Church. New work is forthcoming in The Iowa Review and Prairie Schooner. (Therapy!)

Jay Baron Nicorvo. His poetry, fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Subtropics, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Believer and elsewhere. He divides his time between Manhattan and Saugerties, where he and his wife, Thisbe Nissen, have a dozen chickens, among them a Jersey Giant named Monsanto. (Machismo)

Kathryn Nuernberger is the author of Rag & Bone, winner of the 2010 Elixir Press Antivenom Prize. Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals including Conduit, Barrelhouse, and Bat City Review. She teaches at the University of Central Missouri. (The Rat’s Nest, Machismo)

Geoffrey Nutter has published three books, A Summer Evening, Water’s Leaves and Other Poems, and Christopher Sunset. He lives in New York City and teaches at NYU. (The Rogue Idea)

Chilean poet Pablo Neruda received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. Ilan Stavans edited the collection The Poetry of Pablo Neruda. Neruda translated into Spanish the work of Shakespeare, Charles Baudelaire, William Blake, Rainer Maria Rilke and James Joyce. He died in 1973. (Manifest Destiny)

Jenny Offill is the author of the novel Last Things. She teaches in the writing programs at Brooklyn College and Columbia University. (Refrigerator Mothers)

Briandaniel Oglesby hails from Davis, California, where he is literary manager for Barnyard Theatre. His short stories have been published or are forthcoming in ZYZZYVA, Arroyo, Mosaic, and Indiana Review. (Lives of the Saints)

Douglas J. Ogurek lives in Gurnee, Illinois with his wife and their five pets. His fiction appears in the British Fantasy Society Journal and several anthologies, and he has written many articles about architecture and interior design. He is the communications manager of a Chicago-based architecture firm. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Lance Olsen is author of nineteen books of and about innovative fiction, including, most recently, the novel Head in Flames. He teaches experimental narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah and serves as chair of the Board of Directors at Fiction Collective Two. (Machismo)

Mary Rose O’Reilley is the author of Half Wild, which won the 2005 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, as well as five books of nonfiction, most recently The Love of Impermanent Things. She works as a potter, musician and gardener. (Therapy!)

Meghan O’Rourke is the author of The Long Goodbye, a memoir, and the poetry collections Halflife and Once. (The Rat’s Nest)

Lisa Ortiz’s poems have appeared in Zyzzyva, Comstock Review, Crab Creek Review, and on Verse Daily. She received Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry prizes in 2006 and 2007.  (Refrigerator Mothers)

Martin Ott is a former U.S. army interrogator. His fiction and poetry have appeared in over sixty publications and have been twice nominated for a Pushcart. (Therapy!)

Benjamin Paloff is the author of The Politics and the translator, most recently, of Andrzej Sosnowski’s Lodgings: Selected Poems. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy, The Rogue Idea)

Fani Papageorgiou’s poems have appeared in magazines and literary journals in the US where she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, in the UK where she was a finalist for the 2009 MsLexia Women’s Poetry Competition, and in Australia. (The Rat’s Nest)

Tanya Paperny is a writer and translator whose work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Bitch, The Prose-Poem Project, and LitDrift. The pieces she chose to translate for this issue are excerpted from a series on the Russian literary website Babylon. They are quirky, opaque, and odd, maybe even a bit flat. Much of the humor relies on pun and wordplay. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Ankur Parikh is a multi-borough New Yorker who is grateful to have stumbled upon, and then embraced, the written word as part of his life. (Refrigerator Mothers)

Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Gillian Parrish teaches writing at Washington University in Saint Louis. Her work has appeared in Cimarron Review, Phoebe, Spinning Jenny, and Hayden’s Ferry and is forthcoming in Practice: New Writing + Art. (Therapy!)

