Michael Heller is a poet, essayist and critic. Recent books include Exigent Futures: New and Selected Poems, Uncertain Poetries, a collection of his essays, and Earth and Cave, a memoir of Spain in the 60s. Forthcoming in 2008 are Eschaton, a book of poems, Speaking the Estranged, essays on the work of George Oppen and Marble Snows: Two Novellas. Among his many awards are the Di Castagnola Prize of the Poetry Society of America and grants from the National Endowment, NYFA and The Fund for Poetry.

George Witte's first book, The Apparitioners, was published by Three Rail Press in November 2005. His poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Boulevard, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, Shenandoah, and in the Best American Poetry 2007 anthology.