James Arthur currently lives in Seattle. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Many Mountains Moving, and Puerto Del Sol.
Paula Closson Buck is the editor of West Branch. Her first book of poems, The Acquiescent Villa, was published by LCU Press in 1998. Her poems have appeared recently in The Gettysburg Review and Denver Quarterly. She’s just completed a novel, titled Hunger and Thirst.
Lucy Bucknell teaches in The Writing Seminars and the Film and Media Studies Program at Johns Hopkins.
David Crouse’s publications include fiction and nonfiction in Northwest Review, Chelsea, Sonora Review, Canadian Literature, The Louisville Review, among others. He is a recent winner of a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for his short fiction.
Elizabeth Dodd is a poet and essayist. Her most recent books are Prospect: Journeys & Landscapes, a collection of essays and Archetypal Light, a collection of poems. She teaches at Kansas State University.
Wayne Dodd’s new book of poetry, Is, is the 2003 winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award from BOA Editions. The author of eleven collections of poetry and a book for children, he was editor of The Ohio Review from its founding in 1972 until it ceased publication in 2001.
Gary Fincke won the 2003 Ohio State University Press/The Journal Poetry Prize for Writing Letters for the Blind. He won the 2003 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction for Sorry I Worried You.
Robert Gibb’s last book of poetry, The Origins of Evening (Norton, 1997) was a National Poetry Series winner, selected by Eavan Boland; he has also won a Pushcart Prize and received a National Endowment of the Arts Poetry Fellowship. His forthcoming book, The Burning World, will be published by the University of Arkansas Press this spring.
James Gill holds an MFA in fiction from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where he currently teaches writing and literature. His work has appeared in The Colorado Review and The Crab Orchard Review.
Albert Goldbarth’s “A Gesture Made in the Martian Wastes” will be included in the forthcoming collection Budget Travel Through Space and Time (Graywolf). His two most recent books are Combinations of the Universe (poems, Ohio State University Press, 2003) and Pieces of Payne (a novel, Graywolf, 2003). Goldbarth has twice received the National Book Critics Award in poetry.
Arielle Greenberg’s book, Given, was published in 2002 by Verse Press. She teaches in the poetry program at Columbia College Chicago. Recent work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, La Petite Zine, Crowd, and other journals.
William Greenway is the author of seven collections of poetry. His most recent collection, Ascending Order, is from the University of Akron Press Poetry Series. He’s the recipient of the 2001 Ohioana Poetry Award and is a professor of English at Youngstown State University.
Michael Heller’s most recent book is Exigent Futures: New and Selected Poems (Salt Publishing, 2003). He is a poet, essayist, and critic, whose awards include the NEH Poet/Scholar grant, the Di Castagnola Prize and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.
Eileen Hennessy’s poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Western Humanities Review, Prairie Schooner, Columbia, Southern Poetry Review, and The New York Quarterly, as well as in several anthologies. She lives in New York City.
Rebecca Hoogs’ poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, The Journal, and Seneca Review. She received her MFA from the University of Washington and currently lives in Seattle.
Joshua Kryah’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Chelsea, Phoebe, The Iowa Review, and Verse. He is the newest Schaeffer Fellow in Poetry at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
Susan Ludvigson’s eighth book of poetry, Escaping the House of Certainty, will be published in 2005 by LSU Press, which also published her last collection, Sweet Confluence, New and Selected Poems, in 2000.
Peter Makuck is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist, whose work has appeared in The Nation, The Hudson Review, The Southern Poetry Review, The Journal, Seneca Review, and many others. He teaches at East Carolina University.
Scott Minar’s first book, The Body’s Fire was published by Clarellen in 2003. His second, The Palace of Reasons will be published by Mammoth Books in 2004.
Kelly Moffett teaches writing and is completing her graduate studies at West Virginia University. She holds an M.A. in English and is currently at work on her M.F.A. thesis, tentatively entitled Common Medicine.
Patrick Moran’s poems and translations have appeared in Chelsea, Northwest Review, The Indiana Review, The New Republic, Prairie Schooner andThe Mid-America Review.
Kathleen Peirce teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University, San Marcos. Her fourth collection of poetry, The Ardors, will be published by Ausable Press in 2004.
Bin Ramke’s eighth book of poems, Matter, will appear this fall from University of Iowa Press. He is the editor of the Denver Quarterly and of the Contemporary Poetry Series for the University of Georgia Press. He teaches at the University of Denver.
Kent Shaw earned his MFA from Washington University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Natural Bridge, Sou’wester, and elsewhere.
Judith Slater’s story collection, The Baby Can Sing and Other Stories, won the 1998 Mary McCarthy Prize in short fiction, and was published in 1999 by Sarabande Press. She teaches at University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Katherine Soniat’s The Fire Setters (2002) is available through the Web del Sol/The Literary Review Online Chapbook Series. Her fourth collection, Alluvial, (2001) was published by Bucknell University Press, and A Shared Life won the Iowa Prize.
David Swerdlow’s first collection of poems, Small Holes in the Universe, was published last year by WordTech Editions. His poems have also appeared or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, West Branch, The Ohio Review, and elsewhere.
John Talbird teaches at the University of Nebraska. He has been published or has work forthcoming in Berkeley Fiction Review, Coe Review, and Delirium, among others. He is currently working on his first novel, titled The World Out There.
Diane Wald’s book, The Yellow Hotel, was published by Verse Press in 2002, and Lucid Suitcase was published by Red Hen Press in 1999. In addition, she has published three chapbooks.
John G. Wallace received his MFA in fiction from Southern Illinois University. He currently lives in Milwaukee, where he is finishing a short story collection. His work has recently appeared in Washington Square and Vermillion Literary Project.
Charles Harper Webb’s latest book of poems, Tulip Farms and Leper Colonies, was published in 2001 by BOA Editions. In 2002, The University of Iowa Press published Stand Up Poetry: An Expanded Anthology, edited by Webb.