Maxine Patroni is a New Jersey–based poet. This is her first publication. (How To Read Music)

Ricardo Pau-Llosa. His sixth collection of poems, Parable Hunter, was published in 2008. He was featured last February in The Writer’s Chronicle and has new work appearing in Ambit, TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, among other magazines. (Machismo)

Jennifer Louise Percy is an MFA candidate at the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Rosebud, The Atlantic, The American Literary Review, Redivider, The Indiana Review, and Brevity. She is working on her first book of nonfiction. (Manifest Destiny)

Adam Peterson is the co-author of [Spoiler Alert], forthcoming from The Collagist/Dzanc Books. His work has recently appeared in or is forthcoming in Southern Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Camera Obscura, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. (The Rat’s Nest)

Robert Polito’s most recent books are the poetry collection Hollywood & God and Farber on Film: the Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber. An interview with Polito about his work appeared in TLR’s Manifest Destiny issue. He directs the graduate writing program at the New School. (The Rat’s Nest)

Elena Poniatowska is considered one of Mexico’s most important living writers. Her novels include Here’s to You, Jesusa!, Dear Diego, and Tinisima. The recipient of many prestigious literary awards, including the Premio Xavier Villarrutia, Premio Alfaguara de Novela, and the Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos, Poniatowska’s novels and short stories have been translated into English, French, Danish, German, Italian, and Dutch. (How To Read Music)

B.S.V. Prasad is an engineer working in the software industry in Hyderabad, India. (Machismo)

Utz Rachowski, jailed as a dissident in the former East Germany and expatriated to the West in 1980, now resides in his native Vogtland region. He has authored ten collections of poetry, stories, and essays. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Charles Rafferty received an NEA Fellowship in creative writing. He is the author of four poetry collections, most recently A Less Fabulous Infinity. He directs the MFA program at Albertus Magnus College. He can also be found online here, here, and here. (Emo, Meet Hole)

Doug Ramspeck. His poetry collection, Black Tupelo Country, received the 2007 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy)

Elahzar Rao is currently a candidate for an M.S. in education at Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY. He has stories forthcoming in Gargoyle, Fiction Fix, Pilot, and Hawai’i Review. (The Rat’s Nest)

Faye Reddecliff is a native of Pennsylvania living in Northern California. A writer of short stories and personal essays, her work has appeared in various journals and magazines. (Therapy!)

Karen Regen-Tuero. Her work has appeared in Glimmer Train Stories, the North American Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at Queens College/CUNY and has just completed a novel. (Machismo)

Daniel Reid lives in Dallas. He’s currently working on Dolphin Hunter, a graphic novel, and playing rock ‘n’ roll in his band Long Sword Spectacular. (Lives of the Saints, Emo, Meet Hole, The Worst Team Money Could Buy, Refrigerator Mothers)

Molly Reid work appears in Redivider, The Grove Review, and on NPR as their first Three-Minute-Fiction contest winner. She lives in Portland, Oregon, currently at work on a collection of stories. (Lives of the Saints)

Thomas Reiter. His most recent poetry book, Catchment, was published in 2009. He has received fellowships from the NEA and the NJ State Council on the Arts. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy, Manifest Destiny)

Robert Repino earned his MFA in creative writing from Emerson College after serving in the Peace Corps. His fiction has appeared in Night Train, Hobart, Juked, Word Riot, The Furnace Review, The Coachella Review, Ghoti, JMWW and the anthology Brevity and Echo. (Therapy!)

James Richardson received the 2011 Jackson Poetry Prize. His most recent book, By the Numbers, was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award. He teaches at Princeton University. (The Rat’s Nest, How To Read Music, The Worst Team Money Could Buy)

Drew Riley reads and writes in Helena, MT while attending the M.F.A. program at Fairleigh Dickinson University. (The Rogue Idea)

Michael Ritterson's translations have appeared in International Poetry Review, New European Poets, and Foreign Policy magazine online. He was runner-up for the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize in 2002. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Clea Roberts lives in Whitehorse, the capital city of Canada’s Yukon Territory. She has published poetry in The Malahat Review, PRISM International, The Antigonish Review, The Dalhousie Review, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Lake: A Journal of Arts and Environment, and Contemporary Verse 2: The Canadian Journal of Poetry, and Critical Writing, among others. She organizes the Whitehorse Poetry Festival, and her first book of poetry will be published by Freehand Books in 2010. (Manifest Destiny)

Ryan Romine is assistant editor of The Literary Review. His poems have appeared in Commonweal and Tiferet. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Ann.

