ALAN MICHAEL PARKER is the author of five collections of poems, including Elephants & Butterflies, a novel, Cry Uncle, and the editor or co-editor of three scholarly volumes. He holds degrees from Washington University and Columbia University and has taught at Davidson College since 1998, where he is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing; he is also a Core Faculty member in the Queens University low-residency M.F.A. program.

MATTHEW SHINDELL’s first full-length book of poems, In Another Castle, was a finalist for the 2008 Tupelo Press First Book Award. He is the author of the Poetry Postcard Project and a limited edition chapbook, Were something to happen it would be both funny and interesting (University of Iowa Type Kitchen, 2001). He lives and writes in La Jolla, California where he is currently in the dissertation stage of a Ph.D. in the history of science at the University of California, San Diego.