Catherine Barnett is the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2004 Whiting Writers’ Award, the 2004 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, and a Pushcart Prize. Her book, Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, won the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award and was published in spring 2004 by Alice James Books. She teaches at Barnard College and at NYU, where she was recently honored with an Outstanding Service Award.

Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (2005), which was shortlisted for the Northern California Book Award and won the 2006 Connecticut Book Award in Poetry. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and a Rona Jaffe Woman Writers' Award. She lives in Los Angeles and currently teaches in the M.F.A. program at California College of Arts in San Francisco and at Warren Wilson College.

Joshua Clover is the author of two books of poems, The Totality for Kids (2006) and Madonna anno domini (1997), which received the 1996 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. His work has been anthologized in American Poets in the 21st Century, American Poetry: Next Generation, and in the Best American Poetry series. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and the poetry editor for the Village Voice Literary Supplement. He is an associate professor of English literature and critical theory at the University of California, Davis.

Katie Ford earned her M.F.A. from The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of Deposition (2002) and a chapbook, Storm (2007). Her poems have appeared in journals including the American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and the Partisan Review. She is Poetry Editor of the New Orleans Review and currently teaches at Reed College in Oregon.

Peter Gizzi's collections include The Outernationale (2007), Periplum and other poems (2004), Some Values of Landscape and Weather (2003), and Artificial Heart (1997). He has edited numerous projects including o•blék: a journal of language arts, The Exact Change Yearbook, and The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (1998). His honors include fellowships from the Howard Foundation (1998), the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts (1999), and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2005). He currently teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Kimiko Hahn is the author of seven collections of poetry, including The Narrow Road to the Interior (2006); The Artist's Daughter (2002); Mosquito and Ant (1999); Volatile (1998); and The Unbearable Heart (1995), which received an American Book Award. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award. Hahn is a Distinguished Professor in the English department at Queens College/CUNY and lives in New York.

Jeffrey Harrison is the author of The Singing Underneath (1988), selected by James Merrill for the National Poetry Series, Signs of Arrival (1996), Feeding the Fire (2001), The Names of Things: New and Selected Poems (2006), and Incomplete Knowledge (2006). He has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship. He is currently on the faculty of the Stonecoast M.F.A. Program at the University of Southern Maine.

Christian Hawkey's first collection, The Book of Funnels (2004) received a 2006 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including the Colorado Review, the American Poetry Review and Tin House. Hawkey is also a founder and co-editor of the journal jubilat. He is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

Bob Hicok's books of poetry include This Clumsy Living (2007); Insomnia Diary (2004); Animal Soul (2001), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Plus Shipping (1998); and The Legend of Light (1995), which won the 1995 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and was named a 1997 ALA Booklist Notable Book of the Year. He is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and an NEA Fellowship. He has worked as an automotive die designer and a computer system administrator, and is currently an assistant professor of English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

Cathy Park Hong's newest collection, Dance Dance Revolution (2007), was awarded the Barnard Women Poets Prize. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her work has been anthologized in the New Asian American Anthology and Next Generation among others; and her essays and articles have appeared in the Village Voice, The Guardian, and Salon. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

Matthew Lippman is the author of The New Year of Yellow, selected by Tony Hoagland for the 2005 Kathryn A. Morton Prize. His poetry has been published widely in such journals as the American Poetry Review, the Iowa Review, and The Best American Poetry (1997). In 1991 he was the recipient of the James Michener/Paul Engle Poetry Fellowship from the University of Iowa. He teaches at Chatham High School in upstate New York.

Honor Moore is the author of three collections of poems, Red Shoes (2005), Darling (2001), and Memoir (1988), as well as The White Blackbird—a life of her grandmother, the painter Margarett Sargent—which was a New York Times Notable Book in 1996. Her play Mourning Pictures was produced on Broadway, and her edition of the selected poems of Amy Lowell was published by the Library of America. She teaches in the graduate writing programs at the New School and Columbia University. She is a 2004 Guggenheim Fellow and is at work on a memoir. She lives in New York City.

Geoffrey G. O'Brien is the author of Green and Gray (University of California Press, 2007) and The Guns and Flags Project (2002) and and co-author (in collaboration with the poet Jeff Clark) of 2A (2006). His poetry and prose have been widely published in journals including The American Poetry Review, The Boston Review, and No: a journal of the arts and by The Poetry Society of America and The Academy of American Poets. He has taught at the University of Iowa and Brooklyn College and has served as Writer-in Residence at St. Mary’s College and as the Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at UC Berkeley. He is an assistant professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley.

Charles Simic is the author of more than sixty books of poetry in the U.S. and abroad, including My Noiseless Entourage (2005), his most recent collection; and The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems (1990), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. A former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Simic is currently a poetry editor for the Paris Review. He teaches at the University of New Hampshire.

Evie Shockley is the author of a chapbook, The Gorgon Goddess (2001), and the collection a half-red sea (2006). Her poetry has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, and numerous others. She is a graduate fellow of Cave Canem and was awarded a residency at Hedgebrook Retreat for Women Writers in 2003. Shockley is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University, where she teaches African American literature and creative writing.

Mónica de la Torre's work includes Talk Shows (2007), Appendices, Illustrations & Notes, co-authored with artist Terence Gower, and Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry, co-edited with Michael Wiegers. She has also edited and translated numerous Spanish-language poets, including Gerardo Deniz. She has been the poetry editor of The Brooklyn Rail since 2001 and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Spanish literature at Columbia University.

Jon Woodward's books of poetry include Mister Goodbye Easter Island (2003) and Rain, which won the 2005 Verse Prize from Wave Books. His work has appeared in journals including the Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, and others. He currently lives in the Boston area and works at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Rachel Zucker's books of poetry include Eating in the Underworld (2003) and The Last Clear Narrative (2004). She is the recipient of the Salt Hill Poetry Award (1999), the Barrow Street Poetry Prize (2000), and the Center for Book Arts Award (2002) for her long poem, "Annunciation.” She is currently working on a novel and, along with the poet Arielle Greenberg, co-editing Efforts and Affections, an anthology of essays by women poets about mentorship. She is the poet-in-residence at Fordham University.