Eli M. Rosenberg lives in Brooklyn. This is his first published work. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy)

Susan Rothbard’s poetry has appeared in Comstock Review, Dogwood, the Paterson Literary Review, and Pif Magazine. She earned her MFA degree in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. (Refrigerator Mothers)

Judy Rowley is a former co-director of Paris Writers’ Workshops. Her essays have appeared in Fourth Genre, The Bellevue Literary Review (prize for nonfiction 2006), and Lifeboat, A Journal of Memoir. She is the author of a poetry chapbook, Venus on a Ferris Wheel, and her poems have appeared in journals both in Australia and in the U.S. (Lives of the Saints)

Paul Ruffin is Texas State University Regents’ Professor and Distinguished Professor of English at Sam Houston State University, where he edits The Texas Review and directs the Texas Review Press. He is the author of two novels, three collections of short stories, six books of poetry and two collections of essays, and has edited eleven other books. He has just been named Poet Laureate of Texas. (Manifest Destiny)

Juan Rulfo (1917–1986), Mexico’s most important twentieth-century novelist, is the author of two slim volumes: the novel Pedro Páramo and the collection of stories The Plain in Flames. The latter is being published in 2012 in a new translation by Ilan Stavans and Harold Augenbraum. (Lives of the Saints)

Matt Ryan is the social media editor for The Literary Review. (Refrigerator Mothers)

F. Daniel Rzicznek’s collections and chapbooks of poetry include Vine River Hermitage, Divination Machine, Neck of the World, and Cloud Tablets. Also coeditor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice, Rzicznek teaches writing at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. (Encyclopedia Britannica; The Rat’s Nest)

C.J. Sage edits The National Poetry Review and press. Her poems have appeared in Antioch Review, Barrow Street, Boston Review, The Journal, Orion, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, The Threepenny Review, and more, and her most recent book is The San Simeon Zebras. She works as a Realtor in California. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Tomaž Šalamun lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia and occasionally teaches in the US. His recent books translated into English are Woods and Chalices, Poker, and There’s the Hand and There’s the Arid Chair. His Blue Tower is forthcoming in Spring 2011. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy)

Matt Salesses is the author of the chapbook We Will Take What We Can Get, and has stories forthcoming in Glimmer Train, Witness, The Lifted Brow and Torpedo. (Therapy!)

Jena Salon is the books editor for The Literary Review. Her short story “The Glass Cow” was recently published in Annalemma.

Nicholas Samaras spent the first part of his life living underground in multiple countries, and he writes from a place of permanent exile. He currently lives in West Nyack, NY and teaches at the Charles Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters in Old Salem, Westchester, NY. (How To Read Music)

Ron Savage has published more than eighty stories worldwide. Some upcoming and recent publications include Glimmer Train, North American Review, Shenandoah, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Film Comment and the Louisville Review. (Therapy!)

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, playwright, novelist and author of short stories, was awarded the French Academy’s Grand Prix du Théâtre in 2001. His books include Oscar and the Lady in Pink, The Gospel according to Pilate, and My life with Mozart. The film Odette Toulemonde, Schmitt’s debut as screenwriter and director, was released in 2007. (Manifest Destiny)

Dana Schwartz is a writer living in Brooklyn. Her short story, “On the Ground Looking Up” was a finalist for Crab Orchard Review’s fiction contest and published in the Winter/Spring 2008 issue. (Lives of the Saints; Emo, Meet Hole)

A.K. Scipioni is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Diagram, Poetry Midwest, LA Miscellany, and 1913. (Manifest Destiny)

James Scudamore grew up in Japan, Brazil, and the UK. His first novel, The Amnesia Clinic, won the 2007 Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Heliopolis was longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize. (Refrigerator Mothers)

Peter Jay Shippy. His most recent book is How To Build the Ghost in Your Attic. He teaches literature at Emerson College. (The Rogue Idea)

