Ned Balbo received the 2003 Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award. His Galileo's Banquet was published by the Washington Writer's Publishing House in 1998.

Hadara Bar-Nadav has poems forthcoming in Massachussetts Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Laurel Review, and elsewhere.

Walter Bargen's newest books are The Body of Water (TImberline, 2003) and The Feast (BkMk, 2004).

Bryan Brower is a fiction writer from Missouri.

Thomas F. Dillingham also reviews books for Open Places, Arkansas Review, and Myths and Tales. His critical articles appear widely.

Rebecca Kaiser Gibson has poems in AGNI, Boston Review, Northwest Review, and elsewhere.

Garth Greenwell is a PhD student in English and American Literature at Harvard University. He contributes frequently to Pleiades. He has new poems in Salmagundi and Boston Review.

Mark Halliday's newest books are Jab and Selfwolf, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Gary Hawkins has work in Born Magazine and American Literary Review.

Claire Hero is a sernior editor of Pleiades and has new poems in Boston Review and Ploughshares. She is a Lecturer in Poetry at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Cecily Iddings' reviews appear in Harvard Review, Indiana Review, and Slope. She is an assistant editor of Verse.

Sarah Kennedy is a frequent contributor to Pleiades and author of Flow Blue (Elixir, 2002) and Double Exposure (Cleveland State University Press, 2003).

Wayne Miller is Poetry Editor of Pleiades and the winner of the 2004 Lucille Medwick Award from the Poetry Society of America. His chapbook, What Night Says to the Empty Boat is forthcoming from Greentower Press.

Chad Parmenter is an MFA student at Southern Illinois University.

Craig Morgan Teicher has poems appearing in The Paris Review, Pleiades, and American Letters & Commentary. He also writes reviews for Boston Review, Chelsea and other magazines.