Aaron Shulman has an MFA in fiction from the University of Montana. He is currently in Guatemala on a Fulbright, working on a novel and doing research on violence against women. (How To Read Music)

Norman Simon is a retired professor of astrophysics. His stories have appeared in Center, Hawai’i Pacific Review, The Massachusetts Review, and New South. He has recently completed a novel, Thoronet. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy)

Arunava Sinha is the translator from Bengali of Sankar’s Chowringhee and The Middleman and Moti Nandy’s Striker Stopper. He is currently translating Buddhadeva Bose’s magnum opus, Tithidore. (Refrigerator Mothers)

Judith Skillman is the author of twelve collections of poetry, most recently, The White Cypress. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Seneca Review, and others. (The Rat’s Nest)

Tom Sleigh’s award-winning books include After One; Waking; Far Side of the Earth; Bula Matari/Smasher of Rocks; a translation of Euripides’ Herakles; a book of essays, Interview with a Ghost; and the award-winning Space Walk. He has been a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and has received a number of grants, including one from the Guggenheim Foundation. Army Cats was published this spring. He teaches in the Hunter College MFA program. (The Rat’s Nest)

Karen A. Smyers is a former associate professor at Wesleyan and a Jungian analyst in Hadley, MA. (Refrigerator Mothers)

Christine Sneed. Her collection, Portraits of a Few People I’ve Made Cry, won AWP’s 2009 Grace Paley Prize and has been nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize in first fiction. She teaches at DePaul University in Chicago. (Emo, Meet Hole)

Nina Soifer’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Alimentum, Chickenpinata, Thema, Mudfish, Sheila Bender’s Writing It Real, and Calliope, a publication of Women Who Write. She lives in South Jersey where she is a freelance food writer. (How To Read Music)

Christopher Sorrentino is the author of four books, including, most recently Death Wish, a critical monograph on the eponymous film. Recent work has appeared in BOMB, Bookforum, Granta, Open City, Playboy, and Tin House. He is a visiting writer at Fairleigh Dickinson University. (The Rogue Idea)

Ersi Sotiropoulos is a Greek writer. Her story collection Landscape with Dog and Other Stories has just been released from Clockroot Books. Her novel, Zigzag Through the Bitter-Orange Trees was awarded Greece’s national prize for literature. (Therapy!)

Alison Sparks is a research associate in the Department of Psychology at Amherst College. Her research explores the social origins of children’s linguistic and cognitive development. (Manifest Destiny)

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His latest book is The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry. The story he translated in this issue is part of Juan Rulfo’s The Plain in Flames, due out next year from the University of Texas Press. (Lives of the Saints, Manifest Destiny)

Aleš Šteger has published six books of poetry, a novel, and two books of essays in Slovenian. His book Berlin received the 2007 Rožančena Award for the best book of essays written in Slovenian. The Book of Things, a volume of poetry translated by Brian Henry, was a Lannan Foundation selection and won the 2011 Best Translated Book Award. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Stephanie Steiker is associate director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU. (Emo, Meet Hole)

Alex Stein recent book is Made-Up Interviews with Imaginary Artists. Other interview experiments have appeared or will be appearing in AGNI, The Pinch, The Bellingham Review, The Gulf Coast Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, and Nazraeli Press. (The Rat’s Nest, How To Read Music, The Rogue Idea)

Hilary Steinitz has published fiction in the New England Review, the Southwest Review, and Zoetrope: All-Story. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she is completing her novel The Fitting Room. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

René Steinke is the author of the novels The Fires and Holy Skirts, which was a 2005 finalist for the National Book Award. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, Bookforum, and in anthologies. She is the former editor of The Literary Review, and she teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programs in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. (Lives of the Saints)

Ian Stone lives in New Jersey. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

A.P. Sullivan is the author of the chapbook Islands of Earshot. His poems have appeared or will be appearing in Salt Hill, Saranac Review, and New York Quarterly, among others. He is currently a high school humanities teacher in Fair Oaks, CA. (How To Read Music)

Rachel Swearingen’s most recent work has appeared in The Missouri Review, Cimarron Review, and Global City Review. She is a doctoral student in fiction at Western Michigan University. (How To Read Music)

Cole Swensen has written thirteen books of poetry, co-edited the Norton anthology American Hybrid and edits La Presse Books. She teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. (The Rat’s Nest)

Michael Thomas Taren. His translations of Tomaž Šalamun have appeared widely and and are forthcoming in the Chicago Review, Public Space, Circumference, and elsewhere. Taren’s own book, Puberty, is a finalist in the Fence Poetry Series. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy)

Chris Tarry is a Canadian musician and fiction writer living in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in The G.W. Review, LIT, PANK, The Drunken Boat, Opium Magazine, and elsewhere. Recently, he was shortlisted for Ireland’s Fish Short Story Prize. Tarry is a three-time Juno Award winner (the Canadian Grammy), and makes his living playing bass in New York City. (The Rat’s Nest)

Craig Morgan Teicher is the author of Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems, Cradle Book, and the forthcoming To Keep Love Blurry. He is a VP on the board of the National Book Critics Circle and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and children. (The Rat’s Nest)

Cam Terwilliger is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow, teaches at Emerson College and Grub Street, and has stories forthcoming in Narrative, West Branch, and Post Road. (Emo, Meet Hole)

Tynia Thomassie authored four children’s books and is the 2000 Louisiana Young Reader’s Choice Honor Award winner. Her poetry has appeared in Oil and Water and Other Things That Don’t Mix. (Emo, Meet Hole)

Padma Thornlyre resides in the canyon village of Kittredge, CO. His long poem, Mavka, in 51 parts, will appear in 2011, featuring cover art by Bryan Comber. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy)

Michael Thurston is an editor at The Massachusetts Review and a professor at Smith College. His fiction has appeared in Confrontation, Cupboard, Fringe, Knock, Quick Fiction, and Southeast Review. His poetry reviews can be read in Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, Yale Review, and other magazines. (The Rat’s Nest)

Cody Todd is the author of the chapbook To Frankenstein, My Father. His poems have appeared in Conduit, Denver Quarterly, Salt Hill, and the Gettysburg Review. He is also the managing editor and co-creator of the online literary journal The Offending Adam. (Lives of the Saints)

Nickolay Todorov was born in the violent and mystical Balkans. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is a witness to and beneficiary of wild Southern California realities. His short stories have been published in The Barcelona Review, The Pacific Review, Whiskey Island Magazine, Farmhouse Magazine, Istanbul Literary Review and others. (Manifest Destiny)

Mariana Toscas is a poet, artist, and marketing professional. She was born and raised in Chicago but can often be seen dreaming of and traveling to faraway places. She is a recent graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program where she learned to be an alchemist of trauma by channeling Goddess energy. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy)

Yevgeniya Traps is a doctoral candidate in English literature. (Emo, Meet Hole)

Lee Upton is the author of twelve books, including Swallowing the Sea: On Writing & Ambition, Boredom, Purity, and Secrecy, forthcoming in 2012. She is the writer-in-residence at Lafayette College. (Lives of the Saints)

Mike Valente was writer-in-residence at the University of Notre Dame, where he earned an MFA. He also has a degree from Stanford University. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy)

Jessie van Eerden teaches at the Oregon Extension in Ashland, OR. Her work has appeared in Best American Spiritual Writing, The Oxford American, and other publications. (Refrigerator Mothers)

Lawrence Venuti’s books include The Translator’s Invisibility and the translation of Massimo Carlotto’s crime novel, The Goodbye Kiss. His version of Ernest Farrés’s Edward Hopper, in which these poems appear, won the 2008 Robert Fagles Translation Prize. It will be published by Graywolf Press. (Manifest Destiny)

R. A. Villanueva. His poetry has appeared in AGNI, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and DIAGRAM, among other journals. A Kundiman fellow, he is presently a Language Lecturer at New York University. (Machismo)

Adam Vines is an assistant professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he is editor of Birmingham Poetry Review. His first collection, The Coal Life, will be published in the spring of 2012. (Emo, Meet Hole)

Bernadette Walker is a freelance translator based in Brooklyn. Her work has been published in BOMB Magazine’s Literary Supplement, First Proof. She is currently translating Lina Meruane’s Las Infantas, which contains the short story “False Steps.” (The Worst Team Money Could Buy)

Jerald Walker teaches at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. “Two Boys” is an excerpt from his memoir Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption, to be published by Random House in 2010. Other excerpts have appeared or will appear in The Best American Essays (2007 & 2009), The Best African American Essays 2009 and The Missouri Review. (Manifest Destiny)

Daneen Wardrop is the author of a book of poems, The Odds of Being, and three books of literary criticism, including the recent Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing. She has received Seattle Review’s Bentley Prize for Poetry, the Poetry Society of America Robert H. Winner Award, and the Gerald Cable Book Award. Her poetry has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly, FIELD, Southern Review, and elsewhere. (How To Read Music)

Phyllis Wat is a poet with three books in print, most recently The Influence of Paintings Hung in Bedrooms. She is also publisher of Straw Gate Books, a poetry press. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy)

Jacob White’s fiction has appeared in The Georgia Review, The Sewanee Review, Passages North, and elsewhere. He teaches at Johnson State College in Vermont and is fiction editor for Green Mountains Review. (The Rat’s Nest)

Charlotte Wilder is a blogger, freelance writer, and photographer in Boston. She blogs for The Huffington Post, was a photographer for Colby Magazine, has written for the Departures Magazine blog, and interned in the fall at the Kneerim & Williams Literary Agency. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Jessie Williams lives and writes in Philadelphia, PA. (Emo, Meet Hole)

Wyatt Williams works as the events editor for Creative Loafing. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia. (The Rat’s Nest)

Paul-Victor Winters is a writer living in Southern New Jersey. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New York Quarterly, Mead: The Magazine of Literature and Libations, and Scythe. (The Rat’s Nest, Emo, Meet Hole, How To Read Music, Refrigerator Mothers, Manifest Destiny, Therapy!)

Adam Wilson's first novel, Flatscreen, will be published in February 2012. He is the editor of the The Faster Times, and his work appears or is forthcoming in The Paris Review, Bookforum, The New York Times, The New York Observer, Washington Square Review, The New York Tyrant, and many other publications. (Lives of the Saints)

Scott Withiam. His work has recently appeared in Agni, AGNI Online, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, Ploughshares, and Tar River Poetry Review. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy)

Martha Witt is the author of the novel Broken As Things Are. Her translations and short fiction are included in several national journals and anthologies. She is currently associate professor of creative writing at William Paterson University. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Daniel Wolff has published in The Paris Review and Partisan Review, among others. His latest nonfiction book is How Lincoln Learned To Read. The poems appearing here are from a collection in progress, The Names of Birds. (The Rogue Idea)

Rebecca Wolff is the author of three books of poems, including The King. Her novel, The Beginners, is forthcoming next summer. She is the editor of Fence and Fence Books and lives in Athens, NY. (Refrigerator Mothers)

Charles Wyatt teaches in the low-residency MFA Program of the University of Nebraska. Before this incarnation, he was principal flutist of the Nashville Symphony for twenty-five years.  He has poems in the current edition of Alaska Quarterly Review. (Refrigerator Mothers)

Marion Wyce has received an AWP Intro Journals Award in Fiction and had her work performed in the Interact Theatre Company’s stage series Writing Aloud. (The Rat’s Nest, Emo, Meet Hole, How To Read Music, The Worst Team Money Could Buy, Refrigerator Mothers, Manifest Destiny, Therapy!)

Jeffrey Yang’s new collection of poems is called Vanishing-Line. (The Rat’s Nest)

William Zander has published poetry in many periodicals (including Yankee, New York Quarterly, and Poetry Northwest). His most recent collection is Gone Haywire and Other Old Sayings from Serving House Books. (The Rogue Idea)